Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

Postby American Dream » Sun Nov 27, 2016 12:38 pm

Why does the really, really dumb version of conspiracy discourse still get the support that it does? We can do much better than that.


Confusionism in Brockley: A cautionary tale

Ideas for Change?
The "Brockley Festival of Ideas for Change" was advertised some time ago, with an odd, eclectic collection of mainly left-wing speakers, and sponsored by the local civic amenity association, the Brockley Society and with some kind of affiliation from the local university, Goldsmiths. The excellent Goldsmiths exhibition on the Battle of Lewisham was to be shown, and there were talks by interesting local activists.

Ivo Mosley, the grandson of fascist leader Oswald, was a committee member, along with his wife Xanthe, and there seemed to be a strong emphasis on the evils of the money economy.


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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

Postby General Patton » Sun Nov 27, 2016 12:50 pm

American Dream » Sun Nov 27, 2016 11:38 am wrote:Why does the really, really dumb version of conspiracy discourse still get the support that it does? We can do much better than that.



Because:

1. Some people have difficulty with basic critical thinking skills

2. Aren't familiar with operating in the ecosystems that they create/entertain conspiracy theories about (no "fingertip feel")

3. Because much like 9/11 truth, various intel agencies, foreign and domestic, have an interest in spreading rumors and keeping the hangouts limited
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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

Postby American Dream » Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:26 am

The anti-fascist impulse is so important, most especially in this time when the far right is increasingly being used to prop up the very worst aspects of the System, around the World.



http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2 ... right.html

Montreal Antifa Shut Down Far-Right Concert

Well, in the midst of working on an upcoming article on McKee's Blood & Honour in Calgary, we received some welcome news in an entirely different part of the country.


Le concert d'un groupe d'extrême-droite à Montréal annulé
Publié le 26 novembre 2016 à 17h17 | Mis à jour le 26 novembre 2016 à 21h09

We have someone who said that he would be willing to do translations for us so this may be more precise in a future update (now updated), but here is the gist of it:
The performance on Saturday night by the far-right metal group Graveland at the Plaza Theater was canceled according to the Facebook page about an hour before the performance was to have begun.

The organizers of the festival reported taking this decision "for security reasons". They added that the owners of the Plaza Theatre and they had "done everything that was in their power to reach a solution."

The arrival of this group whose members had already expressed racist and anti-Semitic remarks in an interview sowed controversy. Groups had demanded the cancellation of the concert organized as part of a metal rock music festival.

A few hours before the show, thirty people had gathered in front of the Beaubien metro station, located near the theater, to protest against the group's visit.
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Among the protesters was the MP for Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie, NDP Alexandre Boulerice, whose district is located in the neighborhood where the show was to take place.

"I am concerned that there may be groups who have affinities with fascism or have about that resemble white supremacism that are here in my riding in Montreal," he explained.


A more complete account can be found here.

Suffice it to say, boneheads feel aggrieved!

Aggrieved, I tell's ya!

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You know, I've a feeling that Montreal antifa groups aren't all that worried. I further expect that they are going to continue being among the most active and successful antifa movements in North America.

But that's just my take on the situation.









NEOFASCIST: HEATHEN HARVEST, NEOFOLK, AND FASCIST SUBCULTURAL ENTRYISM

The post-industrial, black metal, and neofolk music scene has been defined by fascist plausible deniability. The earliest days of the black metal scene were defined by iconoclastic misanthropic malaise, a generalized anger against everyone and everything. The scene was mired with early days of violence, but also embarrassing interviews from early bands about their obsessions with death and “evil.” This culminated in the murder of Euronymous by Varg Vikernes of Burzum, as well as the dozens of church burnings. The burnings themselves were both begging for some kind of high-schoolesque rebellion as well as a resistance against the past Christianization of Scandinavia, namely in Norway. Virknes eventually came out as a racial Odinist and white nationalist, with the church burnings being an act of religious war both against a “universalist/non-ethnic” religion and against an ethos that says “turn the other cheek.”

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Michael Moynihan

The black metal community was largely defined later by fellow far-rightist Michael Moynihan, who wrote the book Lords of Chaos about the early years. The book, largely built on interviews with the band, see the movement as being the manifestation of an Odinic demonic spirit welling up in them. This draws on an idea from Carl Jung that people have archetypical spirits in their collective unconscious based on race, with white “Aryans” having the spirit of Nordic gods inside of them. This is the foundation of racial heathenry and is an idea that both animated much of Nazi occultism and the contemporary ethnic Asatru and Odinic sects.

While National Socialist Black Metal is certainly a phenomenon, racism is not the permanent state of the black metal community. Instead, there are very real problematic elements in terms of violence and nihilism, some of which taking an elitist and masculanist obsession, but the vast majority of bands do not share nationalist sympathies openly. What people tend to pick up on is instead that they share many themes with genres like neofolk and martial industrial, both of which have strong ties to the far-right.


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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

Postby American Dream » Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:49 am

Video: Nazis Thrown Out Of Portland's Lucky Lab Beer Hall

Police arrived soon afterward but did not file a report.

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(Lucky Lab, Emily Joan Greene)

By Corey Pein | March 15 at 11:19 AM

WW has obtained footage of a tense standoff between a group of self-professed Nazis and the outnumbered Sunday-night shift at a neighborhood bar, the Lucky Lab Beer Hall in Northwest Portland.

On March 12, the Lucky Lab staff eighty-sixed a group calling themselves "national socialists"—that is, Nazis—who had been recruiting at the bar. The group refused to leave and peppered staff with anti-gay slurs until police were called.

The print issue of WW that hit the streets this morning tells the staff's story as part of a report on the increase of white supremacist activity in the Portland area, including racist vandalism, anti-Semitic threats and the arrival of an alleged Ku Klux Klan leader across the Columbia River in Vancouver, Wash.

Since at least March 5, someone had been leaving cards at the Lucky Lab location on Northwest Quimby Street. The cards read, "White?" and listed web links for hate site the Daily Stormer, a new group called PDX Stormers, the website 4chan, and the Trump campaign.

On March 12, Moskowitz says he overheard a conversation at a table of 10 white patrons that led him to confront them about the fliers.

One young man in a Make America Great Again hat said, giggling, "No, you've got it all wrong, we're a black power group," according to Moskowitz. The group then started chanting "black power" and raising their fists. When staff attempted to kick out those patrons, at first they refused to leave. On their way out, one man played bagpipes he had brought and another declared, "I called my Nazi friends," after dancing around the manager and repeatedly calling him anti-gay slurs.

Moskowitz, who is Jewish, didn't think before confronting a group that outnumbered the bar staff 2-to-1 that night. "My whole life, I hear about this shit," he says. "My grandfather survived two prison camps. I'll tell you what was going through my head: 'This is how Hitler got started. In a beer hall.'"




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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

Postby American Dream » Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:35 am

Lies of the land: against and beyond Paul Kingsnorth’s völkisch environmentalism

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Paul Kingsnorth, writing in The Guardian, has called for an explicitly nationalist environmentalism. Out of the Woods offer a critique and an alternative.

On Saturday 17th March 2017 The Guardian published a lengthy essay by the writer, poet, and climate campaigner Paul Kingsnorth. Titled ‘The lie of the land: does environmentalism have a future in the age of Trump?’, it calls for a nationalist environmentalism that its author believes to be a suitable response to our current ecological and political conjuncture. It has been widely shared on social media and attracted praise from - among others - Guardian political commentator John Harris and Greenpeace Senior Political Advisor Rosie Rogers. This horrifies us. It is, quite simply, a dangerous piece. Its argument and its logics must be rejected by those seeking to think through an environmental politics appropriate to the era of climate change.

In the essay, Kingsnorth finds inspiration in those he calls 'the new populists' - reactionaries like Stephen Bannon and Marine Le Pen; and outlines a programme that leaves the door wide open to a fascist environmentalism. Terrifying though this is, it is not without precedent: environmentalist and ecological politics in the West too often tend towards reactionary views. For example, some environmentalists continue to advocate closing national borders to ‘protect our environment’, the sterilization of women in the Global South to reduce the global population, transmisogyny in the name of the ‘natural’, and utilize violence against Indigenous populations to ‘protect’ National Parks.


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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

Postby American Dream » Tue Jun 06, 2017 7:05 pm

'Against the Fascist Creep' Book Release
@ Mother Foucault's Bookstore, Portland [February, 9, 2017]



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvetJxHWs8U


Alexander Reid Ross, journalist and lecturer at Portland State University, has a book release for his new book 'Against the Fascist Creep'. He gives an outline of his book, reads a few passages, and answers questions.

"As the election of Donald Trump shows, fascism in all its white nationalist and “alt-right” permutations is alive and well in the United States. A terrifying tour of the history and influence of the forces that helped bring the 45th president to power, Against the Fascist Creep maps the connections and names the names. It traces today’s often-disguised forms of rightwing extremism through the decades and across the globe to show how infiltration is a conscious and clandestine program for neofascist groups that seek to co-opt and undermine both the mainstream and the new social movements of the left.

This book is a line in the sand that both identifies the creep of fascist messages, ideas, and organization throughout our society and outlines how to stop it in its tracks."

Pick up a copy of the book at AK Press.
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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

Postby American Dream » Fri Sep 29, 2017 6:30 pm

The problem is fascists, not those who stand up to them

The ongoing debate of recent weeks around how, or if, to confront demonstrations of white supremacists and fascists is the latest manifestation of arguments the Left and liberals have been having for many years. For this is not simply a question of tactics but incorporates broader ideas of how we conceptualize the threat from the extreme Right.

For decades, the liberal “solution” to fascists, including marches by undisguised neo-Nazis, has traditionally been to go to the other side of town, pray and hope they go away. Critiques of antifa and other groups who courageously stood up to the white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, are variations on that pacifist theme. We need do no more than refer to Cornel West’s support of “the anti-fascists, and then, crucial, the anarchists, because they saved our lives, actually. We would have been completely crushed, and I’ll never forget that.”


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Raleigh-Durham IWW stands with clergy at the stairs to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia

The problem with liberal-pacifist responses is that, if adopted, the only result would be to embolden the fascists. The white-nationalist gangs behind the Charlottesville rally unmistakably intended to intimidate. Remember that another demonstration was scheduled for Boston the following weekend and several others were planned. Instead, because they were confronted in Charlottesville, their Boston rally became a fiasco for them and appearances in other locations were called off. Communities showed what they think of them. The result for speaks for itself.

The foremost problem with liberal-pacifist responses is that it tells people they have no right to defend themselves. That should be rejected, emphatically. The violence of hate-mongers like those carrying the torches in Charlottesville and any violence that is used in defense by people who have no choice but to physically defend themselves has no equivalence. Should people have just stood there and allowed violence to be perpetrated against them and allow gangs of white supremacists and fascists to intimidate the majority — the vast majority — into silence? Do we really need to ponder this question?

Sufficient numbers in themselves stop fascists

Fighting back needn’t be physical, and generally does not need to be if there are sufficient counter-forces. I’ll draw here on two examples from late 1990s in New York City.

In the first example, a small band of neo-Nazis were running loose on Staten Island, the city’s right-wing outpost situated at a distance from the rest of the city. There were five of them, apparently inspired by a truly loathsome “novel” called The Turner Diaries, which features scenes of vast groups of people hung by Nazis during a race war. (To give you an idea of the demographics there, Donald Trump won Staten Island even though he received only 18 percent of the overall New York City presidential vote.)

A small group that I was then a member in, New York Workers Against Fascism, organized a coalition to confront the neo-Nazis. It was quickly decided to organize a series of peaceful demonstrations on the belief that a violent response would only alienate the community we were attempting to rally against the neo-Nazis. At one rally, in a park, the neo-Nazis actually showed up in uniform, across a busy street, and started giving Hitler salutes while shouting “white power.” They were simultaneously pathetic and representative of a potentially highly dangerous trend. In this instance, we had to hold back a group of anarchists from Love and Rage who wanted to charge, one of whom angrily told me “I came here to smash fascists.” I answered that today we were going to smash them peacefully. Conceding to the coalition’s consensus, he didn’t charge although he remained angry. Tactics had to be a serious consideration here.

Note the coalition did not go to another part of the island and pray the neo-Nazis would go away. In this case, a confrontation needed to be non-violent, although we did have some baseball bats hidden in case we were attacked. Fortunately, they stayed hidden as the coalition significantly out-numbered the neo-Nazis.


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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

Postby American Dream » Fri Oct 06, 2017 8:26 am

Antifa Block Far-Right at US/Canada Border





On September 30th, anti-fascists converged to the Lacolle “US/Canada” border crossing to support migrants and to oppose far-right group Storm Alliance. The group claims they are not racist but many in their ranks are known white nationalists and neo-nazis.

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Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Oct 14, 2017 11:41 am

$3 MILLION DOLLAR lawsuit filed against 'Unite the Right' organizers and other 'hate groups'

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Lawyers vs. White Supremacists

Can the organizers of the Unite the Right rally be held responsible for the violence in Charlottesville?

By Dahlia Lithwick

White supremacists and neo-Nazis clash with counter-protesters during the Unite the Right rally on Aug. 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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On Wednesday morning, schools across Charlottesville, Virginia, were placed on lockdown following an internet threat of a Las Vegas–style mass shooting. On Wednesday evening, alt-right leader Richard Spencer, who helped mastermind the Aug. 12 white supremacist rally that resulted in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was given unchecked airtime on the city’s NBC affiliate. He used that television spot to explain why his white supremacist followers had staged yet another torch-lit march through the city’s streets on Saturday and to announce that they would be returning again soon. Nobody asked Spencer whether he bore any responsibility for the death and injuries in Charlottesville or for the town’s ongoing daily trauma. In Spencer’s view, the law and Charlottesville exist to be victimized and then victimized again.

But if local journalism is content to fête and fetishize white supremacy, the law is not quite so sanguine. A lawsuit filed Thursday morning seeks to hold Spencer and the organizers of the Aug. 12 Unite the Right rally accountable for the harms and injuries they caused. The suit, filed by 11 plaintiffs harmed that day, was filed in federal court in the Western District of Virginia. Plaintiffs include clergy leaders, peaceful protesters, and University of Virginia students. One suffered a stroke. Two were struck in a car attack. Among the named defendants are Spencer, rally organizer Jason Kessler, Vice interviewee Christopher Cantwell, Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin, and James Alex Fields, the driver of the car that killed Heyer.

The suit was brought by a pair of seasoned litigators: Roberta Kaplan, who successfully represented Edie Windsor in the 2013 case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, and Karen Dunn, a former federal prosecutor in Virginia. (Disclosure: Kaplan is a friend.) It was funded by a new nonprofit, Integrity First for America, dedicated to defending democratic norms and ensuring equal rights for every American. “The whole point of this lawsuit is to make it clear that this kind of conduct—inciting and then engaging in violence based on racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism—has no place in our country,” Kaplan told me via email. “We are a nation of laws, dedicated to the principle that all people are created equal. On behalf of our very brave clients, we are using those laws to prevent these defendants and others like them from being able to repeat what happened in Charlottesville ever again.”

The 96-page filing, which accuses the white supremacists of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and other statutes, paints a picture of the events in Charlottesville that bears no resemblance to the president’s “good people on both sides” narrative. It is shot through with tweets, photos, and messages that capture the gleeful planning and howling execution of an event that was intended to be the largest and most terrifying white supremacist event in decades.

The complaint alleges:

Defendants are the individuals and organizations that conspired to plan, promote, and carry out the violent events in Charlottesville. They are neo-Nazis, Klansmen, white supremacists, and white nationalists. They embrace and espouse racist, anti-Semitic, sexist, homophobic, and xenophobic ideologies. Defendants brought with them to Charlottesville the imagery of the Holocaust, of slavery, of Jim Crow, and of fascism. They also brought with them semi-automatic weapons, pistols, mace, rods, armor, shields, and torches. They chanted “Jews will not replace us,” “blood and soil,” and “this is our town now.”
It proceeds to allege that the violence in Charlottesville was far from accidental:

There is one thing about this case that should be made crystal-clear at the outset—the violence in Charlottesville was no accident. Under the pretext of a “rally,” which they termed “Unite the Right,” Defendants spent months carefully coordinating their efforts, on the internet and in person. They exhorted each other: “If you want to defend the South and Western civilization from the Jew and his dark-skinned allies, be at Charlottesville on 12 August,” and, “Next stop: Charlottesville, VA. Final stop: Auschwitz.” In countless posts on their own websites and on social media, Defendants and their co-conspirators promised that there would be violence in Charlottesville, and violence there was.
The trauma described in the complaint is equally horrifying. As Nazis and white supremacists congratulated one another on the violence and bloodshed, citizens of Charlottesville were hurt, threatened, and killed. An ordained minister with the United Church of Christ was beaten and harassed while he peacefully counter-protested with other clergy. Tyler Magill collapsed at his place of work and suffered a trauma-induced stroke immediately after the protest. A Jewish plaintiff, who participated in the counter-protest with her son, suffered harassment after the Daily Stormer posted their picture online. A UVA student was sprayed with chemicals. A black landscaper was struck by the same car that killed Heyer.

The legal claim here is that the defendants conspired to turn the past few months into what Anglin described as “the Summer of Hate,” writing, “When the Jews took over our society and turned it into a kiked-out living hell, they marked their achievement by declaring a ‘Summer of Love.’ … They took everything away from us. That age is ending now. We are taking back our birthright. This summer, a Black Sun will pass over America.” The complaint alleges that the defendants used the internet and in-person meetings—including a gathering at the Trump Hotel in Washington—to organize and direct the Aug. 12 rally and “made use of websites, social media (including Twitter, Facebook, 4chan and 8chan), chat rooms, radio, videos and podcasts to communicate with each other, and with their co-conspirators, followers and other attendees and did so to plan the intended acts of violence, intimidation, and the denial to citizens of the equal protection of laws.”

The defendants used the chat platform Discord to arrange meetups, coordinate actions, and plan the weekend. Those chats included exhortations such as:

“I’m ready to crack skulls.”
“If you don’t have a flame thrower you’re wrong.”

“It’s going to get wild. Bring your boots.”
“Studies show 999/1000 niggers and feminists fuck right off when faced with pepper spray.”
“Bringing women to a protest/rally where we expect violence is fucking retarded … even if you aren’t expecting violence you should prepare for it.”
Cantwell “encourage[d]” his followers “to carry a concealed firearm.” Another conspirator said he would be bringing rifles “with bayonets attached.” Organizers told attendees that there would be “money and a legal team set aside for” arrestees. They also used the internet to coordinate transportation and to discuss whether car-ramming was legal. One posted, “Is it legal to run over protestors blocking roadways? I’m NOT just shitposting. I would like clarification. I know it’s legal in NC and a few other states. I’m legitimately curious for the answer.” They also used the internet to celebrate Heyer’s death, with one writing, “Dirty apes playing in the street gotta learn the hard way #Charlottesville.” And Cantwell told a Vice reporter, “I’d say it was worth it. Nobody on our side died … none of our people killed anybody unjustly … our rivals are just a bunch of stupid animals who don’t pay attention that couldn’t just get out of the way of the car.”

In addition to the civil rights statutes, the plaintiffs are relying in part on a legal theory that prevailed in a suit against the Nuremberg Files, a website that targeted abortion providers by listing their names, addresses, and license plate numbers and striking through providers who were killed. That case prevailed in the federal courts on the theory that the line between protected free speech and incitement to violence is knowable and that a “true threat” to commit acts of violence can cross the line if made on the internet to provoke violence. While the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the plaintiffs, Planned Parenthood, that “being listed on a Nuremberg Files scorecard for abortion providers impliedly threatened physicians with being next on a hit list.”

For those who live there, Charlottesville isn’t just a set for the white nationalist edition of The Apprentice.
I asked Seth Wispelwey, a minister with the United Church of Christ, why it was important to him to be named in this suit. “I’m grateful to join this vital effort not only to rebuke white supremacy in its most explicit, violent forms, but also to hopefully see a life-giving precedent made,” he told me. “White supremacy infects our country’s DNA and no one is untouched. This is one opportunity to unmask the pervasiveness of this national soul-sickness, weaken its appeal, and invite people to stand with those whom white supremacy seeks to dehumanize.”

Just hours after Kaplan and Dunn filed their federal lawsuit, a different group filed a second suit in state court challenging the presence of private armed militias in Charlottesville. This suit, seeking no money damages but only an injunction to stop future private military action, relies on a rarely invoked provision that dates back to the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, which provides that “in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.”

This suit was brought by the law firm MichieHamlett and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law School; the latter group is spearheaded by Mary McCord, a former federal prosecutor who headed up the Department of Justice’s national security division. The named plaintiffs here are a host of local business owners as well as the Charlottesville City Council, which voted early Thursday to join the lawsuit.

The complaint notes that the city was teeming with paramilitary forces on Aug. 12, some of which were aligned with the alt-right and some of which claimed to be there to keep the peace. As the complaint notes, none of them answered to any governmental authority and these “paramilitary organizations and their leaders (the Alt-Right Defendants) wielded their weapons on August 12 not ‘as individuals’ exercising their Second Amendment rights to self- defense, but ‘as members of a fighting force.’ ” Their suit contends that the Framers never contemplated unregulated militias armed to the teeth, without governmental oversight.

Charlottesville is a city in pain, and for those who live there, it isn’t just a set for the white nationalist edition of The Apprentice. The alt-right cowards who sneak in with tiki torches by night, but not before alerting the press and fixing their hair, may not be quite as immune from litigation, discovery, and legal accountability as they believe. Litigation is slow, and discovery will take time, but the arc of the moral universe is built on more than just preening and tweets. The president utterly failed Charlottesville this summer, as did much of the press. The law should not.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... right.html
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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Oct 18, 2017 11:19 am

Here's Alligator Brewing Co's response to Richard Spencer's upcoming speech. This is amazing.

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Florida's Governor Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Richard Spencer Speech
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... cer-speech
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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:17 pm

Protesters Drown Out Richard Spencer At UF: ‘Nazis Are Not Welcome Here’

By ESME CRIBB Published OCTOBER 19, 2017 5:25 PM
Protesters drowned out white nationalist Richard Spencer’s remarks on Thursday at the University of Florida, chanting, “Fuck you, Spencer!” and “Nazis are not welcome here!”

“Fuck you, Spencer!” members of the crowd chanted as he took the stage, and later drowned out his remarks by shouting, “Go home, Spencer!”

“Well, I’m not going home!” Spencer replied from the stage, and accused protesters of “ganging up like some mob.”

Audience members chanted, “It’s your fault!” as Spencer talked about Heather Heyer, a woman who died when a driver rammed his car into counter-protesters at a violent white nationalist protest in August in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“Complaint doesn’t work that way,” Spencer replied. “If you can self-righteously say, ‘It’s your fault,’ and what? What, are they going to throw me into moral prison?”

“Say it loud, say it clear; Nazis are not welcome here,” members of the audience chanted over Spencer’s remarks.

“I guess my question for you is, how did it feel to get punched in the face?” an attendee asked Spencer, referring to an incident in January, to cheering and applause.

“It hurt. It hurt when someone punches you in the face,” Spencer replied, according to the attendee, but when pressed, added, “I was fine actually.”
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Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Oct 20, 2017 12:05 pm

Three Richard Spencer supporters arrested on charges of shooting at UF protesters
BY ALEX HARRIS
aharris@miamiherald.com

OCTOBER 20, 2017 11:40 AM

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA
The only shot fired at Richard Spencer’s University of Florida appearance missed its mark, and police said two of the three men arrested in connection with the shooting were members of extremist groups.
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Authorities arrested Tyler Tenbrink, of Richmond, Texas, and William and Colton Fears, of Passadena, Texas, just outside of the city late Thursday night. All three were charged with attempted murder.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c ... 41551.html
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Postby American Dream » Mon Oct 23, 2017 8:49 am

Why So Many White Supremacists Are into Veganism

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Rejecting mainstream associations between veganism and "pacifistic hippy caricatures," they propose that the true vegan archetype is the noble Aryan warrior. This, in turn, becomes a justification for "retaliatory violence." Only those who have renounced the "initiatory" violence of meat-eating can be trusted to retaliate appropriately against a world that they perceive as degraded. Aryans who initiate violence by eating animal products are no better than their non-Aryan counterparts, and are unfit to make the world a "better place." Lastly, Aryanism.net argues that white people have a genetic predisposition for veganism by reimagining a prehistoric past where Aryans were farmers who ate grains and vegetables, as opposed to the herding and meat-eating Jewish peoples.

The notion that veganism is somehow "natural" for white people has also been spread by the white nationalist and minor YouTube celebrity Jayme Louis Liardi. He began his YouTube career in 2012 with his channel Simply Vegan. Initially, his vlog-style videos were typical fare for this kind of channel—a list of must-read vegan books, reasons to stop eating animal products, and a series of videos on what he ate each day. But around 2014 to 2015, Liardi's tone changed. He began espousing a "warrior" code in relation to his veganism and critiquing the trappings of modern "degenerate" culture.

By early 2015, he rebranded his channel, talking about veganism as his search for personal truth, a truth informed by his European heritage: "That's my blood, that's my genetics." He eventually moved from Simply Vegan to an eponymous channel where he advocates an anti-globalist, racial separatist stance. He has since been interviewed on Red Ice Radio, and his vlog "My Awakening: Globalism vs. Nationalism" was shared on NationalVangaurd.com—both prominent white nationalist media platforms.


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American Dream » Sat Mar 07, 2015 5:25 pm wrote:DRAWING LINES AGAINST RACISM AND FASCISM

By Spencer Sunshine, on March 5, 2015


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Fascists have targeted animal rights/animal liberation political groups for infiltration and cross-recruitment for many years, much to the ire of anti-racist and other intersectional activists in these circles.


Far Right cross-recruiting from the Left has long been a problem, and some Far Right groups are now in a renewed period of doing it—while intentionally disguising and/or soft-selling their real aims. In recent years, this has been observed in anti-war, progressive populist, radical Left, anarchist, environmental, animal rights, anti-Zionist, counter-cultural, and religious­ (especially esoteric, occult, and neopagan Heathen) circles.4 Some begin by repeating a sophisticated left-wing critique of problems with contemporary society, draw upon Leftist symbols and cultural orientation, and then offer racial separatism (along with the rest of the Far Right package) as the answer to these problems. European New Right ideologue Alain de Benoist—who promotes ecology and denounces capitalism, the consumer society, and imperialism—is a prime example.5

Others pick up on specific issues closely associated with the cultural Left and hitch them to the Far Right. For example, in Germany there is what Rolling Stone describes as an online “Nazi vegan cooking show.” As one of the show’s hosts states, “The left-wing doesn’t have a prior claim to veganism,” and “industrial meat production is incompatible with our nationalist and socialist world views.” Simone Rafael, editor of a German blog that monitors the extreme Right, describes this new “nipster” (Nazi hipster) milieu: “They use subjects like globalization and animal protection as entry points, and then offer a very simple worldview that makes complex subjects very easy to understand.” But, he continues, “In the end, it’s always about racism and anti-Semitism and nationalism.”6

Open political participation by the Far Right in progressive circles allows Far Right actors to teach their talking points to non-fascist activists. Over the years, the Far Right organization around Lyndon LaRouche has duped a variety of progressives into adopting their talking points, especially during the Iran-Contra affair in the late 1980s. More recently, right-wing critiques of the Federal Reserve gained traction within the Occupy Wall Street movement. The most benign of these ideas were grounded in Libertarian economics, but they quickly slid into (non-bigoted) conspiracy theories, and from there into thinly veiled—or even openly—antisemitic arguments. And for decades, environmentalists have struggled against fascist and other xenophobic interpretations of environmentalism.

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