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DAVID IRVING IS NOT WELCOME in New York City!

New Yorkers Against David Irving call for resistance to the speaking engagements of pseudo-historian David Irving’s east coast tour, including his November 14th date in New York City.

be-head nazi

David Irving is a notorious pro-Nazi history writer. He has made repeated anti-Semitic, Holocaust Denial and racist statements over the years, including that “no document whatsoever indicating the Holocaust occurred” has been found, and “the holocaust of the Germans of Dresden was real. The holocaust of the Jews in the Auschwitz gas chambers is a fabrication.” Although he has retreated from some of these statements, Irving has continued to blame Jews for what the Nazis did to them; he attempts to minimize the scope of the Holocaust; and he publicly praises Adolf Hitler.

Irving’s fascist views go back to at least 1959. He has been associated with neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic and Holocaust Denial organizations such as the National Alliance, the Liberty Lobby, and the Institute for Historical Review. In 2006 he was jailed for trivializing the Holocaust in Austria, where it is illegal. Since his release, Irving has marketed himself as a former “political prisoner”.

As the name of his publishing project suggests, Irving serves as a “focal point” to bring together Jew-haters and goose-steppers. He is part of a political tendency that actively organizes to tear apart communities, and particularly to persecute Jews. The June murder of a security guard at the US Holocaust Museum by James von Brunn shows where this racist and anti-Semitic tendency often leads. Van Brunn moved in many of the same circles that promote Irving’s work.

We call for people to confront Irving at each stop of his tour. In July, one quarter of his west coast dates were met by protests. We encourage the communities which Irving is passing through to send a clear message that fascist organizing is not welcome in their town! Please join us in doing this in New York City.

Planning meeting:

Wednesday Nov 11, 7pm:

Contact us for details if you would like to attend:

[email protected]

Confront David Irving on Saturday, November 14, 5:30 pm:

Meet up outside ABC No Rio (156 Rivington Street, between Suffolk and Clinton Streets, Lower East Side)
F/J/M/Z to Delancey.

Flyer:

irving flyer

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David Irving’s Website Hacked

The following anonymous press release is being circulated among various ARA lists. Solidarity with those who fight fascists wherever they are: in the streets or on the internet!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 13, 2009

Anti-Fascist Hackers Destroy Holocaust Denier David Irving’s Website and Release
Private Emails, Attendee Lists

Hitler-loving Holocaust-denying David Irving’s speaking tour is being attacked on the streets and on the internet as he makes his way to speak on Saturday in New York City. We have released private email communications, phone numbers and addresses of Irving as well as destroy all files, backups, emails, and databases on his website www.irvingbooks.com and www.fpp.co.uk. We also released personal information on people who have attended the speaking tour, made book purchases, or online donations as a warning to those who would support people like David Irving.

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Callout to Confront INSF “White Pride World Wide” March in Chicago

On March 21st, 2010 the Illinois National Socialist Front is planning to march in Chicago for what they call “White Pride World Wide”. South Side Anti-Racist Action is making plans to confront the march to let them know that they are not welcome in our city.

confront NSF Chicago

March 21st is recognized as International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination because of the massacre of demonstrators demanding an end to apartheid in Sharpesville, South Africa in 1960. However in 2000, neo-nazi and white nationalist organizations came together to attempt to reclaim March 21st as “White Pride World Wide” day against “multi-racial supremacy”.

The Illinois National Socialist Front is a neo-nazi organization primarily based in Peoria and the suburbs of Chicago, some of which are former members of Bill White’s American National Socialist Workers Party. Over the past year they have organized a variety of events including nazi barbeque recruiting events, a speaking event celebrating Hitler’s birthday, a rally against the opening of Holocaust museum in Skokie, a Belleville protest of “black-on-white hate crimes”, and more. They have shown efforts in working with other hate groups such as the National Socialist Movement and are attempting to gather regional support for the White Pride march in Chicago by posting information to websites such as Stormfront and Vanguard News Network.

Besides the activity of neo-nazi hate groups, fascism is still alive in many forms across the US from attacks on immigrant communities to homophobic hate crimes. Even in Chicago, racist graffiti has been seen very recently “an indication that even in Obama’s America, racism is far from being over with. The INSF’s intention to march in Chicago shows that they are growing bolder and aren’t go away unless we take a stand.

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confront NSF Chicago

South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action is calling out for other groups inside and outside of Chicago to stand with us against fascism. Join us to confront the National Socialist Front’s march on March 21st!

Endorsers:
South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action
Gay Liberation Network
Four Star Anarchist Organization
News & Letters

Get in contact if you are interesting in endorsing and/or helping organize this action:

southsidechicagoara (at) hushmail.com
southsideara.wordpress.com
www.twitter.com/chicagoara

The INSF has not announced the location of the march yet – but check back at the above websites for additional information as the date approaches.

More information on the INSF:
www.illinoisnsf.com illinoisnsf (at) yahoo.com PO Box 9714 / Peoria, IL

The self-proclaimed Leader of the INSF is Philip Anderson former member of American National Socialist Workers Party and associate of Bill White. His phone 309-370-3766, his email is phildo88rancid (at) hotmail.com, and his address is 804 E Marietta Ave / Peoria Heights IL 61616-6316.

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ANNOUNCING THE 15TH ANNUAL ANTI-RACIST ACTION NETWORK CONFERENCE!

During the weekend of October 9th-12th, the Anti-Racist Action Network will be holding its 15th annual conference in Pittsburgh, PA. We areinviting all members of Anti-Racist Action as well as all anti-fascists who agree with our 4 Points of Unity (see the end).

The conference, taking place over 4 days, will include ARA’s annual plenary, caucuses and discussion on current issues facing
antifascists. Various workshops and several social events are also planned. Organizations will be tabling all weekend as well.

Please note that only Network-affiliated chapters will be allowed to attend the private sessions of the plenary. All registered attendees
may come to the public portions. If you are a part of a non-affiliated chapter or collective that wants to become affiliated with ARA-NET, please see the organizers as soon as you arrive. All friends of ARA are welcome and encouraged to participate in the rest of the weekend.

We are envisioning this conference as a gathering of all dedicated anti-fascists -whether in Anti-Racist Action or not – and would like to see this year’s conference include as many people and new ideas as possible. The ARA Network has had a very interesting year, with member collectives publishing multiple periodical publications, opening social centers, organizing demonstrations, and combatting local fascist groups. We hope that you will come and add to the momentum!

If you are new to anti-fascism, please come and learn from our experience (and help us open our eyes to new possibilities);

If you are a former member, please come and get back in touch with us;

If you are an unaffiliated chapter – for whatever reason – come to the conference, meet other antifascists and take the opportunity to learn
more about ARA-NET and what benefits there are to being a part of the Network.

Over the next few weeks, we will be confirming the details of the conference and will send out a registration form and more specific
details. For now, please mark the date on your calendar and plan to join us in Pittsburgh for our annual conference!

Hope to see YOU there!

In solidarity,
The Anti-Racist Action Conference Planners
[email protected]

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Rose City Antifa Expose Nazi Trash

On the night of Tuesday, July 7, members of Rose City Antifa posted 200 flyers along NW 21st and 23rd Avenues in Portland, exposing Julian Lee, a white supremacist who has been plastering that neighborhood—-amongst others-—with racist propaganda for months. Julian Lee lives in the St. Francis apartments at 526 NW 21st Avenue. We encourage neighbors and residents to discourage Lee from further propaganda sprees.

The text of Rose City Antifa’s flyer is below. The celibacy website maintained by Lee—-and mentioned in our flyer—-is at celibacy [dot] info. Footage of Lee shouting at the annual Portland Naked Bike Ride may be found at: youtube.com (login required to view)

Flyer text:

NAZI TRASH IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

[Photo caption: White supremacist Julian Lee currently lives in the St Francis Apartments, 526 NW 21st Avenue. Lee is responsible for the racist stickers that have appeared throughout the Nob Hill neighborhood, amongst other locations.]

Meet Julian Lee, your neighborhood white supremacist. Over the past few months, Lee has been busy plastering NW 21st and 23rd Avenues—-amongst other places-—with racist propaganda, often signed as “White Identity” or “White Identity Love Defense”. Some of the “White Identity” stickers provide an address for a website operated by Julian Lee that contains links to racist, anti-Semitic, and fascist organizations.

The NW 21st/23rd neighborhood has also frequently been hit with propaganda stickers from the National Alliance, a nationwide neo-Nazi organization. The National Alliance propaganda—-attacking “non-whites”, bisexuals and others—-has surfaced in other areas throughout the city, but it is concentrated in the area where Julian Lee lives, and is placed along the same routes as the “White Identity” stickers. Lee appears to distribute white supremacist materials several nights each week.

Julian Lee is also an anti-sex activist, responsible for a peculiar celibacy website. When the annual Portland Naked Bike Ride passed through his neighborhood, Lee, frothing at the mouth, repeatedly yelled “Get raped, degenerate scum!” at the participants. Soon afterwards, “Keep Portland decent and good” stickers appeared alongside neo-Nazi materials on Lee’s traditional routes. (We can only guess that calling for rape is “decent and good” to Julian Lee’s mind.)

We encourage all neighbors to make it clear that Julian Lee’s racist propaganda is unwelcome. Please contact Portland Anti-Racist Action if you have additional information on Lee or anyone who may be assisting his racist agitation.

RACIST GARBAGE? NO THANKS!

Rose City Antifa / Portland Anti-Racist Action
fight_them_back [at] riseup [dot] net
voicemail: 971.533.7832

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2009 ARA CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM AND 1ST UPDATE

IMPORTANT: If you are attending the conference and need housing and food, you MUST fill the registration form out. The registration fee this year is $5-10. We will be providing housing for everyone attending who needs it, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday.

¡ATENCIÓN! ATTENTION! We are capable of providing multilingual materials for Spanish and French speaking antifascists. If your chapter or crew would like us to make materials available in these languages let us know in your registration form.

The Greater Pittsburgh Anarchist Collective is hard at work planning this year’s ARA Conference. It is our hope that this year’s conference be welcoming to a wide-range of antifascists, radicals, and all those fighting for a classless free society. We wanted to make it a specific point that we want this conference to be attended by more than just chapters of the Anti-Racist Action Network. Our collective is always seeking to expand antifascist and antiauthoritarian struggle and we hope that this conference can be utilized to that end.

The conference will be held over 4 days in beautiful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We’ll be meeting just two weeks after the G20 descends on our city with its vileness and capitalist insanity. With any luck the momentum of resistance created during the G20 will carry over to our conference, further building and expanding this movement. Officially planned activities will include workshops, social events, meals, general discussions, caucuses, and the decision-making sessions for the ARA Network. Spontaneous workshops may also be held if space permits.

Keep an eye out on our website at www.antiracistaction.org for updates and more detailed information about the conference that is coming. If you are interested in hosting a workshop or helping with facilitation please send us an e-mail at [email protected].

We hope to see all of you there so we can share our ideas, visions, projects, and strategies. Now let’s get down to business.

CHECK-IN

Check-in is where you will receive our welcome packet (to include maps, schedules, places to eat, and other information) and be paired up with housing. The registration fee is payable here.

Check in will be held at the following times:

All check-in times are at the GPAC space at 5001 Penn Avenue Fl 1. Pittsburgh PA 15224

Thursday October 8th 7pm-12 Midnight Friday October 9th 7pm-12 Midnight Saturday October 10th 7:30am-8:30am

REGISTRATION FORM (you MUST fill this out and send it to [email protected] if you need housing and food!!)

Please fill this out and send to [email protected] as soon as you can so we can have an idea of housing and food needs. Waiting until the last minute might leave you house and food-less.

VOLUNTEERING

Would you like to volunteer?  __________

Is there a specific day you’d like to volunteer on? ___Fri ___Sat ___Sun ___Mon
What sort of volunteer work would you be interested in? ___
Facilitating a workshop ___  Food Preparation ___ Set up ___ Clean up

BASIC REGISTRATION

Tel # or E-mail ______________________________

 

ARA Chapter (If any) ______________________________ ____________________________ (A small number of events are for ARA Network members only for private decision making)

When will you be arriving? ______________________________ _____________________________ Will you need directions to the check in site via public transit? ______________________________ _____________________________

HOUSING

(If you don’t need housing, skip past this part)

How long will you need housing?
______________________________ ______________________

Do you have allergies? ______________________________ ______________________

Do you need a bed (for health reasons)? ______________________________ _______________________

Will you have a young one (or more) with you? ______________________________ _______________________

I am … (Check all that apply) ___ a smoker ___ a non-smoker ___ a vegan ___ a vegetarian ___ an omnivore

Anything else we need to consider? ______________________________ __________________________

TABLING

There is a limited amount of space for tabling

There is no fee for tabling – there will be no charge for the people working the tables, unless they plan to participate in the conference, in which case they will need to pay the full registration fee.

Please let us know if you are bringing your own table or need us to provide one.

Name of Tabling Group ______________________________ ___________________________
Number of tables needed: ___ 1/2 table ___ 1 table ___ 2 tables

**** PLEASE EMAIL THIS COMPLETED FORM TO [email protected] ****

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White supremacist held without bond in Tuesday’s attack at Fort Armistead Park

White supremacist held without bond in Tuesday’s attack at Fort Armistead Park

A white supremacist accused of beating a 76-year-old black fisherman goes by the nickname “Hitler” and has a tattoo of the Nazi leader on his stomach that also reads “He lives,” according to police and court records.

Court documents released Wednesday show that the victim, James Privott, suffered a fractured eye socket and lost two teeth in the South Baltimore attack, which suspect Calvin E. Lockner told police “wouldn’t have happened if he was a white man.”

Lockner, who faces 19 criminal charges including attempted first-degree murder, was ordered held without bond as new details about his criminal past emerged. The registered sex offender told police this week that he was a member of two hate groups, including the Aryan Brotherhood, and was arrested in May after his wife told police that he bit her face during an argument about black people.

In 2000, he was indicted in separate incidents with raping a 4-year-old girl and raping and attempting to kill a 39-year-old woman. He pleaded not criminally responsible by reason of insanity to the crimes.

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon spoke out against this week’s crime at a City Hall news conference Wednesday attended by civil rights, faith leaders and some City Council members.

“We all have to speak out and speak up and say this is not acceptable in our communities,” Dixon said. “We must stand together in opposing this kind of act.”

Gov. Martin O’Malley in a statement called the assault a “vicious, hateful and cowardly attack.”

In a brief telephone interview, a relative said Privott, a retired state employee, remained hospitalized and was doing “quite well.” Son-in-law Jack Foster said the family, which includes black and white members, has been shaken by the incident and did not want to stoke tensions by speaking out.

“These people have done something that has very much rocked the family,” Foster said. “But we don’t hold grudges, and we’re just sorry that it happened.”

Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said Privott, a resident of Windsor Mill in Baltimore County, was “targeted” by several men as he packed up his vehicle after fishing with his wife at Fort Armistead Park about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday. One of the men kicked him to the ground and started punching him in the face, using a racial slur and saying, “I’ll get you,” while another man struck him with a baseball bat.

Dixon said she’s been in touch with Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold about “partnering” with the county to provide more lighting and security at the city-owned Fort Armistead Park, which sits under the Key Bridge.

Privott’s attackers took his wallet and drove away in Privott’s Chevy Tahoe, which was equipped with an antitheft device that police used to track the vehicle.

“We started tracking the vehicle very, very quickly,” Bealefeld said.

Police found it in the 5100 block of Erdman Ave. Bealefeld said the men bailed out of the vehicle and that it crashed and overturned, but Lockner was tracked down with the help of a witness. Two other suspects were being sought, and Bealefeld said police have received anonymous tips about their identities.

Lockner was charged in 1999 after a 4-year-old girl who was living in the same house demonstrated with dolls how she had been sexually abused. She said the abuse by Lockner had occurred on four occasions, according to records.

He was arrested in 2000, as detectives were investigating separate allegations of rape. A woman told police she met Lockner on the street, who led her into a wooded area where he raped her and struck her with a flashlight. Detectives wrote in charging documents that Lockner gave a taped statement corroborating the woman’s story and saying he left her for dead.

The cases involving the woman and the girl were indicted jointly. Lockner pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sex offense and was sentenced to 20 years in prison with all but eight years suspended.

Margaret T. Burns, a spokeswoman for Baltimore State’s Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy, said the girl’s mother did not feel her daughter could go through with a trial, and a judge ordered that those charges be placed on the inactive docket.

In May, Lockner was charged with second-degree assault after his wife said he bit and punched her in the face after they got into an argument over “black people” who were “bothering her.” But those charges were dropped in July after the woman recanted.

Baltimore Sun reporters Annie Linskey and Tricia Bishop contributed to this article.

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New Yorkers Against David Irving claims victory against Holocaust revisionist David Irving.

Irving was scheduled to speak on November 14th at the Catholic Kolping Society on East 88th Street. Concerned citizens, including New Yorkers Against David Irving, made several calls to the venue, explaining who David Irving is and why he was hiding behind a fictitious name in order to reserve space at their facility. Further, they demanded that the event be canceled.

New Yorkers Against David Irving firmly believes that Holocaust revisionists and deniers and neo-Nazi sympathizers have no place in NYC – or anywhere else for that matter! We will always take action to ensure our city stays clean from the likes of David Irving and other fascist scum.

David Irving could still get a backup venue for his talk and we are on the lookout for that. We are planning on confronting Irving’s Manhattan event if that happens, and at this point are continuing with our original plans for Saturday. Stay tuned for possible last minute updates.

The NYC event was just one of many that is going on across the country, part of a national speaking tour. Other tour dates are listed on focal.org. We encourage others in these cities to take action and shut down David Irving’s tour. Be on the lookout for Irving in your city. We know that he has been passing himself off as a legitimate historian – booking events at bookstores, colleges and now church halls. At other times he books events under the rubric of having a book club meeting.

New Yorkers Against David Irving commends Kolping New York for making the right call and promptly canceling the event. Thanks are also in order to everyone who called and helped get this event shut down. With your help, we sent a strong message that fascists are not welcome in NYC.

Give David Irving a call and tell him we’ll miss him in Manhattan. You can reach him directly on his cell phone — 305.923.6779.

NO PASARAN!

Signed: New Yorkers Against David Irving [email protected]

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Running Up That Hill (and Out of This Town): NYC Humiliates David Irving

David Irving’s fall 2009 east coast tour should have simply been called diarrhea, because his shit’s not too solid. After being shut down in New Jersey, we New Yorkers really felt the pressure to give the holocaust revisionist and Hitler apologist an event to remember.

Thanks to the efforts of a few local community groups and an incredible turnout by concerned citizens, it’s fair to say David Irving will never forget November 14th, 2009. Just one day prior, all three of Irving’s website’s were hacked, providing us hours of late night entertainment in the form of leaked documents, e-mail addresses, and personal information about the human sewage drawn to him. You can review the hacked site here at your leisure. With his databases accessible now not only to Irving, but to the world, we presumed his security would be greatly heightened. That just goes to show what happens when you try to give an idiot too much credit.

Admittedly, we were a little late to the dance, but once we were alerted to the whereabouts of Irving’s talk, hilariously booked at the Times Square Doubletree Hotel as “The Real History Conference,” we activated our network of shadowy agents. A little reconnaissance goes a long way, and we quickly found the best route onto the sixth floor of the hotel. Once there, thirty pissed off anti-fascists rushed the door. Of course Irving and his protectors quickly closed and dead-bolted themselves inside, stranding both his personal assistant, Jaenelle Antas, as well as self-described “next Hitler” Alex Carmichael. For those not familiar with Carmichael, he is a New Jersey neo-Nazi leader, head of League of American Patriots. Only one night before, when he and two other of his “master race” were in the men’s room with a single anti-fascist, he called the cops instead of confronting the lone antifa. What a bastion of Aryan courage. From what we understand, Antas and Carmichael their food spicy, and relished the pepper spray they found in their mouths (do Nazi’s eyes have taste buds, because some of it apparently got in there as well).

An empty hallway makes for great acoustics, and our chanting crowd clearly rattled not only the doors and walls, but also the attendees inside. At the behest of the stranded Nazis, hotel security rushed in and tried to physically remove us from the area. Naturally, we protected ourselves and each other, finding our way down the stairs and out the fire exit onto Broadway. As we exited, chaos prevailed. There were tourists and cops and waiting comrades and hotel security and a lone bald neo-Nazi, all trying to make out what was going on in the middle of Times Square. This provided the perfect opportunity to make nearby pedestrians aware of the vile and pathetic meeting that was happening in the heart of NYC. Hotel security tried to get slick and point a few of us out to the cops, but this wasn’t our first trip to the rodeo. We have eyes in the backs of our heads, even if they aren’t directly connected. Those targeted made a quick escape and those who could made their way back inside to further disrupt Irving’s lecture.

After the second group of committed and militant anti-fascists made it clear that they were not leaving, repeatedly making it back upstairs, hotel management met with the NYPD in an attempt to find a way to safely get Irving out of the building after the event. Their eventual success came only after Irving suffered his third embarrassment in two days, having been roundly shaken and disrupted in both New Jersey and NYC, as well as having his websites hacked.

Later that night, the two NYPD sentries posted outside the Times Square Doubletree left, and our folks soon followed. We succeeded in our mission and will dog David Irving and every other holocaust denier and revisionist, Hitler apologist, and Nazi goon whenever they try to organize in New York City.

Irving’s woes are only building. Our friends in New Haven report that on Sunday night, Irving completely canceled his talk due to his perceived threat of an “anti-fascist riot.” Surely he just couldn’t face the prospects of another day of having “Real History” destroyed by Real Antifa.

Some Friendly NYC Antifa

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On The Prowl reboot

On The Prowl was a publication formerly distributed by the Anti-Racist Action chapter in Toronto. In tribute, we have used the name for this blog (and for an accompanying yet to be published print version).

On The Prowl was initiated to report on international anarchist news with a focus on anti-fascist and anti-racist organizing in the Mid-Atlantic states. We hope to serve as a center of information on organizing and action in our region against racism and for a just, liberatory world. If you are interested in getting involved in organizing for this kind of world in our region (especially in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, and Delaware) please get in touch with us! We would love to have you involved in the fight against racism in our region.

-On The Prowl News
ontheprowlnews.wordpress.com

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