This report is a roll-up of activity from revolutionary communist, radical anarchist, fascist, and other ‘alternative’ political groups that fulfill our intelligence requirements for both the Alt-Left and Alt-Right for Wednesday, 21 February 2018. Activities included are from Mississippi, Washington State, Arizona, Colorado, California, Texas, Michigan, and Ohio.
Alt-Left:
Mississippi: A Christian center at a liberal arts college in Jackson, Mississippi was recently vandalized with extremely vulgar anti-Trump and anti-Christian graffiti. Pictures of the room that was vandalized depicts the graffiti and the students and professors who participated in the vandalism. According to the Christian students who reported the vandalism, no charges or disciplinary action has been taken against the vandals. (Source: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/campus-insanity-christian-center-vandalized-anti-trump-graffiti-incident-swept-rug/)
Website: The same anti-fascists that recently created the website “FashMaps” have created another interactive map that depicts fascist activity. This map, however, depicts terror events across the US committed by Fascists since 2001 and lists the event, number of people killed, and the narrative of the event. (Source: http://fashmaps.com/2018/01/29/fascist-terrorist-attacks/)
Washington State: Antifascists in Vancouver, Washington are attempting to shut down a pro-Trump march called “March 4 Trump” that will take place on March 4th. The antifascists tweeted their call to action saying “No Nazis on our streets!” (Source: https://twitter.com/RoseCityAntifa/status/966011157810040832)
The Clark County Antifascists in Washington tweeted out a list of promises that it plans to keep to their communities:
“1. Protect the identity of all those that anonymously report fash activity to us
2. Retain 0 contact information
3. 100% transparency of all projects and actions we take, where safe
4. Being ready to assist medically, always
5. Giving credit, where credit is due
6. Providing our skills to help the community through food and donation drives, shelter volunteering, and reaching out to other organizations that provide mutual aid to our communities
7. Damage reduction in all forms
8. Being available for moral and emotional support, at all times
9. Physical defense of our at-risk community spaces
10. Respect for our people, in all forms, at all times
11. Knowledge, understanding, and consciousness of our privilege, in every way it may manifest, for any and all partisans that organize alongside or within us
12. Our revolution is accessible by the poor, and the differently abled, forever”
Arizona: A Milo Yiannopoulos event that was scheduled to take place in Phoenix, Arizona has been cancelled due to an antifascist resistance. (Source: https://twitter.com/AFAPHX/status/965803748726468608)
Alt-Right:
Colorado: The president of Colorado State University recently released a statement saying that there is “no place for hate at Colorado State” in response to the Traditionalist Worker Party putting up flyers around the campus. In the official statement the president of the university stated that “we vehemently reject their claim to the values of America, patriotism, courage, conservatism, character – and the Christian faith. Their base and immoral ideology, is, indeed, unwelcome and repudiated at Colorado State University.” (Source: https://source.colostate.edu/president-frank-no-place-hate-colorado-state/)
Events:
25 FEB: BLM Contingent at the Black Joy Parade hosted by Black Lives Matter Bay Area
26 FEB: Milo Yiannopoulos: “10 Things I Hate About Mexico” at UCLA
03 MAR: Black Lives Matter Houston: March For Black Women celebrating black sisterhood
04 MAR: March 4 Trump, Vancouver, Washington
05 MAR: Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer scheduled to speak at Michigan State
16-18 MAR: MAGACON 2018
17 MAR: CopWatch Orientation hosted by Black Lives Matter Sacramento
20 APR: National High School Walk-Out For Anti-Gun Violence
TBA – Richard Spencer speech at University of Cincinnati