PORTLAND REPORTBACK! (via RASH NW)
Rock Against
Fascism 1 Portland Oregon
On January 20th in Portland Oregon R.A.S.H. NW
(Red & Anarchist Skinheads) with Red and Black Subculture Club held our first
Rock Against Fascism event in Portland Oregon. This event had some very amazing
performers. Over 300 people attended the show in
this small cider brewery. We anticipated disruption from local fascists and
Alt-Right groups but none showed and the night was a blast. We had several
groups such as Rose City Antifa, the Portland IWW GDC, and Emerald City No
Platform tabling for their organizations. The entertainment set was as follows:
The DJ crew Left of the Dial All Workers Vinyl, from Oakland
California playing reggae, soul, and punk tracks prior to and in-between the
bands. The music played by left of the dial was leftist workers and antifascist
tracks primarily.
The first band to play was Empire Justice from Seattle
Washington playing Hardcore music based in leftist politic. Empire justice had
a great energy and really set the mood of the night.
The second band that played was called All Worked Up a
Punk/Oi! Band comprised of Portland anti-racist skins and punks.
After All worked up Glenn Waco was on the mic playing hip-hop.
Glenn Waco is very active in the local activist scene with groups like Don’t
Shoot Portland and in many other areas.
After Glenn Waco was the third band a Portland Oi! Staple The Chartbusters, playing older and original Oi! Songs
Mic Crenshaw was the final act headlining the show, with
political and social charged hip hop. He is a long time time activist who was an original member of the
MPLS Baldies who later went on to found A.R.A. (Anti-Racist Action), Mic has
also been very involved in the Afrikan Hip Hop Caravan, and has helped build
community centers in different areas in Africa. Mic is very involved to this
day in community organizing.
The goal of this particular event was twofold:
1) to use music to bring people together in
the community that may not typically socialize together in a social setting due
to being in separate subcultures. To bring people together is an important way
to build both community and resistance to the oppressions and injustices that
we all face on different level every day.
2) to raise money to donate to groups that help in the fight against Fascism
and the injustices we face under an oppressive white settler capitalist system.
For this event we chose the International Antifascist Defense Fund. We believe
the International Antifascist defense fund has and does provide a very
important resource worldwide to Antifascists on the front lines with much
needed legal defense funds. We are happy to say we were able to raise a total
of $864.00 to the International Anti-Fascist defense fund with the proceeds
made from the event.
R.A.S.H. NW has our next Rock Against Fascism event “the
Punks and Skins Strike Back” Scheduled for March 29th 2018 in
Portland Oregon. The profits from our next event will go to local antifascist
collectives. Visit our pages R.A.S.H NW and/or the Red and Black Subculture Club
for more info.
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