Understanding the context (both historical and systemic)

• America is Hooked on the Drug White Supremacy. And We’re Paying for that Today. By Carol Anderson, author of White Rage, linking the explicit white supremacy of Charlottesville with the more covert white supremacy of tough on crime policies and stereotypes of the ‘welfare queen’.

• Southern Poverty Law Center report on confederate monuments – amongst many findings, exposing that the construction of confederate monuments peaked not after the civil war but during times of increased white supremacist violence, during jim crow and the civil rights.

• Trump Is Using Old Jim Crow Tactics to Usher in a New Era of Racist Violence – article by Project South. The Trump administration is having a hard time governing by legislation so they are governing by racist suggestion, with dire consequences.

• Charlottesville started with a statue. Will Americans confront their history now? Linking the Unite the Right rally with historical white supremacy.

Antifa 

• Drawing Equivalencies Between Fascists and Anti-Fascists Is Not Just Wrong—It’s Dangerous – exposing the flaws and danger of the ‘both sides’ arguement.

• Antifa: A Look at the Anti-Fascist Movement Confronting White Supremacists in the Streets on Democracy Now, looking at the history and purpose of anti-fascist groups.

Action Steps

• When violent White Supremacists show up to “protest” in your city, what will you do? By Malkia Cyril, 6 things to consider in figuring out how to respond and some tips on digital security to keep yourself safe.

• What Black Lives Matter Organizers Are Doing To Fight White Supremacy At Every Level from courageous conversations to pressuring elected officials.

• The Movement for Black Lives + The Majority: Confronting White Supremacy from Charlottesville to the White House – Action and Solidarity Kit – a toolkit to help groups vision, develop shared principles and orient towards long-term organizing.

• The Role of White People in This Time – a brilliant toolkit created by Southerners on New Ground, to help white people reflect, transform and act.

• PRA and ROP report: Up in Arms Up in Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement is a groundbreaking report and toolkit designed to support local communities responding to armed militias and other Patriot movement groups. (This report focuses on Oregon but the lessons are useful nationally).

• Catalyst pamphlet: A Troublemaker’s Guide: Principles for Racial Justice Activists in the Face of State Repression – people resisting in this moment are being targeted by police and taken to court. Grand juries have regularly been used against people fighting racism and fascism. Here is a tool for all of us to think through how to be prepared for that and other kinds of repression.

Anti-semitism in White Nationalism

• PRA article: Skin in the game: How Anti-Semitism Animates White Nationalism

• Danica Bornstein on Anti-Semitism and white anti-racism after Charlottesville

• Jewish Fear, Love and Solidarity in the Wake of Charlottesville

• Jewish Voice for Peace on Fighting Anti-Semitism and Inaccurate and Misleading Definitions of Antisemitism

Understanding current White Supremacist movements

• Vice news episode on the leaders who called for the Unite the Right rallyand other groups who were there in Charlottesville.

• Audio from Suzanne Pharr’s presentation on The History of the Right Wingat Out South: A Gathering of LGBTQ Southern Leadership.

• Clt-Alt-Delete: The Origins and Ideology of the Alt-Right Report by Political Research Associates