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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.15,0:00:04.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Greeting troublemakers... welcome to Trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.70,0:00:06.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is not important.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.31,0:00:07.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right up there with slavery,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.37,0:00:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Crusades, the colonization of the Americas,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.80,0:00:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Nickleback's most recent album,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.46,0:00:12.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No Fixed Address,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.53,0:00:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,World War Two ranks pretty high on any person's
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.71,0:00:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,list of the worst things that human beings
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.75,0:00:17.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have ever done.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.57,0:00:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a horrific slaughter
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.82,0:00:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,marked by the wholesale flattening of entire cities,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.13,0:00:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an unprecedented global death toll,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.89,0:00:24.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the worst atrocities ever committed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.55,0:00:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on European soil.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.81,0:00:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it's not surprising that by the time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.52,0:00:28.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the smoke had cleared
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.74,0:00:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the political ideology that kicked things off,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.89,0:00:33.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facism, had become a nearly universal
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.17,0:00:35.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,synonym for pure, absolute evil.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.45,0:00:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But while fascism has struggled with a serious branding issue
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.05,0:00:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ever since, the ideas and material factors that led
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.86,0:00:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to its initial rise never truly disappeared.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.45,0:00:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, with the neoliberal capitalist order
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.47,0:00:48.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a period of intense crisis, fascism is once again
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.23,0:00:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being spoken about as a serious threat.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.37,0:00:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The revival of far-right nationalism,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.44,0:00:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white supremacy, misogyny and other toxic reactionary ideologies
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.60,0:01:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has, in turn, provoked renewed enthusiasm for anti-fascist, or antifa organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.32,0:01:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we hope to build on this momentum,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.16,0:01:06.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is vitally important that we move past using fascist as a pejorative,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.97,0:01:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a slur for our political opponents,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.88,0:01:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instead seek a better understanding of just what it is that we're up against.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.70,0:01:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the next thirty minutes, we'll bring you the voices of
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.02,0:01:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a diverse crew of anti-fascist and anti-racist organizers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.20,0:01:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as they share their experiences of bashing the fash,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.70,0:01:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and making a whole lotta trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.36,0:01:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hail Trump! Hail our people!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.96,0:01:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hail victory!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.78,0:01:55.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a highly debated question about how you define fascism,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.51,0:01:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's a lot kind of at stake here,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.46,0:01:59.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because when we label a movement as a fascist movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.83,0:02:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it means that we, from the very beginning,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.07,0:02:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aren't going to engage with it intellectually,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.65,0:02:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're not gonna engage with its arguments,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.59,0:02:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and furthermore, it's acceptable to use violence
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.91,0:02:09.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to suppress the movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.88,0:02:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For decades the left has really defined
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.45,0:02:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fascism as how the state responds
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.78,0:02:16.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to capitalism in crisis.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.45,0:02:19.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The capitalist system, when there's a crisis,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.89,0:02:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uses right-wing or fascism to fight
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.97,0:02:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,social and left-wing movements.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.52,0:02:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fascism is an ideology that's inherently reactionary
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.92,0:02:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and authoritarian.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.65,0:02:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As anarchists and communists,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.03,0:02:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we consider fascism as counter-revolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.12,0:02:41.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the exact opposite of what we are fighting for.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.31,0:02:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a political movement, which seeks to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.66,0:02:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,destroy its political opponents through force,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.63,0:02:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore we must resist it by any means necessary.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.52,0:02:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fascism, I would define as a
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.50,0:02:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,authoritarian, reactionary, nationalist movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.12,0:03:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rooted in an idea that there is a conspiracy
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.64,0:03:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against the white man,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.42,0:03:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a conspiracy against western civilization.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.44,0:03:08.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a need for a street movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.51,0:03:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aimed at their political enemies,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.58,0:03:12.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the left and minorities,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.39,0:03:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and social groups seeking liberation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.80,0:03:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People basically fighting back
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.05,0:03:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether it's the working class as a whole,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.85,0:03:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,groups that are oppressed under white supremacy,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.12,0:03:21.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women trying to fight back
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.68,0:03:22.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against patriarchy,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.90,0:03:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these are seen as the extreme social ills
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.16,0:03:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that their movement has to face
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.46,0:03:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and defeat in order for them to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.64,0:03:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get to where they want to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.18,0:03:30.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contemporarily, it seems like
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.69,0:03:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pretty much everything is considered fascism
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.93,0:03:34.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,depending on who it is you ask.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.47,0:03:35.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The left and the right
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.41,0:03:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both characterize each other as fascist...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.54,0:03:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is.... interesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.33,0:03:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's many kinds of fascism,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.76,0:03:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like there are different kinds of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.14,0:03:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,socialism, anarchism or communism.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.78,0:03:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they all share similar qualities of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.98,0:03:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being extremely authoritarian,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.77,0:03:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nationalistic, and ultimately based on
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.93,0:03:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preserving hierarchies of class, race and gender.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.26,0:04:00.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A fourteen-year-old girl in Rockville Maryland,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.34,0:04:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was raped in a highschool bathroom by
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.70,0:04:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two men, allegedly in this country illegally.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.02,0:04:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way in which migrants are
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.44,0:04:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of being scapegoated by the mainstream media,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.40,0:04:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the government, by the ruling class essentially,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.67,0:04:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fascists, they see an opportunity in this
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.78,0:04:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also push those agendas and push forward
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.01,0:04:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that kind of racist, anti-migrant rhetoric in order to
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.10,0:04:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fuel their political agenda
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.95,0:04:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is to destroy any
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.22,0:04:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working-class resistance
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.30,0:04:25.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and any left-wing organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.89,0:04:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think there's a real mistake to see
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.38,0:04:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fascism as a list of principles
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.84,0:04:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could be applied to
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.74,0:04:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any kind of political movement in any kind of country
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.75,0:04:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in any time period.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.97,0:04:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an actual real living political movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.34,0:04:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think part of the problem is
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.76,0:04:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with asking "is something fascist?" or
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.95,0:04:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"are we in fascism?" is
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.54,0:04:47.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is this the worst thing that could possibly exist?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.54,0:04:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that as a conceit
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.26,0:04:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really ham-fisted,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.36,0:04:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially for North Americans.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.48,0:04:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arguably, the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.10,0:04:56.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wouldn't have a worse history
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.65,0:04:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Canada wouldn't have had a worse history
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.68,0:05:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if overt fascists were at the helm.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.96,0:05:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just, like... I fail to see it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.58,0:05:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think it negates the horror
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.94,0:05:06.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of North America
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.97,0:05:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by claiming that it could have somehow been worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.24,0:05:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Canada and in the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.74,0:05:15.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the basis of these countries are racist.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.21,0:05:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was forged through the mass genocide
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.28,0:05:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of its Indigenous people,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.03,0:05:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and through slavery, which has built
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.34,0:05:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we know today as America.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.56,0:05:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the actual functions of
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.56,0:05:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white supremacy, patriarchy,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.60,0:05:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,authoritarianism, settler-colonialism,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.02,0:05:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within North America should be
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.71,0:05:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understood more deeply as it actually
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.72,0:05:37.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exists.... and not in comparison with
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.95,0:05:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other places.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.35,0:05:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hardline fascist movements are fairly similar in
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.86,0:05:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the United States and in Europe.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.18,0:05:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The main difference is the concept of identity
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.60,0:05:48.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the fascist movements are standing up for.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.61,0:05:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States, our identities are mostly
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.14,0:05:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,defined by the category of race.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.86,0:05:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're a settler nation, people were brought here
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.24,0:05:58.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against their will, of various racial groups.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.33,0:06:00.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And white supremacy is a way to break that
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.49,0:06:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possible class solidarity, against the people
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.79,0:06:04.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that own and control the society.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.40,0:06:05.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Europe this notion of race
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.93,0:06:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't exist in the same way.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.20,0:06:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the fascist and the other far-right entho-nationalist movements
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.53,0:06:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tend to define themselves tightly around their country of origin.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.44,0:06:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at, arguably, how the Irish were internalized into
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.45,0:06:20.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the American nation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.21,0:06:23.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the end of slavery, you can see how
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.53,0:06:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the roots of whiteness are very different
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.81,0:06:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than say, somewhere in like Italy,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.84,0:06:30.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you have now, the Northern League,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.23,0:06:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who argues that, y'know,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.30,0:06:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only the north are proper Italians,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.14,0:06:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are white.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.48,0:06:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the south of Italy
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.31,0:06:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not white.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.44,0:06:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that distinction wouldn't be made
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.47,0:06:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in America.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.42,0:06:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in Europe, the fascist parties have always looked
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.12,0:06:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a racialized understanding of class politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.85,0:06:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They reject communist or anarchist critiques of class society
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.28,0:06:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instead they replace that with a racialized ruling class
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.12,0:06:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is always "the jews" or maybe it's thinly-veiled anti-semitism,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.82,0:07:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the globalists.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.13,0:07:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fascist groups in America, make that enemy
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.58,0:07:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the immigrant, into the Black Lives Matter activist,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.81,0:07:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the refugee.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.15,0:07:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the people that actually own and control society,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.32,0:07:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the people that are basically turning the gears,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.12,0:07:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like landlords, politicians, police officers...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.33,0:07:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,y'know, people in control of the prison industry.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.64,0:07:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's always really what fascism in the US
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.35,0:07:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has always tried to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.39,0:07:20.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y'know it's always tried to make enemies
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.99,0:07:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of people below white workers.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.10,0:07:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as we can see with Trump.... I mean, that sells.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.99,0:07:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American novelist Sinclair Lewis
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.79,0:07:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is often quoted as predicting
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.26,0:07:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"when fascism comes to America,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.96,0:07:35.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it'll be wrapped in the flag
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.15,0:07:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and carrying a cross."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.41,0:07:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pretty good as far as guesses go...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.28,0:07:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as it turns out, it was Pepe the frog memes.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.96,0:07:42.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yup, we live in strange times.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.100,0:07:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But sure enough, it was a Pepe pin
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.30,0:07:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the lapel of posh alt-right theorist
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.58,0:07:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and unrequited Depeche Mode groupie,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.66,0:07:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Richard Spencer, when he was righteously
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.78,0:07:53.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clocked on the streets of Washington DC,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.79,0:07:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during Donald Trump's inauguration.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.47,0:07:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This haymaker heard 'round the world
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.22,0:07:59.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,titillated radicals and liberals alike, spawning
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.58,0:08:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dozens of hilarious Youtube remixes.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.69,0:08:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know I've probably watched the clip about a hundred times.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.33,0:08:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While Spencer himself can trace his political pedigree back to
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.05,0:08:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Italian fascist theorists of yesteryear,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.37,0:08:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the broader movement he belongs to is somewhat more politically diverse,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.09,0:08:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thoroughly contemporary.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.51,0:08:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today's reactionary movements are the toxic byproducts
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.95,0:08:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our particular time and place,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.91,0:08:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an age characterized by widespread chaos and insecurity on one hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.40,0:08:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the mass proliferation of social media, on the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.13,0:08:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the world we live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.56,0:08:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's an ideal breeding ground
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.02,0:08:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a new brand of fascism.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.76,0:08:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a lot of far-right groups are different
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.13,0:08:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than maybe traditional conservative groups.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.10,0:08:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Far-right and especially fascist movements
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.60,0:08:39.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tend to be much more revolutionary and messianic.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.18,0:08:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't just want to keep society stable,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.88,0:08:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they wanna restructure it in their vision.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.25,0:08:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it started with, uh, this guy, Richard Spencer. Boop.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.58,0:08:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came up with the name alt-right, alternative right,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.66,0:08:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I like this guy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.79,0:08:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The alternative right is a rebranding of
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.37,0:08:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paleoconservatism, white nationalism,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.70,0:08:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all these different things.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.62,0:08:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They started as a fascist movement, I think pretty clearly.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.84,0:09:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They emerged at a time when the fascist movement was
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.05,0:09:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resetting itself in its aesthetic and cultural references.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.22,0:09:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things they've been able to do
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.38,0:09:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is they're saying "look, we look good,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.53,0:09:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have nice haircuts, we're not these kinda classical skinhead types
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.26,0:09:15.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or people wearing klan robes, y'know, we're something different"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.97,0:09:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the media has really gone gaga over that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.12,0:09:22.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remind me of like a young, gay, alive Christopher Hitchens.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.61,0:09:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even among the fascist part of the alt-right
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.60,0:09:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a more neo-nazi wing around Andrew Anglin
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.12,0:09:28.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Daily Stormer.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.14,0:09:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Muslim hordes, we've fought these people for how long?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.06,0:09:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now we invite them in?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.86,0:09:36.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And give them free everything so they can rape women on the streets?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.91,0:09:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then there's the more fascist, but not explicitly nazi wing
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.46,0:09:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the National Policy Institute and Richard Spencer.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.41,0:09:49.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be white is to be a striver, a crusader, an explorer and a conqueror.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.54,0:09:51.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't exploit other groups.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.100,0:09:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They need us and not the other way around.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.62,0:09:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The alt-right scene, I suppose, is a bit of a gateway into
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.00,0:10:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of more violent and extreme fascism.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.53,0:10:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recently the movement has expanded
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.08,0:10:06.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and attracted a lot of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.86,0:10:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we get people like Gavin Mcinnes,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.42,0:10:10.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is one of the founders of VICE magazine.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.45,0:10:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is blackface offensive?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.96,0:10:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And people who promote it, such as Milo Yiannopoulos.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.69,0:10:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a new populist conservative and libertarian movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.96,0:10:20.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is going nowhere, so long as the left continues
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.78,0:10:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to prioritize Muslim feelings over gay lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.80,0:10:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So long as the left continues to prioritize the feelings of
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.28,0:10:30.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sociopathic feminist bitches over everybody else.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.78,0:10:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Milo! Milo! Milo!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.34,0:10:36.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The group that they want to inoculate and organize
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.15,0:10:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is largely college-educated, upper-middle-class, straight men.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.16,0:10:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who are very social media savvy,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.89,0:10:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who are very tech-savvy.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.47,0:10:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They love their memes.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.22,0:10:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Groups like American Vanguard and Identity Evropa
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.47,0:10:52.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are blanketing campuses across the country with posters.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.39,0:10:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it's attracted a lot of people in college Republican groups
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.80,0:10:58.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are not explicit white nationalists, but they like a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.49,0:11:01.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the tenor and the style of the alt-right.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.45,0:11:03.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at Richard Spencer, just this week
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.45,0:11:06.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's come out that he makes literally millions of dollars every year
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.86,0:11:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because his parents own a cotton farm in Louisiana
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.80,0:11:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this hugely impoverished area of the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.82,0:11:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's a huge contradiction because
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.41,0:11:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most white people are not wealthy in this country.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.52,0:11:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most white people have to get up and go to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.59,0:11:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't get money from their parents for owning
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.75,0:11:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cotton plantation where black people used to work
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.70,0:11:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as slaves and that's why they're rich.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.20,0:11:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a very fractured group, there's not necessarily a center to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.76,0:11:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not united and they all kinda bicker with each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.99,0:11:34.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's exactly where we want them to stay.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.27,0:11:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This side cares about western chauvinism and ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.28,0:11:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This side says whites have to be a part of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.61,0:11:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone like Roosh V, who self-identifies as a pick-up artist,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.54,0:11:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's a real piece of shit who wrote an article about raping an Icelandic woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.86,0:11:51.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've also got members of the alt-right scene who use
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.63,0:11:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the myth of the "rapeugee".
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.04,0:11:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the refugee, who is a danger to our women.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.08,0:12:01.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they're still incredibly gender essentialist notions of womanhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.23,0:12:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they'd be at odds with, for example, someone who boasts about raping women.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.56,0:12:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Matthew Heimbach has definitely ridden the wave of the alt-right.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.38,0:12:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what makes Heimbach different is that he is interested,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.26,0:12:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though he himself comes from a very wealthy community
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.35,0:12:17.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside of Washington DC, it's called Poolesville,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.75,0:12:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's very interested in talking to everyday, poor and disaffected white people
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.03,0:12:25.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trying to build a neo-nazi base within that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.87,0:12:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Traditionalist Worker Party, they're very open
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.94,0:12:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they are neo-nazi.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.04,0:12:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The patriot movement is the successor to the 1990s militia movement
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.10,0:12:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are famous for forming paramilitary groups around the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.05,0:12:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and two of its adherents bombing the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.06,0:12:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The movement historically tends to be in a reverse cycle
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.01,0:12:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Democratic presidents.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.85,0:12:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have a whole narrative about how the president is really a communist
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.74,0:12:53.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's a secret traitor to the country, and he's about to let
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.47,0:12:55.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foreign armies invade.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.21,0:12:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The major organization is the Oathkeepers.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.45,0:13:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They recruit current and former military, police and first responders.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.92,0:13:04.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's another group of sheriffs and other law enforcement called
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.81,0:13:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the CSPOA, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.63,0:13:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a decentralized version of militias called the 3 Percenters,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.36,0:13:15.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then there's sovereign citizens, who believe in some of these
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.21,0:13:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of alternative legal theories...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.99,0:13:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on a kind of crackpot reading of the law and of history.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.29,0:13:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A free inhabitant is-is-is... they are allowed to...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.60,0:13:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are free people. They have all of the rights of a US citizen
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.14,0:13:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without following any of their laws.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.14,0:13:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Well that would just be pure anarchy if that was the case. \N- Nope.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.55,0:13:38.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Breitbart is interesting because it's become a major media player fairly recently
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.45,0:13:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it has positioned itself firmly to the right of FOX News.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.26,0:13:44.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so this has helped drive things further to the right,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.95,0:13:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then clearly with their former head being in the Trump cabinet now,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.56,0:13:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're almost acting as a semi-official media wing of the current Trump administration.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.56,0:13:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People hear stuff from the insurgent far-right about, for instance like
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.36,0:14:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Syrian refugees in Sweden raping white women, which is not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.82,0:14:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then Trump basically parrots these things, or speaks to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.34,0:14:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or dog-whistles to them or just repeats them as fact.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.74,0:14:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not about truth. It's about projecting force into the conversation.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.28,0:14:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about saying "No... fuck you, it's about refugees."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.58,0:14:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or "Fuck you, it's about men being attacked in society by feminism."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.05,0:14:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it creates this kind of potential insurgent base,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.30,0:14:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that's the scariest part.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.86,0:14:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Historically, anarchists and anti-authoritarians have always been
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.04,0:14:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the forefront of anti-fascist resistance,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.19,0:14:34.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and over the decades we have experienced our share of both victories and defeats.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.89,0:14:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the eve of the Second World War, anarchists in Spain and Catalonia
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.82,0:14:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,responded to a fascist coup d'etat against the sitting republican government
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.68,0:14:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by launching a far-ranging social revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.28,0:14:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After nearly three years of bloody civil war,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.64,0:14:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,General Francisco Franco's fascist army won out
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.62,0:14:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tens of thousands of anarchists were summarily executed or forced into exile.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.84,0:14:58.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite its tragic outcome, the Spanish Revolution remains, to this day,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.54,0:15:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an unparalleled example of mass working-class resistance to fascism.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.76,0:15:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anarchists also fought against fascist thugs
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.92,0:15:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within the broader struggles waged by autonomists, feminists and militant youth movements
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.94,0:15:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Italy throughout the 1960s and 70s,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.42,0:15:13.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in Germany during the 70s and 80s,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.45,0:15:17.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the black bloc first emerged as a militant tactical formation.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.19,0:15:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These struggles also had an important influence on Greece,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.11,0:15:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where for years now, when anarchists haven't have been lighting cops on fire with Molotov cocktails,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.50,0:15:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've been beating the crap out of members and supporters of
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.16,0:15:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the country's main fascist party, Golden Dawn.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.83,0:15:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On March 30th, a crew of about 30 antifascists
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.70,0:15:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attacked Golden Dawn's main headquarters,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.95,0:15:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,located in one of the most heavily-guarded areas of downtown Athens.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.83,0:15:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anarchists have also set up dozens of squatted social centres
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.44,0:15:43.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and buildings to house refugees,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.19,0:15:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have helped to defend migrants from fascist paramilitary attacks.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.35,0:15:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In December of 2016, a group of western anarchists and anti-authoritarians
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.92,0:15:53.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fighting in Northern Syria joined forces under the banner of
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.86,0:15:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Antifascist Internationalist Tabur, or AIT, claiming inspiration from
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.28,0:16:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the international volunteers who fought in the Spanish civil war.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.36,0:16:03.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, you don't have to travel across the world
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.59,0:16:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fight against reactionary politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.59,0:16:09.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to be effective, it's important that anti-fascists and anti-racists
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.33,0:16:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be rooted in the communities in which they live,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.69,0:16:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where fascists and other reactionaries will attempt to recruit.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.69,0:16:18.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I joined Anti-Racist action when I was 15, I think.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.46,0:16:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Toronto chapter was a sizable chapter within a broader network
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.69,0:16:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of ARA chapters that were organized city-by-city.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.96,0:16:30.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The intention of ARA was to expose, oppose and confront
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.58,0:16:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,racist and right-wing organizations and organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.95,0:16:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Toronto that took on various forms.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.48,0:16:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes it was very physical, other times it was not.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.90,0:16:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes it was skinheads.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.12,0:16:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many times it was Christian Right organizations,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.44,0:16:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anti-choice organizations, anti-Native organizations,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.65,0:16:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those politics generally were also grappled with
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.37,0:16:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within a cultural engagement with broader sectors
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.08,0:16:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the population within Toronto.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.75,0:17:01.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there was an attempt to develop
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.71,0:17:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an anti-racist, feminist, anti-colonial politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.32,0:17:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was mostly comprised of youth, and much of that
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.44,0:17:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cultural engagement revolved around sub-cultural groupings.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.14,0:17:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So within the punk scene, sometimes within the hip-hop scene,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.96,0:17:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within the electronic music scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.78,0:17:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was where the politics were disseminated.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.07,0:17:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before I joined Toronto had a sizable on-the-ground white supremacist presence.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.06,0:17:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A physical struggle took place on the street for who held sway
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.03,0:17:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and essentially the anti-racists won.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.80,0:17:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were areas of Toronto that were declared no-go zones for white supremacists.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.98,0:17:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nazis out! Nazis out! Nazis out!
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.79,0:17:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Districts in Toronto that white supremacists were already in were declared no-go zones,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.27,0:17:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then they were established to be no-go zones.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.51,0:17:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then those districts were used as bases of operation
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.36,0:17:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then more districts were established across the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.88,0:18:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a process that took several years and was a lot of work
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.19,0:18:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at times very dangerous, but it was successful.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.94,0:18:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then the question became: "what do you do with that success?"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.15,0:18:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And ARA continued. It adapted, but it essentially kept the same methods
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.03,0:18:13.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the same strategy.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.45,0:18:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then that method and that strategy became less and less applicable
Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.34,0:18:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it slowly petered out.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.35,0:18:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the unfortunate things of it petering out
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.12,0:18:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that it left very little legacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.03,0:18:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it seems as though people are making it up anew
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.04,0:18:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because, frankly, we left nothing behind for them to review.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.20,0:18:34.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alerta! Alerta! Anti-fascista!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.71,0:18:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,RASH has several groups all over the world
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.96,0:18:38.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in different countries, in different cities.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.75,0:18:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Montreal RASH has been here since the 90s
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.67,0:18:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fight against the right-wing politics that were
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.73,0:18:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infiltrated into the skinhead movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.02,0:18:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Collectively or individually, people in RASH do participate
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.02,0:18:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in different struggles, either it be syndicalist,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.24,0:19:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feminist, in queer communities, anti-gentrification, for immigration rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.44,0:19:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to create a culture of anti-fascism in our subculture
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.42,0:19:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show that Montreal is red, we are here and fascism
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.34,0:19:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and racism does not have its place here.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.49,0:19:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Montreal Sisterhood is a non-mixed collective
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.70,0:19:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,formed by people who identify themselves as women.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.40,0:19:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was born when we made a reflection about the place
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.15,0:19:32.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of women in our scene, in the anti-fascist movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.45,0:19:37.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our goal is to create feminine and feminist solidarity
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.37,0:19:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.79,0:19:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We organize self-defense workshops, screenings, reading circles,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.12,0:19:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we really try to bring forward feminist issues in our scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.84,0:19:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our links with RASH are really good. We work together a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.80,0:19:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some girls are members of both organizations.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.15,0:20:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could say that we are brother and sister organizations for sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.94,0:20:14.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I've been in LAF for a couple of years now.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.28,0:20:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I initially joined, there was quite a low level of far-right activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.04,0:20:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our group was established as the English Defense League was splintering.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.58,0:20:26.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's kind of affected the organizational structure of London Anti-fascists.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.85,0:20:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We originally saw ourselves as the militant leading edge of a much wider
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.10,0:20:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anti-fascist movement that would be led by traditional groups like Unite Against Fascism.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.58,0:20:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, these groups have pretty much wound up, as the far-right has splintered.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.96,0:20:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our response to the way in which we confront and combat fascism
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.80,0:20:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has to change with the way in which the political climate is changing.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.70,0:20:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We still consider ourselves a militant anti-fascist group,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.72,0:20:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we are now the main anti-fascist mobilizing force in London.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.47,0:21:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We consistently out-mobilize other more mainstream groups,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:02.28,0:21:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a more radical, more direct action-oriented message.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.40,0:21:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We use an anarcho-syndicalist model of organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.53,0:21:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's actually really effective. It means that we're always accountable to one another.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:13.13,0:21:18.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We attempt to push a demonstration that we've called in a certain direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.55,0:21:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And having a really strong organizational base means that
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.04,0:21:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we're on actions we can trust our comrades
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.84,0:21:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we know that we've organized with them in a way that
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.84,0:21:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've been involved from the very beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.44,0:21:31.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other groups prefer to have an affinity group structure.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.59,0:21:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The important thing is that these strategies change and adapt.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.62,0:21:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been building links with various anti-fascist groups across Europe.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.70,0:21:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've come to support our actions, we've sent people to support
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.78,0:21:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of their big mobilizations.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.53,0:21:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously we have different political contexts
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.02,0:21:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore we respond differently to the kind of far-right activity
Dialogue: 0,0:21:49.27,0:21:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's happening within our base.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.75,0:21:53.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't mean, however, that we can't learn from each other
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.33,0:21:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to grow our group, and also grow militant anti-fascism.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:00.11,0:22:02.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These days it can sometime feel like we're all just
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.85,0:22:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one Donald Trump twitter beef away from full-scale nuclear war.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.53,0:22:09.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the feeling that there are incredibly powerful forces beyond our control
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.91,0:22:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that hold so much sway over our lives can be pretty demoralizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.50,0:22:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But nobody ever said revolutionary struggle was easy
Dialogue: 0,0:22:15.83,0:22:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and given the fact that reactionary forces are steadily
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.40,0:22:20.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gaining ground in countries around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:20.31,0:22:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's vitally important that anarchists and other anti-fascists not give into despair,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.72,0:22:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or take our eyes off the prize in pursuit of what may seem like urgent short-term gains.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.92,0:22:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, we need to come up with, and put into play strategies and tactics
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.82,0:22:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that build our collective power and autonomy in order to better prepare us
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.96,0:22:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the battles to come... even as we act against threats in the here and now.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.34,0:22:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we enter into a highly dynamic period of transition,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.22,0:22:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is vitally important that we keep our eyes open
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.16,0:22:48.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and refuse to compromise on our visions of a better world.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.33,0:22:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In short… it’s time to get our game face on.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.72,0:22:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can give examples of left-wing navel gazing
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.38,0:22:58.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes to the 2008 financial crisis.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.55,0:23:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've left the misery of working people
Dialogue: 0,0:23:01.32,0:23:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be taken advantage of by the far-right
Dialogue: 0,0:23:04.78,0:23:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other reactionary elements in society.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.23,0:23:10.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reactionary ideologies have always been there.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:10.38,0:23:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People thinking that neo-nazis are a new thing
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.10,0:23:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fascist are a new thing is not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.78,0:23:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we think is lately, yes, it has become more and more vocal.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.04,0:23:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've seen waves and waves of arson attacks against mosques,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.99,0:23:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vandalism at Jewish places of worship and cemeteries.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.57,0:23:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've seen continuous terrorists attacks both in Canada and the US
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.91,0:23:35.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by Trump supporters and white nationalists, so I mean I think unfortunately
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.45,0:23:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those kinds of attacks are going to continue.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:37.63,0:23:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've gotta be prepared, if this is basically the baseline now,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.68,0:23:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it could be very scary in the next couple of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:43.20,0:23:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a political struggle going on for, for lack of a better word
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.02,0:23:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hearts and minds of the working class.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.58,0:23:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My humble suggestion would be that the best way to wage that struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.84,0:23:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to form working-class organizations that take up working-class struggle,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.88,0:24:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can develop politics that are best suited to the problems
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.09,0:24:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that confront the working class.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:02.80,0:24:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those politics are anti-white supremacist.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:06.06,0:24:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are anti-Islamophobic, they are feminist
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.55,0:24:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are communist.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.34,0:24:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the politics that need to actually be developed.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.10,0:24:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to build your organization. You need to build it strong.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.24,0:24:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to build it in the communities and workplaces
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.03,0:24:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you exist in, and then you need to make
Dialogue: 0,0:24:23.69,0:24:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you and your comrades ready for conflict.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.17,0:24:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to make sure that everyone is ready to stand and fight if necessary.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:30.34,0:24:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But don't fetishize that.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.71,0:24:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not only a physical thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.90,0:24:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Popular education is also a good way, propaganda,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:38.96,0:24:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing some research about fascist groups.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.05,0:24:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These roles are just as valuable and just as important
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.40,0:24:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as punching nazis in the face.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.27,0:24:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which, I fully advocate... but again, it's not the be all and end all
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.68,0:24:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of anti-fascism. It's often the most fun... but...
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.62,0:24:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Organize. Don't wait for anybody, organize now with your friends,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.05,0:25:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with some people from your communities, with some people
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.02,0:25:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your workplace, in your neighbourhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.80,0:25:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could keep going down the road that we've been going down
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.88,0:25:14.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an increasing obsession over a puritanical form of struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.45,0:25:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we wish to improve ourselves more than
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.26,0:25:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we wish to improve the world around us.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.29,0:25:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or we can seek to reach out to the more reactionary,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.61,0:25:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unorganized elements of society and pull them into
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.52,0:25:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a struggle to overthrow capitalism
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.44,0:25:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and overthrow a system that oppresses us all.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.96,0:25:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't give up poor white people to these groups.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.08,0:25:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there's nobody that's offering a counter-narrative,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:36.36,0:25:38.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nobody that's going door-to-door in a trailer park,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.42,0:25:40.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all that stuff... I mean, eventually these groups
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.78,0:25:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will have an influence in these areas.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.70,0:25:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we have no prospect of organizing with the working class
Dialogue: 0,0:25:47.16,0:25:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to cultivate politics that are counter to these politics,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.62,0:25:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we are in far worse trouble than the black bloc
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.94,0:25:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is capable of taking care of.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.62,0:26:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, the bright side is I personally, and I think many other people
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.66,0:26:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't think we're in that position just yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:02.77,0:26:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's unclear what's gonna happen, I think, even six months from now.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.37,0:26:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now there's a lot of moving pieces on the board.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.36,0:26:11.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The anti-fascist resistance has emerged and increased quite quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.39,0:26:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it can make firmer links with the movement for immigrants rights
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.84,0:26:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Black Lives Matter, and other larger somewhat radical
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.40,0:26:20.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or fairly radical social movements in our society, it'll be a much stronger movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.89,0:26:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The far right are getting stronger and they're gaining more confidence.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.19,0:26:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it can start to feel as if like, y'know, we're in a losing battle.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.15,0:26:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But actually, I think that things are still up for grabs.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.86,0:26:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we have to get our shit together.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.55,0:26:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we have to organize collectively, and I think
Dialogue: 0,0:26:35.23,0:26:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to stay revolutionary-minded.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.88,0:26:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On one hand, we wanna make sure that anti-fascism
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.47,0:26:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not devoid of revolutionary politics, like it needs to have
Dialogue: 0,0:26:43.36,0:26:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this in-depth analysis, but also that we don't throw
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.90,0:26:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the baby out with the bathwater.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.42,0:26:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is gonna be how a lot of people get involved
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.74,0:26:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the wider revolutionary movement
Dialogue: 0,0:26:51.44,0:26:52.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we should be very open to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.93,0:26:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're interested in challenging reaction and far-right ideology
Dialogue: 0,0:26:57.27,0:27:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and interested in defending yourself, then get in touch with
Dialogue: 0,0:27:00.72,0:27:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your local anti-fascist group.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.15,0:27:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't be scared to approach them.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.91,0:27:06.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tactics and strategy are really open.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.95,0:27:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a place for everybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:08.53,0:27:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Particularly if you're a woman or a minority or disabled,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.92,0:27:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll be told by more liberal elements of the left that
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.93,0:27:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,y'know... anti-fascism might not be for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.93,0:27:20.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that antifa are just predominantly white men
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.78,0:27:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they have a white men savior complex, or whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.39,0:27:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But actually, a lot of that is bullshit.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.12,0:27:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's really important as well to encourage
Dialogue: 0,0:27:29.55,0:27:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more women and minorities to be involved in anti-fascism
Dialogue: 0,0:27:32.55,0:27:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's an incredibly empowering feeling to feel that
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.16,0:27:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can go out on the streets and physically stop
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.27,0:27:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fascists from being able to organize.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.14,0:27:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's important to build up anti-fascist self-defense now.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.16,0:27:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that includes not just people being ready to roll out
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.01,0:27:49.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a demonstration to fight some nazis,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.54,0:27:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it means mapping out in the local area who the fascists are,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.59,0:27:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where these groups are situated, where their power is,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.64,0:27:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who the leaders are... and really kind of obliterating those networks.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:59.60,0:28:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When looking to the future, the one thing anti-fascists should be doing
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.35,0:28:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is identifying those fascist organizers that could be launching
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.86,0:28:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this future movement and brutally pushing them out of the movement
Dialogue: 0,0:28:13.06,0:28:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and setting back any fascist movement 5, 10 years by doing so.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.27,0:28:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to be able to split these movements.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.44,0:28:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y'know we have to crack them at the base
Dialogue: 0,0:28:21.52,0:28:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and expose their contradictions, and that's a huge task for us right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.01,0:28:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't take shortcuts in your understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.64,0:28:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and don't take shortcuts in the strategies that you employ.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.09,0:28:34.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be reasonable, think about things, be diligent, be disciplined,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.39,0:28:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carry out revolutionary politics within the working class.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:41.10,0:28:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we continue to slip further into the dangerous,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.30,0:28:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uncharted territory of 21st-century political reaction,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.50,0:28:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the need for innovative strategies and bold, effective action
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.67,0:28:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will become ever more important.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.66,0:28:53.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at this point, we’d like to remind you that Trouble is
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.91,0:28:56.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intended to be watched in groups, and to be used as a resource
Dialogue: 0,0:28:56.81,0:28:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to promote discussion and collective organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:59.12,0:29:02.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there’s no antifa or anti-racist organizing initiatives,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:02.17,0:29:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consider screening this film with some comrades
Dialogue: 0,0:29:04.09,0:29:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and considering what sort of initiative would work best for your area.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.10,0:29:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Interested in running regular screenings at your campus,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.53,0:29:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infoshop, community center, or even just at your home with friends?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.70,0:29:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Become a Trouble-Maker!
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Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.29,0:29:20.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a screening kit featuring additional resources and some questions
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.27,0:29:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can use to get a discussion going.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.16,0:29:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you can’t afford to support us financially, no worries!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.68,0:29:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can stream and/or download all our content for free
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Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.44,0:29:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you’ve got any suggestions for show topics or just wanna get in touch,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.95,0:29:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drop us a line at trouble@submedia.tv.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.82,0:29:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’d like to thank everyone who helped make this episode possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.70,0:29:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wanna send a shout out to the first official Troublemaker chapters,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.85,0:29:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Montreal, Hamilton, Calgary, Prague, Atlanta, Morrisville, Madison,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:47.88,0:29:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Hague, Rhyneland, Medford, Quilcene, Asheville, Durham,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:52.60,0:29:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whitehorse, Brooklyn, Philly, Minneapolis, Sandpoint and Hendersonville.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.94,0:29:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now... get out there and make some trouble.