17-8-2017 Demo Amsterdam: Solidariteit met de antifascisten in Charlottesville!

Nieuws, gepost door: AFA Nederland - AFA Amsterdam op 14/08/2017 08:07:49

Wanneer: 14/08/2017 - 18:25

Aanstaande donderdag zal er een demonstratie plaatsvinden in Amsterdam uit solidariteit met antifascisten in Charlottesville in de Verenigde Staten. Daar reed afgelopen zaterdag een neo-nazi met zijn auto in op een antifascistisch protest dat zich keerde tegen een van de grootste nazi demonstraties in de VS ooit, die ook die dag plaatsvond. Hierbij vielen meerdere ernstige gewonden. De 32 jarige Heather Heyer liet het leven. Solidariteit met alle antifascisten in Charlottesville, de nabestaanden van Heather en met iedereen die is getroffen door extreem-rechts geweld!


Afgelopen zaterdag wilde een grote groep neo-nazi's, Ku Klux Klan leden, verschillende Alt-Right groepen en de National Socialist Movement samenkomen in Charlottesville onder de naam 'Unite the Right, voor een demonstratie tegen het verwijderen van een standbeeld van generaal Robert E. Lee, een symbool van racisme en segregatie in de VS. Maar al op vrijdagavond, de dag voor de demonstratie, verzamelde zich een grote groep extreem-rechtse activisten zich in Charlottesville. Bewapend met schilden en knuppels riepen zij racistische leuzen en vielen zij een kleine groep tegendemonstranten aan.

De dag erna overspoelden extreem-rechts de stad in de staat Virginia al uren voor hun geplande demonstratie. Er was een groot aantal extreem-rechtse milities met automatische vuurwapens aanwezig. Ook waren er massale tegenprotesten. De dag loopt uit op massale gevechten, en om iets na half één rijdt een neo-nazi zijn auto in op een antifascistisch protest. Hierbij raken meerdere mensen ernstig gewond en komt de 32 jarige Heather Heyer om het leven.

We willen ons medeleven en onze woede uiten op de straten. Antifascisme is en blijft noodzaak en is altijd legitiem. Kom donderdagavond naar Amsterdam, 20:00, Spui!

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English call-out!

17-8-2017 Demo Amsterdam: Solidarity with the anti-fascists in Charlottesville

This Thursday there will be a demonstration in Amsterdam in solidarity with anti-fascists in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Last Saturday, a neo-nazi drove his car into an anti-fascist protest against one of the biggest ever nazi demonstrations in the US, which took place on the same day. This resulted in multiple serious injuries. 32 year old Heather Heyer was killed. Solidarity with all anti-fascists in Charlottesville, Heather’s bereaved, and with everybody affected by extreme right violence.

Last Saturday, a large group of neo-nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, various Alt-Right groups and the National Socialist Movement wanted to come together in Charlottesville under the name “Unite the Right”, in order to protest against the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, confederate general and a symbol of racism and segregation in the US. Already on Friday night, the day before the demonstration, a large group of extreme right activists gathered in Charlottesville. Armed with shields, bats, and torches, they shouted racist chants and attacked a small group of counter-demonstrators.

The following day, the extreme-right already flooded the city in the state of Virginia hours before their planned demonstration. There was a large amount of extreme-right militia members with automatic firearms in attendance. There were also massive counter demonstrations. The day resulted in many fights, and sometime after 12:30 PM, a neo-nazi drove his car into a crowd at an anti-fascist protest resulting in several serious injuries and the death of 32 year old Heather Heyer.

We would like to express our sympathy and our anger in the streets. Anti-fascism is and will always be necessary and is always legitimate. Come on Thursday to Amsterdam, 20:00, Spui!

AFA Nederland
AFA Amsterdam
AFA Den Haag
Antifa Utrecht

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Demo Minneapolis

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>Deze aanvulling voldeed niet aan de spelregels en is verplaatst naar het forum.


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Een kleine update over de solidariteitsdemonstratie in Amsterdam

Een kleine update over de solidariteitsdemonstratie in Amsterdam.

We verzamelen morgen (17-8-2017) op het Spui in Amsterdam om 20:00 stipt. Er zal daar een klein aantal sprekers een toespraak houden. De sprekers zijn Jerry Afriyie van o.a. Kick Out Zwarte Piet en een spreker van AFA. We kiezen er bewust voor om niet een hele waslijst aan sprekers neer te zetten. Het gaat ons om de demonstratie, dáár willen wij onze actieve solidariteit, woede en medeleven mee tonen. We zullen een route lopen door de binnenstad van Amsterdam.

Wees creatief en maak spandoeken, protestborden en flyers. Veel organisaties en groepen roepen op voor de demonstratie, waaruit blijkt dat de solidariteit leeft, en de urgentie om iets te doen er ook in Nederland is. Tot slot willen we eventuele politieke partijen vragen hun logo's thuis te laten, dit is het moment voor solidariteit, niet voor het profileren van een politieke partij.

"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Dat was de laatste zin die Heather Heyer op Facebook postte voor ze omkwam bij de aanslag in Charlottesville, vermoord door een rechts-extremist. Heather was lid van de Industrial Workers of the World, een aloude vakbond van socialisten en anarchisten. De enige manier om Heather te herdenking is door de strijd voort te zetten. Laten we van de demonstratie een strijdbare demonstratie maken.

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Is er een livestream straks te volgen via internet?
Dit voor degene die er helaas niet bij kunnen zijn maar het toch willen volgen en/of op een andere manier kunnen supporten.



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Speech of the AFA-Amsterdam speaker on the #charlottesville solidarity demonstration yesterday evening: https://www.facebook.com/events/1830908060557375/

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Thank you all for coming here tonight.

Because the antifascist movement has always been an internationalist movement I will do my speech in English in the hope that everyone will understand.

We are here tonight because six nights ago a mob of hundreds of torch wielding fascists descended on Charlottesville Virginia USA.

We are here because these fascists, while throwing their nazi salutes and screaming “white power”, “blood and soil”, “hail trump” and “the Jews will not replace us” they encircled a small group of brave students and spat on them, maced them, beat them.

We are here tonight because one day later the fascists where out in force again, so heavily armed and ready for bloodshed that the even the militarised US police thats always ready to murder black folk retreated and left the people of Charlottesville to fend for themselves.

We are here tonight because in the end one fascist terrorist plowed his car intentionally in a group of antifascist protesters hurting dozens and murdering a brave 32 year old woman named Heather Heyer, may she rest in power.

We are here in deep sorrow and pain for those that got hurt and those we lost.

We are here in seething anger because of what happened and how people like Donald Trump dare to say that the people resisting fascists are as bad or even worse than the fascists out there killing us.

But we are also here in resolute defiance.
Because the fascist terror attack that murdered Heather happened only after the people of Charlottesville resoundingly defeated the fascists that day.

Thousands came out to resist their hate with solidarity, with prayer, with their words, with their bodies and when needed with their fists.

From the moment the first colonialists landed in what would become the United States of America there where indigenous people to resist them,

From the moment the first slaver ships docked in the South black people resisted against all odds with defiance and bloody rebellions.

And during Jim Crow and segregation and the terror of the KKK black people and their allies fought back, with non-violent marches, with boycotts and when needed often with guns.
And make no mistake, the statue of the slavery defending, traitorous confederate general the protests of last weekend where nominally about was NOT build during the civil war.
It was put on that prestigious university campus much much later. It was put there in the same time that Hitler in Germany climbed to power as a big sign unmistakably reading “no black people allowed”, saying “do not get any ideas”, screaming “white power”, stating “you will not replace us”.

Yet today there are many black students on that campus, and today they are not afraid to demand that symbol of hate to come down. And if it will not be removed they will eventually pull it down themselves. No matter how many street brawlers or cops they send to protect it, no matter what kind of fascists sit in the white house.

Because wherever there is hate there is resistance and solidarity.

The images from last weekend hit us because we know where mobs of torch wielding, hate spewing nazis, cynically enabled by those in power can lead too.

But we also know we can defeat them with unified resistance and absolute solidarity even through the worst of horrors they can inflict on us.

Because I for one was not supposed to stand here tonight if not for antifascist resistance and solidarity.

Exactly 75 years ago today, the 17th of august 1942, a dutch jewish communist, worker for an illegal newspaper from Haarlem was herded in to a gas-chamber in Auschwitz Birkenau.

4 years before that moment he lost his 22 year old son who went to Spain to defend the democratically elected government against a fascist coup. His other son, went too and lived through the horrors of a Franquist concentration camp yet when he came home, starved nearly to death, he would, like his father join the anti-nazi resistance.

That brave man, gassed to death for being a communist, a antifascist, a publisher of free-speech, murdered for being all that and being just a jew exactly 75 years ago today was my great grandfather.

But his youngest son, my grandfather, lived, because people who didn't even know him risked their lives to hide a young Jewish man from the nazi’s, because people shared their precious food during the famine winter, because the resistance shot traitors and jew-hunters and nazis.

Because hundreds of thousands of young men and women from the United States, Russia and many other countries from all over the world came here, to Europe, and to Asia, who gave their lives and defeated the nazis before they could establish their “thousand year reich” of “white, aryan power” and cleanse their so called “blood and soil” from the jews and other undesirables they said that could not wait to replace them.

Yet today, while Donald Trump defends the new KKK and smears us antifascists while he dares to sit in a office with a bust of Martin Luther King there are popularly elected racists and fascists in the dutch parliament walking everyday past the big book honoring those dutch who fell in the fight against the nazis, the book which remembers that jewish, communist, brave man from Haarlem and so many others. And these fascists have the audacity to claim they are the real new resistance because they want to close our borders for refugees, when they scapegoat people for their religion and the colour of their skin. Who say that “those muslims are coming to replace you”.

And today there are again a rising amount of people, people in our own families and people in power, people who say that those who resist are exactly as bad or even worse as those that want to murder, people that say that they do not approve of the fascist methods but that do to a degree share their frenzy whipped up fears, their anger, their prejudice, their wish for a resolute hand to set it all right for them.

Those people were here before as well, those people eventually made the best nazi’s my grandfather always said.
We defeated them then, we will defeat them now.

But we will need to fight them everywhere, anytime, with every tool and every weapon we have.

And like then we clearly wont be able to trust those who say they lead us to do the right thing and that they will not fan the flames of hate for their own gains.

We will have to do it ourselves and all together.
For ourselves, for our loved ones and for complete strangers.
On our streets, in the media, in the halls of power and in far away places like the USA and on the Mediterranean sea.

And we have to do it for people like Heather Heyer, so that their deaths will not be in vain.

An injury to one, is an injury to all.
¡No pasarán! Never again!

(Job Polak)



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Antifascistische demonstratie in Amsterdam: 'Toen niet, nu niet, nooit meer fascisme!'
https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/antifascistische-demonstratie-in-am...



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