{"id":429,"date":"2006-10-19T05:34:38","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2006-10-19T06:14:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T20:14:38","slug":"no-gary-no-more-on-neo-nazism-the-birmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"No Gary, No! More on neo-Nazism @ The Birmy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=409\">last month&#8217;s article<\/a> on <strong>The Birmingham Hotel<\/strong> (Cnr. Johnston &#038; Smith Sts, Fitzroy, 9417 2706) detailing its hosting a gig organised by two local neo-Nazi groups, <em>The Melbourne Times<\/em> has published another; this time reporting the racial abuse of a lone woman &#8212; by a group of <em>seven<\/em> men &#8212; on the same night, in Johnston St..<\/p>\n<div align = \"center\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/105\/273197060_3cfe6e579d_m.jpg\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Victim of white supremacist abuse returns to join protest chorus&#8217;<br \/>\nMarika Dobbin<br \/>\n<em>Melbourne Times<\/em><br \/>\nOctober 18, 2006<\/p>\n<p>    A LOCAL woman who was intimidated and racially abused by a group of men last month will attend a protest against neo-Nazism outside a Fitzroy pub.<\/p>\n<p>    A coalition of local groups is organising the &#8220;peace movement&#8221; in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=404\">a neo-Nazi concert at the Birmingham Hotel on Saturday, September 23<\/a>, held to commemorate the death of British white supremacist <em><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=405\">Ian Stuart<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>Ian couldn\u2019t drive a car<br \/>\nAs we all know<br \/>\nHe trusted too much in all his gods<br \/>\nAnd though he was a human being<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t feel any sorrow for him<\/p>\n<p>Now we got rid of one of those cunts<br \/>\nHe\u2019s been one of our most important enemies<br \/>\nSo we forget our respect for life<br \/>\nCause all he did was senseless shit<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019re here and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insurgence.net\/info.aspx?action=downloads\">having our fun<\/a><br \/>\nHaving our fun and thinking about him<br \/>\nHe\u2019s been the one who misused the word <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=50\">Skinhead<\/a><br \/>\nHe himself was never one &#8211; he was a fucking <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=309\">Bonehead<\/a><\/ul>\n<p>    Blondien (not her real name) says she was walking alone to her car on Johnston Street the same night when she was surrounded by about seven men. She says the men screamed abuse at her, calling her a black c..t and forcing her to repeat the insults.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;It&#8217;s disgusting that people would single out one person and you have to say stuff about your race to get out of it,&#8221; Blondien said.<\/p>\n<p>    <strong>Music is planned for the protest on Saturday, October 28, at 1pm outside the Birmingham.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Hotel co-owner Gary (who wouldn&#8217;t give his surname) said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not getting involved in someone else&#8217;s bullshit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    Anti-racism network <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fightdemback.org\">Fightdemback<\/a><\/strong>, one of the organisers, has called on the Tote Hotel to cancel a gig this Friday night by Brisbane satanic-black-metal group <strong>Gospel of the Horns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>    Gospel of the Horns&#8217; songs include <em>Vengeance is Mine<\/em>, <em>Call to Arms<\/em>, <em>Slaves<\/em> and <em>Trial of Mankind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>    Fightdemback member Cam Smith said the band had links to neo-Nazi groups and had played at white supremacist gigs.<\/p>\n<p>    However, Tote manager Lance Petrie said it was &#8220;bonehead rock&#8221;, not neo-Nazi music.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;We don&#8217;t let people in with swastikas on their coats,&#8221; Mr Petrie said. &#8220;I know one member of the band and it&#8217;s all long hair and leather, he&#8217;s certainly not into Nazism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    Protesters at the rally will hand out local flyers about neo-Nazism and ask shopkeepers to put anti-racism stickers in their windows.<\/p>\n<p>    A women&#8217;s collective representative helping to organise the event said it was important to send a message that racism was not welcome locally and make the Birmingham accountable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And of course, one of the simplest ways of making The Birmy accountable is to drink elsewhere; an option which a number of local punks failed to take when the annual punk pub crawl eventually wound its way to The Birmy last month. On the other hand, thus far, only a small number of local punk bands &#8212; <strong>Marching Orders<\/strong> and <strong>Slick 46<\/strong> from Melbourne and <strong>The Assailants<\/strong> and <strong>Standard<\/strong> &#8220;Our slogan is unionism not racism&#8221;! <strong>Union<\/strong> from Adelaide &#8212; have <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=420\">actively scabbed<\/a> on the boycott, and at least one band &#8212; to their credit &#8212; has cancelled a performance at the pub. Further, word is slowly circulating &#8212; both among locals but also among others in the hotel and music industry &#8212; that a boycott of the pub has been called for.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointingly, the pub owner Gary (whose surname I won&#8217;t publish &#8212; yet) has further entrenched his reputation for contempt for the local community: racial abuse is, apparently, &#8220;someone else&#8217;s bullshit&#8221;. This attitude is, of course, precisely what a growth in racism and fascism depends upon. (Gary isn&#8217;t a woman walking alone to her car, so why should he care?) That, and the provision of a platform from which to promulgate such doctrines; a platform which Gary has been only too happy to provide, and which some local punks (a\/k\/a <strong>scabs<\/strong>) have been only too happy to support&#8230; although presumably only after (cheerfully) having agreed to being stuffed head first into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ubu_Roi\">a disembraining machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And on a <em>lighter<\/em> note&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Paling into significance<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    NEO-NAZIS hate a lot of people, communists in particular.<\/p>\n<p>    So it is no surprise that Socialist-about-town Steve Jolly is particularly reviled by local Nazis, especially given his comments in our article three weeks ago about their get-together concert at the Birmingham Hotel in Fitzroy. Jolly&#8217;s gripes that Neo-Nazi groups were &#8220;dangerous fruitcakes&#8221; and into &#8220;genocide politics&#8221; have provoked angry responses on <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=94\">white nationalists&#8217; internet chat sites<\/a> [ie, Scumfront].<\/p>\n<p>    One furious chatter from NSW posted the councillor&#8217;s photograph on the site and labelled him Steve &#8220;I never get out in the sun much&#8221; Jolly, referring to his pasty complexion.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;Contact the healthy looking, ruddy-cheeked councillor&#8221; the chatter sarcastically implores his fascist mates.<\/p>\n<p>    Jolly certainly is pale, but Metropolis is confused, isn&#8217;t a porcelain skin a plus in neo-Nazi-land?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Which Side Are You On?<\/em><br \/>\nby Florence Reese<\/p>\n<p>Come all of you good workers<br \/>\nGood news to you I&#8217;ll tell<br \/>\nOf how that good old union<br \/>\nHas come in here to dwell<\/p>\n<p>      (Chorus)<br \/>\n      Which side are you on?<br \/>\n      Which side are you on?<br \/>\n      Which side are you on?<br \/>\n      Which side are you on?<\/p>\n<p>My daddy was a miner<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m a miner&#8217;s son<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll stick with the union<br \/>\nTill every battle&#8217;s won<\/p>\n<p>They say in Harlan County<br \/>\nThere are no neutrals there<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll either be a union man<br \/>\nOr a thug for J.H. Blair<\/p>\n<p>Oh, workers can you stand it?<br \/>\nOh, tell me how you can<br \/>\nWill you be a lousy scab<br \/>\nOr will you be a man?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t scab for the bosses<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t listen to their lies<br \/>\nUs poor folks haven&#8217;t got a chance<br \/>\nUnless we organize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following last month&#8217;s article on The Birmingham Hotel (Cnr. Johnston &#038; Smith Sts, Fitzroy, 9417 2706) detailing its hosting a gig organised by two local neo-Nazi groups, The Melbourne Times has published another; this time reporting the racial abuse of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","category-collingwood","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-6V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}