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Author and activist Abby Stein speaks at a protest outside Fox News HQ held to commemorate the first anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, New York, October 25, 2019. (Gili Getz)

‘White nationalism is killing us’: Jews protest Trump, Fox ahead of Pittsburgh anniversary

In the week leading up to the first anniversary of the white nationalist terror attack that killed 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue, progressive Jewish groups take to the streets to send an unequivocal message to Donald Trump and Fox News. On the eve of the first anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, progressive Jews and…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland October 25, 2019

Alt-right members preparing to enter Emancipation Park holding Nazi and Confederate flags before the 'Unite the Right' rally, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (Anthony Crider / CC BY 2.0)

Why I went to a neo-Nazi website to help me process the Pittsburgh massacre

White supremacists were carrying out mass murders in America long before Donald Trump was born, and definitely before he ran for president. That doesn’t mean we can let him off the hook. I opened up the Daily Stormer this morning. For whatever reason, probably because it was too hard to think about the actual massacre…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man October 28, 2018

Occupy Bostonians in solidarity with Palestine. Photo by Activstills.org

Police crack down on my talk (in Pittsburgh, not Palestine)

While Joseph Dana was giving a lecture at the University of Pittsburgh recently, police intervened to block the entry of a number of Occupy Pittsburgh activists. The experience reminded him of the very tactics – about which he was lecturing – designed to stifle Palestinian activism and debate. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0pX9LeE-g8[/youtube] Recent police violence at Occupy Wall…

By Joseph Dana November 9, 2011

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