The Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) is an anti-Muslim group that has been putting on hate rallies around the UK. At their rally in July, they attacked trade unionists and a Muslim woman bus driver. In September, they marched with the neo-Nazi National Action, as well as the English Defense League (EDL) and the British National Party (BNP). When they tried to attack counter protesters, three of them were arrested.
Brighton Antifascists are mobilizing people against this latest march and will have two meetings leading up to the 13th, one on Oct. 4 at the Brighthelm Centere and another a week later at Brighton University.
Fresh from harassing the woman who might be the first African American woman to hold a Governorship in the history of the United States, the Nationalist Liberty Union is saying on their Facebook page that they will be participating in a “Build the Wall Rally” being put on by the South Carolina Conservative Action Council (SCCAC). That group once got the attention of Mother Jones, who noted in an article about them that a newsletter affiliated with them, Conservative Action Report, is known for articles with headlines like “Is Barack Obama a Muslim?” and “Blacks and the Confederacy—the story the leftist mass media will never tell” (mostly because the story is bullshit), as well as write op-eds that refered to then-Gov. Nikki Haley by her birth name, Nimrada Randhawa, as they attack her for her “Stalinesque” decision to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds after the Dylann Roof mass shooting in Charleston. NLU mouthpiece Paul Lovett loves defending the imprisoned Creativity Movement Matt Hale, who was given a 40-year sentence in federal prison for conspiring to kill a federal judge, so you know he’s a special piece of work! Some locals are aware of this little annoyance coming to their town, but not many.
The National Socialist Movement (NSM) is planning to march on Little Rock Arkansas, and while they are trotting out the pretend genocide in South Africa (by the way, how ironic is it that nazis are saying shit like, “We must avoid our children facing the horrific reality of being a hated and despised minority that is steadily pushed towards extinction”?) as a reason for them to step out, in truth it’s a regular thing that they have one big rally in the spring and another in the fall. This also might be Matthew Heimbach’s first time at a rally as a NSM member. And we are told there might be a new logo on their flags, but that remains to be seen.
There is counterdemo being organized around this as we post this, and we will provide contact info as soon as it is available.
In today’s political climate one cannot predict much, but we are still going to say not to expect the neo-fascist Proud Boys running around trying to play their games over the next year or so as much as they are now. After the fight at the Republican Club recently, they became the crew that everyone wants a piece of, and everyone will have their piece, you can bank on that. Even the right-wing New York Post – which is owned by News Corp, which also owns Fox News, who once employed Proud Boy founder Gavin McInnes – called them out as a “far-right hate group” in an article about right wing activists harassing Nancy Pelosi during a visit to Florida because someone in the crowd of activists beating on the windows repped the group.
Well, Philly is going to get their shot at them. A Facebook event page is up for something called the “We the People Rally” which is being organized by two groups, Patriot Events and Sports Beer and Politics, whose own Facebook page has two Proud Boys as administrators. As of now, the page is particularly benign with a disclamer saying the following:
We at Patriot Events and Sports Beer and Politics do not condone the use of violence by any party at this event. This event is to allow the people to make their voices heard. Any violence, racism, or display of hate by any group or individual is extremely prohibited. Any group or party violating these conditions will be removed from this event immediately.
The hosts, planners, security, speakers or their affiliates, members or family will not be held liable for bodily injury or personal damages to anyone in attendance. All civil claims, attorneys costs for the aforementioned will be paid by the claimant.
There is a reason for that. Just before the Proud Boys made asses of themselves in NYC, they were boasting on this page that they were going to come to this event with the purpose of fighting people:
After NYC, these postings were scrubbed from the event page, but too late. Somebody already saw them. This is what people will be mobilizing against, despite the usual tapdancing from the organizers that they don’t condone violence and be vigilant against it. Folks are used to that tapdancing and are not buying into it. The Proud Boys also are good for the “I’m not racist” routine and their supporters point to their members of color. Well, they repped at both Unite the Right rallies in Charlottesville last year and Washington, DC this year, the DC outing featuring a Hispanic Proud Boy. So folks stopped giving them quarter, and are going to do something about them before they really cause innocents to be hurt.
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.
This specimen of stupid we are dealing with here calls himself Jovi Val, but his real name is Jovanni Valle. He is one of those Proud Boys that all of a sudden wasn’t one when he is called out for publicly associating with something that makes them look bad – like Nazis – but still is supportive of the Proud Boys. That’s what happened to Valle after he joined another former Proud Boy named Jason Kessler as he held his second “Unite the Right Rally” in DC on the anniversary of his first in Charlottesville, VA that after a massive riot ended with the death of Heather Heyer at the hands of James Fields, Jr., one of the neo-Fascists Kessler invited there. According to reporter Ford Fischer, Valle wants to hold a rally somewhere in Washington, DC in Lafayette Park – the location of that “Unite the Right Rally 2” event last summer – in support of those he says are “the men and women who put their lives on the line for freedom and liberty.” And who might those men and women be? Well, they would include Fields, now serving the rest of his worthless life in prison for the murder of Heather Heyer, the members of the Rise Above Movement, for going around the country assaulting people who aren’t down with their brand of neo-Fascism and was in Charlottesville, and of course, the Proud Boys who were arrested for attacking antifa in NYC while their founder (but doesn’t want to be called leader) Gavin McInnes was inside the Manhattan Republican Club mocking the killing of a Socialist leader in Japan over fifty years ago. The poster is a load of laughs, as it displays people wearing MAGA hats falling victim to – among other things – police. When you are through laughing, you can read the thread below:
So I was just sent this graphic and informed that right wing activist Jovi Val plans to have a rally at the White House in early January to support nationalists – including both Proud Boys and Charlottesville attendees – who are in jail. pic.twitter.com/MbX0VSi2Wm
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) December 14, 2018
For the record, with all the hell coming down on the Proud Boy’s head, they are distancing themself from this thing. They are publicly saying that they have absolutely nothing to do with this rally and do not want to have their name associated with it. And the Hispanic Valle responded in a Dec. 17 two-hour YouTube rant saying that he had “distanced” himself from the Proud Boys – which he says was about giving White men a voice in politics – because making a Black man as their leader made them “self loathing whites”, and that they are “not a White Nationalist group…anymore!” There’s a lot of giving away the store in that video, including where he notes that one of those Proud Boys arrested in NYC has a Confederate Rag tattooed on his arm that the group won’t let him display (16:46 timestamp), so we have to post it here!
He is still supporting those Proud Boys during his rally, and is making no bones about the fact that he believes White Nationalism is “a beautiful thing”. So if you see him in DC on Jan. 5, that’s what he is going to be defending. This one is going to be about the corniest thing you will ever see. Valle is good for that.
UPDATE: According to a post Gab and Twitter accounts, the New Jersey European Heritage Association called off their rally, saying it was all a big joke or whatever and that everyone was “punk’d” by them. Folks are taking it as a face-saving move considering they don’t have a history of going toe to toe with the opposition without police guarding them or sneaking around to post flyers everyone will see long after they are gone. So take a bow, Princeton! You chumped these clowns! More on this later.
On the same day as the Three Percenter/Proud Boy rally in Philly last November, a group called the New Jersey European Heritage Association did a flash mob rally of five people where they just walked around with “It’s Okay to be White” placards. They posted a video of them doing this, and this was the only way anyone even knew they did this thing. We have gotten used to this stunt over the past year since Charlottesville of groups trying to avoid antifa with clandestine marches and rallies. Hell, the first rally in Charlottesville in May 2017 was a similar flash mob – and it still saw opposition.
Well, it looks like the NJEHA has plans for Princeton again, and this time they decided to announce it via flyers they put all over town. Someone actually caught one of their guys doing it and ran him off, and they proceeded to take the flyers down and alert antifa to their plans for this weekend. So there should be a lot of opposition coming out for this thing, even if NJEHA decides to change theirs.
This group was with Jason Kessler in Washington, DC on the anniversary of Charlottesville for his “Unite the Right 2” rally. Only a dozen boneheads made it to that event, and that included them. That was enough for someone to dox the head of the group apparently.
THREAD: Left is Titus D’Andrea, leader of the New Jersey European Heritage Association, a white supremacist group.
No one knows his real identity.
Right is Dan D’Ambly, a newspaper printer at the @NYDailyNews in Jersey City.
You see where this is going?
Let’s do this.
❤️🖤✊ pic.twitter.com/JTHsglITHF
— AntiFash Gordon (@AntiFashGordon) October 29, 2018
It seems that NJEHA loves to harass Princeton, so we don’t think this will be the last stunt we will see from them. What will be different however is the fact that the local opposition will be able to introduce themselves. This is from a Facebook event page:
“We have the displeasure of informing you all that a fascist group will be holding a rally at Palmer Square in Princeton on Saturday the 12th at noon. Central Jersey DSA, along with a local rapid response group, the IWW GDC, and SPUSA, are organizing a counter-protest. We believe that the best way to avoid a violent confrontation will be to overwhelm them with numbers and deny them the space to spread their genocidal ideology. It would mean the world to us to have DSA comrades from all over New Jersey join the demonstration.
By dominating the space with sheer numbers, we believe that we can show them that they are not welcome, in New Jersey or anywhere else, and steal away their platform to promote our own vision of a better world.
Please remember, we will be counter-protesting with non-violence in solidarity with those who have been targeted by the fascists..”
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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