Wax-ing Pathetic: UPenn Professor Suspended for Racist Remarks, Activism

  • September 28, 2024 1:56 am

from Idavox

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequence. Amy Wax is out after years of racist demagoguery.

PHILADELPHIA, PA – The University of Pennsylvania published a public reprimand against racist professor Amy Wax announcing her suspension from teaching for a year and other sanctions. This comes less than two months before she is scheduled to speak at this year’s American Renaissance (AmRen) Conference, a White Supremacist event organized by Jared Taylor, the publisher of American Renaissance who Wax had invited to speak at the university last year and has done so again for her classes this December.

“The Board recommended sanctions including a one-year suspension from the University at half pay; the loss of your named chair; the loss of summer pay in perpetuity; the requirement that you note in public appearances that you speak for yourself alone and not as a University or Penn Carey Law School faculty member; and a public reprimand,” Provost John L. Jackson wrote in the reprimand to Wax, which cited a history of not just making derogatory generalizations about groups by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status but also in doing so breaching the requirement that student grades be kept private. An example of this was a 2017 interview with Brown University professor Glenn Loury a prominent Black conservative who regularly places the blame on Black people for racism leveled against them, she claimed Black students practically never graduate at the top of their law school classes. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely, rarely, in the top half,” Wax, who has often attributed this observation to genetics, said on his show. In 2018 citing this statement and claiming that it was false, Dean Ted Ruger barred Wax from teaching mandatory first-year law courses. The next year, Wax spoke at the Edmund Burke Foundation’s National Conservatism conference in Washington D.C. and declared while discussing a immigration policy that favored European nations over others that she agreed with Donald Trump’s description of non-European countries as “shithole countries,” argued for a “cultural distance” approach to immigration that “preserves the United States as a Western and First World nation,” and that “our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites.

Wax particularly stoked anger on campus by inviting Jared Taylor, himself a eugenicist who believes in the inferiority of Black persons to Whites, to speak to her classes in 2021 and 2023. During last year’s invitation, Wax photographed those protesting the event as Taylor disparaged the students assembled against him. According to Philadelphia Magazine, Taylor was invited by Wax to speak to her class in December but due to her sanction it is not known if this will still take place. Wax meanwhile will be speaking during the AmRen conference Nov. 15-17 at Montgomery Bell Park Inn in Burns, TN. The conference, which was attended by organizers of the tragic Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville two weeks before that event and promoted there, has seen a decline in numbers in recent years even though they have featured more prominent figures such as former House Rep. Steve King, former columnist Michelle Malkin, Laura Loomer, a neo-fascist podcaster recently seen in the company of Donald Trump, and this year Anthony Cumia the onetime radio host best known for his “Opie and Anthony” program.

Upon hearing of the sanctions imposed on Wax, Taylor angrily ranted on his podcast, saying it sent a bad precedent. “What has happened to Professor Wax is absolutely disgusting and lamentable and who knows? Maybe she will sue!” Taylor also complained that none of the news articles he read on her case noted her upcoming AmRen conference address. Meanwhile, members of Penn’s Black Law Students Association, regarded the sanctions an “overdue step” but “far from sufficient.” The group called on the administration to fire Wax and ban Taylor from campus. It is indeed rare to punish a tenured faculty member, this being the first such occurrence under Faculty Senate processes in at least 20 years.

Wax is slated to participate on a panel this Saturday in McLean, Virgina at the fall meeting of the Philadelphia Society alongside Trump-appointed Judge David J. Porter of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Helen Andrews, editor at Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative, who once wrote a fluff piece about eugenicist Steve Sailer, and J. Joel Alicea a law professor at the Catholic University of America.

Call to Action: Oct 7 Week of Rage

  • September 28, 2024 1:40 am

from Never Sleep

LET the FLOOD of AL-AQSA DROWN the SETTLER EMPIRE!

Call for a Week of Rage from October 7–14: Direct action in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance and anti-colonial movements in Turtle Island.

To act alongside the Al-Quds Axis and ‘bring the war home’ requires nothing less than a revival of anti-colonial militancy in this occupied continent. Free Palestine means death to amerika.

In commemorating one year of Operation Toufan Al-Aqsa, this is a call to go beyond the routine stage-managed ‘protest’ parades; this is a call to organize and sustain attacks on all entities, institutions, and infrastructures of the genocidal u.s.-zionist settler-imperialist order. Strike fear into the hearts of the comfortable colonizers, unsettle the settlers, just as the Palestinian Mujahideen have done.

Honor the martyrs through action. From Palestine to Lebanon to Yemen, to the millions of Native and Afrikan peoples across these lands—carry on the fight of those who dared to resist the settler-invader hordes and their capitalist slaveocracy. Target the many politicians, pigs, and profiteers that uphold the amerikan settler empire and its zionist spawn.

Share this graphic online, print and disseminate this call to action at demos, gatherings, study groups. [PDF: AlAqsaWoR]

Organize a crew—at least three people—map out the terrain, assemble necessary tools, make a plan, and go on the offensive. For ideas, check out past actions and tactical resources on unityoffields.org, and submit a report back to the_unity_of_fields@proton.me.

As Al-Qassam urban guerrillas have demonstrated, a small dedicated cell can do untold damage upon the enemy. In the midst of total genocidal devastation, the Resistance is still able to obliterate the zionist entity’s tanks with just a few men. Let’s muster the courage and conviction so we too can learn from their revolutionary example.

GLORY to the MARTYRS
VICTORY to the RESISTANCE
WHAT IS COMING IS GREATER

Are You Anarcho-Curious?

  • September 25, 2024 1:27 am

from Instagram

Come to our recurring meetup to discuss anarchism--what it is, what it isn't, and what it could be! An informal gathering where food will be munched, questions asked and ideas bandied.
Come to our recurring meetup to discuss anarchism–what it is, what it isn’t, and what it could be! An informal gathering where food will be munched, questions asked and ideas bandied.
[October 6th
4pm – 6pm
Wooden Shoe Books
704 South St, Philly]

8th Annual Prisoners’ Families Brunch in West Philly

  • September 24, 2024 1:37 am

from Unicorn Riot

West Philadelphia, PA – Over 100 people came out early Sunday afternoon for a banquet celebrating political prisoners and their loved ones and other supporters.

The 8th annual ‘Prisoners’ Families Brunch’ was held at the OneArt Community Center on 52nd Street, with this year’s event honoring the late Russell Maroon Shoatz (whose autobiography ‘I Am Maroon’ was just released) and Anthony ‘Ant’ Smith, a Philly community organizer and teacher who recently got out of prison after being locked up on federal charges stemming from George Floyd protests in Philadelphia in 2020. Speeches included a few readings from the book and remarks from people Shoatz inspired over the years including other former prisoners incarcerated alongside him.

Organizations endorsing the event included The Care Space Project, Philly Anarchist Black Cross, The Abolitionist Law Center, Ubuntu Freedom, Building Fearless Futures, Landing Freedom and Black Lives Matter Philly.

Watch Unicorn Riot’s full coverage of the event below:

On October 30, 2020 Unicorn Riot streamed a press conference after Smith was arrested by federal authorities for events during the 2020 uprising:

 

The massive Philly car meetup was dubbed ‘Project X’ online. One driver described the mayhem of the night.

  • September 24, 2024 1:15 am

from Mainstream Media

“As soon as they said City Hall, I knew all hell was going to break loose,” said a 19-year-old who “slides” in a black Camaro.

Just after midnight, Philadelphia police investigate the scene of a one-car crash at the intersection of Pattison Avenue and South Third Street.

Just after midnight, Philadelphia police investigate the scene of a one-car crash at the intersection of Pattison Avenue and South Third Street.

Dressed in banana suits, Donald Trump masks, and green alien costumes, hundreds of people descended on Philadelphia during the weekend for a series of car meetups — a night of mayhem participants have dubbed “Project X” online and that resulted in police officers being surrounded and, in some cases, attacked in their cars.

Law enforcement said the meetups, which included people drag racing, doing doughnuts, and exploding fireworks, spanned the city, with at least 11 events from the Northeast to Southwest to right outside City Hall. Across more than seven hours Saturday night and into Sunday morning, police trailed the groups in what they described as a game of “whack-a-mole,” arriving just in time for the crowds to rapidly disperse, then move to a new location.

In multiple instances, including around 4:30 a.m. in front of City Hall, responding police were greatly outnumbered by the crowds that in some places lit fires in the streets. Videos shared on Instagram showed dozens of people surrounding one officer’s car, jumping onto the hood and hanging off the back while filming themselves. People threw traffic cones into the officer’s windshield and at one point, opened the cruiser’s back door. Another video showed a small number of baton-wielding officers running through smoke-filled streets as people fled in all directions. Most appeared to have escaped.

Obtained by The Inquirer

The scenes quickly went viral online and became talking points for Republicans. The GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee posted on X that “you’re not safe in Democrat-run Philadelphia,” and Elon Musk shared the video, saying it resembled a scene from The Joker.

In total, five police cars were damaged through the night, police said, and one 39th District officer suffered minor injuries after his vehicle was struck by another car, which then fled the scene.

Deputy Police Commissioner of Patrol Mike Cram (left) and Deputy Police Commissioner Francis Healy discuss illegal car meetups on Sunday.
Deputy Police Commissioner of Patrol Mike Cram (left) and Deputy Police Commissioner Francis Healy discuss illegal car meetups on Sunday.Elizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer

Car meetups, also known as “takeovers” or “slide shows,” aren’t new or unique to Philly and they’ve been going on for years. But police said the events this past weekend went beyond what they typically encounter in size, scope, and aggression and that they believe it was in retaliation for the department’s heightened efforts in recent months to arrest and fine those who participate.

Police said they arrested only three people across Saturday night and Sunday morning. Jhonny Martinez, a 19-year-old from Upper Darby, was charged with recklessly endangering another person after police said he crashed into a pole at Third Street and Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia while fleeing officers. He has been released from custody on his own recognizance, according to court records.

Two teens were also arrested and issued code violation notices, police said. Officials declined to name them because they are juveniles.

Police said 15 spectators were cited and nine were fined under the city’s nuisance car ordinance — which carries a $2,500 penalty — in Southwest Philadelphia.

How the meetups work

The meetup was organized with drivers, or “sliders,” from across the region, from New York to North Carolina and Virginia, as a final ode to summer, said a 19-year-old from Long Island who drives a black Camaro. He asked not to be identified so he could speak openly about the illegal racing scene, which he has participated in for about five years.

The event, like most meets, was organized through Instagram stories, he said, and was called “Project X,” a nod to the 2012 film about high schoolers who host an unruly party.

“That was probably one of the biggest meets we’ve had on the East Coast in like two years,” he said of the turnout.

It was Philly’s spectators who sowed chaos, he said, adding that he and other drivers have tried to discourage people from lighting fires and fireworks. It gives the thrill-seeking hobby a bad rap, he said.

“We don’t like that, we yell at people. There’s been fights multiple times because of it,” he said of the spectators’ behavior. “In every other state, we do the same [stuff]. But these guys in Philly … we call them crash outs.”

He said that they moved to multiple locations through the night in their cars, and that he was surprised by the limited police response at each location.

“As soon as they said City Hall, I knew all hell was going to break loose,” he said.

Another man, who described himself as an independent journalist who films the meetups, said drivers “want somewhere to do this legally with no repercussions.” The man, who asked not to be identified to discuss events that are illegal, said many racing tracks have restrictions or are shutting down, making it “hard to find a place to keep this off the streets.”

Law enforcement wasn’t sympathetic, and said they were reviewing camera footage and social media posts to identify the people involved.

“This is not a victimless crime,” said Adam Geer, Philadelphia’s director of public safety. “They’re putting people’s lives in danger.”

Officers were attacked and their cars damaged trying to disperse chaotic, illegal car meetups, Philly police said

  • September 24, 2024 1:07 am

from Mainstream Media

Investigators say the illegal gatherings were reported over a span of seven hours late Saturday into early Sunday, and featured hundreds of cars drag racing and drifting, and several trash fires.

Philadelphia police investigate the scene of a one-car crash at the intersection of Pattison Avenue and Third Street in South Philadelphia early Sunday morning. This car was involved in a large meetup, and fled the scene as officers arrived to break up the illegal event.
Philadelphia police investigate the scene of a one-car crash at the intersection of Pattison Avenue and Third Street in South Philadelphia early Sunday morning. This car was involved in a large meetup, and fled the scene as officers arrived to break up the illegal event.

Multiple Philadelphia police officers were attacked and their vehicles damaged while trying to break up nearly a dozen illegal car meetups throughout the city late Saturday into Sunday morning, police said, causing mayhem and rattling the nerves of residents in nearby neighborhoods.

Investigators said there were 11 large meetups, some of which drew more than 200 cars, as well as a series of other smaller gatherings, scattered throughout nearly every corner of the city, from Northeast to Southwest.

The wild scenes unfolded over the course of seven hours, with the first reported to police at 9:30 p.m. on Bustleton Avenue near Bleigh Avenue in Rhawnhurst. During that incident, 50 cars gathered at the scene, which drew multiple spectators. An arrest warrant was issued for one of the drivers, whom police did not identify, after they hit an uninvolved car while attempting to flee. Officers issued nuisance citations to nine other drivers and 15 spectators.

Just after midnight on Sept. 22, Philadelphia police race east on Pattison Avenue in their response to multiple car meet-ups throughout the city.
Just after midnight on Sept. 22, Philadelphia police race east on Pattison Avenue in their response to multiple car meet-ups throughout the city. Elizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer

An officer responding to an assist call nearby was hurt after his vehicle was struck by a car fleeing that meetup, police said.

Other meetups saw attendees building bonfires, setting off fire crackers, and in one instance shooting a flamethrower as drivers revved and screeched through the streets, doing doughnuts, hanging out of their cars, and leaving massive scenes of smoke in their wake, according to investigators.

Deputy Police Commissioner Francis Healy said at a news conference Sunday that officials believe the aggressive behavior was in retaliation to the department’s increased enforcement against the meetups in recent months.

Investigators were poring over video and evidence, working to identify people involved, he said.

”We have your picture. We’re coming for you. If you think you got away last night, you didn’t,” Healy said of the drivers. “We’re coming with search warrants, and we’re coming with arrest warrants, so don’t think we’re going to lay down and allow this to happen in our city.”

Deputy Police Commissioner Michael Cram said Sunday that fireworks and fires have become a standard part of the gatherings, with drivers circling around the flames to hype up the crowd. The groups often even have camera crews with them, he said, and frequently make videos for their social media profiles.

Cram said that a team of officers is deployed each weekend to respond to and try to prevent the meetups from forming, but they’re difficult to police. As quickly as they form, he said, the groups disperse. Officers cannot chase after the cars for safety reasons, and when an officer is surrounded, their car sometimes being attacked, it’s not safe for them to even get out of their vehicle, Healy said.

”It’s like a game of whack-a-mole,” said Cram.

Philadelphia Police responded to a series of car meet-ups Saturday night into Sunday morning, including this one on 23rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

Other meetups were reported in South Philadelphia, Southwest Philadelphia, and Center City, according to police. At a 4 a.m. meetup at Island and Bartram Avenues, more than 200 cars were drifting — speeding and whipping the tail end of the vehicle around — and drag racing. Officers who responded were attacked and a vehicle was damaged, police said.

Additional officers were attacked just after 4:30 a.m. at 15th and Market Streets, where more than 100 cars were reportedly drifting, and spectators were setting trash fires, police said. Five police vehicles were damaged, their windshields broken and tires flattened by spectators.

Police made two arrests at 20th Street and Pattison Avenue after a car fleeing an 11:47 p.m. meetup there crashed into a pole. Investigators did not identify the driver or the passenger, a juvenile, but said they lived nearby.

City Council President Kenyatta Johnson, in whose district that meetup was held, said Sunday that events like it are a “matter of public safety that can have deadly consequences for unsuspecting drivers, pedestrians and neighborhood residents.”

“Philadelphia City Council members will continue to work with the Police Department and Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration on solutions to this issue citywide,” Johnson said. “I also urge the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to prosecute anyone arrested in connection with this weekend’s illegal car meetups, including the injuring of police officers, to the fullest extent of the law.”

Deputy Police Commissioner of Patrol Mike Cram (left) and Deputy Police Commissioner Francis Healy address illegal car meet-ups that took place over the weekend, on Sept. 22.
Deputy Police Commissioner of Patrol Mike Cram (left) and Deputy Police Commissioner Francis Healy address illegal car meet-ups that took place over the weekend, on Sept. 22. Elizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer

Car meetup culture has become a fixture of the city in the last few years, organized and advertised over social media. The unsanctioned, illegal gatherings block intersections and close streets, and have led to violence.

In June 2023, 18-year-old Anthony Allegrini Jr. of Glen Mills was killed by Pennsylvania State Police troopers after he struck two troopers with his Audi S4 while trying to flee a car meetup that shut down I-95 near Penn’s Landing. Two other assaults during that meetup were captured by bystander video.

Later that year, on Oct. 1, Cody Heron, 27, brandished a gun and headbutted Nikki Bullock near Philadelphia City Hall as she was delivering for Uber Eats with her children in the car. Heron pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault and one count of possession of an instrument of a crime.

He was sentenced to one to four years in state prison and five years’ probation. Prosecutors have said Heron, of Frankford, was part of an ATV and motorcycle meetup that illegally drove through Center City.

People who live near the site of some of this weekend’s car meetups say they are frustrated over inaction by the city. The city’s Nuisance Car Ordinance, which carries a hefty $2,500 fine, has been an effective tool for the last month, according to police officials.

But some residents, including Drew Murray, say the city needs to find a permanent solution to the issue.

Murray, vice president of Logan Square Neighborhood Association, said Sunday that he expects to field multiple phone calls this week from frustrated neighbors after a meetup was held this weekend at 23rd and Spring Garden Streets, one of many in recent months.

”It’s clearly becoming an issue,” Murray said. ”It’s extremely dangerous for people in the community. It’s a quality-of-living issue.”

Murray, who ran as a Republican for City Council last year, says he plans on bringing his neighbors’ concerns to their local police district.

”Police don’t want to make a situation even more dangerous by chasing these cars or doing something that could put other pedestrians and other people in danger,” he said. “But we will absolutely be in contact with the district and work with them to hopefully see what we can do going forward to prevent this.

Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross 2024 ‘Running Down the Walls’ 5K Run/Walk/Roll Benefits Prisoners

  • September 23, 2024 2:30 am

from Unicorn Riot

An annual 5K run/walk/roll benefit organized called “Running Down the Walls” aims to amplify the voices of political prisoners and provide support – different “Running Down the Walls” are organized by chapters of the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) network are held yearly both inside and outside prisons. Over 300 people attended this year’s event in Philadelphia, the largest local turnout yet, according to Philly ABC (phillyabc.org).

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Monday September 30th: Letter Writing for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

  • September 23, 2024 1:01 am

from Philly ABC

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Join us on Monday September 30th at 6:30pm Wooden Shoe Books as we send letters to Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese militant for Palestinianian liberation and the single longest-held prisoner in Europe. We’ll also send cards to prisoners with birthdays in October: Jamil Al-Amin (October 4th), Malik El-Amin (October 8th), and Toby Shone (October 20).

From prisonersolidarity.com :

Georges Abdallah’s case has built significant support in Lebanon and in France, and Palestinian prisoners have highlighted the importance of Abdallah’s case as part of the struggle of the Palestinian political prisoners for freedom and liberation. He has always refused to in any way capitulate or renounce his political vision and commitment to the Palestinian cause, to the people of Lebanon, and to international struggles for liberation. He remains a committed anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist. In part because of that very refusal, he remains today imprisoned in the French prison of Lannemezan.

Legal Case

He was sentenced to life imprisonment in France, accused of participating in actions in France targeting U.S. and Israeli interests during the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon. During his arrest and trial, one of his original lawyers was a spy against him, working for French intelligence. He has been eligible for release under parole since 1999, yet has been repeatedly denied. At times when his release to Lebanon has been approved by the French judiciary, the highest forces of the state, including then-Interior Minister Manuel Valls – with the clear involvement of the U.S. government, including the personal intervention of Hillary Clinton – have intervened to keep Georges locked up in French prison.

The imprisonment of Georges comes alongside the persecution and arrest of BDS activists in France for urging the boycott of Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people, ongoing racist targeting of Arab and Muslim communities in France and the “state of emergency” being used to repress popular movements for justice, while the French state promotes itself as a supporter of “peace” in the region while acting directly in support of the Israeli occupation and Zionist colonization.

Life in Prison

Throughout his time in prison, Georges has remained politically active and, indeed, a leader, extending solidarity and full support to struggling prisoners and peoples’ movements around the world. He and fellow prisoners – Basque and Arab, among others – in Lannemezan prison returned their meals in solidarity with Palestinian hunger striker Bilal Kayed, and he has previously participated in hunger strikes in solidarity with Palestinian individual and collective strikes for justice and freedom. He recently expressed his solidarity with Toulouse BDS activists under attack and has constantly remained an active thinker on Arab, Palestinian and international liberation struggles.

If you can’t join us in person this month, you can still write to Georges at:

Mr. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah 2388/A221
CP de Lannemezan
204 rue des Saligues
BP 70166
65307 LANNEMEZAN
France

Three Way Fight

  • September 21, 2024 1:19 am

from Instagram

A discussion with local activists and contributors to the book,
Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism

What’s the relationship between combating the far right and working for systemic change? Three way fight politics argues that the far right grows out of an oppressive capitalist order but is also in conflict with it in real ways, and that radicals need to combat both. A three way fight approach says we need sharper analysis of these different opponents so we can fight them more effectively. This discussion aims to support people in current movements and help us strategize.

[Sept 28, 7pm
704 South St
Wooden Shoe St]

Student Struggles Screening Series

  • September 20, 2024 1:48 am

Submission

🎒📚 The Chicago Conspiracy
10/11 7pm
https://orcaphilly.noblogs.org/events/event/the-chicago-conspiracy-screening-and-discussion/
⚜️🍁 Street Politics 101
10/13 6pm
https://orcaphilly.noblogs.org/events/event/street-politics-101-screening-and-discussion/
O.R.C.A
Anarchist Social Space in Philly
https://orcaphilly.noblogs.org/

techno dystopia film series

  • September 20, 2024 1:43 am

Submission

🚂🥷 Breached: a chronicle of cargo theft
09/26 7pm
https://orcaphilly.noblogs.org/events/event/breached-screening-and-discussion/

🇵🇸🪂 Gaza Is An Image Of The Future
10/03 7pm
https://orcaphilly.noblogs.org/events/event/gaza-is-an-image-of-the-future-screening-and-discussion/
O.R.C.A
Anarchist Social Space in Philly
https://orcaphilly.noblogs.org/

InJekt Division and Its Local Membership

  • September 20, 2024 1:40 am

from Philly Fash Watch

In Collaboration with Jersey Counter-Info

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InJekt Division is a lesser known neo-nazi accelerationist crew styled similarly to Atomwaffen Division (AWD), that was founded by Texas native Coleman Thomas “Korb” Blevins. (More reading about far-right accelerationism can be found here). Blevins was radicalized on “Terrorgram”, a loose connection of Telegram accelerationist nazi and white supremacist channels that encourage and plan decentralized violence attacks across the globe, and founded InJekt Division shortly after. Blevins was later arrested by the federal government in 2021 for plotting a mass shooting at a Texas Walmart and was sentenced to 60 months prison for the plot.

Blevins, the founder of InJekt Division, featured in a post from one of the group’s public Telegram channels.

InJekt Division is decentralized and operates in a loose cell structure. They are active nation wide in the United States, with membership concentrated in certain areas like Texas, New Hampshire, Louisiana, Massachusetts, California, and the NY/PA/NJ tristate area. Their goal is to cause the decline of civilization/society through nazi accelerationism; provoking a race war and causing general violence. Their logo is a shield with a needle, referencing Blevins’ prior history as a heroin addict. Their slogan “Pray for Rain”, which references their hope for nuclear war, is often accompanied by their logo and a militarized nazi figure.

A post from one of InJekt Divisions Telegram channels which features their logo.

 

A stylized propaganda piece created by a group member.

 

One InJekt Division member got this corny back piece with the group’s slogan “pray for rain”.

InJekt Division has at least five semi-public facing Telegram channels, their InJekt Division (ID) Channel, Chernobyl Media (CM) Channel, Embrace Division (ED) Channel, Rev Quotes (RQ) Channel, and their Esoteric Thoughts (ET) Channel. Each channel focuses on a different topic, from recruitment/flashy propaganda, to “education” based national socialist materials, memes, inspirational quotes, or doxxes of other national socialists they have issues with. Each channel is also connected to several different private chats, meaning what InJekt puts out to the public is strategic with some security practices in mind.

InJekt Division Telegram channels. Their “ED”, or Embrace Division channel, is a sub crew that was created from the larger InJekt Division group. The “94” mentioned in the post specifically applies to the ED crew.

 

InJekt Division’s “RQ” or Rev Quotes Telegram channel. This channel features quotes from Blevins and other notorious neo-nazis.

 

InJekt Division’s “CM” or Chernobyl Media channel. This channel produces the majority of InJekt’s propaganda.

InJekt Division also has a cult of personality around their founder Blevins, who is featured across all channels. Blevins is believed to be in direct contact with a few close members given the rate in which propaganda is being produced. Blevins is still serving his 60 month sentence in federal custody.

 

Some of the Blevins fan art from InJekt Division.

InJekt Division has long-running beef with several fascist occult branded Terrorgram crews, such as Order of 9 Angels (O9A), Harm Nation, and 764. These crews are often covered on their ET, or Esoteric Thoughts channel. InJekt Division is opposed to these emerging online fascist occult groups, due to the fact that they often pose as a front for child exploitation rings.

InJekt Division posts about their hatred of the many Terrorgram occult fascist groups.

InJekt Division has made a point of denouncing these groups and doxxing their members, in addition to exposing pedophiles within the larger national socialist scene. They even doxxed local nazi and sexual predator Ben Ryder. Understanding the differences between InJekt Division and the nazi occult groups is vital to understanding how both groups operate. They may have commonalities on the surface but their respective principles, goals, tactics, and organizational strategy differ greatly.

Despite their decentralized structure, InJekt Division has key individuals who help run the organization and disseminate propaganda. One such individual is an unidentified Telegram user that goes by the handle 126/edits-props-quotes.(archive). Their main role is to create the groups graphics and disseminate them anonymously through their account and the 126 ID Productions Telegram Channel.

A primary aspect of InJekt Division’s Telegram presence is to bring attention to their crew, recruit new members, and build a loyal base of young followers prepared to follow their accelerationist ideology to its logical conclusion. InJekt’s propaganda reflects this goal, being flashy and topical. Young adults and minors are their prime target for recruitment.

A collection of propaganda geared towards InJekt’s target audience of minors and young adults. They typically feature a militia styled nazi figure with a firearm, 90’s vaporwave aesthetic images with a nazi twinge, and edgy graffiti.

 

Additional propaganda which plays on young fascists’ feelings of powerlessness.

It is well known within US national socialist spheres that InJekt Division allows and recruits minors within its membership. Evidence of which can be seen below.

 

Nazis in a S14 chat discussing InJekt Division’s recruitment policies.

One major way InJekt Division targeted young adults and youth for recruitment in 2023 was by hacking adult film star Riley Reid’s social media accounts via a SIM swap attack. In doing so they were able to use Reid’s accounts to advertise InJekt Division to millions of her followers. It is not known if there are any current members who are minors, but while they target those in their teens and 20’s, there is no age requirement for membership, meaning they have a large potential recruiting pool.

InJekt Division has a sizeable fan base amongst the far-right, with all sorts of white nationalists reposting their content, including local crews like S14 and the now defunct Embrace Struggle Social Club.

An S14 member promoting InJekt Division in a main chat.

 

Embrace Struggle reposting InJekt Division content on their Telegram page before it was wiped in July 2024.

Within the far-right however, the ratio of fans vs. actual members is not proportional. This is because InJekt Division is exclusive about who they let in and gaining membership is an involved process. Membership is not something that can simply be claimed. Prospective members go through an extensive vetting process and must prove themselves and their commitment to InJekt Division/nazi accelerationism in the real world.

So far antifascists have identified well-known neo nazis Scotlyn Schmitt and Mathew Bair, both of PA, as official members of InJekt Division.

Scotlyn Schmitt, confirmed InJekt Division member.

 

Mathew Bair, confirmed InJekt Division Member.

Schmitt, while very young at 20 years old, made a massive impression on InJekt Division’s leadership. Like other nazi accelerationist crews, InJekt Division, follows a paternalistic set of fascist principles, generally viewing women in a chauvinistic way, meaning White women are typically barred from membership. Due to Schmitt’s involvement in running different Terrorgram accounts, her commitment to nazi accelerationism, and connections to Dallas Humber, Blevins, and AWD’s founder Brandon Russell, InJekt Division made an exception for Schmitt and allowed her to join.

Schmitt after joining InJekt Division, holding a firearm.

 

Schmitt trolling people online as a member of InJekt Division.

Schmitt has also been instrumental to the group given her background and is considered a major player. She has connections to nazis on the East coast, West coast, Mid-West, and the South. Schmitt was last spotted around the York PA area in July 2024 and has reportedly been bouncing around the continental US since then.

Bair, with a far less impressive resume, joined Injekt Division in 2022 as his opportunities with other nazi accelerationist groups like Blood Tribe fizzled out. While against InJekt Division’s internal security protocols, Bair has been promoting his involvement all over Telegram.

Bair’s personal Telegram account. He recently updated his profile pic to him posing with his InJekt Division flag.

 

Bair, a resident of South Eastern PA, runs a personal nazi shit post account called the Sons of Pennsylvania. Note Bair’s InJekt Division hat on top of a series of firearms.

These pictures from Bair’s personal Telegram account and his Sons of Pennsylvania account, confirm his general membership status within InJekt Division.

Bair took these photos while visiting Falling Waters, a famous Frank Lloyd Wright house in PA.

Bair cross posted several photos from his trip to Falling Waters to different Telegram accounts, including the ED InJekt Division channel, as evident by the photo in the top right corner. Bair’s brazen actions also confirm his position as a leader of the ED sub crew within InJekt Division. Given Bair’s attitude and status in the ED sub crew, the cringe worthy back tattoo pictured earlier in the piece is more than likely his.

With the recent arrests of high level Terrorgram nazis, Dallas Humber and Matthew Allison, the state is closing in on fascist accelerationist groups. Allison and Humber had no sense of operational security (opsec), which enabled the federal government to trace their illicit activities and arrest them. In comparison, Schmitt and Bair have worse opsec, so it’s a wonder how they have been able to escape a federal indictment up until this point. Regardless, Bair’s, Schmitt’s, and InJekt Division’s time of acting with impunity ends here. Every single one of you will be held responsible.

Some Lazy Responses to “Some Questions To Be Addressed Before Milwaukee and the Bay”

  • September 19, 2024 1:51 am

This is a very lazy response to the recent piece “Some Questions To Be Addressed Before Milwaukee and the Bay”. I agree with most of the critiques about scene-iness and the resurgence of Bash Back! etc. What is disappointing about this piece is the criticism of the muay thai smoker,as it is clear that wither the report back from the smoker was not read or disregarded. In the report back from the smoker (https://anon.to/shxgbn), it is stated that the warehouse space that it was held in was squatted (i.e. not reserved). It also explains that the smoker was organized explicitly as not part of Bash Back!, in part due to similiar criticisms addressed in “Some Questions…”. I’m curious if/how this criticism changes with some of the points of critique also being critiques in the same vein. With the additional information presented by the report back in mind, these points fall flat. Of course the critique that the proles did not stroll in some orgy of riotous destruction where we fucked each other in the stench of gasoline atop the ashes of UPenn, falling like snow in the light breeze, as we caught the flickering of flames in the darkness of our comrades eyes… or whatever holds true. The smoker was a different girl tho, those weren’t her desires for that night, she doesn’t even go to UPenn. If one desires Bash Back!(TM), the secret is to really begin 😉

Some Questions To Be Addressed Before Milwaukee and the Bay

  • September 18, 2024 1:18 am

from Bash Back News

If we name a tendency, how do we make that tendency spread like fire? How can we make that tendency escape the dead-ends of liberal identity politics and/or academia and/or activism? How will we find commonality with forms-of-life that bash back? How can we make this world explode?

Is our violence of substance or of image? Are we joking when we write about violence?

What is meant by that picture of beautiful people holding baseball bats and sledge hammers? Is this symbolism? Is it real? Does it mean anything to bash back?

-Some Questions to be Addressed Before the 2010 Bash Back! Convergence in Denver

The return of Bash Back! in the fall of 2023 with its international convergence in Chicago (the first of its kind in roughly fifteen years) excited and drew in many queer anarchists and anti-authoritarians with promises of ‘orgies and riots’; not a mere reunion, but seemingly a return to form for the networktendencyganghoweveryouwanttoconceiveofit. And while, in many cases, Chicago set a good tone for the nature of what Bash Back! was to mean in the new context in which we find ourselves, it is important that we continue to be very clear and intentional about what exactly we mean when we say “Bash Back!” and when we talk about being violent faggots. We must not let ourselves be so overcome with the glamour and excitement of “doing a bash back” that we lose sight of what this means, or rather, what it could (or should?) mean: sheer, unrelenting, anti-social conflictuality. It would be both counterproductive, misleading, and to some, demoralizing, to take on the image of “orgies and riots” and bring forth only parties, dances, and otherwise chill hangs.

We are not inherently subversive simply through our identities as queers, trannies, faggots, anarchists, punks, dykes, or any combination therein. To accept this, even tacitly, is to accept the liberal identity politics of those we supposedly seek to destroy, to simply want our own aesthetically cool and edgy subcultural niche within this industrial death march called civilization and its society. Do our desires begin and end with an endless trawl of “anarchist” dance parties, galas, fashion shows, raves, or private warehouse sex parties (even if they are fun!). If they are indeed present, what of our desires to see this society destroyed and this civilization reduced to ashes under our feet? When will we trade mere subculture for an anti-culture, one foaming at the mouth for war; one that seeks to ravage the social order, one with a wild fuse, seeking to blow itself up at any moment? For how long will we settle merely for campfires on the rave pier while deferring to set them in the streets, the banks, the factories, the prisons? Are we to simply throw parties until the next wave of social unrest comes, or will we be that social unrest?

Before going on, it must be stated clearly: this critique is written with the utmost love, respect, and appreciation to those who organized the Northeastern Bash Back! Regional convergence in Philadelphia this past spring. Taking on organizing a regional Bash Back! convergence is a massive organizational undertaking to say the least, and there is a ton of work that must go into planning and putting on something like that! And for that, many thanks and kudos go out those who made it happen, especially in the short order that it occurred after the Chicago convergence and the proceeding call for regional convergences. However, in the rush, excitement, and stress of putting on something like this and asking the logistical questions of “how, when, who, and what,” it is easy to forget to ask “Why?” Once again, what does it mean for us to “Bash Back!”?

“Is our violence of substance or of image?” When the queer anarchist Muay Thai smoker is happening and at least one hundred of us collectively chant “A-, Anti, Anticapitalista”, “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Fuck 12!”, and “Death to America, Death to Israel!” between rounds in the safety of the reserved warehouse space, the painfully liberal UPenn encampment sleeps quietly on the university lawn two miles away. What if this clear sense of rage, conviction, and unity of purpose in our chants was channeled into an opportunity for a surprise attack against the university, its presumably vulnerable and unsuspecting police forces, or the upscale businesses surrounding the university? What could it have meant to turn the joy of the fight club into the jouissance of a rampage? This is not to imply that the Philly organizers simply did not care about the conflictual and insurrectionary nature of Bash Back!, and in fact, they probably wanted people to bring said energy. Unfortunately though, this energy is not always as spontaneous as we would like. Moreover, it didn’t help that any nods to these insurrectional desires were literally tacked-on at the back end of the daily schedule. In the information zines handed out at the convergence, listed after every day’s events was the following: “11PM–Late: Autonomously Organized Late Night Fun.” Although the implication and intentionality was somewhat clear, the actualization was far from so. This led many interested parties to confusedly wander around the convergence, asking any Philly BB!ers they could find if there was anything that was actually planned for that night, or even if anyone knew of any particularly relevant or vulnerable targets (which were also notably absent from the distributed zine). Such inqueries were usually met with, “Oh, I think they are just expecting people to go do stuff on their own.” Of course, by this point, it was much too late for anyone from out of town to plan and carry out anything substantial. Regardless of the organizers’ intentions, it seemed that any real conflictuality had taken a backseat to hangouts, parties, dances, and movie screenings. To be clear: to realistically expect out-of-towners, many of whom may have never lived in Philadelphia for any period of time, with comparatively little (or completely nonexistent) knowledge of the political, social, or literal terrain to autonomously organize “late night fun,” is at very best a severe miscalculation and at worst, utter laziness.

Others have guessed that this omission of conflictuality may have been actually been intentional, with some organizers prioritizing a need to “rest and recuperate.” Considering the current political climate, this desire, and others like it that focus on ~building connections~ and networking for bigger, more confrontational (and more importantly, presently imaginary) encounters in the ~future~, seems both confusing and out of touch. There are so many others who continue to courageously and tirelessly fight in the here and now. And far be it from this critique to lay out a measured response to the increasing prevalence of the care-pilled “politics of rest and compassion” that seems to be further creeping into anarchist spaces, it is important to remind ourselves that this moment of re-emergence, especially in the context of all that surrounds us, is a critical one. A moment where it is up to us to decide if this thing will merely be consumed by the narcissistic myopia of subculture, and consequently cynically recuperated liberal identity politicians and grifters parroting lines about “Queers Bashing Back” until they or their audiences tire of the fashion. Or, does it instead take the anti-social turn of a destructive, unnameable, nihilistic queerness that truly destabilizes the nature of identity and the social order, refusing the repackaging of its violence into mere aesthetics, its lust for incendiary jouissance into a social nightlife, its negativity into “mutual aid projects”?

“If we name a tendency, what does it mean to make that tendency spread like fire?”

🥊Anarchist Muay Thai Exhibition Fights

  • September 17, 2024 1:51 am

from Instagram

🥊Anarchist Muay Thai Exhibition Fights 📅Sept. 22nd ⌚5pm to 7pm 📍Scan QR or ask a boxer for location (This isn't our event, we're just sharing it)

🥊Anarchist Muay Thai Exhibition Fights
📅Sept. 22nd
⌚5pm to 7pm
📍Scan QR or ask a boxer for location

(This isn’t our event, we’re just sharing it)