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The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC) was an anti-racist organization based in the United States. The group protested against the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other white supremacist organizations and published anti-racist literature. Members of the JBAKC were involved in a string of bombings of military, government, and corporate targets in the 1980s. The JBAKC viewed themselves as anti-imperialists and considered African Americans, Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans to be oppressed colonial peoples. The JBAKC was started in 1978 by a group of white anti-racist activists with ties to the Weather Underground. They named the organization after abolitionist John Brown, who advocated and engaged in violence as a means to end slavery in the U.S. According to founding member Lisa Roth, the event that triggered the formation of the group was the discovery that the KKK was actively organizing in New York State prisons.〔 The JBAKC soon had chapters in several states, but was most active in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Insurgence Records Discussion Forums )〕 The group promoted itself by distributing fliers at punk rock concerts, and was supported by benefit concerts from punk bands like the Dead Kennedys, The Contractions, and Dirty Rotten Imbeciles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://members.aol.com/punksale/15.html )〕〔 〕 The JBAKC shared members with several other radical groups active at the time, and some have claimed that it was a front organization for the May 19th Communist Movement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 date =2007-04-23 )〕 ==Publications== In 1980, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee distributed a pamphlet entitled "Take a Stand Against the Klan", which outlined the group's "Principles of Unity":
The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee published a quarterly national newsletter, originally called ''Death to the Klan'', and later renamed ''No KKK, No Fascist USA!''. The paper had a circulation of 10,000 and focused on issues such as the racist nature of tracking in schools, homophobia, and political prisoners.〔 The New York chapter also published a local newsletter called ''Up South''. In 1991 the JBAKC released a video about fascism and anti-fascism in the US entitled ''Behind the Burning Cross: Racism USA''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Brown Anti-Klan Committee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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