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PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANTIFA NOTES // #33456847

— 10 tips for covering white supremacy and far-right extremists – By Denise-Marie Ordway July 22, 2019 In his testimony before a U.S. House committee last month, the assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, Michael C. McGarrity, referred to racially-motivated, violent extremist groups as “domestic terrorists.” He explained that violent white supremacists “have been […]

The Intruder (1962) Staring William Shatner

“The Intruder is a 1962 American film directed by Roger Corman, after a novel by Charles Beaumont, starring William Shatner. Also called Shame in US release, and The Stranger in the UK release. The story depicts the machinations of a racist named Adam Cramer (portrayed by Shatner), who arrives in the fictitious small southern town […]

JESSE J. HOLLAND // Hundreds of black deaths in 1919 are being remembered

It was branded “Red Summer” because of the bloodshed and amounted to some of the worst white-on-black violence in U.S. history. Beyond the lives and family fortunes lost, it had far-reaching repercussions, contributing to generations of black distrust of white authority. But it also galvanized blacks to defend themselves and their neighborhoods with fists and […]

“Life in the Native American oil protest camps” — Turtle Talk

From BBC, here. via “Life in the Native American oil protest camps” — Turtle Talk

ISRAELI SOLDIERS CELEBRATE ‘VICTORY’ OVER PALESTINE — Desertpeace

Yesterday I posted about the latest in illegal home demolitions in Palestine by Israeli soldiers …. Click HERE to see post Today I post the reactions of those soldiers as they celebrate their ‘victory’. SHAME ON THEM! via ISRAELI SOLDIERS CELEBRATE ‘VICTORY’ OVER PALESTINE — Desertpeace

PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANTIFA NOTES // #33456846

Connections exposed between far-right group and police in Portland, Oregon // By Kayla Costa 18 February 2019 A report from a local news publication reveals close connections between the far-right group Patriot Prayer and the police department in Portland, Oregon. The latest ties confirm the support provided to Patriot Prayer by the Portland Police Bureau […]

PETER JAMES HUDSON // The expansion of banks such as Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and racial lines.

This history of bankers and empire is also a Caribbean history. The Caribbean archipelago was ground zero for U.S. imperial banking. Wall Street’s first experiments in internationalism occurred in Cuba, Haiti, Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua, often with disastrous results—for those countries and colonies, and often for the imperial banks themselves. Yet where […]

Connections exposed between far-right group and police in Portland, Oregon

By Kayla Costa 18 February 2019 A report from a local news publication reveals close connections between the far-right group Patriot Prayer and the police department in Portland, Oregon. The latest ties confirm the support provided to Patriot Prayer by the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), which has been a regular feature of the provocations between […]

Trump Refuses To Attend The #NAACP Convention Because They Want To Ask Him Questions — News One

No shocker here. Trump is refusing to meet with the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights organization, simply because they want to ask him questions. He only wants to do a speech but they are asking for a Q&A format. SEE ALSO: ‘Young Black Conservatives’ Chant ‘Build That Wall’ At Deplorable Sunken Place Summit… via […]

More anti-nazis than nazis in Kassel, Germany — Dear Kitty. Some blog

This 6 November 2018 video from Yad Vashem in Israel says about itself: Lore Mayerfield Stern, born in Marburg, Germany, talks about the [1938] Kristallnacht pogrom in Kassel, and how she and her mother hid in the home of their German neighbors to escape the violence and vandalism. More about Kassel, today. This 20 July […] […]

PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANTIFA NOTES // #33456845

//// On Thursday, President Trump attempted to distance himself from the racist chant of “send her back” about Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a Trump campaign rally Wednesday in North Carolina. The chants rang across the rally in response to Trump’s own verbal attack against the congresswoman. He did nothing to intervene. On Wednesday, the […]

Black US lawmaker says white man told her to ‘go back where you came from’

Erica Thomas, a Democrat and Georgia state representative from Austell, said the man was irate that she was in an express line with too many items. Thomas said she was in a line for customers with 10 items or less because she cannot stand for long periods of time. “And this white man comes up […]

Mark Townsend // US president refers to message about Met police twitter account, calling London mayor ‘incompetent’

Referring to a message from Hopkins that the Met’s Twitter account had been targeted by hackers on Friday night, in which she said officers had “lost control of London streets” and “lost control of their Twitter account too”, Trump tweeted: “With the incompetent mayor of London, you will never have safe streets!” It is Trump’s […]

Ashley Ahn // Penn Law prof Amy Wax claims America is ‘better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites’

“The position [is] that our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites,” Wax said. Wax claimed that her statements were not racist because she opposes nonwhite immigrants for their culture rather than their biology, Vox reported. Wax positively cited Donald Trump’s description of non-European countries as “shithole countries,” according to Vox, […]

Trump Refuses To Attend The #NAACP Convention Because They Want To Ask Him Questions — News One

No shocker here. Trump is refusing to meet with the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights organization, simply because they want to ask him questions. He only wants to do a speech but they are asking for a Q&A format. SEE ALSO: ‘Young Black Conservatives’ Chant ‘Build That Wall’ At Deplorable Sunken Place Summit… via […]

Anti-Racist Historian: Attacks on Rep. Omar Rooted in Belief “America is for White People”

On Thursday, President Trump attempted to distance himself from the racist chant of “send her back” about Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a Trump campaign rally Wednesday in North Carolina. The chants rang across the rally in response to Trump’s own verbal attack against the congresswoman. He did nothing to intervene. On Wednesday, the House […]

Jason Köhne: White Women Are The ‘Finest Creatures On Planet Earth’ Because They ‘Give Birth To White Men’ — Angry White Men

https://videopress.com/embed/mGExUE68?hd=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=0&loop=0 It’s no surprise that white nationalists’ views on gender and sexuality are as regressive as their views on race. via Jason Köhne: White Women Are The ‘Finest Creatures On Planet Earth’ Because They ‘Give Birth To White Men’ — Angry White Men

PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANTIFA NOTES // #33456844

//// Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) said President Trump’s attacks on four minority female House members were “disgusting” and “despicable.” Bass, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, said she “thought it was terrible they even had to do that,” after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called a press conference to denounce Trump’s remarks. […]

Donald Trump’s racist anti-socialist witch-hunt — Dear Kitty. Some blog

This 15 July 2019 British Channel 4 TV video says about itself: Trump says his racist tweets are “not at all” racist Four outspoken Democratic politicians – all women of colour, all US citizens, all but one born in the United States, yet, according to President Trump, they should all go home and fix the […] […]

Refusal to condemn Trump’s racist tweets highlights where the problem lies in BRITISH politics — Vox Political

Right-wing, and so-called ‘centrist’, politicians in the UK have validated misogyny and racism – and fake claims of anti-Semitism – …Continue reading → via Refusal to condemn Trump’s racist tweets highlights where the problem lies in BRITISH politics — Vox Political

Backlash after trump’s racist tweets — Shechaim’s News of the Day

Remember; Democrats you heard it from me years ago! Backlash after trump’s racist tweets By Meg Wagner, Mike Hayes and Elise Hammond, CNN July 16, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-racist-tweet-immigration-july-2019/h_733eb0dea854b198e786f23ecd4d4b33 Republican Marco Rubio killed your health care program! If (When, because you will), lose your healthcare November 29, 2017 https://sachemspeaks.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/if-when-because-you-will-lose-your-healthcare/ Marco Rubio, A Trojan Horse For The GOP […]

African American Museum Founder Discovered Dead in Trunk of Car (UPDATED) // Alex Galbraith

Updated 7/16/19, 10:15 a.m. ET: Sadie Roberts-Joseph’s death has been ruled a homicide by officials, CBS News reports. According to an autopsy conducted by the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office, Roberts-Joseph’s preliminary cause of death was “traumatic asphyxia, including suffocation.” https://www.complex.com/life/2019/07/african-american-museum-founder-discovered-dead-trunk-car?utm_campaign=complexmag&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANTIFA NOTES // #33456843

The video was published on the AJ+ Twitter and Facebook pages on Friday evening local time, with a caption asking: “What is the truth of the Holocaust and how did the Zionist movement benefit from it?” It was posted in Arabic, but drew strong criticism after the US-based non-profit Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri) […]

Nationalist groups backed by police break up Biak massacre commemoration in Bali — West Papua Action Network

https://www.terasbalinews.com/unjuk-rasa-mahasiswa-papua-dibubarkan-paksa/ Teras Bali News – July 6, 2019 Denpasar — A commemoration of 21 years since the “Bloody Biak Tragedy” in West Papua by the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) in the Balinese provincial capital of Denpasar on Saturday July 6 has ended in chaos. The action was forcibly broken up by pecalang (Balinese traditional security […] […]

Italian neo-fascist weapons firearms cache discovered — Dear Kitty. Some blog

This 29 April 2018 video says about itself: Hundreds of neo-fascists travelled to former Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini‘s tomb in the Italian town of Predappio on Sunday, to mark the 73rd anniversary of Mussolini’s death. One of Mussolini’s grand-daughters, Edda Negri Mussolini, addressed the crowd. Mussolini ruled Italy from 1930 to 1943. He was […] […]

New Issue of Transmotion Journal: Native American Narratives in a Global Context — Turtle Talk

Here. Examples of articles and papers: A Dramatic Reading of Vizenor’s Bear Island at the University of Michigan Martin William Walsh Special Issue Review Essay: The Intelligentsia In Dissent: Palestine, Settler-Colonialism and Academic Unfreedom in the Work of Steven Salaita Omar Zahzah Review Essay: On Disenrollment Matthew L.M. Fletcher Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with […] […]

PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANTIFA NOTES // #33456842

Robinson recently filmed himself arguing with an individual who called him a Fascist. The well known far right hater thrust a microphone at the man and demanded he justify himself. (Video at bottom of post). The accuser was put on the spot and wasn’t given the opportunity to offer Robinson a full ex Source: Tommy […]

Rosie O’Donnell Lays Into Whoopi Goldberg: I Couldn’t Believe She Said This Wasn’t A Racist Country — News One

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F649198289&show_artwork=true&maxwidth=500&maxheight=750&dnt=1 Way back in 2015, comedian and actress Rosie O’Donnell returned to “The View” for her second run. She had perviously been on the show from 2006 to 2007, but this was her first-time on the chat fest with Whoopi Goldberg. They both clashed but one of their most famous interactions was when the two —… […]

CFP: Race, Biopolitics and the Genres of the Human (2019) — Foucault News

Call for papers: Race, Biopolitics and the Genres of the Human Northeast Modern Language Association 51st Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2020 Chair: Nazia Manzoor, University at Albany, SUNY (nmanzoor@albany.edu) What is politics’ relationship with the human? Contemporary politics’ reliance on unequal and uneven distribution of power—characterized by an intersectional relationship among capital, racism, migratory constraints, […] […]

‘Tommy Robinson’ appeals for political asylum in the US after contempt of court conviction — Vox Political

Anti-Islamist, anti-immigration campaigner Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka ‘Tommy Robinson’) has appealed to Donald Trump to let him flee the UK before …Continue reading → via ‘Tommy Robinson’ appeals for political asylum in the US after contempt of court conviction — Vox Political