Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
We hope you understand the circumstances of our delay. After weeks of flag hunting we wanted nothing more than to joyfully ignite these symbols of oppression. After last week’s thunderstorm had cleared, more important tasks presented themselves to us as another black person was shot and killed in the Twin Cities by the lap dogs of the social order.
This Fourth of July season, several Minnesota residents celebrated without their flag, and it is possible that those flags made their way to our torch. We also set fire to a Trump lawn sign which is something rare in the metropolitan area. We appreciate the hard work of anti-racists everywhere who have made the public support of Donald Trump a risky endeavor. However we found one person who hadn’t yet gotten the memo.
Alongside this we burnt a Bernie Sanders sign as well—signalling our complete opposition to the democratic system. Politics is the separation of our beliefs from our actions, therefore we reject politics. Sanders has gotten huge numbers involved in an electoral process who had until now correctly understood voting as a waste of time. Our fight can and will take many forms of diverse resistance, but elections will never be one of them.
Lastly, we burnt a fascist poster that had been torn down last week in Minneapolis. Despite their updated aesthetics, the “Alternative Right” is anything but an alternative, and we will make their development in the Twin Cities as difficult as possible. This task appears easy at the moment, given that only a single poster was put up in the city. And it burned quite colorfully thanks to the ink!
Anti-authoritarian greetings to all those who continue to act against oppression everywhere.