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DESCRIPTION:Racists attack protesters at anti-Minutemen demonstration in Fremont\nby 
 Alessandro Tinonga\nMonday Jul 17th, 2006 5:10 PM\n\nAs anti-racists stand 
 up against xenophobic vigilantes, these right-wing fanatics use violence to 
 spread fear. We need to stand up to their racist hate. All out for July 
 28th!\n\nLast Friday, July 14, 25 protesters with the East Bay Coalition 
 for Border Security, a racist, anti-immigrant group in Fremont that is 
 seeking affiliation with the Minutemen, were met by twice as many 
 counter-protesters. This was the third time the two sides had faced off 
 this summer – the racists' message of hate and xenophobia being 
 challenged by the counter-protesters' determination not to let them grow or 
 intimidate immigrants and people of color in their own community.\n\nFor 
 the first time, the counter-protesters were violently assaulted by the 
 Minutemen wannabes and repressed by the Fremont police.\n\nAs can be seen 
 in a video taken at the event ( 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-07FCgHmZHo), a member of the EBCBS, wearing 
 a blue t-shirt with the name of the group on it and an Iron Cross on his 
 baseball cap, shoved and punched two of the anti-racist counter-protesters. 
 This came after another violent altercation with a young Latino man. All of 
 these incidents were unprovoked and came after another of the racist 
 anti-immigrant protesters had accused a young woman of 'stealing' his air 
 horn, which he had been blowing in the faces of the counter-protesters all 
 afternoon long.\n\nPredictably, the Fremont police did nothing to the man 
 seen in the video assaulting counter-protesters, instead letting him drive 
 off in his truck. They did see fit, however, to arrest the young woman for 
 theft (on nothing more than the word of the EBCBS member), take her to jail 
 for five hours and book her on misdemeanor theft charges.\n\nWhat these 
 incidents clearly show is that the EBCBS members' claims to be a peaceful, 
 patriotic group that has nothing to do with racism or violence is a lie, 
 pure and simple. They confirm counter-protesters' assertions that groups 
 like the EBCBS and the Minutemen are in fact front groups for the growth of 
 the white supremacist extreme right wing, and that if they are allowed to 
 grow and gain confidence they will only turn more violent and 
 confrontational, both against immigrants and the anti-racist left in 
 general.\n\nThe link between these right-wing groups and the police, 
 moreover, cannot be made more clear. The perpetrators of violence are let 
 off the hook while a young woman is carted off to jail for supposedly 
 taking a $5 air horn.\n\nThe EBCBS will hold its next rally on July 28 in 
 Fremont and once again we will be out there to protest them. Gather at 4:30 
 p.m. at the corner of Mowry Ave. and Fremont Blvd. We want everyone to know 
 that these racists do not reflect the views of most people in Fremont or 
 the Bay Area and that we will not tolerate this kind of hate and violence 
 in our own backyard. We will not be intimidated by racist thugs. We demand 
 that all charges against our sister Stephanie be dropped immediately. 
 Immigrants are welcome in Fremont; racist bigots and their allies in the 
 police department are not!\n\nInitiated by the International Socialist 
 Organization. For more information or to get involved in organizing the 
 July 28th counter-protest, please call Michael at 415.272.5049.\n\nFor 
 those of you who are in Santa Cruz and want to drive up to Fremont, please 
 call Owen at 831.345.7203.\n\nFor background on the protests in Fremont and 
 the EBCBS, see this article from the Oakland Tribune: 
 http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/ci_4050178\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/18/18289071.php
SUMMARY:Carpool to an anti-Minutemen demo in Fremont
LOCATION:For those of you who are in Santa Cruz and want to drive up to Fremont, 
 please call Owen at 831.345.7203.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/18/18289071.php
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