Protesters in Washington D.C. clash with white nationalists at conference celebrating 'year of Don
Source: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
BY Laura Bult
Saturday, November 19, 2016, 1:49 PM
— Vaughan Wimberley (@Fancystardust) November 19, 2016
A white nationalist conference held at a federal building in Washington, D.C., in celebration of "the year of Donald Trump" ignited violent clashes between protesters and attendees of the hate group gathering.
Scores of demonstrators swarmed the downtown D.C. conference venue, the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, on Saturday afternoon shouting, “Fascists, we will shut you down!”
Images and videos of the protest show that at least one person was injured — a man reported to be a white nationalist who suffered a bloody gash across his forehead after getting pummeled by a group of protesters. A man can be heard screaming "F--k Nazis!" in a video of the attack.
Washington D.C. police reported no arrests as of Saturday afternoon. ............................
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/protesters-swarm-white-nationalist-conference-article-1.2880219
Article says the protesters pummeled someone but also says no arrests made.
And:
Protesters try to confront white nationalists in D.C. for conference
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/protests-expected-as-white-nationalists-meet-in-dc-saturday-and-celebrate-trump-win/2016/11/18/2b495d02-adaa-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html
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Richard Spencer, a leading promoter of white nationalism, is hosting a major gathering Saturday that is expected to draw protesters. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)
By John Woodrow Cox November 18 at 10:35 PM
A white nationalist organization that has come under fire for promoting racism will host a conference Saturday at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in downtown Washington — a gathering of more than 250 that will celebrate Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
“The past 12 months might be remembered as the year of Donald Trump . . . and the year of the Alt Right,” according to the website for the National Policy Institute, which is hosting the event. “It was a time when more people joined our movement then [sic] ever before and when our ideas began invading the mainstream.”
The conference is expected to draw dozens if not hundreds of protesters, who have launched a Facebook page asking that people join them “to defeat this hate.”
The institute’s president, Richard Spencer, who coined the term “alt-right,” is a leading promoter of white identity. He and his followers oppose immigration and multiculturalism....................
................The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the National Policy Institute as an extreme right-wing group whose core belief “is that ‘white identity’ is under attack by multicultural forces using ‘political correctness’ and ‘social justice’ to undermine white people and ‘their’ civilization.”.............................
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Big Nazi on Campus: How Racists Rallied at UC Berkeley with Police Protection
by reposted from itsgoingdown.org
Sunday May 15th, 2016 1:02 PM
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But support for Trump is only part of a bigger struggle to create an all white fascist state. Spencer fashions much of his support for an ethno-state on the same logic that the Confederate elites, such as Vice President Alexander Stephens articulated, who Spencer drew from in his 2014 essay, The Metapolitics of America, by calling for the removal of all non-whites on the basis that whites are superior. Spencer writes for Radix:
In his greatest address, “The Cornerstone of the Confederacy,” he did not speak (mendaciously) about "states rights" or any kind of Constitutional legality. He instead cut to the heart of the social order he was opposing. He stressed that the Confederacy was based on the conclusion that Thomas Jefferson was wrong; the "cornerstone" of the new state was the "physical, philosophical, and moral truth" of human inequality.
Ours, too, should be a declaration of difference and distance—"We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created unequal." In the wake of the old world, this will be our proposition.
But while Spencer sees this as a far off goal, in the meantime he's happy to push for mass deportations, exclusions, and forced sterilizations of people of color in the here and now. As Salon wrote:
He didn’t mean the government should encourage people to use birth control pills and condoms. He was advocating for some type of government-forced sterilization.
“They could still enjoy sex. You are not ruining their life,” Spencer said.
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https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/05/15/18786407.php
