Democracy for Vancouver

While this isn’t a Vancouver area event, I thought it warranted our attention and support:

“Hammerskin Nation” Racists Will Meet with Opposition:People from All Backgrounds Unite Against White Supremacist Organizations Portland, Oregon

The Hammerskin Nation, a neo-Nazi skinhead organization, aims to attract hundreds of hardcore racists to the group’s twentieth-anniversary celebration, to be held October 5 - 7 of this year in the greater Portland area. The Hammerskins, then known as the Confederate Hammerskins, began life in 1997 as a Dallas, TX gang specializing in violence against Jewish people and people of color, sexual minorities, as well as activists. The Hammerskin Nation-a masthead for Hammerskin racist skinhead crews-has since gone national, and later international, with their bigoted agenda. The upcoming Hammerskin Nation event in Oregon was planned in conjunction with Volksfront, a Portland-led white supremacist group with links to Kenneth Mieske and Kyle Brewster, two of the killers of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw in a 1988 racially charged crime.

WHAT: Community gathering and rally: “Nazis Not Welcome! Unite Against Racism!”

WHO: Speakers and performers currently include Mic Crenshaw of
Hungry Mob and Walidah Imarisha of Good Sista/Bad Sista. More TBA.

WHEN: Saturday, October 6, 1PM onwards.

WHERE: Lents Park, corner of SE 92nd & Holgate.

The October 6 rally in opposition to “Hammerfest” has been called
by the Ad-Hoc Committee Against Racism and Fascism. Founded this
September, the Ad-Hoc Committee is dedicated to monitoring and opposing
white supremacist groupings in Portland and beyond. As large neo-Nazi
rallies have often been preceded by bigoted attacks, the Ad-Hoc
Committee wishes to work with community groups and people of good
conscience who want to respond to fascist mobilization.

To obtain a chronology of recent white supremacist activity in the
Pacific Northwest, or for more information on anti-racist endeavors,
please contact the Ad-Hoc Committee: 971.285.4688 or fight_them_back@riseup.net