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EUGENE, OR – Online chatter that has been ongoing on Twitter throughout February showcases that Antifa-inspired anarchist groups are planning demonstrations for March 6th in Eugene, Oregon – and possibly in other locations as well.
A number of self-proclaimed anti-capitalist/anarchist groups are coordinating “a workshop in radical organization and action,” and “march” on March 6th that is purportedly going to amass at Monroe Park at 3:00 p.m.
Then attendees will “bloc up and march,” at 6:30 p.m. that same evening.
Organizing this with @ucaEUG !!!
March 6! 3pm in Monroe Park
Tabling, workshops, speeches, and music at 3!
March at 6:30! pic.twitter.com/hiKMISAWKP— Eugene Youth Liberation Front (@EugYLF) February 26, 2021
The groups most heavily organizing and/or promoting this March 6th effort are as follows:
- Eugene Youth Liberation Front (Twitter handle @EugYLF) (485 online followers)
- Full Stop Affinity YLF&GAF (Twitter handle @FullAffinity) (507 online followers)
- United Communists and Anarchists of Eugene, Oregon (Twitter handle @ucaEUG) (379 online followers)
- Anarchist Federation (Twitter handle @AnarchistFed) (8K online followers)
And from what journalist Andy Ngo has also found from one of the groups helping organize this “march” (Full Stop Affinity YLF&GAF), is that there’s seemingly zero intent on conducting this endeavor peacefully on March 6th.
One of the #antifa groups (GAF/Youth Liberation Front) organizing a riot for 6 March posted the following tweet clarifying that they want violence. I have written & spoken many times about how far-left groups & accounts organize violence openly on Twitter with impunity. pic.twitter.com/Qd498FBAXM
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) February 27, 2021
Full Stop Affinity YLF&GAF have promoted this planned effort, noting intent to engage in riotous and violent behavior during the evening of the 6th of March. Said group has admitted online to wanting “violence” and “revenge” during their efforts.
Additional online promotion for the gathering at Monroe Park on March 6th, again coming from Full Stop Affinity YLF&GAF, shares imagery of a building on fire with the words “Create & Destroy” superimposed on the image.
Captioned above said image shared by the group are the words, “we will fuck shit up!”
Attendees have been instructed via one of the circulating flyers to, “bloc up” for the 6:30 p.m. “march”.
Said term is in reference to having attendees wear all-black clothing and face coverings in an effort to conceal identities and blend in with amassed crowds so as to conceal possible criminal activity that may occur during the planned effort.
The Kids Won’t Be Quiet: 6th Of March Day of Autonomous Action called by @FullAffinity https://t.co/NsA6xJVKsW pic.twitter.com/6ObJL75Gjw
— GreenAnticapitalisMedia? (@FrontGreen) February 25, 2021
While there has been plans specifically mentioned for Monroe Park in Eugene, OR, organized efforts for March the 6th may not only be confined to the Eugene area.
The calls for March 6th organized efforts have been echoed by Green Anti-capitalist Media (Twitter handle @FrontGreen), which is a UK-based anarchist group that creates much of the media (like videos & online flyers) to promote often chaotic demonstrations.
We're calling for an autonomous day of action. A day of creation and destruction. Get organising. Keep it quiet. Keep it serious. Stay safe comrades pic.twitter.com/OKovpL5eHo
— Full Stop Affinity YLF&GAF (@FullAffinity) February 4, 2021
Just about everything comes back to various chapters of YLF – Youth Liberation Front – which appears to have chapters scattered throughout the United States in major cities like Washington, DC, Seattle, Ft. Lauderdale and numerous other cities.
The common theme from these groups are that they boast of being anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and advocating for “youth liberation” – with many of these YLF factions proclaiming to be “decentralized”.
What if we kissed on the March 6th day of decentralized actions?? ?????
— PNW Youth Liberation Front (@PNWYLF) February 26, 2021
The constant messaging that includes phrases like “decentralized” is by no means coincidental – as by proclaiming the aforementioned, it serves as an effort to create a legal shield from being charged/prosecuted under criminal codes meant to target the likes of organized crime and terrorism.
Essentially, there’s no named “leader” of Antifa – or any of it’s derivative spinoffs – but really just a hodge-podge of social media accounts that serve as large-scale influential vectors when collaboratively sharing unified messaging.
This is why numerous Antifa-inspired social media accounts are parroting calls-to-action on March the 6th in the forms of reposts and retweets on social media.
Hence, what makes the various factions all the more dangerous.
As for the planned demonstrations for March the 6th in Eugene, Oregon, local law enforcement have been made aware of the planned demonstrations slated to organize at Monroe Park.