[Antiracism] Fwd: [WMAPage] Stop the NAZIs!

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 Hi all.  Please consider going to this.
-Amy
 

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From: Annie Zirin <annie at zirin.com>
To: Anne Zirin <annie at zirin.com>
Sent: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:37:29 -0400
Subject: [WMAPage] Stop the NAZIs!
 

> STOP THE NAZIS! 
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> The NAZIs are planning to come to Boston. We have to stop them. Billy > Roper, head of the neo-NAZI group "White Revolution" has announced > plans to lead a protest of the Holocaust memorial to be conducted at > Faneuil Hall on May 8th. 
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> Why do we have to oppose them? The right wing has become confident in > recent months, and this in turn has emboldened the far-right. The > evidence? The "Minutemen" were allowed to roam the Arizona borderland > unopposed in their vigilante and racist hunt of Latinos suspected of > being undocumented immigrants last month, leading to several episodes > of human rights violations. In Boston, violence against gays and > lesbians was up 30% last year. History has shown that if fascists are > unopposed, they can gain a foothold and recruit others to their views. > This in turn allows the "official" right wing to push forward their > agenda (think: Death Penalty in Massachusetts, an end to gay marriage, > etc.) and makes far right fascist politics even more accessible. We > can stop this cycle by coming out in large numbers to demonstrate to > the NAZIs that they are not welcome in our city and that they will not > recruit a base of support here! This is exactly what was done b!
 y > hundreds of activists when the NAZIs last came to town in 1994. They > were run out of town and haven't been back for eleven years. We have > to show them that they are still unwelcome in Boston! 
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> URGENT!  Come protest the NAZIs at Congress Park (space in front of > Fanuil Hall) on Sunday, May 8th at 1pm. Directions: Take the T to > Government Center (Blue and Green Lines) walk past City Hall to Fanuil > Hall. 
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> Contact nonazisinboston at yahoo.com for more information. 
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