[Sdalliance] Agenda for our Sunday (2.26.17) Meeting & Self Defense Mtg at noon

Mon Feb 27 08:58:23 PST 2017

Hello All:

We'd like to issue a correction in our email: In the final line, "repressed
offenses" should read "*repeated offenses*."

We apologize for the error, and for any subsequent confusion.

DAF

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Yesenia Padilla <yeseniatpadilla at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ***The Following Is a Communication from Democratic Autonomy Federation***
>
> Dear Erin et al,
>
> Good morning. While we - as members of DAF, the alliance, and persons
> vested in collective liberation - have done our utmost to be patient with
> your "politics," your most recent interventions reveals precisely a kind of
> behavior and logic that is incapable of actual political intervention.
>
> 1. These are only the latest communications that degrade and attack
> members of our organization. Erin, you have repeatedly taken aim at our POC
> members based on astoundingly reductive reasons that express an incapacity
> for solidarity. What is revealed through such reasoning is that the basis
> of working "together" is purely experiential and emotive, rather than being
> based on a mutual understanding developed through actual *practices* of
> solidarity and mutual aid. In your frame, we wonder what the basis of
> solidarity is if communication or action are only good if it comes from
> point of experience? What's more, your attacks further reproduce categories
> of destructive power by producing color categories that code the
> possibility of people's actions according to *your* readings of their skin
> and behavior, and without any formal guidelines (when is one black or brown
> enough to lead? Can we see that color chart people?). In doing all this,
> your behavior reveals a stark authoritarian bend that crushes efforts in
> order to propel your own "rank" or standing. You are the arbiter. You are
> the judge.
>
> 2. You once again highlight a "my-way-or-the-highway" frame of
> intervention that is coded (if not blatantly laced) with the constant
> threat of your own self-destruction and/or suicide while simultaneously
> blaming us and making us the unwilling authors of your mental health. This,
> of course, despite ( or in spite of?) the multiple times we've approached
> you on the topic that leaves some of our members rattled, shaken, and
> triggered due to our personal experiences that you constantly steamroll for
> the sake of positioning your views or the views of those you deem a comrade.
>
> 3. And once again, your attack persons over the list serve based on
> selective hear-say, and rather than contact persons directly in order to
> clarify points or express concerns, you run straight to the list to through
> us to the that guillotine mouth of yours. Again, the lack of care for any
> sense of solidarity or mutual aid leaves us feeling that you're ends in
> this alliance are malevolent if not purposefully destructive.
>
> 4. Straight up, you're a security liability for the things you say, and
> continuously put us and those around us in danger.
>
> We ask that the alliance understand the danger of such repressed offenses
> and move toward intervention and mediation.
>
> DAF
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Erin Bodhi <erinbodhi15 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> lol anti indigenous when i am indigenous and 95% of my friends are
>> mexican. dear i went out to answer the call of someone deported because of
>> ICE. i started a page specifically for that. nothing in my language was
>> anti. the truth is the truth and i got word from two ppl but not saying
>> who. there has been a lot going on you have missed and I've been to kost
>> meetings. I've tagged ppl in message boards reminding them to come and
>> stressing how important it is to come and be involved since day one. I've
>> been stressing how we need to help ppl in danger since day one and have
>> always been ready for defense. i don't have time for white tears or
>> privileged tears either. we've had someone in the group mention twice how
>> they have loved ones who will get deported but there hasn't been discussion
>> on how to protect that person's loved ones since, as if they're invisible.
>> the meeting i chaired that you weren't present for because you were sick,
>> had me calling things out. we need to work on ourselves internally in
>> general which is my point. I'm hear to straighten out the kinks and get
>> people to self-reflect and go back to love and nature as my purpose as an
>> empath. deprogramming and straightening out things won't be pretty. calling
>> out things won't be either but its how people grow and learn. we are not
>> living up to our mission and pou if people are coming into this situation
>> (fascism and the lives at stake) treating it with a org frame of mind and
>> position. it is so inhumane. as someone said in the meeting yesterday, no
>> we don't need matt damon leading poc folx to their liberation. if you want
>> to led fine but let someone of color co-lead. and stop twisting things i
>> say. you did not mention how triggering this all is or how i spent my
>> father's death anniversary investing in this instead. you only focused on
>> replying to what you selected to reply to. you know you and others have my
>> number so as i said, call me and let's not create a chain of responses
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2017 6:02 AM, "Ryan Stray" <ryanstraysd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I recommend getting reports from people less hostile to others in the
>>> group before concluding things about organizers and throwing around
>>> anti-indigenous and anti-latinx language about how those who disagree with
>>> you must only be doing so because of their 'proximity to whiteness'. I'm
>>> sad no one else on this listserv wanted to say anything about your email
>>> right off, but leveraging your personal angst against the group is bullshit
>>> and if people thought my initial email was hostile what do you think
>>> they're going to think about yours?
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>
>>> On Feb 26, 2017 10:31 PM, "Erin Bodhi" <erinbodhi15 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> i heard what happened at the meeting today and i dont like it. people
>>>> glossing over issues, shutting people off from talking, discluding people
>>>> form being apart of committees? not having knowledge of what's going on in
>>>> committees? um, no. this is not have we conduct ourselves as activists. i
>>>> got two statements from people saying how problematic it was today and how
>>>> people are letting issues of the marginalized be led by white folx and
>>>> white passing poc folx that are out of touch. enough is enough. we need to
>>>> have a discussion. this is this shit that makes me feel depressed which
>>>> acts as a domino effect then i feel suicidal. its triggering and im
>>>> shutting it all down NOW. i did not spend the day of my father's death
>>>> anniversary putting my soul into a movement that is suppose to help us to
>>>> instead have it turn into something watered down and become a by the
>>>> numbers org effort. i don't like hearing how the meeting was so timed and
>>>> anything brought up not on the agenda was dismissed. we are suppose to be
>>>> something Fidel or the black panthers can look at and say YAAAS but right
>>>> now they're saying NOOO. our focus is the raids, camps, our environment,
>>>> the police, etc. i shut the room down by letting us all know how to be when
>>>> we're in these spaces and im not there and this is what happens? there
>>>> weren't even any black folx there and i see why. i hope my brown folx were
>>>> there to shut it down. as far as the defense committee, we need that led or
>>>> co-led by someone of color. we also need to make it mandatory that we learn
>>>> spanish. how are we going to go into pueblos helping people we don't
>>>> understand and haven't made time to get to know. where they do that at? do
>>>> i have to break out my organ and give a sermon or a read? if u want to talk
>>>> to me, call me or message me but i am HEATED AS FUCK that grown ass adults
>>>> and the left as a whole can't get it together in the face of fascism. we
>>>> need to humble ourselves and we need discipline. we also need to read up on
>>>> how past civil rights leaders ran things and what their security protocols
>>>> were.
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Anne Barron <anne at prcsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear comrades interested in self-defense & Rapid Response.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's meet at noon tomorrow before the CRSD general meeting to
>>>>> talk/review where we are...I am so in awe of Bo's use of GoFundMe to
>>>>> generate the needed funds to pay off the remaining bails from November 9th
>>>>> (and many thanks to those of you who contributed).
>>>>> So I would also like to add fundraising to our committee work.
>>>>>
>>>>> see ya!
>>>>>
>>>>> Anne
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:50 PM, justin hewgill <jhewgill at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The next meeting committee adjusted the agenda based on folks feed
>>>>>> back.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is the new agenda: https://docs.google.co
>>>>>> m/document/d/1cBSgbuXjO8YGUM8wHR8JMTUhag7GLewykLHVMqJxhjY/ed
>>>>>> it?usp=sharing
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We will NOT be meeting this evening, given that we already got this
>>>>>> together.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Remember we are meeting at *1pm, this Sunday*.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Justin
>>>>>>
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