EPISODE 118 | Public Enemy Antifa
Much has been made about Antifa. Is it a concept, socio-political stance, or an organized group? Do they oppose oppression by any means necessary, or are they simply hooligans who want to break things? Or, as Trump and others in the Maga mirror world have suggested, are they the quasi-military arm of some insidious plot to undermine the very foundations of western society? Are they, in fact, terrorists? So, let’s trace what it is, where it comes from and who is part of it.
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EPISODE 118 | Public Enemy Antifa
Much has been made about Antifa. Is it a concept, socio-political stance, or an organized group? Do they oppose oppression by any means necessary, or are they simply hooligans who want to break things? Or, as Trump and others in the Maga mirror world have suggested, are they the quasi-military arm of some insidious plot to undermine the very foundations of western society? Are they, in fact, terrorists? So, let’s trace what it is, where it comes from and who is part of it.
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SECTIONS
- 02:05 - Bring the Noise - Antifaschistische Aktion (Antifa), skinhead culture, Anti-Racist Action (ARA), skins go left and right, White Aryan Resistance (WAR) the Heritage Front, Midwest Anti-Fascist Network, National Alliance, the NSM in Toledo, Ohio
- 11:30 - Shut 'em Down - The Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement (HARM) clash with the Illinois European Heritage Association, punch Nazis in the face, why the police protect them, police as legitimate targets, black bloc tactics, the New Sanctuary Movement, Milo Yiannopoulos goes to UC Berkeley
- 19:10 - Public Enemy No. 1 - Fake Antifa Twitter accounts spread #PunchWhiteWomen and #PunchANazi, Jebediah88 fakes The Antifa Manual, It's Going Down counters with Forming an Antifa Group: A Manual, Microchip sends petitions to Trump, the far-right goes all in of Antifa disinformation, molehill mountaineering, Lucian Wintrich worries about "Antifa supersoldiers"
- 25:39 - No Sympathy from the Devil - Louisiana police fall for "full list of antifa.docx", the American Identity Movement, CHiPs fall for "antifa buses", militias roam Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Jeffersonians in Sonora, California become "rooftop rednecks", a family has a scary camping trip in Forks, Washington; Trump tells more lies
- 33:09 - Welcome to the Terrordome - Nonsense about Jan. 6, the Center for Strategic and International Studies creates a database of U.S. terrorist acts, Willem van Spronsen attacks an Immigration center in Washington, Patriot Prayer guy Aaron Danielson is killed by Michael Reinoehl, who is then killed by police; Trump crushes hard on the U.S. Marshalls
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- Antifa.org
- It's Going Down website
- The Long History of Antifa in The Progressive Magazine
- Who Are Antifa, and Are They a Threat? at the Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Inside the Underground Anti-Racist Movement that Brings the Fight to White Supremacists on Mother Jones
- What is antifa? Is it a group or an idea, and what do supporters want? on CBS News
- The Philosophy of Antifa video on Philosophy Tube
- The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa by Gord Hill
- Antifa: A New Political Resistance? in the Berkeley Political Review
- Seven things you need to know about Antifa on BBC
- 11 Suggested Actions Towards Anti-Racism at UC Davis
- Anti-Racism Toolkit at Georgetown University
- Being Antiracist at the National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Antifa articles on Snopes
- EU Anti-racism Action Plan 2020-2025
- Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Antagonists of the Alt-Right video from The Daily Show
- Left Hook: A Brief History of Nazi Punching in America in Mother Jones
- Is Antifa Counterproductive? in The Intercept
- Thinking Strategically About Free Speech And Violence in Current Affairs
- Butterfly Attack: The Origins of the Fake Antifa Social Media Accounts on The Media Manipulation Casebook
- Twitter says fake "Antifa" account was run by white supremacists on CBS News
- From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate from the Anti-Defamation League
- A brief dictionary to help understand the US far right at Al Jazeera
- Prevalence of white supremacists in law enforcement demands drastic change on Reuters
- The Nov. 4 conspiracy theory about antifa has some scary historical echoes on Slate
- How the antifa conspiracy theory traveled from the fringe to the floor of Congress in USA Today
- Is This 'Antifa Manual' Real? on Snopes
- Forming An Antifa Group: A Manual on It's Going Down
- White House ‘antifa’ petition written by pro-Trump troll on Politico
- Family reportedly harassed in Forks after being accused of being members of Antifa
- Federal officers won’t be charged for killing Portland anti-fascist supporter, prosecutor states
- 'I Am Antifa': One Activist's Violent Death Became A Symbol For The Right And Left on NPR
- What we know about Portland shooting suspect Michael Reinoehl in The News Tribune
- Trump Cheered His Killing As ‘Retribution,’ Now His Family Is Suing in Court in Rolling Stone
- Family of activist killed in alleged ‘spray of bullets’ by US police files lawsuit on The Guardian
- The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States from the Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Pushed to Extremes: Domestic Terrorism amid Polarization and Protest from the Center for Strategic & International Studies
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