White Supremacists to Hold Event Around Boston this Weekend

This Saturday, April 11th, a white supremacist event called “Patriot Action” is scheduled to take place in the Boston area. The event, which is a concert, speaking event and fundraiser, is expected to draw over one-hundred Nazis, Fascists and white supremacists from all over the country to the Boston area.

The group hosting the event is East Coast White Unity, a Chelsea-based group under the leadership of Scott Clark, a long time white power organizer in the Northeast.

Bands from New York, Texas and California will be playing during the concert segment of the event, followed by speakers including influential Neo-Nazi and “White Revolution” leader Billy Roper.

A recently formed coalition of organizations in Boston calling itself Boston Anti-Racist Coalition (BARC) have been organizing to oppose and ultimately stop the event since it was announced over a month ago. The group has been working closely with anti-racist groups all over the Northeast.

When it was discovered that the event would take place at a VFW in South Boston, flyers went out urging a massive call-in campaign to the VFW, asking them to cancel the event, and announcing a march on the event on April 11th. The VFW immediately cancelled the event, stating publicly “we want no part of that. It has no place here, and it ain’t welcome. We shut it down as soon as we knew.”

According to the Boston Globe, Roper has announced that the event will still take place at an undisclosed back-up venue. BARC is working to make sure there is a community response wherever the event is planned. They are calling on all individuals and community groups concerned with the eradication of hate groups from Boston to keep their eyes and ears open and to be in contact. BARC can be contacted at antiracistboston@gmail.com.