TCIMC Video: Robert Erickson Punks Tea Party - The Full Story
In this new TC Indymedia video, we give a new look (in HD!) at the now-infamous Robert Erickson Tea Party punk with added footage of crowd reactions and interactions with counter-protesters. Erickson's speech exposed the hypocrisy of the white supremacist, racist and xenophobic rhetoric of right-wing extremists, who use dangerous imagery to frame the immigration debate. It also drew attention to the plight of the Dakota people, who currently control .006% of their original land base, which was stolen via fraudulent treaties, genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Video and editing by Twin Cities IMC with additional footage from Bluestem Prairie and I Don't Hate America. (6:06)
Article: Anti-Racists Steal the Show at White Supremacist "Tea Party Against Amnesty" | Robert Erickson Fans on Facebook & Twitter | Youtube | Blip.TV | Related Event: An Evening of Reparations Dec. 6
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Classy.
Colonialism and Disposession
For an excellent explanation of how it came to be that native people control tiny percentages of their former territory, and how the logic of capitalism was imposed on North America, check out:
How Did Colonialism Dispossess? Comments from an Edge of Empire
http://zinelibrary.info/how-did-colonialism-dispossess-comments-edge-empire
lulz
hahahahahahha awesome sauce.
"FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, "
he's mad because he knows that kid is right ;D
Wow
If he wants all European immigrants to go home, why is he still here? I'm sorry, I'm just a gun toting, bible hugging, fox news watching racist that disagrees with democrats and Obama because of the color of his skin, not because he ignores the Constitution and wants this country to be socialist like the rest of the world.
moron
anyone who thinks Obama (or the rest of the world) is a bonafide socialist is someone who is not worth speaking to whether they're on the left or right of the spectrum.
I think he told Europeans to go home as a rhetorical agrument, to demonstrate how absurd the anti-immigrant people are.
Ludtke, you are peace of work.
I'm a moron?
Obviously it was done as a rhetorical argument since that will never happen, but that doesn't change the fact that people are here illegally. I'm not against LEGAL immigration, in fact I think we should increase the number of people we allow in to this country LEGALLY, but until those laws are changed we should enforce the ones on the books. On socialism, if you don't think Obama's views are socialist you are clearly blind to what socialism is (progressive tax code, nationalized health care, cap and trade, government owning businesses, limiting C.E.O. pay) so do a little research on what the legislation actually in front of congress says, that he supports, and you'll see how most of it is designed to take money from the wealthy and give to the poor. It's not just Obama thats been a socialist leaning president in this country, most of the presidents in the past century (both sides of the aisle and especially FDR) have promoted socialist ideals but since most people don't read the laws and take an objective view of it, they don't care.
Punks
I think you got that part right. I am an independent voter too but you ain't no friend of mine.
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