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Black Flags Over Brooklyn 2019 is a new two-day anti-fascist extreme metal festival coming to NYC on January 25-26.

A Friday night show will be followed by an all-day Saturday event that will include an all-day vendor market of band merch, label distros, radical publishers, activist organizations, local artisans, and more, and it’s all going down at Brooklyn Bazaar in Greenpoint.

This event is for those of us who reject and push back against that poison—who adhere by the mantra that “metal is for everyone (except Nazis),” and who are committed to cleaning up our own backyard. The artists on the lineup all have different identities and come from different backgrounds, but are all united under the same ethos: FUCK NSBM.

As we all know, metal is an incredibly vibrant, diverse subculture with sounds, fans, and artists who span the globe; as we also know, there’s a small but unfortunately vocal contingent in our midst who care more about gatekeeping and upholding toxic ideologies like white supremacy, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and bigotry in general than in seeing the genre thrive. The worldwide rise of violent white supremacy and fascism has put every one of us—but especially those in marginalized communities—at risk, and metal should not be allowed to remain a breeding ground for right-wing extremism. Metal is too good for Nazis.

It’s time to raise the black flag, throw the horns, and take our scene back!

FIRST ROUND OF BANDS:

DAWN RAY’D (UK)
https://dawnrayd.bandcamp.com/

RAGANA
https://ragana.bandcamp.com/

WOE
https://woeunholy.bandcamp.com/

VILE CREATURE (CAN)
https://vilecreature.bandcamp.com/

CHEPANG
https://chepang.bandcamp.com/

WHITEPHOSPHOROUS
https://whitephosphorous.bandcamp.com/

Friday tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-flags-over-brooklyn-day-1-tickets-52898438654

Saturday tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-flags-over-brooklyn-day-2-tickets-52898459717

Weekend passes: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-flags-over-brooklyn-fest-pass-tickets-52898497831

NEXT ANNOUNCEMENT IN MID-DECEMBER…

So here we go again. Fresh from stealing the Governor’s seat from Stacy Abrams, the characters that gave us the 2016 rally to oppose Black Lives Matter is coming back because the Super Bowl is being held in Atlanta in 2019, and they are scared that the NAACP use the publicity around it to raise funding to remove the neo-Confederate Stone Mountain carving. “This is a Resistance to Communism rally to call attention to the attempt by the Marxist left to remove the landmarks of Our People. While they kneel in the NFL, we shall Stand for what this country originally was.”

Two hints of irony here. When you are supporting a monument to people that waged a war against this country, it might make one wonder what they might mean in saying “what this country originally was”. Two, if they are so worried about how the NAACP is going to use the publicity around the Super Bowl, imagine the field day the media will have with a Nazi rally not too far away! The group organizing the counter-demo is FrontLine Organization Working to End Racism (FLOWER), and they will make sure that media will get an earful about what the boneheads are up to. “If the Klan holds another Rock Stone Mountain II rally on February 2, 2019, we must be present in large numbers, bearing a bouquet of tactics to prevent them,” they say on their website. “We must bring a clear message: Hate has no place here.” So if there is an effort to remove the carving, the Nazis pretty much expedited it!

All monuments to the Confederacy in this country will eventually come down. It might take longer in some places than others, but they will all be put on the trash heap of history. In the meantime, we have to deal with neo-Confederate clowns who want to make hold events that they way are “to draw the line in the sand!” That was pretty much what the so-called “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville two years ago was supposed to be about, and the end as we know, was especially tragic. Well two groups who attended that rally, the Hiwaymen (an Arkansas-based group that was in Portland with Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys on Aug. 4) and Confederate 901 are mad at students of the University of Mississippi who are demanding that all their Confederate tributes end, and they are going to go to Oxford, home of Ole Miss, to throw their little temper tantrum. There will be some opposition to this crew however because no one wants two groups that are all about trying to engage in assaults because no one likes their flag anymore to just run free on their campus. The following statement was released by Students Against Social Injustice (SASI)

“On January 14, 2019, Students Against Social Injustice were informed of a rally planned by George “K-Rack” Johnson, of the Memphis-based group Confederate 901, and Billy Mack Helton, also known as Billy Sessions, of the Arkansas-based group the Hiwaymen, as part of an effort to disrupt the United Students Against Sweatshops’ 22nd National Convention, an event planned with the intention of educating students on how they can become great organizers.

The Confederate Memorial statue on campus is one that represents hate. It is a celebration of honor for Confederate soldiers that knowingly fought for the institution of slavery and for the demise and degradation of black lives. As long as the statue remains on campus, it will continue to function as a tool to uphold these values and to allow room for racism to remain rampant on campus and in the Oxford community.

The Mississippi Stands Rally poses an imminent threat to students on campus, as both planners for this event have encouraged their followers to bring weapons to other events in the past, and have stated that they will “be vigilant” and do “what the law will not do for them,” and that our existence as a student organization is a threat that protectors of confederate ideals will “no longer tolerate.”

The university’s primary duty should be to facilitate educational opportunities for students while maintaining their safety, not to serve as a playground for extremist militant groups affiliated with white supremacists.

For these reasons, Students Against Social Injustice will continue to stand by our demand that the University of Mississippi removes the statue from campus as well as our decision to host the USAS 22nd National Convention. As it is an educational event, we will not be engaging with participants of this rally, and will be requesting means of precaution from University Administration and UPD.”

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Unicorn Riot has spent the past week dragging the neo-Fascist group Identity Evropa with a ton of information coming from their Discord chats, and they are not done. In fact, because of their work the conference that they have planned for next week and tried to keep under wraps is now out in the wind for everyone to know about. As of right now, they are at the Dale Hollow Lake State Resort in Burkeville, Kentucky, the same place they were for their conference last year.

We’ll be publishing part 2 of our series investigating the neo-Nazi group Identity Evropa shortly.

Many IE members are currently at their yearly conference, which they believe is being held in secret. pic.twitter.com/DZMZRXaSWZ

— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) March 8, 2019

The beauty about all of this is how IE continues to think that they are always one step ahead of everyone, while that has never been the case. Unicorn Riot even learned that Billy Ciancaglini, the GOP candidate in Philadelphia’s 2020 Mayor race, met with Identity Evropa members just this week! Needless to say, he’s going to lose, so maybe he was meeting with the Identity Evropa to get an idea of what losing feels like!

The Hiwaymen were in Charlottesville for the “Unite the Right” rally, with Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys on Aug. 4 and most recently in Oxford, MS for a rally at Ole Miss that saw press only because the basketball team took a knee during a game going on at the same time to protest their rally (and they got love for it too). Now the neo-Confederate hate group is planning to hold a rally this weekend at the Arkansas State Capitol to protest gun laws and abortion. Now this is one of those neo-Confederate groups that try to say that they are not about hate and are not White supremacists, even though they keep showing up around them. In fact, they proclaimed the following on their event page:

“We are NOT affiliated with any other groups. We do not believe in ANY FORM of supremacy or hate. If anyone shows up at our event with any agenda other they and standing against abortion and the red flag laws you will be asked to leave our event. We will not tolerate any Hate speech.”

Well let’s see if that’s the case regarding Shieldwall’s Billy Roper because on Tuesday he posted this on Gab regarding his intentions:

Now needless to say, that’s not going to discourage antifa from coming out, since Roper – who to date the Hiwaymen curiously aren’t saying much about even thought Roper is talking up a storm about the rally –  is not really good at intimidating people. But that point about the rain is significant because they are expecting some serious thunderstorms. If we’re lucky, we might be able to witness some Nazis getting struck by lighting, and that will be worth it. Don’t laugh. It’s happened before.

Okay, fine. laugh. But seriously, stay safe if you go.

The locals of the Nashville, Tennessee area are getting real tired of nazis, fascists and White supremacists making their local park Montgomery Bell State Park, their safe space for conferences year after year, and last year the ante was up. See, it used to be just the American Renaissance Conference, which is holding their annual conference in the park May 17-19. As of last year the American Freedom Party and Council of Conservative Citizens, two groups that have a close relationship with the editor of American Renaissance (Jared Taylor was a onetime CCC board member and a spokesperson for the group in the wake of the Dylann Roof shootings in which CCC was said to have inspired him), started having their annual conference in the park as well. Well that conference will be back in the park in June and the roster of speakers is going to be a shitshow of neo-fascist. They include:

• David Duke, the former Klan leader and Louisiana State Representative who pretty much everyone knows as the face of hate in the US.
• Richard Spencer, the head of the National Policy Institute who hasn’t been heard much from since March of last year when he declared that going out holding events isn’t fun anymore because in his words, “Antifa is winning”, and who pretty much everyone knows as the face of hate in the US – that got punched.
• James Edwards, a onetime bonehead who is a Council of Conservative board member who hosts a radio show called the Political Cesspool.
• Kevin MacDonald, the anti-Semitic professor at California State University – Long Beach.
• Rachael Pendergraft, the national spokesperson for what is called the Knights Party, which the flyer announcing the conference prefers to call it because using its actual name – the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan – might remind people that this is the group founded by David Duke back in the day.
• William Johnson, a longtime White supremacist who runs the American Freedom Party, once known as American Third Position
• Tom Sunic, a writer and speaker who appears regularly at neo-Nazi conferences, whether it is Council of Conservative Citizens putting it on or the less benign National Alliance.
• Michael Hill, the founder and head of the League of the South, one of the groups responsible for instigating the violence in Charlottesville in 2017, where he, Duke and Spencer were supposed to speak.
• Earl P. Holt III, President of the Council of Conservative Citizens who not only tried to make his organization the real victims in the Dylann Roof shootings, but has a history of saying some bizarre and threatening crap about Black people and others.
• Adrien Kreig, a writer for the rag Nationalist Times and AFP member.

Part of the reason why the locals are ticked off is because this is their park and nowadays whenever these groups hold their conferences, no one is allowed to use it, particularly the Inn where they are holding them. Part of the lure for the nazis is how this is a public place that is open to all, but that is not the case, which is ironic because it is in the name of their rights that they are allowed to hold their events there, even while it is infringing on everyone elses. Harriet Tubman House is organizing groups in the area to assert themselves and those rights they are supposed to pretend they don’t have. So both conferences are going to be a big deal, you can be sure of that.

From the Facebook Event Page:

This benefit is for a fund administered by Action Against Fascism & Xenophobia – for those facing legal & other problems resulting from their activism against fascism & the far right in the five boroughs, and also in neighboring cities.
There are currently a number of comrades with legal and medical bills that need help, and along with Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council – MACC anarchx feminist sub-group, we are proud to offer our solidarity to them.

Punk Rock Karaoke Northeast is a DIY, fundraising event that benefits a different community group each time. We feature a custom catalog of over 800 songs from bands like:

Against Me!, Bikini Kill, Black Flag, Bratmobile, Buzzcocks, Choking Victim, The Clash, Circle Jerks, Crass, Cub, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, Devo, Flogging Molly, Fugazi, Gogol Bordello, Gorilla Biscuits, Jawbreaker, Joy Division, Minor Threat, The Misfits, NOFX, Operation Ivy, Pixies, The Pogues, Ramones, Rancid, Screeching Weasel, Sex Pistols, Sleater-Kinney, Tacocat, The Smiths, The Specials, Stiff Little Fingers, Wire, X, X-Ray Spex, and much much more!

$10 suggested donation | 21+ | Proceeds go towards supporting anti-fascist activists facing legal problems of personal harassment.

Well, it looks like we get to play with the AmRen crowd again. American Renaissance did not officially announce their plans to hold their eighth conference at Montgomery Bell Park, but we know the dates because of a story back in September about them filing a lawsuit against the state over being charged a security fee for the conference. See, last spring when they held the 2018 outing, they did something they never did before and honestly should not have done. They made the state shut down the Montgomery Bell Park Inn and fortified the area with barricades to prevent protesters from getting close to the venue. That is a HUGE issue given how the whole reason for them being here these past several years is because it is a publicly-owned facility and they could not be thrown out like they have in privately-owned venues. The problem with that for them is that also means they can’t keep the general public out of the Inn, which means the public can enjoy the park and the Inn – and so can counterprotesters. The heightened level of security pissed off counterprotesters and those who come to the park with their families and those who work there, and the state is seeking to make AmRen pay for the extra effort.

The state might lose this case, and the conference will go on as planned. Regardless of the outcome of the court case, we now know sooner than Jared Taylor would like, when his latest outing will be. More than enough time to mobilize our folks!

So there’s this group out of Madison, Indiana that calls itself the Honorable Sacred Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. They do rallies here and there, and something they called a “kookout” last year where 13 of them were overwhelmed by 300 counter-protesters. Well, they must really be feeling their oats because they plan to hold another one on Memorial Day weekend in Dayton, Ohio, which we can assure you is very far removed from the more comfortable confines of their hometown. They first tried to apply for a permit to rally with a fictitious name, but the city said that wasn’t happening, so they fessed up and said they were the Klan and Robert Morgan, who gave a Madison, Indiana PO Box address is the name on the permit now. We can’t say we blame them. Once it got out that Montgomery County approved the permit – which says they only estimate “10 to 20-plus individuals” to join them, a huge mobilization was called against them should they still decide to do this silly thing. As we get closer to the day we will keep you posted about how things will go down.

From Rose City Antifa:

Once again, the far-Right is planning to invade downtown Portland, intent on staging a battle with “communists and leftists.” Reminiscent of the June 30 and August 4, 2018 Patriot Prayer rallies in which far-right brawlers, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis came from all over the country to hunt activists in downtown, national groups and far-Right media personalities from far outside of Portland are coming here on August 17, 2019 to bring their branded political violence to our streets.

Among these media personalities is Joe Biggs, a former InfoWars employee, who has long been claimed by neo-Nazis as a fellow anti-Semite. His calls for violence have been by far the loudest, and he claims to be rallying white nationalist groups like the American Guard and the Proud Boys to come to Portland in large numbers.

Rose City Antifa has uncovered evidence that neo-Nazis associated with the Daily Stormer plan to return to Portland for this event to fight alongside the far-Right, as they did in the summer of 2018.

We call on the community to defend itself, as it has countless times before. We must tell these far-Right and neo-Nazi groups that they are not welcome in Portland, and their search for victims on our streets will not be tolerated! Join us on August 17 at Waterfront Park to defend Portland against far-Right attack!

Background of Events Leading to August 17, 2019

Throughout 2017 and 2018, a number of far-Right rallies organized by Joey Gibson and Patriot Prayer invaded Portland. In contrast to Joey Gibson’s false “freedom” platfom, Joe Bigg’s posturing is more like that of a school yard bully. However, they have the same intention: to unleash a coalition of the far-Right against liberal and leftist targets. Previous events united a number of different groups of differing political ideologies, from the far-Right Trump supporters like Gibson, militia groups like the Three Percenters, the white nationalist Proud Boys, to the white supremacist group Identity Europa, and a number of neo-Nazis groups like the Traditionalist Workers Party, the Hammerskins, Cascade Legion, the Daily Stormer Book Clubs, and even the KKK.

The details of these groups attacking Portland are now too long to be summarized in one article. For those new to the topic, please see the small selection of articles below for detailed accounts of who attended these rallies, their actions, what groups they are associated with, and the nature of their politics.

• Neo-Nazis stage a photo op with Mayor Wheeler at Gibson’s first Portland event on April 29, 2017
• Various neo-Nazis show up to Gibson’s June 4, 2017 rally
• Gibson invited anti-Semitic media personality Tim Gionet to his June 4, 2017 rally
• Summary of Three Percenters, KKK, and Daily Stormer Book Club members at far-Right rallies in the area
• Details of Gibson’s support of Identity Europa and other neo-Nazis
• Details of the white nationalist Proud Boys’ activities in the Pacific Northwest
• Summary of violent threats made against anti-fascist activists in the promotion of Gibson’s August 4, 2018 rally
• Information about Haley Adams offshoot “HimToo” group and their white nationalist links
• Detailed description of local Daily Stormer affiliated group “PDX Stormers” and their activities at far-Right rallies

Joey Gibson’s clout on the far-Right significantly faded after local activists gathered to oppose his rally on August 4, 2018. That day, the Portland Police Bureau attacked the anti-fascists with grenades and pepper spray, causing serious injuries among both activists and journalists. Those attacks would later be determined to be unprovoked. It was also later revealed that at that event members of an out-of-state far-Right group were found with rifles in a sniper position above the crowd, but were allowed to keep their guns and were not detained.

However, on May 1, 2019 Gibson was able to launch himself back into the headlines with the help of islamophobic far-Right media personality Andy Ngo. On that day, Gibson, accompanied by several Proud Boys, anti-Semite David Willis, and fascists Ian Kramerand Eric Oelkers, came to a Portland bar where activists were holding an event. There, they pepper sprayed people, threw bottles, and after a fight broke out, Kramer hit an activist with a metal baton, knocking her unconscious. Andy Ngo filmed the encounter, and released the video online, identifying the person who was knocked unconscious and causing her to suffer threats and harassment from the far-Right, but never identifying the assailants.

Nearly two months later, Andy Ngo announced that the Proud Boys would return to Portland for “The Battle of Portland Part 2” on June 29, 2019, nearly one year after the Patriot Prayer rally on June 30, 2018. He promoted this event with further footage of Proud Boys assaulting activists.

Ngo announces the Proud Boy rally on Twitter.

Rose City Antifa organized a response to this planned incursion along with many other community groups. Due to this community response, the Proud Boys failed to show up to their own event. At the counter-protest, Ngo repeatedly attempted to identify individual activists in the crowd using his video cameras, and after he was asked to leave several times, he was removed, and sustained injuries in the process.

In the aftermath of June 29, 2019 and the Proud Boys’ utter rout from Portland (defeated by a non-violent community rally, no less), the far-Right became apopleptic. Seizing upon Ngo’s superficial injuries, and additionally, a bold-faced lie by the Portland Police Bureau that some milkshakes distributed at the counter-protest contained cement, the far-Right is using this moment to renew their attack. Anti-fascist activism succeeds at defending our communities, and it enrages them.

The centerpiece of this renewed assault surrounds an effort by US Senators Bill Cassidy and Ted Cruz to get “antifa” declared a domestic terrorist organization, a thinly veiled attempt to criminalize any community response to racism. (See our statement condemning this attempt at repression, signed by community resistance organizations across the country, here.)

The alliance between the state and the far-Right groups who have been invading our city is nothing new. Cruz has a relationship with the white nationalist Proud Boys beyond their shared rhetoric. And here in Portland we have seen countless instances of the Police Bureau shielding the far-Right and white supremacists from out of town, while attacking anti-fascist community members.

Ted Cruz (left) pictured with Enrique Tarrio (right), the chair of the Proud Boys organization, at AIPAC in 2019.

A petition to declare antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,” (left) created by Proud Boys chair Enrique Tarrio, along with an internal Proud Boys message supporting it (right). Ted Cruz and Bill Cassidy take their proposed resolution directly from this petition.

But the level of predicted violence coming from the far-Right and neo-Nazi propaganda in the lead up to August 17, 2019 rivals even that of last summer. Below, we detail the intensity with which these groups are readying to attack the city of Portland, and those denizens of our city who would stand up to racism and fascism.

Details of individuals involved with the planned August 17, 2019 assault of Portland

Joe Biggs

August 17th won’t be the first time the far-right favorite among neo-Nazis and White Nationalists Joe Biggs makes an appearence in Portland. In April of 2016, on assignment from his then-employer Infowars, he came to join forces with local PSU Fascists, including Volodymyr Kolychev, for a pro-Trump rally near PSU. His tenure at Infowars also included endorsing and discussing the bizzare “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory.

More recently, Biggs has authored articles on the Republican-linked website Big League Politics, where he attempts a more neutral tone. But on his Twitter and other social media, he has had no qualms about broadcasting his murder-fantasies and death-threats publicly.

Biggs posts a Periscope broadcast wearing a shirt celebrating fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet’s state murder of political dissidents while spewing threats against anti-fascists who organize to oppose precisely that sort of violence.

Biggs, pictured among the Proud Boys at the “Demand Free Speech” rally posts a fascist meme on Twitter referencing the extrajudicial murder of tens of thousands of activists in Chile by fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet, who would brutally execute some of those opposed to his regime by ejecting them from helocopters while in flight.

Biggs spreads unfounded conspiracies that antifa collaborate with ISIS and Al Quaeda, despite the fact that a good number of self-described anti-fascists have in fact bravely given their lives fighting against ISIS alongside the YPG & YPJ in Syria.

Joe Biggs celebrates the violence of the Proud Boys hate group while pretending that his alt-right associates actually care about Free Speech.

Biggs encourages his followers to prepare to shoot anti-fascists by projecting his own belligerence onto them. The far-right has been gunning innocent U.S. citizens down at epidemic levels.

In late June and early July, Biggs posted a number of belligerent and aggressive death threats against anti-fascist activists on nearly all of his social media accounts, resulting in many of his accounts being suspended. In the screenshot below, we see the eager response of Biggs’ followers to his visual suggestion of fascist extrajudicial murder. Notably, a Facebook user going by the name of Steven Douglas Whitener encourages Biggs to “let them make the death threats,” referencing the history of the 1979 Greensboro, NC massacre in which the KKK opened fire and murdered five anti-fascist labor organizers who had used the slogan “Death To The Klan”. Whitener is openly comparing Biggs and his allies favorably to the KKK, and requesting that he project some kind of “threat” from anti-fascists to use as justification and pretext to carry out a similar fascist massacre.

Joe Biggs makes open death threats against activists who organize to oppose fascist and neo-Nazi violence.

Joe Biggs endorses the neo-Nazi Anticom organization while advertising for his fascist rally in Portland on August 17th.

Daily Stormer Neo-Nazis Admire Joe Biggs

Biggs’ violent goals and ideology have not gone unnoticed on the discussion boards of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. A thread on the event encouraged neo-Nazis in the area to turn out and attend, even describing the event as a way to have “fun.” The “fun” that neo-Nazis are looking to have in our city is nothing other than opportunities to attack vulnerable people and activists, and radicalize conservatives drawn to events like these by the false victimization rhetoric.

Daily Stormer user Arminius_Faschismus promoting Joe Biggs’ August 17th event (by posting a video from Joey Gibson’s YouTube channel), encouraging other neo-Nazis to join.

Another message on The Daily Stormer message board encouraging fellow neo-Nazis to come out and have “fun” at Joe Biggs’ August 17th event.

While obviously over-estimating the numbers at Joey Gibson’s June 4, 2017 rally in Portland, The Daily Stormer user Arminius_Faschismus expresses how important it is to the neo-Nazi movement that rallies like these happen. The notion of “waking up” conservatives (“NormieCons”) refers to them being radicalized by the neo-Nazi evangalizing at these rallies.

A user on The Daily Stormer showcases Joe Biggs’ violent rhetoric and death threats regarding his plans to assault people in Portland on August 17.

Joe Biggs Appearances On InfoWars

Biggs has made several appearances on conspiracist Alex Jones’ InfoWars website to promote his planned August 17 incursion into Portland.

On July 16th, Biggs appeared on InfoWars with Alex Jones where the two of them spouted bizarre conspiracies and falsehoods about their idealized boogieman version of “ANTIFA.” For instance, they invented tales of “acid attacks” by anti-fascists, which have in fact never occurred. They also took time out to echo and elaborate on U.S. President Donald Trump’s virulent racism and Islamophobia.

Biggs and Jones spout racism and Islamophobic rhetoric directed at MN congressional representative Ilhan Omar, including the baseless smear that she had at one time been married to her brother.

Predicating his comments with familiar inflammatory falsehoods Jones tacitly encourages his followers to murder people they believe to be their political opponents.

Inveterate liar Alex Jones, who is currently in the midst of multiple lawsuits for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress upon the victims of mass violence, fabricates grievances having to do with non-existent persecution from social media corporations and anti-fascist activists, while Biggs prepares the ground for cheap disavowals when one of his conspiracy-poisoned followers commits an atrocity.

Biggs also appeared on InfoWars on July 17th, this time with host Owen Shroyer, in a program where both men displayed their allegiance to fascists and neo-Nazis by playing footage from violent fascist rallies while railing against anti-fascist activists. In this appearance, Biggs also elaborated on his plans to overwhelm Portland and PPB with far-right activists deployed in military formations because, he said, “I would feel bad for a thousand people to show up to a permitted event and based on the law there, if antifa shows up to this permitted event, the police can tell everyone to disperse and arrest anyone who doesn’t leave, then the event doesn’t happen…” Biggs, like Joey Gibson before him, is inviting his followers to engage in violent tourism with the hope that they might be able to assault or murder people.

By showing images of white nationalists kicking at anti-fascist signs at the deadly Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally while simultaneously railing against anti-fascist activists as “Enemies”, Biggs and Shroyer signal their support for the neo-Nazis who marched at the rally where Heather Heyer was murdered by James Alex Fields. Biggs is also co-organizing the event with Proud Boys hate group leader Enrique Tarrio, who himself participated in the Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally.

While celebrating acts of violent aggression carried out by white nationalist Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys affiliate Kyle Chapman, Biggs explicitly states that the purpose of his August 17th rally is to terrorize Portland residents and activists. Biggs also clearly states that he is organizing with American Guard, who are accurately described by the ADL as “hardcore white supremacists”

Biggs and Shroyer make light of the concentration camps where children are being held separately from their families as they experience sexual assault and murder at the hands of border guards. Biggs also makes sure to sieze another opportunity to reference a racist conspiracy theory about Ilhan Omar.

Biggs pretends that anti-fascists are the aggressors via some ill-defined “commie tactics” while infowars shows footage of the June 2016 neo-Nazi rally in Sacramento, CA where members of the Traditionalist Workers Party neo-Nazi organization stabbed multiple anti-fascists and then worked with police to prosecute them. Biggs and Shroyer are signaling their tacit support for the neo-Nazis who nearly murdered people at this event.

Joey Gibson

Patriot Prayer founder and consistent neo-Nazi collaborator Joey Gibson has also endorsed calls for violence and mass-murder at Biggs’ ⁸⁄₁₇ rally.

Joey Gibson and Proud Boys hate group member Pete Venturo aka Petrena Peterson gleefully discuss far-right agitators’ desire to murder Portland activists on August 17.

This approach to speaking about threats of violence and their supposed justification has been a continuous theme from Gibson and his allies for years. They organize provocative, dangerous, and violent events (in direct coordination with fascists and neo-Nazis) in search of any defensive response at all which they can use as a pretext to vent their murderous aggression.

In late 2017, Gibson discusses the eagerness of his allies to find excuses to attack and murder more Portland activists. By this time, Patriot Prayer member Jeremy Christian had already used Gibson’s strategy to stab three people, killing two of them.

Proud Boys

Carl Todd and his fellow Proud Boys such as Matteo Dagradi, JD Stockton, David Julian, and others are seen arming themselves to the teeth in preparation for the rally they are promoting as “peaceful” and “non-violent.” Despite their attempts to portray otherwise, August 17 organizers and attendees clearly know an event promising to “end domestic terrorism” will motivate far-Right violence.

Cast aside former Proud Boy and Patriot Prayer sycophant Russell Schultz believes the mass murder he hopes for on August 17 will somehow be appropriate retaliation for the 2017 killings in Las Vegas committed by a 2nd Amendment fanatic who ranted about Ruby Ridge, Waco, and FEMA camps.

Lynwood, WA Proud Boys hate group member Naphtali Robert Moore posts a flyer which uses the far-Right “Honkler” clown character, whose “Honk Honk” slogan is used by neo-Nazis as a dog-whistle for “Heil Hitler”. Moore’s flyer also links to endantifa dot com, a forwarding address created by Proud Boys hate group chairman Enrique Tarrio to forward to a white house petition requesting that antifa be declared a “domestic terrorist organization.” Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have followed the hate group’s lead with this proposal.

Russell Schultz announces his plan to act as an agent provocateur among anti-fascists on August 17th. Schultz has repeatedly claimed that he has taken this action as a way of attacking anti-fascists and framing them for far-right violence.

Jered Gavin Bonneau

Jered Gavin Bonneau is Three Percenter and a failed congressional candidate who openly called for mass murder against anti-fascists at an August 18, 2018 far-right rally in Seattle, WA. He is using Biggs’ fascist provocations as an excuse to reprise his calls for political murder. A March, 2018 Spokesman Review article identifies Bonneau as a mental health technician at Eastern State Hospital near Spokane, WA.

Jered Gavin Bonneau reprises his calls for political murder of activists in Portland.

Jered Gavin Bonneau brags online about how big and strong he is, while his followers counsel him on how to avoid legal liability while openly organizing to assault people, celebrate violence by neo-Nazis like Nathan Damigo and Allen Pucket, and fantasize about murdering anti-fascists with an axe.

More receipts from Bonneau and his followers as they openly organize for the aggressive assaults and murders they hope to carry out.

Shane Kohfield

A relative newcomer to Portland’s far-right activism ciruit, Shane Kohfield’s relevant posts are notable for their violent content and disturbing obsessive tendencies. His testimony on the livestream from Haley Adams and Alyssa Vinsonhaler’s recent attempt to protest in front of Ted Wheeler’s home expressed similar unsettling themes of persecution, revenge and “slaughter”.

While standing next to Joseph Geraci at Haley Adams and Alyssa Vinsonhaler’s “Occupy Ted’s House” rally, Shane Kohfield talks explicitly about his desires and plans to murder people who he considers to be anti-fascist activists in Portland. Moments prior, Kohfield had also discussed having infiltrated the black bloc in order to surveil anti-fascists and frame them for far-right violence.

Tara LaRosa

Proud Boys affiliate Tara LaRosa has been a major agitator for Joe Biggs’ fascist rally on August 17th.

Tara LaRosa promotes Joe Biggs’ fascist rally, including to men’s rights activist and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, whose relentless promotion of the baseless “pizzagate” conspiracy theory prompted a right-wing media consumer to open fire in a Washington D.C. pizza restaurant.

LaRosa promotes Biggs’ fascist rally to anti-semitic white nationalist Stefan Molyneux.

Tara LaRosa posts an image encouraging people to “end antifa” and touting the McCarthyist slogan “Better Dead Than Red”

At a recent event held by the Columbia River chapter of the Proud Boys hate group, Tara LaRosa poses for a photo with neo-Nazi Patriot Prayer member Edith Berlin DePoorter-Dixon aka Edie Dixon. Both are displaying the alt-right “ok” hand sign, which– while concealing itself in the guise of “irony” and “trolling”– nonetheless functions as a dog-whistle for “white power”.

Andrew Allwander

This receipt is just one of the times Eugene area martial arts instructor Andrew Allwanderposted this lurid homicidal fantasy of carrying out an ISIS-style beheading against anti-fascist activists.

The McCarthy era slogan “Better Dead than Red”, seen in this post from Allwander, has made a striking come-back in the Trump era. Hash tags “endantifa” and “fightthem” make his violent intentions clear.

Andrew Allwander posts a litany of murderous fantasies along with the racist David Willis.

Song lyrics by the misogynist death metal band Cannibal Corpse enliven Allwander’s murderous imagination.

Far-Right Murder Fantasies

In the Facebook comments and discussion about the August 17th hate rally, attendees and other supporters gleefully spew their fantasies of murdering and attacking people in Portland, including anti-fascist activists, and even the mayor.

A rally supporter declares they will shoot anyone who might throw a milkshake, and another “totally agrees” with this murder fantasy.

Discussion among White Nationalist Haley Adams’ supporters, where one calls for the mayor to be decapitated.

Patriot Prayer supporter Katy Weisberg – who also participated in the attack on the local bar Cider Riot on May Day – posts an image of a violent murder. Notably, the figure carrying the baseball bat wears a Celtic Cross on their lapel, a symbol often used by overt white supremacists.

Violent Patriot Prayer supporter Chris Ponte – who also participated in the attack on local bar Cider Riot on May Day – displays another image of gruesome murder. Another violent Patriot Prayer member, pedophile Deme Cooper, says that he shares his dream.

Stand with us on August 17

The far-right media would like to see Portland overrun by violent groups like these. But Portland is our home, and we will defend it. We will not accept our streets used as a playground for the right-wing and white supremacists to hunt and harm activists and Portlanders. Stand with us, and tell these groups that they are not welcome here in Portland. No matter how many brawlers they fly into Portland, no matter how many times they come, no matter how violent their threats are: we will defend ourselves and our community.

If you have any information about these groups or their plans for August 17, or other information about far-right and fascist organizing, please email us at [email protected].