Thread by @VestsCanada

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1. Seems that there’s a fascist music festival happening. Or, at the very least, a music festival being organized by fascists.

I feel like @bifnaked needs to be aware of the following information before participating with such an event.

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2. We’ll start off by saying that fundraising for veterans is admirable, yet there’s no indication of where any funds raised are actually going.

3. The organizer is Eric Brazeau. If that name is familiar, that’s because he was featured a few years ago by @vicecanada for his involvement with the Soldiers of Odin, and then Northern Guard - two ultranationalist patriot groups whose entire foundation is Finnish neo-nazism.

4. Northern Guard is a split from SOO, and Brazeau was Quebec VP (I’ll get to the “was” in a sec.)

vice.com/en_ca/article/…

5. Due to the inevitable in-fighting, he left NG.

h/t @ARCCollective

anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2018/02/infigh…

6. Here’s Brazeau’s Facebook profile:

7. Odinism and some love from Georges Massaad:

8. So what’s his Twitter feed like? Yikes.

9. More from his Twitter feed, including anti-Semitic dog-whistles.

10. Seems to be a fan of Bernier, and some more dog-whistles:

11. It should be noted that his radio station appears defunct. Although it could be operating on Minds only.

12. He’s promoted his festival around #YellowVestsCanada groups and pages for months.

13. And even some hate group members are planning to attend, like Dunn Ryan McLean of Canadian Combat Coalition.

14. I sincerely doubt this is who @bifnaked wants to be involved with.

Do us a favour and try to get this out to her? Thanks, fam!

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Here’s Dan Dubois, national president of the Canadian Combat Coalition (another far-right patriot hate group) promoting the event:

This event coincides with the Canadian Combat Coalitions “Canadians for Canada” rally, in Ottawa on July 20.

Multiple hate and ultranationalist patriot groups will be present.

They’re intending to stay in the same camp ground and will all be attending this festival.

Pat “The Holocaust Didn’t Actually Kill That Many Jews” King and Rick Boswick, fresh off his recent attacks in Hamilton and Toronto, are going to be there. Rick is actually going as an accredited journalist.

Getting this canceled is a non-starter, folks. It’s already been attempted, and the land is owned by a friend of the organizers and is private. The best thing to do is attempt to get @eventbrite to pull, or hope @bifnaked pulls or denounces (if she’s contractually obligated.)

UPDATE:

@bifnaked has provided a statement. She’s wonderful as ever.

https://twitter.com/bifnaked/status/1144798617812664320?s=21