September 21, 2024

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Oct
31
Sat
ALERT! White Supremacist National Policy Institute Conference @ National Press Club
Oct 31 all-day

After the murders of nine African Americans in Charleston, SC by confessed killer Dylann Roof, who was inspired by the White Supremacist organization Council of Conservative Citizens, it has become more of an importance to oppose these types of hate groups that attempt to go under the radar and achieve power in government, academia and business. One of those organizations associated with the CCC has been organizing conferences in the Washington, DC area, and has one planned for this fall.

On Sat. Oct. 31, for the second time this year, the politically connected and benign-sounding White Supremacist group National Policy Institute (NPI), whose efforts, among others, included the promotion of eugenics, campaign to make the Republican Party exclusively white, and to build alliances with White Supremacists and Fascists in Europe, is going to hold a conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

In February, during the week that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was taking place, NPI held a conference which brought out a number of people who were in town to attend CPAC. In 2014, NPI held a similar conference inside the resort that CPAC was being held. Later that year in October, NPI attempted to hold a conference in Budapest, Hungary, but it resulted in police shutting the event down and detaining it’s head, Richard B. Spencer who is not allowed to return to much of Europe for the next three years as a result.

Spencer has a close working relationship with Jared Taylor, the publisher of American Renaissance who once served on its board and was the spokesperson for the CCC in the wake of the Charleston shooting. Spencer has spoken at conferences sponsored by American Renaissance and Taylor has similarly been a speaker at NPI events.

In addition to Spencer himself, among those scheduled to speak are:

Ronan Bernard – French writer and member of Génération Identitaire, the youth wing of the fascist Bloc Identitaire. Founded in 2003 they promote what they consider to be French heritage (which of course means exclusively white), and opposes inter-racial marriage. In 2006, the group was accused of distributing pork-laden “identity soups” to homeless people in Nice, Paris, and other European capitals with the express purpose of excluding Jews and Muslims. Their slogan is “Ni keffieh, ni kippa”.(“Neither [Palestinian] keffieh, nor yarmulke”)

Guillaume Faye – Another French writer and journalist known for his anti-Muslim extremism. He was a onetime members of the nationalist think-tank GRECE (“Research and Study Group for European Civilization”), whose founder Alain de Benoist spoke at the NPI conference in DC in 2013.

Kevin MacDonald – Psychology professor at California State University, Long Beach and board member of the white supremacist Charles Martel Society, Director of the American Freedom Party. MacDonald is known for his rabid antisemitism and racism. Referred to Anders Brevik, the mass shooter of 77 persons including children at a left-wing camp in Oslo, Norway as a “serious political thinker with a great many insights and some good practical ideas on strategy.”

Jack Donovan – A writer best known for his contributions to White Supremacist and Men Rights blogs and websites. Although a gay man he has written a number of articles attacking the gay community, and while he says he is not a White Nationalist, he supports them, saying. “They are not all equally right about everything, but I am sympathetic to many of their general aims.”

Keith Preston – A phony anarchist from Richmond, Virginia that promotes fascism under the guise of anarchism.

R.N. Taylor – Self-described “White Sepratist” Folk musician best known for his band Changes, which is known for its Nazi imagery and fascist symbols on stage. Taylor has also worked with members of the neo-fascist band Death in June. A one time member of the violent right wing paramilitary group of the 1950s and 1960s the Minutemen, he has boasted of taking part in attacks against the homes of African-American families, as well as hanging African-Americans in effigy from lampposts in Chicago during the late 1960s.

Michael Hill – Neo-Confederate leader of the White supremacist secession group League of the South who recently tweeted that “If American Negroes don’t like White Privilege, they should avoid it by going back to Mother Africa.” and once opined that “[T]he evil genie of universal ‘human rights,’ once loosed from its bottle, can never be restrained because rights for women, racial and ethnic minorities, homosexuals, pedophiles, etc., can be manufactured easily.”LOS member Michael Peroutka serves on the County Council of Anne Arundel County, MD.

While this would be the third time NPI has used the National Press Club as a venue, the issue of such a group having a conference there should still be a concern for them. The Press Club needs to know of that concern!

The National Press Club
529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC 20045
202-662-7500

We want to make the Press Club aware, do not say or infer anything that will be rude or threatening! Be polite and professional

It also should be noted that NPI is also planning a “Supporters Summit” on Oct. 30 from 7 – 9 PM and a “Sunday Champagne Brunch” on Nov. 1 from 10:30 AM – 1 PM at locations not yet announced.

STOP NPI!

Nov
2
Mon
Free! Two Shows! Staged Reading of Hello My Name Is . . . @ Raritan Valley Community College
Nov 2 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Hello My Name Is . . . written by the women inmates of The Edna Mahan Women’s Correctional Facility and The Meta Theatre Company tells the story of Luz Ramierez de Paloma and her family as they migrate from Puerto Rico to the United States. Does The American Dream exist? Is there an American Dream after incarceration? Find out what happens to Luz and her family when they experience inter-generaational incarceration, while trying to make it in America. Two Shows! FREE! 1:00 pm & 6:00 pm at The RVCC Conference Center. There will be a post show discussion after the 6:00 pm show. This is FREE to the general public and students of RVCC. Sponsored by RVCC’s Women’s Center & The Meta Theatre Company.

Nov
7
Sat
2nd Annual TORCH Conference
Nov 7 – Nov 8 all-day
2nd Annual TORCH Conference @ Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | United States

This November 7th and 8th Antifa Philadelphia is proud to host the 2nd annual Torch Antifascist Network conference. The Torch Antifa network is comprised of autonomous Antifascist groups who share information and resources. We expose, oppose and confront Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, Anti-migrant and Anti-Choice groups and individuals, as well as other bigots and fascists.

For more info on our analysis of fascism and our points of unity, as well as contact info for our chapters, go to Torchantifa.org.

We do not believe that these groups a small problem. Thousands upon thousands of act of violence and discrimination are perpetrated in this country by people who belong to these organizations every year. Thousands more by people who may not hold formal membership from fear or laziness but have similar beliefs. These cases are isolated and minimized as much as possible because the media has no interest in vilifying sexists or white supremacists the way they do Muslims, Black people and environmentalists.

In reality groups like American Freedom Party, Blood and Honor USA and the KKK recruit, train and embolden the “lone wolf” shooters, bombers and bashers. They also profit from it in money and privilege while injecting their racist, sexist and homophobic analysis into the mainstream political dialogue and making any sort of better world impossible.

The tactics of Torch and groups like us have proven effective time and time again for years all over the world for neutralizing our enemies organizing abilities and recruiting methods. Because Antifa represent another example of people power trumping state authority, specifically its desire to coddle racists and fascists, repression for Antifascists has become a normal expectation. This, partnered with the danger represented by the Fascists themselves, makes attending this conference all the more crucial.

We are calling on all Anti-Racists, Anti-Fascists and egalitarians to join us in Philadelphia this fall to Network and socialize and maybe get involved in Torch.

This conference will include both a public and private portion. The public portion will be open to all interested (no Fascists, obviously). More information on exact events will be released as the conference approaches. The private portion will be only for Torch Network members and potential members who have been vouched in. So crews looking to join the network should contact us via the closest chapter to you (contact info below) as soon as possible.

Housing is available to vouched Antifascists. Food will be provided at the public events.

If interested in attending the conference, send us an e-mail at [email protected] with “Torch Conference” as the subject line.

In Solidarity,

Antifa Philadelphia and the rest of the TORCH Antifa Network

TorchAntifa.org

ALERT! Anti-Semitic American Free Press to Hold Event in Memory of Jim Trafficant @ Capitol Skyline Hotel
Nov 7 all-day
ALERT! Anti-Semitic American Free Press to Hold Event in Memory of Jim Trafficant @ Capitol Skyline Hotel | Washington | District of Columbia | United States

You would think that after a while when a hotel has caught some hell for keeping itself open to neo-Nazi and White supremacist conferences it would knock the shit off, but here we are again at the Capitol Skyline Hotel, only blocks away from the U.S. Capitol, and they are the venue for yet another get-together put on by the American Free Press! This time it’s to pay tribute to the anti-Semitic ex-congressman and ex-con Jim Trafficant, who died last year at the age of 77. No doubt they are also going to make this a tribute to AFP’s founder Willis Carto, who died Oct. 26 at 89. Participating in this event will be Paul Topete, the lead singer of the Allentown, Pa. Band Poker Face, who once told us that only 70,000 Jews died in the Holocaust. That’s the caliber of stupid we are dealing with here, and its that caliber that the Capitol Skyline Hotel has been particularly fond of for years now.

Nov
21
Sat
ALERT! Anti-Refugee Rally in Scranton, PA Will Bring Out the Nazis @ Davis Street Bridge
Nov 21 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
ALERT! Anti-Refugee Rally in Scranton, PA Will Bring Out the Nazis @ Davis Street Bridge

Wherever you are in the country, look out for these anti-refugee rallies popping up. We have come across a number of them that are going to be attended by neo-Nazis who found yet another issue to latch onto to advance themselves. The Keystone State “Skinheads” are planning to be front and center at rallies here in Pennsylvania, so we expect the hatemongers in other parts of the country to follow suit. In Pa, they work with the militia crowd and they hide behind their banner, which on Facebook is NEPA Patriots. In fact, they are using the same overpass they have been using for about a year and a half when they come out to rally, hoping they can unfurl banners over I-81 for motorists to see. Again, this is one of many anti-refugee rallies happening this weekend and maybe for the next few weeks, and we expect the hatemongers in other parts of the country to do the same as KSS.

Dec
20
Sun
Anti-Trump Rally At Trump Tower in NYC; Opposition Expected @ Trump Towers
Dec 20 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Anti-Trump Rally At Trump Tower in NYC; Opposition Expected @ Trump Towers | New York | New York | United States

Donald Trump is the only presidential candidate that has ever generated this – a rally against him before he even gets the job, let alone the nomination. It should be expected however. He has made the hatemongering and thuggery we have spent the past 70 years beating back fashionable again, and people aren’t going to put up with it. On Dec. 20 a coalition of groups plan to be at Trump Tower in NYC at 2 PM to let him know. “The danger is not only with Trump, the event’s Facebook page announcement notes. “Other politicians are using Trump as a stalking horse. They can condemn Trump for calling for a ban on allowing all Muslims into the country, while at the same time advocating with greater urgency their own proposals to ban Syrian refugees and proposals that amount to expanding profiling, surveillance and repression.”

Over the past few weeks, Trump’s rallies have been punctuated with counter-demonstrations and disruptions, such as the one in Raleigh that shut his rally down after 45 minutes. It has also seen Trump supporters attacking those protesters with Trump cheering them on, not to mention the occasional Nazi salute, as what just recently happened at a rally in Las Vegas this week. “We salute the dozens of brave youth, migrant and anti-racist activists who braved terrifying punches, hair-pulling and racial slurs as they stood up to Trump’s fanatical supporters,” said Sara Flounders of the International Action Center, the main group putting on the Dec. 20 rally. “The righteous disruption of Trump’s North Carolina rally was the first real challenge that this racist candidate can’t ignore or explain away with his insulting lies or violent security beatdowns.”

And of course, the opposition plans to come out and do their thing too. Local NYC anti-immigration crackpot Joanna Marzullo is trying to mobilize her crew New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement (NY ICE) to oppose those that are coming out against Trump. She is not a big fan of Trump, although she initially supported him, because she sees him as more of a grandstander than anything. But despite that, she will be out because it’s the best chance her anti-immigration crowd has. “If the corrupt Media, of which Trump has been a part of for many years, wants to focus on him, then we can be there to propel our Issue, and that’s what I intend to do,” she wrote in an email.  “Trump has made speeches about our Movement, but he certainly did NOT invent it. Furthermore, I do NOT hold it against anyone in our Movement if they are a Trump supporter.  I was a fervent one myself for a while!”

The thing about her “movement” however, is that despite declaring she is an Hispanic-American, she has no problems working with neo-Nazis. It was at one of her rallies that we met Ron “Tremley” Sheehy, the neo-Nazi internet troll that people see online and at White Power rallies from time to time. And yes, she has been called out for this. We’re not sure if she cares though. So she will make Sunday even more interesting than it already will be.

From the Say No to Racist Trump & His Media Megaphone Facebook page:

TRUMP:
WE SAY NO TO RACISM

Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the country is only the latest outrageous example of his racism. The time has come for us to come together and say ENOUGH!

A coalition of student, Muslim, antiwar, immigrant and anti-racist groups are having a demonstration Sunday to oppose the racism being promoted 24/7 by his campaign and the media. It will start at Trump Tower and march to New York’s CNN headquarters.

“Our outrage over the racism that is polluting the media must be galvanized into mass mobilization so that the world can see that progressive people will not tolerate racism,” said Larry Holmes of the Peoples Power Assemblies. “We will not allow Paris, or San Bernadino to be used as an excuse for racism and repression.”

“We can no longer dismiss Donald Trump as little more than a reality show performer parading as a candidate, who no one need take seriously,” Holmes said. “And even though Trump is a candidate, the election campaign is merely a pretext for his real mission.”

“Trump is providing an invaluable service to the 1%. At a time when a spiraling global economic crises is pauperizing those who until recently thought of themselves as middle class, Trump is to testing how far the powers that be can go in redirecting growing anger and fear away from Wall St., and against Muslims, Immigrants, and Black and Brown people.”

Moreover, Trump is helping to lay the basis for an intensification of the war against people of color. That war includes, but is in no sense limited to, racial profiling, murder and brutality at the hand of the police, even greater mass deportations, mass incarceration, war and occupation.

The danger is not only with Trump. Other politicians are using Trump as a stalking horse. They can condemn Trump for calling for a ban on allowing all Muslims into the country, while at the same time advocating with greater urgency their own proposals to ban Syrian refugees and proposals that amount to expanding profiling, surveillance and repression.

“People must be reminded that Hitler was elected,” said Chris Silvera, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 808. “He didn’t come into power in an overthrow of the government. The one percent creates an environment to justify all the money drying up. Then they get people to blame everyone except them. That’s what makes Trump so dangerous now,” Silvera said.

“We salute the dozens of brave youth, migrant and anti-racist activists who braved terrifying punches, hair-pulling and racial slurs as they stood up to Trump’s fanatical supporters,” said Sara Flounders of the International Action Center. “The righteous disruption of Trump’s North Carolina rally was the first real challenge that this racist candidate can’t ignore or explain away with his insulting lies or violent security beatdowns.”

“Since the corporate media seems capable only of acting as a giant megaphone for Trump’s racist vitriol, it has fallen on the people to seriously oppose him and his fascist rallies, which encourage acts of terror against oppressed people,” Flounders said.

“New York is well acquainted with Trump’s racism, going back to 1989 when he financed a racist media campaign to reinstate the death penalty and execute the ‘Central Park Five.’ The five youths after years in prison were proven innocent,” Flounders said. “This demonstration will reclaim New York as a No-Trump Zone, with zero tolerance for fascism, bigotry and racism of any kind.”

“Whenever fascism rears its ugly head, it is the duty of all progressive forces to unite in solidarity and struggle against it,” Flounders said.

On December 20 let’s join together and say ENOUGH!

Join the Unity Rally!

Coalition Partners: List in Formation – Add your support ([email protected])

Al-Awda USA: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
American Muslim Alliance
American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights & Elections
American Islamic Committee for Woman & Child
ANSWER Coalition
Ayotzinapa Student Front
Addicted To War
Bail Out the Peoples WI
Bangla Bazar Jame Mosque, Bronx
BAYAN USA
BMCC Students Without Borders
Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network – B.A.N
CCNY Students Without Borders
Chelsea Coalition on Housing
Community Labor United with Postal Jobs & Services
Coordination Dessalines (KOD)
Council on American Islamic Relations – CAIR NY
Equality for Flatbush
Eztudio 43
Fight Imperialism–Stand Together
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
Friends of Human Rights
Guyanese American Workers United
Haiti Liberté Newspaper
Humanist Society of Metro NY
International Action Center
Internt’l Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
International League of People’s Struggle-U.S.
Jersey City Peace Movement
Justice for Aiyana Jones Committee
Labor Against Racist Terror
Laundry Workers Center
May 1st Coalition for Worker & Immigrant Rights
Michigan Emergency Coalition Against War and Injustice
Millions March NYC
Moratorium Now! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shutoffs
Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood
Movement to Protect the People
Muslim Alliance in North America
Muslim American Society – MAS NY
National Congress of Black American Indians
NYC Shut It Down
NYC Students for Justice in Palestine
New York University Students for Justice in Palestine
Party of Communists USA – NY Metro Branch
Palestine Youth Movement
Pakistan USA Freedom Forum
Parents to Improve School Transportation
Peace Action – Manhattan
People’s Organization for Progress
People’s Power Assemblies
Postal Defenders
Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains
Queens Peace Council
Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Seattle Anti-war Women In Black
SI-Solidarity with Iran
South Asian American Parents, Teachers & Children
South Asian Fund for Education, Scholarship & Training
Students for Justice in Palestine at Hunter College
Students for Justice in Palestine at St. Joseph’s College
Students for Justice in Palestine at College of Staten Island
Students Without Borders at Hunter College
Southern Christian Leadership Conference – Baltimore SCLC
Syrian American Forum
Team Solidarity-United School Bus Union Workers
Teamsters Local 808 IBT
TransJustice
United National Antiwar Coalition-UNAC
U.S. Peace Council
USW Local 8751 Boston School Bus Union
Why Accountability
Women’s Fightback Network
Workers World Party

 

Feb
6
Sat
ALERT! Anti-Immigrant, Bonehead Connected Militia Group to Protest Syrian Refugees in Pennsylvania @ Berks County Courthouse
Feb 6 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

It seems Pennsylvania’s anti-immigrant wing of the militia movement is trying to keep things on the down low when it comes to organizing public events, especially surrounding the activism against the Syrian refugees. Given the fact that they keep bringing neo-Nazi groups like the Keystone State “Skinheads” with them, not to mention the overwhelming opposition they see when they come out, we can understand why. Problem for them is the down low will not be afforded them when they come out this Saturday to the Berks County Courthouse. The event is called “Americans First: End Sharia Law in the USA” and John Rentschler, a Republican committeeman from Berks County, PA is pushing this hard among his people. And just like the other times, his hurdle is to convince people to not worry about those who would call them out as the bigoted fascists they are, writing in one post, “If you can’t bring yourself to stand up to the fear of offending someone or fear of name calling you will never break the bonds of tyranny and you are already a slave.” Thing is, the Facebook page for this event is secret so no outsiders can see it, so even he is afraid of what will go down. As well he should. When Rentschler & Co. came out to protest a church welcoming refugees in Lancaster last month, 200 persons came out to oppose his crew of 40, a number one of his participants called “pathetic”. In other words, people have made it clear they are not going to let this crowd move forward, and they are planning to come out to remind them once again. So no, Johnny can’t have his rally in secret.

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Mar
5
Sat
ALERT! National Policy Institute to Hold Another Recruiting Conference During Conservative Political Action Conference in DC @ Rotunda Room, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Mar 5 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
ALERT! National Policy Institute to Hold Another Recruiting Conference During Conservative Political Action Conference in DC @ Rotunda Room, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center | Washington | District of Columbia | United States

Here they go again. National Policy Institute (NPI) is having another conference. The White supremacist organization has been holding at two per year as of late, and one of them is always during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) so they can recruit people from that event into their ranks. Just like the upcoming American Renaissance (AmRen) conference, organizers see what Donald Trump is stirring up as a boon to them and they are going to take full advantage of it. This one will happen on the evening of March 5, right after CPAC concludes and attendees begin hanging out in DC for the weekend. As their official announcement of their event reads:

“Donald Trump has disrupted business as usual . . . he’s uncovered the gulf separating the Republican Party from the people who vote for it . . . he’s defeated the billionaire donors by being one himself . . . he’s taken celebrity culture and turned it into nationalism . . . he’s the candidate from the heartland and the candidate from the Internet . . .
Most of all, Trump has—perhaps unknowingly, perhaps instinctively—raised the specter of identity politics.”

NPI’s last conference was at one of the favorite haunts in Washington, DC, the National Press Club, on Halloween. This one will be at the other one, the Ronald Reagan Building. Two of the speakers from Halloween, NPI Executive Director Dick Spencer and anti-Semitic college professor Kevin MacDonald along with pretend comedian Paul Ramsey (aka Ramzpaul) will be the three stooges speaking. And you can expect opposition just as there always is at an NPI event.

Apr
9
Sat
Daryle Lamont Jenkins to Appear at Scranton Radical Book Fair @ Nazareth Hall at Marywood University
Apr 9 @ 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Daryle Lamont Jenkins to Appear at Scranton Radical Book Fair @ Nazareth Hall at Marywood University | Scranton | Pennsylvania | United States
SCRANTON RADICAL BOOK FAIR + REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET
The Scranton Radical Book Fair and Really Really Free Market is held yearly at the Nazareth Student Center at Marywood University. The book fair aims to promote the ideas of social, environmental and economic justice in the Scranton area. The book fair will include an exposition of lectures, demonstrations, books, zines, pamphlets, art, video, and other cultural and political creations.

Bring what you can; take what you need. A really, really free market puts in to practice the anarchist principal of mutual aid. Basically we are challenging the notion that the capitalist “free markets” are “free” (or even fair!). Instead of being free, capitalist markets depend on scarcity to keep prices for goods and services high. This scarcity means that, by design, some people can’t afford to get what they need, but it does create profit for capitalists.

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE (in progress)
12:00 P.M. – Jess Meoni – The Graphic Design Techniques and Cultural History of Radical Publications

12:30 P.M. – Shalefield Organizing Committee

1:15 p.m. – John Dobbs

1:45 P.M. – Daryle Lamont Jenkins – Standing Up and Shutting Down PA’s Fascists

2:15 P.M. – Break

2:30 P.M. – Mitch Troutman – Coal Region, Stories and Potential: Organizing in the Anthracite Region Today

3:00 P.M. – Margo and Marnie Azzarelli – Labor Unrest in Scranton

3:30 p.m. – Break

3:45 p.m. – Suren Moodliar – The Human Right to Water as a Movement Building Project

4:15 p.m. – Joe Ramsey – The Critical Communist Writings of Richard Wright: Lessons for us Today

5:00 p.m. – Jamie Longazel – Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania

6:00 p.m. – Poetry Reading Featuring: Amanda J. Bradley, Maggie Gilbertson, Brian Fanelli, Sarah Zane Lewis and Daryl Sznyter

 
Apr
23
Sat
ALERT! National Socialist Movement to Hold Annual Conference in Rome, GA
Apr 23 all-day

The National Socialist Movement (NSM) has been a curious bunch in recent years. It’s as if they are being tapped by other hate groups to distract from whatever event they are holding with an event of their own the same day. Two years in a row, the NSM held their conference and rally in Chattanooga, TN and Dayton, OH respectively on the same day the American Renaissance Conference was held. This year, in the wake of the announcement that a neo-Nazi rally will be held at Stone Mountain, GA on April 23, here they come again, announcing their annual conference and rally on the same day 85 miles away in Rome, GA! They have also announced an after-party that evening at the Georgia Peach in Temple, GA, a place known for its racist message boards and for hosting events like Hammerfest back in the day. Now is this really an attempt to divide opposition, we don’t know. A few posts on Stormfront suggest their fellow boneheads aren’t happy about it since it means it also draws people away from the Stone Mountain event. But regardless, expect the usual corniness the NSM comes with when they come out this year with their annual circus act.