Olympia Community Again Kicks Neo-Nazis Out of Town, April 2nd , 2006. By Peter Bohmer
Introduction and Context:
On Sunday, April 2nd, a counter-demonstration, led by the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace (OMJP), ran the neo-Nazi, National Socialist Movement (NSM) out of our town The NSM has targeted Olympia, Washington as a major location for demonstrating their white-supremacist and anti-Jewish message and as a place where they hope to recruit disaffected white youth. They first attempted to rally in Olympia on January 22nd of this year. We found out 24 hours before their scheduled rally of their plans. On the 22nd, the nine of them who appeared were surrounded by 200 community members who verbally but not physically challenged their message of racial hate. They left after about an hour, returning to the Seattle area…
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Talk at an anti-Nazi Rally, April 2006