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Five years ago, white supremacists converged on Charlottesville, VA for the "Unite the Right" rally #unitetheright . Unicorn Riot reporters were on site
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earlier in 2017 at another major racist rally in Pikeville, Kentucky, we interviewed people like @DLamontJenkins who have tracked the white supremacist movement, which was trying to coalesce into a larger presence in U.S. politics
In Pikeville at the April 2017 rally we asked Matthew Heimbach of the now-defunct Traditionalist Worker Party about Holocaust denial and fascist organizing:
We are #live in #Minneapolis for a rally and march in response to the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
"It was made about race when colonizers came here, it was made about race when Black people were forcefully disconnected from our homeland, so don't say we are making this about race, it was about race before I was born!" -- Speaker at rally
"You know that the system is rigged, and you're gonna tell me it's not!" -- Speaker at rally
Jury selection began this week for the civil trial of the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in #Charlottesville. The rally ended with the murder of #HeatherHeyer and injuries to dozens of other activists, including #DeAndreHarris. gregpalast.com/hate-goes-on-t…
The attack on #DeAndreHarris in #Charlottesville was witnessed and filmed by our reporter, @ZDRoberts, which helped lead to several arrests & convictions.
"They came there for violence," says Roberts. "They knew what they were doing and they planned it.”
"They came there for violence," says Roberts. "They knew what they were doing and they planned it.”
Read our report on the trial and listen to the full @FlashPointsNews interview with @ZDRoberts: gregpalast.com/hate-goes-on-t…
#Charlottesville #BlackLivesMatter #HeatherHeyer #DeAndreHarris
#Charlottesville #BlackLivesMatter #HeatherHeyer #DeAndreHarris
@tribelaw Hi, Germany 🇩🇪 here again.
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In the 1970's West Germany suffered from severe series of domestic terrorism.
The Rote Armee Fraktion RAF.
Their attacks on capitalism, targeted Bankers, Politicians, Embassies. To finance, they were committing robbery, killing police.
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In the 1970's West Germany suffered from severe series of domestic terrorism.
The Rote Armee Fraktion RAF.
Their attacks on capitalism, targeted Bankers, Politicians, Embassies. To finance, they were committing robbery, killing police.
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@tribelaw October 20, 1977, former chancellor Helmut Schmidt held a speech on the responsibility of the democracy to protect his citizens, as also had been outlined by the German Supreme Court.
He said :
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@tribelaw "The Federal Constitutional Court did in the early Morning hours of October 16 on behalf of ours People recognized for right: Articles 1 and 2 of ours Of the Basic Law oblige the state to to protect life. This duty to protect is full.
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Today, August 12, is a day forever engrained in the memories of Susan Bro and Haifa Jabara. Their children, #KhalidJabara and #HeatherHeyer, were murdered in hate crimes on the same day, one year apart. Our thoughts are with both families on this difficult day.
As @SusanBro7 and Haifa Jabara wrote last year: "As any mother who has lost a child knows, there are no words to adequately convey the sense of loss & pain."
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#JabaraHeyerNOHATEAct
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#JabaraHeyerNOHATEAct
They are united by more than grief & shared anniversary. Khalid & Heather's murders were not reflected in hate crime data. Both were high profile #hatecrimes & prosecuted as such. Yet they weren’t included in the federal govt’s count of hate crime data.
#JabaraHeyerNOHATEAct
#JabaraHeyerNOHATEAct
Two years ago today, I was at an intersection in Charlottesville, with other antifascists and anti-racists, when a white supremacist rammed his car into the crowd.
The whole world sent thoughts and prayers.
But two years later, the US seems more fascist and racist than ever.
The whole world sent thoughts and prayers.
But two years later, the US seems more fascist and racist than ever.
The first thing I heard, coming from the uphill side of the crowd, was a low death roar. I knew something terrible was happening.
I looked over and saw a grey minivan knocking into people. This was one of two cars that the white supremacist had hit, which stood mid-crowd.
I looked over and saw a grey minivan knocking into people. This was one of two cars that the white supremacist had hit, which stood mid-crowd.
The next moments were a blur.
I dashed without hesitation to the minivan, and realized that it had just been rear-ended.
Blood and injured people were everywhere. I joined a team helping a woman who was severely bloodied. It turned out all four of her limbs were broken or hurt.
I dashed without hesitation to the minivan, and realized that it had just been rear-ended.
Blood and injured people were everywhere. I joined a team helping a woman who was severely bloodied. It turned out all four of her limbs were broken or hurt.
I’m in #Charlottesville where many have come to pay their respects to Heather Heyer. 
the city has blocked off the block where she died to cars
rest in power #HeatherHeyer
Why am I angry abt the failure of leaders to address the threat of white supremacy? When #HeatherHeyer was killed I gave a comprehensive analysis of the rise of violent white supremacy under Trump on @MSNBC w/@JoyAnnReid.2 yrs ago. Listen vimeo.com/229429206?ref=… #Charlottesville
I raised #RichardBest, killed by a white supremacist in Portland, #RichardCollins, killed in MD, the bombing if a mosque in Minnesota - all in the months before #Charlottesville. The decorous effort to avoid confronting this danger honestly has only resulted in more violence.
I spoke about the President’s “coterie” - Bannon, Gorka, Miller. His AG, Jeff Sessions. A who’s who of white supremacists. It has been plain from the beginning who the President is & that he is unwilling to stand against this threat. Indeed he has stoked it w/rhetoric & policies.
Two years ago in Charlottesville an avowed neo Nazi committed a terrorist act droving through a crowd of protesters, killing #HeatherHeyer. Trump called the Nazis and those protesting with them "fine people" but we know the truth. Heather may be gone but her memory will never die
Nazis marched through the streets of Charlottesville, they killed Heather Heyer in the open, unrepentantly and Trump equivocated their actions on camera to the world and the nation. Instead of reassuring a rattled nation he emboldened their hate. These are not "fine people"
If your are brown, or black, or gay, or Jewish two years ago you were frightened. Because we have seen this kind of hate before. We knew what it was from the moment of the collared shirts, tiki torches and chants of "Jews will not replace us!" that these were not "fine people."
A federal court just sentenced James Alex Fields Jr. to serve 2 consecutive life sentences and 27 concurrent life sentences on 29 counts of federal hate crimes. He will be sentenced in state court on July 15. splcenter.org/news/2019/06/2…
Fields drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-racist counterprotestors during the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in #Charlottesville in August 2017. He killed 32-year-old #HeatherHeyer and injured 28 others during the attack.
#HeatherHeyer worried that “someone might do something stupid and someone might die,” according to the sentencing memo. She attended the anti-racist counter-protest anyway. A few hours later she was dead, murdered by Fields. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018…
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Only 3% of Americans have Jewish, Sikh or Muslimic faith.
There is a lot of hate and fearmongering against these religious minorities.
Trump administration increased the existent threat severely.
😘 Greetings from Germany
Only 3% of Americans have Jewish, Sikh or Muslimic faith.
There is a lot of hate and fearmongering against these religious minorities.
Trump administration increased the existent threat severely.
😘 Greetings from Germany
2/ Political rhetoric matters.
Terror attacks affects the minority.
It does not matter in what country the crime happened.
The article below illustrates this very well.
😘 Greetings from Germany
vox.com/first-person/2… via @voxdotcom
Terror attacks affects the minority.
It does not matter in what country the crime happened.
The article below illustrates this very well.
😘 Greetings from Germany
vox.com/first-person/2… via @voxdotcom
@voxdotcom 3/ Trump never called white supremacist terrorism as such - but even relativated it.
Again Trump punts on white supremacy after New Zealand attacks
😘Greetings from Germany
cnn.com/2019/03/16/pol…
Again Trump punts on white supremacy after New Zealand attacks
😘Greetings from Germany
cnn.com/2019/03/16/pol…
Cars have no agency, @npr
#HeatherHeyer died because James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car into a street full of people.
#HeatherHeyer died because James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car into a street full of people.
Despite the evidence - still photos, video, witnesses, his damaged car - he pled not guilty last month
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018…‘unite-right’
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018…‘unite-right’
“...the amount of digital evidence collected in this case had surpassed that from the investigation into the Boston Marathon Bombing in April 2013...”
So, in case you were wondering (or not) about my personal feelings on the RNC in CLT...it’s a no for me dawg. Lemme explain
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I’m a convert on this issue. I think calls for even-handedness are fair. And under virtually any other “normal” circumstance, I’d be game. I’m also not a partisan, so that part doesn’t bother me.
But no matter what your political stripes, you cannot pass off the current state of politics in the US as “normal”. This is why saying, “it’s only fair, since we hosted the DNC in 2012” is a false equivalency. It lacks a TON of nuance.
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I'm the woman who challenged @SeanSpicer in an Apple Store, earlier this year.
Yup. That was me.👇🏾
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I'm the woman who challenged @SeanSpicer in an Apple Store, earlier this year.
Yup. That was me.👇🏾
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I'm fighting American Nazis and creeping American fascism. It'd be great if I didn't have to talk about @SeanSpicer ever-the-fuck-again.
Nazis murdered #HeatherHeyer--and they've been emboldened by Trump.
Now they're planning more violence--
Now they're planning more violence--
