Rerelease of our episode 49 about Anti-Racist Action in Minneapolis, because
we are currently trying to co-publish a book, We Go Where They Go: The Story
of Anti-Racist Action, which is the definitive history of the group across the
US. To fund its publication, we are currently running a Kickstarter campaign
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Anti-Racist Action (ARA) started in Minneapolis and is a predecessor to the
crews often now called antifa. ARA started in 1987 with a multiracial group of
teenage skinheads who fought the rising white power movement. It grew into a
network of groups in at least 120 towns and cities across the US and Canada.
ARA’s first principle was: “We go where they go. Never let the Nazis have the
streets.” They eventually applied that not only to white power organising, but
to homophobic and anti-abortion organizing, and to police violence, which they
saw as all connected. Producer and host Anna Stitt tells the story of the
group in Minneapolis through vivid first-person accounts, archival audio, and
music from the era. It starts under the railroad tracks in Uptown, Minneapolis
and traces a movement that continues to shape the US to this day.
Learn about the group across the US in the forthcoming book, We Go Where They
Go, which you can preorder from our Kickstarter here:
More information about this episode, photos, full acknowledgements and a
transcript here on our website:
Listen to our exclusive bonus episode, where we discussed the topic further
with Anna, and listen to more tape from participants about their early lives,
political backgrounds and more on patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/e49-1-anti-bonus-46081746
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