So prior to today, I would never, ever talk shit on the @SocialistRA. But at this point, I have to speak out. I joined the org over a year ago, and about two months ago got onboarded and vetted by two of the members of our local CC. They were ecstatic about me joining.
They welcomed me with open arms. They asked me what skills I could contribute, and I said I'm pretty good at breaking down complex theory (which they were really excited about, since most of the members here are baby leftists who are just curious about socialism).
I also mentioned i've been organizing in the streets since before Occupy Wall Street, which apparently made me the most veteran organizer in the entire chapter. I told them I was really excited to get some education on how to use/clean my firearms, etc.
I told them I desperately needed firearms training, since I have literally zero. And these people I thought were my comrades in arms - that they would stand with me in solidarity and work with me to do mutual aid with in coalition with FTP and DSA. Desperately needed work.
I was so fucking excited to participate, finally, after being a member of SRA for over a year. They looked into my background, scrubbed my Twitter, they were very thorough - they vetted me and told me they were just as excited as I was to work together soon.
After that, I was added to the local and national Slack channel, and was given access to the national SRA forum. My first experience on the local Slack was in connection with a problematic press conference made by a local BLM leader, who stated on live TV that if they saw any
protesters committing violence or property damage, they would turn them in to the police, and personally testify against them in court. Obviously that was completely unacceptable, and many in the movement felt betrayed by this leader.
So on the local Slack, someone brought up the fact that there was a crowd-sourced open letter going around, signed onto by many leftist orgs locally. They were wondering if we had anything to add, if we wanted to sign on, and they asked me to bring it to FRSO's attention.
I expressed my concerns, that it really wasn't a good look for all these local orgs who are overwhelmingly white to be criticizing one of the only ostensibly Black Liberation organizations in the state.
A member of our Central Committee who onboarded me responded saying that as a chapter, we needed to wait for an official statement from the Maoist Communist Party - Organizing Committee before taking any action as a chapter. I asked, "Wait, is this a Maoist organization?"
I was then immediately kicked off the local Slack.

So I emailed some people at National and asked them what's going on. I went on my state's channel on the national Slack and asked the same question - why did I get booted from the local Slack?
That's when the abuse started. Hunter (I know you're on here, coward - yes, I will name you by name) began DMing me telling me that there are allegations being spread by a trans, Maoist woman who I've been best friends with for 4 years, that I'm a "serial harasser of women".
This person was also lying saying I "constantly call the cops on my coworkers". They also accused me of breaking opsec on Twitter, by saying that I'm cadre in FRSO (not a secret by any stretch of the imagination), and that FRSO focuses on labor work, anti-police crimes,
and student organizing. This is all information publicly available on http://FRSO.org . So this forced me to have to address a bunch of bullshit allegations which I shouldn't ever have to, because they're so ridiculous. So I DMed a member of the national Grievance Commitee
asking why I was taken off my local Slack, and what's up with this bullshit I'm hearing from Hunter? This person responded telling me that there was a "case" opened up into me just two weeks after I had been vetted, onboarded and welcomed into the chapter.
The Grievance Committee investigated these allegations, and found them to be entirely false, or not even warranting an INformal warning. I was told that "case" was concluded over a month ago, and there is no current investigation into me at all. So no answer on why I was booted.
It should be obvious why I was originally booted, immediately after asking if this is a Maoist org. I was the only Marxist-Leninist in the chapter. So I told Hunter what I was told by national - that there is no case against me, and their charges were made up.
He then began to harass me, demean me, stalk me, call me every name in the book (all of this both in DMs and publicly in the national Slack), insult my partner, saying it must be a nightmare to date me - and even made fun of me for having a trans friend.
He continued making false allegations against me publicly, which had already been proven false. I responded to these slanders in an attempt to clear my name and get him (and the other CC members - they jumped in too by this point) to stop being so uncomradely.
Hunter even told me at one point, publicly, "You're a fucking lying fucking piece of shit, and I would never allow you anywhere near any SRA events - then proceeded to "😂😂😂😂" like a child when I would say anything at all in my defense.
I asked another member of the national Grievance committee at this point if there was indeed an open investigation into me, as Hunter kept insisting. I got a categorical NO. There was not. My local leader was just throwing a tantrum and being completely out of control.
I have the screenshots to prove it, and I might just post them up so everyone sees the kind of abusive, threatening, demeaning behavior I was being subjected to. I'm sure he'll come in and claim I'm "breaking opsec" again 🙄
At this point, I was kicked off my state's channel on the national Slack. So I went to the introductions channel to try and introduce myself to some comrades nationally who might actually value me as a man, and a comrade in arms.
But when I tried to introduce myself, Hunter stalked me and would flag my comment for deletion exactly one or two seconds after I would post it. So I reposted it, trying again, and that stalker flagged me again within one second, this time with his CC buddies.
I tried this a total of 15 times, and was censored every time. All I was saying was like, "hey everyone I'm _____, I've been a member for a year and just wanting to get involved in any way I can! Excited to meet you all, and to work with you in the future. :)" (To be continued)
I was then blocked from the introductions page, within a couple minutes. Then within seconds, I was blocked from the national Slack entirely, AND the national forum. I emailed all the national leaders about the abuse of power that was happening, and had a good conversation on the
phone with one of the people at National, where they got my side of the story (I also sent all the screenshots of the threats, abusive name calling, making fun of me, etc. to National). This person on the phone was extremely empathetic, and sympathetic with my position.
They never once even insinuated on the phone that there was an investigation going on into ME. I thought the case was against the people who had been targeting me for political repression and censorship, and subjected me to massive abuse.
I was told the grievance committee would come to a decision on the case by the end of Monday.

Well, I just got an email from them. They expelled me from SRA completely, and their justifications? That I violated two bylaws:
1) "They have been expelled from other sympathetic or otherwise leftist organizations for character-based charges", and

2) "Participating in harassment campaigns, threats of violence, or derogatory behavior is forbidden"
I have never once been expelled from ANY leftist organization, ever, for any reason. I'm cadre in FRSO, I resigned my LEADERSHIP position at DSA because I was bullied out of it, but am still a dues-paying member. So that charge is just plain, flat-out false. Made up.
And to have the NERVE to accuse me of engaging in a "targeted harassment campaign" or "engage in derogatory behavior" when they had SCREENSHOTS of my local CC harassing me, calling me names, making fun of me, threatening me, laughing at me having a trans friend..
It's beyond the pale. And apparently this was a UNANIMOUS decision by the grievance committee. All based on complete, utter lies. This is what solidarity looks like?! SRA needs to get their fucking shit together.
Meanwhile, the people who publicly slandered and abused me are still in their comfy leadership positions, and I'm going without arms training, or even being able to participate in mutual aid work.
Someone should forward this shit to @stalinisdaddy69 since she blocked me, since she's the one spreading slanders about me to all of the leftist orgs in my fucking home state.
Btw, i responded to the email expelling me, with contact information for 3 of my fellow FRSO cadre, including my Unit Leader - and contact information for people from DSA. They don't care if this shit's true or not, you think they're gonna call any one of them? Of course not.
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