antifa notes (nov 8, 2024) : vEry bad poetry (and even worse prose)

Posted on November 8, 2024 by @ndy

¡Viva Presidente Trump!

So Cheet0 Mussolini defeated Kommunist Kamala and will now RETVRN to his Golden Throne in the White House. TLDR : this is (Very) Bad News for workers and the environment but Good News for Christian nationalists in the United States and a major shot in the arm for right-wing authoritarians the world over. Further, having already stacked the Supreme Court, Trump’s re-ascension to the Presidency has been further augmented by his party gaining control of the Senate and, possibly, the House of Representatives (and thus Congress as a whole).

Insofar as Number 47 has a coherent political program, the implementation of ‘Project 2025’ means the ‘mass deportation’ of migrant workers, purging the US federal government of civil servants who aren’t loyal to him, dismantling critical elements of the public education and healthcare systems (including imposing even harsher restrictions on abortion access and reproductive freedoms generally), the near-total abolition of environmental protections and so on and so forth.

In response, the Australian government has declared its unwavering support for AUKUS and former Prime Minister now US Ambassador KRudd has deleted some unfortunate tweets.

See also : The Rise of the Online Villains, KT Nelson, The Idiot Box, November 7, 2024 /// Milestones, Mark Korov, n+1, November 6, 2024 /// History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy (Why the Democrats Are Responsible for Donald Trump’s Return to Power), CrimethInc, November 6, 2024 /// Trump’s victory: “Manipulable, Aggrieved, Gullible, Ahistorical”, Louis Further, Freedom, November 6, 2024.

Nazi Deadshit Poets Society

In the film Dead Poets Society, maverick teacher John Keating returned in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys’ boarding school where he was once a star student and used poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression. In the Nazi-inspired drama known as the National Socialist Network (NSN), University High School graduate Jacob Hersant found himself before the courts (again) on November 8, 2024, when he was sentenced to one month in prison for composing some astonishingly overwrought poetry saluting An Her0 Adolf.

Hersant’s sentence — which, like his conviction, he’s appealing while on bail — comes just a day after police detained him and three other NSN members: NSN lvl boss Tom Sewell, and two of his other flunkeys (Nathan Bull and Will Casdorff). They’re collectively alleged to have engaged in serious racial vilification, grossly offensive public conduct and intimidating police. (See : Man charged with threatening police, three others expected to be charged over serious racial vilification, ABC, November 7, 2024.) Hersant received a Community Correction Order for 14 months on 27 October 2023 and was instructed to ‘not commit any offence punishable by imprisonment for the next 14 months’ or the length of his Order, with Her Honour Judge Blair stating ‘If you do not comply with the conditions of this order then you will be in breach and you will be brought back to me and I may have to resentence you’.

Sad!

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #228 w Noelle Cook on JAN 6, conspiracists & right-wing women : November 7, 2024

Posted on November 6, 2024 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Noelle Cook [X/Twitter].

Noelle is an ethnographer and the associate producer of The Conspiracists, which focuses on a woman convicted for storming The Capitol on January 6th as she embarks on a road trip with director, Liz Smith and ethnographer, Noelle Cook, aiming to “awaken” them to her 5D world. As they encounter various conspiracy theorists along the way, the film explores the dangerous impact of such beliefs on society.

She is also currently working on a book with the working title of The Conspiracists: White Women, Extremism & the Lure of Belonging.

4.30pm, Thursday, November 7, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Rising Tides

Posted on November 1, 2024 by @ndy

Blue

Later in November …

The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port
Newcastle Protestival: November 22-24
Newcastle & Canberra, Australia

Organised by way of Rising Tide Australia:

We are the rising tide of ordinary people, called by extraordinary times. We are a diverse movement demanding Australia honours our commitment to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. We are prepared to take whatever peaceful actions are within our power to defend the climate.

Currently, NSW police are in the NSW Supreme Court trying to stop ‘ordinary people’ from stopping the operations of the world’s largest coal port by way of challenging Rising Tide’s ‘Form 1’ (a notice of intention to hold a public assembly).

Rising Tide has published a statement on the action which you can read here.

See also : NSW Police try to stop People’s Blockade of world’s largest coal port, Isaac Nellist, Green Left, October 30, 2024 /// ‘Wicked problem’: five charts that show how the climate crisis is making Australia more dangerous, Graham Readfearn, The Guardian, October 3, 2024 /// Australia must earn right to host UN climate conference by phasing out fossil fuels, Stephen Long, The New Daily, October 31, 2024 /// Honest Government Ad | COP31 /// A Fair COP31: The 2026 UN Climate Conference, Tom Hawking and Polly Hemming, The Australia Institute, June 9, 2023.

In other news, ‘Spain mourns as death toll passes 150 in catastrophic floods’ (BBC, October 31, 2024), with dozens missing as as a result of ‘torrential rains and flash floods, which largely affected Valencia, as well as Castilla-La Mancha in Andalusia, and as far south as Malaga’. As reported by the ABC, ‘Scientists say a warming planet is at play, and extreme weather events are occurring more frequently and in much greater strength than ever before’.

Red

Forensic Architecture has produced a report — A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli Military’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023 — to produce ‘A Cartography of Genocide in Gaza’:

Since the start of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in October 2023, Forensic Architecture has been collecting data related to attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure by the Israeli military. Our analysis of this conduct reveals the near-total destruction of civilian life in Gaza. We have also collected and analysed evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military directing Palestinian civilians to areas of Gaza designated as ‘safe’. These orders have resulted in the repeated, large-scale displacement of the Palestinian population across Gaza, often to areas which subsequently came under attack.

The patterns we have observed concerning Israel’s military conduct in Gaza indicate a systematic and organised campaign to destroy life, conditions necessary for life, and life-sustaining infrastructure.

In addition, Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, has produced a report on ‘Genocide as colonial erasure’ which:

… examines the unfolding horrors in the occupied Palestinian territory. While the wholesale destruction of Gaza continues unabated, other parts of the land have not been spared. The violence that Israel has unleashed against the Palestinians post-7 October is not happening in a vacuum, but is part of a long-term intentional, systematic, State-organized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians. This trajectory risks causing irreparable prejudice to the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine. Member States must intervene now to prevent new atrocities that will further scar human history.

In the meantime, ‘The Albanese Government has referred antisemitism at Australian universities to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights for inquiry and report’. This follows a series of recent incidents, including a cake stall at USyd, arrests at a protest at UWS and, in a ‘highly irregular’ move, students at UniMelb having claimed ‘to have begun the process of referring the university to the ICC, saying they have evidence of partnerships linked with weapons companies and operations on occupied Palestinian land’.

And so on.

Further, Wollongong Friends of Palestine are organising a picket:

See also : Israelism: The awakening of young American Jews, which ‘sparked huge debate on American campuses even before the events of October 7, 2023’ and of course: NEVER READ THE COMMENTS.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #227 w Rebecca Yeo on Disabling Migration Controls : October 31, 2024

Posted on October 30, 2024 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Rebecca Yeo [X/Twitter]. Rebecca is an activist and academic specialising in issues of disability and migrant justice and the author of Disabling Migration Controls: Shared Learning, Solidarity, and Collective Resistance (Routledge 2024). The book is Open Access and you can do yourselves a favour and grab a copy at the link above.

When people are prevented from meeting their needs, the impact is disabling, whether in the immigration system or in the wider population. Drawing on many years of research and activism, this book argues that insights from the disabled people’s movement, particularly the original Social Model of Disability, can be usefully extended to focus resistance on the disabling restrictions imposed on people subject to asylum and immigration controls.

While acknowledging the pain and discomfort of many impairments and of forced displacement, the book focuses on injustices that can be changed. It does not catalogue the hostility of the ‘hostile environment’. Nor does it promote inclusive asylum restrictions. An unjust system is not transformed by including disabled people. Policies designed to deprive people of essential needs and to stoke hatred among the wider population are core elements of the rise of fascism. In this context, bringing together movements for disability and migrant justice could help build urgently needed solidarity and resistance with which to develop a society based on equity and common humanity.

Quotations and images are used to convey the messages and priorities of disabled people seeking asylum, ensuring that the book is both engaging and grounded in the insights of lived experience. This book will interest people seeking to improve social justice, including scholars of disability, migration, sociology and politics.

Rebecca is also involved in the Disability Murals project. We spoke to Rebecca about the project, her book, the social model of disability (and its radical implications), the disabling effects of and damage wrought by hostile environments, immigration controls and austerity, and sources of collective resistance. For more infos, please see the The Disability and Migration Network : ‘The lives of Disabled people and people without migration status are impoverished and restricted by deliberate policies, routine practices and the ways that society is organised. This is not inevitable’ : solidarity > borders.

See/hear also : Raising Our Voices (‘a self advocacy radio show run by people with disability on 3CR’) /// There’s a floating ‘recipe for disaster’ off England’s coast — it has links to Australia, Riley Stuart, ABC, August 10, 2023 /// Crossborder Operational Matters.

4.30pm, Thursday, October 31, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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antifa notes (october 28, 2024) : no candace for you /// let the sun shine in

Posted on October 28, 2024 by @ndy

Turning Point Fortress Australia

Unsurprisingly, batshit right-wing Yanqui binfluencer (and mAAAd Trumpist) Candace Owens has been denied a visa to Australia, thus preventing her from entertaining the local Turning Point fanboys and other political bizarr0s who’d planned on attending her performances next month. With Cheet0 Mussolini even odds to RETVRN to the White House next week, I’m reminded of Owens’ incredible testimony at the House Judiciary Committee hearing into ‘Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism’ in April 2019, which included the classic line ‘If [the Democrats] actually were concerned about White nationalism, they would be holding hearings on Antifa, a far-left violent White gang’. That, and the fact that at the same event a funny statement she made at the launch of Turning Point UK in December 2018 was played:

I agree. I actually don’t have any problems at all with the word ‘nationalism’. I think that it gets — the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don’t want. So, when you think about whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler. You know, he was a national socialist. But if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is, is that he wanted — he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German —

— and nobody likes a thinker. Still, like Daddy Trump, there’s no argument that Owens has the best words.

As the basis for his decision to deny her a visa, Immigration Minister Tony Burke has claimed that Owens ‘incite discord in almost every direction’ and that ‘Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else’ (see : Conservative US commentator Candace Owens refused entry to Australia ahead of national speaking tour, Melissa Mackay, ABC, October 27, 2024 /// Australia rejects visa application by rightwing US pundit Candace Owens, Josh Butler, The Guardian, October 27, 2024). Further, ‘Burke told Nine newspapers in August that he had asked his department for a brief on her visit and consulted the federal antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal’, though I’m unaware of exactly what Segal provided to him in way of response.

No doubt that there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of tour promoters Rocksman (George Zacharia) and Turning Point Australia (Joel Jammal).

Speaking of Turning Point, in the UK on the weekend Lawrence Fox was a no-show at the London rally for the patron saint of gammon, ‘Tommy Robinson’ (AKA Stephen Yaxley-Lennon). Former tanning-salon owner Yaxley-Lennon was also absent, having been remanded in custody for being a naughty boy. Still, along with a glittering array of local talent, ‘there were a number of international guests including Lutz Bachman from PEGIDA in Germany, Ezra Levant from Rebel Media in Canada and a group of speakers from the French Identitarian group Collectif Némésis’.

In other news, a very patriotic fellow (neo-Nazi) from Worcester by the name of Callum Parslow was convicted of the attempted murder an Eritrean man a few days ago. ‘Parslow said he “spent a lot of time on the internet”, while working night shifts and having no social life. “I would get angry seeing a lot of the articles that were online,” he said. “It just makes you angry.”’

‘Concerning.’

Sunshine Days

I recently read Vashti Fox’s PhD thesis “I believe in the sun. Even when it’s not shining:” Militant antifascism in Australia, 1970-2016 (UWA, 2024). It’s an interesting account, traversing many key moments in the recent history of anti-fascist political activism in Australia. We interviewed Vashti about anti-fascism in 1970s Melbourne & 1980s Perth in November 2021 (see/hear also : James Hogg on Greek & Yugoslavian Anti-Fascism in Melbourne’s “Long 1960s”, September 2024) for YNP! and I was one of a number of people Vashti interviewed as part of her research. On my reading:

The analysis applies a fairly conventional Marxist framework to the subject — one supplemented by the critical distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘militant’ antifascism — in an attempt to formulate (the beginnings of) a localised (Australian) form of faschismustheorie: essentially, ‘how antifascist activists understand their opponents’. In this context, given that there’s been a relative paucity of scholarship on the subject, a focus upon the period 1970–2016 makes sense. And while I’d characterise ‘liberal antifascism’ as being a ‘natural’ (or inevitable) expression of hegemonic liberalism (including in its social democratic forms), ‘militant antifascism’ is further distinguished by Fox between its ‘anarchist’ and ‘socialist’ manifestations. This dynamic duo shares a rejection of the former, but according to Fox often diverges on questions of organisation and political strategy (and, to some extent, their understanding of ‘fascism’). This, at least, is the broad outline (Chapters One and Two) of the thesis, filled in by detailed examinations of particular events, mostly centred on Melbourne, in Chapters Three to Seven.

You can read some further reflections on Patreon.

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antifa notes (october 20, 2024) : Heil Hanley Memorial Hall! Heil Corowa War Memorial!

Posted on October 20, 2024 by @ndy

Briefly:

Mr Cottrell Goes To Staffordshire

Above (TOP, L to R) : Blair Cottrell, Tom Sewell, Tim Lutze, Jim/eone Roberts at the now-closed neo-Nazi Legacy Boxing Gym in Sunshine West (BOTTOM) : National Socialist Network at Legacy.

As detailed by Red Flare and Searchlight, this weekend witnessed a conference organised by UK-BASED! fascist/neo-Nazi grouplet ‘Patriotic Alternative’ (PA). Taking place at Hanley Memorial Hall in Burton-on-Trent — ‘built in 1962’, the Hall is ‘on the site of the village ‘Hut’, destroyed by the Fauld explosion in 1944’ and ‘commemorates the 78 people, many from the village, who perished in the explosion’ — the choice of location for the Nazi re-enactors was, in one sense, a fitting tribute to the war dead of the smol town in Staffordshire, and starred a glittering array of local and foreign talent, including British neo-Nazi James Owens AKA The Ayatollah, fascist survivalist Simon Birkett, PA leader Mark Collett and deputy leader Laura Melia (AKA Laura Towler), and failed Frankston fuehrer Blair Cottrell. According to Searchlight (Veteran hardline German nazi allowed into the UK for fascist rally, October 19, 2024):

As Searchlight reported yesterday, one guest was Australian nazi and convicted criminal Blair Cottrell. Joining him today, in front of an audience that included veteran British nazis Mark Cotterill and notorious Holocaust revisionist Lady Michèle Renouf, was the Bavarian stormtrooper Sascha Rossmüller, from what used to be the NPD and is now (confusingly for British readers) called Heimat (Homeland).

I was mildly surprised to read about Lady Renouf’s attendance as I’d half assumed she was dead, having last read (and written) about Lady Susan Michèle Mainwairing Renouf Et Cetera 15 years ago in connection to good Nazi and semi-pro Holocaust denialist Fred Töben. Otherwise: both Red Flare and Searchlight make reference to Cottrell’s criminal record, which includes a conviction in September 2017 for ‘serious religious vilification’ (after a batshit publicity stunt in opposition to a mosque project in the Victorian town of Bendigo) and various offences he committed when, as a ‘young scamp’, he embarked upon a minor terror campaign directed at an ex-girlfriend and her then-new partner. Oddly, Kate Kniveton, the former local Tory MP for the seat of Burton and Uttoxeter, was ‘a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Domestic Violence and Abuse, and the Midlands Engine’ (Kniveton lost to Labour’s Jacob Collier at this year’s general election).

Incidentally, Angelos Frangopoulos, the media figure responsible for Cottrell ‘controversially’ being subjected to a frenly interview on Murdoch’s right-wing propaganda outlet Sky News Australia in August 2018, is now CEO of the vewy angwy GB News.

Mr Sewell Goes to Corowa

Last weekend, Cottrell’s kamerad Tom Sewell and his nazi gang the ‘National Socialist Network’ (NSN) marched around the town of Corowa in NSW before settling outside its war memorial to squawk about White Australia. The event attracted some startled (and unsympathetic) locals as well as subsequent (and typically gormless) media reportage: so far, so typical.

In any case, while neo-Nazis parading about in pseudo-black bloc drag is hardly novel (see, for example, Sydney in November 2012 and Melbourne in July 2016), what’s remarkable about these media spectacles is their size and frequency. Hence, prior to last weekend’s excursion, the NSN had conducted nazi fashion shoots in Adelaide (September, 2024), Brisbane (August, 2024), Sydney (January, 2024), Ballarat (December 2023) and Melbourne (August and July 2024, and October, September (twice), (*Geelong in July), May and March 2023). Otherwise, they belong to a longer tradition of far-right mobilisations, dating back to 2015, in which a number of the principal figures in the NSN were also leading participants (albeit it took several years for them to step out of their Nazi closets).

Given that their antics are aimed at, first, content creation (for the consumption of both a local and international audience) and, secondly, generating uncritical media attention, I see no good reason why they’d stop.

See also : Neo-Nazis [sic] Mobilisations Are Becoming Normalised on Australian Streets, Paul Gregoire, Sydney Criminal Lawyers, October 17, 2024 /// Why neo-Nazis rallied in a country town, ABC News Daily, October 17, 2024 /// The Source: Lunch could bring Corowa white supremacists unstuck, Herald Sun, October 15, 2024 /// Reverse racism?msicar esreveR, February 21, 2010.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #226 w Jason Wilson on Presidential America : October 17, 2024

Posted on October 15, 2024 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to semi-regular US correspondent Jason Wilson [Bluesky, X/Twitter], whom we last spoke to in May. Jason is a reporter covering the far right and writes for The Guardian, where his latest articles include:

• Extremist who trained GOP poll watchers will speak at Washington event with two rightwingers, October 10
• Marco Rubio-linked thinktank produces anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory videos, October 5
• Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right, September 28
• Activist with far-right ties fronts Marco Rubio-linked anti-immigration effort, September 22
• Trump ally Laura Loomer called herself ‘white advocate’, audio reveals, September 15

We spoke to Dr Wilson about the US Presidential election and creeping screaming fascism, Vice-Presidential eyeliner, Hurricane FEMA, award-winning 110% not-Nazi poetry and more.

4.30pm, Thursday, October 17, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Jacob Hersant : He’s not the fuehrer, he’s just a very naughty boy.

Posted on October 8, 2024 by @ndy

[Update (October 9, 2024) : Hersant has received a custodial sentence, walked, and will RETVRN for sentencing on October 23 November 8.]

Today, local neo-Nazi Lad Jacob Hersant was found guilty of being a very naughty boy: viz, falling foul of the Summary Offences Amendment (Nazi Salute Prohibition) Act 2023, which makes it a criminal offence, under the Summary Offences Act 1966, to engage in Nazi antics of the sort he did outside the County Court in October last year.

Sieg FAIL!

On that occasion, Hersant and his fuehrer, Tom Sewell, were spared jail after they plead guilty to a charge of ‘violent disorder’ following assaults upon a group of hikers in May 2021. Hersant’s naughty also follows several months after fellow (now former) European Australian Movement/National Socialist Network member Stefan Eracleous got a slap on the wrist for threatening federal Senator Lidia Thorpe. Oddly, Little Stefan’s kamerad and collaborator, Jim/eone Roberts, was never charged for the offence but, like the dynamic duo in October, was also spared jail for being cheeky; in Jim’s case, after being found guilty, in August 2022, of ‘one of the most disgusting, vile, repugnant acts of anti-Semitism and racial behaviour that [the presiding magistrate had] ever seen’. It’s further worth noting that, during the course of Hersant and Sewell’s trial in October 2021:

Prosecutor Danielle Guesdon earlier failed in a bid to have Sewell and Hersant’s supporters removed from court over “coded hate speech”.

She said a man using the name Jimeone Roberts posted coded messages in the online court’s chat function and later held up a sign saying “Free Tom Sewell”.

The alleged victims were concerned for their safety and feared they were being recorded by supporters, she said.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, to his credit, Hersant — now a relative veteran of the neo-Nazi movement — was unapologetic for his Nazi display last year and, following today’s conviction, outside court reiterated his support for the Nazi cause. From a political perspective, this refusal wins him Brownie points among his comrades, both in Australia and the global neo-Nazi network but, in the legal domain, is unlikely to assist him when he’s sentenced tomorrow: the maximum penalty for this sort of public Nazi stoopid is a $23,000 fine (a missed opportunity to apply an $88,000 penalty, in mein opinion), 12 months’ jail, or both. In which case, the ‘good luck’ wished upon him the last time Hersant encountered a sentencing magistrate may well have run out.

The EAM/NSN has gained no smol degree of notoriety since its formation in late 2019 and early 2020, with its assembly on the steps of the state parliament in March last year in support of Lady Parker’s anti-trans publicity stunt being perhaps the most remarkable public display on their part thus far. (The legal and political fallout from that event — in particular, Moira Deeming’s defamation case against the Victorian Liberals’ party leader John Pesutto — is still making its way through the federal court.) Lady Parker was herself scheduled for a royal command performance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane on the weekend but, sadly, one failed to secure a visa in time.

Last year’s CPAC did of course feature Deeming, along with part-time Holocaust revisionist Elijah Schaffer. This year, in the interests of balance, perhaps, CPAC treated its Boomerwaffen audience to a presentation by a Holocaust survivor. Finally, while last year’s event was co-sponsored by Christian nationalist crowdfunder Give Send Go (who’ve provided a vital financial lifeline to the EAM/NSN), in 2024 CPAC relied upon Advance and the IPA.

Who said there’s no such thing as progress?

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #225 w Talia Lavin on Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America : October 10, 2024

Posted on October 7, 2024 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Talia Lavin [X/Twitter, Bluesky]. Talia is a journalist and writer and a keen fan of swords and sandwiches. Her latest book is titled Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America (Hachette) and answers the question ‘WWJD?’ if he was an American warlord rather than a Jewish pacifist.

All across America, a storm is gathering: from book bans in school libraries to anti-trans laws in state legislatures; firebombings of abortion clinics and protests against gay rights. The Christian Right, a cunning political force in America for more than half a century, has never been more powerful than it is right now—it propelled Donald Trump to power, and it won’t stop until it’s refashioned America in its own image.

In Wild Faith, critically acclaimed author Talia Lavin goes deep into what motivates the Christian Right, from its segregationist past to a future riddled with apocalyptic ideology.

Wild Faith is released in the US next week and in Australia in December. Pre-orders are encouraged and you can read an excerpt — ‘Breaking a Child’s Will: The Evangelical family’s twisted obsession with corporal punishment’ here. The book covers a lot of territory: inter alia, we spoke to Talia about the war on gender non-conformity, wooden spoons and child indoctrination, Christian Zionism and Revelation. (We last spoke to Talia in October 2020 about Culture Warlords.)

4.30pm, Thursday, October 10, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #224 w Tinfoil Tales on Urban Street c00kers, councils & conspiracists : October 3, 2024

Posted on October 2, 2024 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to SOS and Sandee of Tinfoil Tales [X/Twitter, Patreon]. We last spoke to the story-tellers in June, and in this episode we RETVRN to have some further discussion on …

… nazis & other weird0es relocating from The Polish Club in Rowville to Urban Street in McKinnon (Teal MP Zoe Daniel says a gathering by the National Workers Alliance will ‘exacerbate anxiety’ among Jewish constituents, as the eatery that hosted the function says it will likely be forced to close down), c00kers fussin’ and fightin’ about disinformation and misinformation in Sydney on the weekend, the recent election of some Very Interesting Persons to local councils, Lady Parker’s March 18, 2023 publicity stunt and the ensuing courtroom dramarama — and more.

See also : Conspiracists and people linked to anti-lockdown campaigner among 120 ‘fringe’ candidates in NSW council elections, Catie McLeod, The Guardian, September 13, 2024.

4.30pm, Thursday, October 3, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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