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2019: A Timeline of Fascist And Extreme Right Violence

(CONTENT WARNING FOR EXTREME RACIST LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE) In keeping with our 2017 & 2018 lists of fascist and extreme right violence, we thought it smart to continue this year. The date of each incident noted and other details will yield the original media source(s) with some web searching. We will be updating this on the regular, so check back once in a while. Here’s hoping we have a much smaller and less-lethal list this year! January 2019: LGBTQ+ activists in Russia have reported to media outlets that 40 people have been detained by authorities in Chechnya and at least two have been tortured to death. January 1, 2019: A 50-year-old man intentionally drives his Mercedes into a crowd of asylum seekers in Bottrop, Germany, after trying twice earlier to run over pedestrians. When arrested, the assailant made several anti-foreigner and racist remarks to police. Eight people are injured in his attacks. January 1, 2019: 52-year-old José David Muñoz Vargas is attacked by a group of men in Porvenir, Chile after they discover he is gay. The men forcing him into scalding hot water, causing severe burns. Vargas is hospitalized in critical conditions for days as a result of his injuries. January 1, 2019: A 24-year-old man is attacked by men he is sharing a ride with in a vehicle when they overhear him speaking on the phone to his partner and realize he is gay. He is driven to a rural area near Valparaiso, Chile, where the men burn him with lit cigarettes, stomp on his genitals, and attempt to smash his head in with a large rock. The man passes out and is left for dead, only regaining consciousness the following day.

January 1, 2019: Terrorists detonate a small bomb at the front door of the home of a Moroccan family in Mariglianella, Italy. January 1, 2019: A man approaches two racialized women in Macerata, Italy, calls them “niggers” and throws a lit firecracker at their heads, then seig heils them and walks off. 50-60 people witness the assault but none intervene. January 1, 2019: Arsonists in Hebsack, Germany set fire to the home of a refugee family, who had received death threats in the past. Three family members are treated for smoke inhalation.

January 1, 2019: Arsonists set fire to a refugee shelter in Weimar, Germany while 120 people were sleeping inside. The fire destroys one wing of the building but fortunately no one is injured or killed.

January 1, 2019: At the end of New Year’s Eve two friends walking home in Lyon, France see a group of around 15 people attacking a man lying on the ground. When they rushed to help the man the group turned on them, yelling racist insults and punching and kicking them, after which the attackers ran away. Some of the attackers were recognized by the victims as members of a local far-right group.

January 2, 2019: Arsonists set fire to a trailer housing migrants in Lonato del Garda, Italy. When one of the occupants exits the front door to escape the fire, assailants shoot him with a rifle, seriously injuring him. The man undergoes life-saving surgery.

January 2, 2019: In Torino, Italy, a dozen people attack a man in the building he lives in, beating him while shouting homophobic epithets at him. The man suffers several facial contusions and a nose broken so badly that it requires surgery to repair.

January 3, 2019: A 36-year-old man is racially abused by a stranger in Berlin, Germany, and then punched and kicked by the man, who then flees. The injured man is treated in hospital.

January 5, 2019: A racialized homeless man taking shelter under a Christmas tree in the town center of Caserta, Italy is attacked, leaving him lying in a pool of his own blood when found. He is rushed to hospital with numerous injuries. January 6, 2019: 26-year-old Buckey Wolfe, a member of the Seattle branch of the fascist street gangs Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, murders his own brother by stabbing him in the head with a 3-foot-long sword. January 6, 2019: Dana Martin, a 31-year-old racialized trans woman, is found shot to death in a ditch in Montgomery, Alabama.

January 6, 2019: Two Eritrean men in Hettstedt, Germany are confronted by a 36-year-old man shouting racist insults at them, who then chased them down the street and punched both of them.

January 7, 2019: 21-year-old Houston resident Albert Gallegos, who has a documented history of randomly assaulting black people, approaches a 92-year-old man waiting for a bus and beats him unconscious. Police charge Gallegos with a hate crime.

January 10, 2019: A black man asks for and receives directions from a resident of Andria, Italy. A third man approaches the two, abuses them with racial taunts and insults, and assaults them. The two men run away separately from the attack, who follows the man that gave directions to his home and kicks through the locked door before police intervene. January 10, 2019: A 47-Brazilian woman attempting to order a pizza is interrupted by a patron of the Mereto di Tomba, Italy pizzeria, who complains loudly that she is not speaking the regional Italian dialect. Shouting “here we are in Friuli and we must speak Friulian by law!” he follows the woman outside and attacks her, breaking her nose and fracturing other facial bones before the woman’s son intervenes.

January 11, 2019: The “National Socialist Offensive” calls in bomb threats across Germany, forcing the closure of court houses throughout the country.

January 12, 2019: A Jewish man walking past a Crown Heights laundromat is confronted by a group of teenagers, who challenge him to a fight, punch him in the face, and knock him to the ground. The man is hospitalized with minor injuries to his face and head. January 12, 2019: A Jewish man at the Nikolassee S-bahn station in Berlin, Germany is insulted by a man there, who then attempts to hit him in the head with a rock. January 13, 2019: During a charity event, Pawel Adamowicz - Gdansk, Poland’s left-leaning mayor and a frequent target of the far-right, is stabbed to death by a 27-year-old ex-con with a history of violence who claimed to be a political opponent. January 13, 2019: Two people on a motor scooter pull up to a Senegalese street vendor in Pisa, Italy, and throw bleach in his face, causing burns to his eyes that put him in the hospital.

January 13, 2019: A Syrian refugee in Stralsund, Germany is injured in an assault by three men, who berate him with Islamophobic and racial slurs as they beat him.

January 14, 2019: 24-year-old Andrew Ramsey is asked to leave a Salem, OR. convenience store after causing a disturbance. He returns minutes later to assault the Sikh store manager by throwing his shoe at him, knocking him to the ground, and attempting to steal his turban. Ramsey tells arresting officers that he took those actions to disrespect the store manager because “he was Hindu and prays to Vishnu the catfish god.“

January 15, 2019: 34-year-old Arthur Martunovich walks into a Brooklyn Chinese restaurant, produces a hammer, and attacks Asian restaurant staff with it while allowing non-Asian staff to pass by unarmed. Three Asian staff members are bludgeoned to death. Martunovich told police he was inspired to commit the triple homicide by "a movie about Chinese men mistreating women.” January 16, 2019: A Jewish man walking down the street is punched in the chest by a passerby in a completely unprovoked assault caught on video.

January 16, 2019: German police raid twelve apartments in eight states belonging to members of the National Socialist Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Deutschland, seizing over 100 weapons.

January 17, 2019: Transgender woman & reality TV star Tia Latham is pursued by two man brandishing metal poles, who attempt to attack her. She manages to get into her house and lock herself in, leaving the pair to smash up her car while yelling homophobic/transphobic slurs at her.

January 18, 2019: A Bangladeshi immigrant riding his bicycle in via Fanneli, Italy is shoved off his bike by two people on a motor scooter, causing him to smash his head on the pavement.

January 19, 2019: Two gay men leaving an Austin, TX gay club are accosted by a man yelling homophobic slurs at them. While distracted, four other men attack the couple, beating both of them unconscious and leaving one seriously injured.

January 19, 2019: While transporting buffalo to market, 24-year-old Naushad Muhammad is pulled over in the village of Bhalaut, India, where local residents pull him from his vehicle, accuse him of “cow smuggling,” tie him to a pole and beat him for two hours. When police eventually arrive, they arrest Muhammad and leave him chained to a bed post in the police station over night without any medical treatment for his injuries.

January 19, 2019: Around 15 members of the Identitäre Bewegung, armed with pepper spray, attack the opening of a left-wing social center, injuring several attendees. Police detain several of the attackers. January 20, 2019: Fascist Golden Dawn members attack journalists covering their rally in Athens, beating them with clubs and stealing their cameras and equipment. Three journalists are injured, one badly enough to require hospitalization.

January 20, 2019: A 14-year-old girl observing a march by extreme right-wing bigots in Roßlau, Germany is attacked by the marchers for “looking left-wing,” sustaining injuries to her ribs and head.

January 20, 2019: Two well-known, armed neo-nazis in Saalfeld, Germany ambush an antifascist, beating him until they are chased off by passerby. The antifascist is seriously injured. Both attackers are arrested and charged with weapons violations.

January 21, 2019: Florida resident Mark Bartlett reacts to a group of young black men staging a “bikes up guns down” protest in Miami by screaming racial epithets at them and then pulling out a pistol and threatening to shoot them. January 22, 2019: Police arrest four men in Greece, New York for a terror plot against the small Muslim community of Islamberg, NY. Investigators seize 23 rifles and shotguns as well as three IEDs. January 23, 2019: 21-year-old Zephen Xaver walks into a bank in Sebring, Florida wearing a bulletproof vest, produces a handgun, and executes five women in the bank for no apparent reason, before surrendering to authorities. Xaver’s facebook page shows that he was a fan and supporter of Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos.

January 23, 2019: Police discover a potentially-lethal pipe bomb decorated with nazi symbols on a school route in Raken, Germany.

January 24, 2019: While waiting to use the changing station in the washroom of an Edmonton, Canada Costco, an Indigenous woman holding her baby is assaulted by a woman leaving the washroom, who rams her elbow into the Indigenous woman’s side and shoving both her and her baby against the stall of the bathroom. As she fled the scene, the attacker made mocking sounds and gestures pertaining to Indigenous people, called her a “dirty Indian,” and called a black woman who attempted to intervene a “nigger” several times. January 25, 2019: The spokesman of the Anti-Fascist United Front (FUA) was ambushed in Braga by three Neonazis, with two attempts to run him over with their car, followed by a pursuit on foot. He escapes uninjured.

January 26, 2019: A group of armed Israeli settlers march on the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir, firing tear gas followed by live bullets at the villagers there. Eleven Palestinians are wounded in the attack and one, Hamdy Na’asan, is shot dead as he attemps to pick up a wounded villager from the ground.

January 26, 2019: A 31-year-old woman is approached at a subway station in Berlin by a stranger, who screams xenophobic slurs at her before attacking her with a blunt object. The woman manages to fend off the attack but injures her thumb during the struggle.

January 26, 2019: A mob in Trepuzzi, Italy arrive at the home of 22-year-old Sierra Leone migrant Alhaji Turay. They smash their way through the front door and corner Turay in his home, calling him a “dirty nigger” and telling him to “go home!” When Turay attempts to escape by climbing out of a window, one of the racist attackers smashes a chair across his back. Turay manages to flee but sustaining injuries bad enough to require three weeks to heal. This is the second time in less than a year that Turay has been attacked; in October he and other migrant were attacked by baseball-bat-wielding racists.

January 28, 2019: Right-wing extremist, Islamophobe, and “Yellow Vests Canada” member Tony Green is arrested after pointing a loaded pistol at an off-duty RCMP officer in Campbell River, BC, Canada. Police then spend four days searching Green’s property, recovering explosives, homemade silencers, prohibited high-capacity magazines, and over 100 firearms, including a machine gun, zip guns, and firearms with their serial numbers removed.

January 29, 2019: Three students in Gela, Italy are charged with assaulting a classmate from Senegal, leaving him seriously injured. They are further charged with extortion and stalking due to their continued harassment of the classmate.

January 30, 2019: Three men assault two Hasidic Jewish men in two separate attacks just fifteen minutes apart in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. One of the Hasidic men is hospitalized with his injuries.

January 30, 2019: A 70-year-old Muslim woman selling food from a makeshift stall is attacked by eight members of the Hindu extremist Bajrang Dal gang. They throw hot curry in the woman’s face, scalding her, before setting her food stall on fire.

January 31, 2019: Ossuele Gnegne, a 28-year-old immigrant from Ivory Coast is riding is bicycle to work in Arzano, Italy when a car deliberately runs into him, knocking him to the pavement. Several men, armed with iron bars and bats, exit the vehicle and beat Gnegne as he lays on the ground. Gnegne’s arm is badly broken and he suffers other injuries as well.

January 31, 2019: Camila, a trans woman who had recently been deported from the United States to El Salvador, is admitted to a San Salvador-area hospital with multiple serious injuries stemming from an attack. She dies in hospital three days later. January 31, 2019: Two people beat a refugee in a park in Plattling, Germany, leaving him injured and lying on the ground as they flee.

February 2019: FBI arrest 20-year-old college dropout and Atomwaffen Division member Benjamin Bogard after being tipped off to a number of videos posted by Bogard advocating for white supreamacy, discussing how to obtain bomb-making materials, and talking about his desire to murder racialized people. FBI agents testify in court that they believe Bogard could be the country’s next mass shooter or bomber and reveal that they also uncovered child pornography on Bogard’s cell phone. February 2019: An Italian of Brazilian descent and his girlfriend at accosted by four teeangers in Reggio Calabria, Italy, who shout racist slurs that the couple before assaulting the man and stealing his phone. The couple take refuge in a pharmacy but their four attackers wait outside, shouting racial abuse until police arrive and arrest them.

February 2, 2019: A 27-year-old man and his 54-year-old father confront two Afghan refugees at an S-bahn station in Berlin, insulting and beating them.

February 4, 2019: A 25-year-old man of Indian descent is waiting for a tram in Dresden, Germany when another man pops out of a door, shouts at him and punches him in the face before fleeing.

February 4, 2019: Two Indian men are harassed and racially abused on a bus in Gdansk, Poland. When they leave the bus, one of them is punched in the back of his head.

February 5, 2019: As a 19-year-old Gambian man walks out of his workplace in Syracuse, Italy, a man waving a knife confronts him, calling him a “black bastard,” threatening to kill him and then chasing him. Police intervene before the attacker can make good on his threat. February 6, 2019: An 18-year-old woman on her way to work in Corsenza, Italy witnesses two men beating a migrant in the street. When she attempts to intervene, the two men turn on her and assault her.

February 6, 2019: Two Cuban women on a bus in Brescia, Italy are racially abused by another woman, who then assaults them and tries to steal one of their purses before bystanders intervene. Both Cuban women sustain injuries in the attack.

February 6, 2019: An 18-year-old German in Mühlhausen, Germany racially insults a 19-year-old refugee from Syria and then tries to stab him with a jackknife. The refugee is able to parry the attack and take the knife from the attacker. February 7, 2019: Two Indonesian students in Canberra, Australia are waiting for a bus when two people began harassing them for their dress and headscarves. The two students attempt to ignore the harassers, who escalate to punching the women in the head before running off.

February 7, 2019: A 26-year-old German attacked an asylum-seeker from Iran on the street in Zittau, Germany. First, he is said to have insulted the injured racially. Then he hit him with a bottle on the back of the head, splitting his head open.

February 7, 2019: A woman from Dominica is riding the escalator in a Rome, Italy subway station when two men yell racial slurs at her. When she reacts, they punch her repeatedly in her face. One man is charged while the woman is treated in hospital for her injuries. February 8, 2019: Ndudzu Prosper, a 26-year-old Zimbabwean studying in Annaba, Algeria is confronted by three men who attack him with clubs and knives, stabbing him to death. The assailants denied the police theory that they were attempting to rob Prosper, telling the police they were calling him racist names before they attacked him.

February 8, 2019: A trans woman named Lolita is hacked to death in a machete attack in El Salvador.

February 9, 2019: Assil Belalta, a 21-year-old medical student in Algiers, Algeria, is found stabbed to death in his dorm room. His killers left behind a homophobic message scrawled on the wall of Belaita’s room in his own blood.

February 9, 2019: A man in Berlin approaches two Syrian girls (15 and 16 years old) while they were talking to each other. The stranger racially abuses the girls, then punches both of them several times in the face before fleeing. The two girls suffered facial injuries.

February 10, 2019: Galia Petkova, a gay woman in Sofia, Bulgaria, is walking through the city when a man begins following her, before punching her in the face and warning her not to be seen in public again. Petkova loses two of her teeth in the homophobic attack.

February 10, 2019: Mattia Casciani, defender with the Italian football team Borznese, violently attacks an opposing player and then his own team mate with punches, kicks, and a litany of racist slurs at the end of the match with Real San Prospero.

February 10, 2019: Three men are attacked by a group of five bigots as they exit a gay bar in Bordeaux, France. One of the men suffers serious facial injuries and has to be treated in the hospital.

February 13, 2019: John Crain walks into a Marysville, CA. 7-11 and throws hot coffee in the face of the Sikh store clerk. Upon arrest, Crain tells police he did it because he “hates Muslims.”

February 14, 2019: After enduring weeks of racist abuse by her neighbors, a mixed-race Italian woman is punched and kicked as her neighbor yells racist slurs at her and tells her to “go back to her country.”

February 15, 2019: Two assailants smash out the plate glass window of a Brooklyn synagogue while 15 people were inside.

February 15, 2019: A 49-year-old white supremacist and Coast Guard lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson is arrested in his Silver Spring, MD. home on guns and drugs charges. Police recover 15 firearms, over 1000 rounds of ammunition, steroids, human growth hormone, and a “hit list” containing the names of prominent Democrat politicians and journalists from CNN and MSNBC. Prosecutors have also obtained emails Hasson wrote to neo-nazi groups and allege that Hasson was using the manifesto of Norwegian white supremacist terrorist Anders Breivik as a model for his own plans.

February 16, 2019: A group of men in downtown Salt Lake City are approached by a man berating them with homophobic slurs. When one of the group begins recording the man on his phone, the man punches him in the head.

February 16, 2019: 33-year-old Dustin Passarelli escalates a Carmel, IN. traffic disagreement with four foreign-born American citizens by shouting xenophobic and Islamophobic slurs at them. When Passarelli draws a pistol, one of the four, 33-year-old Mustafa Ayoubi, begins running. Passarelli shoots Ayoubi in the back several times, killing him.

February 18, 2019: Five drunk Polish men in Stoke-On-Trent, UK were arrested after attacking a Muslim security guard and two others, kicking and punching them while yelling that the Polish would remove Muslims from the country. February 18, 2019: Four young men in Wolow, Poland beat up an Egyptian man who was walking home after work, because of his nationality and skin color, injuring the man’s arm and knee.

February 19, 2019: Maajid Nawaz, who has publicly defended white supremacists, is called a “fucking Paki” while outside London’s Soho Theatre and punched in the face by an unknown assailant, who runs away after the attack.

February 20, 2019: A 47-year old Ivorian woman who has been living in Italy for 30 years is attacked by a group of men and women in the city of Bari, who yell racist insults at her while she is walking home from work in the afternoon on a busy street, then begin punching and kicking her. None of the bystanders come to the victim’s aid. February 20, 2019: Fascist activists of the youth group of CasaPound, Blocco Studentesco, were leafleting at Benedetto Da Norcia high school in Rome, Italy. When a student folded the leaflet to put it in his pocket the fascists thought he was ripping it up and beat him to the ground, also attacking the girl he was with.

February 20, 2019: A 12-year-old Egyptian boy is physically attacked in the streets of Portuense, Rome, Italy.

February 21, 2019: A 29-year-old man screams racial slurs at an 11-year-old Roma boy on a subway in Rome, Italy before stabbing him in the head.

February 23, 2019: At a hockey game in Saint-Jerome, Canada between the Jonquiere Marquis and the St. Jerome Petroliers du Nord, Marquis player Jonathan-Ismael Diaby was targeted by racist opposing fans, who taunted him and his family and forced them to leave the game early. When Diaby, who is black, was sent to the penalty box in the first period, the so-called ‘fans’ began shouting racist insults. They also harassed Diaby’s family, with several people crowding around them, pushing and hitting his father and pouring beer on his girlfriend.

February 23, 2019: 22-year-old Antonio Valdez randomly attacks a 67-year-old Korean man in Santa Rosa, CA. While assaulting and robbing him, Valdez demands that the man tell him his citizenship. Valdez faces hate crime charges.

February 23, 2019: A middle-aged couple follow a Muslim woman into a Kettering, OH. grocery store, screaming ethnic and racial slurs at her. The woman tries to ignore them and while she is reaching for a gallon of milk, the man in the couple shoves her into the display. March 2, 2019: Four gay men are injured in three separate mob beatings that take place during and around Sydney’s LGBTQ+ Mardi Gras parade & events.

March 2, 2019: A 60-year old women and Thai immigrant tending bar in Pordenone, Italy is assaulted by a male customer, yelling things like “Salvini is right” and “Go back to your own country.”

March 2, 2019: A group of eight neo-nazis in Leipzig, Germany harass a 22-year old African man on a tram, and attack him as he leaves, leaving him badly injured.

March 2, 2019: Neo- nazis of the Identitäre Bewegung assault two young women and a man in front of their Halle, Germany headquarters, beating them and attacking them with pepper spray. All three were hospitalized as a result of their injuries.

March 3, 2019: A 65-year-old Jewish woman is returning to her home in Bamberg, Germany when someone comes up from behind her and douses her with acid, seriously burning her.

March 6, 2019: Members of the extreme right Vishwa Hindu Dal group attack two Kashmiri dried fruit sellers, beating them with clubs.

March 7, 2019: Nine fascists in Ferrol, Italy attack three friends who are walking home after recognizing them as leftist activists. A 40-year old ends up in hospital with a fractured skull.

March 8-9, 2019: A 37-year-old woman goes on a spree of pepper spray attacks, exclusively targeting white pedestrians and using racist language in at least two of the attacks. At least eight people are injured in the attacks. NYPD file hate crime charges against the assailant.

March 10, 2019: Four neo-nazis chase a 23-year-old gay man through the streets of Leon, Spain, beating him to the ground when they catch up to him and stabbing him repeatedly in the neck. The man is rushed to hospital with serious injuries.

March 10, 2019: Police raid a militia meeting near Dorfmark, Germany, recovering a machine gun, a submachine gun, other weapons, and nazi artifacts.

March 11, 2019: Over a hundred racist youth in Urk, the Netherlands invade the home of a family of Moroccan background, looking to beat up their son. In the attack they also beat the mother and daughter of the family, all while chanting the name of Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders. March 13, 2019: A black man got into a tram in Ukkel, Belgium, when another man starts verbally harassing him, calling him a monkey and saying that he wants black people gone. When the victim confronted the man he was threatened, pushed and shoved by the racist, after which the tram driver helped the man to safety. March 13, 2019: A white driver rams his car into Chuck Crockett's car on a North Portland, OR., then jumps out and repeatedly calls Crockett a "nigger" and other racial slurs, threatens to attack him, and then drives away. When Crockett reports the incident to police, several officers refuse to accept his report of a hate crime. March 15, 2019: 28-year-old Australian man and white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, armed with an assault rifle and shotgun decorated with neo-nazi symbols, opens fire on worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 people and injuring 19 others. Tarrant, who live-streamed the mass murder, leaves behind a 74-page manifesto in which he describes the attack as a terrorist act against “mass migration,” designed to “incite violence” against Muslims.

March 15, 2019: Three men drive by an east end London mosque shouting racist & Islamophobic abuse. When some of the worshippers there respond, the men climb out of their car and attack the worshippers with a baton and a hammer. One of the worshippers sustains a head injury in the attack.

March 15, 2019 A peaceful protest outside a meeting of Dutch fascist party FvD in Maastricht, the Netherlands, is attacked by a group of ten people. One protester is injured on his hand and a megaphone is smashed. The attack is quickly repelled, allowing the protest to continue. March 16, 2019: 50-year-old Vincent Fuller dons a mask and walks down the street in Surrey, UK swinging a baseball bat and a large knife, shouting “white supremacy,” “kill all Muslims,” and racial slurs. He then stabs a 19-year-old man in a Tesco parking lot. Fuller is charged with attempted murder and hate crimes.

March 16, 2019: A hijab-wearing Muslim woman standing outside of her mother’s home in Brooklyn when a strange man rushes at her from across the street, attempts to trip her, then kicks her in her right leg before walking away. March 16, 2019: A mob of at least 20 people attack a van in Colombes, France occupied by two Roma, injuring both of them. March 17, 2019: Two days after the terrorist attack in Christchurch, NZ., a fourteen-year-old boy threatens a Victoria, Australia mosque online, claiming he will “be visting (sic) this mosque and kill as many invaders as i can in the time i get. I will then shoot myself in front of police.”

March 17, 2019: A 16-year-old biracial boy is walking home from a Leesburg, FL. convenience store with his 12-year-old sister when they encounter two men who call them “niggers,” demand that they leave the area, and fire a gun at them. James Robert Reidnauer and Brent Van Besien face charges from the incident. Reidnauer was previously arrested in 2016 for the domestic abuse of a disabled adult.

March 17, 2019: The FBI arrests 22-year-old New York resident Thomas Alonzo Bolin for plotting a terrorist attack. Bolin, a Greek immigrant who managed and was active on several white supremacist facebook groups, was plotting online with his cousin to commit a mass shooting of Muslims in Baltimore. Bolin told FBI agents in an interview that he wanted Muslims out of the country because they were “contributing to a corruption of his culture.” Agents seized a mask and shotgun from his rented room.

March 18, 2019: A man walking his dog in Berlin, Germany, insults two women for wearing headscarves. When they respond he punches one of the women, who is pregnant, in the stomach. She had to be treated in the hospital for her injuries.

March 21, 2019: 55-year-old Patrick W. Carlineo, Jr. decides to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racism by calling the offices of Rep. Ilhan Omar to threaten to “put a bullet in her fucking skull” for being Muslim, Carlineo is arrested for threatening to assault and kill Ilhan.

March 21, 2019: Austin Shuffield becomes involved in a Dallas, TX. parking dispute with L’Daijohnique Lee, a 24-year-old black woman. Shuffield approaches Lee with a pistol in his hand, then calls her a “stupid nigger,” knocks her cell phone out of her hand and into the street, and punches her in the head several times until she is knocked out.

March 22, 2019: Description: Two Muslim women in Ukkel, Belgium, were walking to their children’s school and crossing a crosswalk when a driver of a car refused to give them the right of way. He opened his window to yell that he’s a racist and hates women in headscarves, and then drove into one of the women, who had to be treated in the hospital for injuries to her leg.

March 23, 2019: During an unauthorised march of around a hundred fascists of Forza Nuova in Prato, Italy a group of fascists targeted a young man who was sitting on the fountain’s edge in the gardens and filming their passage with his mobile phone, by violently throwing him to the ground and hitting him with kicks and punches.

March 24, 2019: An arsonist sets fire to a mosque in Escondido, California, while seven people are inside, leaving a note behind referencing the mass murder/white supremacist terror attack at another mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand earlier in the month. A month later it’s revealed that the culprit is 19-year-old John Earnest, after Earnest enters a San Diego synagogue with an AR-15 and shoots four worshippers, killing one.

March 24, 2019: A member of far-right group Soldiers of Odin attempts to assault Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini at a farmers market in Vantaa, Finland. The attacker is overpowered by security before he can hit Soini.

March 25, 2019: A mob of at least 50 people, armed with clubs and knives, descend on a Roma encampment in Bobigny, France, setting fire to several vans Roma people were living in. Police arrest 20 of the mob. March 25, 2019: A violent mob chases a group of Roma through the streets of Clichy-sous-Bois, France, only stopping when the Roma take refuge from them in a supermarket.

March 27 - April 4, 2019: In the course of one week, three predominantly black churches in St. Landry Parish, LA. are completely destroyed in fires investigating authorities are calling “suspicious.” Police arrest 21-year-old Holden Matthews, singer in a “black metal” band, self-professed worshipper of the white supremacist Asatru religious cult, and the son of a police deputy.

March 29, 2019: A man wearing a MAGA hat and shouting homophobic abuse approaches a group of people outside of a roller rink hosting an LGBTQ+ event. When one of the event-goers confronts him, the man produces a sword and slashes them, leaving his victim bleeding profusely as he runs away.

March 29, 2019: The offices and archives of the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market Tennessee burn to the ground overnight in a mysterious fire. A fascist symbol adopted by local members of the white supremacist Traditionalist Workers Party are found on-site.

March 30, 2019: A 25-year old Muslim woman is verbally abused by an elderly woman in Vienna, Austria, when the old woman spots her at a metro station. She spits at the victim and tells her the fascist party “FPÖ will get rid of all of you”. When the Muslim woman confronts her the old woman produces a sharp object and threatens to stab her.

March 30, 2019: Three teenaged boys verbally abuse a transgender teenager in Essex, UK, before one of the boys produces a knife and slashes the transgender teen in the face, causing injuries severe enough to require hospitalization. March 30, 2019: 27-year-old trans woman Ashanti Carmon is shot dead in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

March 31, 2019: Racist & transphobic far-right gang “The Hiwaymen” arrive at the Arkansas state capitol and attack attendees at an event to mark the Trans Day of Visibility, punching and kicking them on the steps of the capitol building, injuring at least one person.

March 31, 2019: During a rally against Algeria’s then-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Paris, France, 31-year old transgender woman Julia was insulted with transphobic slurs and attacked with punches and kicks by three men as she made her way through the crowd.

April 1, 2019: Jaswinder Singh, a Sikh cab driver in New York City, is berated by a racist passenger mocking his race and religion who then pulls out a knife and slashes Singh’s throat, nearly killing him.

April 3, 2019: Four members of fascist youth group Blocco Studentesco have been arrested for their attempt to poison a fifth member of the fascist group using Ricin in 2018 in Turin. Italy.

April 4, 2019: A 24-year-old man walking near Brooklyn’s Prospect Park is approached by another man yelling anti-gay slurs at him. The first man is then punched before his assailant runs away.

April 5, 2019: A man in Bourdon, France said he stabbed his neighbor because he “wanted to kill a Jew.” The 58-year-old victim was stabbed 15 times in his abdomen and face. He was injured in the liver and gallbladder and underwent surgery. He was saved by a friend who was with him at the time of the assault, and came between the victim and the attacker.

April 6, 2019: Emmit Davis, a transgender man in Colorado Springs, Co,, is sitting on the porch of his home with his partner when three men passing by jump over their fence and begin verbally abusing them with homophobic and racist slurs, then attack Davis, leaving him with facial injuries.

April 6, 2019: A drunk father and son walking their dog yelled insults and punched a 15-year old Muslim boy in Waddinxveen, Netherlands, who fled into the mosque. The drunk father followed him and angrily pounded on the door. Several men, including the elderly chairman of the mosque came outside trying to calm the man down, who yelled racist slurs at them before punching the elderly chairman in the face. Two more men were injured in the fight that followed.

April 7, 2019: After an event by far-right party AfD in Köln that was completely outnumbered by counter-protesters, a car carrying two people who were present at the AfD event deliberately drives into a group of counter-protesters on their way home at a stoplight, injuring one person who ended up on the hood of the car. The car then drove off. The injured victim had to be treated in hospital.

April 7, 2019: In Lipník nad Bečvou, Czech Republic, a brutal assault was committed against three Romani children by an adult man and woman yelling racist insults. The man is said to have punched the children in the chest and face, and eyewitnesses say he even kicked one child in the chest. A 14-year-old boy has been hospitalized with a bruised back and a concussion, while a girl has been hospitalized with an injured thoracic cavity and another 12-year-old girl has been hospitalized with a bruised spine and dislocated nose. Klára Bartošová, a relative of the assaulted boy, told news server Romea.cz that the man had attacked the children because, several days ago, his 16-year-old daughter had an argument with a Romani child. “Those were absolutely different children, though. He just came up and began beating any Romani child he could get his hands on,” she said.

April 8, 2019: An Israeli settler from the illegal settlement of Gush Etzion deliberately rams his car into a Palestinian teenager, critically injuring him before fleeing the scene.

April 8, 2019: Two men attack a Congolese man in Warsaw. They yell racist insults, punch and use pepper spray in the attack. Both men were arrested. One of the perpetrators turned out to have an earlier conviction for giving a fascist salute.

April 9, 2019: An anti-Romani mob attacked and destroyed homes of Romani people in Gabrovo, Bulgaria after a video was posted online of three Romani men fighting employees in a shop. The three men had been arrested and released after 24-hours by the police. This sparked anti-Romani protests by non-Romani residents. The protests then became a riot in which a large mob of non-Romani men vandalized the homes of Romani people, with Romani children still inside in some cases.

April 10 2019: A high school student at an East Brunswick, NJ school attacks a fellow student, who is Muslim, by spitting on her, ripping off her hijab, knocking her to the ground, climbing on top of her and punching her repeatedly in the face. The attacker later brags about the attack on social media, peppering her post with Islamophobic slurs.

April 10, 2019: A university lecturer riding a tram in Warsaw, Poland overhears a fellow passenger speaking in Ukrainian on his cell phone. The lecturer goes over to the man and assaults him.

April 10, 2019: As she is leaving morning prayers at her Milwuakee, WI. mosque, a Muslim woman is assaulted by a stranger who tries to tear off her hijab. When she resists, he throws her to the ground, beats and stabs her. The woman is hospitalized because of her injuries.

April 11, 2019: Osher Band, a 15-year-old transgender girl from Ashkelon, Israel, was hospitalized with a brain injury and organ damage after being attacked by a classmate. Osher hadn’t gone to school for more than six months.The incident that made Osher stop coming to school last summer occurred while she was sitting with some of her classmates. Two boys from her grade began taunting her. Then, “they threw chairs at me, and one of them said that if I stay here, he would stab me, and pulled out a pocketknife,” she said. Since then, she said she has been afraid to leave home. On Thursday April 11, she finally returned to school, but she said had an argument with another girl who chased her, knocked her head around and hit her until she managed to flee and call the police. April 12, 2019: After being involved in a minor traffic collision in Dallas, Texas, a transgender woman is confronting by a mob of people who stomp and beat her for several minutes while screaming transphobic slurs at her until she manages to escape them. The woman is hospitalized for her injuries.

April 12, 2019: Two members of Italian fascist party CasaPound - one of whom is a Vitarbo city councillor, beat and rape another CasaPound member in a bar frequented by fascists, after telling her to come party with them and getting her drunk. They videotape the rape on their cellphones.

April 13, 2019: Landon McCaa and Tomas Sion Brown invite several people to their Wayne County, MS. home for a party, then suckerpunch and attack party guest Trevor Gray, breaking his jaw in two places as they yell homophobic slurs at him, after they mistakenly assumed he was gay.

April 13, 2019: A trans woman in Dallas, TX. is stabbed multiple times.

April 16, 2019: After threatening to kill an interracial couple the week before and calling the woman in the couple a “nigger lover,” 50-year-old James Descant spots the couple walking to a Metairie, LA. convenience store and attempts to run them over in his pickup truck, seriously injuring the woman.

April 16, 2019: Two young gay people are surrounded by six other young people after leaving a club: “They started slapping, punching and kicking”, says one of the two “first my friend, then me”. They use homophobic insults and threaten to come back and stab them if they tell anyone about the assault.

April 17, 2019: Arsonists set fire to Moscow’s Torat Chaim yeshiva in Moscow just ahead of the Passover meal celebration after spray-painting swastikas on the building. There were about 60 students, rabbis and guests in the building at the time.

April 19, 2019: A child on San Vicente Blvd. in Los Angeles is attacked by a man shouting racial slurs at them while repeatedly kicking them. April 21, 2019: Eight coordinated suicide bombings, targeting Christian churches, hotels popular with foreigners, and a cinema, kill 253 people and injured a further 500. The attacks are attributed to National Thowheeth Jama'ath, a fascist group with ties to Daesh/ISIS. A further seven people are killed when the wives of one of the suspect detonates a bomb in her home as police are raiding it, killing herself, three police officers, and three of her sons.

April 21, 2019: A 22-year old Czech politician was attacked by two men who used racist insults against him. He had to be treated in hospital for a large cut on his back.

April 22, 2019: As he was attempting to flag down a cab in Liverpool late at night, 32-year-old Jon McMahon is approached from behind by a group of people shouting homophobic slurs at him. Before he can react, they attack him from behind, beating him unconscious and stealing his wallet.

April 22, 2019: Dr. Joanna Malinowska is attacked with pepper-spray by three masked men in Wroclaw, Poland after having given a feminist lecture. The men refer to her as a leftist and make further threats as they attack her.

April 22, 2019: A Muslim woman leaving a Wal-Mart in Milton, Ontario with her four-year-old and two-month-old daughters is approached in the parking lot by another woman who bumps the four-year-old and then immediately starts punching the mother in the face while she tried to shield her children from the attack.

April 23, 2019: 34-year-old war veteran Isaiah Peoples is on his way to deliver food to his Sunnyvale, CA. bible study group when we decides to ram his car into eight pedestrians crossing the street at a crosswalk. Police quickly discover that Peoples, who kept repeating “thank you, Jesus!” immediately after the attack, chose to do so because he believed the pedestrians were Muslims. Several of the victims were severely injured, including a 13-year-old girl who is in a coma.

April 23, 2019: A masked man arrives at the North Austin Muslim Community Center in Austin TX and attempts to set it on fire.

April 25, 2019: Santi Leon Martinez, a 48-year-old registered Republican working at a Goodwill store in Denver, CO., confronts an anti-fascist who is removing neo-nazi Patriot Front stickers from a streetpole outside the store. After a brief discussion during which Martinez states that “maybe some people deserve to be in concentration camps,” he produces a large folding knife and chases the anti-fascist down the street, stabbing him five times. The anti-fascist nearly dies from blood loss.

April 26, 2019: FBI arrests Army veteran Mark Steven Domingo for plotting to bomb a white supremacist rally in Huntington Beach, CA. The FBI alleges that Domingo is a “violent jihadist” who has pledged allegiance to Daesh/ISIS and had previously considered attacking a synagogue.

April 26, 2019: At a Cronulla, Australia rally for racist politician Fraser Anning, a 19-year-old Anning supporter threatens a TV journalist and then attacks her photographer when he intervenes.

April 26, 2019: Gunmen on motorbikes attack a Protestant church in Djibo, Burkina Faso, killing six Christians.

April 27, 2019: 19-year-old white supremacist John Earnest enters a San Diego synagogue and opens fire on worshippers, injuring three people and killing one. After turning himself into police, Earnest also confesses to attempting to burn down a mosque in Escondid, CA. the month before.

April 27, 2019: Arsonists attempt to burn down the homes of two socialist politicians in Solothurn, Swizterland by starting fires in their mail boxes.

April 27, 2019: Cody Morse is standing outside of a Hattiesburg, MS. bar when two men run at him and begin punching him in the head - one while holding keys in his hand - and then assault and injure a woman who attempts to intervene. Morse, who was left with multiple contusions and lacerations on his face, believes he was targeted because he is gay.

April 27, 2019: A 23-year-old trans woman is followed out of a Denver, CO. bar by two men who start harassing her, then attack her, punching her several times in the face and breaking her jaw in three places and causing possible permanent nerve damage to the right side of her face.

April 28, 2019: An arsonist attempts to burn down the African-American New Hope Baptist Church in St. Paul, MN.

April 30, 2019: 43-year-old Adelaide, Australia resident Aaron Ellis - a self-proclaimed Islamophobe and ultra-nationalist - is arrested after police raid his home and discover pipe bomb materials and homemade explosive chemicals in a fridge inside a shed.

April 30, 2019: Two Christian extremists set up a booth and PA system in the heart of Toronto’s Gay Village and begin preaching homophobic hate speech & attempting to pass out anti-LGBTQ+ pamphlets. As a crowd gathers and tensions escalate for over an hour until the religious extremists assault two people, bloodying one and injuring the other badly enough to require hospitalization.

May 2019: Five neonazis, including a police officer, are arrested in France for being in a terrorist cell, hoarding weapons and explosives and planning to attack Jewish or Muslim places of worship.

May 1, 2019: Joey Gibson and about 15 far-right supporters arrive at a bar in Portland hosting a May Day event. They proceed to pepper spray attendees, then challenge people to fight. When bar patrons rally to defend themselves Ian Kramer, one of Gibson’s group, clubs a woman over the head with a baton, knocking her unconscious and fracturing her vertebrae before the group runs away.

May 1, 2019: An Indian student studying in Rome was attacked by 5 or 6 young people while on his delivery job. They hit him with rocks and eggs while yelling racist insults. The student is nearly blinded in one eye.

May 2, 2019: Stephen “Tommy Robinson” Yaxley-Lennon and his supporters attack a group of anti-fascist women on the streets of Warrington, UK, breaking one woman’s nose.

May 2, 2019: After harassing & threatening his transgender neighbor for months, a man in Campania, Italy attacks her with a cudgel spiked with rusty nails.

May 3, 2019: 52-year-old Johnny Juica-Pena starts an argument with a Muslim man on a commuter train in Morristown, New Jersey over a bathroom and escalates to punching the Muslim man in the face while yelling racist slurs at him. Juica-Pena faces assault and hate crimes charges.

May 4, 2019: A 42-year-old Jewish man is walking down the street in Brookyn, NY when a group of men yelling antisemitic slurs rush at him. The Jewish man is called a “fucking Jew” and punched in the face before the men run off.

May 5, 2019: After decorating the outside of their Monroe, OH. home for the first night of Ramadan, the only Muslim family in an all-white neighborhood are cleaning up after breaking fast when someone fires a gun into their home. One of the bullets narrowly misses one of the daughters of the family.

May 7, 2019: An orthodox Jewish man walking down the street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is attacked from behind by a man that runs up behind him and punches him in the head before running off.

May 7, 2019: The parents of a refugee family in Enschede, the Netherlands, are beaten with sticks in front of their children in their own home by a large group of racists. May 10, 2019: 25-year-old Jimtarius Hampton enters a Southaven, MS. Waffle House and immediately begins an argument with a 22-year-old trans woman in the restaurant with her friends. After enduring transphobic insults from Hampton, the woman tries to walk away from him. Hampton draws a firearm and shoots the woman in both legs.

May 10, 2019: After a day at school, 22-year-old Fatoumata Camara boards a Bronx bus when about a dozen passengers begin taunting her with racial, sexist, and Islamophobic slurs. When she exits the bus the group follows and attacks her, leaving her with a broken nose and head injuries before stealing her bag. NYPD arrested three of the attackers but then released them and refused to investigate further until Camara obtained surveillance footage and released it to the media.

May 11, 2019: A man steals a vehicle from a construction site in Edson, Canada, drives it through the town’s courthouse, and then gets out of the vehicle and spray-painted antisemitic graffiti inside of the courthouse.

May 11, 2019: Mena Mangal, a journalist and women’s rights advocate, is shot dead in broad daylight in Kabul, Afghanistan, while she was on her way to work. Just days before, Mangal had said she feared for her life after receiving threats.

May 12, 2019: Arsonists set fire to the Diyanet mosque in New Haven, CT., seriously damaging it.

May 12, 2019: A Vancouver man is approached by two other men who tackle him from behind and kicked him while calling him homophobic slurs.

May 12, 2019: A black man having drinks with his white wife in a bar in Volusia County, FL. is approached by three white men, who make racist and insulting remarks towards him, racist and sexually-abusive remarks to his wife, then began calling him a “nigger” and his wife “a nigger lover,” then attack the man. Warren “Randy” Stratton, Troy Noe, and Noe’s son have all been charged in the attack.

May 14, 2019: The wife of the leader of Helsingborg, Sweden’s Jewish community is stabbed nine times in an anti-Semitic attack, severely wounding her.

May 15, 2019: A 22-year-old Muslim woman boarding a Montréal subway is approached by a man who hits her in the chest and attempts to rip her niqab off of her head before running away.

May 15, 2019: A Palestinian teenager is hospitalized after being attacked by a mob of Jewish teens chanting “Death to Arabs!”

May 16, 2019: Arsonists set fire to two Jewish centers in Arlington, MA., which were also the homes of two rabbis and their families.

May 16, 2019: 52-year-old Nayeem Shah is driving cattle in his vehicle when he is intercepted by at least six people in Bhaderwah, India. The mob shoots Shah dead and seriously wounds his passenger, Zahoor Ahmed.

May 16, 2019: Two AfD council candidates in Freiburg, Germany attack two cyclists with a metal pole and pepper spray after suspecting them of belonging to local anti-fascists.

May 18, 2019: 23-year-old transgender woman Muhlaysia Booker, who was beaten in the street by a mob six weeks prior, is found shot to death on a Dallas road.

May 18, 2019: A journalist covering a Blieburg, Austria memorial service commemorating the surrender of Croatian fascists in WW2 is attacked by the participants, who spit on him, punch him, and kick him.

May 19, 2019: 29-year-old Grady Wayne Wilkes - a former paratrooper who holds Islamophobic, extreme-right political views - greets police responding to a domestic disturbance call in an Auburn, AL. trailer park wearing body armor & camouflage & begins shooting at the police, killing one and wounding two others.

May 19, 2019: An arsonist attempts to set a synagogue in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago on fire by hurling three Molotov cocktails at the building.

May 19, 2019: Michelle “Tamika” Washington, a 40-year-old trans woman in Philadelphia, is shot dead. Police charge 28-year-old Troy Bailey with the murder.

May 19, 2019: 27-year-old Brandyn Hernandez sends the Islamic Center of Greater Miami-Masjid Miami Gardens a series of threats of facebook, indicating that he intends to send the center on fire and “kill Muslims one by one.” Police file hate crimes & other charges against Hernandez.

May 19, 2019: Twenty seig-heiling neonazis try to attack a cultural festival in Bautzen at least three times, but are chased away each time by festival goers.

May 21, 2019: Two drunk racists in Warsaw harass and try to pick a fight with a group of non-Polish people. When they try to attack they are knocked out by one of the victims, and his friends are nice enough to put the racists in the recovery position afterwards.

May 22, 2019: An 18-year-old Muslim woman walking down the street in Lincoln, NE. is accosted by two men, who make Islamophobic remarks to her before beating her to the ground and kicking her, leaving her with injuries to her leg, forearms, and face that are treated in hospital.

May 24, 2019: Six men in Seoni, India arm themselves with clubs and attack three Muslim teens, beating them mercilessly and forcing one of the teenagers to beat his girlfriend with a club. The attackers film their assault and post it on social media.

May 24, 2019: 33-year-old Charles Patton, upon seeing a house in Soulard, MO. displaying a gay pride flag, runs up to the home screaming homophobic slurs before kicking in the front doors and telling the residents that he is “going to slit your throats!”

May 24, 2019: Neonazis of Der III. Weg are in a van on their way to put up their racist posters when they recognize some antifascists standing in a crowd of people outside of a local pub in Fürth, Germnay. The nazis drive their van into the crowd, pepperspray them and threaten people.

May 24, 2019: Attackers throw a burning torch at the mobile home of a Roma family with the intention of burning it down while the family were sleeping inside of it, in Dellmensingen, Germany.

May 25, 2019: Two gay men and a transgender woman are shot and killed in their east Detroit home; two others are injured in the attack. 18-year-old Devon Robinson is charged with the murders.

May 26, 2019: Mohammed Qasim is stopped in the street in Begusarai, India by a man and asked his name. When he answers and the man realizes he is Muslim, he produces a gun and shoots Qasim, wounding him. Qasim manages to escape with his assailant, Rajiv Yadav, is reloading his weapon. The police take Qasim to the hospital for treatment but fail to arrest Yadav for the attack.

May 26, 2019: A 25-year-old Muslim man returning home from his mosque is attacked by four men in Gurgaon, India. They demand he take off his Muslim skull cap and demand he repeat Hindu chants. When he refuses, they beat him with a baton.

May 25, 2019: Two gay men are threatened and insulted with homophobic slurs in Berlin by four men, one of whom throws cold tea on one of the victims and punching the other in the face.

May 27, 2019: As he is walking home in Morgantown, WV., Jared Rote - a black, gay man and drag performer - is assaulted from behind by three attackers. "This is what you get!“ they tell Rote as they punch and kick him. Rote is hospitalized as a result of the injuries he sustains.

May 30, 2019: An American-Palestinian student, visiting Poland to study the history of fascism in Poland in the second world war, is attacked by two men for his skin colour outside of his hotel in Wola, Poland.

May 31, 2019: A 16-year old is stabbed in the neck by a stranger who was yelling islamophobic insults at him and a friend on a tram in Bremen, Germany. The attacker fled and the victim had to be taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

June 1, 2019: The body of Chynal Lindsey, a 26-year-old black trans woman, is found at the bottom of a lake in Dallas, TX. Lindsey’s body showed clear signs of a homicide.

June 2, 2019: 27-year-old Griffin Murray attacks two men on a street in San Francisco while screaming homophobic slurs at them.

June 2, 2019: Hesse, Germany politician Walter Lübcke is found shot to death in his home. Lübcke had received several death threats because of his stance in favor of immigrants. Police arrest a 45-year-old extreme right wing activist for the murder, later revealing the man was previously convicted for attempting to bomb a refugee shelter and has ties to Combat 18.

June 5, 2019: 18-year-old Jeremy Lloyd approaches a group of black teens in Hopkins Park in Dekalb, IL., calls them “niggers,” then stabs two of them. Police charge him with hate crimes.

June 6, 2019: As he is walking to work in Decatur, GA., 28-year-old Ronald Peters is confronted by a gunman who calls Peters a homophobic slur before shooting him several times, then making off with his bag. Peters dies o the scene. Police are describing the murder as a hate crime.

June 6, 2019: 23-year-old trans woman Chanel Scurlock is found dead in a filed in Lumberton, NC. after police responded to reports of shots fired in the area.

June 6, 2019: A group of men confront a woman in the parking lot of a Janesville, WI. Wal-mart, yelling racial slurs. When a bystander intervenes, one of the men - 20-year-old Anthony Kreyer - pulls a handgun and threatens both him and the woman.

June 8, 2019: A theatre in Southampton cancelled performances of a play about an LGBT couple after two members of the cast were attacked in the street.They said two actors in the company were assaulted on their way to work. “The assailants verbally abused them and threw stones from their car window, one of which struck an actor in the face. They have sustained only minor injuries but are hugely shaken from this cowardly, homophobic hate crime”.

June 9, 2019: A 22-year old man tries multiple times to drive his car into a group of people in front of a club in Niklasdorf, Austria, after having yelled that all foreigners should die. SOURCE:

June 9, 2019: A rabbi in Rosario, Argentina, was attacked Sunday night by three men. The men shouted anti-Semitic epithets before removing the rabbi’s hat and trampling it on the ground, then beating the rabbi, who was walking alone. The attack was stopped when passersby intervened.

June 10, 2019: Police arrest 23-year-old Ross Anthony Farca at his mother’s Concord, CA. home after Farca posted online threats to commit a mass murder at an area synagogue. Police seized an assault rifle with 13 magazines, a three-foot sword, ammunition, and books about Hitler and nazis.

June 11, 2019: 20-year-old Tyler Cruse arrives at the home of an elderly HIspanic man in Grand Island, NE. and tries to smash the door in. When the man wakes up and goes around the house to ask what Cruse wants, Cruse brutally assaults him while yelling racial slurs and telling the man that he is not American and does not belong in America.

June 13, 2019: Anti-fascist Yannis Youlountas was hospitalised after he was attacked in Piraeus, Greece, by a group of ten Nazis because he was wearing a T-shirt of Free Social Space Favela.

June 14, 2019: Fort Myers, FL. police raid the home of 40-year-old Joshua John Leff after being tipped off that Leff had made multiple social media posts admonishing his followers to take up arms and murder gay people, Jews, and African-Americans. Police seize handguns and ammunition and charge Leff with several offenses.

June 15, 2019: Christian extremists and white supremacists confront attendees at a Pride event in a city park in Hamilton, Ontario, abusing them with homophobic slurs before attacking them, triggering a massive brawl as event attendees successfully defended themselves. June 15, 2019: Seven LGBTQ+ teens leaving the Pride parade at Stoke-on-Trent, UK are pursued by a larger mob of about a dozen people shouting homophobic slurs. The teens try to flee in a taxi, but the mob run after and catch up to the taxi, pull the doors open, and begin punching and kicking the passengers.

June 15, 2019: A man parks his car in front of a Washington, DC community center for transgender people, pulls out a gun and threatened some of the transgender youths staying there. June 15, 2019: 46-year-old Darrell Lee Abbott interrupts a conversation between two strangers on an Iowa City street, telling one of the men "I'm a killer," "I'm gonna show you I'm a killer," and "I'll kill you nigger." He then walks home and retrieves a large metal pipe, telling his mother “I’m going to kill me a nigger” as he leaves, returning to the two men and beating one of them with the pipe.

June 15, 2019: Two men in a white Lexus drive through a Brooklyn neighborhood. When they an orthodox Jewish person walking down the street, the passenger gets out and knocks them to the ground before jumping in the car and driving away. This pattern is repeated up to nine times that night.

June 16, 2019: A gay couple walking along Washington DC’s U-Street corridor are attacked by a mob of at least ten men, shouting homophobic slurs at them and beating them, injuring both men.

June 17, 2019: 22-year-old Brian Clyde, who had previously posted on social media endorsing the “libertarian national socialist green party,” arrives in downtown Dallas wearing a mask & body armor and begins firing at people in a federal courthouse with an assault rifle before being shot and killed by Dallas police.

June 17, 2019: A man yelling racial slurs at another man in Minneapolis, MN. pulls a knife and stabs his victim, seriously wounding him.

June 18, 2019: Michal Szewczuk, 19, from Leeds, and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, from west London are sentenced for terrorism offenses after running an online propaganda campaign under the group name Sonnenkrieg Division to encourage others to commit violent hate crimes against “race traitors,” Jews, racialized people, women, and babies.

June 18, 2019: 49-year-old Missouri resident Edward Terry is charged with making terrorist threats after emailing the Pride St. Louis organization and threatening to “come to pride fest with my guns to kill every gay person I can before I kill myself.”

June 19, 2019: A Christian church in Renton, WA. is bombed in the second attack in one week, after putting up a display in celebration of Pride month. The culprits left a homophobic message spray-painted on the church. June 19, 2019: After complaining to her son's school principal about him being racially taunts and told to "go back to Mexico" by other students at his Planfield, NJ school, 35-year-old mother Beronica Ruiz is attacked one of those students as she walks down the street with her two children. She is beaten unconscious and hospitalized for two days.

June 19, 2019: 59-year-old St. Paul, MN. resident Steven C. Parker walks out of a Walgreen’s yelling racist slurs at the manager after being accused of shoplifting, then returning with a second man and assaulting the manager. Minutes later, Parker approaches a man sitting on some steps, demands to know if he is “from the USA,” asks him “what are you doing in my country?” and then punches him several times in the face, fracturing his face in several places.

June 19, 2019: A 22-year old asylum seeker from Mauritania leaves his Penzlin, Germany home and is immediately insulted and threatened by two men because of his background, police said. According to the asylum seeker, he was told to go back to his country and called racial slurs. The man also told the police that the attackers threatened to kill him. When the victim ignored them, one of the racists tried to assault him. The victim defended himself by beating the man with his bike lock, after which he ran away and alerted the police.

June 19, 2019: A Jewish-American tourist in Berlin was attacked and injured in an anti-Semitic attack, Berlin police said Wednesday. Police said the tourist filed a complaint after three men split off from a group of 10 people and started harassing him and asked if he was Jewish. When he replied yes, the men attacked him. June 20, 2019: A Muslim schoolteacher traveling by train to Hooghly, India is confronted by a group of men in his train carriage who demand that he recite Hindu chants. When he refuses, they beat him and push him off of the moving train. The schoolteacher, Hafeez Mohd Sahrukh Haldar, escapes death but is injury in the attack & fall from the train. June 22, 2019: Two men walking in Liverpool are approached by three teenagers who shout homophobic slurs at them before stabbing both of them.

June 22, 2019: Brandon Killian and Devan Johnson brutally beat a 36-year-old black man outside of a bar in Shawnee, OK., in what police are describing as a hate crime. Their victim suffered brain damage and an injured eye socket as a result of the attack.

June 26, 2019: Three members of neonazi group Shieldwall are arrested after placing fake ad on Grindr and luring a gay man out to their rural Arkansas home where they assaulted him and vandalized his car. The 3 had planned to go to Knoxville Pride and were using this to warm up on beating up gay men. June 27, 2019: When 25-year-old cab driver Faizal Usman Khan's taxi breaks down in Kharsawan, India, three men on a motor scooter come upon him and start abusing him with Islamophobic slurs and demand that he recite Hindu chants. When he refuses, they drag him out of his vehicle and beat him unconscious. June 27, 2019: A hijab-wearing Muslim woman visiting an amusement park in Toronto is confronting by four people who tell her to tell her to “go back to her country” before punching and kicking her and tearing her hijab off.

June 27, 2019: Two people, including the Imam, were wounded in front of the Pontanezen mosque in Brest, France, on Thursday after a man opened fire at the mosque. The shooter was later found dead, after having committed suicide.

June 28, 2019: After they ask him for a cigarette near his house in Vilnius, Lithuania, a group of youths starts homophobically insulting a gay man, who ignores them and leaves. When he later returns with a friend the youths insult and attack him. Police arrive but decide not to arrest any of the youths. June 29, 2019: An “irate” Paula Custodio and an unnamed man approach two transgender women in Queens, NY. and attack both women with pepper spray, hospitalizing one of them.

June 29, 2019: A 17-year-old was kicked, stamped on and punched with brass knuckles by ten thugs who had been shouting homophobic abuse at his friend in Rotherham, UK.

June 29, 2019: Maya, a 19-year-old transgender woman had left home and was living with friends in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan. Her family attempted to bring her home on Saturday. Maya’s friends, concerned for her safety, contacted the police. But the officers allowed family members to take Maya home to the city of Nowshera. Maya’s bullet-ridden body was discovered just hours later, on Saturday night, beside a river bank in Nowshera.

June 30, 2019: After he sends threatening letters to property owners in his neighborhood threatening to shoot any visible minorities that move in, police raid the Sun Luis Obispo home of 62-year-old Richard Orcutt, seize three dozen firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition, and charge him with hate crimes.

July 1, 2019: Three fascists racially insult a black stranger who walked past them in Hannover, Germany, after which one of the men made his dog attack the man, who was bitten in the leg.

July 3, 2019: A 28-year-old man and woman aged 25, suspected of planning a terror attack on London Pride have been arrested by police in Luton, UK. They were planning a crude strike with a car and knives at the mass rally.

July 4, 2019: 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin enters a Peoria, AZ. convenience store & is followed inside by 27-year-old Michael Paul Adams, who approaches the teen from behind, stabs him with a pocketknife and slits the boy’s throat. Adams tells arresting officers he murdered the teen because he “felt threatened by the music” Al-Amin was playing in his car; that rap music makes him feel "unsafe;" and that people who listen to rap music are a threat to him and the community.”

July 4, 2019: An 18-year-old woman isn "beaten black and blue" in a homophobic attack in a street in Hull, UK. The teenager was attacked by two women she thought were her friends. "Because she is gay they called her a 'f****** lesbian, you and your girlfriend are going to get it 10 times worse next time'.

July 4, 2019: 40-year-old Santa Ana, CA. resident Joe Martin Rodirguez threatens his two gay roommates with a knife and a handgun after making homophobic remarks.

July 4, 2019: A Somali woman in a park in Spicer, MN. for Fourth of July celebrations is accosted by a man demanding she answer his questions about her religion and her hijab who then pepper sprays her and runs away. Minutes later, the same individual pepper sprays a woman supervising a group of adult with developmental disabilities.

July 5, 2019: A group of fascists attacked visitors of a bar in Nantes, France with batons, pepper spray and a smoke bomb, looking for antifascists. Several people had to be treated because of the pepper spray. Eight fascists were arrested.

July 6, 2019: Demetris Nelson uses Grindr to meet up with two gay men in Detroit. He shoots both of them, killing 31-year-old Brian Anderson and critically wounding 26-year-old Malcolm Drake. Nelson faces hate crime, murder, and attempted murder charges.

July 6, 2019: William Lamb is having drinks in a Hillsboro, ND. bar with his husband when a group of patrons harass them with homophobic slurs. When Lamb steps outside of the bar to smoke, one of the homophobes follows him outside and beats him unconscious, shattering his ankle and breaking his nose and some of his teeth in the process. Lamb has to undergo surgery to repair the damage done.

July 6, 2019: 27-year-old Johnathan Hall is at a nightclub in Kamloops, Canada when two men confront him, calling him “nigger” and “darkie.” When Hall’s friend attempts to defuse the situation, the two men attack, throwing Hall to the ground and kicking him repeatedly in his head.

July 7, 2019: A lesbian couple walking down the street in Long Island, NY are sexually harassed by a group of men, one of whom swiftly escalates the situation by assaulting one of the women, who is taken to hospital to be treated for the resulting injuries. July 9, 2019: Self-proclaimed “white power skinhead” Justin Indiveri encounters a protest against ICE in downtown Portland, OR. Indiveri confronts the protestors, pulls out a knife, and repeatedly threatens to stab them. Indiveri has previous convictions for arson and domestic battery.

July 18, 2019: A 62-year-old Hindu priest iswalking near his temple in Queens, NY when a man approaches him from behind, screaming “this is my neighborhood!” and beats him, hospitalizing him.

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Estelle Angrist : Millicent Goodnestone – Apprentice Stone-Carver

Inside every stone is a piece of art, so says Millicent. All you need to do is listen to the rock and take away the unnecessary pieces. Now, the artistry comes in the patience with which one removes the extra bits of stone. Patience, hammer, chisel, and a light touch are all that are required. Otherwise, a good piece of stone can become a dust pile very quickly. Thank goodness today is a festival day, because Millicent has been sweeping piles of dust for a while.

Alessandra Appiotti : Bernadette Albright – Matchmaker

The shire is being visited by the World’s most famous Bachelorette: Queen Elizabeth! If Bernadette can find the one for Queen Elizabeth, she will go from rising star to full-on supernova! She’d better get started lining up eligible bachelors! Or Bachelorettes! She hasn’t met Her Majesty yet, so who is she to judge her tastes?

Andréa Barton : Lady Blanche Parry – Lady in Waiting

This devoted Lady has served the Queen from the time our monarch was in nappies! They are boon companions, sharing court life and all its intrigue and frivolity. While she may look like the marzipan on the cake, her skilled organization of the Queen’s library and fondness for a good jest keeps her wit sharp enough to cut like a knife. Just ask the fool that attempts to play with her heart strings or guitar strings!

Kristin Bauer : Frances Newton, Lady Cobham – Lady in Waiting

Lady Cobham is thrilled to be on progress with the Queen. After all, this busy mother needs some time with the Ladies. With her soft nature and quick smile, she can often times be found with the children of the Shire, telling stories, rhymes, riddles, and playing games. Her sense of mirth does not leave her without a streak of mischief, as she does love to put her finger in the pot, give it a stir, and see what happens! Naughty or Nice? You be the judge!

Lauralette Bernard : Tolly Muneford – Harbor Master

Nothing comes in or out of the shores of Mount Hope that Tolly doesn’t know about. Her web of knowledge reaches far and wide, and she does it all in the service of the Shire. If only she wasn’t so keen on sharing all this knowledge with literally everyone, she might be able to use it for personal gain.

Jennifer Blackwell-Yale : Emily O. Bales – Fire Brigade

It has been 15 years since a monarch last visited the Shire of Mount Hope. Coincidentally, it has also been 15 years since the last fire in the shire of Mount Hope. Emily is always ready for action, but no one is quite sure she would know exactly what to do should action arise. When in doubt: stop, drop, roll, and have some wine. It seemed to work out just fine for the Old Dun Cow!

Karen Rose Bitzer : Rosie DuLait – Milkmaid

This milkmaid typically spends her day milking the cows and goats on the farm; carefully churning the butter; separating the curds from the whey; making the precious cheese to sell at market; all the time, singing and talking to her fine, generous, milk-laden friends! Is it any wonder that Rosie’s dairy products are highly sought for their sweet, creamy nature? It is even said that her happy cows seem to prance in the fields, as if dancing to a jig. Is that even possible? With Rosie, one never knows! Today she was up early: the Queen is expected and she wants to offer the sweetest cream and the finest butter to lay upon the Queen’s table.

Tabitha Borges : Abigail Montgomery – Governess to the Lady Mayor

Abigail has always had a way with children, and has taken care of all the Lady Mayor’s progeny, which means she is quite resilient! Of the many duties, trials, and tribulations the Penburthys have put her through, her favorite activity is still telling stories, and she is a masterful storyteller. Now that the Penburthy children, Calvin, Penelope, and Danforth, have all grown up, she is experiencing Empty Nest Syndrome far more than Delores is!

Elizabeth Burkholder : Paraffin Dyson – Bellows-Mender

Paraffin is a fan. She is a fan of fans. Her bellows will blow you away, that’s how big of a fan she is. Sometimes she can be a bit of a blowhard, but usually she can play it cool. And yet, even the coolest of bellows-menders may have a difficult time not having a meltdown with our Queen on the Shire. Time will tell if Paraffin maintains her composure or has a blowout, but one thing is for sure; she will certainly enjoy this festival day!

Jasmine Crist : Mary Robin Richland – Shire Ne'er-Do-Well

Every shire has one, ours is Mary Robin! While good-natured and always seen with a smile, it is known that one must keep a hand on your purse and an eye on your goods, for you may come up short when the back side of Mary Robin you see! Slight of hand, quick of feet, and always with a jest to share, it is her good nature and sharp wit that keeps her just on this side of the law, for now! It has been heard that she has high aspirations, but for what? Ask her, she may or may not share!

Ashley Crowther : Ira Roth – Actuary

Everyone’s heard of mad scientists, but a mad actuary? That’s much rarer. If you stare at numbers all day long, apparently they start staring back. Eventually, everything starts to look like a ledger, and you can see the numbers everywhere. Sure... that adds up...

Josh Dorsheimer : Jakob Werner – Landsknecht

Professional mercenaries fight the wars of the Kings of Europe. Professionals like Jakob. He does his level best to never think about any of that, though! He would rather spend his time gallivanting around town, spending his hard-won gold on drink, friends, and frivolity. The oldest of the family, Jakob is sometimes mistaken as the decision-maker of the clan. While he won’t outright deny this, the three siblings all know who really calls the shots: their baby sister!

Elisia Freeman : Agnes Lambourne – Apple-Monger

Apple cider, apple butter, apple sausage, apple crisp, apple cake.... Just ask this happy-go-lucky lady what you can do with all those apples, and she will tell you! Be prepared, her list is LONG! Apple juggling, apple carving, apple tossing, apple dicing, apple bocci. Do not be fooled, she knows that man does not live by apples alone; everyone knows you need a little cinnamon and a lot of laughter!

Corey Graff : Wagner Werner – Landsknecht

Wagner travels all over Europe fighting battles with his brother and sister for one reason: he loves them both dearly. Honestly though, he would much rather be laying down in a meadow watching butterflies. Sometimes suffering from middle child syndrome, Wagner’s gadabout ways certainly make life interesting for all the Werner siblings.

Steve Hager : Rip Skeleton – Gravedigger

There are two things certain in this world: Death, and Taxes – and Rip ain’t no accountant. Its always nice to have a friendly face build your final resting place.

Jeremiah Halteman : Ronald P. Eversmeyer – Yeoman Guard

They say history is written by the victors. Ronald has every intention of ensuring that our good Queen’s name goes down in the history of the world as the greatest victor of them all! He is always prepared to put himself between Her Majesty and danger, wherever it comes from, in whatever form it takes, and at any personal sacrifice! His extensive training in the art of personal security has rendered him one of the elite of the yeoman guard; as long as Her Majesty is not attacked from the air. Unfortunately, Ronald has a fear of butterflies. Something about the wings just throw off his rhythm, but no worries....butterflies in Mount Hope? Never!!

Jonathan Heise : Sir John Giffard of Chillington, Minister of Parliament, Knight – Nobleman

This Minister of Parliament felt it his duty to be present during the Queen’s progress at Mount Hope. Concerned that perhaps this tiny village would not be up to the task of hosting our Queen, he would be quick to move the festivities to Chillington. Upon arrival he realized his foolish mistake; never had he seen such a shire, and thought perhaps ‘twas time to move Chillington to Mount Hope! However, for now, why not enjoy the festivities?

Brianna E. Holmes : Mary Hill, Lady Cheke – Lady in Waiting

This gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber is well loved by all. Her husband, John Cheke, a gentleman of the court, encourages her in her service of the Queen. The Queen has blessed them often with gifts, grants, and an estate or two. Even at this show of opulence, Lady Cheke takes it all in stride. She finds joy in the simple things in life; her children, her rose garden, and her love of arachnids. Their homes, their legs, and loving little eyes; can you ever have enough? I think NOT says Lady Cheke.

Anastasia Keno : Louise Weaver – Shepherdess

A diligent if mischievous shepherdess, Louise has a passion for all things fluffy! Why should sheep be the only animals allowed to graze free? Let the cats graze free! Let the puppies graze free! Let the mice graze free! Free the animals! Sorry... she can be very passionate.

Jennifer Litzinger : Cherie Piquant – Spice Merchant

If the first pinch of salt is free, be prepared to pay dearly for everything else. A shrewd business woman, do not let Cherie’s smile fool you. She was born to barter, and barter she will! Well-known on the shire as the woman who can get what you need, do not be afraid to ask; as long as its cinnamon, cloves, turmeric, or cardamom, by day’s end, it will be in your kitchen. Ask for a song, and you could be in for a treat.

Dana Micciché : Katherine Champernowne, Lady Kat Ashley – Lady in Waiting

Appointed governess, tutor, friend, and confidante, Lady Kat Ashley ensured that her Queen had all the necessary tools to rule England. Well versed in astronomy, geography, history, Latin, Spanish, Italian, and Flemish, this unassuming woman is also trained in the art of swordsmanship, axe-throwing, archery, and caber tossing! Think you know a little about a lot? Lady Kat knew it first!

Traci Mohl : Olivia Charnwood – Huntress

The family tradition of hunting and tracking lives on in the guise of Olivia. Like her mother and grandmother before her, ear to ground, sniffing the air; hunting prey is in her blood. Mount Hope’s finest archer, Olivia never fails to bring home the meat – just don’t ask her to cook it!! On this festival day, she plans on showing off her tracking skills by sniffing out a merry time!

Beverly Newton : Charlotte Seaswift – Shipwright

This buoyant aquatic engineer helps keep the Harbor of Mount Hope afloat. An eye for design and a passion for innovation drive Charlotte. She knows that the fine line between sink and swim is just a patch away, and she is always ready to keep things floating on.

Jared Nocella : Miles I. Gore – Professional Henchman

Some people are natural born leaders. Miles is not one of those people. Miles is a natural born lackey, and he’s the best there is at being second fiddle. Always down for doing the dirty work, and he does it dirt cheap! Miles is a sidekick with a smile and has a flare for following.

Alexandra Pentz : Dorte Werner – Kampfrau

The youngest of the Werner siblings, but make no mistake: she is the one that keeps the family together. From designing the boys’ clothes, managing the family finances, and fighting her share of battles, she is as clever as she is dangerous. And after all that, she still has the ability to be the most mischievous of the three!

Lianna Pike : Rosalind Anne Uxbridge – Gardener

Rosalind has had her hands deep in dirt, up to her elbows, preparing for the Royal visit. The gardens must be perfect! Simple details like stone placement can be so critical, yet every time she plants, those chipmunks and rabbits have a feast . That is why Rosalind has a bed in all of her garden plots. She sleeps in a different flower bed each night. Thank goodness the festival is finally here, she can finally get out of the beds and enjoy the beauty of her work with the rest of the shirefolk.

Nicolas Rainville : Grayson Thomas Hemplewhite – Squire to the Master of Horse, Sir Robert Dudley

What an honor to serve the horse that carries the saddle that seats the man who serves the Queen so closely! To say that Hemplewhite is a hard worker is putting it mildly. His work is never done. Clean the tack, muck the stall, check the hooves; not to mention ensuring that Tinker, the horse, is always sweet-smelling for his Master to ride. But today is a festival day. Tinker smells sweet, now its time for Hemplewhite to have a bit of merriment.

Jessica Reesor : Holly Teacake – Baker

Everyone likes sweets at a festival, and Holly has made sure the shire is stocked with confections to please any palate. Fruity, chocolatey, savory – whatever your taste, Holly has you covered! An obsessive planner, Holly loves the order of a recipe. It is a mathematical equation for pleasing people. If only everything else was that simple!

Laura Reesor : Pearl Topstitch – Tailor

A visionary designer with an eye for style. Never satisfied with the same-old same-old; when something works once, she’s done with it! Her appetite for new and exotic is matched only by her skill. She can look at a piece of fabric and see the hidden...pearl...of genius within. Now it is time to show off her skills to the Queen.

James Riley : Adam Cringer – Yeoman Guard

A newly-minted member of the Yeoman Guard following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father before him. Legend of Adam’s monster-hunting exploits have already preceded him. Now it is time to see if the man can match the Legend.

Victoria Sangston : Dorothea Anne Heartley – Etiquette Mistress

Today is a big day for the shire of Mount Hope, and the Lady Mayor has tasked Mistress Heartley with making sure everyone puts their best foot forward. Of course, is that the right foot or the other right foot? Joyfully surveying the shirefolk, she knows everyone will be on their best, smiling, bowing, hat tipping, formal greeting behavior – or else!

Michael Sheffield : John Dee – Royal Astrologer

A good ruler has good advisors. Time will tell what kind of advisor John Dee will be. He says he talks to angels. Perhaps he does. Perhaps he’s just a brilliant con man. One thing is for sure – eccentric only scratches the surface of describing this stargazing man.

Jessie Smith : Polly Lynne Pickering – Apprentice Rag-picker

Polly Lynne has been following in her mum’s footsteps for as long as she can remember. Mum does have a keen eye for bits and pieces, but Polly Lynne is impatient! When she is THE Rag-Picker, she will be much more efficient! Would anyone REALLY notice if a bit was snipped off a gown here and there? Bushes and scissors are a picker’s best friend. She has heard of the fine fabrics worn by the Nobles of the court and is hoping to snip.... errrr....snag a piece or two of those fabrics for herself!

Mary Smith : Penelope Ann Pickering – Rag-picker

Some call it rag-picking, but Penelope prefers to call it fabric repurposing opportunities. Opportunities abound in the shire of Mount Hope, all you have to do is look around! And look she does!! With a keen eye for bits of fabric, lace, gossip, and good will, she has a kind word for everyone and perhaps a bit of scrap for those in need; and, really, who doesn’t need a bit of scrap now and then? And now, with the training up of Polly Lynne, she’s busy busy busy! Thank goodness for the Festival. Mirth, merriment, and fabric scraps!

Evelin Stayner : Buttercup M. Rosehips – Scullery Wench

This young lady is happy when surrounded by a pile of dirty anything. Beginning, middle, end! That is where she finds her joy. Every day has its adventures, and they all start when the sun comes up and last throughout the day. You may find her dancing, singing, or generally making herself an asset to the Shire of Mount. Hope. Some might even call her a fledgling pillar of society; probably more like a fence post. But everybody has to start somewhere!

Katrin Stayner : Eva Froman – Sausage Queen of the Shire

Blessed with infinite patience, and a lithe mind to keep up with her husband. The Fromans are nouveau riche, and happy to flaunt it. Eva is the true brains of the operation. Her wurst is the best, and her husband is the best at being the worst. [the Sausage King is being played by one of the improv directors who doubles as an independent act.]

Jordan Taft : Dorothy "Dottie" Brooke – Lady in Waiting

This Maid of Honor is a seasoned Lady of the court. Certainly Lady Dorothy has done it all, seen it all, and has the bodice to prove it. However, Mount Hope intrigues her. After all, it is time for her to settle down and have a family of her own, and the matchmaker of the Shire is famous throughout the land. She may leave here betrothed, or at least,with several good prospects. Love is in the air, or, is that TURKEY???

Robyn Thompson : Fiona Erin O'Donald – Personal Foot Post of the Lady Mayor

When Fiona came to Mount Hope, the first person she met was the Lady Mayor, who had just lost her third foot post in six months. Fiona needed a job; she had no idea what a foot post was, but she knew she could do it! She is Irish after all! As it turns out, she is the best foot post the Mayor has ever had!! Messenger, she’s the Lady Mayor’s personal messenger!

Sandi Trait : Becky Billingsly – Town Crier and Lady Mayor’s Official Letter-Opener

Becky Billingsly, the voice of the shire, knows full well the weight her proclamations carry. As Official Letter Opener for the Lady Mayor, she is at the forefront of all the news that is news in the shire. Of course, nothing beats today’s happenings! The young Queen makes her way to the gates of Mount Hope. How thrilling to share her news and tidings with the court of her Majesty!

Ariel E. Urich : Kathryn Bridges – Lady in Waiting

This Maid of Honor is on her first progress with the Queen. She has lived her entire life in training for this very time and now that it is here, she realizes that something is missing. She knows how to carry the cup with grace and style; the basket is a simple matter; smiling at the proper time, sitting, standing. So, what is the problem? She has this deep desire to make people laugh! So far, she has shared a bit of her talent with the Ladies of the Court, but perhaps this small shire is where she can be a bit more free with her jests and merriment. Oh, the festival day could not get here soon enough!

Brianna Yale : Lydia der Schlachter – Butcher

Leaving home to work for the Fromans was a tough decision but one she is happy she made. Butchering brings her such delight. From the time she begins to sharpen her blade to the beauty of well-cut chop, this butcher knows her way around a slab of beef, pork, and lamb. However, never ask her for a capon! She has been squeamish since the capon incident of 1552. Enough of that! This is a festival day, and she plans on celebrating with the shire folk and perhaps even catching a glimpse of the new Queen.

Darrell E. Yoder : Sylvan Farelight – Tinker

If it needs mending, this is the man to do it. If it needs replacing, step right up, he has it. If you need a bit of magic in your life, having Sylvan on the streets ensures that your needs will be met! Always popular when he arrives on shire; Sylvan can be counted on to share a bit of news from afar; a bit of wisdom from within; and a bit of magic from, well, from where magic comes from!

To the newcomers, welcome! To those returning, welcome back!

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