[Just re-watched the movie "Red Dawn" last night on recommendation from frens. Cuba is not just a minor player.]
Fidel Castro Acolyte Karen Bass Is No Stranger To Orchestrating Organized Chaos
June 2025 (Excerpt from long article) (Posted too late in lb)
In a news conference, Bass essentially threatened more violence unless federal law enforcement stops in the city, as White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said, adding, “The Mayor of LA is effectively saying the mob violence is caused by the mere presence of ICE in the city and the violence against ICE will not stop unless federal law enforcement is withdrawn from the city. This is the definition of insurrection. LA and CA leadership demand the right to illegally import unlimited foreigners into America, to control America’s entire immigration policy by fiat — and if they are not so permitted they will allow mobs to target ICE with impunity.”
But organized violence appears to be a concept Bass is already familiar with.
Despite denying that she was in a leadership role in her communist organization, an October 1975 issue of the Daily World, a communist newspaper, described her as the “leader of the Venceremos Brigade in southern California.”
Part of the Brigade’s mission was to “develop solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and the peoples of the Third World,” “promote and develop the political formation of the progressive forces in the US,” and “educate the US movement to an anti-imperialist consciousness.”
The Brigade targeted the most radical members of the American left and organized trips to Cuba for almost 50 years. Julie Nichamin, an original organizer of the Brigade, said that the trips would encourage participants to reflect on whether they were “really making a contribution toward destroying Amerikan [sic] imperialism and building a revolution in this country.”
On June 15, 2010, the Central Intelligence Agency said of the organization, “In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the WUO, the Venceremos Brigade, and similar ‘New Left’ groups in the United States had extensive contacts with and support from the governments and intelligence services of the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Vietnam, Communist China, and some East European Soviet satellites.”
In 1972, investigator Dwight Crews testified that those entering the Brigade were required to profess they are “Marxist-Leninist,” submit to 14 weeks of “twice-per-week indoctrination sessions,” and fill out a “detailed application” in order to obtain membership.
Bass posted a picture of her first trip to Cuba in 1973 to commemorate her visit with former President Barack Obama in 2016.
The March post preceded Castro’s eventual November 2016 death, for which Bass issued a press release honoring and affectionately referring to the dictator, stating, “As Cuba begins nine days of mourning, I wish to express my condolences to the Cuban people and the family of Fidel Castro. The passing of the Comandante en Jefe is a great loss to the people of Cuba.”
Bass had also admitted to traveling to see Castro speak on multiple occasions and called him “extremely charismatic.”
The “rapid response network” to which Bass referred on CNN is partially run by the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California, which encourages reporting ICE activity to the local networks within the organization.
One of those local networks is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), which received tens of millions of dollars from the Biden administration and is an agitator group in Southern California, according to the New York Post. CHIRLA was behind anti-ICE protests last week, and has seen an increase in funding from the state of California, having received $34 million from the government in 2023, more than doubling the $12 million it received in 2022.
CHIRLA denied having any connection to the current violence in Los Angeles, despite admitting to having “organized a press event” and rally to protest the actions — and the fact that the riots last week were in direct response to ICE arresting violent criminals.“We have not participated, coordinated, or been part of the protests being registered in Los Angeles other than the press conference and rally cited above,” a CHIRLA spokesman told the Post.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/11/fidel-castro-acolyte-karen-bass-is-no-stranger-to-orchestrating-organized-chaos/