[Marxism] Counter-demonstration against white supremacist rally, August 4th, Kalamazoo, Michigan

["Sayan Bhattacharyya" <ok.president+marxmail@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Matt Erard <slnaphtali@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Jul 26, 2007 9:48 PM

Join the Socialist Party of Michigan in Kalamazoo, MI on
August 4th to confront the fascist rally being held that
day.

Saturday August 4th 2007
Meet at 12:00PM at Bronson Park in Kalamazoo (South
Rose and W. South St)

Brings signs, banners, noisemakers, and anything else
that will help make it clear that fascism and white
supremacy are not welcome in Kalamazoo, Michigan, or
anywhere else.

For a map and driving directions to Bronson Park,
click on the Bronson Park link on the front page of the
SPMI website at: http://www.spmichigan.org

SPMI members will be distributing 400 copies of the
SPMI leaflet designed for this event, which you can
download at:
http://www.spmichigan.org/anti_fascist.pdf

On August 4th, white-supremacist radio-host Hal Turner
along with a litany of fascist groups and individuals
will be holding a "rally against black gang terrorism"
in Kalamazoo in the hope of fomenting
racism and building a fascist movement in West
Michigan.

The Socialist Party of Michigan and other
organizations have organized a counter-demonstration
to confront the fascist rally and expose their
intentions. We encourage all groups and individuals
who are opposed to the propaganda of this rally to
join us in confronting the fascists on August 11th.

In the wake of the failure of the capitalist system to
provide what is promised, and the rise of opposition
to the antiquated system: a lowered quality of life
for the masses, their struggle and feelings of
insecurity, a rise in the poverty-driven crime rate,
lower wages, harder hours, and higher unemployment, a
sense of urgency to correct these problems emerges.
Traditionally, the result of this is a rise in support
between two rivals in ideological opposition: fascists
and socialists. Both ferment within the working and
middle classes, the former through the elite of the
former system, the latter through the oppressed. They
view the cause of the problems in two completely
different ways: fascists attempt to muster hatred
against oppressed peoples to deflect attention from
the ruling class; socialists blame the mechanics of a
system which naturally lead to the breakdowns present,
regardless of the society it is embedded in.

On August 4th the fascists march; and on August
4th we socialists stand to dispel their lies.

The defeat of poverty, violent crime, exploitation,
discrimination, and imperialist war will require a
multi-racial mass movement of the working majority to
overthrow the fascists' prospective puppeteers in the
ruling capitalist class, and bring forth a socialist
transformation.

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SOCIALIST PARTY OF MICHIGAN

Socialist Party of Michigan Website:
http://www.spmichigan.org

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