Rally for Unity, Diversity and Solidarity Newport Beach CA Saturday, March
30, 12 noon
OPPOSE MATT HALE & THE RACIST WCOTC!
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Matt Hale, leader of the racist World Church of the Creator (WCOTC), is
coming to southern CA. Local members scheduled a speech by Hale on Sat.,
March 30 at 2:00 PM at the Marina Library/Victor Jorgenson Community Center
in Newport Beach. ARA (Anti-Racist Action) calls for all concerned people
to gather in the park outside the library at noon to rally for unity,
diversity and solidarity and make clear to Hale and his followers that his
message of "racial holy war" is not welcome, and will be repudiated.
Violence follows Hale wherever he goes. In his speeches, he presents WCOTC
as a political group committed to a strategy of winning people to its
racist cause by legal means, but the reality is different. What attracts
many members of the WCOTC is the organization's calls for "racial holy war"
(RAHOWA) and genocide. Hale tries to put a rational face to this murderous
racism, but the constant challenge applied around the country by
Anti-Racist Action (ARA) and other activists and community people has
exposed the group's true nature. WCOTC rank and file members have
repeatedly disobeyed Hale's pleas, and fought against protesters. WCOTC is
not a passive organization; it is a violent fascist group whose members are
responsible for shootings, bombings, and racial attacks. It's not
surprising that they respond with violence to ARA's anti-racist organizing
and presence.
Hale is condemned in his own words. In October, 2000, his own press release
called WCOTC "the fastest growing White racist and anti-Semitic
organization in the world" and called for a "day of rage" to demonstrate
opposition to Jews around the world. In responding to community opposition
to him in his home base of Peoria IL, Hale declared: "These politicians
apparently feel that having n*gg*rs and other subhumans in our
neighborhoods is healthy for the people. We need complete separation. We
need to drive the inferior mud races from our neighborhoods, our
communities, and eventually the country. Integration is a crime against our
White people and must NOT be tolerated." Church of the Creator was founded
by old-time racist Ben Klassen, and was driven out of business when a
member killed a Black Gulf War GI. To escape liability, Klassen turned his
assets over to William Pierce of the National Alliance, another nazi group.
(Pierce wrote the "Turner Diaries," which inspired Tim McVeigh). After
Klassen died, Hale emerged as a leader of the 'new' WCOTC, which has been
closely allied with the National Alliance.
Rev. Stephen T. Anderson, a Black minister shot three times by "former"
WCOTC member Ben Smith is suing Hale in federal court in Illinois, charging
that Hale and the WCOTC conspired with Benjamin Smith to launch a "racial
holy war" against Blacks, Jews, Asians and other non-whites. In July 1999,
Smith shot at some 18 people, killing two, a Black coach and a Korean man,
and wounding nine others. Smith was a member of Hale's WCOTC; the two had
been personally associated in its work, and Smith had appeared as a
character witness for Hale in his (rejected) application for a license to
practice law in Illinois.
In York Pennsylvania in January, Hale scheduled an appearance after the
mayor, an ex-cop, was charged for a racially-motivated murder that took
place in the 1960's. One of Hale's followers, Adam Dohrenwend, is now on
trial for pointing a gun out his pickup truck window at protesters. Richard
Desper, another white supremacist supporter of Hale's, a Hammerskin, is
charged with four counts of aggravated assault for striking a police
officer and three other people with his pickup truck, including a protester
and a young girl. York residents united with anti-racists and anti-fascists
to boot Hale and his nazi entourage out of town.
Also in January, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that Hale could be
charged with violating a state law that requires charities to register and
report their finances to the government. The court rejected Matt Hale's
argument that the law is unconstitutionally vague. Illinois Attorney
General Jim Ryan sued Hale's World Church of the Creator in 1999 for
failing to register as a charity and disclose its finances. The lawsuit was
filed just days after Smith's shooting.
DIRECTIONS: The Marina Library/Vincent Jorgenson Center, site of the speech
and the protest is at 2005 Dover Drive, Newport Beach, CA. Take the 405
south to the 55 south. Stay on the 55 until it ends and turns into Newport
Blvd. Take the first left onto 19th St. Follow it all the way to Irvine
Avenue. Once you cross Irvine, 19th Street becomes Dover Drive. Dover can
also be reached from West (Pacific) Coast Highway.
Sponsored by Anti-Racist Action (ARA)/People Against Racist Terror
For more information, call the Anti-Racist Action Hotline: 310-495-0299
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