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Aug. 19, 2006 - Today's outing of Canadian neo-nazi leader Paul Fromm resulted in dozens of shocked Port Credit residents, stunned at what was happening in their community. Discussions with people living at 150 South Service Road in Port Credit, Ontario, revealed that they were very surprised around 2:00PM, when they looked out their windows and saw approximately nine neo-nazis (wearing shirts bearing the SS emblem, and also others advertising white power bands, with different white power imagery) in full regalia, milling around unit #45 in the gated complex.
Youth from across the province assembled in Christie Pits at noon, for discussions and speeches on the necessity of the fight against fascism. This commemorative action conies just days after the 73 anniversary of the Christie Pits riots. Back on August 16th, 1933, the west-end of Toronto burst into a frenzy of resistance. The largest opposition seen to fascism in our city's history took place, with Jewish and Italian baseball players and then the whole community coming together to fight back local hate mongers. Adolf Hitler had assumed power just half a year earlier, and already nazi supporters were building a base here to attack those they deemed undesirable. But the residents of Toronto would have nothing of it and in Christie Pits a full-scale riot erupted against the racism and hate embodied by fascism.
Anti-Racist Action (ARA) Toronto announced approximately two months ago, intentions to expose, oppose, and confront a prominent kingpin of the far-right in Canada, who is living in southern Ontario. The options were many, but it didn't take a genius to figure out who the target was going to be. That said, the police had no clue where we were headed, and scrambled together...