{"id":329613,"date":"2017-10-08T21:52:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T20:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/antifa-group-plans-nationwide-deface-columbus-day-actions-for-monday\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T21:52:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T20:52:49","slug":"antifa-group-plans-nationwide-deface-columbus-day-actions-for-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/antifa-group-plans-nationwide-deface-columbus-day-actions-for-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifa Group Plans Nationwide &#039;Deface Columbus Day&#039; Actions for Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Violent left-wing anarchists have announced a nationwide\u00a0campaign\u00a0to deface\u00a0Christopher Columbus statues this coming Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Five Christopher Columbus statues have already been vandalized in New York City in recent weeks, according to\u00a0Far Left Watch. In one case last month,\u00a0vandals defaced a &#8220;larger-than-life&#8221; statue\u00a0of Columbus in Central Park, leaving blood-red paint on his hands, and scrawled, &#8220;Hate will not be tolerated&#8221; and \u201c#SomethingsComing\u201d on its pedestal.<\/p>\n<p>What is coming appears to be a coordinated campaign to destroy monuments all across the country on Columbus Day.<\/p>\n<p>The NYC-based antifa group\u00a0Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement\u00a0(RAM) made the announcement on\u00a0Thursday, September 21, calling on\u00a0antifa groups nationwide to \u201cdecorate\u201d their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>According to Far Left Watch, RAM is &#8220;an extremely militant group that advocates for the violent redistribution of property&#8221; and for &#8220;the abolition of gender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The militant group recently hosted an\u00a0&#8220;Our Enemies in Blue&#8221; anti-police workshop\u00a0at its branch in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n<p>RAM posted a video called &#8220;Against Columbus Day&#8221; on the antifa website\u00a0It\u2019s Going Down,\u00a0showcasing destroyed monuments across the country and black-clad thugs strutting around menacingly to psycho synth music.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Call to Action! Deface Columbus Day <br \/>Hashtags: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FuckColumbusDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FuckColumbusDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DestryColonialism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DestryColonialism<\/a><br \/>10\/9\/17<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JYYZRSvCQ9\">https:\/\/t.co\/JYYZRSvCQ9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Yy98gIci4\">pic.twitter.com\/5Yy98gIci4<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 RevAbolitionMov (@RevAbolitionist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RevAbolitionist\/status\/910872173081964545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The battles lines&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/antifa-group-plans-nationwide-deface-columbus-day-actions-for-monday\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent left-wing anarchists have announced a nationwide\u00a0campaign\u00a0to deface\u00a0Christopher Columbus statues this coming Monday. Five Christopher Columbus statues have already been vandalized in New York City in recent weeks, according to\u00a0Far Left Watch. In one case last month,\u00a0vandals defaced a &#8220;larger-than-life&#8221; statue\u00a0of Columbus in Central Park, leaving blood-red paint on his hands, and scrawled, &#8220;Hate will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-329613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}