Database

Mentioned this on our FB, we're starting to compile info and create profiles on hate groups and individuals in Spokane and the surrounding area.

If you have any information, don't hesitate to contact us.

Solidarity,

SARA

Torontonamo

I have finally finished translating the testimony written by a very good friend of mine from Quebec. He has been both politically and socially involved in his community as well as on an international level . He has dedicated his life to activism and for this I will always have the utmost respect for him. He has been a personal influence and inspiration to me, and I feel that sharing what he went through is a small way to show my gratitude for all that he has done. The following testimony has to do with our comrade and I did have to cut a lot of pieces out because the original of this document will be used in court,so certain situations, the names of victims, and so forth, have been edited out.

Testimony dated Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Part One:
False Accusations
Arrests made on Sunday June 27, 2010 between the hours of 08h00-09h00
On Saturday June 26, the evening before the mass arrests were made, the police created a perimeter around the Graduate Students' Union building of the University of Toronto, where we had been throughout the night. The police stopped anyone attempting to leave the premises so they could rummage through their belongings without reasonable cause by threatening to put them under arrest if they did not comply.

During the early morning hours of Sunday June 27, A "Special Unit" task force arrived on the scene. A leader or delegate from a group of activists from Quebec that were staying with us went outside to ask to speak with an official delegate of the Special Unit that had arrived and also for an official search warrant. That is when a police officer hit him in the face and tackled him to the ground. The other officers stormed into the building. The first police officer inside shouted, "Nobody move!" in English. He was carrying a very large rubber bullet gun, the type used as an anti-riot weapon for large-scale crowd control. He intimidated us by pointing it within inches of the faces of people in the room who, like me, were sleeping quietly before the officers barged in. Several minutes passed before I knew what was happening to us – a police chief came into the room to explain to us, in English, that we were all accused of having participated in a riot, and also for supposedly being in possession of "street-type weapons" that were found scattered around the premises. Most of us did not quite fully understand what he was telling us because of the language barrier. Twenty minutes had passed before a senior police officer from Montreal arrived to explain to us in French about the counts of rioting being charged on us. I took the initiative to urge everyone to call their lawyers and relatives to tell them what had happened to us. Some of us had asked the officers for their badge numbers which were hidden by their vests, and they flat out refused to identify themselves by name or their badge number.
Because I told everyone to call their lawyers and families, the police perceived me as being some sort of leader. I was taken outside and placed with the other activists from Quebec. A police officer, "T-Lee", violently threw me to the ground then told me to sit down. He searched my belongings and looked at my digital camera. Frustrated that I had no images on it, perhaps to use against me in some way, he violently threw it to the ground and, afterwards, I had not been able to find it. "T-Lee", along with another police officer I could not identify, picked me up off the ground and walked me over to the side of the building. "T-Lee" held me against the brick wall, while my arms were being pulled behind me very strongly by the unidentified police officer. "T-Lee" then proceeded to take my head and repeatedly bash it against the brick wall and said, "Welcome to Toronto, Asshole!" He told me that if I had "cooperated with him", he would have not used force against me – even though I had already been cooperating, never once did I resist him or any other police officer, he still beat me for no reason. For my well-being and for him to stop physically assaulting me, I reluctantly said I would cooperate because he was hurting me – I knew the only reason he did this was to make me submit to his apparent need for domination. I witnessed the others being treated the exact same – a high-ranking police officer did not want me to look at how the others were being treated so he began to hit me. Then, we went through the usual procedures of arrest (photo identification, handcuffs), but, strangely, in front of all the journalists, it was the police officers from Montreal who escorted us into the prisoner transport bus to be brought to a detention facility.

Part Two:
Inside the Belly of the Beast...
Sunday June 27, 2010 between the hours of 10h00-11h00
Arriving at the detention center, I could see it was a very large, warehouse-type building, with extremely high ceilings and concrete floors. The sight was too much to process what I was seeing through the cage-like interior of the transport bus. It felt like we were in some 3rd world country. Out in front of the building were two physically disabled individuals on wheelchairs, with their hands cuffed to their feet. I was very disturbed by this image. Once parked in front of the building, guards took our belongings and disrespectfully mishandled them, without a care. Several people have testified that my personal property has been broken along with my glasses. We were then taken inside the building, and we all had asked to have our phone call to speak with our families and the right to an attorney or contact our own lawyers, and the guards said they did not have access to a phone or legal assistance for us. I knew of a lawyer in Ontario, but I had never met him in person or been a client of his in the past. 57 to 60 hours passed before I got to speak to with him. I specifically asked him whether or not he understood French, and he said yes but when I questioned him, he was incapable of answering me. Fifteen of us were crammed into a small holding cell equipped with one chemical toilet without a door. They had installed extremely strong lights that hung over the holding cells which were blinding, and the cells were made of iron and steel which made a huge and deafening echo when the guards would open and close the doors. The concrete floor was freezing because the air conditioning was on extremely high and, in addition, most people were barefoot and without shoes and badly dressed because we had been arrested in while sleeping. Twelve hours would pass before they removed our wrist ties. I happened to be double-cuffed, both of my arms became numb and I had extremely sharp pains in my wrists. The following hours in the detention center were like a horror story. We were moved from cell to cell. We were starving because they had arrested us while we were sleeping so we did not have anything to eat since the night before. We had asked for food and water, and waited between 4-6 hours from the time we asked before they actually gave us something. They arrived with a small white bread sandwich with margarine spread and a slice of processed American cheese, along with a small cup of water and some sort of instant juice mix which tasted like nothing. I had spent over 20 hours without food or water to the point that I quickly fell ill, and because of that I have been to the hospital twice for a saline drip due to my state of undernourishment and dehydration because of the circumstances the police and the ones responsible at the Detention Center put me in. Back in the cell, I had severe diarrhea due to starving, dehydration, and the stress of what was happening. My friends created a "wall" by standing in a row in front of me for my dignity so that I could be able to relieve myself in quiet without having to be outwardly ridiculed by the guards. We also did not have access to any toilet paper, which, made keeping a hygienic environment difficult to maintain. Because of the lack of proper air circulation, chemical toilets without doors, and the fact that were not being serviced, the whole detention center reeked of excrement throughout to the point where some people could not eat the little food they were given because it was so overwhelming. The prison guards were under pressure for the large number of orders. I noticed how much stress they were really under. They were extremely impatient and arrogant, and used racist slurs (such as: frenchie, frenchie piece of shit, frog, etc) and disparaging remarks you would not have to endure if you were English/Anglophone or not being detained. It was quite a problem when it came down to all of the procedures and steps taking place since none of the prison guards or other staff spoke French. I had been brought into a private meeting room to be recorded while having my charges read to me, but it was exclusively in English so I did not quite understand everything that was being said to me. Not to mention the constant and unrelenting humiliation from being strip searched, having the guards creating false hopes of liberation with twisted mind games.
After 40 or 45 hours of detention, we were transferred to a van in which we were suffocating because it had no windows and very poor air circulation and sat in it for 20 minutes waiting to leave. We never ended up leaving the premises so they had us exit the van and return to our holding cells. We all thought we were going to go mad if we spent another night at the detention center. My friends were extremely on edge and very sick. They started shouting that they would not sleep another night here, so the guards were preparing start using pepper spray to control outburst. It was a critical situation concerning the complete disregard lack of human rights and rights as Canadians we never would imagine could happen. Finally, after hours of negotiations with the guards, we were transferred to the Toronto Jail.


Part Three:
Toronto Jail
During the night of Monday June 28, 2010
We were once again put into the van that had little air circulation to be transferred to the Toronto prison. Upon arrival of the prison, we were paired off and placed in handcuffs. We were quickly transferred to a temporary cell for a time yet to be identified. Then we were individually examined by a nurse, without asking our permission, the nursing assistant injecting something into our arm that was supposedly to control tuberculosis. Again, we had to endure a second strip search along with a cavity search. After the examinations, we got placed in cells once more. We asked the prison staff to give us food and water, since I had spoken to the provincial judge a few hours before during a teleconference with my lawyer, I asked the judge for the right of access to food and water. The judge did order the prison to feed me, but I was conveniently forgotten about. I had to wait an additional 12 hours before eating when I already had not eaten for 8-10 hours prior. I was so hungry that during night I re-opened a wound that "T-Lee" had inflicted on my hand and I drank my own blood to soothe the unbearable ache in my stomach. I had hoped to be in a better situation with better conditions compared to the detention center but, my hopes quickly crumbled. It was the same as before- 15 people in a cell that normally could accommodate maybe 6 or 8. There was nothing to protect us from the cold, or sanitary conditions and very little to no access to water or food. I truly felt like I was in a Third World prison. It has been so cold that we sat glued to one another to be able to sleep a little. In the morning, they moved us in an even smaller cell. We went from one extreme to another- The heat was stifling and the smell was unbearable because we could not take any showers, or change clothing since our arrest. The prison guards were very psychologically abusive, and made extremely racist and homophobic remarks towards us. None of us dared to ask them for something we needed because they had such blind hatred towards us because we are Quebecers. The mental abuse and humiliation was almost unbearable, but I turned a deaf ear and did not answer.
Around noon we were transferred from prison to the courthouse.


Part Four:
A Lasting Effort...
Monday 28 June 2010
Once at the courthouse, we thought we ended our trip from hell, but the proceedings were so long that we were there all day until the late hours of the night before we were released.
We waited for a very long time in a packed cell of 9 to 10 people. We went through the same routine for a third time. We were given a sandwich with margarine and processed cheese once again. We had to fight with the guards for toilet paper and once again they refused. I saw several of my friends start to be very psychologically affected because of the long incarceration with the complete lack of basic necessities, and not really knowing exactly what will happen with them. For most people this was the first time they were in prison. Many were upset at not being able to speak to their immediate family or even some thought of going to prison even though they knew they were innocent of any charges for the way he had been arrested and treated throughout this ordeal. They no longer believed in justice. They had been victims of racial profiling and reactionary attitudes and that the only way out was the prison for trying to defend an ideal. Many hoped for all of the mistreatment and abuse to stop, but were able to endure it because everyone supported each other in strength through solidarity until the end. Once before the judge, the proceedings were a very brief and expeditious issue of formality. I talked to a lawyer for two, perhaps three seconds and I'm sure it was not the same with whom I had previously talked on the phone. The judge told me that I was going to be released on certain conditions and a thousand dollar fine. After she told me I would be able to leave in three hours after I got my paperwork. Five hours passed before I had my official papers.
I was released late at night, and I was fortunate that my eyesight isn't completely compromised due to the fact I wear glasses. I had asked the judge on four occasions to have my glasses when I was looking through my personal effects. My glasses were bent and broken as if someone had tried to completely break them apart but ran out of time.

In the end, it was worth personally experiencing the horror which was "Torontonamo". Being wrongfully detained for 65 hours, comparing the many stories of inhuman treatment, deeply moved and affected me. It inspires me to continue the fight for my fellow man's rights and freedoms. My only hope is that justice is served to the real culprits responsible for these cruel acts. Many people will never recover from this experience; they will be affected for the rest of lives.

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
CRUELTY 12. Everyone is entitled to protection against any cruel and unusual punishment.

I would like to thank my dear friend Tom for helping with this text.

No longer Canada's problem: White Nationalist Craig Cobb Resurfaces In Montana

Craig Cobb is a longtime anti-semitic white supremacist activist who operated the white supremacist video sharing website Podblanc, which also glorifies violence and murder committed against minorities. He is the first person to prominently post the home address of a federal judge whose husband and mother were later murdered there. He claims “racism is my religion” and advocates “racial holy war” in accordance with the tenets of The Creativity Movement (FKA the World Church Of The Creator) and White Revolution. Cobb gained notoriety within anti-racist and anti-fascist movements and legal advocacy organizations that investigate hate speech and hate crime for his “celebration of violence and murder committed against minorities” as documented in his video recordings, online activities, and disruptions at public events. For this same reason he is admired by some, but not all, neo-Nazis. Supporters herald him as a “brave, dedicated, and highly effective White activist” while others consider him a “pseudo-Nazi” and agent provocateur whose website is a “false front dedicated to data-mining”

On June 18th, 2010, anti-racist sources began reporting that longtime White Nationalist activist Craig Cobb had been arrested in Vancouver, BC where he had been living since being deported from Estonia last summer. We aren't certain of the reason for his arrest, though given his extreme rhetoric and association with Podblanc and several hate groups, we figured that it had something to do with violating hate crime laws.
Several days later on June 22nd, another anti-racist source reported that Cobb had been released.

According to White Reference, multiple sources on the Vanguard News Network claim that Cobb has fled Canada, and is now in the States.

One of these sources is Missouri U.S. Senate write-in candidate Glenn Miller. He reports that Craig Cobb has apparently re-surfaced in Kalispell, Montana. Miller posted the following of the VNN forums:

... Craig phoned me yesterday (7 Jul 10) and left a message that he'd just walked 30 miles thru the mountains out of Canada to Montana and was staying at a "Shelter" there. He said the Canadian cops had confiscated 3 computers and 2 cameras from him...

Another source is supposedly Cobb himself writing this on the VNN forum under the screen name "Andrex":

On Thursday, June 17th, I was arrested by Corporals Faulkner and Terri Wilson of the RCMP, the latter being the head of the Hate Crime Unit [...] Doug Christie, the most renowned free speech lawyer in Canada was kind enough to consult with me from the Vancouver jail. [...] Subsequently I was released and immediately began making plans for successful flight. On Dominion Day, July 1, 2010, I commenced a 30 mile cross-mountain/alpine meadow line-of-sight compass trek from Elko, BC after a 16 hour Greyhound bus trip. I arrived at Roosville, Montana border crossing at 8AM, July 3rd, having escaped from Canuckistan, The Jewish, Chinese, and East Indian People's Dominion.

It is my general belief that senior "last gasp" White elements of the US Customs and Borper [sic] Protection, Secret Service, NSA, CIA, FBI et al must be generally sympathetic--partially, tacitly aiding WN political autonomies, even without our commonly accepted knowledge. I cleared customs in between 30 to 45 minutes. There were no political questions whatsoever...just a very professional and courteous backward/spread legged disarming from my belt-hatchet--which I of course informed them I was carrying, having been on a woods trip.

Richard Fadden, the 58 year old head of Canadian Security and Intelligence Services, two weeks ago stated that foreign elements were unduly influencing/controlling provincial level and municipal level officials in multiple provinces. Later he specifically named China, and it is widely believed IndiaIsrael are the other two manipulating nations. There are 600,000 ethnic Chinese in metropolitan Vancouver and 500,000 ethnic East Indians. Whites are a factual numerical minority.
and
Fadden was immediately excoriated by Bilderberger attendee BC premier Gordon Campbell and Prime Minister Gordon Campbell [we assume he meant Stephen Harper], despite Fadden's perfect reputation as a particularly conscientious cabinet level federal admin. It should be noted that known conduits to the ADL, SPLC, and AIPAC-- the Canadian Anti Racists Action-- had made online statements that Podblanc and myself were under investication [sic] by Fadden's CSIS. If this is correct, it is entirel;y [sic] possible that Fadden and/or his staff were in part inspired to release the truth of foreign control of high level Canadian officials by incisive Podblanc teaching videos.

During last week's G-20 meeting in Toronto, Ralph Nader stated on the CBC that a billion dollars had been spent on security for the few-days event--over $100,000,000 more than on security for the Vancouver Olympics, itself an outlandish sum. Nader went on to state that the event could have easily been held at a remote castle-like mansion outside of Quebec City. However, the shrieking, domineering pomp of the Rothschild Jewish mega-billionaires cabal could not have been achieved by such relative anonymity; hence, the Orwellian demonstartion [sic] of utter, overwhelming planetary dominance.

Jeff Hughes' unindicted murderer Terri Wilson of the RCMP seized, in a search of my unserviced garage hideout behind the 30-some story Plaza Landmark Hotel on Robson Street, my Macbook, two other laptops, my primary religious text, Nature's Eternal Religion, 4 cameras, a large LED spotlight, 2,250 year old swazi coin rings from the long extinct Tocharian Yuezhi and Kushan-Kunindas civilizations, the English language transcript of my Estonian trial, my US passport, and a legal woolly mammoth tusk on which I had stated in one video I planned to carve swastikas as had been found on a 10,000 year old wooly mammoth tusk in the Ukraine. I had suggested in the video I might present one of the carvings to Jeff Schoep and NSM for their highly public street work work against Mexican invaders.

During interrogation, I stated "five words" to Wilson and Faulkner approximately 150 to 250 times. Wilson told me that I "had been arrested because of the Jews". As a quick afterthought he added--"and to a lesser degree because of the blacks...and other races". He was inordinately concerned that I "wanted to found a White country".

So far, four nations have either tried and convicted me for hate speech crimes (Kingdom of SwedenFinland and Canada arrested and remanded for trial). We hate that which threatens that which we love. Or as Linder puts it: "The term 'racism' is genocide. It is the attempted mass murder of Whites".
convicted in absentia and Estonian in-person trial;
I will most probably take a lesson from Terrible Tommy Metzger and Glenn Miller and run for Congress from a northwestern Montana district in an internet/door-to-door campaign in 2012, by which tuime [sic] unemployment will surely have hit Weimar 35% levels. I will run on James Bowery's 3 point platform with the simple additions of outlawing the Federal Reserve, AIPAC, ADL and SPLC. The SPLC will be investigated and its members and cash contibuters [sic] will be convicted as the bombers of OKC. As well, I will support unilaterally transferring/converting all the USA's Jewish and part-Jewish citizens into global Israeli citizens. In other words, their American citizenships [sic] will be officially changed into deported "dishonorary" [sic] and actual Israeli citizenships [sic] (whether or not Israel approves)--a service for which the White American taxpayers have pre-paid many times over through decades of extreme monetary gifts to Israel.

It is fantastical that loud-mouthed. cocksure [sic] of himself, terribly homely Jew Ken Feinberg has been named the Obama BP oil spill payout-control czar for the southern gulf states. This is roughly equivalent to Dr. William L. Pierce being appointed to admin a NYC/CT area ecological disaster. Who can forget that aged Jew Henry Kissenger [sic] was originally slotted to sanitize the Israeli 911 attack and Jew Philip D. Zelikow finally executed that lie?

I want to thank the Montana militiaman and his Jesse James-descended wife who picked me up 60 miles into my walk just outside Olney, MT. There is no public transport up here; my knee and foot were swollen.

The Podblanc team will of course work to get Podblanc onto new servers ASAP. Thanks to the Podblanc team. If anyone cares to write me: Craig Cobb, General Delivery, Kalispell, MT 59903 (I think the zip is correct) I will try to read any personal messages here on ***** *********.

RAHOWA,
CraigCobb
Kalispell,Montana,
July 6th, 2010

Cobb later added more information regarding political aspirations:

Turns out there is a sole US representative for all Montana, so I may as well run for US Senate from Montana in 2012.

Also, one Andrew J. Bonfield--a probable Jew [lawyer] who I peered at through the glass without my glasses was curious about Creativity. I told him that we live in a soft Jewish dictatorship in which they can no longer crush our testicles with special pliers as the Jews did to Whites in Lithuania in WWll. His voice immediately became ebullient: "It's pretty good, isn't it!"

It takes two to three weeks just to upload Podblanc's almost 20,000 videos to new servers. Maybe we will use Metzger's server company. I am not yet in touch with the Podblanc cell. You Tube has been online 5 years; Podblanc 3 years--we will be back to culturally influence the world. We certainly could use help with server costs.

New contact phone and address for media or personal communications:
Craig Cobb
124 9th Ave. West, Kalispell Montana 59901
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Phone 406-257-5801

The phone number and address are for a homeless shelter in Kalispell which Cobb also mentions later in a further paranoid post on the blog:

I am Craig Cobb; I think there is a good chance that new signup "Andrex" on VNNF is RCMP Terri Wilson, one of the two primary murderers of WN Jeff Hughes. I had googled "Andrex" and saw it to be a Brit toilet paper brand too. Even in their "investigations", these esteemed-up shabbos "Unitarian" racial moralists can't resist judeo crissed-insane based slurs. At least, Andrex is likely an anti.

My new email is craigcobbpodblanc@*******.com Anyone can phone me at that VNNF telephone number too. I'd like to find April Gaede and her husband Mark Harrington.

The shelter I stay at accepts is federally funded. My religion is Creativity which differs from theirs. All my political and journalistic works are seminally, religiously informed and predicated.

I just read an interesting story in April 2010 Wired mag about Gerald Blanchard, a Canadian master thief who served less than 2 years and is currently in a Vancouver halfway house. Blanchard served less time than several "thought criminals" in the Jewish, Chinese and East Indian People's Dominion of Canuckistan.

I did NOT write these two paragraphs which Andrex melded into my WR Blog posts:

One thing you have to laugh at is Taylor Bowles' blog. Everytime they expose him a little more, he runs over and starts belching out more generic white power essays. It's like he thinks that increasing his pro white act will sway anyone coming to his site. It's more transparent than window glass.

Now he's over there comparing how communists run candidates the right way and white nationalists do it all wrong. You ran for president and blew tens of thousands of dollars, you fucking idiot. Where do you have to stand and tell anyone about politics? Notice how the communist run for realistic offices that they are likely at least somewhat qualified to hold? I bet he blew at least 50k on his campaign. And then he'll turn around and bitch about the NSM selling records to people.

No word on whether or not Cobb has met up with April Gaede, a prominent white patriot in Kalispell who has spent most of her racist career as a neo-nazi stage mom for her twin daughters, Lynx and Lamb, who perform Neo-nazi white supremacist folk music under the name Prussian Blue.

We'll keep you posted on what happens next.

Solidarity,
SARA

Is our Government Censoring the Internet?

Big Brother is Watching Us
And censoring information on Antifascists&Antiracists across North America involved in the G8/G20 in TO

We are trying to gather info to write a story on what's been happening on the internet for the past month or so according to a comrade of ours from Montreal QC, someone who has directly been affected by this, and more so during this past week I have really noticed this Anomaly...
No one else in the antifascist or anti-racist community has contacted me or our collective about this- But I find this to be quite alarming and I feel that it is something that needs to be addressed.

Multiple websites, either independent websites belonging to organizations with certain political views, personal blog posts on social networking sites by individuals mentioning certain subjects/exposing something, photos and graphics that were normally very easy to find through a search engine- Have all completely vanished. Without a trace.

Another comrade of mine in Spokane said to look on Archive.Org for any trace of the missing info/pics. I have tried so many search engines, and under different geographical locations (ie- abc.ca, abc.fr, etc).

Absolutely Nothing came back in the search.

*The Connection?

Now, the comrade of ours from Montreal, QC that has been affected by this strange turn of events on the net happens to have been in Toronto to protest against the G8/G20.

He was wrongfully arrested, experienced extreme racism, brutality and cruelty from law enforcement, due to the very fact he was a francophone [french speaking] Quebecois. But then they found out he is an Anarchist Activist who has a long history of being politically and socially involved in Montreal and France. He was beaten and questioned relentlessly in prison, and remained in custody without a reason for over 70 hours. The scene inside the prison was something he has never experienced in his entire life, and it was because of the mass arrests of over hundreds of people- Hundreds of law abiding citizens who were exercising their right and freedom to protest peacefully. Because of this, the extreme police brutality, the blatant disregard of human beings and their Rights and freedoms on such a mass scale, Toronto is now referred to as "Torontonamo".

He and his comrades have written detailed affidavits. They are taking this matter to the high courts. I actually have copies of all of them. What I've read so far is pretty disturbing...

He just so happened to mention his ordeal on a certain networking site, along with an endless amount of pictures (Probably around the 500 mark). They were all taken down without any notice. So were all of his posts. His page was completely wiped clean with no explanation.
Every time he mentions something about where he was, what did he did/what was done to him- Anything to do with the G8/G20- it disappears.

There is a certain Anti-Fascist Collective in the Northeast who was present at the G8/G20, who also had a ton of various material on the internet- It is like they have completely vanished off of the face of the planet. I couldn't find Anything about them except for 1 small iron on patch being sold by a company from Europe.

We'll keep you posted on what we could find, I will also translate our comrade's Affidavit, so that if anyone is interested in reading about his experience with what happened to him and thousands of other peaceful/innocent protesters who did nothing wrong, you guys will be able to read it first hand.

In the meantime, I urge you to check this site out:

http://www.torontonamo.net/

It is french, but you can use http://translate.google.com/ to translate whole websites.



Solidarity,

SARA

SATURDAY JULY 31 - Rose City Antifa - Day of Solidarity : "CALL TO ACTION"

Rose City Antifa (aka Portland ARA) is organizing "CALL TO ACTION"- a day to engage the broad, independent, and radical antiracist/anti-fascist movements.

...The Story behind C-T-A

During the early morning hours of March 27th, a Portland, Oregon anti-racist activist was shot in what appears to be a well orchestrated attack. It is suspected that the attackers were members of the neo-Nazi movement. The victim is a member of the anti-racist skinhead movement, a son, a friend and has dedicated the past ten years of his life to fighting white supremacist organizing.

The Portland Police Department has suggested that the shooting is “gang related.” Already facing mass protests over numerous recent cases of police brutality and murder, the police treatment of this case is not surprising, and fits into a pattern of downplaying racist violence while targeting anti-racist activists.

Although police and politicians attempt to portray cities like Portland as welcoming safe places, Portland and the Pacific Northwest has a violent and dangerous history. For 30 years Portland and the surrounding region has been targeted by white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements. Groups like White Aryan Resistance (WAR) and Aryan Nations waged an ongoing and underground campaign to both recruit young whites and to terrorize people of color, GLBTQ people, and others who were seen as enemies of their racist order. The 1980’s were an especially violent period in which neo-Nazi skinheads with ties to WAR beat Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw to death.

But this racist terror has not gone unopposed. Coalitions of anti-racist youths, militants from the GLBTQ communities, and individuals fighting for justice and dignity organized to beat back the racists and neo-Nazis. This organizing was often opposed and criminalized by the authorities who sought to disrupt independent antifascist organizing. This situation led organizers to rely on themselves and their own communities.

The organizing by anti-fascists in Portland was a positive example and has been part of a broader, longterm campaign across the country. From NYC to LA, from Minneapolis to New Orleans, there is a history of peoples organizing to both defend themselves against racist terror, as well as come together to build multi-racial coalitions to discuss and plan forms of action to address conflicts and crisis in our various communities.

The shooting in the context of growing reaction
The March 27th shooting occurred within a backdrop of growing Right wing, racist, and emerging fascist organizing and activity. There has been a dramatic escalation of rhetoric and action from the broad Right. While all sectors of the working classes and poor face economic and social uncertainty, the racists, the Right wing, and the smaller but significant sections of the neo-Nazi and fascist movements are looking to divide our class and peoples. Where there should be united class anger against a system that is continually grinding people down, the Right openly demonstrates its contempt and hatred for our people. Fascists and neo-Nazis are looking for these moments of division in which they can move in, recruit, and carry out their own organizing.

*Call to Action

We propose Saturday July 31, 2010 as a Call to Action Against Racism and Fascism. We want to use the CA to both engage the broad, independent, and radical antiracist/anti-fascist movements.

We want mass and varied forms of protest and action. These actions can range from: music and DJ shows; educational events; outings of known Right and fascist organizers; street protest; immigrant solidarity and anti-minuteman action; and so on. While we want collaboration and coordination when possible, we also want to maximize the impact of this CA and thus argue for the greatest degree of creativity and initiative.

We encourage individuals and organizations to determine what best works in their localities. We support the incorporation of any existing and ongoing anti-racist/anti-fascist action into this CA and imagine the CA as a way to bolster already active organizing.

To reiterate, we argue for a maximum of creative and independent initiative and ask only that a) individuals and organizations endorse the call b) any public actions and events be promoted. We would not necessarily seek to publish details of planned actions unless requested to do so.

We want to use the CA as a means to increase collaboration between our forces and work in a popular manner to highlight the need for a mass, radical response to racist and fascist organizing.

Endorsers:
Anti Racist Action - Central Texas
Anti Racist Action - Los Angeles, CA
Anti Racist Action - Portland/Rose City Antifascists
Anti-Racist Action - Kent, OH
Anti-Racist Action - Trenton, NJ
Bring the Ruckus!
Common Cause - Ontario, Canada
First of May Anarchist Alliance
Four Star Anarchist Organization
Iron Rail Infoshop
Kersplebedeb
Red & Anarchist Skinheads – Northeast
Solidarity & Defense
Wild Rose Collective
Workers Solidarity Alliance

Endorse the Call! Email: july31.antifa@gmail.com.

French: http://july31antifa.blogspot.com/2010/06/31-juillet-2010-lappel-laction-contre.html
Spanish: http://july31antifa.blogspot.com/2010/06/31-de-julio-de-2010-una-llamada-la.html
See july31antifa.blogspot.com for more information.

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SARA

Violation of the Canandaigua Treaty : First Nations Rights

"We're not defending tobacco use... We're defending our right to have an economy in our territory. The Canandaigua Treaty promises us fair use enjoyment of our land. We take that to mean govern ourselves, the right to prosper, the right to engage in activities that benefit our people."

...The era of big time tobacco sales is coming to an end.

There are simply too many forces now aligned against the Iroquois to win this fight. With the recent setbacks in the U.S. courts, the resolve of New York state to tax the wholesalers and the complete failure of the Iroquois to come up with a cohesive, collective response it is clear the days of freewheeling tobacco are over.

It was in the early 1970s when Bob Satiacum, a traditional leader of the Puyallup Nation in Washington State, took a page from the Iroquois book of political activism, decided that Native sovereignty had an economic component which could be converted into cash with the right ambition.

Satiacum took on the state. He not only sold tobacco but opened the first commercial bingo hall on Indian lands in the U.S. Satiacum may have succeeded if he had run his operations as a collective but he wanted wealth and with that came corruption. He was indicted on various criminal charges by the U.S. and died as a political refugee in Canada but his ideas took hold across the continent.

At Akwesasne ,the Mohawk Nation was approached in 1986 to issue licenses for the retail sales of tobacco.

Many of the elders were concerned that we should not be involved in marketing this most sacred of plants with serious consequences should we decide to do so.

By no coincidence the issue of commercial gambling was also brought before the Nation, also in 1986.

A committee was formed to investigate both these issues. This was expanded to include all petroleum products in conjunction with the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne and the St. Regis Tribal Council.

[We] knew the prophecies which told of the problems we would encounter with gambling.

[We] knew tobacco was killing hundreds of thousands and there was a spiritual and psychological residue.

[We] knew all oil-based products were plant and animal based and to release them from the earth, where they were placed by the Creator, would cause serious problems for all that lived on the surface.

[We] knew about the teachings of Skaniateriio, that the veil surrounding the earth would be torn, the planet would heat up and the great winds would come, bringing great destruction before upsetting the delicate balance of the earth itself.

But [We] knew that without effective controls based on compromise and reason these things would get the better of us and we would be overwhelmed by the greed and passion they would arouse.

Without an effective policing agency, one which would exist in contrast to our ancestral customs, we could not hope to regulate this kind of commerce.

None of the Nation leaders wanted a top-heavy central government with cops, courts and jails. But what else could be done?

An appeal to reason was tried in December of 1986 when the three councils imposed a moratorium on the importation of tobacco products pending a resolution of the commerce issue with the retailers.

Would they comply with the Nation's tobacco regulations or not? The decision by some was to defy any entity which tried to oversee this activity and, naturally, chaos and anarchy was the result. The Nation was not prepared to physically fight with its own people.

In 1997 the Mohawk Nation joined with the other members of the Haudenosaunee to negotiate a Trade and Commerce Agreement which, despite the distortions and outright lies, would have established centralized control over tobacco.

This would have meant a radical shift in terms of profits with the bulk going to the nations to underwrite social programs, economic diversity initiatives and government operations. Other goals were to secure fiscal independence from the U.S. and Canada, eliminate smuggling and then terminate tobacco sales altogether.

The result was a series of staged protests organized by tobacco kingpins, the same ones who know wave the Haudenosaunee flag. The protests were enough to persuade New York Governor George Pataki to break his word and abandon the Commerce deal.

But that was then. Now there is tremendous pressure being exerted upon the Iroquois by the U.S., Canada and New York state.

They will use increasing force to eliminate smuggling (as they call it) and will not hesitate to respond with aggression should they encounter resistance. They will compel the retailers to pay sales taxes-and some have broken ranks and are already doing so.

They are eager to bring the formidable military powers to bear against [us].

Just listen to the words, or watch the face, of U.S. Department of Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano. Or the determination of New York Governor David Paterson, a man with nothing to lose.

Read the reports coming from the local and national media about Akwesasne and the Iroquois. The news is mostly negative which means there is not any sympathy for a Native people who, according to them, have now grown rich on the misery of others. No more "Indian plight" to exploit.

There is a slight possibility of salvaging our tax-free status but it would require the retailers to go to their respective tribal and national leaders and agree to not only revive the 1997 Trade and Commerce Compact but to set a time to get out of the tobacco trade completely.

If not, who among us is willing to take to the barricades, their lives on the line, for the right to market this product of death?

Doug George-Kanentiio, Akwesasne Mohawk, is the former editor of Akwesasne Notes, a co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association as well as a former member of the Board of Trustees for the National Museum of the American Indian. He is the author of “Iroquois on Fire” and resides in Oneida Castle.

Source:
http://www.oneidadispatch.com/articles/2010/07/06/opinion/doc4c33f7d009ef0415685306.txt

Assault on First Nations' Rights and Tribal Sovereignty? Iroquois Tribe prevented from flying to Lacrosse World Cup due to post-9/11 visa row

The Iroquois nation's lacrosse team is still unable to get on a flight to Europe where its members hopes to compete in the world lacrosse championships starting Thursday in England.

The teams participating in the World Lacrosse Championships in England represent 30 nations, from Argentina to Latvia to South Korea to Iroquois. And in a rare example of international recognition of American [Tribal] sovereignty, they participate at every tournament as a separate nation from the U.S.
Although the Iroquois' ancestors invented lacrosse, and are one of the best Lacrosse teams out there, they might not be at this year's world championship tournament because of a dispute over the validity of their passports.

As was reported by All Things Considered and elsewhere, the problem for the Iroquois team is that since 1977 they have used passports issued by the Iroquois nation to travel outside the U.S.

Passport controls have been tightened in the U.S. and elsewhere, a reaction to the 9/11 attacks.
The stricter requirements for passports caused the British government to question whether the U.S. would allow the Iroquois team members to return to the states with their unusual passports.

Meanwhile, the Iroquois refuse to obtain U.S. passports, if only this once, because they don't accept U.S. citizenship for themselves.

When U.S. officials said they couldn't guarantee the Natives would be allowed to return to American soil, the British balked at issuing visas to the Iroquois.
U.S. officials previously informed the team that new security rules for international travelers meant that their old passports -low-tech, partly handwritten documents issued by a tribal authority- wouldn't be honored.

But by showing up, the team avoided forfeiting its tickets. The airline allowed the squad to rebook its flight for Wednesday without penalty. Team officials remained hopeful that a last-minute diplomatic intervention would allow them to attend the World Lacrosse Championship, which is taking place in England.

Source:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/07/13/128499905/iroquois-lax-team-still-stuck-in-u-s