In late October, a 1992 photograph of Abrams burning the state flag surfaced on social media. This became a story in GA & national media. nytimes.com/2018/10/22/us/…
State flag which Abrams burned in protest incorporated the Confederate battle flag & was a symbol of white supremacy.
Late on Sunday, Oct 21, right-winger Edward C Tracey posted this newspaper photograph of Abrams at a 1992 protest against Confederate symbols to his Facebook profile.
On Mon. morning, John C Hall Jr. began spreading the story, initially sharing Tracey's Facebook post.
Soon after, Hall sent materials to Jim Galloway of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Galloway was working on AJC article when New York Times broke story. ajc.com/blog/politics/…
Later Mon., Hall posted more press clippings about Abrams to his FB page. That evening he published a blog post to further amplify story.
By Tuesday, Hall was gleeful about story's media coverage: "the torpedo hit her ship perfectly!" Hall also bragged about traffic to blog post
The Kemp campaign did not officially comment on the Abrams confederate flag story.
However, Hall suggested that his role in spreading that story is why Hall received "VIP status" when Mike Pence & Kemp held a Nov 1 rally in Savannah, GA. Symbolic reward for Hall's efforts?
While Kemp condemned blatantly racist/neo-Nazi robocalls made against Abrams, this incident suggests that the GOP has no problem with white nationalist assistance behind the scenes.
Here is white nationalist leader Bradley Dean Griffin (League of the South / Occidental Dissent website) congratulating Hall for his efforts against Abrams.
(Brad Griffin is also linked to the GOP precinct chairman for East Ellijay, GA, see article here: atlantaantifa.org/2018/10/25/rac…)
Atlanta Antifascists stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine. We condemn all targeting of civilians in war, no matter what nationality or religion. We have no sympathy for Hamas, whose original atlantaantifa.org
(1988) charter was unambiguously antisemitic, and whose slaughter of civilians is abhorrent. We also broadly believe in the Palestinian right to self-determination. As US citizens, we recognize that many of the weapons currently killing Palestinian children were supplied by
our government, and believe that all US citizens have the same moral duty to oppose US-funded state terrorism and war crimes by Israel.
The recent murder of a Palestinian-American 6-year-old by an Islamophobe underlines how important it is to fight against the dehumanization
This piece from Molly Conger goes into further details about Tyler Dykes, who is currently incarcerated awaiting felony trial for his participation in "Unite the Right" the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/the-technology…
"Inside of this incredible report by afainatl
, which exposes the fascists of the Southern Sons Active Club, is important news about future Patriot Front activity.
It looks like PF is planning a national event sometime around May 12-14 in the (1/2)
Three months ago, we started infiltrating Southern Sons Active Club, a racist group active in Georgia and the Carolinas. In this major report, we identify over a dozen neo-Nazis and highlight violent plots.
More recently, Schwam helped the White Lives Matter racist project in (2/4)
Alabama.
Schwam's history as an active white supremacist explains why the racist/antisemitic National Justice Party has been making propaganda over his death, and why a fundraiser for his family has been doing the rounds on racist Telegram channels.
Thanks, this question is a great opportunity to articulate an antifascist principle in the tradition of ARA and the Torch Network. One of our basic principles is, "we go where they go" which means we follow fascists wherever they go, both physically and information-wise. (1/13)
"We go where they go" means both physical space and information space. Fascists should never feel secure on home ground and should never have a safe space. In the modern day, they recruit and propagandize on Gab, Twitter, Telegram, even Roblox. We follow them there. (2/13)
If the ground is positive to our side we counter them directly, if the ground is neutral we try to deplatform them, if the ground is against us we watch and wait for weaknesses we can exploit in other areas. We report on their attack plans in order to warn our communities. (3/13)
New article on the "Nations in Action" conference at the Georgia Tech Conference this weekend containing a deep dive on many terrible speakers (including virulent antisemites and literal piss drinkers) and their GOP political connections. This should never have been approved.
These speakers are not just harmless cranks: they're pushing conspiracies with a body count (like QAnon and "sovereign citizens") and peddling fake COVID cures.
According to this article, @GeorgiaTech is cowardly ducking responsibility. They need to stand up and kick out the conference to stop these conspiracist bigots from profiting off the GA Tech name. ajc.com/news/investiga…