Beltway Area Indymedia

Earlier this week, members of Resistance and Solidarity conducted a preliminary reconnaissance trip to the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Dulles Airport in preparation for the demonstrations against the American Renaissance Conference.

February 22-24, the American Renaissance Magazine will hold their biannual white supremacist conference in Herndon, VA.

The showdown between racist bigots and the immigrant community boiled over on Saturday, July 21 at 8 AM outside the day labor center near Gaithersburg.

The MinuteKlan and National Alliance(Nazis) only had maybe 15 people at their peak-and at one point only 10 while counterprotesters had over 25, outnumbering them 2 1/2 to one at one point.

Concerning the Racist-Anti-Immigrant Tide Sweeping the Empire
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We want to make this points first so we may finally be understood by white people and culture. This not intended for white people who are truly in solidarity with us, because there are many and we recognize and welcome that.

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On June 16th, the MinuteKlan's "flag day" national mobilization finally came to a disgraceful end. Instead of the 10,000 people they told the Washington Post they were expecting, they had maybe 75, and had to scrub their march from the Capitol after being run of by the Capitol Police.

Instead, they went to the Washington Monument(close to a South Asian event), and that's where Resistance and Solidarity caught up with them.

That racist anti-immigrant book signing at the Capitol Holiday Inn(550 C st SW) set for July 15th was CANCELLED in midst of incredible bickering about "nobody showing up!"
Members of Resistance and Solidarity who entered the hotel prior to our own planned counter-rally saw the damnedest thing: Almost no MinuteKlan and a hell of a lot of loud arguing by the few who were there at all.

On the heels of the recent May Day immigrants' rights march, and the arrest and detention of Herndon Minuteman Tyler Froatz (5320 8th St. NW, Apt. 107 Washington DC 20011) for assaulting and threatening to shoot immigrants, anti-immigrant racists are returning to Washington, DC. The Minutemen, Save our State, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and other anti-immigrant racist organizations from around the country will be coming to DC this Thursday to take part in Let Freedom Ring's (http://www.lframerica.com/march2.html) “March for America: Take America Back.” From June 14-16, hundreds of xenophobes are expected to descend on DC to lobby congress, demand massive deportations of immigrants and the construction of a “wall” along the U.S.-Mexican border.

On May 17th, Mr Tyler Froatz had his status hearing on charges stemming from his armed confrontation at the May 1st immigrant rights rally. A judge ordered him held-and set a next hearing date for June 20.

AUDIO:2 min 27 seconds

Froatz' lawyer did a reasonable job of arguing that the weapons cache recovered from his home in the May 2 police raid were "anitques" and part of a collection, but the judge was not fooled.

(AUDIO:2 min 42 seconds)

On April 22 in Lafayette Park, members of Resistance and Solidarity, SDS, and the ISO answered the call to shout down the MinuteKlan and other anti-immigrant racist rally. With air horns, whistles, and loud chants, the racist message was stepped all over, just like a radio station getting heavy interference!

If you can imagine Don Imus trying to broadcast through a 50,000 watt jammer, that's what the MinuteKlan's racist speeches got.