arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

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Black bloc and the working class (black, white, puerto rican,
jewsish, men, women, young and old) kick the nazis out of York.

Anti-racists showed up early morning in York, scouting locations and
smashing all the white supremacist vehicles they could find with small
scuffles with any white supremacists they could find.

The black bloc marched around for awhile, found some hammerskins in
a parking lot and scuffled before the police divided the two groups. Everyone
went around the corner and there the Nazis were held for about 3 hours
during Hale's speech (which people opposed to Hale form York took up
much of the space so that nazis couldn't attend, rumored that it got
so crowded the cops shut the meeting down and pushed everyone back to the
street). People chanted and yelled, and a few people were arrested after
some snowballs were thrown.

When the library emptied out, that's when we saw more National
Alliance people like Bill Roper and Erica Hardwick. All this time the
anti-racist side continues to swell as it is joined by the working class
in all the
diversity that is in York: black, white, puerto rican, jewsish, men,
women, young and old.

When the white supremacists tried to leave as the police protected
their exit, local kids led folks through an alley (York is a maze of alleys,
they are everywhere), to confront the nazis. The nazis got beat on for
awhile before the cops were able to come to their defense. They push
everyone back (the bloc is now dissolved throughout the community), and
police attacks and arbitrary arrests of black bloc and York locals continues
to piss off the crowd and build solidarity. A black blocker had her arm
broken (or atleast severly injured) in this confrontation, but the
anti-racists dished out more damage than they took.

At this point everyone is in the parking lot where the Hammerskins
originally carpooled, and the police had abandonded it to protect the
nazis.
Many of the vehicles are adorned with confederate and other white power
stickers in their windows, those windows don't last much longer as the black
bloc begins to demolish them. The cops make several charges to clear the
lot to allow nazis to get to their vandalized trucks. Again the cops continue
arbitrary arrests even harassing the medics, which really turns the crowd
against them. Most of the easy exits from the parking lot are blocked by
clumps of protestors. Repeated efforts by the cops to clear a path through
the crowd fail.

Eventually, the police have the nazis trying to escape down an
alley.
Local crews lead the black bloc the way through alleys to catch the nazis
at the other end. At one of these alleyways one of the nazis trys to run down
the crowd with his white pickup truck hitting atleast one person
(black bloc, sprained shoulder by He's doing well :), possibly others,
including a young local girl which again really pisses of the locals. The
nazi flees back down the alley toward the parking lot, where the cops
sieze his truck.

Now whatever nazis could escape, try to going along different routes
and protesters attack them everywhere they find them, alley to alley,
street
to street. Lots of busted windows and bloody nazi faces. In one
confrontation with another white pickup truck with white supremacist
stickers, busted out windows and packed with nazis... after being attacked
by a crowd, on of the nazis waves a gun and the crowd backs down.

Elsewhere nazis are harrassed and chased out of the city. Literally,
they were run out of town.

There were 25 arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct who were all
released by the evening. Two people had bails set at $500, which were
paid, and another has a bail of $25,000 and been charged with "assaulting a
police horse".

The best part of it all is that they were run out of town by
multi-racial working class crews spontaneously organized (though using the
organized anarchist/anti-racist action presence as a seed to grow) kicked
the nazis out of town.

Subject: Re: York street fighting between neo-Nazis, anti-racists leads to
25 arrests

there were 24 anarchists arrested, and 1 nazi. the nazi was the one who
charged the crowd with his car, and they probably got them because among
the people he hit with his car was a cop. the cops were very much on the
nazis side, to the point where one officer was seen during one of the more
intense points doing a nazi salute and yelling "white power!". the york police
force was very bigoted.