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>>16482321, >>16482517 DIG CALL: militant pro-abortion group Jane's Revenge

Likely Candidate for involvement.

Milwaukee the "flashpoint" for Janes Revenge Abortion terrorism.

Possiblly named after "Jane Collective" founded in Chicago.

> https://thebridgehead.ca/2022/06/09/janes-revenge-the-rise-of-abortion-terrorism-in-america/

Jane’s Revenge: The rise of abortion terrorism in America

Posted on June 9, 2022 by Jonathon Van Maren

By Jonathon Van Maren

On Mother’s Day, shortly after the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the office of Wisconsin Family Action was attacked with Molotov cocktails. Before they left, the arsonists spray-painted a message on the side of the building in black paint: “If abortion isn’t safe then you aren’t either.” The attackers claimed to be part of a group called Jane’s Revenge, and they warned that more terrorism would be forthcoming: “Wisconsin is the first flashpoint, but we are all over the US, and we will issue no further warnings.”' They issued a 30-day ultimatum to all pro-life organizations and crisis pregnancy centres to shut down or face their wrath.

The activists behind Jane’s Revenge—the name may be an homage to the 1970s illegal abortion network Jane’s Collective—appear to be deadly serious. Sometime early in the morning of June 7, the crisis pregnancy center CompassCare in Buffalo, New York was firebombed. The windows of the reception room and nurses’ offices were smashed, and firebomb were tossed inside. Early Sunday morning, four churches in Olympia, Washington were vandalized; the group is openly claiming responsibility for the attacks. On the side of the firebombed crisis pregnancy center in Buffalo they wrote: “Jane was here.”

It is difficult to determine whether Jane’s Revenge is an organization with hierarchical leadership, a group of disparate cells with the same mission, or simply a slogan used by all those willing to engage in violence against pro-lifers. They appear to be similar to Antifa—decentralized groups or activists not necessarily connected but all willing to utilize the same tactics for the same set of revolutionary goals. Abortion activists have been calling for months of protest under the name “Summer of Rage” since the Roe leak; Jane’s Revenge is calling for a “Night of Rage” if the final decision does in fact overturn Roe.

Specifically, an open letter posted to the Anarchist Federation website on May 31 calls for a night of burning and violence. The response to the Roe leak, the letter reads, has been “tepid” and underwhelming:

We have agonized over this apparent absence of indignation. Why is it that we are so afraid to unleash hell upon those who are destroying us? Fear of state repression is valid, but this goes deeper than that.

Your anger has been stolen from you.

To this we say: no more. We need to get angry.

We need the state to feel our full wrath.

We need to express this madness fully and with ferocity. We need to quit containing ourselves.

We need them to be afraid of us.

In response, they have concluded, Antifa tactics—and I would not be surprised if there is plenty of overlap between the two groups—are necessary:

The time to act was decades ago. The next best time is now.

Whatever form your fury takes, the first step is feeling it.

The next step is carrying that anger out into the world and expressing it physically.

>>16485371

Consider this your call to action.

On the night the final ruling is issued——a specific date we cannot yet predict, but we know is arriving imminently——we are asking for courageous hearts to come out after dark.

Whoever you are and wherever you are, we are asking for you to do what you can to make your anger known.

We have selected a time of 8pm for actions nationwide to begin, but know that this is a general guideline. There may be other considerations involved in planning time and place. We do not claim to speak for every community or crew. We are simply calling out to you. And we hope you answer our cries.

To the cis male allies who would be interested in joining us in the streets, we say: you are certainly welcome, but you must use your privilege to shield and support us in a way that also enables us to get angry. Do not police us. Do not tell us what is and isn’t appropriate. But do aid us when we are in need.

We must also say: do not wait until the verdict arrives to organize.

Make plans now. Take action now.

It is not enough to share images on Twitter and Instagram (though that is still important to do). We cannot sustain this movement any longer with the same few hundred people who have been beaten down over and over again. We must not only circulate this call on social media, but reach out to communities who may not be in touch with “radical circles” online.

Mass action requires mass outreach.

We would not be issuing this call if we did not believe in our bones that this kind of action is possible. We have witnessed the wom*n of Argentina, Mexico and Poland organize autonomously for their reproductive liberation. We know it can be done…but we need every soul reading this to do their part.

To those who work to oppress us: If abortion isn’t safe, you aren’t either. We are everywhere.

Signed,

JANE’S REVENGE

Anyone who watched the BLM riots or the takeover of wide swathes of Portland by Antifa should know that these are not idle threats. Burning churches and firebombed pro-life offices should persuade any sceptics that Jane’s Revenge appears intent on becoming a full-blown domestic terrorist group targeting pro-life organizations—including centers that exist for the explicit purpose of assisting low-income mothers.

That, and earlier this week the police arrested a man from California who had traveled to Maryland with a Glock 17, two magazines and ammunition, a knife, pepper spray, and burglary tools (a hammer, zip ties, duct tape) with the intent of assassinating Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Nicholas John Roske openly admitted that he “was there to kill the justice”—he was arrested on a street near Kavanaugh’s home. He knew where Kavanaugh lived because other abortion activists had released that information online.''

>>16485422

The abortion activist group “Ruth Sent Us”—named for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the abortion champion replaced by Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court—previously doxxed the pro-life Supreme Court justices by publishing their home addresses on the social media platform TikTok. It is fair to point out that if the roles had been reversed and the attempted assassin had been anti-abortion and the targeted justice had been, say, Elena Kagan, that there would not be a front page in the country—or, for that matter, the Western world—that would not be screaming the news.

I’ve noted before that while the mainstream media bends over backwards to paint the pro-life movement as a threat, the precise reverse is actually true: Violence against those expressing pro-life views in public is common. Joyce Arthur of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, for example, has explicitly said that she does not oppose violence against pro-lifers on moral grounds, only for tactical reasons. Violence against peaceful pro-life activists is routinely ignored despite the fact that it happens with shocking regularity—a single instance of this behavior against an abortion supporter would immediately result in breaking news coverage and an insistence that these actions are characteristic of the entire pro-life movement.

We should be taking the threats of groups like Jane’s Revenge very seriously. When radical abortion activists engage in violence they are being consistent with their worldview. A fundamental premise of the pro-abortion view is that inconvenient human beings can be met with violence. Millions of pre-born children have been cruelly killed in the womb; now that some states may soon be able to enact protections for them, the blood-fuelled rage of revolutionaries who have already embraced the idea that some killing is permissible may decide to expand their roster of permissible targets. If an innocent, vulnerable child in the womb at nine months can be killed, why not a Supreme Court justice? Or pro-lifers who lobby for protections for the pre-born?

I fear that the firebombers of Jane’s Revenge are asking themselves precisely those questions.

>>16485428

>>16485371

>Likely Candidate for involvement.

Origins

Heather Booth, the founder of the Jane Collective

In 1965, University of Chicago student Heather Booth learned that her friend's sister had an unwanted pregnancy that left her distraught and nearly suicidal.[6][7] Booth had previously not given much thought to abortion access; her exposure to the experience of an unwanted pregnancy led her to consider abortion restrictions as unjust laws, saying, "in the face of an unjust law, you need to take action to challenge it".[6] To seek assistance for her friend's sister, Booth contacted the Medical Committee for Human Rights, who connected her with civil rights leader and surgeon T. R. M. Howard. Howard worked at the Friendship Medical Center in Chicago, and Booth sent her friend to his facility. Word spread that Booth was able to help women obtain safe abortions, and she soon began receiving calls from other women. Operating under the pseudonym "Jane",[6] Booth began taking such phone calls at her college dormitory, referring more clients to Howard, who performed the abortions for $500.[6] Booth later switched to an abortionist alternately referred to as "Mike"[8] or "Nick".[9]

Location of Hyde Park, Chicago, where the Jane Collective was founded

Outcomes and legacy

In the seven years that the group existed, they performed an estimated 11,000 abortions.[17] There were no reports of abortion-related death as a result of their work, though one member, Martha Scott, recalled that some of their patients ended up having to go to the emergency room afterwards, while others had to undergo hysterectomies.[11] One obstetrician who provided follow-up visits for the Collective's patients stated that their safety rate was comparable to legally operating clinics in New York.[14]

The story of the Jane Collective has been called a "motivational call to arms".[18] Haven Coalition, a non-profit in New York City that helps out-of-town women access abortions in the city, draws inspiration from the Jane Collective for their operations.[6] Though abortion remains legal in the US, it has become increasingly restricted: By 2018, more than 1,100 abortion restrictions had been passed in the US, and the number of abortion clinics declined by nearly half since the late 1970s.[19] A volunteer with the Haven Coalition stated, "There’s an effort to sort of preserve the vestiges of what used to be an underground railroad and something that might be again", alluding to the possibility that abortion could become illegal in the US once again.[6] The Jane Collective has also been cited as inspiration to a loose network of American women who provide illegal abortions.[19]

Representation in film

The Janes, a feature length documentary which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmakers Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes.[20]

Call Jane, a historical drama starring Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was directed by Oscar-nominee Phyllis Nagy. [21]

Jane: An Abortion Service, a 1995 documentary about the Jane Collective.[22]

Ask for Jane, a 2018 historical drama film about the Jane Collective. Judith Arcana, a writer, activist, and a real-life member of the Jane Collective is a consulting producer on the film, in addition to making a cameo appearance.[23][24]

This Is Jane, an Amazon Studios historical drama starring Michelle Williams in production as of May 2018.[25]

>>16485490

See also

Abortion in Illinois

Chicago Abortion Fund

Booth continued to refer patients for abortions, averaging one per week, mostly for low-income women and women of color. This continued until 1968 when she was out of college, married, pregnant, and employed full-time. With less time to devote to connecting women with abortion providers, she recruited and trained ten other women to help her. She transferred her leadership role to Ruth Surgal and Jody Parsons.[6] The organization, founded in Hyde Park, Chicago, adopted the name Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, proclaiming that they were for "every woman having exactly as many children as she wants, when she wants, if she wants."[4] They decided that the name was wordy, though; women who called should ask for "Jane", which they considered the "everywoman name".[9] The Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation was a work group of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union.[10] One member of the Jane Collective was known as "Jenny". She was motivated to help provide abortion access by her past struggles to obtain a safe abortion. Jenny discovered that she was pregnant shortly after she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.[4][9] She sought an abortion due to concerns about the effects of her radiation treatment on the fetus, but was denied by the hospital board. After informing two psychiatrists that she intended to kill herself if not allowed an abortion, she was allowed her request.[9]

>>16485371

>>16485575

>Good research anon

o7

>>16485492

kinda obvious, but

the attacks in Milwaukee and Olympia Washington both include Antifa symbol graffitti

cell in Washington goes by the name Bo Brown Memorial cell

https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/olympia-attack-on-4-anti-abortion-churches/

Olympia: Attack on 4 anti-abortion churches

May 22, 2022

submitted anonymously –

Last night we vandalized four anti-abortion churches in Olympia. All of these churches have ties to anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers,” religious fake clinics that manipulate mostly poor people into having & keeping children they don’t want or aren’t ready for and marrying whomever impregnated them whether or not that relationship is healthy or safe. Crisis pregnancy centers are exploitative and serve the aims of upholding the patriarchal family, a primary site of violence against women, queers, and children.

A Mormon church, Calvary church, Harbor Church, and St. Michael’s Catholic church all received facelifts in the early hours of Sunday morning. We dumped red paint over the entryways and left messages of “If abortions aren’t safe then neither are you,” “Abort the church,” and “God loves abortion.”

Even in the likelihood that abortion remains legal in western Washington after roe v. wade is overturned, there are still local enemies who are doing everything in their power to make it as difficult and inaccessible as possible. These churches are terrified of people exercising bodily autonomy – whether aborting unwanted pregnancies or taking gender-affirming hormones/surgery or fucking whomever we want – because they need the rigid hierarchy of the family as the basic unit of control. It’s not even conspiratorial to say the Mormon church, Catholic church, and all others that punish abortion and reward marriage are patriarchal sex abuse cults. From the beginning the church has sought to control and destroy every impulse toward pleasure and self-determination.

While a little graffiti may be a small gesture in the war against patriarchal religious control, we wish to highlight that it’s easy and fun to attack. Our enemies are vulnerable and easy to find. In acting we learn to act, in waiting we only learn to wait. The secret is to really begin. There is an anti-abortion fake clinic in Olympia at 135 Lilly Road NE called “Options Pregnancy Clinic.” Its website lists its financial backers including Guild Mortgage, Molina Healthcare, Howard’s Cleaners, Shocking Difference Electrical Contractor, Interstate Batteries, Tumwater Automotive, Timberland Bank, Nichol’s Trucking, Olympia Federal Savings Bank, and Kiley Juergens Wealth Management. Each of these businesses should be considered responsible for the violence of forced birth.

We echo the words of some crazy bitches from over a decade ago when we say that we are not asking for the right to choose, we are taking into our own hands the ability to abort a pregnancy. We are not asking for advertisements or media that pander to trans people, we’re wresting the tools to change our bodies out of the control of doctors. We are not appealing to state power for an end to patriarchal violence, but threatening: “If abortions aren’t safe, then neither are you.”

For joy, pleasure, and self-determination,

Jane’s Revenge

Bo Brown Memorial Cell

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>>16485601

>Bo Brown Memorial Cell

Looks like this might be related.

"HER"

>https://www.abcf.net/blog/bo-brown-memorial-january-28th/

Anarchist Black Cross Federation

Supporting Political Prisoners since 1994

Bo Brown Memorial- January 28th

Writing to let you know, if you don’t already, of Bo Brown’s passing in late October and of her upcoming virtual memorial on Friday, January 28th from 6pm to 8:30pm.

Bo passed on a Sunday morning while at home with Etang and was cremated. She died unexpectedly on October 24, 2021 of complications from dementia. Bo’s passing was sudden and quick after years of progressive impairment and brutal deterioration to her full self. Etang has had the love of friends and family in this hard time.

If you would like to attend the online celebration of Bo’s extraordinary life, please email, bobrownmemorial@gmail.com, to register. The private link for the gathering will be shared with folks the day of the event.

Wishing you very well,

Etang with Annie Danger, a friend of Bo’s who is helping out.

>>16485655

>Anarchist Black Cross Federation

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IF YOU APPRECIATE WHAT THE ABCF DOES, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING.

What is the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)?

Since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), has been on the frontline in supporting those imprisoned for struggling for freedom and liberty. Until recently, the history of the ABC movement has been lost to the pages of time. The present generation of ABC collectives were left rootless with little known information about this organization. Now, specific questions regarding our origin can now be put to rest, as we have begun to rediscover our roots.

The year of origin has been a nagging question regarding the history of the Anarchist Black Cross, also known as the Anarchist Red Cross (ARC). According to Rudolph Rocker, once the treasurer for the Anarchist Red Cross in London, the organization was founded during the “hectic period between 1900 and 1905.” Despite his involvement in the early stages, we do not believe these dates are very accurate. According to Harry Weinstein, one of the two men who began the organization, it began after his arrest in July or August of 1906. Once released, Weinstein and others provided clothing to anarchists sentenced to exile in Siberia. This was the early stage of the ARC. He continued his efforts in Russia until his arrival in New York in May of 1907. Once he arrived, he helped to create the New York Anarchist Red Cross.

Other accounts place the year origin in 1907. During June and August of 1907, Anarchists and Socialist-Revolutionaries gather together in London for two conferences. It is believed that Vera Figner, a Socialist Revolutionary, met with Anarchists to discuss the plight of the political prisoners in Russia. After this meeting, the Anarchist Red Cross organized in London and in New York. In addition to this information, we do know that members of the organization were on trial in 1906-1907 in Russia. Therefore, we believe the most accurate dates of origin for the Anarchist Red Cross would be late 1906-early 1907 for the Russian section, and June or August 1907 for the creation of the International section.

However, the reason for the creation of the Anarchist Red Cross is not in dispute. It was formed after breaking away from the Political Red Cross (PRC).The PRC was controlled by the Social Democrats and refused to provide support to Anarchist and Social Revolutionary Political Prisoners, despite continued donations from other Anarchists and Social Revolutionaries. As one former Political Prisoner and member of the Anarchist Red Cross stated, “In some prisons, there was little distinction made between Anarchists and other Political Prisoners, but in others, Anarchists were refused any help.” The newly formed ARC considered these actions criminal and vowed that any prison where Anarchists were in the majority, the ARC would provide support to all Anarchist and Social Revolutionary Political Prisoners.

Because of their support for Political Prisoners, members of the group were arrested, tortured and killed by the Tsarist regime. The organization was deemed illegal and membership was reason enough for arrest and imprisonment in Artvisky Prison, one of the worst hard labor jails in Siberia. ARC members and prisoners who managed to escape from prison fled from Russia creating chapters in London, New York, Chicago and other cities in Europe and North America.

The 1917 Revolution caused a celebration throughout the Socialist, Anarchist, and Communist communities. The ARC liquidated and members began to make plans to return to Russia in hopes of participating in the new society. Sadly, their return was met by Bolsheviks repression, similar to that of the Tsarist era. After a few years of hibernation, the group was forced to resurface to assist the Political Prisoners in the new Bolshevik society. Once again the organization was made illegal and membership meant imprisonment and/or death.

>>16485685

>About Us

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During the Russian Civil War, the ARC’s name changed to the Anarchist Black Cross to avoid confusion with the International Red Cross, also organizing relief in the country. It was also during this period that the organization organized self-defense units against political raids by the Cossack and Red armies.

During the next 7 decades, the group would continue under various different names but has always considered itself part of the Anarchist Red Cross/Anarchist Black Cross formation. ABC’s support for Political Prisoners spread to the four corners of the globe. What was once a typically Russian-Jewish organization, now had many faces and ethnicities.

In the ’80s, the ABC began to grow and new ABC groups began to emerge in North America. In the United States, the ABC name had been kept alive by a number of completely autonomous groups scattered throughout the country and had grown to support a wide variety of prison issues.

The 1990s and 2000s brought several ABC formations in North America (ABCC*, ABCN, ABCF). The relationship between these formations has always been considered strenuous. The Break the Chains conference in August 2003, along with sidebar discussions between collectives, brought about a better working relationship between the ABCF and ABCN formations.

*The ABCC was a short-lived formation, dying off in the early 1990s.

What is the ABCF?

In May of 1995, a small group of ABC collectives merged into a Federation whose aim was to focus on the overall support and defense of PP/POWs.

Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War are not in prison for committing social “crimes,” nor are they criminals. Different PP/POWs participated in progressive and revolutionary movements at varying levels. Some in educational and community organizing, others in clandestine armed and offensive people’s armies. All are in prison as a result of conscious political action, for building resistance, building, and leading movements and revolution… for making change.

Many of us in some way or another are part of these very movements, part of that resistance that PP/POWs helped to build. As people continuing to struggle for change, we are obligated and it is our duty to support those people who are in prison as a result of struggling to make change.

Though some have a wider definition of Political Prisoners, we maintain that even if the definition of a Political Prisoner was expanded and widely accepted to include social prisoners of conscience, it needs to be clear that those who went to prison as a result of political action taken on the street would still demand our priority support. For movements to support other prisoners before we support the people who have gone to prison for building the very movements we now participate in is backward.

>>16485691

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>>16485705

Tim Fasnacht listed on the warchest page

not sure if its the same Tim Fasnacht that runs this arc tactical company but also appears to be in Washington

Tim Fasnacht

Use of Force Tactics Training and Philosophy

Tim Fasnacht

Owner and lead instructor of ARC Tactical Development Sergeant Tim Fasnacht has been in the law enforcement field for since 2002. Starting in support services and then as a reserve police officer, he has served in corrections since 2006. Tim has been training in martial arts since his youth. Upon entering the law enforcement field, Tim took to defensive tactics. He has since become a master defensive tactics instructor, TASER/less-lethal instructor, field training officer, firearms instructor and corrections emergency response team (CERT) instructor. Tim is also a master instructor for the Wrap Safe Restraint System and has traveled the country training corrections personnel.

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https://www.corrections1.com/columnists/tim-fasnacht/

>>16485747

list of related orgs or cells

associated with "running down the walls"

moar commie freaks

< https://denverabc.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/running-down-the-walls-2013-was-an-overwhelming-success/

About

The mission of the Denver Anarchist Black Cross is to contribute to the support of political prisoners and defense of local and global social movements, while working for liberation from colonial domination, and strengthening autonomy, mutual aid, and self-determination.

Active state repression aims to destroy movements for liberation and reinforces fascism on many levels.

Historically, the Anarchist Black Cross has played a crucial role in mass movement defense; organizing support and defense of political prisoners and prisoners of war, maintaining physical solidarity against the police during factory and school occupations, organizing self-defense and armed defense, and addressing a broad range of needs within resistance movements.

As we carry on aspects of this work, we will continue to explore ever-expanding intersectional and anti-colonial approaches to movement defense.

We recognize that attempting to claim any ownership over anarchist or any other social movements is counter-intuitive to collective liberation.

Email us at dabc(at)riseup(dot)net or message us on our facebook page!

Mail can be sent to:

Denver Anarchist Black Cross

PO Box 102435

Denver, CO 80250

In love & solidarity,

Denver Anarchist Black Cross

>>16485796

>moar commie freaks

https://denverabc.wordpress.com/about/

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>>16485809

>>16485809

>Anyone remember the bidan green screen fails…

CGI JOE

>>16485829

>>16485665

25

23

at the top of that pic

>>16485665

>17 inches

>>16485665

>>16485845