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Film Night: ‘Antifa – The Film’

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“How bad does it have to be before you fight back?
Because if we agree it was fine to fight the nazis in WW2, what about when they had just gained power? What about when they were an ascendant fascist political force or what about, as antifascists argue, when they were just starting out, when it would have been easier to stop their movement…”

Through interviews with anti-fascist organizers, historians, and political theorists in the US and Germany, the 2017 US documentary ‘Antifa – The Film’ discusses what fascism is and also explores the broader meaning of ‘Antifa’. That is, ‘who are anti-fascists? What motivates them to risk their lives to fight the far right? What is the history of militant anti-fascism and why is it relevant again today? How is anti-fascism connected to a larger political vision that can stop the rise of fascism and offer us visions of a future worth fighting for?’

Produced shortly after Charlottesville, the film also takes the viewer to scenes of modern opposition to fascists by Antifa in US – from Washington to Berkeley and Charlottesville.

Antifa: The Film will be followed by a discussion on opposing the rise of the far right in Aotearoa New Zealand.

6.30pm Wednesday 28 August, The Pyramid Club, 272 Taranaki St, Wgtn

Entry by donation.

The film is also a facebook event.

Public Meeting On Fascism and The Far Right

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Since the Christchurch attacks more and more people are speaking about the existence of a far-right presence in NZ but it also needs to be understood as part of a global right-wing extremist movement. What happened in Christchurch did not happen in a vacuum, the far-right continue to be active here.

Just in the first weeks of June there were racist attacks in Auckland, the etching of a Swastika into a grass berm in Te Horo, and then on 14 June outside the Christchurch court a person played nazi music and made racist comments during a court-hearing for the Christchurch killer.

At a recent trans-Tasman conference in Auckland Muslim women said that Islamophobia is worse now than it was before the Christchurch terror attack.

Come to the WARF meeting and hear speakers on a range of topics, including:
– Giacomo Lichtner talking the rise of fascism in the ’20s and parallels to today
– a researcher on online radicalisation and the alt-right
– and others on white supremacy and the far-right in NZ

Followed by a discussion on what all this means for us now & what we can do as a community going ahead.

Friday 28 June 2019 6:30pm – 8:30pm

St Andrews on the Terrace, 30 The Terrace, Wellington

Public Meeting on Fascism and the Far Right in NZ

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Join us for public meeting on Fascism and the Far Right in NZ

  • Hear speakers on a range of topics, including:
    the rise of fascism in the ’20s and parallels to today
  • online radicalisation and the alt-right
  • white supremacy in NZ

followed by a discussion on what all this means for us now & what we can do as a  community going ahead.

Friday 28 June
6.30pm
St. Andrews on the Terrace
30 The Terrace, Wellington

Organised by Wellington Against Racism and Fascism (WARF)

Download the poster here