A new wave of posters and stickers promoting a recently-launched white nationalist group have been spotted at Auckland university this week. A spokesperson for the university has described the group’s views as abhorrent but said they are protected by freedom of speech. Read more
Posts Tagged ‘white supremacists’
Polish far-right ‘white Europe’ rally
Monday, November 13th, 2017
About 60,000 fascists and white supremacists marched in Warsaw on Saturday, which was Poland’s Independence Day. Although many protesters were young men, families and older people also took part in the rally. They included “neo-pagans” and Catholic groups. Others included extremists from Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia and far-right leaders like Tommy Robinson from Britain and Roberto Read more
Billy Joel defies white supremacists, wears Star of David
Thursday, August 24th, 2017
American musician Billy Joel has defied white supremacists by wearing the Star of David at a concert at Madison Square Garden, New York. The yellow cloth stars stitched to the front and back of his jacket are identical to the ones Jews were forced to wear during the Nazi regime. It was only in June Read more
Ex-KKK member-turned-priest confesses, apologises, takes leave
Thursday, August 24th, 2017
A priest in the US has published a statement confessing his Ku Klux Klan past. He joined the KKK as an “impressionable young man” he says. In his Arlington Catholic Herald editorial William Aitcheson says images from last week’s deadly white supremacist and white nationalist rally in Charlottesville “brought back memories of a bleak period Read more
The power of 10,000 – anti-racists win against white supremacists
Monday, August 21st, 2017Over 10,000 demonstrators chanting anti-Nazi slogans forced a small group of white supremacists to cut short a “free speech rally” at a park in Boston on Saturday. Reports from say the 25-strong group was jeered at when it was “escorted out” the park by police officers. Read more
The clergy who stared down white supremacists in Charlottesville
Thursday, August 17th, 2017
Asked what it was like to march through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend, evangelical author and FreedomRoad.us founder Lisa Sharon Harper was blunt. “It really felt like every step you take could be your last,” she said, later adding: “With each step, I just kept holding on to the call to love.” Read more