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Saturday, April 03 2010 @ 02:07 AM UTC

Crash the tea parties!

On April 15th thousands of right-wingers will attend rallies in cities and towns across the United States. The organizers of this nationwide day
of protest call it a tea party. This tea party movement that emerged
only a year ago is a coalition of conservatives, anti-Semites,
fascists, libertarians, racists, constitutionalists, militia men, gun
freaks, homophobes, Ron Paul supporters, Alex Jones conspiracy types
and American flag wavers.

The following call to action and editorial opinion has obviously generate a bunch of controversy, both among anarchists and within the tea party movement. Infoshop News would
like to make it clear that we did not write or author this call to
action. It was authored by somebody anonymous and unknown to us.
Infoshop News is an independent news service that publishes news and
opinion from a variety of viewpoints. We are very open to publishing
different opinions and rely heavily on user-submitted stories. The
viewpoints published by Infoshop News don't necessarily reflect those
of our editorial collective or even most anarchists,
anti-authoritarians and libertarians. In fact, many anarchists think
this call is rather liberal in tone, but it should be noted that
anarchists have a variety of opinions about this call and about the Tea
Party movement in general.

Crash the tea parties!

On April 15th thousands of right-wingers will attend rallies in cities and towns across the United States. The organizers of this nationwide day of protest call it a tea party. This tea party movement
that emerged only a year ago is a coalition of conservatives,
anti-Semites, fascists, libertarians, racists, constitutionalists,
militia men, gun freaks, homophobes, Ron Paul supporters, Alex Jones
conspiracy types and American flag wavers. If the tea party movement
continues to grow in size and strength there is a big chance they will
dominate this country in the near future. If the tea party movement
takes over this country they will really hurt poor people by getting
rid of social programs like food stamps, unemployment benefits,
disability benefits, student aid, free health care, etc. The tea party
movement will say these programs must be gotten rid of because
hard-working taxpayers cannot afford to pay for these things especially
when the economy is in a depression. There are three options we have
with the tea party movement:

1. Organize counter-protests against the tea party demonstrations, same time, same place. This is probably the best option. We need to get in the streets on April 15th and show the tea party movement that there
are lots of people out there who oppose their agenda.

2. Get individual tea party protesters to leave the right-wing and move to the left politically. That would involve passing out stuff like this at the tea party demonstrations: http://www.anarchist-studies.org/node/299

3. Ignore the tea party movement. This is the worst option because without anyone opposing them they could easily gain power.

Some good articles critical of the tea party movement:

• http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16198
• http://www.truthout.org/william-j-astore-a-very-american-coup-comin...

Tea party websites, so you can spy on them:

• http://taxdayteaparty.com/
• http://www.teapartypatriots.org/
• http://www.reteaparty.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests.