school that most of us went to. The paper called the Student Liberty Press,
promoted the ideas of vegetarianism, anti-vivisection, anti-war and
anarchism. Later efforts were put into creating a local newsheet called
Sparked! for citywide distribution, but its success was short lived.
The UAF is part of the Southern California Web Collective. The Web is a
coalition of different anarchist groups that came together to create a
thriving community of radicals. The Web Collective organized the 1992 Long
Beach Gathering and a picnic to celebrate May Day. The Web also organized
several anarchist contingents and Black Blocs for marches and rallies.
Currently, the collective is working to open an anarchist community space
(which was to become the DeCenter).
The UAF is also part of the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist
Federation. Acouple of us are on the Immigration Working Group (a task
force workign to counter the anti-immigrant sentiment growing in the country
and working to tear down the borders across the world).
****The United Anarchist Front later dissolved, in 1994, as people moved
away from Whittier. Today, in August of 2002, people who had been involved
in the UAF are now parents, teachers, students, organizers and continue
working for social change in a variety of ways.
(written October 1993)
by Chris Crass
The United Anarchist Front has been in existence for over six years. Over
those years the UAF has gone through many changes and has evolved greatly.
Many different people have been involved or brief periods of time and some
have managed to stay around for quite awhile. Though the size of the group
has always been in flux, the ideas and goals have always been rooted in
building a free society based on cooperation, respect, mutual aid and
equality.
The UAF has organized demonstrations against racism/fascism, McDonald's, fur
shops, Shell gas station's financial support of apartheid, capitalism, the
war on the poor, vivisection, George Bush, the Columbus Day celebrations,
the attack on education in California and Governor Pete Wilson, Gillette's
animal testing, the Gulf War and government. We've also taken part in
solidarity actions for London Greenpeace's campaign against McDonald's,
Peruvian political prisoner Andres Villaverde and animal rights activist
Jonathon Paul.
