COURAGE CREW, who are they?

Who are they? What do they do in hardcore scene?

Many question is still ion our head about Courage Crew. It’s a group of straight edge guys from Ohio, USA, with a strict (or I can say more into ‘radical’) perception of Straight Edge.

Actually VSEP doesn’t have connection or contact with Courage Crew. We know about them from internet or from some bands who played in USA. Many essays and articles about Courage Crew are mostly bad or ‘negative’. It’s too far from what they (the Courage Crew) try to give to people, the ‘positive’ lifestyle.

Many negative opinions from people about Courage Crew:

“Courage Crew is faggots”

“Courage Crew is a group that spread what they believe with violence”

“Courage Crew is terrorist”

And many more bla bla bla..

What inside the Courage Crew’s head is a pretty simple mindset: NO DRUGS, NO SMOKE, NO ALCOHOL, JUST FIGHT PEOPLE WHO LIVE WITH THOSE SHITS!

At that point, VSEP has a little bit same agenda. But if the rumours about Courage Crew that beat some whore and same things like it, we’re totally opposite with them. In vegan, we has big respect to women's right too. It’s all the girl’s or women’s right to be what they want to be. As long as they don’t give people shits like drugs/alcohol/tobacco, we’re cool.

So, we support what Courage Crew did and still does until right now. As long as what they fight are on drugs dealers, negative hardcorepunk hypocrites, liquor dealers, and stuffs like it. Out of those things, we’re opposite.

And if most of Courage Crew members have big body-shape, we’re not into gym stuffs. Maybe Courage Crew like to have fight with fists/kicks on the street. We, just fight with what we have, from fists, punches, kicks, knives, to weapons. And most of all, we do it with strategy.

-Anthony, VSEP, Brasil