BA Nat'l anarchists abandon some efforts

Now, the BANA website suggests that some of their key leadership has quit their project due to burnout.

With quite a few videos under youtube channel BANA0907, their events included some introduction meetings, flyering at very moderate events such as walkathons and at suburban shopping areas, fundraisers, and campouts. I even spotted that some of the major antisemitic nuts who plagued ANSWER marches during the major Iraq war protests had joined their group.While some of their rhetoric involved a claim that their philosophy involved no racism, but just the acknowledgement that people from different cultures naturally associate with each other in neighborhoods, businesses, and socially... there was really no doubt that BANA was both european supremacist and wished to promote ethnic separatist zones of residence and work.
The notion of claiming the SF Bay area as their european zone is sheerly ridiculous, as it is originally unclearly ceded american indian land, and it is also internationally recognized as a 'tribal' zone for gays and chinese americans.

Here is a german news article about conflict between the large leftist anarchist or libertarian left community, and the right-wing national anarchists - who are copying their clothing style and making them angry as skinheads are converting to their group. The video shows first the right wing group, then the leftists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2yWF7aKS4I

Anyhow, it isn't clear that their group has disbanded, but it is promising that their leadership will devote less time to the project.


Andrew Yeoman:
"Calling it Quits 1-30-2010

By Andrew Yeoman

There comes a time in the career of every activist when they want to give up. Luckily I was somewhat prepared for these feelings of resignation from my experiences with activists in the anti-globalization movement who devoted years to protests and organizing to see not one of their issues being successfully implemented. I knew what the dejected distant look of a persons eyes whose enthusiasm for life has been all but burned out. I felt that what we were trying to do was going to be just as useless as the anti-globalization movement. At most it would be a letting out of steam of peoples conscious, aware but hopeful that one day a critical mass would care about these issues and change would happen.

That, essentially, we were casting pearls before swine and if our truths had no one capable of actively supporting us then damn it all to hell.

Of the preciously finite amount of time we have on life it would seem far more rewarding and better spent pursuing baser interests. Besides, who would like to have the investment in time, effort, energy, money, sacrifice, the personal risk simply far outweigh any perceived benefit from continuing to stay active? Our tasks are seemingly so gargantuan as to be beyond the reach of any small group of people. The rational mind can justify any number of more rewarding pursuits. To making money, hobbies, or relationships that although transient, seem to satisfy human needs more then an impossible mission of changing the status quo. I recently went through such a test. Leading members of BANA and I were so dismayed by recent developments we seriously considered formally dissolving BANA.

We were mortified to see three hard years of lessons learned, strategies, and tactics used by BANA and other groups completely ignored by our target demographic for opportunistic forays. Long time readers will know the key principles that have motivated us to taking not a new approach to politics but in some ways more profound one. For example, instead of abandoning traditional community outreach programs like helping the homeless or fighting diseases we embraced these as our own. Instead of abandoning street protests to groups who hold no esteem for our people we reclaimed the streets of our forefathers. In 2008 we saw the massive and wasteful efforts of radical conservatives and liberals on Ron Paul and Green party candidates with no chance at all to make a challenge to the system but instead reaffirm it's legitimacy.

This was the mental state in which I languished. Demoralized at the prospects of failure. Heartbroken at abandoning the trust our people have given BANA to represent them. This crisis was not such a rational mental one following the apathy of our tribes future but a spiritual one haunting the fate our people are unconsciously choosing to fulfill. I think it is possible to feel the mortality for a people in the agony of dissolution. And I feel that every day upon awakening and being unable to avoid the stark ugly reality of what the world around us looks like today.
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"Speaking in public, being filmed on camera, addressing groups of people, all these things do not come easy for me. But reflecting on sincere and emotionally meaningful ideas does. I reflected on my doubt. I analyzed my insecurities. I weighed the folly of continuing with politics, my feelings, and what the choice my actions would have on the future of my life. On the future of my tribe. On the future of my race. I took a deep breath and replied.

I'm not quitting. Not now. Not ever."