[PEN-L:8357] The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tues, 22 June 99 -- 3:48 (#287)

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            The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 22 June 99
                       Vol. 3, Numbers 48 (#287)
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     SEND THE RACIST "BOONDOCKS" COMIC STRIP BACK TO THE BOONDOCKS
                 The Multi-Racial Activist (18 Jun 99)

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The Boondocks, a comic strip run daily by newspapers
nationwide, presents a militant, afrocentric view of America through
the  eyes of "Huey", it's chief character and protagonist.  It also
promotes an  intolerant view of mixed-race ancestry and interracial
marriage.  Many  installments of the strip, specifically those run on
April 28, 29 and May 5,  6, 8, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 are
dedicated to "Huey" bashing another  character "Jazmine" for choosing
to identify as biracial as well as  belittlement of interracial
marriages.  This type of message only breeds  further intolerance and
hatred.  This is not comedic expression.  It is  bigotry disguised as a
comic strip and leveled at an already oppressed  segment of the
population, biracial/multiracial children and adults as well  as those
monoracial individuals who choose to marry across color-lines.

Ms. A.D. Powell, a political activist and self-identifying white
multiracial author and contributor to the INTERRACIAL VOICE web site
had  these words to describe "The Boondocks":

     Aaron McGruder's hate propaganda is especially harmful to
     children who see the bullying and harassment of the multiracial
     character, "Jazmine," into a false "black" identity presented
     as a positive thing. Indeed, the message that "Jazmine" is
     too inferior to also claim her European ancestry but is
     a "confused cutie-pie" for white-hating black males appears to
     be the main theme of "The Boondocks." McGruder has spent more
     time on this theme than any other. Adults should know that
     they have the legal, social and moral right to call themselves
     multiracial or even that "godlike" appellation "white."
     Children, however, are vulnerable. They are the targets for
     McGruder's "We'll take you against your will" advocacy of
     "ethnic rape."

The message of The Boondocks is clear, McGruder opposes biracial
identity  and interracial marriage and makes that plain through the
constant bashing  of the biracial character "Jazmine" by "Huey" and by
belittling an  interracial couple, her parents, in the strip.  By
naming Jazmine's black  father "Tom", McGruder is essentially saying
that he is an "Uncle Tom" for  marrying a white woman, a point not lost
on many in the biracial/multiracial/interracial community.

This is unacceptable.  The Multiracial Activist urges all papers and
magazines carrying "The Boondocks" to discontinue running the racist
strip.  In America, in 1999, there is no place for this kind of
disgusting, public display of hatred disguised as artistic expression.
The Multiracial Activist knows that our nation's conscientious editors
and  publishers, when confronted with the truth about this racist comic
strip,  will do the right thing and reject Mr. McGruder's unacceptable
intolerance  towards our community.

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The Multiracial Activist
PO Box 8208, Alexandria, VA 22306-8208
http://www.multiracial.com/
E-mail: racial_politics@xxxxxxxxxxx
Contact: James A. Landrith, Jr.

                            Relevant Links:

This press release: http://www.multiracial.com/news/pr990618.html The
Boondocks: http://www.boondocks.net

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            ADL BACKGROUNDER ON SACRAMENTO-AREA HATE GROUPS
                Anti-Defamation League (press release)
                              18 Jun 99

NEW YORK -- Hate literature found at the site of the three bombings in
Sacramento which blames Jews for NATO's activities in Kosovo, is
connected to rhetoric that ADL's Internet Monitoring Unit has been
tracking online for several months. While there is no direct link
between certain anti-Semitic hate groups and the arsons, ADL has
monitored the activities of hate groups in the Sacramento area.
Following is the background on both hateful rhetoric and
Sacramento-area hate groups:

                     WORLD CHURCH OF THE CREATOR

On Kosovo:

-- The active women's branch of the WCOTC in Sacramento, the
Women's Frontier, released the following statement in the June issue
of its newsletter:

"As racially aware White women and Sisters of the WCOTC, we
continue to be disgusted and appalled by the Clinton JOG war against
fellow Whites in Serbia, but we are especially horrified by the agony
that White children of Kosovo are suffering -- seeing their families
and homes destroyed and blown apart, and for what? So the Jew World
Order can tighten its stranglehold on our People worldwide. The Jews
always proclaim so loudly their love of 'women and children' but when
they want to drop the bombs, they don't hesitate to destroy anything
that stands in their way."

In Sacramento:

-- In December, a winter solstice celebration held by the WCOTC in
Sacramento was attended by 25 people, including Skinheads.

-- In April 1999, there were at least three separate reports of  WCOTC
distributing flyers in the Sacramento area. In one instance,  flyers
were distributed in a synagogue parking lot after a Yom
Hashoah service.

Background:

-- The group's militant rhetoric attacks Judaism, Christianity,  blacks
and immigrants with equal vehemence.

-- WCOTC is currently led by Matt Hale, who is in his 20s. He has  a
law degree, but his admission to the Illinois State Bar is pending.

-- During the early '90s, WCOTC was one of the most violent
organizations on the radical right.

-- The group considers itself a "racial religion" whose "prime
goal" is the "survival, expansion, and advancement of the white  race."

-- Many WCOTC followers are Skinheads.

-- WCOTC members have been connected to one Florida murder and two
conspiracies to commit hate crimes on the West Coast.

-- The group believes in a Racial Holy War.

-- The group has over 35 contact addresses in the U.S., including  8 in
California.

                          NATIONAL ALLIANCE

On Kosovo:

-- At the National Alliance Web site, there is a flier, "Hands Off
Yugoslavia!" for supporters to print and hand out.

-- The flier claims that "the aggression against the Serbian
people has been planned and ordered by the entirely kosher gang  around
Clinton which now runs America's foreign policy and uses  America's
armed forces to support its scheme for a dictatorial New  World Order
rather than to defend America."

-- Also at the National Alliance Web site are audio and printed
versions of radio broadcasts by group leader William Pierce.

-- "It is pretty clear that the media bosses are solidly in
cahoots with the Jewish gang around Clinton in this latest war
effort," Pierce claims in one broadcast.

-- In another, he calls the conflict "a Jewish war to strengthen  the
grip of the New World Order."

-- In a third broadcast, Pierce calls for a "deliberate,
clear-headed decision now on the part of every American patriot to
begin a course of careful, planned and coordinated action aimed at
destroying America's domestic enemies."

In Sacramento:

-- The National Alliance has an active local unit in Sacramento,  which
is under the leadership of Jim Ring.

-- Ring has flown a Nazi flag outside his home, has promoted the
National Alliance by taking out ads in the local paper, operating a
telephone hotline, distributing NA literature and selling NA
materials at area gun shows. Ring has also hosted monthly membership
meetings and annual parties in celebration of Hitler's birthday.

-- In July 1998, two synagogues in the San Fernando Valley were
vandalized with graffiti. In both instances, the National Alliance's
Web site address was scrawled in red spray paint across an outside
wall of the synagogue, along with the words, "Stop Murdering the  White
Race."

Background:

-- The National Alliance is the single most dangerous organized  hate
group in the United States.

-- It is the largest and most active neo-Nazi organization in the
nation.

-- Its numbers have more than doubled since 1992, and it now has a
reported membership of 1,000.

-- It has 16 active cells (in 11 states) across the country and  has
been visible in at least 26 states, most notably those in the  mid-
Atlantic region.

-- It is led by William L. Pierce, 66, former University of Oregon
physics professor and veteran anti-Semite, who learned his stock and
trade in the American Nazi Party.

-- Pierce's weekly radio show is heard by hundreds of people
across the country.

-- While the National Alliance's ideology dehumanizes both Blacks  and
Jews, it sees Jews as a more immediate threat to "white
survival."

-- In his radio broadcasts and literature, Pierce emphasizes
Jewish control of the government, economy and media.

-- The group is anti-democracy and anti-Christian.

                           POSSE COMITATUS

On Kosovo:

-- At their Web site, anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus leaders August
Kreis and Jim Wickstrom call the war on Serbia a "jewish (sic)
orchestrated MURDER of White Christians using the armed forces of the
U.S. and others under the cover of NATO!"

-- Kreis and Wickstrom declare, "never forget that it is the jew  (sic)
that is behind all the evil in the world...there will be no  Peace on
earth until they are all exterminated!"

-- Kreis and Wickstrom ask, "when will you White Russians go to  the
AID of your Allies? Tell the AmeriCan (sic) jew (sic) dominated
government to stick their 4 billion in foreign aid!"

-- Kreis proclaims, "for EVERY Serb murdered by NATO/UN,
retaliation should be 100-plus fold against NATO/UN and the enemies  of
Christianity within and without Yugoslavia all around the world."

Background:

-- The Posse Comitatus is an anti-Semitic, racist Identity Church
group composed of loosely affiliated bands of armed anti-tax and  anti-
Federal government vigilantes and survivalists.

-- Posses believe that all government power is rooted at the
county, not Federal, level.

-- In 1991, Jim Wickstrom was convicted of plotting to distribute
$100,000 in counterfeit bills to white supremacists at a 1988 Aryan
Nations event.

-- In 1983, active Posse member Gordon Kahl murdered two Federal
Marshals in North Dakota and became a fugitive. He died in a shootout
with Arkansas law enforcement officers.

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                  PLANET SMASHERS, SHADES OF CULTURE
             TO PLAY BENEFIT TRIBUTE TO SLAIN ANTI-RACISTS
                     ARA Montreal (press release)

Best friends Lin "Spit" Newborn and Daniel Shersty were inseparable. 
It did  not matter that Spit was black and Dan was white.  They shared
a love of ska  music, parties, and girls.  They also shared a
passionate hatred of racism -  and that is why they are dead.

On July 3rd, 1998, Dan and Spit thought they were on their way to a
party in  the desert outside Las Vegas with two women they had just
met.  Instead,  they were on their way to a trap.  Sometime that night,
both Dan and Spit  would be beaten and shot execution-style by neo-
nazis.  Their mutilated  bodies would be found days later, just meters
apart from each other.

Dan and Spit were singled out for murder by racist terrorists because
both  were anti-racist skinheads and members of Anti-Racist Action, an
international youth-based anti-racist movement.  Their beliefs, their
values, and their friendship were an affront to the lies and
fabrications  that racists take as the core of their beliefs, and Dan
and Spit were made  to pay for this with their lives.

To commemorate the occasion, and to pay homage to the memories of Dan
and  Spit in the way they'd want us to, Montréal Anti-Racist Action
will be  holding a benefit  concert on the first anniversary of their
deaths.  On  July 3rd, 1999, The Rainbow will reverberate with the
sounds of The Planet  Smashers, Shades of Culture and a special
surprise guest. 

All proceeds will go to the trust fund set up for Nicodemus Newborn,
Spit's  five-year-old son.

Anti-Racist Action will never forget these two friends who literally
gave up  their lives in their struggle against racism and hatred in
their community.   We hope that all of Montréal will feel welcome to
come out on July 3rd to  hear some fine music, do some dancing, have a
good time, and celebrate the  story of two friends whose passion for
justice and hatred of racism united  them in life and in death.

For more information on Dan & Spit:
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/2788/danandspit.html
For other information, please contact Anti-Racist Action:

Action Anti-Raciste/Anti-Racist Action Montreal
#8, 414 Mont Royal Est
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2J 1W1
(514) 851-1880
<aramontreal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
<http://welcome.to/aramontreal.com>

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                "ETHNIC CLEANSING" IN NATO'S KOSOVO

The Internet Anti-Fascist: Saturday, 19 Jun 99
FTP Supplement #127 (#284): Events in Former Yugoslavia
Part 10: New "Ethnic Cleansing" In Kosovo
 1) Jared Israel, "Mass Graves -- Truth or Lies?," 25 Jun 99
 2) Halil Rama (Albania), "You Must Die Because You Are Not With
    Thaci," 4 Jun 99
 3) Eve-Ann Prentice (The Times of London), "If and when Nato-led
    troops enter Kosovo, the peacekeepers may well find themselves
    having to protect Serb civilians from the KLA," 7 Jun 99
 4) Denis Gray (Associated Press), "KLA's power thirst casts shadow:
    Guerrilla army eager to assume role as shield against future Serb
    repression," 7 Jun 99
 5) Kim Sengupta (The [London] Independent), "Camps boil with anger at
    'traitors' in their midst," 8 Jun 99
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf284.txt>

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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Sunday, 20 Jun 99
FTP Supplement #128 (#285): Events in Former Yugoslavia
Part 11: New "Ethnic Cleansing" In Kosovo
 6) Reuters (no author), "KLA say clashes with Russian troops
    possible," 11 Jun 99
 7) Agence Press France (no author), "Serb policeman killed by KLA in
    Pristina," 13 Jun 99
 8) Kevin Cullen (Boston Globe), "Wary Serbs join soldiers' retreat:
    Civilians flee capital in fear of future, NATO," 12 Jun 99
 9) Robert Fisk (The Independent [London]), "Shot dead by the Paras:
    policeman who said no," 14 Jun 99
10) Richard Boudreaux (Los Angeles Times), "Kosovo Rebels Catch
    Peacekeepers Off Guard: Military: KLA takes over strategic Serbian
    coal mine. Allied troops are unprepared to deal with bold action,"
    14 Jun 99
11) Julian Borger and Paul Beaver in Pristina and John Hooper in
    Prizren (The [London] Guardian), "Wild cards in a dangerous game:
    The KLA: Five Kosovan guerrillas arrested after Serb shot dead ,"
    16 Jun 99
12) Christian Science Monitor (no author), "Peacekeepers aim to make
    province safe, but Serbs flee region  ," 16 Jun 99
13) Philip Smucker (Daily Telegraph), "Bishop is hounded out by the
    mob," 17 Jun 99
14) Agence Press France (no author), "KLA Kidnapped 15," 17 Jun 99
15) United Press International (no author), "KLA telling Serbs to
    leave," 18 Jun 99
16) Philip Smucker (Houston Chronicle), "German NATO troops discover
    KLA torture room -- Rebels seen burning,looting Serbian homes and
    churches," 19 Jun 99
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf285.txt>

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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Monday, 21 Jun 99
FTP Supplement #129 (#286): Events in Former Yugoslavia
Part 12: New "Ethnic Cleansing" In Kosovo
17) Uri Dan (New York Post), "Kosovo Rebels Raped Serb Nun, Say French
    Officials," 19 Jun 99
18) Donna Bryson (Associated Press), "KLA Challenges U.N. Authority ,"
    20 Jun 99
19) Charley Reese (Orlando Sentinel), "Look before you leap into
    propaganda web of NATO spinners," 20 Jun 99
20) Charles M. Sennott (Boston Globe), "Serbs in Kosovo suffer
    reprisals:  Some Albanians seeking revenge," 20 Jun 99
21) Aferdita Muja (Reuters), "Ethnic Albanians Burn Down Serb Houses In
    Kosovo ," 20 Jun 99
22) Anatoly Verbin (Reuters), "Ethnic Albanians go on Kosovo looting
    spree ," 20 Jun 99
23) Telegraph (no author), "Gypsies fear KLA attacks," 21 Jun 99
24) Tom Walker (The TImes of London), "Vengeful KLA turns on nuns and
    Gypsies," 21 Jun 99
25) Donna Bryson (Associated Press), "Kosovo Rebels Want to Keep
    Weapons ," 22 Jun 99
26) Stephen Farrel (The Times of London), "Albanians stripped of loot,"
    22 Jun 99
27) Agence Press France (no author), "KLA bar Serbs from work at
    Pristina hospital," 23 Jun 99
28) Decani (Kosovo News), "Terrorists occupied hospital in Pristina,"
    23 Jun 99
29) Carlotta Gall (The New York Times), "Albanians Loot and Burn,
    Aiming Wrath at Gypsies," 24 Jun 99
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