"Attention all anarchists, anticapitalists, antiauthoritarians, troublemakers, and rabble-rousers across North America! We're writing to let you all know that UA in the Bay, the Unconventional Action branch in the San Francisco Bay Area, is still alive and kicking and we are calling out to all groups across the country to continue the fight as well! UA in the Bay formed as a group to resist the D/RNC. Now that the conventions–and our part in them–are history, we have chosen to move in a new, more long-term direction focusing both on community engagement and street action.
We are an explicitly anarchist organization/group that currently consists of 25-40 people. We are against all forms of hierarchy (both externally and internally), utilize consensus based decision making, embrace a diversity of tactics, and are interested in working with other allied groups in the Bay Area and across the country.
Our long-term goals include building and sustaining structures of mutual aid outside of capitalism, maintaining a vibrant and radical presence in the streets through mass action, and spreading anarchist ideas to both our own communities, as well as surrounding communities.
Since the D/RNC, we've been meeting regularly. We marched against I.C.E. in San Francisco and helped shut down the detention center for a few hours. Also, as a contingent we participated in the "Dia De Los Muertos" procession drawing attention to patriarchal violence against women that recently took the lives of two local comrades and struck a chord for folks in the Mission community. Most recently we worked with a coalition of abortion rights groups to counter the right-wing "March for Life." Currently, anarchist soccer, food-cooperatives and planning for the next months of action, are keeping our hands full.
We are organizing to build a thriving anarchist movement in our communities and neighborhoods, knowing that the work we do here will only make us stronger and more of a threat when we get together again for the next national action. The work we do together during summits won’t change the world unless we can come home and continue to resist in the everyday.
We are calling on other groups to join us in:
-Getting Organized: Have meetings, cooperate, work together!
-Building Capacity Within Your Own Communities: Build a society outside of capitalism to support each other! Know your allies!
-Getting Into the Streets: Mobilize communities to use direct action in the streets for social justice and self-empowerment!
-Reaching Out to Other Groups: Find what we have in common with other groups and work together to fight capitalism and all forms of oppression!
We know we are not alone in our continued struggle for liberation. UA groups across the country and Bash Back! continue to do actions that inspire us to stay in the fight. Saint Paul and Denver sparked a fire in the hearts and minds of anarchists across North America, and the time to spread that fire is now.
For autonomy and equality,
for freedom and diversity,
for love and rage– Fight!
See you in the streets!
-UA in the Bay
To read our founding document, go here: uainthebay@hackbloc.org
Contact Us! We'd love to hear from other groups in the Bay Area and across the country. You can e-mail us at: uainthebay@gmail.com"
ORIGINAL SOURCE: Anarchist news dot org
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