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>>3099Likely Candidate for involvement.
Milwaukee the "flashpoint" for Janes Revenge Abortion terrorism.
Possiblly named after "Jane Collective" founded in Chicago.
> https://thebridgehead.ca/2022/06/09/janes-revenge-the-rise-of-abortion-terrorism-in-america/Jane’s Revenge: The rise of abortion terrorism in AmericaPosted on June 9, 2022 by Jonathon Van Maren
By Jonathon Van Maren
On Mother’s Day, shortly after the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the office of Wisconsin Family Action was attacked with Molotov cocktails. Before they left, the arsonists spray-painted a message on the side of the building in black paint: “If abortion isn’t safe then you aren’t either.” The attackers claimed to be part of a group called Jane’s Revenge, and they warned that more terrorism would be forthcoming: “Wisconsin is the first flashpoint, but we are all over the US, and we will issue no further warnings.”' They issued a 30-day ultimatum to all pro-life organizations and crisis pregnancy centres to shut down or face their wrath.
The activists behind Jane’s Revenge—the name may be an homage to the 1970s illegal abortion network Jane’s Collective—appear to be deadly serious. Sometime early in the morning of June 7, the crisis pregnancy center CompassCare in Buffalo, New York was firebombed. The windows of the reception room and nurses’ offices were smashed, and firebomb were tossed inside. Early Sunday morning, four churches in Olympia, Washington were vandalized; the group is openly claiming responsibility for the attacks. On the side of the firebombed crisis pregnancy center in Buffalo they wrote: “Jane was here.”
It is difficult to determine whether Jane’s Revenge is an organization with hierarchical leadership, a group of disparate cells with the same mission, or simply a slogan used by all those willing to engage in violence against pro-lifers. They appear to be similar to Antifa—decentralized groups or activists not necessarily connected but all willing to utilize the same tactics for the same set of revolutionary goals. Abortion activists have been calling for months of protest under the name “Summer of Rage” since the Roe leak; Jane’s Revenge is calling for a “Night of Rage” if the final decision does in fact overturn Roe.
Specifically, an open letter posted to the Anarchist Federation website on May 31 calls for a night of burning and violence. The response to the Roe leak, the letter reads, has been “tepid” and underwhelming:
We have agonized over this apparent absence of indignation. Why is it that we are so afraid to unleash hell upon those who are destroying us? Fear of state repression is valid, but this goes deeper than that.
Your anger has been stolen from you.
To this we say: no more. We need to get angry.
We need the state to feel our full wrath.
We need to express this madness fully and with ferocity. We need to quit containing ourselves.
We need them to be afraid of us.
In response, they have concluded, Antifa tactics—and I would not be surprised if there is plenty of overlap between the two groups—are necessary:
The time to act was decades ago. The next best time is now.
Whatever form your fury takes, the first step is feeling it.
The next step is carrying that anger out into the world and expressing it physically.