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Adina Marincea writes a well-documented and clear-eyed analysis in #Romanian, on the legitimacy of calling the discourse of parties like AUR, POT, of people like George Simion and Călin Georgescu "fascist".

https://hotnews.ro/au-liderii-aur-un-discurs-fascist-diferentele-dintre-george-simion-si-ceilalti-conducatori-1932770

Spoiler: it's very warranted. They're fascists.

#antifascism #romania


PUNKS AGAINST APARTHEID: Points Of Unity

[EDITOR'S NOTE] P.A.A. is asking bands, collectives, artists, writers, individuas, etc. that are in solidarity with the Palestine that under everybody’s possibilities to endorse their Points Of Unity and SIGN UP! —Please s

https://burnitdownradio.org/punks-against-apartheid-points-of-unity/

#Collectives #Music #Antifascism #AntifascistCulture #BurnItDownRadio #DIY #Gaza #PAA #Palestine #PointsOfUnity #Punk #PunksAgainstApartheid #Solidarity


Here is just one more reason why anyone that is anti-fascist and truly for free speech should be using Lemmy, Mbin and Kbin instead of Reddit:
https://archive.ph/8PlKn
#socialmedia #reddit #lemmy #antifascism #freespeech #elonmusk #fediverse
Screen shot of article from The Verge with byline "Elon Musk pressured Reddit's CEO on content moderation / Reddit took action after Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users blocking X links and threatening DOGE staffers."


In news from the quivering bowels of Vichy America, a major liberal law firm has agreed to work for fascists and stop hiring so many women, brown people, or members of the LGBTQ community to placate an aggrieved, would-be dictator and keep raking in those sweet government contracts:

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-rescinds-executive-order-after-firm-vows-pro-bono-for-right-wing-causes/

Trump-Targeted Law Firm Caves, Vows $40M in Legal Support to Right-Wing Causes

"President Donald Trump withdrew an executive order targeting a major Democratic-leaning law firm after the firm agreed to provide $40 million in pro bono legal services in support of his administration’s far right initiatives.

“This is unbelievably shameful from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP,” Molly Coleman, executive director at People’s Parity Project, said on LinkedIn. “I’m embarrassed to have any association with this firm that failed to find the courage the moment requires.”

Recently, the White House has escalated attacks on law firms whose attorneys have been involved in legal efforts opposing Trump. Just last week, Trump signed an executive order attempting to revoke security clearances from Paul, Weiss attorneys, restrict the firm’s access to federal buildings, and terminate any of its government contracts. The order reportedly prompted at least one client to sever ties with the firm.

However, following a meeting between Trump and Brad Karp, the chair of Paul, Weiss, the administration abruptly rescinded the order. “We look forward to an engaged and constructive relationship with the President and his Administration,” Karp said in a statement."

So, let's make sure we all understand what's going on here. Trump is brazenly and almost certainly illegally, shaking down a powerful law firm that has literally worked on cases opposing him in the past, and is known from their commitment to diverse hiring practices, and instead of fighting back, or even just taking the loss of government money on the chin, they've decided to *check notes* concede that a former partner who worked on cases against Trump was engaged in "wrongdoing," work pro-bono for the fascist regime, and capitulate to the fascist "war on DEI" - an idea whose ever-expanding meaning appears to be "restore mandated white supremacy in America."

Are you kidding me? Does the larger liberal establishment in the United States have anything resembling a spine to share between them? More importantly, if Americans trapped inside the increasingly ominous, fascist nightmare that is Trump 2.0 can't count on a high profile law firm in the *business* of protecting civil rights and taking on the government, to even stand up for the firm's *own* rights, how can they have faith that anyone in position to defend their rights in a legal capacity, is going to step up to the plate for them? The answer of course, is that they can't.

Folks, you'll get no argument from me if you say that the greater evil in this story is a fascist president who would be king, using the authority of his office to gain revenge on law firms that helped charge him for real crimes, he absolutely committed. As the extorted settlement proves, this too is part of Trump's plot to take complete control of America as a dictator. This isn't legal, and as a federal judge's restraining order in a similar case involving the Trump-targeted firm Perkins Coie demonstrates, complete surrender was not the only option Paul Weiss and its chair Brad Karp had here. By that same measure you can't win if you don't fight, and when losing means capitulating to fascism, a law firm full of civil rights lawyers has a goddamn *responsibility* to resist.

“It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul, Weiss, didn’t just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession,” Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, said on Bluesky."

Friends, I've been talking about and writing about the rise of fascism for over a decade now. And I'm not bragging, because I wish I had been wrong about the signs I was reading around me, but I have largely been right when I insisted we were all heading for a moment like this. Furthermore, I have repeatedly warned that a liberal establishment (no, not you; your leaders, your media, your "liberal" capitalist employers) which would always have the option of simply collaborating with the fascist order, wasn't going to save us from fascist predation. There is no cavalry; the opposition party, the courts, and the lawyers aren't going to stop this. At the rate things are going, I have no idea how long I'll still be able to tell you that we are the cavalry, and the only way this nightmare ends is if we use our bodies en masse to shut down the fascist order and the profits that motivate the guys paying for all this; but it's the truth. If you can do it to Tesla, you can do it to any of them.

#Fascism #Trump #ExecutiveOrder #PaulWeiss #Capitulation #Collaborators #VichyAmerica #antifascism


Hey uhmm.... #liberals

Have you caught on yet that your precious #Democrats are not coming to rescue you?

That there isn't any meaningful #resistance from them because they were always complicit?

#Antifascism was never on the ballot. All they offered was the same fascism but with wool over your eyes.

Antifascism wasn't on the ballot because it demands #anticapitalism and your precious "Vote Blue no matter who" politicians also love the billionaires' money.

Are you going to wait for them on the way to the camps or do you finally accept that YOU have to do more than memes and strongly worded change.org petitions?

(This applies to all of the Western world... looking at German 'greens' and 'social democrats'.)


#Germany is becoming a #police state when it comes to #Palestine #activism.
"At 6 a.m. on March 22, pro-#Palestinian activists Said and Yasemin, who were asleep in their respective Berlin homes, were awakened by armed and masked police officers who broke down their doors at the same time."
"This is not the first time Berlin police raided people’s homes over social media posts. Earlier this month, police knocked down the door of a middle-aged woman who wrote “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” on her social media and arrested her. She was charged with “using the symbols of unconstitutional organizations,” Berlin police said in a statement."
"In #Berlin most recently, the state and the media have tried their best to shut down the Palestine Congress, a gathering of international scholars, activists, and journalists. "
"A Palestinian friend of mine, Mahmoud, is currently being targeted by the state of Karlsruhe for saying the following during a protest: “Palestine is for all people, from the river to the sea, regardless of their denomination or religion.” That was enough for the state to say he had committed a hate crime by questioning Israel’s right to exist. He is being forced to pay 7,500 euros in fines. "
This is extremely DANGEROUS.
#AntiFascism
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/germany-is-becoming-a-police-state-when-it-comes-to-palestine-activism/


One for the folks in Western Mass!

Chicopee Dance for Democracy - NO KINGS Protest & Public Disco

Hosted by Western Mass Solidarity & Action

Saturday, March 15
12 – 3pm EDT

Price Rite Parking Lot
1600 Memorial Dr
Chicopee, MA 01020

https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/760220/

#ChicopeeMA #HolyokeMA #SpringfieldMA #NorthamptonMA #Antifascism #Events


Don't stop praising #LuigiMangione.

America has a lot of troubled young men who need both guidance and motivation.

#anarchism #StochasticResistance #anticapitalism #antifascism


Libs: "What do you call it when 10 people sit at a table with a Nazi? A table of 11 Nazis! #resist #Cheetolini #Antifascism "

Also Libs: "How DARE you call Democrats another kind of fascist, the two parties are NOT the same and Biden said he was really sad that Nazis are trying to kill people like you; this is about harm reduction even though you will probably be killed - but me? I'll feel WAY better about doing my part to resist fascism..."


Fight fascism and Elon Musk by taking down Tesla

"On paper, Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, but his money isn't just sitting in a bank account he can access. The bulk of it resides in his stake in Tesla, a wildly overvalued publicly traded company which he owns 13% of."

Micah Lee gives some solid advice on grassroots action.

https://micahflee.com/fight-fascism-and-elon-musk-by-taking-down-tesla/

#antifascism


A Tennessee mainstream news piece went out yesterday covering Patriot Front and including detailed aerial photographs of their compound in the east of the state.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/this-isnt-your-granddads-kkk-inside-the-influential-hate-group-thats-expanding-in-tennessee

While we're glad that this information is reaching a wide audience, and overall Phil Williams has done fantastic work covering the far right, we'd also like to note that our group is the one that originally exposed Ian Michael Elliott in 2021 and also first discovered and published the location and ownership of the compound in 2024.

We're not mentioning our original pieces because we're in it for the credit, but because it's better for everyone when news sources cite original antifascist grassroots research. The more exposure our pieces get, the more likely it is we get tips on white supremacist activity.

https://atlantaantifa.org/2021/12/04/ian-michael-elliott-alabama-patriot-front-member-neo-nazi-and-combat-instructor/

https://atlantaantifa.org/2024/01/30/revealed-patriot-front-linked-aryan-tribal-land-in-eastern-tennessee/

More links exposing white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the south:

https://appalachiaresearchclub.noblogs.org/research-club-roundup-appalachias-neo-nazi-network/#more-92

https://arelephanteau.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/15/aryan-freedom-network-north-carolina-exposed/

#PatriotFront #Tennessee #georgia #alabama #IanElliot #IanMichaelElliott #antifascism #nazi #NorthCarolina


*Almost* too many protests to keep track of in Maine this weekend, and then capping it off with a protest on March 4th! Go you mad beautiful people go :heart_transgender: :ironfront:

This weekend, demonstrations in every county on either March 1st (most counties) or March 2nd (Kennebec)

We will try to put the details for each protest in replies to this post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comments/1ize8bs/local_demonstrations_on_march_1st2nd_and_in/

#Maine #MainePol #Antifascism #Events #Weekend
An image listing events for eight counties in Maine: Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Aroostook, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, and Oxford. The image text follows: 
16 COUNTIES FOR COURAGE

Androscoggin- Auburn
Across street from Gritty's 
March 1st @ 12:00 PM 
RESIST Central Maine

Kennebec- Waterville 
Kennedy Memorial Drive at Messalonskee Bridge
March 2nd @ 1:00 PM

Cumberland- Portland
Monument Square 
March 1st @ 1:00 PM

Knox- Rockland
First Universalist Church 
March 1st @ 10:00 AM 
The Audacity

Franklin- Farmington 
Post Office
March 1st @ 11:00 AM

Lincoln- Newcastle
Newcastle/Damariscotta Bridge
March 1st @ 11:00 AM
Lincoln County Indivisible

Oxford-Norway
Longley Square
March 1st @ 10:00 AM
Center for Ecology Based Economy

Aroostook- Houlton
Monument Park, Military St.
March 1st @ 1:00 PM
An image listing events for eight counties in Maine: Hancock, Piscataquis, Somerset, Sagadahoc, Penobscot, Washington, York, Waldo. The image text follows: 

16 COUNTIES FOR COURAGE
Hancock-Ellsworth 
City Hall
March 1st @ 12:00 PM
Acadia Action

Bucksport
Verona Island Bridge
March 1st @ 12:30 PM
Solidarity Bucksport

Penobscot- Bangor 
Federal Building
March 1st @ 12:00 PM 
Indivisible Bangor

Washington-Calais
405 Main St
March 1st @ 1:00 PM 
Democracy Calais

Piscataquis- Dover-Foxcroft
Main Street Bridge
March 1st @ 11:00 AM

York- Kezar Falls
Kezar Falls Bridge
March 1st @ 11:00 AM

Somerset-Skowhegan
Margaret Chase Smith Bridge
March 1st @ 1:30 PM

Sagadahoc- Bath
Letter Writing at Farmer's Market 
March 1st @ 9:00 AM 

Waldo- Belfast
Post Office Square
March 1st @ 2:00 PM
Peace & Justice Waldo County 
Alliance of Intervening Citizens 
Indivisible Waldo County
Image describing a protest at the state house in Augusta, Maine, on March 4th. Image text follows:

50501

No Kings!
2 PM - 4 PM
Tuesday, March 4
State House
Augusta

Dirigo! Maine leads in the fight to defend democracy!

https://fiftyfifty.one #fiftyfiftyone


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#ClimateJustice #antifascism #journalism #tiktok #EcoActivism #ClimateActivism #MediaforChange #DigitalActivism #Desinformation #ClimateCrisis


TIL…

These are Germans chanting “siamo tutti antifascisti.” It means “we are all antifascists.”

It’s an Italian chant that originated with Italian Partisans against fascist Italy.

The long-haired woman is Heidi Reichinnek, an incumbent in the German elections for Bundestag, happening right now.

More of this, please. ❤️🔥

(Thanks to @lavaeolus for the education about this.)

#Antifascism #Antifascist #Resist #Resistance #Bundestagswahl
https://todon.eu/@PippiPunkstrumpf/114052957945357062


I highly recommend "Why Fish Don’t Exist" by Lulu Miller during this time when we are seeing an accelerationist ideology married to the fascism that won the elections in the USA.

The book documents - among other things - the eugenics movement in the early 1900s USA.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/05/why-fish-dont-exist-by-lulu-miller-review-a-marvel-of-narrative-non-fiction

#antifascism #eugenics


"From Elon #Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the #Trump family's vision for remaking #Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate power across the globe at an unprecedented pace."

An emergency town hall via #HaymarketBooks w/ Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

https://youtu.be/iyLiNN_NMO4
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #oligarchy #droitisation #USleft #AmericanLeft #leftActivism #politicalActivism #antifascism


Self-righteousness on the left, in tech, and on Mastodon is no better a look than it is at a Baptist mega church in the suburbs of Arkansas. And twice as annoying. Because I thought we'd know better.

I read these activism threads and there's people in there going, no don't organize Facebook and X migration days to help people move along with their friends.

~FB and X users aided and abetted the enemy because it's SOOOOO easy to move and EVERYONE knows blah blah. So instead of picking a lane and pitching in some other way, I'm going to hijack this thread with my acidic dripping condescension so I can feel better about how I did the easy things for me by never being on Facebook in the first place (I'm so sMaRt) and now I'm finished with my work so I'll distract others from theirs.~

Sit back down!

Sit the fuck back down.

Either you pick up a hoe and start digging rows or not, but don't yell at the shovel crew because they've decided to pull stumps and putting others down makes you feel superior to them.

I'm sick of this shit. Y'all who do that are NO better than anyone else, least of all Aunt Edna who remains on Facebook for her quilting club and so she can see pictures of the grandbabies.

In fact, you're worse, because not only won't you fucking help her move, you're distracting from those who will, making them feel bad, PLUS you're violating the values of the left by thinking you're so much smarter than everyone else. Where's the equality in that?? That's about supremacy! That's about shoving people down so you can climb over them!

You're holding back the movement MORE than the flag-waving MAGAs because at least I can see where those fascist assholes are and keep them out of my spaces.

SIT. DOWN.

#activism #resist #resistance #antifa #antifascism


Hey everyone, it's #STFUFriday!

Here's a little something everyone can practice going into this weekend: don't talk to the cops.

Don't say hi, don't shoot the breeze, don't say "thanks" when they do something "nice" for you (they don't need your thanks they're getting paid $$$$ out of your taxes and on the weekend they are getting paid even more).

Just don't talk to them. It's that easy. Walk past as if they aren't there. This is great practice for when the cops inevitably end up facing off against you as you protest fascism.

Let's do a quick review:
Cops enforced slavery
Cops enforced women's servitude to their husbands
Cops enforced Jim Crow and segregation

What makes you think that cops are somehow going to magically wake up this time and not enforce fascist laws?

Don't kid yourself and don't believe the liberal whitewashing of the police. You don't have to yell ACAB from the rooftops but you DO need to understand that the police are never your friends, allies, or even a neutral party in this fight. Their ranks are full of MAGATs, racists, and misogynists, as well as sympathisers who cover up for the racists and misogynists.

#ACAB #DontTalkToCops #Antifascism


From @lynnunitedma on Instagram:

RALLY FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
Tuesday, February 11

Lynn, MA

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Start: District Court (580 Essex St)
End: Lynn City Hall

DEFEND OUR COMMUNITY!
DEFEND DEMOCRACY!
ICE OUT OF LYNN!

Sponsors: ARC, Comité Comunitario Guatemalteco, ECCO, Highlands Coalition, Lynn United for Change, Neighbor to Neighbor, New Lynn Coalition, North Shore Labor Council, Solidarity Rising, United Nations CDC (list in formation).

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFvx_KoR0LU/

#LynnMA #Massachusetts #ImmigrantRights #FuckICE #Antifascism
RALLY FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
Tuesday, February 11

Lynn, MA

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Start: District Court (580 Essex St) 
End: Lynn City Hall

DEFEND OUR COMMUNITY!
DEFEND DEMOCRACY!
ICE OUT OF LYNN!

Sponsors: ARC, Comité Comunitario Guatemalteco, ECCO, Highlands Coalition, Lynn United for Change, Neighbor to Neighbor, New Lynn Coalition, North Shore Labor Council, Solidarity Rising, United Nations CDC (list in formation).


Shout-out to our Iron Front USA friends in Arizona who joined the protest today in Phoenix. :ironfront:

https://azmirror.com/2025/02/05/veterans-activists-unite-in-arizonas-50501-protest-against-trump-musk-and-project-2025/

If you're in another part of the country but wish you could join a group like us, good news! We have folks all over the US and we support each other. You don't have to fight fascism alone, wherever you are.

If we're not your style, we are happy to point you in the direction of other groups to get involved with. What is important is that you find a way to fight that works for you. We especially love the quote at the end of the linked article:

“If you feel frustrated, don’t stay frustrated on the internet,” Duba said. “Get out and do something, meet people, talk to people, get involved in a campaign.”

#AmericanIronFront #IronFrontUSA #Antifascism #PhoenixAZ #Phoenix #Arizona #Phx #50501protest #50501movement