{"id":41174,"date":"2017-05-08T00:46:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T14:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=41174"},"modified":"2017-05-08T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T15:14:11","slug":"new-wave-army-anarchymami-anarchafeminist-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=41174","title":{"rendered":"New Wave Army \/ @AnarchyMami : “anarchafeminist” wEiRdNeSs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huh.<\/p>\n

That’s weird.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the last day or two, a number of questions have been posed regarding a website and self-proclaimed anarcha-feminist collective, seemingly based in the US, called the ‘New Wave Army’ (NWA), for which Twitter user ‘@AnarchyMami’ (joined November 2016) served as chief booster, and is claimed to be its founder. I’ve looked, but despite declaring that it came into existence in 2002, traces of its activities over that period are virtually nil. The NWA website — newwavearmy.org (created August 25, 2015) — does note that the co-founder of NWA (whether ‘AnarchyMami’ or some other person) established something called ‘Arm The Homeless’ (ATH), also in 2002. Again, I can find little trace of ATH, although it is documented that in the early 1990s a hoax<\/a> using that name was conducted (and of course there’s Tom Morello<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Note that, according to the NWA website, this project to ‘arm the homeless’ is one of many proclaimed activities on the part of NWA, including: ‘Operation Orange Crush’ (‘NWA Antifa Network comes together under Operation Orange Crush’); ‘Operation Blowhard’ (‘a media swarm and adbusters campaign aimed at talking heads’); offering ‘pre-membership’ courses and training and; ‘OpValentine’ (‘part of the ongoing Letters to Prisoners campaign’). Interested parties are also invited to ‘join NWA in South Carolina as we face the KKK in #OpHoodsOff’. Finally, NWA was also soliciting donations for some thing called the ‘New Wave Army & Natives With Achievements Winter Caravan’ (which was allegedly to take part in the #NoDAPL camp at Standing Rock) and was even organising a trip to Chiapas, possibly under the auspices of another (derelict) website ‘AnarchyMami’ linked to (brigadadesolidaridad.org, created April 22, 2017). Almost all these activities are accompanied by calls for donations\/financial assistance. Joining in the call for $ is (was) another organisation founded in 2015 called ‘A Woman’s Worth, Inc.’<\/a>, which would appear to be an NGO for which ‘AnarchyMami’ serves as ‘Founder and Executive Director’:<\/p>\n

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In November 2016, however, NWA, along with scores of other groups, did lend its name to a call to #DisruptJ20<\/a> (January 20, 2017 being the date of El Presidente Trump<\/a>‘s inauguration). The inauguration did witness protest, and a large number of arrests. Currently, hundreds of people are facing felony charges for their participation (see<\/em> : New Blanket Felony Charges Pressed against J20 Arrestees: An Unprecedented Use of Punitive Charges as a Tactic of Mass Intimidation<\/a>, CrimethInc, April 29, 2017).<\/p>\n

In any event, a number of Twitter users directed questions to NWA on Twitter, including @OLAASM:<\/p>\n

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If your anarcha-feminist collective has been "above ground" since 2002, it's odd that you suddenly move en masse to Twitter in Nov. 2016.<\/p>\n

— TheTolerantLeft (@OLAASM) May 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n