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This episode of It's the End of the World

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As We Know it and I Feel Fine,

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was made possible by contributions

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from slaves like you.

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Spank you very much!

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Gooooooooood morning slaves

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and welcome to another sedition of

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It's the End of the World as We Know it

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and I Feel Fine...

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the show where schadenfreude

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is a dish best served cold.

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As the morning papers

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blared the news

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some were stunned.

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Shit!

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Shit!

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Shit!

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Shit!

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Scheiße!

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Merde!

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I see.

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I am your host the Stimulator

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and for the past week or so,

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one thing's been dominating

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the headlines

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Brexit

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Brexit

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Brexit

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Brexit

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Brexit

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Brexit

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Brisket

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Booyakasha!

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Yup... on June 23rd peeps in Britain

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voted in a national referendum

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to leave the EU

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We're out!

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plunging both the UK and Europe

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into a deep existential crisis.

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And like... our future's

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kinda been taken away.

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And as political commentators,

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journalists, bloggers

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and pundits of all stripes

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endlessly pontificate on the causes

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and possible consequences

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of the looming Brexit...

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the only thing that peeps seem to

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be able to agree on is that

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it's a fucking game-changer,

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and that the future is more uncertain

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than it has been in a long fucking time.

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As soon as the first poll results

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started coming in,

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the British pound went into

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mothafuckin' free-fall,

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dropping to its lowest rate

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in over thirty fucking years.

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London’s infamous financial district,

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the so-called City of London,

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also took a proper pounding, [br]

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posting the biggest losses since

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the 2007-2008 financial crisis.

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All around the world

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stock markets are experiencing

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sporadic aftershocks,

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as ever-opportunistic investors

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shift vast sums of money around the world

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in a ruthless effort

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to profit off the crisis.

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Politicians in Scotland

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and Northern Ireland have already

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called for their own referendums

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- raising the spectre of the break-up

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of the UK itself.

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Some people hate the English.

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I don't... they're just wankers.

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We on the other hand,

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are colonized by wankers!

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The morning after the Brexit vote

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Britain's posh, pig-fucking PM,

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David Cameron,

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who initially proposed the referendum

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in a Faustian bargain to

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maintain his position atop the

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Conservative Party's pecking order,

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acknowledged in the most eloquent,

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face-saving way that he could muster,

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that he had shit the bed

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and had no intentions of sticking around

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to watch the help clean it up.

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I will do everything I can

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as Prime Minister

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to steady the ship over the coming

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weeks and months.

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But I do not think it would be right

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for me to try to be the captain

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that steers our country

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to its next destination.

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Just breathe it in.

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Let's just take this in together,

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shall we?

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A political legacy in tatters...

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... the Prime Minister who

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- who took us out of Europe.

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Bye Bye!

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Frankly, I don't have anything to hide.

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Oink oink oink!

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He was a frat boy

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- a glorified frat boy.

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Stuck his penis in the head

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of a dead pig.

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David Cameron - pigfucker!

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Maybe WE should kiss

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just to break the tension.

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Buuuuuuuuut while it's a rare treat

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to watch David Cameron rewarded[br]

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for his arrogant, tone-deaf hubris

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with an early fucking retirement,

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that doesn’t mean that things are

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necessarily going to be

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better off once he’s gone.

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Mixed in with the British voters'

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righteous anger at

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the austerity-pushing bankers

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and the faceless technocrats in Brussels,

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has been a terrifying rise

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in right-wing nationalism,

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racism and xenophobia.

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Despite England’s role

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as the literal fucking flag-bearer

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of centuries of colonialism

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and global imperialist domination,

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one of the main issues during

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the referendum campaign [br]

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was fears over immigration,

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with the Euro-skeptic party, UKIP,

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headed by Britain’s creepy racist uncle,

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Nigel Farage,

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and former mayor of London

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and petulant man-child, Boris Johnson,

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leading the fascistic charge.

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Since the Brexit vote[br]

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attacks against Eastern Europeans,

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ethnic minorities,

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and people perceived to be Muslims

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have spiked sharply,

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with over 90 hate crimes reported

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over the following three days

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- ranging from threatening notices

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and graffiti,

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to arsons and vicious assaults.

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While these tensions have been building

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for some time now,

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far-right groups are clearly on the march

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and have only been emboldened

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by recent events.

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On June 24th around 2000 people,

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including a sizeable crew of antifa,

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took to the streets of London

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to demonstrate their support for migrants

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and vent their rage at

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the right-wing tabloids that have been

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steadily churning out

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sensationalist headlines,

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and whipping up racist,

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nationalist sentiment

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for months on end.

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Despite all the uncertainty currently

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gripping the UK, one thing is clear.[br]

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The time has come for

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bold militant actions

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and sustained anti-racist,

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pro-immigrant organizing

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in working-class neighbourhoods

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across the UK and beyond.

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Because make no mistake.

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While Britain is the first major country

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to ditch the EU,

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they almost certainly won't be the last.

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With far-right politicians in France

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and the Netherlands already calling

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for their own national referendums,

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the disintegration of the European Project

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may come sooner than people think.

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If the mothafuckin resistance

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doesn't rise to this challenge[br]

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then we are in for some seriously

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dark fucking times.

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And finally, in sad fucking news,

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on June 7th Roger Clement passed away.

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Roger was an OG from so-called Ottawa,

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who did three years in the clink

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for fire-bombing a Royal

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Bank of Canada branch

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back in the summer of 2010.

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During his trial Roger was solid

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and staunchly principled,

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pleading guilty in exchange for

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all charges being dropped

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against his co-accused.

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He will be missed. [br]

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Rest in power, comrade.

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As Europe finds itself plagued

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by a resurgence of right-wing nationalism

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and a corresponding rise in

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hostile anti-immigrant sentiment,

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over on this side of the pond,

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a similar dynamic is playing out

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in the United Snakes[br]

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- albeit one with distinctly

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American characteristics.

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A group of Texans are pushing for

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a Texas exit... or Texit.

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Texit?

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Texit.

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Yee-haw!

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Buuuuuuuuuuut while the odds of a

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so-called Texit are slim

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to mothafuckin nil,

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there's no getting around the fact that

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the political atmosphere in

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the United Snakes is toxic as fuck,

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and shit only seems to be getting worse.

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Decades of neoliberal capitalist

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restructuring has produced

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vast economic deserts

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in so-called Middle-America, [br]

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as jobs have been shipped off

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to hyper-exploited labour markets

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in the Global South.

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Public schools have been decimated

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by years of chronic underfunding, and

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federal and state prisons are overflowing.

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Mass shootings have become

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an almost daily fucking phenomenon

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and each fresh tragedy is

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immediately and reflexively seized upon

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as a chance to blame

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politically convenient scapegoats.

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A Muslim scholar says

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killing homosexuals is the

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compassionate thing to do.

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This is part of

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their religious doctrine....

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their ideology.

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Within this bleak fucking context

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a growing army of pissed off Americans

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have retreated into fantasies

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based on heavily romanticized

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and white-washed images

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of a fictional past[br]

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and vast fucking conspiracies

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promoted by red-faced asshats

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like Alex Jones.

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You're declaring war on this country

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with a bunch of jihadis

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you brought in!

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You did it, you son of a bitch!

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The Trump campaign has been

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a clarion call for millions of Americans

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disillusioned by the repeated betrayals

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of Washington-insiders

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like Hillary Clinton.

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When their holdings are invested

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in the Cayman Islands

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and her husband is middle-man

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to some of the world's biggest deals

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as they feather their nest

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at the expense of America...

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it is time to take the country back!

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And as his fascist calls for border walls

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and mass deportations of Muslims

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have sparked militant resistance

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from peeps in cities across the country,

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many Trump supporters have [br]

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announced plans to descend

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on Cleveland for the RNC on July 18th,

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in what's expected to be

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an epic showdown between

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two bitterly opposed camps.

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Fittingly, this showdown will be

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taking place in an open-carry state,

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in the very city where 12 year old

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Tamir Rice was gunned down

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by racist fucking pigs in 2014.

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And outside the well-managed spectacle

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of the 2016 electoral farce,

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neo-nazi and white supremacist groups,

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like the KKK, have also been

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[br]taking advantage of [br]

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the current levels of racist,

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hyper-nationalist rhetoric

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thrust into the mainstream

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by Trump's campaign.

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In the latest example,

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on June 26th, members of

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the Traditionalist Workers Party

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attempted to hold a rally at

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the California state legislature,

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in Sacramento.

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They were confronted by a group of

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roughly 400 antifa, who proceeded

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to shut them the fuck down, and give

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the nazi scum a serious fucking thrashing.

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During the resulting scuffle,

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numerous people were stabbed,

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including at least 4 anti-fascist comrades

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- with 3 more comrades hospitalized

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due to blunt force trauma.

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That's why we need to take them on

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directly.

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Take them on head on.

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Confront them with as many people

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as possible - prepared to shut them down.

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And that is what this demonstration

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did today.

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Sacramento was the latest front

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in an increasingly violent battle between

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fascist and anti-fascist militants.

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The way things are headed,[br]

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it's not going to be the last.

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So... to learn more about

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just what the fuck went down,

0:11:06.808,0:11:08.231
I recently caught up with Brazo,

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an anti-fascist organizer who was

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on the ground in Sacramento.

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Hey Brazo, how the fuck are you?

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I'm alright.

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So what exactly went down in Sacramento

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on June 26th?

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Well in Sacramento on June 26th,

0:11:20.821,0:11:22.365
the Traditionalist Workers Party,

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in conjunction with the Golden State Skins

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and the Klu Klux Klan,

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tried to have a permitted demonstration

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at the west steps, in Sacramento.

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Now there was about 25 to 30

0:11:32.733,0:11:34.833
Traditionalist Workers Party people.

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and the anti-fascist and anti-racist

0:11:37.476,0:11:39.434
crews were about 400 deep.

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When we approached,

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it immediately turned into a brawl.

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They took knives out.

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They started stabbing people...

0:11:46.385,0:11:48.094
people defended themselves.

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They took a really bad beating.

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I think that everyone on their side

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had some blood of their own on them.

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And we stopped them

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- we stopped them from having

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their meeting, but at a huge cost to us.

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On the anti-racist side there were

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probably a total of 9 people

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that were injured, and I think

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the number was 7 of them

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hospitalized.

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We had anticipated that there would be

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injuries... but really didn't anticipate

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that it was gonna escalate this quickly

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and severely for people on our side.

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But the medical people who were there,

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y'know, they did their job.

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They played their role well enough

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that people who were taken

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to the hospital didn't die.

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How was the counter-demonstration

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organized?

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We treated June 26th a lot like

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a major convergence, because

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that's how the fascists had

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plugged what was happening.

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You know, this was gonna be the time

0:12:34.092,0:12:36.857
that the KKK, the Golden State Skinheads

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and the Traditionalist Workers Party

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were gonna show their level

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of coordination in the street

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and materialize their politics.

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And that's why we treated it

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as such a serious threat,

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to be able to physically stop them

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from manifesting that racist,

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fascist politics in the streets.

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So there were a lot of trainings

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that happened before.

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A lot of infrastructure was put

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in to get people from the places

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they were coming from all over

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the west coast - to be able to

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go to Sacramento.

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Medical teams were assembled

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and medics started gaining supplies.

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We did a couple of fundraisers to go

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buy the medical supplies.

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There were medical trainings

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that were done.

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The NLG [National Lawyer's Guild]

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really stepped in - so a legal hotline

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was established.

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There was also an immense amount

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of help by Indigenous groups

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in Sacramento that really supported us

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in many ways that I think are

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really important, and I hope

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we continue that relationship.

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So we really treated it not only

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as a convergence for anti-fascists

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and anti-racists on June 26th,

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but also a way to start to

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already build these networks.

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And to build them up strong

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and to build confidence

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in those networks.

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To be able to squash them out

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wherever they go, before this issue

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gets more severe.

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Who the fuck are the Traditionalist

0:13:42.154,0:13:43.332
Workers Party?

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And why were they trying to rally?

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Well the Traditionalist Workers Party

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is a white supremacist,

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white nationalist group.

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They want your classic fascism.

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They want the consolidation of the economy

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and the state, under white culture.

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They're led by a clown named

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Matthew Heimbach

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who lives somewhere on the east coast.

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And what they're basically trying to do

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is trying to consolidate

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all of these different white power

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organizations.

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And they're basically trying to

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move their politics from

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online rhetoric into the material world.

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Their stance was that if they could

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converge in liberal California,

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then they could converge anywhere

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in the country, materially.

0:14:24.930,0:14:26.387
Which is why we focused so much

0:14:26.387,0:14:27.693
energy on stopping the rally

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from happening altogether.

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Anti-fascist militants are often

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denounced by liberals and[br]

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so-called “progressives” in particular

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for their use of violent tactics

0:14:36.421,0:14:38.493
when confronting members of the far right.

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What do you have to say to

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those critics who argue for a strategy

0:14:41.584,0:14:43.439
of nonviolence and deescalation

0:14:43.439,0:14:44.949
when dealing with these types of groups?

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It kind of brings to mind,

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when people start that conversation,

0:14:48.042,0:14:49.626
to me, is that Howard Zinn quote:

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"You can't be neutral on a moving train."

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Our society, and our culture

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is already moving in this one direction.

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Hegemony is our society requires violence.

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Black and brown people,

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trans people, queer people

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- our identities are kept in check

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by violence.

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Whether it's public executions

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of black and brown people in the street,

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mass incarceration, gender policing

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all of these are ways that are

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violently keeping us in a subservient

0:15:13.104,0:15:14.679
position to white supremacy,

0:15:14.679,0:15:16.502
capitalism, the state and hegemony,

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basically.

0:15:17.112,0:15:19.158
So our liberation requires anything

0:15:19.158,0:15:20.255
in the toolbox,

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which unfortunately does

0:15:21.354,0:15:22.605
include violence sometimes.

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It's not like violence is the objective

0:15:24.239,0:15:25.336
of these demonstrations.

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It's a means for liberation.

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And it's a means for self-defense.

0:15:28.129,0:15:30.832
Fascism, as a popular social movement,

0:15:30.832,0:15:32.446
thrives on widespread feelings

0:15:32.446,0:15:35.032
of victimization, or declining privilege

0:15:35.032,0:15:37.605
among socially dominant sectors of society

0:15:37.605,0:15:39.679
such as white, working-class men.

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Realizing this,

0:15:40.818,0:15:42.028
do you think that groups like the

0:15:42.028,0:15:44.191
Traditionalist Workers Party are actively

0:15:44.191,0:15:45.971
seeking out physical confrontations

0:15:45.971,0:15:47.076
in order to inflame these feelings

0:15:47.076,0:15:49.126
of white male victimization

0:15:49.126,0:15:50.446
and garner more attention?

0:15:50.446,0:15:51.747
And if so, how should that

0:15:51.747,0:15:53.942
factor into how anti-fascists,

0:15:53.942,0:15:55.648
feminists and anti-racists should

0:15:55.648,0:15:57.671
respond to their attempts to organize?

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There's no way for us to route around it.

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Other-ized identities: black, brown,

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queer, trans, what have you...

0:16:05.197,0:16:06.774
all these other-ized identities

0:16:06.774,0:16:08.806
that are not male or white

0:16:08.806,0:16:10.927
- our liberation and their privilege

0:16:10.927,0:16:13.632
are contradictory...

0:16:13.632,0:16:14.785
opposed to one another.

0:16:14.785,0:16:16.374
They can't exist in the same world.

0:16:16.374,0:16:18.318
So every time that we're asserting

0:16:18.318,0:16:20.668
our rights as other-ized people,

0:16:20.668,0:16:22.020
asserting our dignity,

0:16:22.020,0:16:23.596
it's a slipping of that privilege.

0:16:23.596,0:16:25.108
So you could say that a lot

0:16:25.108,0:16:26.570
of these white supremacist groups

0:16:26.570,0:16:28.197
their sort of like, budding,

0:16:28.197,0:16:29.903
it's at the same time that

0:16:29.903,0:16:31.243
the United States sees its first

0:16:31.243,0:16:32.373
Black president, and the

0:16:32.373,0:16:33.642
ascension of the Black Lives Matter

0:16:33.642,0:16:34.253
movement.

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Not that the Obama administration

0:16:35.555,0:16:36.777
is an assertion of that, but,

0:16:36.777,0:16:38.715
the ascension of the Black Lives Matter

0:16:38.715,0:16:41.161
movement, and the wide criticism of

0:16:41.161,0:16:42.616
racist police practices,

0:16:42.616,0:16:44.700
is a slipping of white privilege

0:16:44.700,0:16:45.966
- or at least the beginning of

0:16:45.966,0:16:47.346
the dialogue about what white privilege

0:16:47.346,0:16:49.011
does to black bodies.

0:16:49.011,0:16:51.169
So, it's either white people

0:16:51.169,0:16:52.332
- white working-class people -

0:16:52.332,0:16:54.462
realize that their disenfranchisement

0:16:54.464,0:16:56.454
is not because of other people

0:16:56.454,0:16:58.344
- the disenfranchisement is

0:16:58.356,0:17:00.307
institutionalized... and because of that

0:17:00.307,0:17:01.605
we're actually on the same side

0:17:01.605,0:17:03.275
of this struggle, but their privilege

0:17:03.275,0:17:04.937
blinds them from being able to

0:17:04.937,0:17:05.992
recognize that.

0:17:05.992,0:17:07.704
And the crumbs of power

0:17:07.704,0:17:08.969
that are given to them....

0:17:08.969,0:17:10.026
they want to maintain.

0:17:10.026,0:17:11.529
So they're either gonna realize

0:17:11.529,0:17:13.472
they have that privilege, and join

0:17:13.472,0:17:14.822
the right side of history....

0:17:14.822,0:17:16.330
or we're take that privilege from them.

0:17:16.330,0:17:17.949
Those are the only two outcomes.

0:17:17.949,0:17:19.657
Much of the far-right in the US

0:17:19.657,0:17:20.959
seem to be active supporters

0:17:20.959,0:17:21.857
of Donald Trump.

0:17:21.857,0:17:23.040
Why do you think this is?

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And what implications do you think

0:17:24.583,0:17:25.844
that this will have in terms of

0:17:25.844,0:17:27.624
the upcoming RNC in Cleveland

0:17:27.624,0:17:29.177
and the political climate in the US

0:17:29.177,0:17:29.950
more generally?

0:17:29.950,0:17:32.100
Well I've listened to Heimbach's podcast

0:17:32.100,0:17:34.173
and he sort of views Trump

0:17:34.173,0:17:37.100
- he says.. if Trump doesn't take his

0:17:37.100,0:17:38.604
rightful place as President of

0:17:38.604,0:17:39.538
the United States,

0:17:39.538,0:17:41.397
then Trump should start his own

0:17:41.397,0:17:42.624
political party, in which

0:17:42.624,0:17:44.252
the Traditionalist Workers Party,

0:17:44.252,0:17:45.786
and all the other white supremacist

0:17:45.786,0:17:47.420
groups can get behind Trump,

0:17:47.420,0:17:49.492
and push their agenda.

0:17:49.492,0:17:51.761
So they see Trump as being sort of like

0:17:51.761,0:17:54.972
the electoral head of all of these other

0:17:54.972,0:17:56.440
white supremacist groups.

0:17:56.440,0:17:58.635
Now, in terms of how it will affect

0:17:58.635,0:18:00.788
the RNC - it's difficult to say.

0:18:00.788,0:18:02.092
The people from the Traditionalist

0:18:02.092,0:18:03.188
Workers Party are saying that

0:18:03.188,0:18:05.299
they're gonna do "security"

0:18:05.299,0:18:07.333
for the RNC this year.

0:18:07.333,0:18:08.949
What happened in Sacramento

0:18:08.949,0:18:10.419
is going to set a precedent for

0:18:10.419,0:18:13.185
how those interactions are gonna

0:18:13.185,0:18:15.340
go down, but it really depends

0:18:15.340,0:18:16.961
on what the anti-fascist forces

0:18:16.961,0:18:18.506
- and anti-racist forces -

0:18:18.506,0:18:19.684
look like in Cleveland.

0:18:19.684,0:18:21.148
We already know what the Traditionalist

0:18:21.148,0:18:22.367
Workers Party and all these other

0:18:22.367,0:18:25.333
racist groups - what they're capable of,

0:18:25.333,0:18:27.314
and what they're gonna do based on

0:18:27.314,0:18:28.420
what happened in Sacramento.

0:18:28.420,0:18:29.885
The level of potential violence

0:18:29.885,0:18:31.269
is escalated.

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We're beginning to see, like,

0:18:32.607,0:18:35.533
outright confrontation with weapons

0:18:35.533,0:18:38.010
- with bladed weapons - the real sort of

0:18:38.010,0:18:40.528
disregard for people's safety.

0:18:40.528,0:18:42.970
That's really - it makes the spectrum

0:18:42.970,0:18:44.394
of what these demonstrations

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will look like even larger.

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I've even seen on some of their

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forums and websites, they're criticizing

0:18:50.007,0:18:51.348
themselves for just bringing

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bladed weapons.

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They're like, "if this confrontation had

0:18:54.064,0:18:56.301
happened and we had prepared properly,

0:18:56.301,0:18:57.654
we would have ended this confrontation

0:18:57.654,0:18:58.722
in a rain of blood."

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That's what they said.

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Anything else you wanna add?

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It's really really important that

0:19:02.488,0:19:03.950
when people go out and take this amount

0:19:03.950,0:19:05.940
of risk in the streets, that they feel

0:19:05.940,0:19:08.053
supported by the people around them

0:19:08.053,0:19:09.591
- the comrades and their loved ones.

0:19:09.591,0:19:11.307
Some ways that people can support

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is to donate to rally.org/june26th.

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The money will go to cover

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mostly medical costs and transportation.

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We had 9 people injured.... 7 of them

0:19:21.225,0:19:23.334
pretty badly - had to go to the hospital,

0:19:23.334,0:19:24.877
so the money that you guys donate

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will go to support them.

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Thanks Brazo, and that about does it

0:19:28.905,0:19:29.993
for this sedition of It's the End

0:19:29.993,0:19:31.020
of the World as We Know it

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and I Feel Fine.

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I wanna send a massive shout-out

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to the peeps who donated cash

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to help us get through the dog days

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of summer.

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So merci beaucoup to:

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Gavin, Jeremy, Benjamin, Reto,

0:19:40.966,0:19:43.249
Christopher, Renzo, Sebastian,

0:19:43.249,0:19:45.037
Mifan, Puget Sound Medic Collective,

0:19:45.037,0:19:48.036
Alexandre, Medicine Agency, Lars, Ricky

0:19:48.036,0:19:50.362
Andrew, Mason, Gregory, Nas, Margaret,

0:19:50.362,0:19:52.759
Megsha, Martin, Derek, Jonathan, Kyle,

0:19:52.759,0:19:54.549
Shannon, Steven, Dylan, Peter, Matthew,

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Francois, Jennifer, John, Benjamin,

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Nicodemis, Cecil, Janya, Danielle,

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Jacob, Ranko, Samuel, Matthew, Justin,

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Crystal, Anton, Guillome, Robin,

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Nathan, Massiage, Hansen and Max.

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Balchie!

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I also wanna give a warm welcome to

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to the newest members of the taconspiracy:

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Leo and Aradore.

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Corundas!

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That's all for now.

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If you're heading to the RNC

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or DNC, remember to go with comrades.

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Find out who the groups are who offer

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legal support, and don't do any

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gangsta shit with people you haven't

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known for years.

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Stay safe.... but above all

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give them fucking hell!

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See you in the street comrades!