Riverside, CA: Recognizing and Understanding White Supremacist Symbols & Organizations

When: December 15th @6:30PM
Where: Quaker Center, 4061 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501

This informational seminar is designed to provide a knowledge base of the modern white supremacist movement in an attempt to empower the community of Riverside. If you are reading this, odds are you have a good sense when it comes to identifying problematic individuals on the street.

So what’s the point of inviting anti-fascists to a basic course in identifying fascism? Given the calls by anarchist media outlets such as Crimethinc, Submedia, and of course IGD, to expand our base and our movement, we felt it appropriate to share our knowledge and experience with folks who are not politicized. What we mean is, people who don’t have the privilege in our capitalist society to spend the time that we do researching and networking. When the calls for expansion went out we took that as a call not to expand to other revolutionaries, but to include those who have never been involved in anti-fascism or revolutionary struggle.

A piece of history tells us that institutions of power shake in their boots when we cross the street to empower people who may not be like us. What we’re referring to is the meeting between the Black Panthers and the Young Patriot Organization which resulted in the Rainbow Coalition. Shortly after those meetings, Fred Hampton was executed by the state. Don’t get us wrong, we don’t intend to invite neo-fascists to the table.

What we are describing is a plan to create autonomy and sustainability within non radical communities. This will not be possible unless we have something to offer the community. This is where our seminar fits in. Providing folks with the information on the white supremacist movement is a great first step, but we must facilitate discussion and organization in a way that is disruptive to the institution of racism.

We already have non politicized community members who are willing to listen, what we need is a counterbalance of anti-fascists and anti-racists who are willing to engage the community in order to pull them into the wider framework of anti-authoritarianism and anti-capitalism. Even if we are not successful in bringing the community into revolutionary struggle, we will have given them priceless tools that they can use every day to identify and challenge white supremacy in the street.

We will be providing snacks and refreshments for attendees free of charge, as well as relevant informational literature.