. >> charlottesville was incredibly disruptive to these groups.ghting amongst themselves, all the arrests that happened afterwards, and then the lawsuits were just absolutely devastating for these groups. >> thompson: but not every group suffered from the backlash. some, like the proud boys, survived and grew. >> there were some that, that escaped unscathed. they evaded, um, really responsibility and scrutiny after unite the right and then you know came up to rear their ugly heads much later. >> thompson: examining 8,000 facebook accounts affiliated with the proud boys, squire found that many proud boys also belonged to white supremacist or fascist groups. in squire's research, one individual stands out-- brien james, the leadeof the indiana chapter of the proud boys. brien's in this group and this is, like, the most hardcore whe supremacist that you're gonna find out there. >> yeah. >> thompson: we've got the national socialist movement represented here. we've got, um... pro-hitler groups. we've got all kinds of real crazy stuff. >> this is a ant

he is the coordinator of the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space and in charlottesville we cross to david swanson he is the executive director of the world beyond war all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate david let me go to you 1st and charlottesville. going after my introduction right here listening to the president the united states we're in a great ideological struggle against autocracy here very much in tune with what we experienced during the cold war which i remember very well and it was an ideological struggle but is we living in in 2021 in the ideological struggle on the on the world stage what's your take go ahead david. i think mostly in the fantasies of us propaganda i think the reality is more a struggle between plutocracy and oligarchies there's no democracy to be seen there's no nobody in the us public has had a right to vote on whether to have a great battle against the autocracies you know we've got. you know it's just not credible that there's a military threat out there so somet

your peace begins in charlottesville, in 2017. why is that? guest: really what we are looking at through the course of our film is the rise of insurgent, far-right movements during the trump era. really, if you want to trace that, you go back to charlottesville. i was there, and you see the men in the streets that day and what their intentions were, the act of terror that occurred that day, killing. you can see a pretty straight line to what ends up happening at the capital. groups rebrand, they change their names, they modify their politics. but, in many ways, a lot of the same ideas that were innovating -- animating the people in charlottesville came to animating the people at the capital. host: how much deeper, though, the events in charlottesville, how many years was that in the making to get to such a public point, public display of that? caller: what's people who -- guest: what people who were there and involved in the white movement would say to me is, over and over again, "donald trump was the catalyst for me being out here in the stre

please go back to david in charlottesville one of the things i've been looking at over the years here is that we do live in a multilateral world that is the reality here but the foreign policy blob in washington and the think tanks and all of their donors don't believe that and they will and this is one of the reasons why we see such an erratic foreign policy because washington believes any and you know polar world but it's not that's no longer the case and that's why we're seeing so many tensions said differently countries can say no and this is what we're exactly we saw in ankara go ahead david . i agree and i think rick maybe it was right to point out that the united states is going after a couple of big countries at once but people in the united states not so much disproportionately people who identify as the democratic party blame russia for everything. where those who think they're republicans blame china for everything works out well for the government cause they can blame both them for everything but people sort of you pick who your identity determines which foreign nation you

. >> from charlottesville to the assault on the capitol. >> one of the darkest days in the history of we are seeing this country fall apart before our eyes. >> of the former president galvanized an army. >> we ve a guy whos a nationalist in the most powerful seat in the world. we can actually get our views represented. >> stanback and standby. >> lock them all up. >> the far-right militias felt much more licensed to publicly engage. >> tear plot to kidnap governor whitmer. >> it was going to be a citizens arrest. looks prepared to kidnap and possibly kill me. >> if you do not fight like hell, you're not going have a country anymore. >> hospital. they were venomous. their country somehow was being taken away from them. >> in the aftermath of the 2020 election, how these groups have become part of the political landscape. >> whawas the role of the ogaloo boys? >> there were some in the crowd associated with us. they were there just to mess with the federal government one more time. >> frontline and propublica been reporting on the rise of hate -- >> last year. >> what you think was goin

hayer, who died when a white supremacist rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in charlottesville in 2017. president biden makes history by recognizing the mass killing armenians in 1915 as genocide. we will speak with the pulitzer prize winning armenian-american poet peter balakian. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. india remains the global epicenter for covid-19, reporting a record number of cases for the fifth straight day today with nearly 353,000 new infections. another 2800 deaths were also reported, pushing the total death toll to over 195,000 -- though, the true number is expected to be much higher. hospitals are overwhelmed with oxygen and other supplies running out, forcing health workers to turn away patients. >> i came here to get my grandfather treated. he is suffering from covid-19. they are not letting us in. the guard is saying there is no doctor available here. that there is no doctor near the emergency ward, then where will we go? amy: prime minister narendra modi came under renewed

and nuclear power in space and in charlottesville we cross to david swanson he is the executive director of world beyond war hi gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate david let me go to you 1st in charlottesville. going after my introduction right here we're listening the to the president the united states we're in a great ideological struggle against autocracy here very much in in tune with what we experienced during the cold war which i remember very well and it was an ideological struggle but is are we living in in 2021 in the ideological struggle on the on the world stage what's your take go ahead do it i think mostly in the fantasies of us propaganda i think the reality is more a struggle between plutocracy and oligarchies i mean there's no democracy to be seen you know there's no nobody in the u.s. public has had a right to vote on whether to have a great battle against the autocracies you know we've got. you know it's just not credible that there's a military threat out there so something is needed and here you know

came to animate the people at the capitol. >> much deeper, though, the events in charlottesville, how many years was that in the making to get to such a public display of that? >> what people who were there and people involved in the white supremacists movement would say to me over and over again, donald trump was the catalyst for me being out here in the streets. he started saying things that i believed in but didn't want to say and i felt more comfortable saying -- comfortable participating in this movement when he became president or ran for president. the people in this film says the white power movement is over, and people are not comfortable with those politics, but there is a sort of brand of extremism that is more palatable to people, and you might call it civic nationalism or ultra nationalism, but that's the sort of current wave that in many ways propelled the events of january 6th, and we're talking about the militia groups and the proud boys, these types of outfits. >> our guest is ac thompson the documentary airing on front line, it's called "american insurrection." how l

there was a peaceful protest in charlottesville, five women stood silently in a semicircle in a park black lives matter. according to these new laws, that would have been a riot. that would have been something that was actionable. they could have gone to jail for at least 48 hours. i mean, it's -- our country has long had protests. >> absolutely. >> i see that there are concerns for property damage and loss of life yet i believe there were already laws in place to cover those. i'm not sure other than a desire to prevent people protesting black lives matter that these laws were put in place. i just don't see that there's been any need for them. >> i'm glad you mentioned the black lives matter movement. we've been covering it, watching these protests all around the country. people feel like maybe there's no other way to make their voices heard. i'm wondering if you think laws like this may make somebody not come out. >> that's the intent of the law. family misdemeanor charges are now felonies. once you have a felony your life is trashed in so many ways. the new jim crow book, the updat

he is the coordinator of the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space and in charlottesville we cross to david swanson he is the executive director of world beyond war hi gentlemen crosstalk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate david let me go to you 1st and charlottesville . going after my introduction.

book tv it is a couple of programs from the recent virtual virginia festival of the book and charlottesville. first alec mcgill is an a million paying for a critical look at our global internet driven consumer economy. and then louis oakie and nadia reflect on their respective international upbringings and journeys to the united states. here's alec and amelia. select alec mcdill us author of fulfillment winning and losing and one click america. as a senior party for pro public and the recipient of the george polk award the robin toner prize and other honors freeze also the author of the cynic, she thousand 14 biography of mitch mcconnell and he lives in baltimore. a million paying author of made in china a prisoner in sos letter and the hidden costs of america's cheap goods is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications such as mother jones and the new republic covering topics ranging from organic import fraud to the prevalence of sexual violence and native american reservations but she lives near washington d.c. our moderator today, nelson sanchez as director of the interna

this has been a very strange year to live in charlottesville, virginia. and i will say that, yes, our focus is on individual agency, and yes, we are committed to telling the stories to recognize the agency of those who were denied it. but we're also committed to understanding the legacies of slavery and helping our guests understand that as well. one of the things i hear most often from people, we didn't invent slavery in america. that's true. we didn't. slavery didn't end with the emancipation proclamation. that's also true. but slavery in america was different from slavery everywhere else in the world because of the way it was inextricably combined with the concept of race that was created at the same time. you want to talk about having a difficult nuanced conversation in 36 minutes where you have to talk about the declaration of independence, the beauty of the architecture and help your guests understand that race is a sociological bioconstruct and that our race is about developing hierarchies? i just did it in 30 seconds, folks. it can be done, it can

this has been a strange year to live in charlottesville, virginia. i will say this.our focus is on individually agency, yes, we are committed to telling the stories, to recognize agency of those who were denied it. we're also committed to understanding the legacies of slavery, helping our guests understand as well. one of the things i hear most often from people is we did not invent slavery in america. that is true. we did not. slavery did not end with the emancipation proclamation. it's also true. but slavery in america was different from everywhere else in the world because of the way it was intertwined with the concept of race. it was created at the same time. you want to talk about having a difficult, nuanced conversation in 36 minutes? you have to talk about the beauty of architecture and help your guests understand race is a sociological contract has no biological basis whatsoever and that our institutions and ideas today are about reinforcing hierarchies. i just did it in 30 seconds. it can be done! [applause] [laughs] these guys do not hear it. they have no i

iowa, civil immunity for motorists who drive through protesters as we've seen most vividly in charlottesville. this week republican florida governor ron desantis signed his so-called anti-riot law, which, among other things, makes destruction of property a felony. under that logic, how many of these insurrectionists would be charged, joy? >> well, i mean, think about it for a second. people get upset when i liken ron desantis to george wallace, but look at what he's doing. you have a racist sheriff in miami who notoriously who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts. he was considered an arch segregationist, basically a while nationalist with a badge. donald trump quoted him as saying when the looting starts, the shooting starts, essentially saying if people are marching -- and people who are in black lives matter were not looting. people were marching and there would be people who would commit mayhem at night. they were found to be right-wing agitators to frame black lives matter that would make the protests look more violent. but whatever it is, they're trying to criminalize prote

it brings to mind what happened in charlottesville, virginia, a few years ago.ose two parts of the law? >> as far as the protections for monuments, including confederate monuments, that's been an issue we've been dealing with strenuously in this country for several years now and it kind of came to a head last year. however, what i don't think floridians know and what i hope americans will now know is this bill does exactly what you just said. as we all know, in charlottesville someone plowed into the crowd and there were severe injuries and death resulting. under the law passed by governor ron desantis, you are civilly immune from liability if you drive into a crowd that is determined to be a riot under the bill. the problem is, the bill makes no clear definition of what a riot is, what is inciting a riot, and really you're going out to demonstrate for teacher wages or against police misconduct and you really have no idea what you can or can't do that will subject you to felony prosecution. >> aaron carter bates, we look forward to furthering this conversation a

the white supremacist violence in charlottesville. and he cast this election in terms of a battle for the soul of the nation. and so what you saw, was a president who does feel this deeply and earnestly and if this early and even those comments he made earlier in the day that were, despite the jury being sequestered, controversial. that's what makes the people who do love joe biden, love him so much. it was someone blurting out their true feelings. which were the true feelings of a lot of people, in this country. and again joe biden, he's 78 white guy, but he is someone who's lived experience is out of pain and lost. and you saw that, how he can step into that empathize or chief role, and that postural role, although it is important to add that is he himself said, that's not really enough. but it was, people felt like what the moment called for this evening and today. >> marilyn, i know a lot of us are thinking tonight about darnell frazier and think about it with a honorable mention to steve jobs. a young woman who had the courage to

in hand-to-hand combat in charlottesville. to one of the senior police officials from charlottesville the other day, their policy is in place are different today than what they were during those riots. we have seen the charlottesville kind of play out in kenosha, minneapolis, portland, oregon, seattle, in other locations where people are in close proximity and what it does is escalates the tension and you know what we call a security -- that is a bit concerning. host: i will ask you in terms of your report focusing on homegrown extremist violence, right wing extremist violence, did you look at all in reports by groups like antifa and leftist violence? guest: absolutely, we noticed a rise over the past two or three years, certainly the highest numbers we have seen a violence from anti-fascist and anarchists. what i will briefly say is that people should not in any way shape or form confuse forms of terrorism whether conservatives or liberals, with republicans or democrats, there is no overlap at all. in a political party in the

. >> and now more from the recent virtual virginia festival of the book in charlottesville, with authors lewis chude-sokei and nadia owusu on their memoirs. >> louis chewed soak okay, offer of "float in a most peculiar way putt the editor in chief for the black scholar and director of the african-american steweds program at boston university whose writing on culture africaage diaspora has been recognize internationally. nadia owusu, author of "aftershock" is a brooklyn based writer and planner this he recipient of a 2019 writing award, her lyric essay so ditchish a fair, won the atlas review essay contest and her words have appear necessary "new york times," "washington post," literary review and electric literature and our modeat your, is an -- moderator is an si sis stand professor of african-american and studies at the institute of african-american steweds at uva. his become is "amphibious subjects." thank you all for joining us tonight. kwamie, over to you. >> thank you so very much for this wonderful introduction and it's such a delight to finally put faces on nadia and louis. welco

it's become well known in the vicinity of charlottesville, that mr. george divers of farmington, and i, have contests as to who may cultivate the first batch of peas. do you know that they often may rise at the end of february, let alone during the first weeks of march? and whoever is the most successful known in their community that they have the first batch of peas to provide at the table. and everyone is welcome to come and enjoy those peas at that particular home. so, mr. divers and i, over several years, have been -- been one the more successful than the other. and enjoy a meal. now, do you know, this year, i was happy to see the very first peas rise up at the end of february? this has been a most magnificent spring. and i was about to let it be known, until my daughter informed me. well, mr. george divers of farmington said he had just witnessed the first patch of peas to -- to sprout. and i -- i thought, for a moment, and decided, no, i will not make any statement, publicly. because we can rest assured of having a very delicious meal at farming

when people were marching through charlottesville talking about the jews will not replace us, blacksresident had sewn those seeds for months and years, so many americans knew exactly what that was. and during the tenure of donald trump, far too many americans refused to recognize it. they told themselves it was everything but white supremacy, everything but racism. even on january 6th. >> we had far too many americans trying to justify it as something else. when political science finally meets up with politics we get a far better understanding of what they have been telling us since day one. you can look at the pictures on the screen and say there's not enough anxiety in the world to justify storming the capitol and killing a police officer in the process. >> professor, when i was reading the study, it has a lot of the kind of almost inaccessible social science language and political science language that finds its way into this kind of work, and yet, the ugly and powerful reality that it was delivering still leapt off those pages in a really chilling way. >> oh, absolutely. and what

the reason for joining is i saw what happened in charlottesville.m a semi-observant jew and seeing the violence in charlottesville made me feel compelled to actually do something. >> okay, wait. white-jewish guy. a white woman. i need to talk to a regular-white guy. >> seattle is really white. i live in seattle. it's like -- it's like norway, essentially, right? but my neighborhood is like, 80%-plus people of color. and around the election time, all of a sudden, there is like white-power slogans at my kid's park. and the swastikas down by the lake, where i go hang out with my family. and like, all this stuff just starts swirling. this elderly african-american couple a few blocks away. like, someone painted the n-word on their truck. and that's just like messed up. and so, i was just like, well, i mean, time to, like, get off my ass and do something. >> yeah. why aren't more white people here? and i mean, maybe here with us right now but i mean, here, in this frame of mind? >> that's the real question. that's part of what we are doing is, like, can w

your peace begins in charlottesville, in 2017. why is that?really what we are looking at through the course of our film is the rise of insurgent, far-right movements during the trump era. really, if you want to trace that, you go back to charlottesville. i was there, and you see the men in the streets that day and what their intentions were, the act of terror that occurred that day, killing. you can see a pretty straight line to what ends up happening at the capital. groups rebrand, they change their names, they modify their politics. but, in many ways, a lot of the same ideas that were innovating -- animating the people in charlottesville came to animating the people at the capital. host: how much deeper, though, the events in charlottesville, how many years was that in the making to get to such a public point, public display of that? caller: what's people who -- guest: what people who were there and involved in the white movement would say to me is, over and over again, "donald trump was the catalyst for me being out here in the streets." ""

and now you know putin has been blamed for everything from remember the the protests in charlottesville he was even given credit for capture nic taking the knee i mean i think the hysteria around russia has never been greater to mention the balinese that has been defunct apparently the white house itself doesn't even believe in the story but they keep running with it and as you say this is about nato expansion nato is already up to the borders of russia it now and compass is a number of former east countries and even a few former soviet republics and now of course they're threatening to swallow ukraine incident nato the west has russia completely surrounded russia does not have the west surrounded in an analogous way and yet every time russia moves troops even within its own borders it's seen as aggressive we live now in upside down world it jeremy it is upside down and when it's upside down it's very very dangerous because we hear these words you know they're you know they unflagging support for ukraine sovereignty well let me put the president of ukraine is basically. tempting. him pu

mean that people like james alex fields jr who ran into heather hire murdering her during the charlottesville protests would not have been charged and republicans aren't just targeting protesters on the streets they're also ramping up anger for support supporters of protesters in the sports world le bron james is a target if he's come under fire as of late 4th since the lead a tweet regarding the police killing of teen makiya bryant republican senator tom cotton said le bron james was inciting violence against an ohio police officer and called an m.b.a. and twitter to respond joining us now is republican strategist chris brown chris. gray gratin glad to have you chris you know. we are so excited that you're here and we're able to make it i know you've been traveling a lot recently the black lab matter protests were overwhelmingly peaceful estimates they 97 percent peaceful. but g.o.p. leaders and right wing media latch on to episodic instances of violence while these largely peaceful protest subject to drug colonial all that fly in the face of constitutional rights. but i think the reality is

remember the white supremacists who marched in charlottesville? >> jews will not replace us. jews will not replace us. >> so basically they're saying immigrants will not replace us, immigrants will not replace us even though we are all immigrants. many of us are brought here against our will but immigrants, a country of immigrants -- the answer defamation league calling on fox to fire carlson and let's say it, there is zero chance of that. not from the network that promoted the big lie of nonexistence voter fraud. the big lie that led to the insurrection. tl insurrection that tucker carlson lies about night after night putting the word "insurrection" in quote as if it did not happen. he knows what he's doing. we also got news on congressman matt gaetz opening an investigation of gaetz for a slew of potential defenses. so what does he do? he heads straight to trump country at an event sponsored by women for america's first. the group that organized the january 6th event right before the capitol insurrection. he never explained or apologized. >> this past week has been full of

i was done in charlottesville this weekend and i'll it to get in touch with you, just where you are.her forjoe biden? how important otherforjoe biden? how important is it that he tries to bring on some republicans to this big spending scheme of his? t this big spending scheme of his? ., �* ~' this big spending scheme of his? ., �* ~ ., , his? i don't think that is the oint of his? i don't think that is the point of the _ his? i don't think that is the point of the speech, - his? i don't think that is the l point of the speech, because i think biden has already recognised that is very, very little chance that any republican will sign on. what he has actually got to do is to excite the democratic base about the programmes and to give a proposal or two that the key senator in the senate who is the king of the hell right now, senatorjoe mention, the moderate from west virginia well liked because he is the key vote. look, this can change on any given day. the senate can flip to the republicans of a single democratic senator for whatever reason leaves the senate, in a state controlled by a

look at the charlottesville lie about president trump. did great harm to him and his presidency.a lie. it was pushed. even the coronavirus. look at the fear mongering pushed by the media. left out context, left out nuance that has led to the result of businesses being closed, draconian policy measures being taken. we're at a dangerous place right now where the truth doesn't seem to matter to a lot of people. >> mark: is that why you called your podcast the trust? >> it is. there's so much noise right now. there needs to be a desire to cut to the heart of what matters for people. what is sad right now, we have so many in the media that serve as propaganda for people that are not getting the truth. take a look at the coronavirus, for instance. would you know that the coronavirus has a fatality rate of .15%? that's not to down lay the death that we've seen in the country. we mourn the loss of every american. that is only slightly higher than the flu. there's been this push also for the vaccine, which consensus shows that its safe. that meme should get it. my parents got it. i encour

we did this before charlottesville had happened. >> i think our problem is as americans is that we actually hate history. so we can't really connect the dots, but we love nostalgia. we love to remember things exactly the way they didn't happen and history itself as an indictment, often, and people who hate to be indicted. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> don't shoot him. don't shoot him. he has no weapon. he has no weapon. >> four black men inside of one car, with a hip-hop album, driving ten miles over the speed limit. in one residential area. will guarantee being pulled over by the cops. that is a bunch of racist cops. >> and when you are living constantly with the fear of going to jail because she fit the description or because she can't afford a lawyer, if i am walking down the street to pick up milk, i could be accosted. you know?. we are filled with an intense amount of dread. >> people still languish in the corners of american society. and finds himself in exile in his own land. >> -- you deserve to be charged for treason, for the amount of times he forced people, you deserve to be tried for treason, your d

charlottesville was something that got him to jump into the race.is has become a contention on the internet right now. it makes sense politically for him to do that. i think he's walking an interesting line here. he also needs to work with tim scott if he wants to get this police reform done, he needs to get it through the senate and make it clear he's not targeting any faction of the society. i think tim scott is trying to get reform around immunity and choke holds. i think he's being very careful in his wording there. it is not quite as firm as he was during his quasi-state of the union. it is not an actual state of the union. he's trying to please advocates and not ail enate lawmakers at the same time. >> let's talk about tim scott. he's developed a lot of respect within his own republican confidence and hasn't been afraid to step out on matters of race in particular. he is somebody who as a member of congress with a pin on his suit was stopped by capital police and asked what he was doing there and he's gone down to the senate floor and talked a

after charlottesville, it took months for the fbi to make a handful of arrests.s and it moved very slowly and it was a problem. in the immediate aftermath of the capitol, there were hundreds of arrests were made. the fbi is moving very quickly. we're seeing a language and an openness to discussing this that we haven't seen before. and that is promising in many ways. but it's also a very dangerous moment and a delicate moment. every single democratic presidential victory from clinton to obama has coincided with a rise in far-right militia activity and extremist activity. and right now, you have not just a presidential victory, but like a sweep. and far-right mobilization in the streets that i have never seen in my lifetime and a former president still there claiming that this whole government is illegitimate. that's a very dangerous kind of cocktail of circumstances. the other thing is, you can look at this movement, two kind of strands of this movement. on the one hand are the violent insurrectionists, like the boogala boys who are trying to overthrow the governm

you know, like that white nationalist did in charlottesville.ieve that somebody wants to protect your ability to have to pay for this? a bill in indiana wants to make sure no one follows in the footsteps of john lewis. being a part of good trouble, like what we saw at the edmund pettus bridge, that would prohibit you from holding any state employment. in minnesota, protesting would mean putting at risk your education, food to feed your family or even your home. yet in florida they made darn sure to protect confederate statues, calling them so-called historic property. this is not subtle. it is not a coincidence, and it is not a misunderstanding. this is another attempt to carve america into us and them. so be on the lookout because making laws to discourage liberty is about as far from the promise of america as you can get. we'll be right back. (burke) switch to farmers and you could save an average of four hundred and sixty-seven dollars on your auto insurance. just by phoning it in to farmers. (neighbor) just by phoning it in? (burke) just pho

you see these people marching in charlottesville, talking about how jews will not defend them and thosehed alongside them. you hear these people talking about ways to support the quote/unquote white legal voters being able to cast their ballots, the so-called informed ones. their twisted conspiracy theories how immigrants are brought here, some believe by a cabal of nefarious yous to replace the white working man and women. those theories, those twisted ideas ob our air ways and motivating the murders in pittsburgh and el paso. they constantly demonstrate these individuals an impulse fa favoring authoritarianism and steeped in a deep personal sense of grievance. when the tea sonnous south carolina militia led by pgf beauregard, atamd talked 60 years ago tomorrow morning, they began the civil war. 34 hours later, 160 years ago this tuesday, u.s. majors robert anderson and 86 u.s. government soldiers surrendered. the bad guys won that battle and the traitors of what for almost four years. and though their discredited, twisted ideas are often shaded and diluted and camouflaged, they contin

book tv it is a couple of programs from the recent virtual virginia festival of the book and charlottesville. first alec mcgill is an a million paying for a critical look at our global internet driven consumer economy. and then louis oakie and nadia reflect on their respective international upbringings and journeys to the united states. here's alec and amelia. select alec mcdill us author of fulfillment winning and losing and one click america.