May Day March and Rally in Modesto

For years now ICE has been rounding up our fellow workers, stealing them from their families, children, and communities, often regardless of their immigration status. In 2009, 380,000 people were detained in 350 facilities, and the roundups continue. Detainees are held for months, even years, in conditions often worse than prisons built for "citizens" (although many who are "legally" in the US end up there anyway). Along the US-Mexico border, defense contractors have built massive walls at the safest crossing points, forcing migrant workers to make perilous desert crossings. Many will not make it alive. Recently, as many of you are aware, Arizona has passed bill SB1070. The bill makes it a crime in the state to not have any sort of identification proving you are a US citizen at any time, making it easier for police to stop and harass anyone, most of all working class people of color.

As some comrades in Arizona wrote:

It is now illegal for any person to be on public or private land (meaning in any location within the state) without carrying verification proving citizenship or legal residency.

Every person must now carry proof of legal residency at all times in Arizona,and may legally be asked by any state employed to present documentation.

It is now illegal for any person to house or transport any person who cannot provide legal documentation within the United States.

It is now illegal for any person who cannot provide legal documentation to look for employment or to be employed in the state of Arizona.

In Modesto, there will be a march starting at 10 AM at Crows Landing Road and Hatch, in South Side. The march is supposed to go to 4pm. In 2006, Modesto was rocked when over 10,000 took over South Side and then the Downtown, in a unpermitted march which included many high school kids who had walked out. Let us begin again, in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Arizona but also here, for ourselves.

For more analysis on what is happening in Arizona, check out the O'odham Solidarity Across Borders Collective, Phoenix Class War Council blog, as well as Survival Solidarity.

Upcoming Events at Firehouse 51

On Friday, April 30th, anarcho-folk/jug rock legends Blackbird Raum will be playing at Firehouse 51, from 8 - 10pm. They'll be bringing some other acts with them from their home town of Santa Cruz, so be sure to come out and see them. Check out a video of the band bellow.



Also, on Tuesday March 4th, from 7pm - 10pm, we will be hosting a film showing of the Chicago Conspiracy. A film which documents indigenous resistance of the Mapuche people to the police and the government, as well as covering autonomous neighborhoods and student revolts. The event is sure to be a riot porn fest, so bring a hanky and stick around later to talk with some of those on the tour to ask questions. Bellow is a trailer for the film.


For directions - email us at: anarcho209@yahoo.com

Robert "Suck My Dick" Stanford Laughed out of Earth Day

Yesterday at Modesto's annual Earth Day celebration in Graceada Park, a group of community members evicted well-known snitch, "Suck My Dick" Robert Stanford, from the park. While he was tabling with the Central Valley Democratic Club with fellow democrat Al Nava (famous for running for local election on the No Fat Chicks platform), the community members confronted other members of the group, talking about his racism, sexism, and snitching. While one woman tried defending Stanford, most of the members simply looked on, trying to disassociate themselves from him both physically and verbally. Stanford, who has previously, among other things, been recorded on video as saying that most if not all chicano youth look like gang members, is so laughable that even his fellow "progressive democrats" will not stand by him. After about a minute of this, Stanford stood up to leave, whereupon he was heckled out of the park.

There are several interesting points here, and a couple lessons to be learned.
1) Community members did not directly engage with Stanford until he was already leaving. He is a liar, a snitch, a racist and sexist bigot. They had no interest in talking with him.
2) Stanford has no allies outside of the wingut world of Modesto-area bloggers.
3) Stanford has previously been laughed out of the local chapters of both the ACLU and NAACP, making the reactions of the Democratic Club even more hilarious. He is a joke.
4) As soon as community members made a spectacle, Stanford was forced to leave. It is regretful that they did not take action earlier in the day, before he had a chance to sit down even. This should be standard practice; snitches are removed
5) The group who forced stanford's removal were diverse in age and political background, race and gender, sexuality and experience with the Snitch. Everyone hates Stanford!

No safe ground for snitches!

"BEE KILLAZ" Sabotages Bee Boxes

Posted anonymously on anarchistnews.org:

"She takes a loss cos she don't wanna see her child lose
So respect her, and pay up for the time used"
-Lil Wayne

It seems the local Sheriff's Department, when not getting slapped with fat lawsuits for sexual harassment or getting their own guns stolen from under their pig noses at the local Honor Farm, came upon a slow night in Modesto several days ago. Instead of doing what most of us do while at work during a slow day, (nothing), they decided to "make the most of it" and went down to 9th Street and arrested several sex workers after waiting for various John's to take them over to motels. More sickening, the Modesto Bee printed the names of these people in their disgusting corporate publication, further humiliating them and vindicating the police in their story.

Sex workers, like all workers, sell their labor for wages. As women in a patriarchal society, they face attacks from customers and often from police. The same system which seeks to criminalize them is the same force that shut down production at the Modesto Bee building itself, and threatens people across the Central Valley. The police, the protectors of the rich. The media, their mouth piece. Fuck you all.

With super glue, with gave you a likkle sumthing, knowing that hopefully not being able to collect money from people that buy your horrible publication will be a thorn in your side. In total, 10 newspaper boxes were sabotaged last week. These actions are easy. They are simple to reproduce. Fuck the Modesto Bee, from it's ongoing layoffs and horrible wages, to it's boss and cop loving content. We up in yo honey pot, what?!

AGAINST PATRIARCHY AND IT'S POLICE!
DESTROY CAPITALISM!

- BEE KILLAZ