On June 13, former neo-Nazi Elisa Hategan, will join filmmaker Sylvia Novak to screen and discuss the new documentary focusing on Ernst Zundel. Hategan, who worked with Zundel in the nineties, served as a consultant on the film. This will be one of two days that they will screen.
From the Doc Now website:
Using archival materials, 206 Carlton brings together a story of racism and resistance in the city of Toronto, through focusing on one address, one house. At the center of this story is Ernst Zundel, a former resident of 206 Carlton Street, and internationally infamous Holocaust denier. From this downtown Victorian townhouse he spread hate materials that found their way to the hands of hateful groups around the world.
About the Artist
Sylvia Nowak is a Toronto based activist, documentary maker and artist. Her academic background began in still photography but has shifted to include video and digital media. At the core of all her work is an interest in social issues and an investigative instinct. She is the current co-chair of the DocNow Documentary Festival.
Please join me and filmmaker @SylviaNowak at the screenings of 206 Carlton, a documentary that spotlights Toronto’s racist history & infamous Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel. I was a consultant on this film & so excited to see it come to life @docnowfestival https://t.co/VfvuJW9ZvM pic.twitter.com/tVrCvkEhRQ
— Elisa Hategan (@elisahategan) June 4, 2018
We can no longer ignore the fact that fascism is on the rise in the United States. What was once a fringe movement has been gaining cultural acceptance and political power for years. Rebranding itself as “alt-right” and riding the waves of both Donald Trump’s hate-fueled populism and the anxiety of an abandoned working class, they have created a social force that has the ability to win elections and inspire racist street violence in equal measure.
Fascism Today looks at the changing world of the far right in Donald Trump’s America. Examining the modern fascist movement’s various strains, Shane Burley has written an accessible primer about what its adherents believe, how they organize, and what future they have in the United States. The ascension of Trump has introduced a whole new vocabulary into our political lexicon—white nationalism, race realism, Identitarianism, and a slew of others. Burley breaks it all down. From the tech-savvy trolls of the alt-right to esoteric Aryan mystics, from full-fledged Nazis to well-groomed neofascists like Richard Spencer, he shows how these racists and authoritarians have reinvented themselves in order to recruit new members and grow.
Just as importantly, Fascism Today shows how they can be fought and beaten. It highlights groups that have successfully opposed these twisted forces and outlines the elements needed to build powerful mass movements to confront the institutionalization of fascist ideas, protect marginalized communities, and ultimately stop the fascist threat.
Shane Burley is a writer, filmmaker, and antifascist based in Portland, Oregon.
Matthew Lyons has been writing about right-wing politics for over 25 years. His work focuses on the interplay between right-wing movements and systems of oppression, and responses to these movements by leftists, liberals, and the state. He writes regularly for Three Way Fight, a radical antifascist blog, and his work has also appeared in the Guardian, New Politics, Socialism and Democracy, teleSUR, Upping the Anti, and other publications.
Fascism Today looks at the changing world of the far right in Donald Trump’s America. Examining the modern fascist movement’s various strains, Shane Burley has written an accessible primer about what its adherents believe, how they organize, and what future they have in the United States. The ascension of Trump has introduced a whole new vocabulary into our political lexicon—white nationalism, race realism, Identitarianism, and a slew of others. Burley breaks it all down. From the tech-savvy trolls of the alt-right to esoteric Aryan mystics, from full-fledged Nazis to well-groomed neofascists like Richard Spencer, he shows how these racists and authoritarians have reinvented themselves in order to recruit new members and grow. Just as importantly, Fascism Today shows how they can be fought and beaten. It highlights groups that have successfully opposed these twisted forces and outlines the elements needed to build powerful mass movements to confront the institutionalization of fascist ideas, protect marginalized communities, and ultimately stop the fascist threat.
Shane Burley is a writer, filmmaker, and antifascist based in Portland, Oregon. His work on fascism and anti-fascism has appeared on PBS, Salon, TruthOut, In These Times, Alternet, Waging Nonviolence, Antifascist News, and more.
From the Doc Now website:
Using archival materials, 206 Carlton brings together a story of racism and resistance in the city of Toronto, through focusing on one address, one house. At the center of this story is Ernst Zundel, a former resident of 206 Carlton Street, and internationally infamous Holocaust denier. From this downtown Victorian townhouse he spread hate materials that found their way to the hands of hateful groups around the world.
About the Artist
Sylvia Nowak is a Toronto based activist, documentary maker and artist. Her academic background began in still photography but has shifted to include video and digital media. At the core of all her work is an interest in social issues and an investigative instinct. She is the current co-chair of the DocNow Documentary Festival.
One People’s Project Founder and Executive Director Daryle Lamont Jenkins will be on the radio program It’s a New Day with Rip Daniels, which airs on JZ 94.5 a Black-owned radio station out of Gulfport, MS. For an hour he will be talking about various topics and taking your calls.
To listen live, click here.
R.A.S.H Northwest presents our third Rock Against Fascism PDX a benefit concert. Local bands will be donating their time to help us raise money to support antifascist prisoners. Hard left from Oakland will be traveling up here to donate their time also.
Artist:
Hard Left (punk)
The Faction (pdx hip hop)
All Worked Up (SHARP Oi!)
Rum Rebellion (pirate Punk)
Death Ridge Boys (left wing Oi!)
All proceeds will go to help antifascist prisoners.
Skin, the movie that tells the true story of Bryon Widner, a onetime enforcer for the Vinlander Social Club for whom turning his back on hatred and violence meant undergoing painful and expensive operations to remove the tattoos that life, will premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Based on the Bill Brummel documentary Erasing Hate, The movie stars Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, Turn) as Bryon, Danielle MacDonald (Patti Cake$) as Julie, Vera Farmiga (The Departed, Bates Motel) as Shareen and Mike Colter (Luke Cage, The Good Wife) as One People’s Project’s Daryle Lamont Jenkins, who was instrumental in helping Bryon leave his old life behind.
The movie is the first produced in America for Israel-born director Guy Nattiv, known there for the movies Stranger and The Flood.
The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2018. Individual tickets go on sale September 1 to TIFF Members, September 2 to Insiders, and September 3 to the public. Watch this page for the day Skin debuts.
The subject of this powerful documentary will be there to take questions and talk about his experiences leading up to this film. A great chance to come out and network with people fighting hate in New Jersey, see a great movie, and have a discussion after.
New Brunswick, NJ, December 07, 2018 –(PR.com)– One’s People’s Project will be showing the documentary “Alt-Right: Age of Rage” at Emanuel Lutheran Church in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Saturday, December 15th. The event will run from 6pm to 10pm and will feature a post-film discussion with activist and One People’s Project founder Daryle Lamont-Jenkins. The event is sponsored by the Socialist Party of Central Jersey, New Jersey Revolution Radio, The Green Party of New Jersey and others.
“Alt-Right: Age of Rage” focuses on the ascendance of the alt-right movement in the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump and concludes with the events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia in August of 2017. The film, according to IndieWire.com, addresses head-on the question, “does talking about neo-Nazis help expose the flimsy hatred that fuels their ideologies, or does giving oxygen to toxic firebrands like Richard Spencer and Milo Yiannopoulos only make them stronger?”
Daryle Lamont-Jenkins also features prominently in the film as a leader vocal and active in the movement against white nationalist and racist groups. “Hate speech is protected under the First Amendment,” says Jenkins in the film, “but if what you say does cause some sort of harm people are going to have to respond.”
The screening of the film is timely given recent hate crimes such as the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Additionally, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are at least six active white nationalist or racist skinhead organizations in New Jersey alone.
According to Film Threat, “No person of conscience can watch (the film) without wanting to stand and howl in rage.”
The event is s fund raiser for the One People’s Project, admission is free, although there is a suggested donation.
One People’s Project has been on the front lines reporting on and exposing the racist right, working hand in hand with countless coalitions to shut down ultra-nationalist conferences, and rehabilitating ex-white-supremacists for 17 years.
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…
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.