On 02/04/2017 11:18 AM, Steve Kinney wrote:
On 02/03/2017 09:05 PM, Razer wrote:
The "Alt-Right". AKA Fascist AKA NeoNazis...
Attempting to convince young people that racism, antisemitism, and bigotry, are 'hip'.
The "cool" kids ain't buying it.
An IWW revival is underway, and presently helping to coordinate strikes and non-cooperation by incarcerated workers, a.k.a. slave labor:
A new outfit calling itself Redneck Revolt is growing fast. Among other things they organize events at rifle ranges. What do they mean by redneck?
Hehehe I remember "Radical Greasers". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Up_Angry They were to John Sinclair's White Panthers what UAW/MF was to Yippie! The wiki entry is rudimentary. Much more available if you search around Rr
"In 1921, the term became synonymous with armed insurrection against the state, as members of the United Mine Workers of America tied red bandanas around their necks during the Battle of Blair Mountain, a two week long armed multi-racial labor uprising in the coalfields of West Virginia."
https://www.redneckrevolt.org/
Most of the students who were there came to protest.
Over the last decade or so I have seen a trend in attendance at openly promoted Klan and Nazi rallies in the U.S. Counter demonstrators have started to routinely outnumber the intended turnout, by larger margins as time goes by. The counter demos are increasingly confrontational, successfully disrupting and, more recently, dispersing the Fascists. The best part: I see this happening in "red State" country.
Hicks ain't stupid, and Internet access means they can't be kept ignorant. If y'all thought the printing press was a big deal in terms of impact on political affairs, you ain't seen nothing yet. Some people just seem to be born wanting to do radical politics, and we are everywhere.
In the Deep South and Midwest where the Klan is still deeply entrenched in law enforcement agencies and local government, they take care to keep the Invisible Empire /really/ invisible, so digging them out of positions of institutional power will take some doing - especially where and as they enjoy the support of Federal law enforcement and political warfare assets. But given time and work, it can be done.