November 5th: Help Shut Down Nazis from the NSM and TWP in Harrisburg, PA

  • October 30, 2016 3:38 am

from It’s Going Down

On Saturday, November 5th, the National Socialist Movement (NSM), one of the largest Neo-Nazi and white nationalist organizations in the US, along with Matthew Heimbach of the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), will attempt to hold a rally at the State Capitol of Pennsylvania, in the city of Harrisburg. We will begin assembling our forces at 12:30 PM on the intersection of Front & State Street along the waterfront (Susquehanna River) – marked as “Susquehanna Scenic Overlook” on Google Maps.

The NSM will be joined at the demonstration by Matthew Heimbach and the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), the same group that attempted to hold a rally in Sacramento and ended up stabbing close to 10 people before running away to their cars, dropping a gun in the process while holding others. On the Neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer, Heimbach talked on his podcast, The Daily Traditionalist about how this event will be the big “coming out” for the Nationalist Front, also known as the Aryan Nationalist Alliance, which so far has united many of the most disgusting and openly pro-Hitler groups such as the NSM, KKK groups, the TWP, and racist skinhead gangs such as the Aryan Terror Brigade. According to Heimbach, there will be a Nationalist Front press conference the day before. With this turn of events, Heimbach has only further cemented himself as an open Neo-Nazi and farther and farther from the suit and tie Nazis of the ‘Alternative Right.’

We also expect that the KKK, Keystone United (PA-based white supremacists, formerly known as the Keystone State Skinheads), and some other racist and fascist groups to make an appearance and rally in solidarity.

Central Pennsylvania Antifa is asking for your help in making sure that the people of Pennsylvania, a richly diverse population, know that someone is willing to fight to the defend of poor and working-class communities when the Nazis show their ugly faces.

Medics will be on site as will National Lawyers Guild (NLG) legal observers; the latter will be wearing green hats. We encourage attendees to dress uniformly from head to toe in all black, commonly known as ‘Black Bloc.’ This is not mandatory for participation, however this dress code increases security and safety for all those attending – our personal identities are not necessary to confront these bigots and we should not freely give information away to law enforcement.

We encourage attendees to bring signs, banners, flags, and noisemakers – let’s be loud, let’s be clear, Nazis are not welcome here!

If you have a ‘smartphone’ and want to be prepared for any possible police repression, the ACLU has a mobile app called https://www.aclupa.org/education/mobile-justice-pa/. It has Know Your Rights information and the ability to record and automatically send your recording to the state chapter of ACLU. There are expected to be 3 different police forces present and their plans for handling this event are unknown.

Street parking is not free, so check here for parking options, http://parkharrisburg.com/

For those who cannot make it but would like to contribute to our efforts are welcome to make a contribution to our GoFundMe Campaign. All raised funds will be used to acquire supplies for this event, medical and legal resources, and for future projects. See links below.

Follow our social media accounts for updates regarding this and future events! If you are on social media, especially in there area, please help promote the event. You can print out flyers, add and invite your friends online, and also share the event to increase the amount of people going. Let’s make this big!

Resources:

Facebook Page
Event Page
Promo Video For Sharing
Promo Flier
Twitter Profile
GoFundMe Campaign

Your Comrades in Central PA

Local Boneheads

  • October 25, 2016 5:53 pm

from Anarchadelphia

While the white supremacist scene has been fragmented in the past, it might be useful to familiarize yourself with some of these boneheads if you’re going to fight the NSM in Harrisburg on November 5th. The photo is from a meeting in Harrisburg between Trad Worker and KSS earlier this year.

Central PA AntiFa on the 5th of November NSM rally in Harrisburg

  • October 24, 2016 11:22 am

from The Final Straw Radio

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Link to November 5th demonstration here

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This week we spoke with members of Central PA Antifa about antifascist organizing in Pennsylvania, about some of the racial and socioeconomic aspects of that place, and many more topics but mainly about the National Socialist Movement counter protest that folks are calling for on November 5th in Harrisburg. We talk about the logistics of the event and what sorts of things to expect and what sorts of solidarity folks are asking for. To hear another interview with Central PA Antifa you can visit our comrades at itsgoingdown.org and follow the links to their podcast called the IGDcast. To learn more about Central PA Antifa you can get up with them on facebook, on which you can search Central PA Antifa, or follow them on Twitter @centralpaantifa. There is also a blog at: https://centralpaantifascist.wordpress.com/

Playlist is here: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/17929

Philadelphia: UPS Lockers in Vandalized in Solidarity with Prison Strike

  • October 19, 2016 8:35 pm

from It’s Going Down

In a gesture of solidarity with the ongoing prison strike, we vandalized some UPS lockers in Queen Village with paint early this morning. UPS uses slave labor from prisons. Long live the strike! For the proliferation of attack against prison society!

Fuck Prisons Graffiti in Center City

  • October 18, 2016 4:00 pm

from Instagram

Continued solidarity with the #prisonstrike at 21st and Walnut

Demand the Impossible! : A Radical Manifesto

  • October 17, 2016 6:09 pm

from Facebook

Join us for a book signing and discussion with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Bill Ayers to celebrate the release of Bill’s latest book, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto.

In an era defined by mass incarceration, endless war, economic crisis, catastrophic environmental destruction, and a political system offering more of the same, radical social transformation has never been more urgent. We must imagine a world beyond what this rotten system would have us believe is possible.

In critiquing the world around us, insurgent educator and activist Bill Ayers uncovers cracks in the system, raising our sights for radical change, and envisioning strategies for building a movement to create a more humane, balanced, and peaceful world.

[October 24 from 7pm to 9pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

  • October 12, 2016 6:00 pm

from Facebook

An exploration of the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society…

Book signing and discussion with Peter Frase, author of Four Futures: Life After Capitalism.

Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism and extermininsm might actually entail.

Could the current rise of the real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender’s Game? And sure, communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth—but there’s no guarantee that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of “likes,” wouldn’t rise to take their place. A whirlwind tour through science fiction, social theory and the new technologies are already shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail.

[October 19 from 7pm to 9pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]

Something’s Missing Here… A Leif Erikson Day Reportback

  • October 11, 2016 10:04 pm

From Philly Antifa

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The stage was set. A rainy morning broke through to a sunny brisk afternoon, but Boathouse Row along Kelly Drive was still nearly deserted. A few die-hard joggers and bikers raced by. Philly PD was there; they even brought two swat vans and a paddy wagon. You know we were there. Around 30 Anti-Fascists from Philly and the immediate surrounding area braved the weather and cops to let Keystone United, also known as the Keystone State “Skinheads,” know that they are not welcome in Philadelphia. We ate soup provided by Food Not Bombs – Affinity (thanks again), chatted, and waited.

For most of the nearly 10 years, it was a similar scene. But this time, there was something missing. Everyone there was attractive. No one was yelling. There was no idiotic collection of flags from European Countries waving in the wind. Slowly, it dawned on us: they weren’t coming.

IGDCAST: Building an Anti-Fascist Fighting Force in PA and Shutting Down the NSM

  • October 11, 2016 2:35 pm

from It’s Going Down

Download and Listen to the Podcast Here

On this episode of the IGDCAST, we talk with Central PA Antifa, a network of friends and crews across Pennsylvania that has begun to organize against a variety of fascist groups which have been operating in the area for several decades. This episode is also the second podcast on the subject of the white working-class and building up organizations, campaigns, and associations which not only create an anti-fascist and anti-racist pole within the white working-class, but also build bridges out to poor and working communities of color.

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Central PA Antifa in this episode talks about their formation, which was pushed by decades of fascist and Neo-Nazi activity which have gained a foothold in the area and even lead to one member (Steve Smith) of the local group, Keystone State Skinheads, now known as Keystone United, or simply KSS, to become an elected member of the local Republican establishment. We also spend a lot of time talking about guns, gun culture, ISIS, police killings, and various ways that people could build within both the within poor and working white communities and in communities of color.

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Neo-Nazi members of the Nationalist Socialist Movement (NSM) attempt to flee from a barrage of rocks.

We then discuss the upcoming mobilization against the National Socialist Movement (NSM), which is going to take place at the state capitol of Pennsylvania on November 5th in Harrisburg. Anti-fascists from across the East Coast and beyond are coming out to thrown down against the NSM and local organizers are mobilizing to have legal, medical, and tactical support ready and on the ground. In short, November 5th is shaping up to be an important mobilization for anarchists and anti-fascists, and the topics discussed in this podcast will hopefully inspire wide discussion and dialog leading up to the event.

Music: Ceschi and Cistem Failure
More info on November 5th mobilization here and here.

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Zero Thrill Show

  • October 9, 2016 2:10 pm

from Anarchadelphia

Have you heard of this fundraiser for children of deceased cops and firefighters called the “Hero Thrill Show?” It’s beautiful! A bunch of leather-daddy’s get dressed up in cop uniforms to do antiquated, homoerotic motorcycle tricks, mocking the outwardly hetero-normative, patriarchal, and (at times) down right homophobic police force. And calling these violent, sometimes murderous thugs “heroes” while claiming the community can trust them? It’s a nice touch. The group of men holding hands while straddling one or more bikes being called thrilling is so hilarious that I can’t believe any one would be so mistaken as to take it seriously.

Have they seen the neighborhood kids doing wheelies on dirt bikes? Sure, the kids have the advantage of illegality to make things more exciting, but their tricks are still be more fun to watch, otherwise.

And bringing the firefighters in on the mockery seems worthwhile enough, though I’m fairly neutral on the subject of “fire pigs,” as some call them, since they haven’t been putting out our fires (mostly because we haven’t really been setting any, unfortunately).

As the laughing grows tiresome, though, I’m reminded of the good cause of raising college money for these kids who may have had a 40% chance of witnessing, or even suffering, abuse in their household perpetrated by the parent who’s death we’re celebrating. Certainly they didn’t choose to be born to a cop, and the promoters don’t even inquire as to whether the child suffered at the hands of the officer, opposing the commonly accusatory retaliations against abuse survivors by the law.

So as to conclude this review, I must say it was well worth my time to watch these pigs (no offense to actual pigs) maneuver their cruisers across empty asphalt.

Wait, wait wait…you don’t mean to tell me this event is actually serious?

Sam Dolgoff and the U.S Anarchist Movement: 1920s-1980s

  • October 8, 2016 5:57 pm

from Facebook

A joint book talk by:
Anatole Dolgoff, author of Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff (AK Press, 2016)
and
Andrew Cornell, author of Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the 20th Century (University of California Press, 2016)

Sam Dolgoff, a house painter by trade, was at the center of American anarchism for seventy years. His political voyage began in the 1920s when he joined the Industrial Workers of the World. He rode the rails as an itinerant laborer, bedding down in hobo camps and mounting soapboxes in cities across the United States. Self-educated, he translated, edited, and wrote some of the most important books and journals of twentieth-century anti-authoritarian politics, including the most widely read collection of Mikhail Bakunin’s writings in English.

Yet the movement changed in important ways during Sam’s long tenure, as anarchists engaged with events and social forces such as the rise of the welfare state, atomic warfare, the black freedom struggle, and a succession of youth countercultures. Unruly Equality explains how anarchism evolved from the creed of poor immigrants militantly opposed to capitalism early in the twentieth century to one that today sees resurgent appeal among middle-class youth and foregrounds activism around ecology, feminism, and opposition to cultural alienation.

Bringing together first-hand recollections and archival research, Antaole Dolgoff and Andrew Cornell illuminate a crucial, but little known, chapter in the history of radical politics.

[October 15 from 7PM to 9PM at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]

Abolish Work! A Philosophical Exposition of Ergophobia

  • October 5, 2016 2:01 pm

from Facebook

“Abolish Work! A Philosophical Exposition of Ergophobia” is a collection of pieces that centers around the modern workplace and conceptions of “work” and how we can best understand and ultimately resist them.”

Slackers, sloths and idlers are all welcome to this event that will host a discussion with editor Nick Ford. We’ll discuss the anti-work movement, some of its prominent writings and moments as well as contemporary anti-work struggles. The discussion will also center around AbolishWork.com and the lead up to this book. Finally, the book itself and its contents will be discussed in some detail with a Q&A at the end.
[October 12 from 7PM to 10PM at Wooden Shoe 704 South St]

The Wobblies in Their Heyday by Eric Chester

  • October 4, 2016 1:26 pm

from Facebook

Book discussion and signing. Eric Chester is author of “The Wobblies in Their Heyday”(paperback edition just released by Levellers Press). This book was the subject of a symposium in ASR 64 argues that the federal government waged all-out war against the IWW because of the effectiveness of its organizing in strategic industries.

[October 11 from 7 to 9PM at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]

ACAB graffiti

  • October 3, 2016 11:31 pm

from Instagram


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All Out Against KSS – Leif Erikson Day 2016

  • October 2, 2016 3:43 pm

from Philly Antifa

When: Sunday, October 9th @ 11:00am
Where: Thorfin Karlsefeni Statue, Boathouse Row

It’s that time of the year again.

Every October, The Keystone State “Skinheads” attempt to hold a public rally along boathouse row in Fairmount Park. This rally is billed as a “Leif Erikson Day Celebration.” It is, in reality, the one time a year that KSS tries to hold a space in Philly, if only for an hour. This grants them some measure of legitimacy as “activists” and represents their last foothold of a street presence in Philadelphia. They have encountered opposition most of the past 10 years. Last year, in order to avoid Anti-Fascists, KSS held their event in the middle of the night after announcing they would be in the park at noon.

Antifa Philadelphia intends to be in Fairmount Park on October 9th, Leif Erikson Day. We will gather at the Thorfin Karlsfeni statue on Boathouse row and rally against Racism, Colonialism, and KSS organizing in our city and state. We are calling on all Anti-Racists and Anti-Fascists to join us in confronting KSS and showing them that they are (still) not welcome in Philadelphia.