Minneapolis Neo-Nazi Hosting Race War Activist at State Capitol May 6th

Alexander Rowson is one of the organizers for the “President Trump’s First 100 Days of Triumphs” rally on Saturday May 6th, 2017 at 10am at the State Capitol in St Paul, MN.[1] Rowson is a known fascist who has connections to Identity Evropa, a fascist organization from California known for their White Nationalist posters and rallies targeting college campuses.[2] He’s also one of the leaders of the Alt Right movement in Minnesota. Alexander Rowson lives and works in Burnsville, Minnesota and operates primarily in the Twin Cities.

Rowson was born on November 8th, 1989 in San Francisco, CA. He moved to Moscow, Idaho to attend the University of Idaho to study engineering.[3] While in college, he was active organizer of White Nationalist, fascist and conservative groups on campus. He was president of the College Republicans[4] and the club founder and president of the University of
Idaho chapter of Youth for Western Civilization (YWC). YWC is listed has a hate group by Southern Poverty Law Center. The group is funded by “intellectual racist” and editor of the White Nationalist journal “American Renaissance”, Jared Taylor.[5]

More than once Rowson got called out for making racist and discriminating comments and actions. In April 2010 he was involved in an official hearing with his university for racist statements he made during an official school event.[6]

Before moving to Minnesota he briefly lived in Boston and Detroit. Shortly before the election in November 2016, he moved to Burnsville, MN. Soon after settling in Minnesota, Rowson connected with other like minded individuals through a private, invite only online forum that was organized by the Minnesota chapter of Identity Evropa. The forum was used as organizing platform for the Alt Right/White Nationalist movement in Minnesota. Members of the forum commonly shared fascist “memes”, articles from Stormfront and Daily Stormer, as well as internal organizing strategies. Rowson and other members on the forum organized a White Lives Matter rally at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) on February 25th, 2017.[7] [8] The group planned on passing out White Nationalist propaganda in the European history section with the expressed hope of celebrating their white identity.

The planned White lives matter rally got disrupted by antifascists who where holding a counter protest outside. When Alexander Rowson tried entering the building he was accosted by antifascist protesters calling him out for being a Nazi. In response Rowson performed the traditional Nazi salute and yelling “Heil Trump.”[9]

The White lives matter rally at the MIA was not the only public action carried out by the Alt Right movement. Members of Identity Evropa have been responsible for putting up posters and stickers with racist and fascist content on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus and throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul.[10] Rowson expressed support and encouraged members who posted swastika filled flyer across the cities on the Identity Evropa forum.[11]

Following the event at the MIA, Rowson is currently involved in the organizing of the “President Trump’s First 100 Days of Triumphs” rally at the Minnesota State Capital on May 6th, 2017 at 10am. The rally will feature speaker Simon Roche, a member of the South African white separatist group Suidlanders.[12] The group believes that an eminent #WhiteGenocide in South Africa necessitates a decentralized defense and separation of the white population from the countries black majority. The Suidandlers are currently touring the United States, seeking support and trying to raise funds for what they believe is an upcoming “race war” in South Africa.[13] Along with Simon Roche , Alexander Rowson and other Alt Right MN and Identity Evropa members are likely to speak at the event on May 6th, hoping to spread their message of hate.

We call on anti-fascists, community members and legislators to make sure that this event at the Minnesota State Capitol is shut down.

NO HATE IN OUR COMMUNITIES! NO NAZIS ON OUR STREETS!  

May 6th

May 6th Counter Demonstration Social Media Event

Link for Trump/Suidlander Event

Contact Info

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://nomorenazis.noblogs.org/

Sources:

1 http://facebook.com/events/310095236075377/ “President Trump’s First
100 Days of Triumphs”
(https://archive.fo/nWnu7)
https://nomorenazis.noblogs.org/files/2017/05/May-6th-Trump-Facebook-Event.png

2
https://nocara.blackblogs.org/2016/10/06/nathan-damigo-exposed-identity-evropa-leader-operating-out-of-csu-
stanislaus/
(https://archive.fo/aOAtK)

3 http://mindworks.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Robosub#Team_Members
(https://archive.fo/u0Uy1)

4
http://dnews.com/local/anti-gun-violence-attracts-guns/article_cc3d2899-6bc8-5dc2-81fa-c9e2d2fab7a7.html
(https://archive.fo/DN4Sr)

5
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/company-they-keep
(https://archive.fo/z3ri6)
http://dnews.com/local/campus-bake-sale-mocks-absurd-affirmative-action-system/article_09e017c2-4f36-5cb0-9479-
0449baeb0eac.html (https://archive.fo/nsJN9)
https://youthforwhitenationalism.blogspot.com/
(https://archive.fo/Az75b) “Search for “Rowson”

6

University of Idaho: Student Charged With Discrimination and Harassment for ‘Offensive’ Speech

(https://archive.fo/HHLjX)

7
http://www.startribune.com/shoving-match-erupts-inside-minneapolis-institute-of-art-one-involved-had-look-of-neo-nazi/414817964/
(https://archive.fo/oSkbh)

8
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/03/03/mpls-art-museum-scuffle-sign-things-come
(https://archive.fo/gw15J)

9 https://twincitiesgdc.org/2017/02/28/mia-antifa/
(https://archive.fo/8VuXe)

10 https://twitter.com/IdentityEvropa/status/854521341004861440
(https://archive.fo/dTMRP)

11
http://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-jewish-community-shaken-by-rising-anti-semitism/414789814/
(https://archive.fo/9EWwY)

12
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/11/white-right-south-africa-threat-201311795044515944.html
(https://archive.fo/CIex3)

13
The South African Connection: How American White Supremacists Are Assisting An Afrikaner Group Prepare For Race War
(https://archive.fo/dnhAy)

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