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 RACISMDonald 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!
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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
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.
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.
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
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.
The festival again will consist of bands and artists from all over Europe as usual, a whole variety of music but all united under the anti-fascist banner. There will be three stages, a main stage with bands and artists, an acoustic stage featuring solo acts and bands and a third stage that will be hosted by different DJs and soundsystems throughout the weekend.
As we did last year, all money raised from the festival will go towards anti-fascist groups throughout Europe to help keep the fight! Thanks again for the continued support.
Confirmed bands and artists are as follows, with a few more to be added ;
MAIN STAGE :
Friday
Inner Terrestrials
Hagar The Womb
Acid Drop
Enraged Minority (Ger)
One Step Ahead (Ger)
Poisened Electrick Head
The Hurriers
Random Scandal (Sco)
Trioxin Cherry
Darsana
Almighty Uprisers
Saturday
The Oppressed
The Prowlers (Can)
Rude Pride (Spai)
Hors Controle (Fra)
Bierdosen Freunde (Ger)
Gipsy Mafia (Ser)
Eastfield
Lion Mentality (Ger)
Andy T
F.A.T.A.J.S. (Pol)
Manifest
No Decorum
Sunday
Blaggers I.T.A.
What We Feel (Rus)
Action Sedition (Can)
Les Trois Huits (Fra)
Addictive pHilosopHy
Sophie Sparham
Attila The Stockbroker
Defenders Of The Universe (Ger)
Anti-System
Herida Profunda (Pol)
Declaration Of War
The Yalla Yalls
Sods Law
ACOUSTIC STAGE :
Friday
Paper town
Johnny Campbell
Pete Greenfield
Bar Bowen
Saturday
Tracey Curtis
Jessi Eastfield
Chris Butler
Efa Supertramp
Pog
Joe Yorke
Lab Rats
Hello Mabel
Joe Solo
Brian Curran
Zac Jones
Rich Gulag
Jonny Maveriq
Sunday
Capt. Hot knives
Al Baker
Rob Galloway
Don Mercy
AFS
Sleeping Rude Boy
Sam Rabin
Carl Moorcroft
Andy Carrington
Sound Reaction
SECOND STAGE :
Friday
Beats 4 the Streets
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Special Guest TBA
Skintdisco
Blinkeh
Deludamol b2b Brocka T
Caloe b2b Gurn
Aslan
Special Soundsystem TBA
Saturday
ITAL Guidance Sound System // Conscious Youth
Sunday
Potential sounds presents –
Salvage – (Short Circuit Records)
Nothing To Lose – (Grand Theft Audio)
Potential Sounds Duo – (Majestic-Realm/No:Point)
L35 – (Bass Klinic)
Sonic-!nnovator – (Twisted Future)
Synthetic – (Low End)
ONE40 Grime Time Djs
Venue :
“The Miners Community Arts and Music Centre was a social club on a working class estate in North Manchester until it was left and neglected. We were established in 2011 and it is a family run Community Project. Over the last 3 years we have totally refurbished three quarters of this building which was an eyesore. Our aim is to provide a local multi functional building that will bring the local Community together for all aspects of socialising activities and a safe haven for the youth of today. There is space for local bands to rehearse and local artists to exhibit their work, there is also a community cafe.”
We wanted to do the event at a venue that is part of the community. They do so much amazing stuff there, and a huge variety, so we hope everyone visits the venue and after, they are a great part of the community and it is a pleasure and honour to know and work with them.
Map to the venue : http://
Hotels / Hostels
We know that people will be travelling to the venue so here are some hotels nearby within 10 – 20 minutes walk that are cheap, especially booking so far in advance! We are also in the meantime in talks to organise cheap accomodation for people attending the festival, at the moment here are a few cheap ones to check out…
247 Hotel — http://www.247hotel.com/
Holiday Inn — http://www.ihg.com/
Premier Inn — http://www.premierinn.com/
Budget Ibis — http://www.ibis.com/gb/
Hatters Hostel — http://hattersgroup.com/
YHA Manchester — http://www.yha.org.uk/
Ashton House Hotel — http://
Hostel Bookers — http://
Travel Information
Travel from Manchester City Centre to the venue is very easy:
Train — You can get the train from Manchester Victoria Station to Moston Train Station which is a few minutes walk from the venue. Maps are available above as well.
Tram — Newton Heath + Moston and Failsworth are the Metrolink stops nearest to the venue, again at a few minutes walk. Maps are available above as well.
Bus — 88 / 112 / 80 all go very near the venue from Manchester City Centre regularly. Get off at the stop Moston, Moston Lane/Broadhurst Fields. Maps are available above as well.
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Tickets :
Weekend Ticket – £31.50
Weekend Ticket + AFA Donation – £33.50
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In the past year since the last American Renaissance conference, its editor Jared Taylor has been somewhat busy. He became the spokesperson for the Council of Conservative Citizens in the wake of the Dylann Roof shooting, and he has been championing the presidential campaign Donald Trump in robocalls and articles on his website. He has also been using Trump’s candidacy as a rallying point for his fellow White supremacists, writing recently that he “may be the last hope for a president who would be good for White people.” So he is seriously feeling his oats as he promotes the 2016 American Renaissance Conference to be held once again at the Montgomery Bell Park Inn in Dickson, TN on May 20-22, 2016. In the announcement he writes:
“Donald Trump says what millions of Americans have thought for years — and is much too popular to be silenced. Ann Coulter’s Adios, America! sounds the alarm against Third-World immigration — and is a huge best-seller. An Alt Right of young, cocky pro-whites terrifies liberals and conservatives alike. And a Muslim invasion is giving new life to the European ‘extreme right.’ Are whites finally waking up? Are we reaching critical mass? Come join activists and leaders from Europe, America, and South Africa for a celebration of our world brotherhood of Europeans.”
But there’s a reason why he is hiding in the woods of Tennessee again this year: It’s as far away from those that would shut him down if they get the chance. The biggest fear of any AmRen attendee is those that oppose them and what they would do if they were proactive against their efforts. It has shut down their conferences two years in a row, caused a Council of Conservative Citizens conference in Nashville proper to get shut down only a few months after AmRen took place, and they are so afraid of the repercussions that they have even gone to other White supremacist conferences wearing Groucho masks so they wouldn’t be identified! In year’s past, including last year there was an anti-fascist conference held to counter the AmRen conference and it remains to be seen if such an event will be held this year. The Montgomery Bell Park is a State Park and its facilities are open to the public, so Jared Taylor & Co. cannot make anyone leave. So we will keep you posted of any events being planned around opposing this year’s conference.
A call from Antifa in Sacramento has been put out to oppose a rally being put on by Matthew Heimbach’s so-called “Traditional Workers Party” (TWP), the latest in a series of organizations he has come up with over the past two years. They are planning to march on California’s capital to reclaim the streets or whatever, and we all know how well it turns out for the WP crowd when they try to do such things. They know they got the attention of Antifa, and are boasting about how they can’t wait to mix it up with them. Thing is, TWP is not all that forthcoming, not even to its supporters, about its plans. We are used to them sneaking around like this, mostly to avoid the opposition, but we will see if they continue on with that approach, the way they have been making it clear through posts and a few comments on some podcasts that it’s a fight they want.
Dateline New York City: BRC 30 Summer continues in TWO WEEKS with Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing, featuring The Black Rock Coalition Get-Down Revue at Lincoln Center Damrosch Park Bandshell, Saturday, July 2nd at 6:30PM. Celebrating the rock & soul catalog of Atlantic Records. FREE TO ALL (although if you want the lessons, you’ll have to pay)! Bring ya foot spray, ’cause it’s gon’ be funky!!!
From the IAAF website:
The International African Arts Festival began in 1971 as the African Street Carnival, a PTA’s block party fundraiser for an independent school in Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn with local entertainers, about 20 arts and crafts vendors, along with food prepared by the parents. Almost 2,000 people came to the event and it was a success. The International African Arts Festival (IAAF) has been part of the Brooklyn’s cultural landscape for 40 years. Each year a committed team of Board members, consultants, part-time seasonal staff and volunteers, work together to transform a city park into an outdoor African cultural oasis that celebrates traditional and contemporary expression of various African cultural art forms.
Today, the IAAF is a community-based, non-profit organization that produces an annual event attracting an estimated 75,000 attendees from all over Brooklyn, New York City, the United States and from around the world.
In 2001 the IAAF relocated to Commodore Barry Park which is the third transition to a larger venue to accommodate its growing audience. The original line-up of local folk arts entertainment which has included dance companies such as Dinizulu African Dancers and Drummers, Marie Brooks Pan-Caribbean Dancers, emerging singers like Martha Redbone and many others continues to be an important part of the Festival’s programming. Over the years, the stages of the Festival have featured renowned artists such as Blue Magic, The Mighty Sparrow, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, KRS-1, Lauryn Hill, India Arie; artists who grew to achieve national and international acclaim.
The small vendor market has grown into an African Marketplace with over a hundred micro-enterprise vendor/small business membership database of entrepreneurs. The market place offers an array of one of a kind, handcrafted, original designs of merchandise ranging from jewelry, urban fashion, t-shirts, body oils to imported African fabric, artifacts and furniture, original paintings, hand-carved marble sculptures and much more. In addition, the outdoor Food Court offers the community an array of talented cooks and chefs preparing a wide variety of scrumptious foods. The savory favors range from traditional soul food to spicy Caribbean dishes, to African, Latin, vegetarian food, seafood and even gourmet style raw foods
The IAAF offers family focus entertainment and resources to the community.