Cafe Intifada and the Writing and Community Empowerment Project extend our profoundest condolences to activist Michael Novick upon the loss of his mother and reiterate his call for continued action against racism, colonization and imperialism. We thank him for being a clear, consistent and powerful voice on issues of human rights and social justice.
Peace with Justice, Emma Rosenthal Cafe Intifada The WE Project -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [actionla] Please protest nazi sympathizers in LA, Friday July 29, 11 AM Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:20:10 -0700 From: Michael Novick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward widely Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror recently called for a counter-demonstration and picket against a rally by the Institute for Historical Review (IHR). The IHR, founded by the racist anti-Jewish Willis Carto, a Hitler sympathizer, and now run by Mark Weber, a "former" member of the neo-nazi National Alliance, has called a demonstration for Friday July 29 at noon outside the offices of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. This is their second recent LA demonstration. In February, on short notice, they pulled off a rally outside the Canadian consulate to support another Hitler apologist, Ernst Zundel, who was being deported from Canada for his illegal activities there. We cannot allow these forces to take the streets in Los Angeles without opposition. Their true nature must be exposed and denounced. They claim their action is motivated by opposition to taxpayer support for the Wiesenthal Center, and the Center's support for war and for Israel. But the fact is that groups like the National Alliance from which IHR leader Weber hails, openly declare that they want to "prove" Hitler's genocide against the Jews never happened, so they can justify war by any and all means against Jews for falsely claiming to be victims of genocide! They hold Jews responsible for what they consider "race mixing," and use them as scapegoats for all the conditions and policies they oppose, ranging from environmental protection to immigration, to civil and human rights. It is not necessary to agree with or defend the political positions of the Wiesenthal Center to denounce and oppose Weber and the IHR. The IHR are no friends of either peace or the Palestinians or Iraqis. Anti-Racist Action called for a protest and vigil STARTING AT 11:00 AM outside the Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1399 South Roxbury Drive, Los Angeles, on the corner of Pico Boulevard, diagonally opposite the " Museum of Tolerance." This is one hour before the apologists for fascism and genocide have scheduled their rally at the same location. It is vital for all opponents of racism and fascism in all its forms, to come and reclaim the streets. A massive oppositional turnout will make it clear that neo-nazis and their supporters have no welcome and no place in Los Angeles. ARA is an anti-authoritarian direct action anti-racist, anti-fascist and anti-imperialist group, and we see our opposition to nazis as absolutely consistent with our opposition to war, police abuse, and occupation (including the Israeli occupation). However, the mother of key ARA organizer Michael Novick just died in NY, and he is leaving town and will be in NY for a week for the traditional Jewish mourning period. As a result, ARA-LA/PART is no longer in a position to play a lead role in organizing the counter-protest. However, we are still urging all anti-racists, the peace movement, and all in true solidarity with the Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan and oppressed Jewish people to come out in force to repudiate the hate mongers and nazi apologists this Friday. Don't be hoodwinked by the IHR. Back in 1992, the IHR (Weber in particular) participated in a "revisionist" conference in LA that included local neo-nazi Joe Fields and his apartheid-loving Afrikaner wife, along with a variety of other racists and former Hitler collaborationists from Eastern Europe. Then they pretended to have Black support that they did not have, lying to the press about the participation of a number of Black activists. The community, in a demonstration called by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, drove them out then (resulting in a police attack on the Black community of south central that helped light the fires of the LA rebellion). Let's make it clear that the nazis will receive just as hot a welcome in West LA as they did in south central! ---------- ============================================================== ActionLA Action for World Liberation Everyday! 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