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with us fault lines is next. u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new charis on imports of steel and alum in your brand by jeanne will mean the data transfer time starts in fourteen we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. we gained access to a group of militant anti fascists known as anti for a feeling now they don't usually like cameras around some cover their faces and others want their voices disguised in the function just stick their head out of the ground unstable to be sure on this day to march in support of the white greatness droughts cliffs and that's when people you know been are stuck together and think
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about it. or thrice to the adam's apple tree area really and dozens of interviews faultlines caught a glimpse behind the mask of anti for questioning activists about the controversial tactics they've used to counter a crossing of the white supremacists have found a platform with the election of donald trump but so have their adversaries you know it's still empty for as a fringe movie but the finest found center stage in the polarized climate of trim summer if anything comes up for you are triggered in this environment we care about your inner safety as well as your difficulty not how we roll of the people we love people this is the collective of researchers waging information warfare to expose bigotry if your neighbor is a neo nazi believes the race war is eminent and wants to bring it about we think you have a right to know that this is the street medic tuning to the words of violent protests of the anti for action to talk about stabbings and we're talking about one force trauma to do to hurt your tree legs those calls for the police and by
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function since this is eighty five from the view of a truck supporter who can't seem to shake them there's a bunch of kids who call them anti-fascist and they're acting like fascist themselves is kind of sad empty for is a loose collection of organizations and ideas with no party line and no formal leadership in the last year that the defined more by their street tactics than anything else they show up in their helmets of the black masks they've got to love so they've got everything and the fun. or presidency have been tried to shout over strawman bullshit or boot camp or the drug abuse stirred the poor little lot the first year of chop saw an increase in hate crimes or racist violence in eighty five has all the responded to that threat with violence of their own. this is the street fighter training for battle. with one punch to the face of america's most infamous white supremacist it to fellow of our audience sat down at
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a swift and beautiful plants the things i must proceed up but has this use of force translate into political power. they watch that you know kind of st paul it plays completely into their hands it's a very stupid tactic. nonviolence does attempt to appeal to the moral conscience of the nation now the jury's still out. if the nation has won this to say this is for us no play time so yeah bunch nazis kill them children. it was a year ago and josh jukes first saw this video richard spencer getting punched on inauguration day it's the thirty five year old hacker who goes by hex was across the country watching from a seattle hospital but. that's not probably going to change somebodies mind i think
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that like it would have been better if it was an egg. earlier that day he joined a large group of anti-fascist to protest a speech by truck supporter provocateur or my lawyer novelist i don't think i did anything differently thinking. about it. being i am now. inside to have different opinions with violent intolerance and we now know everybody now knows where the violence is coming from outside and to for trying to block people from attending the talk i wanted to be part of the leak in the group of people who was there opposing that and opposing him and what i ended up doing was so i jumping in and deescalating in a few places a black clad protester attacked this young trump supporter and belted him with pain . thirty year old mark a foreigner was not able to get into the talk so he spent the evening scuffling with anti-fascist protesters. would have one scene here the yellow had allegedly
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began pepper spraying the crowd next stepped in to confront the last thing i remember i think i was like holding with both hands guys jacket yelling in his face like give me the pepper spray don't let you go i'm going to stop you but like i'm not going to hurt you i'm just not going to let you hurt anybody else. and then i remember being shot. you know. the corners wife elizabeth allegedly emerged from behind her husband to come from a holster and fired one shot. this footage was edited by investigators to identify a hex in the corner just now evidence in a criminal trial against the couple. took on his attorney said that elizabeth acted in self-defense. where the bullet on oh so when entering over here basically. it's still we're.
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still. nice. for members of anti from texas shooting underscore to believe they had all along in the trump era the threat of violence against them is increasingly real. life threatening stuff make sure you have enough space to spread your arms in every direction i am joe tonight texas friend joe is leading a martial arts training in the seattle parkside a swing your arms this way the first technique is going to be based in when john kung fu does these activists are preparing to defend themselves with violence if necessary and so let's say you're going to get punched by somebody here i am proud boy drinking or traditionalist workers' party person trying to call you comrade while being a klan member here i go and i'm going to talk to because you see that all right there you go good part of the campus republicans i want to build a build
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a wall to keep out the immigrants because that is funny to my rich crack and i'm going to change your mind god there we go yeah thank you hax is still recovering from the gunshot wound that almost took his life but year later he's taking a break from the street protests first to join his crew went to the women's march where thousands of seattle residents have gathered to oppose to trumpet instruction . there was no no ok no. no no no. no no what if the first adversary is this also want to see. trump supporter charlie gibson has just arrived so for me you mustn't put things freedom that's all simple it is for me you know presents like fascist populism like the idea of like hiding behind traditional american values. gibson's group is called patriot prayer he's made a point of marching in liberal towns true in mind when the truck was president it
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was one of the best nights of my life i was so happy and so excited and at that point you know i thought that like i was the mill sit back and just relax but things got even crazier after he was elected organizers of the rally are trying to say the spores are fascists so we're going to get some people trying to you're up there in the kind of going in the crowding talk to people in kind of help them understand that you know sports i think interior you know they're not nazis and how not looking out for us. yeah but the scene i'm here now with them out although not here in their black ah ha ha ha you're. here inside and managed to get pepper sprayed if you have lasted three hours like that when we go in there oh yeah and it's. caught me. being white supremacy right there why supremacy queer phobia transphobia massage unique massage and war all in one go right here associated press today gibson is marching with
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a group of right wing christian st beatrice or they're going to let us in the indigenous people section workers and even how tolerant towards everybody expression if what they're doing is using their free speech women who want to rule the household they want to run they want to be have a right to feel they're showing the right well to do they don't want men to our wrong leader going to. that gets to walk around with nothing but actual hate that leads to rape and murder and like his rights are protected if i go over there and do anything to him i'm spending the night thinking. freedom to free a single. last. long. enough time. in the weeks gibson's loudest challenge comes from the women the caps. it appears that just tactics today will not include any punches
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instead try to shout. was. i doing. my doing on outnumbered right now not. just. the times joe also tries for dialogue to you and subjecting myself to attacks from you to actually try to speak to you and speak to your heart beat your soul i didn't say you know i was wrong about what a bunch of white nazis because i would want to go bowling and i got better i hope you get better before some dumb haven't told them what you believe in freedom. with no like they're defending by being here now i mean i'm defending my own sense of peace of mind i don't want to just go and just leave what is my city right at the very least if i can be here and scream that's better than nothing it makes me
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feel better nothing. more. chris hedges has written multiple essays criticizing it before he says the fight is not with fringe groups but with corporate and government forces. were in serious trouble but it's not these. idiots who are putting us in trouble we have. very dark sinister totalitarian forces that are snuffing out the last vestiges of american democracy and we better revolt we better respond and carrying out these kinds of street confrontations plays right into the hands of these centers. natasha lennard wrote an essay defending the massed activists who punched richard spencer. she says you can't ignore the link between trump selection and the spike of incidents of racist
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harassment at a ball that. i don't think they'd get away from knowing they have a president. since trump's election while in conflicts of exploded in college towns like berkeley california raising questions about hate speech and political violence. these are questions the berkley's mayor has grappled with all year it's not surprising we have a president who openly talks about beating people up and is it is fanning the flames of hatred and and division and we're seeing those divisions that rift actually happened on the streets of the city of berkeley. last august a broad coalition of activists here marched to oppose hate groups and they invited anti folk to play a defensive role at the protest. chili gibson is also that gibson is clear who is the big people on the left especially in the fall into acts of violence just
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keep going out there preach love preach freedom and get on camera having assaulting us and so the people in the world knows who they really are. gibson entered a perfectly park with his hands up he got his wish i mean they they took the bait you know so i guess thankful for that. as this mob of black clad activists chased him out gibson's broad definition of free speech colliding with anti. this project an issue of self defense. so that all along in this the footage from that day is hard for gibson the watch. that are it's just the vince organizers refused to apologize for the violence that . this medic a veteran a street protester around the world agrees political violence is ok here good nature is all destroyed if these people are older. and he succeeded in doing it
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look like i mean one is going to die it was to make them leave them that seems to be the result. like. the fascist bush look as he. gives them was prevented from spreading his message in berkeley and claimed victory it was horrendous it's a horrible thing that happened yesterday i think the next day he found a platform and like a lot of the incident one him an appearance on fox news talk about him and i'll just go away you know we got to stand up twenty feet we got into fist tactics cause concern for these former berkeley students the were the violent ones they really are and maybe they're proud of that they maybe they think that's the first step toward a revolution is to make the world better. their free speech movement pity years ago into the campus ban on political organizing during the civil rights and anti-war movements students one after months of nonviolent tactics including marches sit ups at a mass arrests inside the university so ministration building finally got shipped.
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to a standstill this. is a state with which to be stunts i can't tell you how many times we were assaulted the new time i think we were very dedicated to nonviolence the forest service a tactic that we felt was important to keep focused on the issue and not on the violence the intifada guys told me that if you walk around with a swastika band in america you should get punched in the face not least in the. ultimate how are they not they they must have done to get the garden with the president is that. that's what nonviolence. you know let him slip into there from our provocation. i cannot because in their belief in violence as
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a useful response to violence i see it as so walking right into a very useful resolution to our social conflicts which in is civil war. now the right wing has taken up the free speech movement's legacy and the debate has to put the song. is there a fight in the street to be ways to get to them and if so how should it be waged there always and we should respond by punching people in the face or. advocating censorship or the abolition of free speech is a very dangerous road to begin to walk down to speech is repugnant but once the left starts arguing for censorship and the abolition of free speech which the state is only ultimately to happy to embrace it's always the left that pays. white supremacy in silence in every state people have self organize and said look we
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don't stand for this and we're not going to ask planning to have an institution disinvite then we're not going to ask institutional authority til we're going to turn up with our bodies and say not in my space. that's what protesters did last august to oppose a major gathering of some charlottesville virginia. it ended tragically with a neo nazi allegedly murdered thirty two year old heather here. i did not anticipate someone driving the car into a crowd i did not anticipate the police standing there. and i did not anticipate and of protecting. reverence they could came to march alongside clergy in charlottesville but. that formed a line to block white supremacist from gathering going to park. sic who brought nonviolent tactics that have been a whole mark of the black lives matter movement. these tactical differences have
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led to tensions with the streets during protests against police brutality birds the black bloc so you know they were ready to bust some heads and i walked over to. the stand. because if you clamp. our asses on the ones i want to be. but in charlottesville n.t. for use force to defend courage from attacks by neo nazis would have been crossed if it was not fun and so they saved my life and so for me i saw the gospel and body . and some kids dressed in black and red who came to me and said reverend i will give my life from you and so from where i read what there is no greater love. than the lay your life down for a friend. the act of violence that killed heather here fractured in
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a single white supremacist movement despite attempts by president trump to spread the point. i think there's blame on both sides you look at the leader you both sides i think is blame on both sides it's going to see nazi back on the west coast opposition to right wing groups like charlie gibson's intensified. in response gibson denounced neo nazis from the stage of a rally in seattle so the day after charlottesville we had a rally thousands of people just wanted to kill us that they were mad they were like they looked at me like i was charlottesville it was bad it was bad for a little bit there i don't see a white supremacist problem on the west coast. but. tell that to the thousands of protesters that show up and stuff. but in portland roasted the empty foot does see a white supremacy problem they found it repeatedly the gibson's rallies. these researchers use a tactic called doxie to publicize the personal details of their adversaries.
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julie gibson bigot enabler ross city n.t. folk found out workups who worked and encouraged people to contact his employer he thought it best to attempt to. disrupt his income which would maybe keep him a little bit too busy to continue organizing and at such a rate. days after the docks in campaign began gibson left his job when you have people at your rallies who are organizing explicitly for white nationalist violence or to try and build an ethno state those are threats of violence that's something that needs to be addressed through city targeted gibson after scanning the crowd at his march for free speech in april there they found two notorious white supremacists we see here jake was photographed. shaking hands with jeremy christian immediately after german christmas throwing fashions romans who loot is obviously will associate with the nazis weeks after this protest jeremy christian
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was arrested and charged with aggravated murder and hate crimes after allegedly stabbing three people on a portland train yesterday on their lead this time they are real yet they last summer they had to found this interview with jake they're not an organizer for a group called identity europa identity is would be understood as what it is as a hate group and would be shut down by the community if they tried to hold their own rallies. what they do instead is attend other rightwing rallies and then try to recruit people over to their more explicitly wage nationalist and neo nazi ideology we docs him and provided really really ugly receipts of his. new nazi activity new nazi beliefs from posts that he had made on social media he subsequently dropped out of organizing in. gibson told us he's repeatedly denounced fit not including a day in august when he took this photo at one of his rallies that's been on
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standing right behind. the curtain. on. all three. law gibson is still on the streets but is turnout tonight a smaller. into the following close behind a doubling the crowd are not to help ordinary border. watch these battles for the streets are not enough for gibson james going to be a great year for february he announced a run for u.s. senate this year that hates that the evil that you feel in your hearts you know how to you know gets in six a larger stage and to faces questions over its own political future and we have to build a movement that appeals to at least some of those centers of power from the bring the corporate state which means that that number one it has to be nonviolent and number two it has to have a vision and a moral force i don't see the most politically mature anyway.
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so what else is safe. and what sort of movement do they want to build. similar. or is a pool of what up here. were shot. since the shooting x. has been trying to answer that question searching for a different form of justice in this case. five days after being shot six gave a statement to police. he told them he did not want his attacker to be prosecuted january twenty fifth. two thousand and seven i'm with a victim just to see for me all you want to feel and to fix this is audio from his conversation with the detective. who's been really really blurry. and so on a lot of medication the thing that our war isn't really
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a prosecution i don't want to participate in a system that punishes people. to hex the systems of policing to mass incarceration are also forms of fascism you know the. prison population is it's already pretty big and you know putting putting more people in the cages doesn't really seem to be helping a lot. he sent this letter to the whole quantas through his attorney my client believes a sort of justice informed community response to friday's violence is the ethical and effective forward. my client wishes to express his empathy for the person shot to. text says he won't testify at the trial of his attackers. instead he prefers a resolution with the hoa quantas outside of court. i've
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seen my friends attacked of the again and again it's really really hard to maintain like hey let's deescalate right because legs this system of violence like pushes people to escalate. their touch you touch about it ok and i think it throw your arms up i'm going to keep trying to like do my thing i kind of just hope that people are able to build the world that we want to see you know work towards the world that we want to see and do that with compassion not only not only for other people but for ourselves. every gang member will find. is easily. to come back. we started
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