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NEWS & LETTERS, June-July 2006Activists rout racist anti-immigrant militiaMemphis, Tenn.--Five of us from the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center confronted the Minuteman Project, a right-wing, pseudo-militia "citizen's vigilance operation" on May 8. This group harasses immigrants, organizes armed vigilante border patrols, and tries to stir up anti-immigrant sentiments everywhere they go. Currently, they are staging a caravan across the U.S. to Washington, D.C., to confront the Bush administration and Congress from the Right, demanding more conservative leadership to toe the Minuteman line. We showed up, unanticipated by them, with signs that read "In the struggle for justice there are no borders!" and "The only outsiders in Memphis are the Minutemen." For once, the cops walked right by us and went to the leader of the Minuteman Project and told them that they needed to leave, because they didn't have a permit. If we hadn't brought attention to these reactionary nationalists, they would have said their piece to the media--uncontested--and moved on. Now we have notified the broad peace and social justice network that lies on the Minuteman Project's route, and they're going to meet them with the same determination at every stop. We can't allow these anti-human elements of society to pretend to speak for all of us. --Brown Douglas |
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