traditions history and christian values is the lust for violence behind the rhetoric of anti for the black bloc and the so-called old left about capitalism racism state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence the two opposing groups largely made up of people who've been cast aside by the cruelty of corporate capitalism have embraced holy war their lives battered by economic misery and social marginalization have suddenly been filled with meaning they hold themselves up as the vanguard of the oppressed they arrogant to themselves the right to use force to silence those they define as the enemy they sent to fight anger they are infected with the dark adrenaline driven urge for confrontation that arises among the disenfranchised when a democracy ceases to function they are separated a sigmund freud wrote of those who engage in fratricide by the narcissism of minor difference they mirror each other not only india logically but also physically armed and dressed in black the color of fascism and the color of death are to correspondent an impound bell looks at the origins of. you

there was a small activity of violence by a small group of black bloc anti for whatever but what was disseminated throughout the corporate media and why and why were those images useful to the corporate state because number one it demonizes the protest movement we saw this with occupy which was a nonviolent movement and it frightens people away from the movement and these are classic counterinsurgency techniques sure well we can also look at that same dynamic happening throughout the entire history of anti-fascism and draw perhaps different conclusions from that so we can look at the battle of cable street in one thousand thirty six when the british union of fascists tried to march through the east end of london a predominantly jewish neighborhood and the jewish population and many other anti-fascist stood up and blocked their advance so if you read the british press at the time you get the same response that these are hooligans that these are dangerous violent people and they should be denounced the question is in part what do communities that are under attack do when they know that

dictated to disrupting nazi and white supremacist rallies what's more black bloc tactics developed in west germany have been employed in the united states most notably during the world trade organization protests of one thousand nine hundred nine in seattle and during occupy wall street which swept the country in two thousand and eleven more recently groups calling themselves and tea fire have sprouted to combat what they describe as emboldened white supremacy in the age of trump with activists violently disrupting rallies planned across the country such an action came to a tragic and this year when activist heather higher was killed by a nazi sympathizer as she and others gathered to protest a unite the right rally in charlottesville virginia ultimately empty pfizer decentralize movement which will exist as long as there is a fascist force to oppose. thank you anya i'm joined today by mark breyer historian of human rights terrorism and political radicalism in modern europe was one of the organizers of occupy wall street and he's the author of empty for the anti fascist handbook as we

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traditions history and christian values is the lust for violence behind the rhetoric of anti for the black bloc and the so-called left about capitalism racism state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence the two opposing groups largely made up of people who've been cast aside by the cruelty of corporate capitalism have embraced holy war their lives battered by economic misery and social marginalization have suddenly been filled with meaning they hold themselves up as the vanguard of the oppressed they arrogant to themselves the right to use force to silence those they define as the enemy they sent to fight anger they are infected with the dark adrenaline driven urge for confrontation that arises among the disenfranchised when a democracy ceases to function they are separated as sigmund freud wrote of those who engage in fratricide by the narcissism of minor difference they mirror each other not only india logically but also physically armed and dressed in black the color of fascism and the color of death are to correspondent an impound bell looks at the origins of. you kno

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is named after the colors of the three parties involved bloc for christian democrats yellow for the free democrats and green for the greens. black yellow and green three colors that go together well in the jamaican flag but they could soon cause trouble in german politics. down here the battle will soon continue seven parties will be in the four of them might form the next government conflict almost certain even before exploratory talks begin parties that were fighting each other in the campaign will now have to cooperate. that abate over an immigration act might become especially challenging the business friendly f.t.p. and the green party wanted the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. parties oppose it environmental protection might be another issue the green party wants a fast brown coal face out the f.t.p. does not in fact they might become the most complicated coalition talks in decades . it's the we have a lot self work to do now not only in berlin but also between the sea as you and the c.d.u. to find common ground for exploratory talks for years on your own skewed playing itself in the one all parties involved are aware of that b

because it is 10,000 black students, and that's a powerful voting bloc. and so they divided them right down the center. and so we have these -- the impact of this cannot just be about policies, but also directly affect and assault on the rights of african-american students in north carolina. the supreme court could end gerrymandering as we know it in this whitford case. although the whitford case is before the supreme court and dealing specifically with state legislative districts in wisconsin, if the court affirms the lower court ruling in wisconsin, it will be establishing the principle that partisan politicians and special interests can no longer are rig the system by manipulating voting maps. [applause] [laughter] the action from the supreme court could reduce costly litigation and also set a clear standard that headaches it clear to state -- that makes it clear to state legislatures as they're drawing maps here is the line you cannot cross. in america no liberty is more fundamental than the right to freely choose our representatives through voting. w

neighborhoods in new york city and i'm not that familiar with the historical black college issue but i can speak to the community development bloc grant program one of the central components of the department of housing and urban development, really the principle means by which the federal government is able to ameliorate poverty in terms of housing and community services. director mulvaney of the office of management and budget zeroed it out in his skinny budget this year. so the bloc fwrangrants were ze. congress will definitely restore it likely to par, but in terms of his commitment to urban america, i think the community development bloc grant team like tim scott, the republican senate, african-american republican senator from south carolina has identified that as well as a defining issue. so i think while we're talking about there is tremendous amount of dysfunction in congress, and they certainly didn't deliver particularly paul ryan, more than mitch mcconnell because paul ryan, remember, set the order of bat well reince priebus, the president's first chief of staff. but i would say a fair amount of responsibility in term

and and and black come on the power but we think that personally as a journalist something about it to not be easy even if. governments come on on the power between their coalition. and bloc i don't think that they will go on using the same birthday knowledge and they are using the cup final important point for matthew you know in britain voted for brags that all of the leaders were speaking about now we're going to accelerate european integration now those reluctant brits are finally out the club that if that changed now that given what's happened in austria given the rise of the far right in france and germany to . well i think at the beginning of the year the election of macron and then the defeat. bill is in another looms really gate your renewed sense of confidence and it doubled down on that narrative of we're out because get on with integration but get on with deepening the european project it's not necessarily widening the european project but i think over the last months you know we just had to begin to actions germany and austria both of which in their own way he's given us clear evidence that there is a section within european society there is a large number of