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White supremacists welcome their friends to Champaign |
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by Aaron Love
Email: amlove (nospam) uiuc.edu (unverified!) |
28 Aug 2001
Modified: 29 Aug 2001 |
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Matt Hale and the World Church of the Creator come to town, this Saturday at 2pm, Champaign Public Library. For sure, Matt Hale looks like Regis but the World Church means business. |
This is posted regarding the impending visit of Matt Hale, leader of the white supremacist organization World Church of the Creator, Saturday, September 1, at the Champaign Public Library. He will be speaking at 2pm. As you know, the organization is based in central Illinois but has active branches in Connecticut, Florida, Utah, among other many other states.
The World Church of the Creator is somewhat unique among white supremacist organizations. Unlike other groups, Matt Hale has insisted on trying to portray a responsible, civic like public presentation, in an effort to make his ideas appear reasonable, well thought through, and readily applicable to the contemporary world. Publicly he eschews conspiratorial and underground ethos of most white supremacist organizations.
This is the reason he has been conducting his recent campaign of speaking in city halls and public libraries. He wants white supremacists, people sympathetic to white supremacy and the broader community to feel comfortable in meeting, organizing and influencing public debate, both within neighborhoods and the offices of government.
The World Church of the Creator is not one of the major crisis points in the United States at this time, possibly ever, and the group is not a high priority for a group like Urbana-Champaign Unity and Struggle. However, Matt Hale's quiet, liberal like approach to white supremacist and fascist organizing has made in-roads in central Illinois neighborhoods, and that in a true crisis situation, the World Church of the Creator's politics, including its style, leave them strategically poised to be influential in the grass roots Right position in the event of such a crisis.
In a time of some growing unrest concerning liberal representative democracy and capitalism in the U.S. and Europe, it is not just Left oriented and Left groups who are revamping their organizations and sharpening their analysis. The Right is mobilizing too, whatever stripe they may be. Fascist groups like the World Church feed off of and are poised to take advantage of the latent white supremacist discourses that are intricately bound to the ongoing history of the United States. On the other side of Matt Hale's "dialogue" are his White Berets and White Rangers, who enforce white racial law through attacks and intimidation in neighborhoods in various states across America. Words don't exist in a vacuum and no one knows this more than the World Church of the Creator.
Urbana-Champaign Unity and Struggle will be organized in coalition with Anti-Racist Action of Chicago to bring a direct democratic, anti-racist analysis and presence to the Champaign Public Library this Saturday. We will operate and continue to operate in civic defense against any growing encroachment of fascist and racist organizing in the Urbana-Champaign community. We hope that others will come to the public library and organize themselves along their own lines of analysis in support of their vision of a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, democratic community. Hope to see you there!
Urbana-Champaign Unity and Struggle |
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NEWS! |
by DrDa
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
29 Aug 2001
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I hope that the CU-IMC will be there to report on this event. I know this violates the IMC do-it-yourself ethic, but alas, I'll be out of town. |
