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SUMMARY:James Tracy\, Hilary Moore\, and Friends
DESCRIPTION:with  James Tracy\, Hilary Moore\, Bill Crossman\, and Nancy Kurshan \ncelebrating the release of \nNo Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements \npublished by City Lights Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on a platform to be announced. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. Instructions for access coming soon\, \n———- \n(Click Here) in the near future for ticket information \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \nBooks for this event may be purchased on : \nBOOKSHOP.ORG \n———— \nThe story of how a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years\, laying the groundwork for today’s anti-fascist/anti-racist movements. \n“Smash fascism! Read this book!”––Tom Morello\, songwriter and guitarist with Rage Against the Machine \n“Studying the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee will give readers an understanding of the complexity of deconstructing the weapon of white supremacy from the inside out. Thank you Hilary and James for the precision of this analysis\, and the true north of this star.”––adrienne maree brown\, author of Pleasure Activism and Emergent Strategy \nIn June 1977\, a group of white anti-racist activists received an alarming letter from an inmate at a New York state prison calling for help to fight the Ku Klux Klan’s efforts to recruit prison staff and influence the people incarcerated. Their response was to form the first chapter of what would eventually become a powerful\, nationwide grassroots network\, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee\, dedicated to countering the rise of the KKK and other far-right white nationalist groups. \nNo Fascist USA! tells the story of that network\, whose efforts throughout the 1980s––which included exposing white supremacists in public office\, confronting neo-Nazis in street protests\, supporting movements for self-determination\, and engagement with the underground punk scene––laid the groundwork for many anti-racist efforts to emerge since. Featuring original research\, interviews with former members\, and a trove of graphic materials\, their story offers battle-tested lessons for those on the frontlines of social justice work today. \nPraise for No Fascist USA!: \n“Hilary Moore and James Tracy have written a magnificent book that not only corrects the record but helps explain the mercurial rise of white supremacist organizations in the 1970s\, how the Klan was (temporarily) defeated\, and why this period has been largely ignored. No Fascist USA! radically shifts our perspective\, challenging the prevailing wisdom that racist terrorism rises in response to economic downturns\, white downward mobility\, or in a vacuum created by progressive alternatives. I love this book.”––Robin D.G. Kelley\, from the foreword \n“No Fascist USA! is not only timely\, but also essential in the present period of accelerated white supremacist activity and anti-racist organizing to combat it. In telling the story of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee\, the authors\, without romanticizing or condemning\, draw important lessons from the fifteen-year history of the group.”––Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment \n“With its savvy blend of youth culture and street confrontation\, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee tried to stop Trumpism before Trump. They confronted the rise of white nationalism in prisons\, workplaces\, and music scenes when precious few paid attention to it . . . Hilary Moore and James Tracy have gifted us with an urgent read.”—Dan Berger\, author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era \n“James Tracy and Hilary Moore deliver a searing\, bold new work that examines another painful and complicated chapter in American race relations. In an eye-opening account\, They are able to connect the dots of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee\, a band of contemporary predominantly white activists\, and its efforts to expose white supremacist organizations. With a fresh eye and new research\, their book uncovers with stunning precision how these groups remain active and exposes some of their unlikely alliances.”—Laurens Grant\, filmmaker\, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution and Freedom Riders \n“We learned from history. You can too!”–Terry Bisson\, author of Fire on the Mountain and former member of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee \n“No Fascist USA! brings us the unromanticized\, and largely untold story of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. . . . we learn how their work exposed the complicity of the state—all the way to its highest levels—as well as the media’s role in the spread of white nationalist ideology. This book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the roots of what happened in Charlottesville\, and the burgeoning white nationalist membership lists in the U.S. today. We cannot possibly take on the challenges we face without learning from the past. This book is a necessary and long overdue contribution to inform the way forward.”––Carla F. Wallace\, co-founder\, Showing Up for Racial Justice \n“Yes! This book is right on time! As a Black woman supporting Black liberation struggles\, it has been terrifying to grasp the resilience and reach of fascism in the U.S. and around the globe\, and disheartening to see how many White people want to sign petitions and express discontent with current political conditions\, but won’t acknowledge that there is a ongoing race war that they’re benefiting from\, and who won’t put their actions behind their beliefs. This book is about an imperfect effort to be brave\, to be committed\, and to risk the privileges of Whiteness in order to relinquish the entire construct of white supremacy. And from where organized people of color are sitting\, this kind of work is absolutely necessary. Studying the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee will give readers an understanding of the complexity of deconstructing the weapon of white supremacy from the inside out. Thank you Hilary and James for the precision of this analysis\, and the true north of this star.”––adrienne maree brown\, author of Emergent Strategy\, Pleasure Activism\, and facilitator of Black liberation movements \n“I’ve waited thirty years for this book! Our emergency hearts have always driven uprisings to stop white terrorism\, but it always takes more than black-bloc tactics in the streets to stop fascists. No Fascist USA! firmly connects today’s militant anti-fascist street-fighting movements with important living radical histories to disrupt the cycles that keep the spectre of fascism alive in the modern era. The struggles faced by the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee continue today in our difficult arc towards collective liberation.”––scott crow\, author of Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Commu
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