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DESCRIPTION:ALERT!!! ALERT!!! CALLING ALL ANTIFASCISTS!!!\n\nOn June 26th 2016, the 
 Traditionalist Workers Party is planning a rally in Sacramento but have yet 
 to announce a location. The founder of TWP is Mathew Heimbach who is 
 closely affiliated with several white power and neo nazi gangs throughout 
 the United States including The Sacto Skins, Golden State Skinheads, 
 National Socialist Movement, California Skinheads (CAS), Blood & Honor and 
 the Ku Klux Klan. Heimbach had also assaulted a black female protester at a 
 Donald Trump rally in Louisville , Kentucky earlier this year. 
 \n\nAnti-Fascist Action Sacramento does not believe in allowing hate to 
 have a platform and we are calling upon the community to shut down their 
 rally. Fighting fascism is a moral duty, not a political one. We believe 
 most people are good and are willing to stand up against racial hatred. Our 
 objective is to force the nazis off our streets and to send a strong 
 message that they are not welcome in society and especially 
 Sacramento.\n\nAntifa Sacramento believes in non-sectarian defense of other 
 anti-fascists and a multi-faceted approach to fighting racism. This means 
 that individual people have their own methods of combating hate and we do 
 not criticize others tactics. Our objective is never violence. We believe 
 that hate should not have a platform in our community and we are determined 
 to shut them down. Ignoring them DOES NOT make them go away and will only 
 perpetuate the problem we already have.\n\nWe will be following these hate 
 groups activities and their members very closely.\n\nNote: The above hate 
 groups that call themselves "skinheads" are not real skinheads. They are 
 nazi boneheads. Real skinheads are not racist and oppose the scum who 
 smeared their name. \n\nAbout Matthew Heimbach from the Southern Poverty 
 Law Center:\n\nConsidered by many to be the face of a new generation of 
 white nationalists, Matthew Heimbach founded a campus chapter of Youth for 
 Western Civilization at Towson University in Maryland and later started the 
 White Student Union (WSU) there. Following his graduation in the spring of 
 2013, Towson’s WSU was folded into the Traditionalist Youth Network, a 
 new white nationalist organization cloaking itself in “traditionalism” 
 that was founded by Heimbach and his father-in-law, Matthew Parrott. In 
 late 2014, Heimbach also assumed a leadership role in the neo-Confederate 
 League of the South as the hate group’s training director.\n\nIn His Own 
 Words:\n“No longer will the homosexual, Muslim, and black supremacist 
 groups be allowed to hijack our campus. … Youth for Western Civilization 
 is preparing to take our campus back, all we need is the help of people 
 like you to make it happen.” – Youth for Western Civilization blog, 
 January 2012\n\n“To be able to get everyone behind the idea [that] the 
 purpose of our movement shouldn’t be about reforming America, shouldn’t 
 be about trying to make the system better and less unfair towards us, 
 it’s about flipping the table over. It’s about going to temple and 
 saying that this is a violation of God’s law and creating a new homeland 
 for whites around the entire world.”\n– Traditionalist Youth Hour with 
 Matthew Parrott, July 10, 2013\n\n“[W]e shouldn’t give up California 
 just yet. Because it truly is beautiful in terms of weather, but it’s 
 full of Mexicans and that’s sort of a problem.”\n– Traditionalist 
 Youth Hour with Matthew Parrott, July 10, 2013\n\n“This is our home and 
 our kith and kin. Borders matter, identity matters, blood matters, 
 libertarians and their capitalism can move to Somalia if they want to live 
 without rules, in the West we must have standards and enforce them. The 
 ‘freedom’ for other races to move freely into white nations is 
 nonexistent. Stay in your own nations, we don’t want you here.”\n– 
 “I Hate Freedom,” Traditionalist Youth Network, July 7, 
 2013\n\n“Those who promote miscegenation, usury, or any other forms of 
 racial suicide should be sent to re-education centers, not 
 tolerated.”\n– “I Hate Freedom,” Traditionalist Youth Network, July 
 7, 2013\n\n“I do not care if you are a man who ‘loves’ another man, 
 you do not have the right, privilege, or ability to marry him and carry on 
 in a degenerate relationship. In any healthy society you would be dragged 
 off to therapy to help you cope with\nyour mental illness, not given 
 glitter and assless chaps to parade down the street. A society helps the 
 mentally ill; it doesn’t parade them around as normal."\n– “I Hate 
 Freedom,” Traditionalist Youth Network, July 7, 2013\n\n“We are not 
 separate peoples fighting alone. We are all comrades in the struggle 
 against International Jewry and the Zionist State.”\n\n—“Same Enemy, 
 Same Barricades: The Church Against Zionism,” Traditionalist Youth 
 Network, Aug. 11, 2014\n\n“When the Jews are strong, the Jewish people 
 engage their supposed foes with cold-blooded cruelty. This is why we must 
 understand a unity between those who struggle against the Zionist State and 
 International Jewry here in the West and those on the streets of Gaza, 
 Syria, and Lebanon. We face the exact same enemy, one who doesn’t care if 
 they kill our women, children, and elderly. We are facing a truly Satanic 
 enemy, one that cannot be understood except through the lens of 
 Christianity and Christian prophecy.”\n\n— “Same Enemy, Same 
 Barricades: The Church Against Zionism,” Traditionalist Youth Network, 
 Aug. 11, 2014\n\nBackground:\n\nMatthew Heimbach is a 2013 graduate of 
 Towson University in Maryland, where he received a degree in history. As a 
 student, he founded and served as president of a chapter of the white 
 nationalist Youth for Western Civilization (YWC). Following the dissolution 
 of the YWC chapter in the spring of 2012, Heimbach began a new campus 
 organization known as the White Student Union (WSU). After his graduation, 
 he became increasingly outspoken and transparent with his white nationalist 
 beliefs. He has connections to several national organizations espousing 
 similar ideologies — most notably the Council of Conservative Citizens 
 (CCC), the League of the South (LOS), the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and 
 the American Freedom Party (AFP). \n\nHeimbach stated in a fundraising 
 letter in the fall of 2011 that the YWC stood for “stopping rampant 
 multiculturalism” and “against illegal immigration.” In early 2012, 
 he issued a report on behalf of his YWC chapter that referred to the death 
 of apartheid in South Africa as “orchestrat[ing] the systematic slaughter 
 of the white community.” Continuing, he wrote, “The worst fears of the 
 so called ‘radicals’ of the white minority that were discounted in the 
 early 1990s now have come true.”\n\nHeimbach planned and executed a 
 series of inflammatory events at Towson University while president of the 
 YWC chapter there. Foremost among these was the chalking, on campus 
 sidewalks, of messages like “white pride” and “white guilt is over” 
 in March 2012 – an event that led to the resignation of the group’s 
 faculty sponsor, Richard Vatz, and the ultimate loss of the group’s 
 official status on campus. Said Vatz: “They were using rhetoric in their 
 arguments that I found were not appropriate.” Vatz went on to call the 
 language frightening, particularly in its descriptions of political 
 opponents as “cancer” and “disgusting degenerates.” In an interview 
 with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Vatz said, “This is not how 
 conservatives comport themselves.” In Heimbach’s mind, the chalking 
 event was a simple expression of “traditional conservative values and not 
 racist.”\n\nAfter his chapter of the YWC was disbanded, Heimbach formed 
 another campus group, the White Student Union. According to Heimbach during 
 an online segment filmed by VICE News: “We [Towson students] have black 
 student development, Latino student development, gay student development, 
 student success programs for those who can’t make it, and things for 
 women. So one day white people will be on there. We’ll be treated equally 
 with every other single group, hopefully. But demanding equality for white 
 people on campus apparently isn’t very popular.”\n\nOn Oct. 2, 2012, 
 “race realist” Jared Taylor spoke to the White Student Union at 
 Heimbach’s invitation. Taylor is the founder of the white nationalist New 
 Century Foundation and editor of its American Renaissance journal, a 
 pseudo-academic journal that regularly publishes articles by proponents of 
 eugenics and blatant anti-black and anti-Latino racists.\n\nThe WSU’s 
 recommended readings include Francis Parker Yockey’s neo-Nazi classic 
 Imperium, as well works by three leading white nationalists — Sam 
 Francis’s Essential Writings on Race, Pat Buchanan’s Suicide of a 
 Superpower: Will America Survive Until 2025?, and Jared Taylor’s White 
 Identity.\n\nIn the spring of 2013, during his last semester at Towson, 
 Heimbach organized a student night patrol to combat what he called a 
 “black crime wave.” Along with three other students, he patrolled the 
 campus with police flashlights and pepper spray. Wrote Heimbach, the 
 “commander” of the WSU, on the group’s blog, “every single day 
 black predators prey upon the majority white Towson University student 
 body.” In a later interview with the Baltimore Sun, he claimed that 
 “every time the offender is a black male, usually between 18 and 
 25.”\n\nIn the documentary segment on VICE that focused on the WSU’s 
 campus patrols, Heimbach, in no uncertain terms, endorsed the creation of a 
 white ethno-state: “I think that especially the black community will find 
 areas in the South, areas like Detroit, where they can have their own 
 homelands, we don’t have to be antagonistic towards them. And if you want 
 to sell yourself and your children down the river of multiculturalism, you 
 can do that. But we deserve the right to exist, deserve the right to defend 
 our culture, and deserve the right to have a future for our 
 culture.”\n\nWhile a student at Towson, Heimbach spoke at the Harford 
 County Sheriff’s Office for the Route 40 Republican Party Club in 
 Edgewood, Md. The vice president of the group at the time was John 
 Stortstrom. In July 2013, Stortstrom was suspended from his job as a 
 mechanical engineer at the U.S. Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological 
 Center in Maryland after his ties to Youth for Western Civilization and 
 American Renaissance were exposed. \n\nOn May 22, 2013, at a WSU dinner, 
 Heimbach proposed that the group merge with Matthew Parrott’s 
 Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), “an organization that will take the 
 message of the WSU [White Student Union] far beyond the confines of 
 Towson.” Heimbach, following graduation, assumed the role of national 
 director for the group.\n\nOn June 8, 2013, Heimbach spoke at the racist 
 CCC’s annual conference in Winston-Salem, N.C., while wearing a pistol on 
 his hip. Claiming that “[o]ur people haven’t had a voice since 1860,” 
 Heimbach called for secession. “The system can’t be reformed, nor 
 should we try to do so,” he said. “We’ve tried every avenue to try to 
 resolve the [race] issue.” Quoting Theodore Bilbo, a Klan member who was 
 governor of Mississippi in the early 1900s, Heimbach stated, “It’s 
 separation or mongrelization.” He closed with the “14 words,” a white 
 nationalist motto coined by the late David Lane, a convicted terrorist who 
 helped assassinate a Jewish talk show host in Denver in 1984: “We must 
 secure the existence of our people and a future for white 
 children.”\n\nHeimbach has attended several of the LOS’s annual 
 gatherings – in Abbeville, S.C. (2011); Wallsboro, Ala. (2012); and 
 Wetumpka, Ala. (2013). The neo-Confederate group advocates a second 
 Southern secession, a society dominated by “European Americans,” and a 
 leadership composed of “Anglo-Celtic” elites. In Heimbach’s visits to 
 the LOS’ conference in 2012 and 2013, he and other attendees traveled to 
 downtown Montgomery to pose with a Confederate flag at the Civil Rights 
 Memorial (located at the offices of the Southern Poverty Law Center) and 
 the nearby Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin 
 Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery bus boycott in the 1950s. \n\nAt the 
 2013 AFP conference, Heimbach spoke alongside Tomislav Sunic, an AFP 
 director; Bill Johnson, the AFP chairman; Mark Weber, director of the 
 Holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review; Kevin McDonald, an AFP 
 director and an anti-Semitic professor at the California State University, 
 Long Beach; and Michael Meyers of the Golden State Solidarity movement. 
 \n\nIn the summer of 2013, it became evident that Heimbach was wading into 
 neo-Nazi territory. He spoke at the annual Stormfront gathering in 
 Tennessee, where he sang the praises of neo-Nazi David Duke. This followed 
 a late August interview on Duke’s radio show. Heimbach took an even more 
 extreme turn the next month when he participated in a gathering hosted by 
 the violent skinhead group Aryan Terror Brigade and co-hosted by the 
 Imperial Klans of America and the National Socialist Movement. The event 
 included a cross and swastika lighting. A photograph surfaced showing 
 Heimbach standing under a large swastika performing the TYN favorite 
 Avalonian salute, nearly indistinguishable from a sieg-heil, with a group 
 of Klansmen and neo-Nazis. \n\nAs a result of Heimbach’s appearance at 
 that gathering, Michael Hill, LOS president, barred him from attending an 
 LOS rally in October and booted him out of the group. However, the ban only 
 lasted a few short months before Heimbach was reinstated and placed into a 
 leadership role as the LOS’ training director.\n\nIn 2014, Heimbach’s 
 steady activism continued and was highlighted by a presentation at the 
 annual Stormfront Smoky Mountain Summit entitled “Death to America.” 
 Although it contained many familiar white nationalist talking points, such 
 as claims about the purportedly Jewish-controlled U.S. federal government 
 and scathing indictments of affirmative action, it also veered into more 
 outlandish — such as the assertion that America was born of a secret 
 partnership between Freemasons and the Jews.\n\n“You are the wrong color, 
 ladies and gentlemen. You are the wrong color to be an American and enjoy 
 the American Dream. I’m sorry,” Heimbach told the crowd. “The 
 meritocracy of America is skin color.”\n\nHowever, Heimbach’s 
 presentation stirred up controversy among some attendees, particularly the 
 Knights of the Ku Klux Klan leader and well-known Christian Identity 
 pastor, Thom Robb, who said of Heimbach: “Speakers should be experienced, 
 grounded, mature and employ wisdom, otherwise they will never inspire 
 others or be able to give a vision for others to grasp. … Perhaps Matt 
 will someday, becomes [sic] those things, but until then he needs to humble 
 himself and seek wisdom both of which he, at this time, lacks.”\n\nThe 
 following September, Heimbach married his girlfriend, the daughter of Matt 
 Parrott, co-founder of TYN. The two honeymooned across Eastern Europe, 
 where they met with leaders of several far-right political parties 
 including Greece’s criminally inclined Golden Dawn neo-Nazi group and the 
 Czech Workers Party – even speaking at a political rally for the 
 latter.\n\nThe year 2015 saw an increase in TYN activities including 
 several protests against speaking engagements by Tim Wise, a well-known 
 anti-racism activist, and a demonstration with members of the LOS at a 
 panel centered on Russia at the annual Conservative Political Action 
 Conference. That increased activism has been accompanied by a shift in 
 TYN’s focus towards making their white nationalist politics into a 
 lifestyle, rather than just a political movement, that mirrors the Orthodox 
 faith of key members of the group. In a series of articles titled 
 “Becoming a Legionnaire,” Heimbach and Parrott make suggestions on how 
 to live a life grounded in the principles of Traditionalism.\n\n--\n\nMore 
 Information:\n\nBig Nazi on Campus: How Racists Rallied at UC Berkeley with 
 Police 
 Protection\nhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/05/15/18786407.php\n\nFacebook 
 event:\nShut Down Nazi Rally in Sacramento 
 6/26/16\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1727446437527487/\n\nAntifa 
 Sacramento\nhttps://www.facebook.com/antifasacramento/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/05/15/18786453.php
SUMMARY:Shut Down Nazi Rally in Sacramento
LOCATION:California State Capitol-West Steps\n1315 10th St, Sacramento, California 
 95814
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