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Social Networking: A Place for Hate? |
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 |
In 2000, HBO produced a documentary chronicling the capitalization of the internet’s exponential growth by hate groups in America. Hate.com, narrated by Southern Poverty Law Center founder Morris Dees, exposed hate groups’ online efforts to the wide audience provided by the piece’s frequent broadcast on HBO. Millions of youth, parents, educators and activists gained a better understanding of the power of the web as a recruiting tool for organized bigots.
Since Hate.com’s 2000 release, internet use has continued to evolve, and hate groups have not been far behind. The explosion of the social networking capacity of the web, often referred to as ‘Web 2.0,’ has been accompanied by organized attempts to expand and recruit for almost every documented hate group in America. In other words, white supremacists are on MySpace, and more than likely, they’d like to be your friend.
MySpace, to its credit, has a strong and unambiguously worded policy about the presence of hate groups and hate speech on the site. Under MySpace’s ‘Terms & Conditions,’ they state:
Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content that, in the sole discretion of MySpace: (8.1) is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual.
It is also worth noting that this clause is listed as the site’s first type of prohibited content – followed by other banned subject matter, including nudity, solicitation of minors, copyrighted material and libel, to name a few. Clearly, MySpace places a priority on keeping their site free of racist hatred, which is distinctly within their right as a private enterprise. The enforcement of MySpace’s laudable policy, however, is another matter.
After establishing direct contact with MySpace as the Turn It Down Campaign launched our page, we learned that they did, in fact, make concerted efforts to delete pages that violate this aspect of their Terms & Conditions. However, site administration depends on users reporting violations. In our time on the site, the enforcement has been spotty – from time to time, a rash of pages disappear; for other stretches of time, they seem to go untouched, no matter how blatantly offensive and in violation.
For those interested in trying their hand at reporting violations on MySpace, you’ll see a ‘Report Abuse’ button at the bottom of every profile page, and a ‘Report Image’ button under any photo on any page. Recently, we’ve seen MySpace pages for white power bands, labels and individuals disappearing by the dozens. Perhaps MySpace has found an efficient way to address the issue, and we hope this continues.
Elsewhere online, guidelines vary between far less enforced and far more ambiguous. On YouTube, the Community Guidelines section offers users the following assurance:
We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).
However, a search of the term ‘white power 88’ yielded no less than 1,260 videos. (The number 88 is a common code for white supremacists, referring to the term ‘Heil Hitler,’ as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.) Other searches of codified and not-so-codified hate speech yielded similar results, and queries of specific hate groups produced hundreds of results for each. The ‘Flag’ button under each video, it turns out, leads users to the option to report a video; however, users are immediately warned that ‘abusing this feature is also a violation of Community Guidelines,’ so it’s possible that users are reluctant to flag videos, for fear that their own accounts may be jeopardized. Or it could be that YouTube doesn’t heed users’ complaints.
Needless to say, enforcement of YouTube’s Community Guidelines is questionable, at best. And Turn It Down isn’t the only entity to notice this. Stormfront, arguably the largest white power online forum, sees racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and xenophobic YouTube videos reposted there by the hundreds. A single thread, titled ‘YouTube,’ has 1,170 posts – most of which contain reposted YouTube videos of white power bands, hate group leader’s speeches, and various white nationalist call-to-action videos. Other threads on Stormfront encourage members to post videos to YouTube, as a way to spread white nationalist ideals.
On the other hand, Facebook’s ‘Statement of Rights and Responsibilities’ is both clear and seemingly stringently enforced:
[Facebook users] will not post content that is hateful, threatening, pornographic, or that contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
A search of Facebook groups for the term ‘white power’ drummed up dozens of hits for everything from fans of the White Power Ranger character to white cat enthusiasts, but only one group promoting racism. (We promptly hit the ‘Report Group’ button, and we’ll see how fast the group is taken down.)
So where does this leave the average user of any of these or other popular social networking sites? Your options are many, and your efforts are entirely up to you. Each site offers an avenue for users to report the presence of blatantly bigoted material, and the only way to know a site’s level of actual commitment to its policies is to test them. So report what you see. Be an active member of the communities in which you keep in touch with friends, check out new bands, or simply kill time every now and then. Communities are only as strong as their membership. You can also go a step further by emailing the site administration for any of these sites and either commending their policy enforcement or requesting that they do more to uphold their own rules, whichever the case may be.
Online networking continues to move forward, and those who would exploit its capacity are never far behind. Hate groups are using social networking sites to promote their agendas and recruit new members. We need to use our power as users of these same sites to make it known that policies against hate speech are a good start, but consistent enforcement is key. |
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White Nationalists and St. Patrick’s Day: An Unholy Union |
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Friday, 13 March 2009 |
For several years now, we’ve noticed an increasing connection that we find both disturbing and downright ridiculous. White nationalists love St. Patrick’s Day. A lot. Turn It Down supporters and bands have noted an increased presence of overtly white power skinheads at Celt punk shows, and more white power St. Patrick’s Day events spring up every year.
Why?
At first we thought this might be our imagination. We thought maybe we were lumping them in with all the green beer and plastic hats. But it’s not the usual superficial attachment to the holiday that many non-Irish Americans enjoy. It’s more than that. While some of the bands are great, it’s not them either.
Here’s a bit of explanation offered in the wake of last year’s St. Patty’s celebration in central Florida, an event which will be repeated this coming weekend, from one of its organizers:
“St. Patty’s Day is one of the few White holidays we have left. Christmas has been watered down into an obligatory commercial capitalist consumer feeding frenzy, flanked by Hannukah for the kikes and Kwanzaa for the toads. Columbus Day is smeared by skraelings whining and crying because our ancestors took this land from them and made it into the greatest country on earth. But you don’t have to be Irish to celebrate St. Patty’s Day. All of us whose ancestors came from Europe feel a rising heat in our blood when we hear the wailing of the bagpipes like the valkyries themselves screaming our names to come and take our places in Valhalla. All of us like a good drink or two to cheer us. And, just like in the holiday’s legend St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland, we all would like to do a little driving of snakes out of our country, too. So, we’re all a little Irish, today.” (White Revolution Florida)
Wow.
So the white nationalists are hijacking a holiday intended to honor a hero of Irish Catholic history and culture, and they are holding multiple events in different parts of the country to mark the day. It wasn’t enough that a number of white power idiots made the Celtic Cross an ambiguous symbol by adopting it as a common tattoo among themselves. Now they’re trying to claim St. Patrick’s Day as their own, for their cause.
Never mind that Daniel O’Connell, another hero of Irish history and culture, argued vehemently to Irish immigrants in America in the mid-19th century that they should fight to abolish slavery. O’Connell maintained that Irish Americans should see American slavery as parallel to the oppression of the Irish at the hands of the British, imploring, “How can the generous, the charitable, the humane, the noble emotions of the Irish heart have become extinct amongst you? ...It was not in Ireland you learned this cruelty.” O’Connell goes on to call his ex-countrymen who would support slavery “pseudo Irishmen,” and he painstakingly outlines all the hypocrisies inherent to racism among Irish Americans.
Apparently they haven’t bothered to really learn the history and heritage of the culture they’re trying to steal. Don’t get me wrong; there are, doubtless, racists of every ethnic variety out there. But to lay claim to an ethnic/religious holiday because it allegedly mirrors their own struggles renders them particularly ridiculous, not to mention ignorant. We realize this assessment is nothing new; we just thought we’d point it out in singular regard to this issue.
So while the white nationalists are dancing around to Pogues and Dropkick Murphys cover songs in Baltimore this weekend (yes, that’s what they’re advertising) and doing who-knows-what in Florida, some of us will be scratching our heads, marveling at the mental gymnastics necessary to attach St. Patrick’s Day to racism in America.
Some of us can do more than that. When your Guinness hangover subsides, or you’re done with whatever festivities the holiday may or may not have in store for you, read up on the history of Irish American anti-racism. Remember that the nation’s only Irish Catholic president worked toward Civil Rights. Play a few of the Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Flatfoot 56, Flogging Molly, or Tossers songs that deal directly with the sting of hate and oppression in Irish and Irish American history – because they’ve all recorded these songs. And know that a few misguided, literacy-challenged idiots can’t take a holiday away from a people with a history that stands squarely against the ignorance of racism.
You can read the full text of O’Connell’s famous speech here: http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=mayantislavery&cc=mayantislavery&idno=05836507&frm=frameset&view=image&seq=1 |
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The white power concert "Uprise 2009" came and went, well-watched by local, state and national law enforcement elements, as well as the humble likes of Turn It Down and other watchdog groups. We kept our eye on it particularly closely, as one of the sponsors was a white power label based in the Chicago area. Watch our news updates for info on Strong Survive Records, and the posse of Polish-American skinheads affiliated with them.
This year’s Uprise event was put on by three labels/distro outfits: Label 56, Strong Survive, and Final Stand Records, in conjunction with the Keystone State Skinheads. The KSS – with origins and affiliations in organizations like the Hammerskins, Vinlander Social Club, and Aryan Nations – have been trying to grow as a 'peaceful' political presence in their communities, in addition to their presence in various parts of Pennsylvania as a white power skinhead crew. The KSS have been involved and charged in crimes ranging from making terrorist threats to attempted murder, so we’re not sure if they’ll be leading any Cub Scout troops in Harrisburg anytime soon.
This was the fourth installment of Uprise. There are two or three other relatively big events coming up -- in Boston, Florida, and the Baltimore area. If you'd like to get involved in the work we do regardind events like these -- researching, contacting, and so forth -- drop us a line at
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These are all coming up in the next couple of months, so we could use an extra few people working on it, especially if it's happening in your area. (Involvement does NOT include you attending any of these events. We just like to get people involved in their own communities.)
We're still getting updates on how things went down at Uprise, including the mysterious last-minute back-out by one of the two European bands slated to play. We'll let you know if we hear anything worthwhile, including just why a bunch of white power skinheads got so punchy with each other that the show had to be stopped for an hour. Read on for more.
Here are two stories written and posted by our friends over at One People's Project -- check them out if you haven't already at www.onepeoplesproject.com -- and reposted here with permission.
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HATE AMONG THE HATERS AND OTHER TIDBITS FROM UPRISE 2009
There's a line on the Keystone State "Skinhead" website that goes, "Violence is a mark of desperation and usually employed by those with a lack of options or an in depth understanding of our current situation." Yeah, that would sound about right. That is why it would not be surprising if they and any of the other local boneheads got into it as the rumors are saying with their Polish "kinsmen" at Uprise 2009, the white power show held in Lebanon, PA. They also say that "(M)ulticulturalism is not a celebration of different cultures but an unnatural destructive experiment that eventually eliminates the unique characteristics of every group forced to take part in it." So again, it would not be surprising if, again as the rumors are saying, they started on some racist crap with those Polish attendees at the show, being against multiculturalism and all. Still, that's something the rest of the community where this was held might want to keep them honest on - and start asking questions as to why this particular culture is being allowed in their firehouses. That's right, the local fire department, through a local catering business that runs the hall, hosted this crap. Being that this is year number 3 for this venue - not to mention the local television station called us to get info on this show - we are sure someone will be asking questions - in just enough time to send the event packing in years to come. So while we didn't make a big deal about this show on the site, we most certainly want to see how interesting the aftermath getsa in the weeks to come. We want to give mad props for all the effort the Turn It Down Campaign has made in letting people know about this show and encouraging them to get involved against it. Us being involved was actually us helping them in their mission.They do good work and are most certainly worth checking out!
(From the One People's Project News Forum:)
LEBANON, PA - Less than 24 hours after a white power concert held at a fire department hall on Saturday, rumors began to flow about a brawl that might have held up the show, a band from Germany that failed to appear and the catering company that allowed the neo-Nazis to book the venue for the third year in a row.
The concert, called "Uprise 2009", which was sponsored by three white power record labels, brought about 200 boneheads from across the country representing most of the well-known groups such as Keystone State "Skinheads" Atlantic City "Skins" the Vinlander Social Group, Volksfront, Hammerskin Nation and others. Finnish neo-Nazi Henrik Holappa was also in attendance, coming in from Sarver, PA. According to sources, there were several fights, but one major fight between a Polish crew from Chicago and some East Coast participants. Although it is not being described as a crew war, the response coming from some members of Keystone State "Skinheads" soured the group with other attendees when they began berating "Pollocks" and saying they should not be allowed at any more shows. The brawl caused the show to be halted for about an hour.
Eight bands were scheduled to perform, including two bands from Germany, Moshpit and Brainwash. Reportedly Moshpit was unable to perform and the reason given from the stage was that a band member's mother was sick. It is unsure if this was true, but it is known that information about the bands and their members were leaked publicly before they came to the States. Reportedly, some band members were indeed flagged at the airport when they arrived, but were still allowed to enter the country.
Uprise 2009 was held at a hall for the Prescott Community Fire Co. in Lebanon. The hall is operated by Elaine's Catering and this was, according to sources, the third year this venue has hosted the Uprise event. Although there were no plans from antifa to protest the concert, there is a growing concern about a community venue opening their doors to neo-Nazis putting on events such as this. There are other events planned in upcoming months, such as a St. Patrick's Day event in Florida sponsored by the Confederate Hammerskins, a Memorial Day event also by Hammerskin Nation somewhere in Virginia, and a conference of sorts in Boston in April. It is not known if any of the venues used for these events are friendly to the boneheads or even know the type of event they are hosting. |
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A Story for Our Students (and Those Who Care About Them) |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
Now that another school year in underway, we thought we’d address the issue of white power music and other recruitment efforts popping up in schools – specifically, what to do if you see signs of hate groups in your school. As we’ve said in the past, music is the single strongest recruitment vehicle for new, young membership. If you’re seeing a white power band advertised on someone at your school, in essence, you’re seeing a new recruit. Read the basics we’ve outlined below, pass this link along to any students you think should see it, and feel free to email us with any comments, questions, or aspects of the issue you think we may have missed.
And please note: this is not about turning students against one another. If someone has joined a hate group, they’ve already turned themselves against the vast majority of their school community. Additionally, this has become an issue of school safety – yours, your classmates, and everyone else in the building. If someone in your school is flying the flags of racist hatred, it can change the school’s entire climate. It can lead – and has in many instances – to acts of vandalism, harassment and violence. This isn’t one of those situations where a student should sit and wonder if it’s okay to tell. It’s okay to tell. You’ll not only be fighting hate in your everyday life; you’ll potentially be keeping your school and everyone in it safer.
What to look for
The first signs you might see of an increasing white power presence include patches, pins, t-shirts or fliers for white power bands or organizations. High schools have also reported finding recruitment fliers – often printed directly from the ‘youth outreach’ sections of a number of white nationalist organizations – in students’ possession and around the school. These materials, both for bands and organizations, often have recognizable hate symbols on them. While the swastika is the most obvious symbol, it is by far not the only one commonly used. Take a look at the Anti-Defamation League’s page titled Hate On Display: A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos for a quick rundown of some of the most common graphic indicators of a hate group. We’ll provide the link at the end of this article.
But you should also know the difference between punk and hatecore, and between the nonracist skinhead subculture and white power skinheads. A kid in a pair of boots with a shaved head is not automatically a racist. In a lot of areas, there are large numbers of nonracist and antiracist skinheads. Boots don’t make a bonehead; politics do. So check out the patches and pins on his or her jacket. You might be looking at somebody who’s on the exact same side of the issue as you are.
What to do
While this might sound a bit like every cautionary public service announcement you’ve ever heard, your best ally is an adult you can trust. Don’t go to the administrator who overreacts to every little thing. Don’t go to the teacher who will have no idea what you’re talking about. Think of the teacher that you know is a big music fan, or the one you know holds strong antiracist personal politics. Tell them what you saw. Show them this story, or link them to www.turnitdown.com so they can see more about what you’re trying to tell them.
If you don’t feel comfortable going right to an adult in the school, talk to a few friends or classmates whom you know would be concerned. Or talk to one of your parents or an older sibling, if you think that would go more smoothly. But talk to somebody. Don’t sit around and wait for it to get worse.
Avoid telling too many people, though. You don’t want to create a panic or encourage violence against any student. Situations like that get really bad, really fast. This isn’t something you want to feed to the school rumor mill. Get an adult involved as quickly as you can, so that the problem can be resolved without incident.
You have every right to ask the adults at your school to keep your name out of the situation. If they’re halfway decent at their jobs, they’ll understand why you want to stay anonymous. They’ll also realize that you’re talking to them for the good of your school and everyone in it, and that you’re alerting them to something they wouldn’t have seen themselves. Some schools might not want to see or admit that they have a growing problem. That’s where physical evidence comes in: show them the ADL list of symbols, and show them which ones you’ve seen.
We’ve heard from schools in which an entire recruitment effort was caught because one person recognized the name of a white power band on a t-shirt, or saw a racist symbol on someone’s jacket. It sometimes takes a couple of tries to get people to listen, but we’ve seen schools successfully nip a hate group problem in the bud without creating additional problems and without infringing on anyone’s constitutional rights, either.
The rights and wrongs
Now that we mention it, you should know that students do not have the free speech right to display hate symbols in school. Every school we’ve ever known of maintains some kind of completely legal policy against hate group activity. In some schools, hate symbols fall under gang activity rules; in others, a more general ‘disruptive to the educational process’ rule is invoked. Either way, know that these symbols aren’t allowed. If by some oversight of basic common sense, your school doesn’t have a policy against stuff like this, contact us, and we’ll help you demand a policy change.
We hope you never have to deal with the issue of hate in your school. But if you do see it rearing its ugly head, we wanted you to know that you can do something about it. And you should. Just like our music scenes are ours to keep free from hate, so are our schools. Nobody should have to sit in class everyday next to somebody advertising organized hate.
Let us know if we can help in any way if you ever find yourself dealing with any of this. And if your school has faced problems with hate groups, we want to know how it went. Email us anytime at
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. Also, please see Chapter 2 of our Turn It Down Resource Kit at www.turnitdown.com for more suggestions about keeping your school free of organized bigotry. The Resource Kit contains tips for working with fellow students, talking to adults in the building, and organizing against hate in your school.
Link to ADL Database: http://www.adl.org/hate_symbols/default_graphics.asp
Link to Resource Kit, Table of Contents: http://turnitdown.newcomm.org/content/view/73/30/ |
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Racist Groups Using Hip-hop to Spread Hate |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
Recently, Turn It Down was asked to contribute an article to a magazine overseas regarding the existence and potential of white power hip-hop here in the United States. Several European nations are seeing a sharp rise in racist and nationalist hip-hop, and our sister organizations wondered if America is seeing a similar cultural absurdity, particularly since America is essentially the birthplace and epicenter of hip-hop.
A large portion of membership and participation in the Turn It Down Campaign comes from bands and fans within the punk and metal genres, along with indie, alt.country, and other subgenres of rock. This may be due to the fact that these genres are the ones most often hijacked by white nationalist music. Additionally, or perhaps as a reason for this tendency, white nationalists find their most fertile recruiting grounds among the fans of these predominantly white music subcultures.
But hip-hop?!
Whether or not you’re a fan of the genre, it seems common cultural knowledge that hip-hop emerged from the black and Puerto Rican communities, initially in New York and soon after in Chicago, Los Angeles, and across the nation. The notion that hip-hop could ever find validation within our nation’s enclaves of white nationalism seems ludicrous.
But believe it or not, there is white power hip-hop out there.
You may have heard of Woodpile. They were a blip on the controversy radar a couple of years ago when they were signed to West Coast Mafia Records, run by well-known black rapper C-BO. The band and the label have staunchly maintained that Woodpile, who market their music to incarcerated white listeners and often pay homage to ‘the Woods,’ a white racist prison gang, are not in any way racist. They admit that they encourage ‘white pride,’ but their lyrics stop there. If anything, we’ve concluded that Woodpile is a bit silly, but not explicitly racist.
Politiko, however, is less ambiguous. Politiko emerged as part of the brief ‘Ron Paul Rap’ trend, in which artists created and posted tracks endorsing Ron Paul all over the internet. Politiko’s track was fairly benign, but his follow-up work spelled out where he stands:
“I’m a conservationist
Conserve America, ‘cause the white man created it
Other races are defacing it
Soon they’ll be renaming it to Aztlan...
This is how every civilization has fallen.”
--Politiko, “NotSee”
Here we have one example of what most culturally literate Americans would consider unthinkable – a white artist using hip-hop to spread racist hate. (Go ahead. Take a moment to get your mind around it. We needed to do so ourselves.) But if you think WE find it hard to stomach, you should read the chatter among white racists on the subject.
Messageboards across the white power online community contain heated debates around the question of whether or not the white power movement should acknowledge and use the power and popularity of hip-hop to further their cause. Some admit that it would be an undeniably effective tool in reaching alienated white youth, as white youth are the single largest consumer group of hip-hop music. Other hardliners refuse the possibility of having anything to do with a decidedly minority form of music; they feel that to use hip-hop, even for the purposes of recruitment and propaganda, would be to sink to the level of one of the groups they hate most.
We can’t say for sure if white power hip-hop has a chance to taking off in the United States. Our gut and sense of cultural history both say it’s impossible, but our research forces us to acknowledge at least a shred of possibility. We also can see that the white power movement is actively considering it – only the latest of many calculated possible efforts, directly aimed at recruiting new membership by infiltrating another music subculture.
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Apparently, there’s enough hate to go around |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
While the Turn It Down Campaign focuses on white power music and the presence of white power groups in music subcultures, we would be remiss not to mention a new avenue of hate music, brought to us by many of the same bands producing racist hate music around the world today.
Smashing Rainbows features violently anti-gay tracks by relatively well-known white power bands like Angry Aryans, Empire Falls and Chaos 88, as well as eighteen other bands from the U.S. and eight other countries. Song titles include “Smear the Queer,” “Killer of Faggots” and “Torture and Humiliation.” The cover art for the compilation shows a man’s face, twisted up in anger, and his fist is toward the viewer as though he is throwing a punch. One catalog writeup for the album claims Smashing Rainbows is “defending straight people everywhere.” Those track titles aren’t “defensive.” They are overtly hostile and seem to be calling for violence against the gay community.
Released in February, this compilation is a product of a newer white power label called Fetch the Rope. (Subtle, we know.) Fetch the Rope Records claims close alliance with virtually every major producer and distributor of white power music and propaganda in existence today, including Stormfront, NSM88 and Final Stand Records. Fetch the Rope’s website claims, “Our purpose is to disseminate White Power music as widely as possible around the World. We are an introductory stepping stone for White people who are discovering the White Nationalist movement for the first time....especially our White youth.”
Fetch the Rope plainly states that the label exists to infiltrate our youth’s music subcultures and indoctrinate young people into the white power movement. They are using homophobia as one avenue to do so, as part of the white power movement’s efforts to expand the list of fears and hostilities from which they draw new membership.
June is commonly regarded as “Pride Month” by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered community. Turn It Down will be in touch with GLAAD and other organizations devoted to protecting human rights in the gay community, but our June news update seemed a good time and place to inform people involved with our campaign about this detestable new approach to recruiting for the white power movement. Smashing Rainbows is pathetic in every sense; hate is hate, and we should definitely Turn It Down. |
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
This Memorial Day Weekend, the Imperial Klans of America will host NordicFest 2008 in Dawson Springs, Kentucky. The weekend-long event is billed as "one of the premier social events for the white nationalist commnity" on the IKA website. The weekend will include a cross and swastika lighting, as well as a children's playground, bands, speakers and vendors.
Even promotional materials for the event admit that, in recent years, fights have been dangerously out of control at this event. One year, rival white power factions started a veritable riot. The groups who both plan and attend this weekender -- the KKK, Vinlanders, National Socialist Movement and Outlaw Hammerskins, to name just a few -- all have long track records of violence against minorities and those they believe stand in the way of their 'movement.'
Dawson Springs is home to the headquarters of the Imperial Klans of America. The IKA are the subject of an upcoming lawsuit filed by Southern Poverty Law Center over a brutal attack on a teenage boy of Latin American descent; members of the IKA allegedly attacked the boy because they believed he was an illegal immigrant. The attack took place not far from where last year's NordicFest took place, and only weeks after white power bands called on their NordicFest audience to show "no mercy" to "spics."
To learn more about the Imperial Klans of America and their involvement in the attack on an innocent teenager, watch this video by the SPLC: http://youtube.com/watch?v=n28NGMuhyQM |
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Unwanted Attention: Bands' names and fame used to recruit youth |
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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There is such a thing as bad publicity, and it comes in the form of unwelcome endorsements from white power labels and bands. In the process of updating our database of bands, record labels and distribution companies, Turn It Down keeps seeing bands we KNOW aren't white power -- cited on white power label sites as 'friends,' depicted in photo galleries next to shots of well-known white power bands, or, in one case, as a bootlegged live DVD among a label's catalog of white power music. |
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Volksfront “North American Althing” |
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
Volksfront will be hosting a three-day “family friendly weekend” an hour outside of St. Louis from August 29th through September 1st (Labor Day Weekend). The exact location is not disclosed, and personal references from members of white power organizations are required to RSVP. Bands scheduled to play include Blood in the Face, Frontline, and The Rolling Sevens, with more to be added later. Speakers include ‘Pastor Drew’ and ‘VF Pastor Mike L’. Several record labels are also slated as official vendors.
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