IT'S ON!!! STAND UP AGAINST FASCIST INTIMIDATION IN DC!
SHUT DOWN THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE'S "ROCK AGAINST ISRAEL"!

On August 24th, the National Alliance is planning "Rock Against Israel": a demonstration of white supremacist Hitler-fetishists protesting against the white supremacist U.S. government's support of white supremacist religious
nuts in Israel. (Confused yet?) They plan to rally at the Capitol building from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, and then meet for dinner and a white power concert in the evening.

The National Alliance, probably the most organized and sophisticated white-power group in North America today, is calling for what they claim will be 'the largest gathering of white nationalists at the U.S. Capitol in history'. Obviously that's not true. Congress has a few more people than the National Alliance can pull out and they've been meeting there for a hundred years or more. But this probably will be the largest gathering of neo-nazis there ever.

While any time recently the nazis have tried to organize publically in angry working-class towns, they have been shut down and chased out, they've been given a free pass in DC so far. Over the past year they've held three rallies at the Israeli embassy and two at the German embassy. Their last rally had over 200 people with no organized opposition.

This has to stop.

August 24th will be a turning point.

We, as anti-fascists, are committed to planning a strong, militant, and well-coordinated response to the fools this time around. We're tired of seeing fascists keep growing because some of our comrades refuse to see them as the real enemy. Sure they're a long way from taking over the country, but 300 boneheads dreaming about gas chambers and ethnic cleansing is 300 too many. We're sick of the neo-nazis taking over the issues we've been struggling around for years (fighting corporations, globalization, supporting the intifada and anti-colonialism), and we're really bothered that they can get some credibility doing that because many of the people involved in those issues won't take a stand and shut them up.

We will be organizing in several different contingents with various risk levels and levels of political and tactical unity. But the unifying thread is that we all recognize the need for a physical resistance to fascism. It
should be clear to people that we're not going down there because we support Bush's government or the Israeli government or any government for that matter. We're organizing with one purpose: to drive the nazis off the
streets and make them look like the idiots they are.

We call on all who agree with this purpose to endorse this call and begin planning in their affinity groups for August 24th.

(signed)

East Coast Anti-Fascist Network antifa-AT-secret.org
Claustrophobia Collective (Baltimore)
Roundhouse Collective (Baltimore)
D.C. Anti-Fascist Network
Baltimore Anti-Racist Action [ARA]
Anarchist Black Cross Federation - Lancaster
Claustrophobia Collective - Baltimore
Roundhouse Collective (NEFAC) - Baltimore
ARA Philly Firm!
Baltimore Anti-Fascist Action
Femme Fatale Collective - Boston / Baltimore
Open City Collective (NEFAC) - NYC
New Jersey ARA
Toronto ARA
Columbus ARA
Aurora ARA
Sofia Perovskaya Collective (NEFAC) - Boston
Cleveland ARA
Bay Area ARA
Aron Kay (Global Pastry Uprising)
Barricada Collective (NEFAC) - Boston
Anti-Capitalist Convergence - D.C.