Sunday, March 31, 2024

THE VERMONT CAPITOL STEPS CLIMATE INSURRECTION

Where was Senator Sanders when The Red Rebel Brigade prefigured 1-6 by occupying his state's Capitol to stop its 'colonialist climate inactivist ' Governor from delivering his 2020 State of the State speech to the Vermont Legislature? 



Air Mail reports the patron of the ruckus has moved to Tunisia to regroup:

by Ron Cohen  March 30 2024
You have seen him before...wearing wire-frame glasses in 1937, talking about the blood of the proletariat, Stalin and Trotsky... You saw him in a Mao suit in 1975…In 2024 he wears tattoos.
endangered but not extinct:
a real live american climate communist 

The one below the Adam’s apple, ACAB, is for “All Cops Are Bastards.” The one on the cheek, a kind of arrow beside his large brown eye, means something like “Fuck you and your death culture.”

“Did elite education get me around ideas that other people wouldn’t get around? "Absolutely,” Fergie told me. “People who are the most oppressed by a system are often those who have the least capacity to find ideas that would overthrow that system. It’s people in the elite who betray their background who build the intellectual vanguard.
Chambers built his Berkshire"ideologym" to get the vanguard of the revolution in shape.

Fergie was in Tunisia when we spoke. He’d been building his movement in Alford, Massachusetts. Fergie ran a gym where he taught the proles a little of the old hand-to-hand—the police shut it down...

“The local press was accusing me of forming a militia, which was crazy … We were giving martial-arts classes to working folks, and they were trying to say I was building Hamas in the Berkshires.”

And so, he took off. Why Tunisia? “We develop a lot of theory in the U.S. , but it’s not rooted in international resistance,” he explained. “Being in the Islamic world, in the Global South, close to what’s going on in West Africa, in Palestine, even in Ukraine, helps me feel more connected to those things.”

Fergie, who believes Russia is battling an appendage of the neo-colonial Western empire in Ukraine, is actually a fan of the old Soviet Union: his vanity license plates read CCCP "