On April 29th, Mic Crenshaw and friends stopped in Atlanta for the It Did Happen Here book tour.

From the website for the book:
https://www.itdidhappenherepodcast.com/

"It Did Happen Here is an independently produced podcast and a collectively written book about anti-fascist struggles that took place in Portland, Oregon following the 1988 murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads. This is the story of how disparate groups used a diversity of tactics to fight neo-nazi violence and right wing organizing in the Rose City in the 1980s and 90s."

Our group is a member of the Torch network, which grew out of the Anti-Racist Action network in the 1980s, and the ARA was heavily inspired by the antifascist work of the Baldies, the multiracial antiracist skinhead group founded by Crenshaw and his friends.

https://torch-antifa.org/history/

We were lucky enough to hear the talk and get this picture of the group holding one of our "Wanted" stickers!

Anyone interested in antifascist and antiracist history should immediately check out the book and podcast at the website link above. The next Georgia event date is in Athens on May 10, and then back in Atlanta on May 11th.

#antiracism #antifascism #ItDidHappenHere #MicCrenshaw #BlackMastodon #baldies #atlanta

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Five Fingers of Funk feat. Fogatron & Mic Crenshaw:
🎵 Without No Doubt

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https://open.spotify.com/track/6FePphUnOUL5nHL3LrE0zT

REBELWISE

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We live in the right time and right place
To meet the need of the evolution
If we understand that, then we will be up to it and we will meet that need
Because we cannot control what's going to happen in the future
But how we use our individual and collective coherency
Will influence the evolutionary outcome
of what this reactionary, non-thinking, exploitive, manipulative beast has in mind
We cannot out fight them
There may be times to fight, but we cannot out fight them
Because they invented that kind of death
Through history, since they invented that kind of death
Every provocation has been to get us, at some point, to try to out fight them
And so to me, it's like no, in reality we've got to out think them
We're surrounded in a reality where you have to have permission to think
That's called chain of command
They don't have permission to think
Only a few get to think. See, this starts to equalize out the numbers
So if you really, really think about it, the guerrilla warrior of the future...
Is going to be the one that thinks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uG3G_t_P5Y

Reflections on the Afrikan HipHop Caravan: #MicCrenshaw at TEDxConcordiaU #Portland

Chicago-born poet and emcee Michael (Mic) Crenshaw fell in love with #music at a young age while living in Minneapolis. His teenage years were challenging as ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQNQGPoFyI8