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Alberta school teachers are being targeted by a planned convoy “parade” next week in the latest wave of far-right protests targeting schools and educators.
Leading the planned “one million march for children” event is Benita Pedersen, a familiar face among Alberta’s far-right and a key organizer for Take Back Alberta during this year’s provincial election.
“I’m one of the main coordinators,” Pedersen confirmed to PressProgress. “I am in partnership with individuals from the groups ‘Alberta 4 Liberty’ and ‘YEG United’.”
Pedersen says her “one million march for children” is protesting “sexual education,” claiming parents are unable to “opt-out” because she believes lessons about sex and gender are being taught in every single school subject.
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A venture fund and a real estate startup – both with links to far-right organizations – are promoting a residential development in rural Kentucky as a haven for fellow rightwingers.
The promoters have presented the planned development as an “aligned community” for right wingers who want to “disappear from the cultural insanity of the broader country” and “spearhead the revival of the region”.
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The development was announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, and in a special edition of the New Founding by Joshua Abbotoy, who is managing director of venture fund New Founding and principal of real estate developer Kentucky Ridge Runner LLC according to company records.
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Kentucky Ridgerunner, meanwhile, is an LLC founded in 2022 with Abbotoy at its head according to Kentucky company records. It is the main vehicle for HRP, and owns the bulk of the land which is up for sale to buyers with rightwing sympathies.
Abbotoy’s father, Mark, a real estate appraiser based in Hartsville, Tennessee, is named as managing partner on the Ridgerunner website, and Lazar Lazarovski, a Nashville-based tech entrepreneur and realtor, is marketing director.
The website currently advertises two developments in the vicinity of Burkesville, a town in the so-called Eastern Pennyroyal district of southern Kentucky, around 20 miles north of the Tennessee border.
One of the developments, christened “Longhollow Acres”, is described as “a rolling 550-acre farm situated six miles northeast of Burkesville, and about half a mile to the river”. [...]
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The Most Dangerous Threat To Jews Are The People Threatening To Kill the Jews
Yesterday, June 16, 2023, a federal jury officially convicted Robert Bowers, the White supremacist whose 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that was the deadliest antisemitic incident in American history.
Also yesterday, a man in Michigan was arrested on charges he plotted to conduct his own mass shooting at a synagogue in East Lansing. Like Bowers, Seann Patrick Pietila was also a far-right White supremacist, though it appears his immediate inspiration was the Christchurch Mosque massacre, on whose 5th anniversary he planned to launch his own killing spree.
There is a line one increasingly hears in conservative Jewish circles that insists that Jewish fears over right-wing antisemitism are naught but a ginned up panic. Just a few weeks ago, Jonathan Tobin had the gall to claim that "It isn’t going too far to assert that Soros is endangering far more American and Jewish lives than stray marginal extreme right-wingers." To say that at a moment when the Tree of Life survivors are forced to relive a massacre perpetrated by one of those "stray marginal extremists", one whose violent hate was inextricably bound up in the fever swamp of antisemitic conspiracies for whom George Soros is a central figure and which the likes of Tobin are now trying to render Kosher, is sickening.
The most dangerous threat to American Jews is not liberal Jews supporting policies supported by most other American Jews. The most dangerous threat to American Jews is, and continues to be, the people trying to murder Jews, right alongside the people ginning up, spreading, apologizing for, or horrifyingly endorsing the conspiracies that justify those murders. It's not that complicated. But apparently it still needs to be said.
June 16, 2023, in some ways represents the ongoing circle of antisemitic death, closed in on itself. One antisemitic mass murder reached "closure" (if such a thing is possible). Another was thankfully averted, due to the vigilance of law enforcement who fortunately did not take Tobin's unsolicited, misguided, politically opportunistic, and downright dangerous "advice" that right-wing antisemitism is non-threat.
They know it. We know it. The Tobins of the world, trying to deny it, are absolutely and utterly beneath contempt.
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2) pay attention to who the actual open nazis side with
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What do you think of this right wing new age stuff that claims humans need to eat meat, plants are toxic, veganism is satanic, etc.? People that are like that also make transphobic and ableist claims nonstop and I'm not surprised. For example, they believe that autism and ADHD are diseases caused by either lack of meat or vaccines. However, I'm still baffled where all that even comes from. Last time I checked (like 20 years ago, sorry I'm old) new age was far different. It had its problems including racism, but it was never so.... sociopathic as it is today, and autistics and ADHD people were not considered "ill", but instead "indigo children" and "crystal children" (yes, that also has its issues, but it's still entirely different from calling them "diseased"). Any idea when it started becoming as bad and insane as it is today?
I think that it isn't new, it has just become more visible because of content algorithms. A lot of new age content gets tagged onto content that it just essentially science denialism. Add that to the fact that the far-right are getting much better at repurposing anti-authoritarianism and conspiracism to lure people into their toxic communities.
There is nothing at all inherently right-wing about new age spirituality, but the rejection of traditional authority and sources of truth often carries with it a danger of being channeled into 'alternative' sources of truth. Some of those will be provided by very wholesome communities of spiritual individuals, people practicing divination, folk healing etc. but plenty of nefarious recruiters will take advantage by providing an 'alternative' truth that is essentially just a road to prejudice.
I've seen it happen to people I've followed here before, it happens very slowly but it's hard to turn back once people take a few steps on that road. They go from something like anarchism and it's rejection of centralised authority, to not believing any authority including scientific, to a 'question everything' mentality (except the content creators feeding you this) then it loops right back round into authoritarianism by just replacing the old authority with a new one.
Cults have been running this same playbook since at least the 60's, and many who fell victim to them do arrive looking for an alternative truth, belonging or source of spirituality. The good news is that people can be de-programmed and there are plenty of people who used to be far-right now teaching people how to spot these tactics.
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What the hell is going on in Germany right now? Where the people that got arrested today like modern day Jacobites?
The answer isn't nearly as funny as you'd like, sadly.
For a couple years now, Germany has been having a real problem with right-wing infiltration of its military, security services, and police. (Or more accurate to say that Germany has been recently made aware that it has this problem, which has been something of a spreading ulcer for some time.) Not only has there been a significant uptick in anti-semitic violence committed by people in and around the security services, but quite famously the assassination of a leading politician from Angela Merkel's own party by a neo-Nazi who was associated with a doomsday prepper group made up of hard-right police and military.
As you can see from that last article, there is quite a bit of complicated ideological fermentation on the German far-right, bringing together QAnon-style anti-vaxxers with these neo-Nazi security services groups, as well as these German-style sovereign citizen types, and yes of course members of the supposedly "respectable" far-right party Alternative für Deutchland.
The particular coup attempt that was thwarted on Tuesday bears a lot of the hallmarks of this far-right collaboration - you have the storming of the Reichstag as happened in 2021, you have the kill lists of politicians that seem to come out of both the QAnon and doomsday prepper groups, the conspiracy theories about the "deep state" and the need to establish a new, militarized state, etc. Even the inclusion of this German prince isn't particularly surprising - one of the ways that these far-right groups like to historicize their nationalism is to say that both the Federal Republic of Germany and the Weimar Republic were illegitimate impositions of occupying powers and that the only legitimate government of Germany is the old Imperial government. Hence why when they tried to storm the Reichstag in 2021, they carried the old black, red, and white Imperial flag.
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Why We Fight (Old Essay).
This essay was originally posted on December 20th, 2022.
This essay was written after a particularly draining year in all aspects - foreign and domestic. In this one I dig deep to offer up some encouragement to go on, in thinking about why I (and others) keep up the fight against a world that seems dead set on grinding us into the dust in new and cruel ways.
(Full essay below the cut).
Well, folks. It’s been a hell of a year, hasn’t it?
I feel like since 2016, every year has been “the longest year ever” (or maybe 2016 itself has just been the longest year ever and is still going on). But I really do feel like 2022 has taken the cake so far. We have an ongoing major land war in Eastern Europe involving a nuclear-armed totalitarian imperialistic aggressor, fascist anti-LGBTQ terrorism running rampant in the United States, and everything else bad that you could imagining kicking off all over the world. It’s been an exhausting year that’s felt more like a decade than 365 days. With the state of things, it’s understandable that some folks may be feeling very burned out, grim and dour about our future and the future of the world in general.
As many of you well know, I oppose doomerism in all its forms – for a variety of reasons, but if for nothing else out of spite and a desire to spit in the universe’s eye. I do still truly believe we can make the world a better place – though that will require a great amount of blood, sweat, and tears on our parts. But I recognize things will likely get worse before they get better. I too, still go through periods of being discouraged or temporarily or tactically “doomer” even if I still have hope in the long run. It’s understandable and inevitable as a human being.
It was in one of those slumps recently when I started thinking about what I wanted my last essay of 2022 to be. Thinking about how I felt in that moment and how others felt at home and abroad, I decided maybe what folks might need is a reason to keep going. We spend so much time being bombarded with media meant to break our will and get us to give up whatever struggle we’re involved in to make things suck less, that we could do with a few explicit words of encouragement. Everyone needs a reason to keep up the struggle in whatever form that takes, against the forces that would seek to bring destruction and despair to all corners of the earth. In so many words, sometimes we need to be reminded of the answer to the question “why we fight” or “why should we fight?” That’s what I’m hoping to give you in this last essay of the year before I go sleep for two weeks straight and hope things are better when I wake up.
The Thing That the Essay Title Promised You
So, I’m going to do you all a favor right now (you’re welcome). I’m going to give you the bottom-line up front(ish) so if you just want the basic takeaway of this essay and don’t feel like reading the rest, you got it:
We fight because we’re worth it.
That’s it.
Whether its ourselves, or our friends and loved ones and others who matter to us, we all have inherent meaning and value as people. As we go about our daily lives, we all have the capacity to create and do amazing and beautiful things in the course of our existence; things that make ourselves and all those other people we care about feel a wide array of positive emotions. Whether it’s writing a book or drawing a picture or even just hanging out with someone and telling them a joke or a funny anecdote and making them laugh or taking the time to listen to them if they’re having a bad day, we all have the capacity to do things that make living worth it – both for ourselves and for others. In a way, it’s the world’s most positive feedback loop.
Maybe I’m being soft and lame and cringe, but I think that’s wonderful and worth protecting so that it can continue and flourish all over the world. We fight because we all have the capacity in us to do good things for ourselves and others and that’s absolutely worth protecting. We fight because we can make the world a better place in which for us to do those things that make life worth living and to show our inherent value and worth and meaning as people.
In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to fight for our inherent right to exist and live our best lives. However, as it’s become painfully obvious to us, a perfect world is not possible and just a better world is a struggle to get to. There are those who would deny us this right for a variety of reasons.
For some it’s just a matter of simple greed in regard to money, power, and more; people who in order to achieve their goals requirement need to exert their control over us and deprive us of the means and freedom to be ourselves and be happy.
For others, they have convinced themselves or been convinced by ideology of various kinds that their happiness and self-worth can only come through a world in which they have total control to exert their world view on others and can subjugate and destroy all those who they see as a threat to their goals or conflict with their worldview – particularly minority groups of various kinds.
Others still – for one reason or another, be it nature or nurture – are just full of hate and want to do harm.
In some cases, it may be “all of the above” (and more) motivating certain people to launch campaigns of political, military, and economic domination all over the world. Whatever the motivation, there are those who would deny us the right to live as ourselves and they must be resisted in order to protect our worthiness to exist and do what we do.
Ok, So Now What?
Alright. I’ve told you why we fight, but you’re still here because you want more. Rather: you’re asking, what are you actually supposed to do now?
Naturally, as an analyst, my instinct here is to throw down a smoke bomb and disappear in the ether because I am allergic to giving definitive answers. I am going to fight this impulse and at least try to give you some broad ideas of what we should be doing (“we” just being people the world over in general), with the major caveat that there is no one size fits all solution to the myriad problems we face internationally in the fight against the forces of reaction. We have a great many tools in our toolbox, some of which are ideal for some situations, and others not so much. It all depends on the nature of the threat and the environment it’s occurring in, among other factors. There are no quick and easy fixes that apply in every single case.
To elaborate a bit more on “use the right tool in the right situation” analogy, it helps to think of what we’re involved in as a global total war on the forces of reaction. In some cases, we fight back using non-kinetic political and economic means; in other places and situations, violent or military force may be necessary. But it has to be understood that all of humanity is in the midst of a struggle against the forces of authoritarianism, totalitarianism, fascism – whatever you want to call it – in all aspects, be they physical or otherwise. That means we will need to fight back in different ways at different times depending on what is more appropriate, expedient, or necessary. With all that in mind, the battles we fight and the means we use to fight them will vary widely.
To start on the softer end of things, while I know many of you are likely disillusioned with electoral politics and feel as though your vote doesn’t matter, in many cases your vote does in fact have an impact and is necessary – if nothing else, as a tactical act to minimize harm against those who are the most vulnerable.
I harbor no illusions about the flaws in our system – nor do I believe that voting alone will save the world and change society. But to disregard the tool of voting completely is foolhardy politically speaking. At the end of the day, I am in fact a democratic socialist with an emphasis on the democratic and while I will continue to advocate for a more just and equitable democratic system than the one we currently have, it still has its uses and applications and we have to deal with it. So, as much as it may make you roll your eyes, voting is still one action you can and will often need to take.
However, as I said, voting alone does change things for the better. Once again, while I am very much a democratic socialist with a heavy emphasis on the democratic, I am not an electoralist. To put it plainly, while I believe in participating in electoral politics as part of politics I do not believe that voting alone will save us and bring about the change for the better that is so badly needed in our society.
Political and economic action beyond voting is not only possible but necessary in this battle. Labor organizing, strikes, and other industrial action have been and will be crucial in achieving change for the better. Beyond action among labor, other forms of civic activism and organizing to bring about change and apply pressure on authorities regarding key issues will also be essential – as it has been in the past for issues like civil rights and voting.
In some cases, around the world, certain situations occur that when all else fails and there is no other option, armed resistance and organized military action is necessary and the only way to defend yourself. Obviously, this is has been most visible in Ukraine following Russia’s unjustified, imperialistic invasion earlier this year, which has required mass resistance in Ukraine on a national scale among all its people.
As I often say, even if your country as a whole doesn’t want war, sometimes an outside aggressor will see fit to bring it to you regardless for whatever reason, and your only option for survival is to defend yourself with force of arms – be it in your country’s officially mandated military and paramilitary forces or by other methods of armed resistance. For those of us not present in places under attack in this manner, expressing support and solidarity through fundraising, donating of essential supplies and equipment, or encouraging elected officials or those in power to provide aid are all measures that can be taken to assist those that are fighting for their lives and rights.
Aside from an outside invader, we have seen all too often when the armed aggressor seeking to deprive you of your civil and human rights is not an invading army attacking your government but your government itself. You can pick from a wide variety of examples ongoing in the world today, but one of the freshest and also consistently escalating in the civil war in Burma (Myanmar) which has seen large sections of the population – with many young people desiring a better future – rebelling against the fascist military junta that seized power in a coup.
I feel like the threshold for violence here can sometimes (not always, but sometimes) be higher and murkier in comparison to the more cut and dry cases of being outright invaded by a foreign power. However, we’ve seen plenty of cases where a government has turned against peaceful and non-violent movements for change with overwhelming violence and murder that leave its people no choice but to take up arms against them in defense of their rights, such as the initial protests of the Arab Spring that led to the civil wars in Libya, Syria, and elsewhere. It’s not something to be taken lightly, but in many places unfortunately ends up being the only option.
The shoe, of course, can be on the other foot as well. Sometimes the forces of reaction deadset on oppressing and killing you aren’t coming from within your government (though they may have allies within it) but are in fact actively trying to subvert it or destroy it and replace it with their own twisted vision, causing a rebellion and civil war in the process. There are historical examples of right-wing rebellions or insurrections elsewhere in the world, such as theocratic groups like the Islamic State or Taliban in Southwest Asia, or the Lord’s Resistance Army in Africa. But here in the United States we still have a recent experience of this in an unsuccessful attempt at seizing power in the January 6th Insurrection following the 2020 Presidential Election – which at time of writing, the Congressional panel on the subject has just recommended charges to the Justice Department against former President Donald Trump for his role in the attempted coup (we’ll see if anything actually comes of it).
On the topic of the United States – where I live, and I imagine most of those reading this essay live – I don’t think we’re on the brink of a civil war like we’ve seen in Burma or Syria or elsewhere (as much as some in certain corners of the internet who fetishize the idea of that kind of collapse may wish that were true). I still think the risk of something like this happening here is somewhat low, though A.) it’s not near as low as I’d like it to be or it should be; B.) that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be vigilant to make sure things don’t escalate to that point.
But it is increasingly hard to deny that even if we are not in a “civil war” as we might imagine that we are in the midst of some other kind of campaign of politically motivated armed violence. I used to think that, rather than a full on “civil war”, we were fast approaching something more in the league of The Troubles of Northern Ireland or the Years of Lead in Italy. Its only lately that I’ve realized that we’re already well into that kind of situation and probably have already been there for some time before I finally came to terms with it.
Not only are we well into such a state of affairs, but it is also increasingly obvious that – barring some massive sea change in national sentiment and political will – that we can only sporadically count on the authorities to do anything to challenge the waves of fascistic terrorism we find ourselves victim to, if at all.
The state of affairs we find ourselves in now was most recently demonstrated by the act of right-wing terrorism against a drag show at a LGBTQ bar in Colorado that occurred earlier this month. In the case of that shooting, more loves were kept from being loss by the patrons of that bar aggressively fighting back against their attacker. This demonstrates what I think is the only option in this case of holding the line while we fight for change on other fronts. While I believe we shouldn’t seek out trouble in the current environment, we should be by all means prepared to deter it from occurring and fight back against it as communities where it occurs to enable ourselves to be able to live our lives.
Those supporting the forces of reaction that would seek to destroy LGBTQ and other marginalized peoples and their allies for whatever insane reason, need to be shown that people will defend themselves and that there can and will be consequences for their actions if they insist on following through with their violent fantasies and that they take their life in their own hands when attempting violence against the innocent. Quite simply put, the only sensible solution here is a domestic version of what I have been advocating in foreign policy: “don’t start none, won’t be none” or “fuck around and find out.” It’s a somewhat grim proposition, but when we can’t depend upon the state and other authorities to do the right thing, folks should be prepared to defend themselves when in vulnerable situations.
In Case You Forgot Already: We’re Worth It.
We live in “interesting” times to put it mildly. There is much to be discouraged about, to be angry about, to be fearful of. But we can’t let those emotions be channeled into despair. We can’t let all of the manmade horrors beyond our comprehension swirling around us like ghastly apparitions at home and abroad distract us from the main point: we’re worth it.
We as people have inherent value – and by “value” I don’t mean value in the way a venture capitalist or economist would think about it. we have emotional and philosophical value. We are worth protecting so that we can enable ourselves and others to flourish and reach our full potential. So, the next time you’re doomscrolling your way through a major historical event on social media, try to keep that in mind. Keep that in mind when you’re at the ballot box, on the picket line, in the midst of a protest or act of civil disobedience, or learning to defend yourself by whatever means against those who would threaten your life. We are worth it. The struggle for a better world is far from over. Our future is far from set in stone and time is not, in fact, a flat circle. Those who would seek to oppress or destroy us are far from victorious and their victory is far from certain. We are worth fighting for. Keep fighting the good fight in all its forms all over the world.
To all of those celebrating anything this time of year, I wish you a peaceful and restful holiday season. To everyone out there, I wish you all a Happy New Year that hopefully – if nothing else – brings us somewhat closer in some way to the better future we all deserve. Thank you for taking the time to read what I had to say past, present, and future. Stay safe.
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Over one hundred conspiracy theorists have been camping out in a farm field 40 minutes east of Ottawa for three weeks plotting to replace Canada’s government.
Not only has the group staged daily protests near Parliament Hill, resulting in several criminal charges and one man getting tasered by police, a dozen members of the group were recently invited into the House of Commons by one of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative MPs.
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Lisbon Feb. 3 neo-nazi march organizers say they're coming to Martim Moniz and Mouraria despite failing to get authorization | SIC Notícias
For those of you new to Lisbon, Martim Moniz and Mouraria are two neighborhoods where Lisboetas go to shop for all things Chinese, from cookware to groceries, eat food from a ton of yummy Sout East Asian, Middle Eastern, and African restaurants, and generally get a sense that Lisbon is home to a vibrant community of people from all over the world and not just from Europe and the U.S.
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Their reasons may be wildly different but it sure is striking when such extremely opposed groups can come together such strong agreement.
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