Comrades and friends! We’ve seen an alarming rise in fascist and Nazi propaganda on our streets.
Please share this invite link to a local Antifascist Alerts Telegram channel with your networks.
https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjinLocally, mosques have been targeted with death threats and a pig’s head. This year's pride march route was heavily stickered and postered by a local Nazi cell. In Melbourne recently, National Socialist Network turn up to a children’s event in a park to intimidate a drag performer with Antisemitic and transphobic banners and chants, and similar things have happened here in years past. Elsewhere, fascists and Nazis are escalating in the USA and across Europe, targeting minorities, including drag performers and queer venues.
We’ve set up this Telegram channel for comrades to get an alert if similar incidents occur here in Meanjin, so-called Brisbane. Please make sure you have Telegram notifications (persistent, not temporary) turned on for your app and that this channel isn’t muted so you receive a push notification on your phone.
The purpose of this channel will be call outs to mobilise quickly if and when antifascist solidarity is needed on the ground, such as the targeting of community events or places of worship. If you mobilise, consider covering your face and other identity markers, try to arrive with comrades, and be vigilant about your safety and the safety of others before, during and after the event.
We are stronger together—we keep each other safe. Antifascism is community self defence. Antifascism is us standing together as a community against bigotry and hatred.