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https://crosscut.com/mossback/2022/06/meet-woman-who-fought-northwest-nazisNearly a century before Patriot Front, Margaret L. Weaver was confronting the forces of white supremacy and intolerance.
by Knute Berger / June 17, 2022
The Spokane area and north Idaho have long been known as a gathering place for right-wing militias and neo-Nazi hi groups. The recent arrest of a cadre of Patriot Front members accused of conspiring to riot at a Pride event in Coeur dAlene, Idaho, is a reminder of the draw the region has. It has long been tagged by white supremacists as the American Redoubt, a hoped-for ethnostate in the inland Northwest.
But the area also has produced anti-fascists to counter these efforts. Perhaps the first was a young woman from Spokane who played a major role in what one author has called the first American uprising against Nazism. A few years later, she helped lead the first anti-fascist protest in her own hometown.
She lived in Greenwich Village and emerged as a powerhouse activist who had the courage to face down the ruffians of the International Longshoremans Union, which controlled the waterfront in a smash-mouth manner, according to writer Peter Duffy, author of The Agitator, a nonfiction account of anti-Nazi activism that features the seminal protest in 1935 that Weaver helped plan and execute.
In July (1935), the German ocean liner, the S.S. Bremen, came to New York flying a massive swastika flag. Maggie Weaver and her pals planned a protest where, disguised as partygoers, they would board the Bremen before the ship left port and tear its Nazi flag down.
And they did.
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(53,876 posts)1. Thanks for posting. I didn't know of this history.
Karadeniz
(22,574 posts)2. She was a hero !!
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(3,551 posts)3. Margaret Weaver Lives tshirts!