Messengers of Hate Marauded with Gaily Merriment - Fascists Forlorn

On Saturday morning, some activists brought some chaos on the people who have been protesting at the Macehualli day labor center nearly daily for the past 70 days. These people have been harassing the day laborers (undocumented or not) and anyone else who appears to possibly have had undocumented parents (meaning anyone with brown skin) and those sympathetic to undocumented workers' plight.

Dressed in silly outfits, with capes made out of bio-hazard garbage bags, masks, and/or antennae, we held signs that mocked these protesters or confused their message. "9-11 Was a Plot by the Lochness Monster," "Inglish Onlee", and a couple clowning on Buffalo Rick, the man who recently got a citation for indecent exposure (urinating into a bottle visible to a woman in a house near the day labor center). "Bottle your urine to stop invasion" and "Buffalo Rick's Pissed Off" were held, while the song "Ballad of Buffalo Rick" was sung.

The idea was to confront these anti-immigrant folks without escalating the situation, to diffuse and distract. We understood that their actions and attitudes, much of which has been violent and hateful, are to be taken seriously. One of the protesters of the past was exposed as a neo-nazi and other participants in the protests have called him a brave patriot. We felt, however, that one way to confront them without contributing to the problems they're causing, was to clown on them. Indeed, they did not get as aggressive as in other contexts, even though they did try to make our signs illegible. read more>>>