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☆ What Can a City Do When Neo-Nazis Start Marching Down Its Streets?
  + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Emily Cochrane | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
They first arrived at the beginning of July: dozens of masked white supremacists, shuffling out of U-Hauls, to march through Nashville carrying upside-down American flags. The neo-Nazis poured into the historic Metro courthouse to disrupt a City Council meeting, harassed descendants of Holocaust survivors and yelled racist slurs at young Black children performing on a downtown street. The appearance of white nationalists on the streets of a major American city laid bare the growing brazenness of the two groups, the Patriot Front and the Goyim Defense League. Their provocations enraged and alarmed civic leaders and residents in Nashville, causing the city to grapple with how to confront the groups without violating free speech protections. “Nashville is a microcosm of the greater country, and we are at a moment where we have to decide who we are.”
Persons: tonks, ”, Aftyn Behn Organizations: Nashville, Nazi, Council, Patriot, Goyim Defense League, Broadway, Patriot Front Locations: American, Nashville
☆ White supremacist fitness clubs are fat-shaming Trump supporters and plotting a race war
  + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
White supremacist "active clubs" are spreading across the US. The clubs recruit disaffected white men and promote physical fitness and masculinity. AdvertisementA network of white supremacist fitness clubs is spreading across the US, recruiting men to prepare for what they believe will be a race war. AdvertisementThe investigative news outlet, Bellingcat, has also reported that the white supremacist active club movement had spread to Europe. The movement was inspired by Robert Rundo, who founded the white supremacist MMA club known as the Rise Above Movement.
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☆ Unbowed, Proud Boys are planning now for their biggest Pride Month disruptions ever, extremism watchdogs warn
  + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
But this year, the Proud Boys are redoubling their anti-LGBTQ+ efforts, and are laser focused on Pride month. "It's a dangerous thing, because the Proud Boys are all about violence, and so are the Patriot Front, she said. A banner shared to a Proud Boys Telegram channel by someone calling himself a member of the Middle Tennessee Proud Boys chapter. A banner posted on several Proud Boys Telegram channels by an individual identifying themselves as a member of the Proud Boys Michiana (Michigan/Indiana) chapter. The Proud Boys' planned propaganda promoting anti-LGBTQ+ "Proud Day" celebrations timed for Juneteenth, an annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the US.
☆ Anti-LGBTQ+ protests are at an all-time high. A Proud Boys war on drag is a big reason why.
  + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
Once a week on average in 2022, Proud Boys joined or led anti-LGBTQ+ protests held across the US. Proud Boys joined in seven anti-LGBTQ+ protests in September, 10 in October and 6 in November. In December, they protested at 13 anti-LGBTQ+ protests, more than in any other month last year, ACLED data shows. And the group's anti-LGBTQ+ push is continuing, said Kaufman, who tracks the Proud Boys' estimated 119 chapters in 46 states. Proud Boys are turning up these days at nearly half of all anti-LGBTQ+ activity across the country, she told Insider.
☆ Drag queens take on Tennessee bill seeking to restrict their performances
  + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Andrew Davis | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
At 5 Points Diner & Bar in Nashville, Tenn., drag performer Veronika Electronika can often be seen strutting between brunch tables. The measure, known as Senate Bill 3, was introduced by Tennessee Republican Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson in November. Tennessee has proposed 31 anti-LGBTQ bills this year, the most of any state, according to Freedom for All Americans. “We tip our servers, we tip our bartenders, we tip our hair stylists, and we tip our drag queens,” she said. As for Veronika, she said she’s determined to rally enough opposition to scuttle Tennessee’s drag bill before it becomes state law.
☆ Far right protests targeting the LGBTQ community show a troubling correlation with violent attacks
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Right-wing extremists have held at least 55 protests targeting LGBTQ people this year, ACLED reported. That is up from just 16 such protests in 2021, an increase of over 340%According to ACLED, a monitoring group, far-right activity is "strongly" linked to violence. Groups such as the Proud Boys conflate the reading of books by members of the LGBTQ community with the predatory "grooming" of kids. Such deadly attacks are often carried out by self-styled vigilantes who are not formally members of any far-right group, Roubadeh Kishi, director of research at ACLED, said in an interview. "It usually ends up being a resurgence of some kind of old narrative, packaged in a new way," Rishi said.
☆ Veterans group presses state and local prosecutors to go after far-right Patriot Front
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Ryan J. Reilly | Ryan J. Reilly Is A Justice Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
"We as veterans are tired of watching fascists run around, hurt people, and not be brought to justice. In July, group members marched in Boston, where no arrests were made. That same month, in Philadelphia, police detained but did not arrest members of the group after members of the public disrupted their march. Members of the Patriot Front attend the 49th annual March for Life rally Jan. 21, 2022, in Washington. He said he's hopeful his military and advocacy background will help prompt some prosecutorial movement against Patriot Front members.
☆ Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers
  + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Brandy-Zadrozny-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Brandy Zadrozny | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +23 min
Utah County Attorney David O. Leavitt speaks on July 31, 2019, in Provo. The accusations were part of a new case from Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith. Discussion about satanism and satanic abuse has increased in recent years, according to data provided to NBC News by Zignal Labs, which analyzes social media conversations. Popular culture and social media have also ferried ideas about satanism and widespread child abuse from fringe to the mainstream. (Anti-LGBTQ politicians and activists have equated LGBTQ people with predators who abuse children as part of a “gay agenda,” the well-worn panic that the gay rights movement’s true motivation is recruitment.
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