Anti-Racist Action
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Anti-Racist Action Network (ARA) is a decentralized network of anti-fascist and anti-racist activists. ARA activists organize actions to disrupt neo-nazi and white supremacist groups and help to organize resistance mainly to fascist and racist ideologies. ARA groups also oppose sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, anti-Semitism, and anti-abortion activists. They are sometimes seen to be "Red" or Communist, particularly by detractors, however, the network includes a number of anarchists.
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History
ARA started in Minneapolis, MN in 1987. Since then it has expanded to different communities, countries and continents.
Members of Love and Rage, a revolutionary anarchist organization played a major role in building ARA groups and the ARA Network in the 1990s. They are sometimes associated with the Skinhead subculture and work with organizations such as Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP).
In Canada, they were involved in a number of violent incidents in the 1990s which included a 1993 brawl on Parliament Hill in Ottawa with members of the neo-nazi Heritage Front in which several Heritage Front members, including RaHoWa lead singer George Burdi, were arrested.
The ARA staged a subsequent protest in Toronto outside the rented house of Heritage Front spokesman Gary Schipper. During the protest, several individuals allegedly entered Schipper's house and proceeded to vandalise the home, allegedly causing approximately $20,000 in property damage. Following this event members of the Heritage Front, including its leader, Wolfgang Droege, attacked members of ARA outside of a Toronto pub resulting in the arrest and conviction of Droege and several of his associates for aggravated assault.
On July 4, 1998, two Las Vegas ARA members - Daniel Shersty and Lin Newborn were murdered by neo-nazis in the desert outside Las Vegas. Shot at close range with a shotgun, they were found murdered in an area of the desert know to be used by white supremacists for target practice.
On September 12 2004, ARA members in Toronto followed supporters of Ernst Zundel to Jack Astor's restaurant at 1900 The Queensway from a "Free Zundel" rally that took place at the Metro West Detention Centre in Etobicoke where Zundel was being held on a security certificate. Four anti-racists and five Zundelites were arrested that day. Most of the cases are still in the courts.
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See also
- Lin Newborn and Daniel Shersty, murdered Las Vegas ARA members.
- Antifa
- Anarcho-Skinheads
External links
- ARA Official Website (http://www.antiracistaction.us/)
- Anti-Racist Action Canada (http://www.antiracistaction.ca)
- Anti-Racist Action Toronto (http://www.aratoronto.org)et:Anarho-skinheadid