South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action

The following statement is being circulated amongst Chicago-area punk scenes encouraging bands to boycott the venue  known as the “Gacy Hole”:

Open Letter to the “Gacy Hole”

For the past six months the Gacy Hole has been throwing shows in Pilsen and at nearly every show people have been harassed with acts of racism and sexism. When the people who live there were confronted, they made it clear they have no interest in keeping their space safe for women, LGBTQ folks or people of color. People at the Gacy Hole made all kinds of familiar liberal privileged arguments defending “freedom of expression” with no content or context for what this freedom is. At a time when the people of Pilsen are targets of gentrification, being displaced by white artists and hipsters who move in neighborhood and raise property values; the Gacy Hole is not only gentrifying but helping create unsafe spaces by not addressing oppressive behavior in their space.

In the most recent incident a belligerent crew of skinheads spent the night badgering women and making homophobic comments while brandishing white power tattoos, a “Skrewdriver” shirt, an S.S. pin and a Swastika patch. Below is a testimony from a witness:

“June 19th, 2010, there was a show at the gacy hole … non-racist skins showed up along with some older scum punks. What i mean by scum punks is: they were womanizing and and instigating fights. Both “groups” I mentioned were violently instigating people and saying sexually oppressing words towards females. numerous reports and complaints were exchanged to the attendance but few action was taken within attendance. this is what i am talking about. this apathetic attitude of “who cares, they didn’t say anything to me” needs to be changed…

here are some reports on what i heard: “i’d like to go wherever that drunk girl is going.” “you’re fucking hot” “how much?”

some actions included: over friendly help with intoxicated females. what i mean by this is they were acting as if they were helping an intoxicated female get around but they were really just “copping a feel”. talking to intoxicated girls that clearly weren’t interested and wouldn’t stop harassing… yes, i spoke up, along with the help of very few. i expected more help from but no one seemed to care. most didn’t seem bothered by all of this. there was a report of a skin head getting beaten towards the end of the show. you may say “no one deserves to get beaten.” try to talk in a civil manner to someone with this mentality and see what happens.”

The testimony above is not merely an isolated occurrence; it is the general atmosphere of every show thrown at the Gacy Hole. The all too familiar liberal take on “freedom of speech” creates a powder keg, creating an unsafe space that fosters sexual assault, queerbashing and other forms of oppressive violence. They are willing to stand against those confronting bigotry yet they refuse to ever question those actively engaging in chauvinistic, racist and sexist behavior. Their ambivalence shows that the the Gacy Hole is more concerned with making sure that Nazis, racists, homophobes, misogynists and other bigots are safe in expressing or acting on their fucked up politics than they are in making sure that people of color, women, LGBTQ people and any of the other people targeted by many Gacy Hole regulars feel safe even being in the venue.

Attempts at discussion have been made and never met by the tenants of the Gacy Hole. The show must not go on. Because of this We hereby DEMAND that the shows at the Gacy Hole end and that the people who live there move out of Pilsen. White, middle class, suburban bros have no place in Pilsen or the Chicago punk community, especially when they show their lack of principles by putting people in danger. Additionally we demand that all Chicago area punk bands and venues refuse to support the Gacy Hole in any way. Do not play at the Gacy Hole and do not play with any of the bands that play with “Sex Bunker” or the “Shitheads” whose members live at the Gacy Hole until they stop throwing shows and move out.

• We updated the “Chicago Nazis” poster (5/17) (PDF)
• We made a general South Side ARA Flyer (PDF)
• We’re posting some of the hate mail we have received

Also available are several old-school Anti-Racist Action zines published many years ago by Chicago ARA:

• ARA Research Bulletin #1 May 2001 (No Tears for the Nazis, No Support for the State, The Enemy of Our Enemy: the Southern Poverty Law Center “Badjackets” Anarchists, The Third Position, The New Face of Resistance: White Music for White Sheep, Hale and Brimstone, and News from the Front Lines)
• ARA Research Bulletin #2 Fall 2001 (Fifth Column Fascism: fascism within the anti-war movement, Reports from the “Homeland” Front, Know Your Enemy? Q and A about Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, and the CIA, RAWA: Anti-fascists in Afghanistan, Repression after 911)
• ARA Research Bulletin #3 Winter-Spring 2002 (Feedback and Discussion, Editorial: Notes on the Battle of York, National Alliance Mid-Atlantic Organizing Drive, Trends and Intentions of the National Alliance, Bill White: the Third Position in North America, Homeland Security: from Torture to Co-optation, Fascist Dirty Laundry, JDL Exposed: the Racist, Pro-imperialist Nature of the Jewish Defense League, Neo-nazis Return to Portland, Review of Nordic Front, Revolutionary Anti-Fascism: Some Strategic Questions, Interrogation of an Anti-Capitalist, The Anti-War Movement that Wasn’t, and News from the Front Lines)

Another zine with various essays analyzing anti-fascist movements in Italy, Germany, the UK, Toronto, and Chicago: Beating Fascism: Anarchist Anti-Fascism in Theory and Practice (PDF) (edited by Anna Key)

Finally, several ARA zines published by South Chicago Anarchist Black Cross in the late 90s:

• South Chicago ARA Alert July 10 1998 Number 1 (PDF)
• South Chicago ARA Alert Novermber 28 1998 Number 2 (PDF)
• Anti Racist Action Primer January 10 1999 (PDF)

To those with open eyes it seems that this is the building period for the fascists and hopefully the antifascists as well. Since Obamas’ election the Nazi movement has doubled in size and with that comes the necessity to examine the reality of the fascist potential. It is often said by many groups of the political spectrum that Nazis are a group that are to be laughed at and to some, only pose danger to the extent that they offend or that one may slip into a position of political power and have some influence. The latter being a scary thought, but only minimally in comparison to its contemporary “revolutionary” form. Revolutionary fascism as a term, as well as in its physical presence, is not something to be laughed at and more importantly is not something to be ignored.

Revolutionary fascism is a term that describes fascism in its most dangerous element. A form that no longer seeks to gain its power unilaterally or by lobbying but from the ground up. A grass roots movement that preys on the frustrations of the “potentially insurgent workers” (Don Hammerquist, Fascism and Anti-Fascism, Discussion Documents for a militant movement, p.16). In what is called the third position Nazi groups abandon their traditional top down, Hitler style approach and appropriate stances typically voiced by the left. Stances such as anti-war, anti-globalization, and specifically anti-capitalism, are now being supported by revolutionary fascists. To some this may sound like a good thing, a progression or a platform to change minds, however, these positions have a very different interest and intention unique to those on the left. Their intention is to seek outside the reformist right in hopes to attract a new and larger crowd, specifically of the working class, the youth, and those aligning or sympathizing with ideals traditionally valued by the left. Their incentive however, is preservation of the white race, white rights and superiority. With that being said there are two important realities that must be understood in order to debunk this political appropriation. The first is, that these stances are only temporary and would change the second the interests of whites were at stake. Lets take Anti-globalization For example, if Nike’s outsourcing to china didn’t take jobs away from any white people than the fact that Chinese families are working 60 hour weeks in a hot factory for next to nothing wouldn’t be a problem. The second is, if these efforts to skew the lines that differentiate freedom from oppression are successful, then the threat of fascism maximizes greatly as does the need for anti fascism.

Once we realize that the threat Fascism is real, we must then learn to critique some typical left notions on what to do and what not to do. The first being ignoring them; the argument has been made that the fascists pose no real threat and only seek attention, thus ignoring them will make them go away. The reality is that ignoring them will only allow them to organize more effectively and more rapidly and may minimize the radical left’s revolutionary potential by failing to visibly create physical and theoretical opposition, because not only will the un-politicized masses then be easier led to believe the lies but antifascist work in it’s self can be applied to the larger social and political dissent. The second is to respect their “freedom of speech”. This is the idea that “Everyone has the right to say what they believe” no matter what their rhetoric may be. This concept has been voiced time and time again by liberals as well as the fascists themselves, however, Freedom of speech is only to be taken serious in relation to the fascists and the state. Every day people must recognize the importance of eliminating a movement that seeks the genocide of people of color, Queer folk, Jewish people and the physically and mentally disabled. It should go without saying that the repression of that ideology is far more important than the liberal notions of free speech. The last, yet no less destructive notion, on what to do, is to outlaw the fascists, making being involved in their organizations punishable. This tactic has two very important reasons to be dismissed; One is, that outlawing them will actually increase their revolutionary potential, even simply by advancing their urgency or making their cause more sympathized with. The other is that it will only be so long before that government repression is further applied to us. We have already felt the blow of this in recent times, where the so called need to prevent terrorism on U.S. soil by foreign “enemies” has in the end been used against radical left movements and organizations as harmless as food not bombs.

Militant anti-fascism has proved many times over to be concrete in its strategy. Some of its tactics may be debated under the concept of morality but never in terms of success. When we say militant anti fascism we speak of the ones who are not only willing, but understanding the need, to employ direct action against the fascists. Not only physically but mentally and technologically. From street battles to group infiltration radical antifascists seek to intimidate, confuse, misinform, expose and create paranoia within the ranks of the Fascists. We are also smart enough to keep as far from the state as possible since a great deal of this work is done not within the confines of the law. Although these tactics get the job done, and in both theory and practice they are sound, militant anti-fascisms’ more often than not physical and reactionary state causes some important obstacles to be overcome. First, it can be easy to attract and create a chauvinistic presence that is polarizing and oppressive to many groups of people and may also allow itself to overlook less risky yet more, situationally, successful strategies. Second, in regards to being largely reactionary, it sometimes creates a lack of pro-activity and depending on how active the fascists are, our momentum can be slowed down. We must create a more broad range of action than purely following Nazis and battling on the turf they decide. Lastly, the fact that we put so much weight in confronting Nazis carries the ability to make one more easily overlook deeper and less obvious facets of racism such as gentrification, white dominance and privilege that occur and exist in not only mainstream society but in the Activist community as well. For the latter it is important to realize that this work is currently more anti fascist rather than anti racist. Although racism remains a predominant factor in why we resist our enemy, realizing this can allow us to better understand that the spectrum of anti racist work is far broader and often less visible.

Fascism is a realistic threat and must be challenged on all levels. We who understand this and struggle against fascism must critique its theory, its action, ourselves and, unlike the Nazis, be honest in our mistakes if we actually intend to win. Fascism plans to grow and so should we.

• Read a photo essay reportback by Gay Liberation Network: “Chicago Tea Party Rally Draws Rightwing Kooks -– and Counter-Protesters”
• Picture of Soren Renner(the known “white nationalist” who lives in Rogers Park) attending the April 15 Chicago Tea Party before being chased off by anti-racists. See a video of Soren speaking at last year’s Hitler Birthday Celebration organized by the INSF.
• A new SPLC report “Patriot Groups, Militias Surge in Number in Past Year” identifies 35 leaders of the ‘raging right’

As the crisis of capitalism intensifies and more and more people are not able to meet basic human needs such as health care or housing, people are looking for solutions outside the established political parties and politicians. There is a danger that right-wing fascists will attempt to take advantage of people’s disenchantment with the political process and try to push people farther to the right into racist hate, scapegoating immigrants and people of color for the crisis that the rich ruling classes themselves created.

The “Tea Party” movement was engineered by right-wing strategists and pundits at Fox and other “news” corporations and has managed to stir people into a flag-waving frenzy of wingnuts including religious ultra-conservatives, Ron Paul supporters, anti-choicers, greedy free-market capitalists, nazis, libertarians, Alex Jones conspiracy nuts, and anti-immigrant Minutemen vigilante types. While it is possible that many people within the Tea Party are well meaning and just plain ignorant, there is a explicitly racist and homophobic element that must be confronted. Being an overwhelmingly white populist movement It is no surprise that nazis and white supremacists have attended and even organized Tea Party events around the country. Even here in Chicago nazis Paul Alfich(Volksfront, Oak Lawn), Renae Rachelle DePerio(Portage, IN) and Melissa Jordan(Stormfront Meetup, north side) attended last year’s April 15 Tea Party.

Here are some articles that document racism in the Tea Party movement:

• High Noon is Too Late for Tea: Seeking Ways to Engage and Oppose the Tea Party Movement
• “Of Tea-Parties and Patriots: Liberty for Who?” by Dave Strano
• Tea Baggers Shagged By Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, and Neo-McVeighs
• Putting the Sheets On: the Tea Party Crew Shows it’s Colors
• White Supremacy is what this country Is built upon: Worry less about neo-fascism and more about good, old US traditions
• Free Movement, Reaction and the Fascist State: Critical Questions for the Patriot Movement

On April 15 the Tea Party is demonstrating at Daley Plaza and Chicago-area organizations are planning counter-protests:

Protest The Tea Party Bigots on April 15. This is OUR City — not Glenn Beck’s or Sarah Palin’s.

On April 15, tea party activists will rally at the Daley Plaza. Incited by Fox News goon Glenn Beck and failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, these fake grassroots activists are useful tools for corporate America’s political agenda – including opposition to public funding of any kind for human needs, from health care to education.

While claiming to be for “small” government and limited spending, they cheer on U.S. war spending at the current rate of $2 billion dollars a day – almost 60% of the federal budget. They support the Obama administration’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. They have no problem with spending even more to expand war into Somalia and Yemen, threaten war against Iran, or interfere in Latin American countries such as Honduras and Venezuela.

Bigotry saturates tea party protests. In March, tea partiers called Georgia Rep. John Lewis a “n****r. Lewis, a civil rights movement veteran viciously beaten by a white mob in 1961, was outside the  U.S. Capitol building as protesters began chanting “Kill the bill, kill the bill” at him. When Lewis told them “I’m for the bill,” people chanted, “Kill the bill, n****r.” “It was a chorus,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), who heard the chants. “In a way, I feel sorry for those people who are doing this nasty stuff — they’re being whipped up.” Another protester spat on Cleaver, who is also Black.

Tea partiers have called gay Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) “f****t” and taunted him with “lisping” chants. They have systematically hazed sick and disabled people trying to testify at healthcare meetings, and their anti-immigrant and anti-Latino signs cross the line into open racism. Sarah Palin herself has referred to indigenous people as “Arctic Arabs,” and said “So Sambo beat the bitch” when Barak Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Party presidential primary.

Chicago is a city of African-Americans, immigrant workers and union members. Large and politically active Mexican, Puerto Rican, Arab, Muslim and LGBT communities make their homes here. We have a long tradition of fighting for progressive political change — from the Underground Railroad and the Haymarket Martyrs to massive marches for immigrant rights and undocumented people. Let’s stand together on April 15 against these right-wing extremists.

The M20 coalition calls on all progressive-minded people and organizations to join us to protest the tea party bigots on tax day. Don’t let the bigots take over our city.

11:45 AM, April 15 Daley Plaza | corner of Dearborn and Washington
For info or to endorse the counter-protest, please email CCAWR@aol.com.

South Side ARA encourages people to participate in the following actions:

• March 10th: March for Immigrant Rights: National Coming Out of the Shadows Day

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:00pm – 6:00pm  From Union Park ( Ashland & Lake ) to Federal Plaza ( Dearborn & Jackson)   (See Flyer and Facebook)

Chicago will come out of the shadows for a mass mobilization on March 10th, 2010

The Immigrant Youth Justice League is working with community organizations for a mass youth-led immigrant rights mobilization in Chicago, and national coordinated actions by youth and students starting on March 10th, 2010 in support for a path towards legalization.

IYJL members have been “coming out” or openly identifying as undocumented immigrants, and speaking about our stories, as a strategy to get the issue of immigration in people’s minds, and on the national agenda. In collaboration with the national youth-led network United We Dream, students and youth from around the country will be organizing “coming out of the shadows” actions between March 10th and March 21st, starting right here in Chicago.

We live everyday in fear and we are tired of it. We want to be able to talk about our lives and our stories without fearing persecution or deportation. We are not free to travel, go to school, work, live, but we refuse to be helpless.

In Chicago on March 10th , 2010 youth are calling for a community mobilization from Union Park to Federal Plaza, ending with a mass coming out direct action demonstration by undocumented youth. This “coming out of the shadows” is meant as a call for leadership from Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), who has been supportive of immigrant youth, but has not taken action to pass immigration reform this year. IYJL has also extended an invitation for a place at the table to the Senator, as well as President Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, so that they can hear the proposals for immigration reform from the people that are affected the most.

“I’m going to the march because I’m tired of being oppressed. I’m just like everybody else, with dreams and goals. I’m marching because I am fighting for my rights.”

• March 18, 2010: Chicago Actions to End the Wars and Occupations Now!

ENDLESS WAR: Seven years ago, the US invaded Iraq — a war that continues with no end in sight. In December, President Obama began to escalate the war in Afghanistan — when only 100 Al Qaeda members remain in that country. Scheduled Iraq troop withdrawals still leave thousands of contractors and mercenaries behind as occupiers. In the face of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the US continues to finance Israel’s war on Palestine.

Now, the Obama administration has introduced a budget that includes the largest amount for “defense” spending ever — while freezing domestic spending for human needs. There is no health care bill, no action on climate change. All Washington can agree on is to feed our tax money to big banks and an endless war.

Politicians’ excuses for these failures have ranged from blaming immigrants and other working people to scaring us with ‘terrorist’ threats. These same politicians will not end the violence until we force them to. With rampant job losses and cutbacks in social services, it’s time now more than ever to oppose costly wars that rob precious public resources from housing, healthcare, education, and a host of other public needs.

Join us — and thousands throughout this nation to mark the grim anniversary of seven years in Iraq.

End the Wars & Occupations Now! Fund People’s Needs, Not Corporate Greed

March 18: 5:30 PM, short rally at Federal Plaza (corner of Adams & Dearborn Streets), followed by permitted march on Michigan Avenue. And join us in mobilizing for a united march on Washington, DC on Saturday, March 20th. Buses available from Chicago.

Props to the fierce resistance against the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver and the massive fascist march in Dresden. With this and more in mind, there is the need to tone our analysis as we gear up to confront the upcoming “White Pride” march. Here’s what’s been on our reading lists:

Challenging White Supremacy

• “Beyond Identity Politics” published in Turning The Tide
• Whose ally? Thinking critically about anti-oppression ally organizing
• The White Anti-Racist is an Oxymoron: An Open Letter to “White Anti-Racists” By Kil Ja Kim
• “Racism without Racists” by Bonilla-Silva
• “The Uses of Anger” by Audre Lorde
• “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack; on White Privilege” by Peggy Machintosh
• “Eating the other: Desire and Resistance” by Bell Hooks
• Gentrification before Gentrification? The Plight of Pilsen in Chicago
• Principles of Environmental Justice: Working Together and Principles of Alliance with Green Groups

Fighting Rape Culture

• “Support” zine
• On The Road To Healing: Men Against Sexism
• Social Detox zine
• “For the Guys” and Are you a manarchist? Questionnaire
• Dealing With Our Shit: Six Years of Men’s Group and Accountability Work (Twin Cities)
• Men Unlearning Rape

Anti-Fascist Strategies

• The Anti-Mass: Methods of Organizing for Collectives
• Free Movement, Reaction and the Fascist State: Critical Questions for the Patriot Movement
• How Fast It All Blows Up: Cincinnati’s Black rebellion exposes U.S. racial injustice and Black People Have a Right to Rebel by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
• Anarchism, Violence, and Brandon Darby’s Politics of Moral Certitude
• An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle by Sundiata Acoli
• Notes about Bill White, the NSM and ANSWP (1, 2, 3)
• Turning The Tide and ARA Research Bulletin(print only)

Neo-nazi band “Evil Incarnate” tried to play again last Saturday but thanks to the efforts of the Gay Liberation Network and ARA they were kicked off the show once again. Read this article published by the Windy City Media Group:

CHICAGO — For the second time in three months the neo-Nazi heavy metal band “Evil Incarnate” was canceled after protests initiated by the Gay Liberation Network ( GLN ) and its allies in South Side Anti-Racist Action (ARA).

The band was to have performed tonight, Saturday, February 6th at “Memories Bar,” 4358 N. Cicero, Chicago, until the bar’s management received a flood of protest phone calls and pulled the plug on the show. Last December another Chicago performance by the Chicago-based band was also canceled after community protests initiated by GLN and ARA.

Evil Incarnate explicitly calls for the murder of African Americans and gays in the lyrics of its songs and employs fascist imagery.

Here is a sample of the lyrics from the song, “Killer of Faggots,” which was recently released on the “Smashing Rainbows” label:

N—er lovers and faggots
Bullets in your head
N—er lovers and faggots
Now your dead

Luftwaffa nazi arial assault
Pounding from air never to halt
Flak 88′s and panzer divisions
Bombing the faggots into oblivion

( repeat )  Bombing the n—ers into oblivion

GLN wants to note that once again, community activism has won an important victory over the forces of hate and violence. We wish thank all who called Memories Bar and explained to them why they should cancel the show. Finally, we want to thank Memories Bar for not helping promote hate and violence.

The midwest Volksfront chapter is having a private gathering in Chicago on February 6th for “white racialists of good character”. We are releasing details of who will be attending the meeting and where they will be staying. Philip Anderson and others from the INSF are also attending this event most likely to try to recruit VF to participate in his upcoming “white pride world wide” march. Folks are encouraged to call the Budget Lodge and Key Motel (numbers listed below) and demand to know why they are hosting a racist hate group. Also feel free to call up the racist scum who are attending the event at their numbers listed below.

Volksfront is an international neo-Nazi skinhead organization that has existed since 1994. They call themselves “The Voice of the White Working Class” and use phrases like “Race Over All” and “One Front, One Family”. In the US, they are primarily based on the west coast particularily in Oregon and Washington and are attempting to purchase land to set up autonomous white-only space called the “Northwest Territorial Imperative”. Additionally, the midwest Volksfront chapter owns land in or near Fredericktown, Missouri where they held a 2007 VF gathering of white power bands for “brotherhood, solidarity and family”. More information about Volksfront here, here, and from their website here.

Paul T. Alfich, the primary contact for the midwest chapter of Volksfront and the organizer of the Feb 6th gathering, lives in Oak Lawn just outside of Chicago and sells white power records and t-shirts while collecting VF dues. Besides looking over pictures of him attending a recent international Volksfront gathering in Spain, we were also fascinated to find that he had campaigned for Ron Paul and attended several Chicago “Tea Party” events and was even invited back to help organize future events! Download the flyer for Paul.

Paul’s attempt to ensure any sort of privacy or security for the racist scum attending his secret gathering has failed miserably. He will have a lot of explaining to do to prospective members why he violated and betrayed everybody’s personal information. But this is what you get when you join a racist national socialist organization. Hate has consequences!

From our little birdies: “Midwest Volksfront Social. Hello everybody, the motels recommended for the social are listed below, we ask everybody to meet at the Budget Lodge motel at 630 for final directions to the social. If you can not be there at 630 call the event phone number @ 219 510 7915 for directions. The event phone number will not be turned on until friday night. Food will be served at 730. If there are any other questions feel free to email me back, hope to see everybody there!

Budget Lodge 11840 S. Cicero Ave. Alsip, IL 60803 1-708-597-3214

Key Motel 11910 S. Cicero Alsip, IL 60803 1-708-388-6151″

Main Midwest Volksfront Coordinator:

Paul T. Alfich
Oak Lawn, IL 60453 near 111th and Cicero
From Mt. Greenwood
Cellphone: 1-773-612-4849
PO Box 557884 / Chicago, IL 60655
Birthdate: October 29 1981
Email: vfchicago28@yahoo.com
Stormfront: “PrideOfANation”
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Alfich/1809973167
Pictures: http://southsideara.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/paul_alfich.jpg

People attending the Volksfront gathering:

Jason Lenz Phone: (219) 916-3830 Location: Portage, Northwest Indiana Emails: slick.dickster@yahoo.com or slick.dickster@live.com Pic: http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4968/jasonlenz.jpg http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Lenz/1220193493 http://skinheads.clanteam.com/skinhead_stormtroopers.htm

Keith Mccann “VF Keith” Email: kandmpaintingllc@yahoo.com Phone: 636 466 1216 Location: St. Louis Area

William Cerney, 27 Phone phone: 847-344-1837 Profile: http://newsaxon.org/aryanblood1488/ Location: Elk Grove Village or Desplaines IL Picture: http://newsaxon.org/file/pic/gallery/73658_view.jpg Email: billeternal@yahoo.com

Renae “freyjasdottir” Northwest Indiana / Chicago folkish_lady@live.com or renae_rachelle@yahoo.com

Lindsey Vinsonhaler Jeffrey Vinsonhaler Email: sinwithagrin226@gmail.com Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/bishopjoelsmom Location: Omaha, Nebraska

Justin Mccauley Email: hellbilly24@yahoo.com

Rob Mohrendolin(moore) “WarWolf88″ Phone: 630-290-4572 Location: Lombard IL Email: detirementgod717@aol.com

Ed Lazwell “Big Ed” Email: laceeds@yahoo.com Southern Illinois

Steve Verrx Email: zzz@nz11.com “FriendofRPO” on Stormfront

Damian Wiertek damianwiertek@gmail.com Chicago area

John Quinn quinnj@tcc.coop Phone: 715-797-3125

Donna Patterson Email: pdonna68@yahoo.com

Patrick Logan loganpatrick18@yahoo.com 40 minutes north of Chicago

Michael Saults michaelsaults@yahoo.com

Rob (“Ufilas”) Phone: (574) 533-4389 ask for Rob Email: bandaidmafia@gmail.com http://www.youtube.com/user/bandaidmafia Location: Goshen Indiana / “upstate Indiana near the Michigan border” http://southsideara.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/rob-bandaidmafia.jpg

Eric S. Norling (kinsmen88) cellphone: 815-519-3742 kinsmen88@yahoo.com http://www.youtube.com/user/bandaidmafia http://southsideara.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/eric_s_norling.jpg

UPDATE: Download the flyer: (English JPG, Spanish JPG, or Quarter-page Printable PDF) and also call the hotline at 773-980-6013 for day-of updates about the action.

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.

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.

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
Bash Back
North Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action
Genderjust
Progressive Labor Party
sort sol collective

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

southsidechicagoara@hushmail.com
http://southsideara.wordpress.com
http://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. You could also call our update hotline at 773-980-6013

More information on the INSF:
http://www.illinoisnsf.com illinoisnsf@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@hotmail.com, and his address is 804 E Marietta Ave / Peoria Heights IL 61616-6316.

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Este es un llamado para confrontar al INSF “frente nacional socialista de illinois” y su manifestación “orgullo blanco en todo el mundo” planeada para el 21 de marzo en chicago, el grupo de Acción-antiracista del sur de chicago esta planeando confrontar a esta marcha para dejarles saber que no son bienvenidos a nuestra ciudad.

El 21 de marzo es considerado como el día internacional de la Eliminacion de la Discriminación Racial debido a la massacre de manifestantes demandando el fin del apartheid en sharpesville, en sur Africa en 1960; sin embargo en el 2000,grupos blancos nacionalistas y neo-nazis se unieron en un intento de reclamar la marcha del 21 de marzo como el “día del orgullo blanco”.

El frente nacional socialista de Illinois es una organizacion neo-nazi primordialmente ubicada en Peoria y los suburbios de Chicago, algunos son ex-miembros del grupo Partido obrero socialista nacional americano de bill Whites, durante el ano pasado organizaron una variedad de eventos y comidas para reclutar nazis, celebraron con platicas el cumpleaños de Hitler, hicieron una protesta encontra de la apertrua del museo del holocausto en skokie, y también una en Belleville de crímenes de “odio de negros contra blancos” y muchas cosas mas, ellos han hecho esfuerzos por trabajar con otros grupos de odio como el movimiento nacional socialista y están intentando juntar apollo regional para la marcha orgullo blanco en chicago por medio de información puesta en paginas de internet, como stormfront y la red de noticias vanguardia.

Aparte de la actividad de grupos neo-nazis, el fascismo todavia esta vivo en muchas formas en todo estados unidos, desde ataques a comunidades inmigrantes, a crímenes de homofobia, de hecho recientemente en chicago se ha visto graffiti racista, una indicación de que ni en la america de obama, el fascismo esta muy lejos de que se acabe, la intención del INSF de marchar en chicago demuestra que están creciendo y no se iran alamenos que nos levantemos contra ellos.

El grupo Acción Anti-racista del sur de chicago esta haciendo un llamado a otros grupos dentro y fuera de Chicago para unirnos encontra del fascismo, unite a nosotros para confrontar al marcha del frente nacional socialista en marazo 21.

Si estas interesad@ en ayudar a organizar o promover esta acción ponte en contacto:

southsidechicagoara@hushmail.com

http://southsideara.wordpress.com

http://www.twitter.com/chicagoara

El grupo INSF no dicho la locación de la marcha todavía, pero
espera información adicional mientras se hacerca la fecha

Para mas información acerca del grupo INSF:

http://www.illinoisnsf.com illinoisnsf@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@hotmail.com, and his address is 804 E Marietta Ave /
Peoria Heights IL 61616-6316.

South Side ARA has put together a poster with pictures and info from Chicago-area Nazis. This list was compiled and published on 1/17/2010 and is just a small sample from our intelligence files. If you were spared from this edition, it does not mean we don’t know everything about you.

An excerpt from an article published at the Chicago Chapter of the Imaginary Party documenting recent Chicago antifa activity:

… Following the imprisonment of Bill White and the disbanding of the American National Socialist Workers Party (ANSWP), Illinois remained relatively quiet after the ANSWP’s last event, a protest against an Elie Wiesel speech at St. Xavier University. But during the current crisis, neo-Nazi elements have been gaining in strength. Some former ANSWP members regrouped to form the Illinois National Socialist Front (NSF). The Illinois NSF has been having monthly barbeques throughout Illinois, drawing as many as thirty attendees to each barbeque. They held a rally with the NSM and Klan members at the end of September outside of St. Louis, one in Skokie in April, and a couple of flyering events on St. Patrick’s Day and Easter. In Chicago, local Nazi punk gangs have been attacking people of color, immigrants, and queers. Even though they remain quite powerless within the current situation, they are organizing always with the intention of becoming a constituting force that posits law.

In September of 2008, a counter-demo was called against the ANSWP’s demo against Elie Wiesel. A shouting match ensued, there were a lot more anti-fascists then fascists, and in the end, the Nazi’s van had its tires popped.[2] All in all, liberals and the police neutralized any revolutionary Anti-fascist efforts; free speech won the day, and a message of anti-hate prevailed. Perhaps the Nazis were influenced by the vandalizing action of some person(s), but more likely left with a sense that they can safely demonstrate in Chicago. Over the summer, the NSF attempted a demo at the International Socialist Organization’s national socialist gathering, Socialism 2009. With only a few members present, and a crew of hooligans ready to meet them, the Nazis simply went home.[3] In November, some anti-fascists convinced Phillip Anderson, leader of the NSF and another member to come visit Chicago on the grounds that they were interested in starting a Chicago NSF Unit. Naturally, the NSF members got the shit beat out of them, and even better, because they were seen pulling a knife, they got arrested and everyone else got away. And finally, also in November, David Irving, a Holocaust denier and Nazi sympathizer, attempted to arrange a speaking event in the Northwest Suburbs, and fell victim to hooliganism as he so frequently has throughout his speaking tour. Having had so many previous encounters, he had a cop (who was quite literally a Nazi) present,[4] but was unable to stop the disruption. Almost a dozen people burst into the restaurant; masked and clad in black, they began to throw chairs, scream, ruin his merchandise, and even scuffle with attendees before exiting.[5] Unfortunately, in the anti-fascists efforts to pick up a comrade left behind, a car circling the area was stopped by police, and the passengers were taken to jail and given disorderly conduct charges.

These efforts are to be applauded to the extent that the content of anti-fascism was not an appeal to an alternative of more democratic values or a more capitalist capitalism, but that the gestures alone revealed everything necessary; a commitment to stomping out fascism at any costs, and more importantly, no desire to appeal to its democratic sister system of management. But where to go from here? A storm lurks in the distance. On March 21st of next year, the NSF is planning a “White Pride World Wide March” in Chicago.[6] This event is sure to draw Nazis from across the Midwest and perhaps even the nation, and will undoubtedly become a giant spectacle within a stream of spectacles. Perhaps the recent “Inglorious Bastards Bloc” in Phoenix provides an example of how to proceed.[7] Any events that involve anarchists publicly packing heat, let alone when Nazis are around, perks our interest. But more importantly (to the extent it influences conditions materially), the discourse surrounding the demo was framed in terms of “Anarchists/Fascists”, ”Proletariat/Capital”, and “Racism/Anti-racism”. It was many things, but it was never “Democracy/Fascism”.  When the confrontation here ensues, the police could simply prove too much of an obstacle for us – unless we are incredibly diligent in recruiting comrades locally and from around the country. By framing the discourse in the same manner as Phoenix, we can immensely aid our local efforts by not only striking against Fascism, but weakening and defaming the counter-revolutionary monolith that is Chicago’s established left. A direct assault against their ignominy will take the form of exposing the poverty of their discourse. Their narcissistic rage will form smiles across our lips, if we can manage it.

More critically, there have been limitations that we would like to see transcended concerning local anti-fascist hooliganism. The hostilities to this point have been waged in a private manner; like two gangs competing for power, can we instead find methods for a more inclusive hooliganism or collective forms of violence? Imagine not just ARA chapters that fought the NSF, but old women throwing vegetables and kitchen utensils as they walked down the street, bus drivers refusing to transport them etc. By making it a public affair, we can also eliminate the suicidal tendency implicit in taking them on alone, and perhaps even increase our power by generalizing social conflict. But the militant form, similar to the ELF and ALF, has not necessarily transformed the content; nor has it amplified hostilities across the social terrain. Perhaps if we are conscious of this limitation, such affective gestures between friends can allow them to realize it’s not just the INSF and other street fascists that these tactics can be applied too; banks, police stations, or wherever one locates the flows of capital can be attacked just as easily as Nazis by friends sharing interests and complicities. But this link is tenuous, at best. Anti-fascism may be doomed to run aground the same rocks as identity politics and single-issue struggles.

Download the flyer: nazi-alert-philip-anderson.pdf

White Star Night Club CANCELS Performance by Neo-Nazi Band “Evil Incarnate”!

Band had boasted that “N—-r lovers and faggots, Bullets in your head”

Activism – getting involved in your community – has once again won an important pro-gay victory.

Yesterday the promoter of a multi-band show scheduled for this Saturday at the White Star Night Club confirmed with the Gay Liberation Network that he has canceled the performance by neo-Nazi band “Evil Incarnate.”

Therefore our protest, previously scheduled for 6 PM this Saturday, December 19th, is CANCELED.

Our thanks to White Star management for agreeing not to provide a venue for a group that calls for the murder of African Americans and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans people.

Our thanks to all of you who called the White Star Night Club and generally spread the word about the neo-Nazi “Evil Incarnate” heavy metal band.

And our thanks also to our partners in Chicago Anti-Racist Action, who eagerly agreed to join us in protest.

“I myself am Mexican,” said concert promoter Renato Brieno. “I don’t appreciate that kind of racist or anti-homosexual b.s.”

“I have removed EVIL INCARNATE from the Festival, they have officially announced that they are NOT playing this fest. Their ideology … DOES NOT represent the views and opinions of ANYONE at White Star or any of the other bands.”

Brieno told GLN that Evil Incarnate members had tried to divert the concerns he relayed to them about their “kill gays, kill blacks” lyrics by saying that the song was 20 years old. When he learned that the song was part of a months-old compilation CD called “Smashing Rainbows” on the “Fetch the Rope Records” label, he concluded that they were lying to him.

“They say one thing and then they do another.”

But if they’re willing to call for the deaths of whole groups of people, what’s a little lying on top of that?

Thank you again to all who participated in bringing this important victory over racist and anti-gay hate!