Yeah Nah Pasaran! #146 w Evan Smith on Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia : January 19, 2023

Posted on January 17, 2023 by @ndy

It’s 2023 and Yeah Nah Pasaran! is back for a fourth year of broadcasting (and maybe a li’l trouble-making).

On this week’s episode we talk to Evan Smith [Twitter]. Evan is a blogger, historian and most recently the editor (with Jayne Persian and Vashti Jane Fox) of the NEW! Routledge title Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia:

Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia provides a history of fascist movements and anti-fascist resistance in Australia over the past century.

In recent years, the far right has become a resurgent force across the globe, resulting in populist parties securing electoral victories, social movements organising on the streets, and acts of right-wing terrorism. Australia has not been immune to this. However, this is not merely a recent phenomenon; it has a long history of fascist and far-right groups and individuals. These groups have attempted to situate themselves within the wider settler colonial political landscape, often portraying themselves as the inheritors of a violent and exclusionary colonial past. Concurrently, these groups have linked into globalised anti-communist and white supremacist networks. At the same time, Australia has often seen resistance to fascism and the far right, from the political centre to the far left. Covering the period from the 1920s to the present day, and featuring insights from historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this book provides the most detailed account of this fascinating and important topic.

We spoke to Evan about the book project, anti-/fascism in Australia, Nazi uniforms, ninja turtles and more. (Note that we’ll almost certainly be talking to other contributors to the volume later in the year.)

See/hear also : Yeah Nah Pasaran! #008 w Evan Smith on No Platform : March 5, 2020 | Australia not immune from fascism’s global revival, Peter Hartcher, The Sydney Morning Herald, January 17, 2023.

4.30pm, Thursday, January 19, 2023 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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antifa notes (january 12, 2023) : old whine, new books

Posted on January 12, 2023 by @ndy

Übermenschen

Thomas Sewell, the budding Gauleiter of Balwyn, was in the news again today. Neo-Nazi avoids jail over brutal attack, Cassandra Morgan, The Canberra Times, January 12, 2023:

The 29-year-old leader of the European Australia Movement was convicted and sentenced to an 18-month community corrections order with 150 hours community service on Thursday in Melbourne Magistrates Court, where he was previously found guilty of recklessly causing injury and affray …

The magistrate took into account his work history, along with his fiancee being 36 weeks’ pregnant – a factor Sewell emphasised would lead to “undue suffering” through his sentence.

He also asked the court to consider his employer, saying he worked full-time as a labourer and apprentice. He previously served as a rifleman in the army and worked with disadvantaged youth, he said.

Sewell is due to face a separate County Court trial in August and spent seven months on remand in solitary confinement because of that case.

Apart from anything else, the positive reference to Tommeh!’s work ‘with disadvantaged youth’ is amusing. So too, the fact that Christian nationalists have halped raise tens of thousands of dollars for Sewell and the other troubled yoof he’s gathered under his wing in the last few years; presumably, the Hitler Youth training at Legacy Boxing in West Sunshine can now more easily obtain concession memberships, while drinks are subsidised at The Irish Times Pub.

See also : Founder of violent white supremacist group RAM re-indicted on rioting charges, Jordan Green, Raw Story, January 5, 2023 | Tracing the Evolution of Far-Right Movement Framing in Australia, Gerard Gill, GNET, December 19, 2022.

Muzak

There’s been a lotta wailing and gnashing of teeth recently after an Australian tour by black metal bands Taake and Akhlys got CANCELLED by promoter Matthew ‘Southern Extremities’ Chalk. Feels bad, man. See : Promoters cancel Australia tour of Norwegian metal band Taake, accused of far-right sympathies, Mike Hohnen, The Guardian, January 6, 2023. These ‘far-right sympathies’ are further detailed in Why are fascist, Nazi and racist bands still being booked to tour Australia in 2023?, Ben Hillier, Blunt, January 9, 2023. For a token, historical blast see : A Brief History Of Neo-Nazi Music In Australia (December 2, 2020) and for a contemporary, scholarly account see : Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood: (Re)sounding Whiteness, Catherine Hoad (ed), Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Yeah Nah

On the second anniversary of the January 6 stoopid, Spencer Beswick asks The Jan. 6 coup blared an alarm about rising fascism. Will we hear it? (The Washington Post), in which Conrad Beswick notes that in the 1980s, ‘… a new generation of antifascists rose up to meet the renewed danger of fascism — often with masked faces and baseball bats in hand. Anarchists, punks and other leftists united to form the organization Anti-Racist Action (ARA) in Minneapolis in the late 1980s, which quickly spread across the country.’ Funnily enough, a NEW! book documenting ARA has just been released: We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action (PM Press, 2023), which sounds both ace and grouse:

What does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for today’s anti-fascist organizing in North America. When skinheads and punks in the late 1980s found their communities invaded by white supremacists and neo-nazis, they fought back. Influenced by anarchism, feminism, Black liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty, they created Anti-Racist Action. At ARA’s height in the 1990s, thousands of dedicated activists in hundreds of chapters joined the fights—political and sometimes physical—against nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, anti-abortion fundamentalists, and racist police. Before media pundits, cynical politicians, and your uncle discovered “antifa,” Anti-Racist Action was bringing it to the streets.

See/hear also : Anti-fascist @ It’s Going Down /// NYC Antifa /// Rose City Antifa /// Torch Network.

Two other volumes of relevance to be published recently are:

• No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (AK Press, 2022)

¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy and the far-right from multiple angles. From the history of antifascism to today’s movement to identify, deplatform, and confront the right, and the ways an insurgent fascism is growing within capitalist democracies, a myriad of voices come together to shape the new face of antifascism in a moment of social and political flux.

• Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia (Routledge, 2023)

In recent years, the far right has become a resurgent force across the globe, resulting in populist parties securing electoral victories, social movements organising on the streets, and acts of right-wing terrorism. Australia has not been immune to this. However, this is not merely a recent phenomenon; it has a long history of fascist and far-right groups and individuals. These groups have attempted to situate themselves within the wider settler colonial political landscape, often portraying themselves as the inheritors of a violent and exclusionary colonial past. Concurrently, these groups have linked into globalised anti-communist and white supremacist networks. At the same time, Australia has often seen resistance to fascism and the far right, from the political centre to the far left. Covering the period from the 1920s to the present day, and featuring insights from historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this book provides the most detailed account of this fascinating and important topic.

Fingers crossed we will be speaking to the editors of/contributors to the above volumes soon on Yeah Nah Pasaran!.

Bonus! Brazil

See : January 8, the Brazilian January 6: Tracking the Rise of Fascism from the United States to Brazil, CrimethInc, January 10, 2023 | Democracy under attack in Brazil: 5 questions about the storming of Congress and the role of the military, Rafael R. Ioris, The Conversation, January 9, 2023 | ‘Sir, please get me the Manager’: Brazil before and after Bolsonaro, Guido Melo, Overland, November 24, 2022.

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Blogging 2022 : A Summary

Posted on December 30, 2022 by @ndy

See also : Blogging 2021 : A Summary.

January (3)

Since launching Yeah Nah Pasaran! (a weekly anti-fascist radio show and podcast on 3CR) at the beginning of 2020, most blogposts are now dedicated to promoting episodes — and 2022 was no exception. Hence in January, we relaunched by interviewing former prisoner and rights’ activist Jock Palfreeman and then Haley McEwan. However, I also wrote a little about the boycott of the Sydney Festival and in particular drew attention to the decision by Amyl and The Sniffers not to join it. This did not go down well with fans, especially on Facebook, but in the end did the band no real harm, and since then The Sniffers have gone from strength to strength.

February (6)

In February we interviewed Amanda E Rogers, Bjørn Ihler, Sara Aniano and Amanda Moore. I also updated Trot Guide and republished the speech by Vladimir Putin announcing a Very Special Military Operation in Ukraine.

March (7)

YNP! in March featured Richard McNeil-Willson, Cat Tebaldi, Kelly Weill and Andre Oboler. March also saw ‘Australia First Party’ troll Nathan Sykes plead guilty to making repeated and explicit violent threats against a Melbourne journalist and some other trolls and alleged terrorists gained some media and police attention. In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some voices were raised in opposition and, finally, Shane Warne’s Freedom to hang a picture of Adolf Hitler in every United Australian classroom Party was canvassed.

April (7)

#110 of YNP! was an interview with Stephanie Alice Baker, #111 with Mark Bray, #112 with Andy Campbell and #113 with Anke Richter. I also wrote about Nathan Sykes, The Naughty Neo-Nazi : Do Not Go To Jail, Do 150 Hours of Community Service, Todd Sampson’s brief televisual flirtation with some notorious local neo-Nazis and Far left candidates at the 2022 Australian federal election.

May (4)

Four lousy posts about four (or five) episodes of YNP!, starring Jason Wilson, Hampton Stall, a conversation about the 2022 Australian federal election (among ourselves and then with Cameron Wilson) and finally a yarn — hallelujah! — with Elle Hardy.

June (6)

Jordan McSwiney, Robert Horvath and Heron Greenesmith were guests on YNP! in June (during which we also promoted 3CR’s annual radiothon), I republished Andrew Giles-Peters’ essay Karl Korsch: A Marxist Friend Of Anarchism for some reason and also published some antifa notes.

July (3)

Three posts on three episodes of YNP! with Katherine Stewart, Gerard Gill and Brooke Binkowski.

August (6)

In August we spoke to Jesse Daniels, Priyamvada Gopal, Beatriz Buarque, Tom Tanuki and Lydia Khalil. Some nazis also attended The Irish Times Pub in Melbourne, from which they obtained both fun and profit.

September (6)

In September we spoke to Terri E Givens, Samantha Kutner, Joe Mulhall and Raja of The Humanism Project. I also promoted a benefit gig organised in response to the neo-Nazi incident at The Irish Times in August and recounted how Perth-based neo-Nazi e-celeb Dennis Huts (whom you may remember from such failed projects as the ‘United Patriots Front’) tried, succeeded, but then ultimately failed to have my Facebook page permanently expunged from that august platform.

October (7)

Our guests in October were David Broder, Jason Wilson, Gregor Wakounig and Anna A Meier. YNP! also won a Bonus! Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Awards for Best Radio Program — Talks, neo-Nazis in Melbourne and Ustaše fanboys in Sydney were kept busy making heartfelt salutes at the football and intimidating children and yoof at picnics, while I also took some anarchist notes at the end of the month.

November (5)

In November, Cam spoke to Dylan Reeve on Make Believe, Steph Reist on Post-Bolsonaro Brazil and to Sarah Riccardi-Swartz on ROCOR & Appalachia while I managed to join him for a discussion with Meghan Tinsley on War & Memory (#142) and April Anson on Ecofascism (#143). The month also saw a gathering at a local social centre, I joined Mastodon and briefly examined some of the candidates at the 2022 Victorian state election.

December (6)

Finally, there were just a handful more shows in December (with Alex Newhouse and Ryan Broderick) while Proud Boys paraded in St Kilda (posing the question ‘Are the Proud Boys left wing feminists?’), neo-Nazis were welcomed to a boxing gym in West Sunshine, and I made some final antifa notes for the year.

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Nazi Legacy Boxing Gym Sunshine West

Posted on December 24, 2022 by @ndy

Today The Age revealed that the site of the neo-Nazi gathering in Melbourne on December 3 was Legacy Boxing Gym in Sunshine West.

See : Inside the Melbourne boxing gym with a neo-Nazi underbelly, David Estcourt, December 24, 2022.

The Age report nominates Timothy Holger Lutze as one of the owners of Legacy Boxing, as having taken part in the neo-Nazi MMA tournament on December 3, and as otherwise being happy to display his fealty to Nazi ideology in promotions for the gym.

For more details and background infos on the exposé, see : Legacy of Hate, White Rose Society, December 23, 2022.

Apart from anything else, it’s worth noting that:

• Lutze’s fuehrer, Thomas Sewell, was just last week found guilty of assaulting a security guard as his kamerad Jacob Hersant filmed it, and now awaits sentencing in January of next year;
• Obtaining the sponsorship of a boxing gym is a sign of progress for the European Australian Movement (EAM)/National Socialist Network (NSN). In 2017, the neo-Nazis initially tried to establish their own gym in Cheltenham and, when that collapsed, were then forced to train at a home in Rowville. With their Rowville residence having gone kaput, the nazi schmucks have been training in various other locations …

Happily for all concerned, the ban on Nazi symbols in Victoria does not come into force until December 29, so the fact that the gym was adorned in Nazi and neo-Nazi signs and symbols escapes any potental legal ramifications. On the other hand, it appears as though Boxing Victoria has de-registered Legacy Boxing, suspended coaching licences, and consequently the gym may be forced to join another boxing association thru which to promote its fighters. Boxing Victoria also issued a statement in light of the report:

'A message from the Committee of BVI: As an organisation, Boxing Victoria warmly welcomes and has representatives of all faiths and cultures involved and finds any attempt to bring extremist views into boxing to be abhorrent.'

Neither Lutze nor Legacy have responded to the reports as yet, and it will be interesting to see what, if anything, they do say. So too, to witness the response of the wider boxing community in Victoria to the potential establishment of a professional neo-Nazi gym.

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antifa notes (december 16, 2022) : last drinks for 2022

Posted on December 16, 2022 by @ndy

It’s been a while since I published some notes: about two-and-a-half months in fact. Inter alia, I suppose I could discuss how (anti-)social (corporate) media has destroyed the blogosphere, and maybe whine about how Facebook and Twitter are shit (as well as a somewhat necessary if radically-insufficient means of communication) but that’s very old news, so instead I’ll just reiterate I gotta Mastodon account and Carry On Blogging.

Baby Boikov

Australia’s No.1 Putin fanboy Simeon Boikov is in trouble with the law again, having been charged with assault occasioning bodily harm after encountering an elderly Ukrainian in Sydney. Apart from anything else, the incident has resulted in ‘The Aussie Cossack’ attending the Russian consulate in order to beg for political asylum.

Balwyn Calling

In October, Tom Sewell‘s European Australian Movement (EAM)/National Socialist Network (NSN) held a rally in Moonee Ponds to protest a queer youth event, recently threatened to hold another in St Kilda, but in the end left it up to some Proud Boys/left wing feminists to raise the flag.

St Kilda is of course an olde stomping ground for The Lads. So, it was heartwarming to see Blair Cottrell back in court this week as one of several support persons to The Boy From Balwyn as he once again faced court for an alleged assault. (As it happens, Cottrell’s last formal appearance was in April when he himself got a slap on the wrist for assaulting Some Guy in a supermarket.) The EAM/NSN also appeared in an article in the Herald Sun after one of its investigative journalists uncovered the fact that they: use Telegram to publicise their activities; a child appears in a photo they used to document the fact that they held an event in Melbourne on December 3.

See also : Thomas Sewell argues self-defence in alleged attack on TV security guard, Erin Pearson and Lachlan Abbott, The Age, December 14, 2022.

Banned By AC

Apartheid Clyde has begun accelerating the banning of anti-fascist accounts on the bird site. Seemingly under instruction from a smol number of prominent right-wing propagandists and having already gotten rid of those meddling kids at CrimethInc, Space Karen has now terminated the account of It’s Going Down!. As the conrads write in It’s Going Down Suspended from Twitter as Billionaire Elon Musk Fulfills Far-Right Agenda (December 15, 2022):

Today, It’s Going Down (IGD), along with several other news and journalist accounts, was permanently suspended without warning or justification by billionaire owner of Twitter, Elon Musk. In the past several weeks, Musk has suspended anarchist, left-wing, and anti-fascist accounts known for reporting on both the far-Right and on Musk himself. In some cases, Musk has targeted accounts at the explicit request of Alt-Right trolls, many of whom Musk regularly consults and responds to. Now, following Musk’s viral humiliation in San Francisco, he seems determined to silence anyone who criticizes him.

See also : Canary in the Coal Mine: Twitter and the End of Social Media, CrimethInc, December 9, 2022.

Boneheads

In ‘Neo-Nazi Desmond Liddington admits attacking activist Paddy Gibson at Arncliffe’ (St George Shire Standard, December 6, 2022), Ashleigh Tullis writes:

A neo-Nazi group leader attacked the home of a prominent Black Lives Matter and Aboriginal activist due to his white-supremist [sic] ideological beliefs, a court has heard.

Desmond Liddington, 38, was expected to be sentenced on Tuesday but the case was adjourned to next year for the lawyer to prepare further material.

He has pleaded guilty to intimidation and affray over a terrifying incident involving Maxwell Ferrer and a third man at Padaric “Paddy” Gibson’s Arncliffe home on December 4 last year.

You may remember Desmond Liddington from such neo-Nazi groupuscules as Combat 18 (‘C18’ is tattooed on his right hand), but he’s described as the fuehrer of ‘Firm 22’ in the article. (In January 2014, Liddington was one of five men, along with Jacob Hort of the band ‘Indigenous Hate’, convicted of ‘criminal damage’ for distributing C18 propaganda in Perth.) Paddy Gibson, meanwhile, in addition to being a ‘Black Lives Matter and Aboriginal activist’ (?), is a bloody unAustralian Marxist.

Bourgeois Parliament

Who won, I said, the election? Well, I may examine the results more closely at a later date but in the meantime: BAKER-PEARCE, Tylere came dead last in Narre Warren South, with just 290 votes (0.68%). Rebekah Spelman — whose BFF is partnered to local bonehead Scott McGuiness — contested the South-East Metropolitan region with the leader of the Freedom Party (FPV), Morgan C. Jonas. For their troubles (and no doubt much to #DictatorDan’s satisfaction), Spelman (a former United Australia Party candidate), Jonas and FPV got 8,338 votes (1.77%) in total. On a brighter note, the Grey Wolves will continue to enjoy having Adem Somyurek on their side in the Upper House.

… Wieambilla

The shooting deaths at Wieambilla have obviously sparked a good deal of discussion, especially in regards to the motivations of those responsible. I may write more later but in the meantime, as I wrote on the bird site …

… it’s weird seeing reportage on #freedumb stuff that’s been going on in the public eye for years as though it’s in any way, shape or form new or shocking and it very much reminds me of the effect of the Christchurch massacre. As in that case, state authorities are now confronted with having to wade through an absolute mountain of similarly batshit material in order to establish ‘motivation’ and ask what, if anything, distinguishes one man’s output from thousands of others of a fundamentally identical nature. If you think about it, this fact opens up the possibility of talking about the ideas espoused by these individuals as situated within a much larger and broader movement; one which finds expression not just on isolated farms, but in corridors of power, especially in media and politics.

See also : US religious conspiracist linked to Queensland police killers Gareth and Stacey Train, Michael McGowan and Eden Gillespie, The Guardian, December 16, 2022.

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Q. Are the Proud Boys left wing feminists?

Posted on December 13, 2022 by @ndy

A. No, they’re not.

Obviously.

Apart from that, I don’t like being verballed.

So, Last Thursday (no really!) I made a very brief appearance on Drive on ABC Melbourne to talk about a public protest against an end-of-year pride celebration called ‘Glitter Nova’ local neo-Nazis and fascists had threatened to organise that evening. In response, someone on Twitter wrote the following:

This is incorrect, as I stated at the time. But, being a sucker for punishment, I’ve since decided to undertake the dread task of listening to the interview and transcribing it below:

    Raf: So it’s called Glitter Nova, it was going to be at the Victorian Pride Centre tonight, run by Stonnington Youth Service[s] (that’s part of Stonnington Council): cancelled. Well, not cancelled: postponed. They are going to run it … Some nasty groups online, effectively saying they were going to protest it, I don’t know if it was because there was going to be drag artists there or not. To delve into whether or not this is new or old, what this means, we’re joined by Andy Fleming, who’s an anti-fascist researcher. Thanks for having words with us.

    Andy: Thanks for having me on Raf.

    R: Is it new that they sort of announce these protests?

    A: Um, yes and no. I mean, I guess the community in this case that’s been targeted is one that’s been subject to fascist abuse for many years but as you may have noticed in the last few years in the United States in particular, performances which include drag kings [ie, drag performers], which are family-friendly, have been targeted by the far-right for disruption, so in that sense it’s not that surprising.

    R: I think actually Marjorie Taylor Greene … the Congresswoman in, I think she’s in Atlanta, Georgia, she’s a big Trump supporter, I think she rose to prominence initially by opposing drag queens doing story time at a local library. So it’s a bit of a, it’s a signature protest for some of the far right groups?

    A: Yeah it is. It has developed as such in the last few years and in this particular case there was a similar protest that took place in the beginning of October [end of September] in Moonee Ponds, which targeted a similar kind of event.

    R: How would you describe these groups? Are they neo-Nazis? How would you describe them?

    A: In this particular case yes, there are neo-Nazis, and there are others who belong on the right who might be called or might be members of group likes the Proud Boys and so on and so forth. So there’s a broad far right, but in this particular case neo-Nazis are taking the lead.

    R: Is it the right decision to postpone the event?

    A: I can’t really speak for the organisers. I think it needs to be … well, one thing that needs to be considered is the safety and security of those attending it, but on the other hand, whether or not it’s a good idea to allow threats being made by online groups like nazis to events like this, whether or not that should be considered sufficient reason to cancel an event, and whether or not this constitutes a pretty bad precedent.

    R: OK so a slightly different question. As someone who researches fascists, does it embolden them?

    A: Success does embolden them, yes. If their aim was to prevent an event from taking place, and they appear to have done so, I can’t see that dissuading them from carrying on in future. So unfortunately yes, I think that there’s a good argument that actually these sorts of things can embolden them.

    R: Is there a way to ward this off? Is there, I dunno, do you speak about it more openly, do you not speak about it? I mean, if this is going to be a feature of any event organised say by the Pride Centre or if the library has a drag queen come and read a story, is there a way to pre-empt this do you think?

    A: I think it’s probably a good idea for organisers, people organising these sorts of events, to consider the possibility that it may be subject to these sorts of threats, to take that into account and think about ways they can respond whether by ensuring that they have appropriate security in place or by publicising it and calling upon the community to support these events. There will be a rally in support of queer rights at the Pride Centre this evening, even though …

    R: Oh so like as an anti-anti rally.

    A: Yeah, as a way of demonstrating solidarity and saying that actually, most people welcome these events and are going to defend the right of organisations to hold them.

    R: How do we hold these public conversations Andy? Because I mean this was a feature of the election campaign as well. The government accused the Liberals of preferencing nazis — I don’t want to get into the politics of it — then the government said we don’t want to name the people because we don’t want to give them publicity, like do we talk about it or do we not talk about it? What’s the right approach?

    A: I think in general yes, it should be talked about. I mean how it’s talked about is another matter and, in the case of the election, I guess the question was, does it make sense, other than to note that there’s some alleged nazis taking part in the election, does it make sense to actually nominate them or is it sufficient to simply say well …

At this point my phone failed and the interview ended.

More later, maybe!

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #145 w Ryan Broderick on Elon Musk’s Mission to Extend the Light Of Consciousness : December 15, 2022

Posted on December 12, 2022 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, our final one for 2022, we talk to Ryan Broderick [Twitter///Mastodon]. Ryan publishes Garbage Day and co-hosts the podcast The Content Mines. We last spoke to Ryan in December 2021, but in this episode we agreed that Elon Musk’s sacred mission to extend the light of consciousness is surrounding us all in a beautiful glow on Twitter.

See : Elon Musk Is a Far-Right Activist, Charlie Wurzel, The Atlantic, December 11, 2022 | I have been shadowbanned by the libs, Ryan Broderick, Garbage Day, December 10, 2022 | There Will Never Be Another Twitter, Ryan Broderick, The Information, December 9, 2022.

4.30pm, Thursday, December 15, 2022 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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No Glitter For Nazis : Defend Queer Rights in St Kilda, December 8, 2022

Posted on December 8, 2022 by @ndy

[Update : Organisers cancelled/rescheduled ‘Glitter Nova’ /// Many score rocked up to support the event/oppose fascism /// While a handful of Proud Boys also went to St Kilda, it seems none of the Balwyn Boy’s mob bothered. See : Glitter Nova youth pride celebration postponed due to safety concerns after protest threat, Madi Chwasta, ABC Radio Melbourne, December 8, 2022.]

NB. Organisers have postponed the Glitter Nova event however there will still be a gathering in solidarity.

According to conrads at The White Rose Society, nazis belonging to the European Australian Movement/National Socialist Network (& Co.) have threatened to disrupt an event at the Victorian Pride Centre this evening. As a result, an emergency call to action has been made, requesting queer-friendly people attend the event in solidarity and to demonstrate that nazi threats won’t be tolerated by the general public.

Please note that the EAM/NSN have form, having picketed (while under police protection) a family-friendly queer event (YouthFest 2022) in Moonee Ponds at the beginning of October. Prior to this, the boys played a game at the Irish Times Pub in Melbourne, and later won some stupid prizes. Curiously, their efforts won the support of Christian nationalists in the United States, along with Srah Ferguson’s sometime fren, Steve Bannon.

See also : Neo-Nazis Discuss Plans To Target Drag Event At Melbourne’s Victorian Pride Centre, Shibu Thomas, Star Observer, December 8, 2022.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #144 w Alex Newhouse on accelerationism : December 8, 2022

Posted on December 6, 2022 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Alex Newhouse [Mastodon]. Alex is Deputy Director at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Director of Technical of Research at The Accelerationism Research Consortium. We spoke to him about accelerationism, alt tech, esoterics and ideology.

4.30pm, Thursday, December 8, 2022 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #143 w Dr April Anson on Ecofascism : December 1, 2022

Posted on November 29, 2022 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Dr April Anson [Twitter]. April is an Associate Professor at San Diego State University, and (as part of the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative) the co-author of Against the Ecofascist Creep:

Sometimes we wish we could solve the world’s problems with a *snap* of our fingers, even though we know it’s never that simple: compound problems require compound solutions. Still, accelerating climate crisis and the unwillingness of global leaders to take meaningful climate action can breed nihilism – likely we’ve all witnessed it in students, colleagues, family members, and even ourselves. With such nihilism, though, sometimes comes a notion that mass violence could be a viable environmental solution. This specter of ecofascism looms in pop-cultural imaginations as a malevolent threat for some and a tantalizing fantasy for others.

We spoke to April about the relationship between ecological and fascist thought, colonialism and political crisis, and more besides.

See also : “Master Metaphor”: Environmental Apocalypse and the Settler States of Emergency, April Anson, Resilience: A Journal of Environmental Humanities, Vol.8, No.1, 2020 | Ecofascism – are far-right extremists the new environmentalists?, Science Friction, ABC Radio National, July 29, 2022.

4.30pm, Thursday, December 1, 2022 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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