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PROUD BOYS RALLY BEHIND RELIGIOUS BIGOTS TO INTIMIDATE MODESTO LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY
by SIERRA FOOTHILLs STUMP STAFF | LCRW STAFF | September 14, 2020
Last year, Don James Grundmann, a religious bigot with ties to the Proud Boys and founder of the National Straight Pride Coalition, tried to hold a “Straight Pride Parade” in Modesto, CA. Grundmann’s intent was to hijack the “Straight Pride” branding of a Boston-based fascist group called Resist Marxism, who got national attention for the […]
DHS MEMO WARNS OF WHITE SUPREMACIST TERROR TARGETING ELECTIONS
by ABNER HÄUGE | September 5, 2020
A memo published by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA), part of the Department of Homeland Security, on August 17th says that violent extremists motivated by ideologies like white supremacy “could quickly mobilize to threaten or engage in violence against election or campaign-related targets in response to perceived partisan and policy-based grievances.” The memo […]
SAN DIEGO: OFFICERS ASSAULT PROTESTER HAVING A SEIZURE
by ROSE HENNA | August 29, 2020
On Monday, August 24, 2020 at approximately 1:00 PM a flyer began circulating on popular social media sites calling for a protest at 1401 Broadway in San Diego, California (San Diego Police Department Headquarters at 5:00 PM to show solidarity with protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Outrage over the August 23, 2020 police shooting of Jacob […]
OAKLAND RAGES OVER SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE
by JUNGHO KIM | August 28, 2020
Tensions were high as hundreds of people marched through Oakland on Wednesday evening to protest against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 23. Speakers led the crowd in chanting the names of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Oakland’s own Oscar Grant who was killed by BART police in 2008. Several […]
Q AND LOATHING IN HOLLYWOOD
by ABNER HÄUGE | August 26, 2020
The swelling crowd looms up and hits me psychically like a wave I couldn’t tell was too damn big. “CHILD LIVES MATTER!” “AGAIN!” “CHILD LIVES MATTER! On every corner of Hollywood and Vine, the foam from an internet swell hisses in my ears. I can’t even hear their babble for the semi-coherent conspiracy theories they’re […]
AUGUST 15: WARWOLVES OF PORTLAND
by JAMES O’RYAN | August 25, 2020
An unusual scene began during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. Among the activists manning the western barricade, word rapidly spread that Proud Boys or some other form of alt-right militia was approaching the edge of the action in a limousine with a camera crew. Protesters and press alike couldn’t […]
TUJUNGA: SEIG HEILS, BLOODY FISTFIGHTS AND PEPPER SPRAY MARK FRIDAY’S OPPOSING RALLIES
by OWEN GRADY | August 19, 2020
Los Angeles sees itself as an idyllic melting pot. Every few miles is an entirely new community. Each town has its own individual culture and history. Many residents shelter in their own neighborhood’s bubble and have an unrealistic assumption that L.A. is free of racism and bigotry. But it’s right next door. Residents of Tujunga […]
PORTLAND, AUGUST 9TH–PROTESTERS COMPLY WITH DISPERSAL ORDER, POLICE ASSAULT THEM ANYWAY
by JAMES O’RYAN | August 11, 2020
Kenton Park is a rolling, twelve acre, green-space in this tightly-packed city. People from the neighborhood had begun quietly assembling on Sunday, August 9 2020, in socially-distanced and masked groups at the north end of the park since around 6 PM. Unlike the visually packed spaces in the city center so famous from national and […]
MINDEN, NEVADA: MILITIAS PLAN ARMED INTIMIDATION AT BLACK LIVES MATTER RALLY
by ABNER HÄUGE | August 8, 2020
It started with the Douglas County Public Library’s relatively benign proposed statement against bigotry. “The Douglas County Public Library denounces all acts of racism, violence and disregard for human rights. We support #BlackLivesMatter,” the statement reads in part. “Due to your support of Black Lives Matter and the obvious lack of support or trust with […]
PORTLAND POLICE PROMISE VIOLENCE, DELIVER
by TJ PARTRIDGE | August 8, 2020
On the heels of a night wherein the Portland Police Bureau beat, flashbanged, and gassed a crowd through the streets of outer Southeast Portland, the teenage-led activist group Youth Liberation Front posted a follow up call to action in the East Portland neighborhood. The announcement, of course, was not unnoticed by the Portland Police Bureau, […]