Organizers of Portland's Antifa Summer Camp for Kids Go Quiet after Media Outlets Shine a Light on Them

Victoria Taft : Jul 25, 2022
PJ Media

...These communists don't expect actual targeting; instead, they consider criticism tantamount to a physical attack. As we've seen, the Antifa/Anarchist crowds don't like journalists who show the public what and who they are. And as I've said for years, Antifa says it stands for anti-fascism, but it's really just an acronym for anti-first amendment.

[PJMedia.com] PJ Media's stories about Antifa's kids' summer camp designed to mold the next generation of rioters, monkey-wrenchers, and "social justice" warriors, are now being echoed by some of the nation's biggest media outlets, and something interesting is happening. Portland's Leftist screechers are suddenly going quiet. (Screengrab image)

Antifa's Budding Roses summer camp for kids took down its Facebook page featuring photos, artwork, and curricula from camps in previous years as independent journalist Andy Ngo noted after stories like ours called them out. The group's seldom used Instagram page is still up, however.

The group even took down previously featured photos of its counselors affiliated with the Black Rose Anarchist Federation. Oddly, the Black Rose Anarchist Federation seemed to distance itself from this year's camp but says it still supports organizers. Black Rose/Rosa Negra wrote on its Twitter account that "recent media scrutiny has put a right-wing target on Budding Roses, a free summer camp in Portland..." And then the group distanced itself from the program it inspired and supported, saying, "While Budding Roses is now a project independent of our organization, we're supportive of the work that they do."

These communists don't expect actual targeting; instead, they consider criticism tantamount to a physical attack. As we've seen, the Antifa/Anarchist crowds don't like journalists who show the public what and who they are. And as I've said for years, Antifa says it stands for anti-fascism, but it's really just an acronym for anti-first amendment.

The free camp is subsidized with in-kind donations and private donations such as those on GoFundMe, a social media site that refuses in many cases to allow people with other views, such as Canadian truckers, to use its platform.

The group advertises on GoFundMe that donors support "a free, radical social justice summer camp in East Portland for youth in 3rd-9th grade. For four summers, we have provided two-week summer camps including workshops on social justice issues, art projects, outdoor recreation, and free meals and school supplies. For the past two years, we created COVID-safe 'Camp Kits' and delivered them to 70 families so our campers could continue learning and creating together even while socially-distanced. Now we need your help to host our first in-person camp in two years!"

After the initial media pushback on the radical summer camp, organizers would only reveal the location of the camp to registered campers starting July 25... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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