From KGWNews:
“PORTLAND- A manager of the Wells Fargo bank at 5730 NE M.L. King Blvd., discovered a broken window and an unlit Molotov cocktail inside the building Wednesday morning.
An email sent to KGW took credit for the bomb.
It read in part:
“This action has been committed in solidarity with CeCe McDonald, a trans woman of color who rightfully defended herself from assault and has been sentenced to 41 months in a men’s prison, despite her gender and valid safety concerns, as transgendered women face high instances of physical and sexual assault in men’s prisons.”
McDonald was sentenced to prison this week in Minnesota for a bar killing. She was found guilty of killing a man in a bar in Minneapolis.
Before being sent to prison, McDonald, who is making a male to female transition, said the incident was fueled in part by the fears generated by going through the transgender experience.
The email to KGW also said “Wells Fargo stands as an easy target, funding the prison industrial complex along with the policing and judicial system which uphold the banking system and its profits… With such institutionalized corruption forcing beautiful queers like CeCe through such immense hardship, attacking these institutions directly is a small but necessary gesture. Just as the police attack our comrades to reify (sic) their position of power, we queers and dissenters attack back to assert just the opposite — that police and state control is illusionary.”
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Molotov-cockatail-found-outside-NE-Portland-bank-157513145.html
Portland Transgender Activists dispute these reports and insist that the device was activated and that the bank was burned. From the Anarchist News Dot Org website:
“As a small gesture of solidarity with CeCe, and all others who suffer under the hand of the racist, trans-misogynist capitalist state, a Molotov cocktail has been tossed through a large window of a Wells Fargo in Portland, Oregon late last night. The flaming bottle flew easily through the window spewing fire and glass into the building, a delightful and brief escape from the monotony of the endless spectacle.”
http://anarchistnews.org/content/queer-attack-squadron-cece-solidarity-molotov-portland
Wells Fargo covers transgender surgeries- including breast implants for males who want larger breasts- for all their employees
And received a 100 percent rating on the HRC’s corporate equality index for the last seven years.
One transactivist recently threatened to bomb the London RadFem2012 Feminist Conference:
Transwoman “Kevine” threatens to bomb feminist conference
http://paintingarevolution.tumblr.com/
Updates on transgender bombings and bomb threats will be posted here as investigations continue.
