Fox 40 Sacramento, “Local College Student Involved in Charlottesville Turmoil”
But opponents, including self-described anarchist groups, are painting Damigo as the violent instigator and trying to have him expelled from Stanislaus State. Continue Reading
Politico, “Domestic hate groups elude feds”
Also, the FBI and the Justice Department don’t keep lists of domestic terrorist organizations, because of concerns about civil liberties. Those concerns also prevent federal authorities from engaging in the kind of sweeping surveillance and monitoring of the Ku Klux Klan and anarchist groups that was more accepted in decades past, before reforms were put […]
New York Daily News, “More far-right rallies expected after Charlottesville violence”
The Portland, Ore.,-based group Patriot Prayer, which has a penchant for trolling anarchists, obtained permission to gather at San Francisco’s Crissy Field, according to The Mercury News. The same group clashed with counterprotesters on Sunday in Seattle. Continue Reading
Capital Public Radio (CA), “Calif. Lawmakers Asks Feds To Stop Alt-Right Rally In SF”
But white supremacists and neo-Nazis have tagged along to Patriot Prayer rallies, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled its members provocateurs, who goad far-left and anarchist groups to attack them. Continue Reading
ABC 7 San Francisco, “San Francisco leaders oppose right-wing rally permitted for Crissy Fields”
Based in Portland, Oregon, Patriot Prayer is an “alt-right” group specializing “in rallies aimed at provoking far-left and anarchist groups,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. Violence has been documented at other events organized by the group. Continue Reading
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “In Atlanta, defiance from protesters in Charlottesville’s wake”
The crowd headed towards Piedmont Park, where a heavy police presence was waiting. Although there was some concern about violence from a small band of anarchists who participated in the march, Atlanta mayoral candidate Vincent Fort said they weren’t the ones to fear. Continue Reading
MTV News, “A UVA Student Organizer Recounts His 24 Hours Of Counter-Protest In Charlottesville”
When it comes to Charlottesville, I know that I’m, at least, going to be following the lead of local groups who have been working quietly (and not necessarily in the media spotlight) for years to dismantle white supremacy in our town — like Black Lives Matter, the Charlottesville coalition of Showing Up for Racial Justice […]
New Republic, “The Left’s Supporting Role in American Hate Theater”
And so the good people of Charlottesville, along with a fair number of masked anti-fascists and anarchists from god knows where, took to the streets on July 8. They drowned out the Klansmen with their own taunts and threats, tried to block them from driving away after the rally, and turned their ire toward the […]
Westword, “Online Fundraiser Defends Alleged Capitol Hill White Supremacist Will Planer”
Another passage casts Planer as a defender of old-fashioned American values: “Will was one of the 18 Sacramento Spartans who braved the 20-to-1 odds, death threats, and explicit law enforcement stand-down order to take a stand. He took a stand with the conservative families who had been bludgeoned and bloodied only weeks prior for merely […]
Al Jazeera, “US authorities handle white supremacists with kid gloves while branding Antifa protesters ‘domestic terrorists'”
On June 12, 2017, New Jersey’s Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (OHSP) added a new name to its list of “domestic terrorist” threats: Antifa. The report characterises “Antifa” as a group of “anarchist extremists” who “focus on issues involving racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism, as well as other perceived injustices,” a half-baked definition, while technically accurate, is […]