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(36,352 posts)West and the many antifa church groups. My Cuba travel companion told me these five points (my orgnization, and taken from my notes as he spoke) by skype, the day after the Charlottesville 'event':
1. The country witnessed, and the city acknowledged, a clear, unequivocal victory for the antifa organizers, the vast majority of whom were from churches, led by the church closest to the march site, the United Methodist Church. They were those you saw in videos on either side of the paraders.
2. The antifa showed organized solidarity in direct action by setting up tear gas stations, medical help stations, cleanup stations. The Durham Solidarity Committee runs a bail bond fund for antifa arrestees in Charlottesville.
3. Some seasoned antifa activists were shaken by this event because they're used to confronting evil corporate entities, not fellow Americans with guns.
Cornel West, who has received many, many, many death threats throughout his life, and who my friend marched with, said he'd never seen anything like this.
4. The city itself has become dangerous because these supremacists work themselves into mob behavior, dispersing into roving bands of attackers throughout the city.
5. Heather Heyer had never had a single protest experience, prior to this one, in her short life.