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Mobile free pharmacy @ Winston-Salem State University, 9 a.m.

Perfectionist instructors and students at the Sawtooth School for Visual Art donated ceramic mugs, pitchers, bowls and more so those who know little difference or pay no mind can take home unique handcrafted pottery at steep discounts. Proceeds help fund Sawtooth’s ceramics department. Learn more at sawtooth.org.

Anyone 18 years or older is welcome to NC MedAssist’s free pharmacy event featuring complimentary health screenings and over-the-counter items like Band-Aids and Tylenol. Find the event on Facebook. Chris Nashawaty @ SECCA (W-S), 5 p.m.

Summer solstice party @ Weatherspoon Art Museum (GSO), 6 p.m. Beach, boogie and blues band Cruize Control rocks out while kids frolic between activities and the bounce house. Expect food trucks, a cash bar, art activities, face painting and a photo booth. Learn more at weatherspoon.uncg.edu. The Little Mermaid @ Carolina Theatre (GSO), 7 p.m. Community Theatre of Greensboro presents a take on Disney’s classic animated under-the-sea film, which will run through the weekend. Learn more at carolinatheatre. com.

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Historical cemetery tour @ Oakwood Cemetery (HP), 10 a.m.

Rozalind MacPhail @ Monstercade (W-S), 9 p.m.

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Not Quite Perfect Pottery Sale @ Milton Rhodes Arts Center (W-S), 5 p.m.

Entertainment Weekly film critic and author of the richly reported book Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the making of the classic film, gives a talk at 6:30 p.m. after time set aside for book signing, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Learn more at seccaslamforart.org.

Canadian flutist Rozalind MacPhail brings her expressive audio-visual performance to Arcadia this weekend. Experimental outfit Black Eyes and Lullabies and moody Xelos Verv make sure there is no shortage of synth. Find the event on Facebook.

Local historian Phyllis Bridges offers an historical tour focused on the stories of former slaves, and free people of color in High Point’s past. Find the event on Facebook.

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Betsayda Machado @ High Point University, 6 p.m.

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Bring lawn chairs, blankets and coolers for a free evening concert with Venezuelan Afro-soul vocalist Betsayda Machado in the Cottrell Amphitheater. Find the event on Facebook.

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(GSO), 4 p.m. Beer and wine are for sale at this free field party where the Humane Society will host a dog zone. There’ll be a kids’ zone, too. Sleeping Booty Band headlines at 6 p.m. after local DJ Andrew Dudek warms up the crowd. Learn more at nattygreeneskitchenandmarket.com.

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Alan Barnosky @ Little Brother Brewing (GSO), 6 p.m. Like a side of bluegrass with Sunday brews? Find this Durham-based folk-loving, flatpicking guitarist and songwriter at the corner of Elm and McGee. Learn more at littlebrotherbrew.com.

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Health fair & community picnic @ Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit (GSO), noon Enjoy a free picnic, face painting, door prizes and a nature walk trail, then take advantage of free blood pressure and blood sugar screenings, medication management advice and physical and mental wellness information from Cone Health Congregational Nurses and FaithAction International. Learn more at holyspiritgreensboro.org.

Sports Book Festival @ Bookmarks (W-S), 2 p.m. In partnership with the National Sports Media Association, Bookmarks hosts a booksigning with six sports writers and authors: Roland Lazenby, Andrew Maraniss, Eric Mirlis, Adam Schupak, Mike Stanton and Marc Zumoff. Learn more at bookmarksnc. org.

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(W-S), 11 a.m. The city’s newest makerspace hosts demonstrations on 3D printing, laser cutters, CNC routers, wood turning, metal working, teeshirt printing. Learn more at wsmixxer.org.

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The weekend’s not over yet. Catch Typecast and supporting acts Tourniquet, Atonement, Foreign Hands and Relinquish into the late-night at NYP. Find the event on Facebook.

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Space Force! by Brian Clarey It’s about damn time we got a space force. As much as I enjoy doing it, it’s not really my job to write about President Trump and his diaper full of moronic statements, ham-fisted ploys, petulant glowering and off-the-cuff fabrications — and also that thing where he plunges the nation into an authoritarian nightmare. To my discredit, it’s the more inconsequential things that hang me up: His stupid long ties and ill-fitting suits. How Melania looks at him like she’s plotting to poison him or push him down the stairs. The way his voice trails off at the end of his sentences like a barroom drunk who’s forgotten his point. And now I’m stuck on Space Force. I know: The announcement was obviously a distraction from the internment camps where we’re keeping all those

children — totally out of the blue, not completely thought out and issued with that weird nose-breathing thing Trump does when he’s worked up about something. I believe that he does not realize that he lacks the authority to create a new branch of the military, just as I believe that he does not understand the fundamentals of space and why it’s important for us to explore it. Sorry — dominate it. He showed as much when his 2018 budget directed NASA to defund its space stations and concentrate on putting Americans back on the moon — but just in theory because there’s no funding for that either. I’m also reasonably certain we’re not going to get a Space Force on Trump’s watch. But I could definitely be convinced that he wants to build a hotel on the moon.

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1. Greensboro — $1,873 The three cities (sorry, not including Thomasville here; population is our criteria) of the Triad all recently adopted annual budgets. All three maintained the same tax rate. Facing a public outcry from residents, Greensboro and Winston-Salem are gradually inching towards a living wage for employees. The News & Record reports that Greensboro has set a salary floor of $15 per hour for full-time employees, while roster workers receive a minimum of $11.50 per hour at the coliseum and $12.50 per hour in other departments. Meanwhile, according to the Journal, Winston-Salem City Council raised the minimum wage for city workers from $11.25 to $12.50 per hour, with a goal of $15 per hour by 2021. While offering more generous pay to its lowest paid workers, the city of Greensboro spends less per capita than Winston-Salem and High Point. Distributed among its 290,222 residents, Greensboro’s adopted budget of $543.5 million equates to $1,873 per person.

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2. Winston-Salem — $2,167 With a budget of $530 million and 244,605 residents, the city of Winston-Salem spends slightly more per resident: $2,167. Attracting more people generally allows cities to spread the tax burden to more stakeholders. But of course, population is not the only measure of economic vitality. Ultimately, revenue levels, driven largely by property values and retail sales, determine cost efficiency. And it’s a good bet that Winston-Salem’s revenues are relatively healthy considering that the city maintains the lowest property tax rate — 59.74 cents per $100 of valuation, compared to 63.25 cents in Greensboro.

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3. High Point — $3,566 As the smallest city in the region, High Point also carries the most expensive cost of government. With a $397.6 million budget for 111,513 residents, the city spends $3,566 per person. And believe that property owners pay for it. The property tax rate of 64.75 cents per capita is slightly higher than neighboring Greensboro. A caveat: Water rates, stormwater fees and other fees are also used by local governments to pay for services, and revenues from fees are sometimes used as a gimmick by local governments to keep tax rates artificially low even though residents still pay by other means. Sorry, that level of nuance is beyond the purview of this article.

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Part 2: Far-right militias seeks allies while anticipating societal collapse

by Jordan Green In Part I, right-wing militia activists in the Greensboro area who showed up at a Donald Trump campaign rally were inspired to launch the Guilford County Militia. Despite the militia’s avowed “constitutionalist” foundation, the group attracted interest from a number of people with extremist ideologies, including national socialism, neo-Confederacy and anti-Semitism. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, members showed up for events focused on preserving the legacy of the Confederacy and promoting Islamophobia. Members also gravitated into the orbit of Identity Evropa, an explicitly white nationalist group, in the runup to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

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he NC Shield Guard goes to Charlottesville Prior to the Unite the Right rally in August, Guilford County Militia founder Jason Passmore moved from Browns Summit to rural Stokes County. He says it was best to leave Guilford County to avoid being “LaVoy-ed,” referring to LaVoy Finicum, a militia activist who was fatally shot by an Oregon State Patrol officer at a roadblock during the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff in January 2016. Passmore stopped promoting the Guilford County Militia. After moving, he joined the Stokes County Militia. Darrell Calloway, the commander of the Stokes County Militia, says he counseled Passmore against going to Charlottesville, even though he appreciated that many militias went with the noble intention of protecting people and property. “They didn’t have a dog in the fight,” Calloway says. “But we thought it could be turned against them. And it turned out that it was.” Remnants of the Guilford County Militia and others who had also participated in North Carolina “anti-sharia” and pro-Confederate rallies traveled to Charlottesville as a tactical fighting unit. Equipped with wooden shields bearing “NC” lettering, helmets, goggles, and sticks, they held Emancipation Park side by side with similarly outfitted squads from the white nationalist Traditionalist Worker Party, League of the South, and Vanguard America groups. Hunter Smith painted the number “14” on his shield, in reference to the “fourteen words,” a white nationalist slogan. If there were any doubt about his intent, he resolved it in a Facebook exchange two months later. In response to a woman who said the fourteen words — “We must secure the existence for our people, and a future for white children” — Smith wrote, “I love those words.” The NC Shield Guard also included Manuel Luxton, James Campbell, Casey

Becknell and Zach Smiley, along with Clyde Bone, a Gaston County carpenter and war veteran, and his cousin Nikita Bone, a Davidson County resident with an interest in fascist philosophy. Video shows the NC Shield Guard and others holding up their shields to create a battlement at the southeast entrance to Emancipation Park, as water bottles and other projectiles flew back and forth. But they can also be seen pushing into the crowd of counterprotesters in the street in a provocative offensive. Campbell takes offense to the suggestion that he’s a white nationalist, calling the label “laughable.” His purpose in going to Charlottesville, he says, was to defend the statue of Robert E. Lee, whom he considers an “American hero, not a pillar of slavery. He believed in states’ rights, as everyone should.” (Lee, despite the revisionism of the Lost Cause mythology, was in reality a slave owner; he, of course, also led an army dedicated to protecting white people’s right to own other human beings in a war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.) Rather than focusing on race — to demonstrate that he’s not a racist, he expresses sympathy for Black Lives Matter — he says what matters to him is a federal government he considers oppressive. In his view, Gov. Roy Cooper is a tyrant, and US Rep. Mark Walker, a staunch conservative, is too weak-kneed when it comes to Syrian refugees. “You do realize the founding fathers would be done shooting by now,” he says, expressing the opinion that if Washington, Jefferson and Madison found the federal government as it is now they would have long since overthrown it. But he justifies his friendship with Luxton, a self-described “national socialist,” in terms of personal loyalty. “I like Manuel,” Campbell says. “He’s a very nice guy. And he’s very smart. There’s a lot we disagree on. A lot of his political affiliations I don’t agree with.

A Facebook post by Manuel Luxton uses Photoshopped gerbil faces as a homophonic reference to Nazi politician Joseph Goebbels.

I’ve had long conversations and disagreements with him. I know if there’s ever a situation, I could call him and he would be there to help me.” To put an exclamation point on their divergences of view, Campbell adds, “The man believes the earth is flat. Come on now!” Although Passmore didn’t go to Charlottesville, a week afterward he posted a photo of himself on Facebook carrying the Guilford Courthouse battle flag. In that time, anti-racist demonstrators had torn down the Confederate monument in Durham, and residents had staged a spontaneous anti-racist street party in reaction to a threatened Klan rally in the same city. In that post, Passmore boasted that he had harassed “local Antifa commies” in Winston-Salem on Aug. 18. In the comment thread, he posted a meme that said, “Hospitalize your local Antifa scumbag.” Underneath, it read, “You

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will not replace us.” That slogan and a viler variant, “Jews will not replace us,” were chanted at the Unite the Right rally. The same image cropped up in fliers posted to telephone poles in Durham and Chapel Hill around the same time. Passmore says his intended meaning was, “You will not replace us with socialism,” though he acknowledges that racist groups are typically referring to Jews when they say it. Prior to an attempt to contact him for this story, Smith had blocked this writer from his Facebook page. Along with white nationalist sentiments, screengrabs from Smith’s Facebook page also reveal an interest in wilderness survival skills. On Nov. 26, 2017, Smith changed his Facebook profile to a photograph of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, calling him a “genius.” A friend warned that Smith would probably be placed on the NSA watch list because of the

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statement that Black Lives Matter of Gaffney is not affiliated with the network and does not “have the authority to speak on behalf of the network or the work our activists are doing globally.”) Chance Allen, the American Pit Vipers leader, has made it his mission to broaden the patriot militia movement. To that end, he brought Gregory and two members of Redneck Revolt to an April 14 Second Amendment rally in Raleigh that was dominated by militia activists and Three Percenters. “Our welcome mat walking in was kind of tense for the first few minutes,” Allen recalls. The next weekend, Allen brought Gregory and a small entourage of African-American activists from Gaffney to the Patriot Network Summit, a gathering outside of Winston-Salem that drew militia activists from as far away as New York, Illinois and Georgia. The two Redneck Revolt members, notably, were not part of the entourage. As early as late January, Passmore had been monitoring social media to guard against the possibility of Redneck Revolt attending the gathering, because the group has a reputation for trying to shift militia organizations to an anti-racist or leftist stance. Gregory’s reception at the summit was not altogether hospitable. Video that Gregory posted on Facebook shows two individuals, who identified themselves as “JW” from the Illinois State Militia and “Renee,” hectoring him about what his message was and on what basis he could claim to have unity with the patriot movement. Gregory says the discussion was starting to draw a crowd and distracting attention from one of the event’s official speakers. Gregory was flanked by a security detail, and they hustled him away so he could put on a bulletproof vest. While Gregory was away, a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat approached Gregory’s friend, mistaking him for the Black Lives

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ight later, or separate spaces and mind our own business’ Since the Unite the Right rally, the far-right activists connected to Passmore and Campbell have for the most part managed to minimize or conceal their white-nationalist leanings and associations enough to go unchallenged in the larger patriot militia and Second Amendment advocacy communities. Their relative discretion, coupled with a lack of discernment among many patriot militia activists, allowed Campbell and Passmore to ingratiate themselves with a South Carolina Black Lives Matter activist named Andre Gregory in April. The encounter between Gregory and the two farright activists potentially jeopardized the BLM activist while also escalating risks to Gregory’s associates in the left-wing, anti-racist militia Redneck Revolt. Gregory, the leader of Black Lives Matter in Gaffney, SC, and then with South Carolina Antifa, had forged an unlikely relationship with American Pit Vipers, a militia active in western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina that fielded armed personnel

during the Unite the Right rally, but issued a statement beforehand rejecting white nationalism and pledging to protect public safety. The Pit Vipers had established a dialogue with Redneck Revolt in the weeks leading up to Unite the Right. After the Unite the Right rally, American Pit Vipers continued to build relationships with groups on the opposite side of the political ledger, including Gregory. African-American community leaders and far-right activists from a range of organizations took part in a series of dialogues in Upstate South Carolina in late August, motivated by a desire to avoid a repeat of the bloodshed in Charlottesville, with particular concern surrounding debate about the future of a Confederate monument in Greenville. “I was the only BLM member out there, and they had the [Confederate] flaggers, and they were doing their thing,” Gregory recalls. “I stood toe to toe with the flaggers by myself. And one of [American Pit Vipers founder Chance Allen’s] members seen it, and reached out to me. And once us and the flaggers, we made common ground, we put our personal issues aside. We actually went and sat down and had a beer, had lunch, and we conversated like some adults instead of like assholes.” In October, the two groups hosted a “Changing the Narrative Unity Rally” in Gaffney that drew representatives of the South Carolina Secessionist Party, the SC Light Foot Militia, antifascist groups and a local mentoring organization. During that rally, Gregory accepted an invitation from the South Carolina Secessionist Party to co-host a press conference to protest Greenville police Chief Ken Miller. They each had separate grievances: The Secessionist Party was unhappy about the police department’s enforcement of a local ordinance prohibiting them from publicly displaying the Confederate flag. Gregory, meanwhile, says that during a rally calling for the removal of the Confederate monument in Greenville, Miller told him, “Go back where you came from,” which Gregory took to mean Africa. Miller, who previously served as chief of police in Greensboro from 2010–14, did not directly respond to these claims in a statement: “We must always consider potential threats to and provisions of safety for people in and around such assemblies, particularly where counterdemonstrators are present, and must be prepared to adapt as changing circumstances arise.” Gregory says he took a neutral stance on public calls by progressive activists to remove the Confederate monument in Greenville. “That issue is not what’s important in today’s world,” he says. “That’s the past.” He declines to say anything negative about the South Carolina Secessionist Party or its veneration for the Confederate flag. He and Allen both emphasize the importance of looking beyond labels and getting to know people as individuals, suggesting the Confederate flag is no different than a “Black Lives Matter” shirt or Three Percenter patch. “I can’t knock them because if I pick up the phone and say, ‘I need them,’ they [are] there in support,” Gregory says. “Everybody want to separate us. Why separate when the goal is to come together and stand against the government?” (The Black Lives Matter Global Network noted in a

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post. Smith responded, “Dude…. I been on there a LONGGGGGGG time.” Smith went on to say that Kaczynski’s bombings, which killed at least three people between 1978 and 1995, delegitimized him — “at least to normied [sic] who can’t think critically.” Smith concluded: “Off the grid, self-reliant is my goal.” Nikita Bone’s Facebook page also reveals explicit, white-nationalist sentiments. In late September 2017, the Davidson County resident posted as his Facebook cover photo the John Martin painting “The Destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum” accompanied by a quote from the fascist philosopher Julius Evola. A significant influence on both Benito Mussolini and the Third Reich in Germany, as well as post-World War II fascist movements, Evola advocated a kind of extreme traditionalism, including white supremacy and patriarchal subordination of women. After the Unite the Right rally, Luxton’s social media posts increasingly took on a turn toward violence and extremism. One cover photo posted by Luxton, whose residence is unknown but identifies with Guilford County through his use of the “Guilford Network News” Facebook account, celebrated the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville with an image of a Dodge Challenger, the car allegedly driven by James A. Fields Jr. Another post depicts a grotesque caricature of a supposed Jewish man rubbing his hands together. A meme features a photo of an Orthodox Jewish man in miniature on a pizza peel being slid into a clay oven, with the words, “Come home, chosen man.” In early March, Luxton updated his Facebook profile with a photograph of Luca Traini, an Italian fascist who went on a shooting rampage on Feb. 3 in Macerata, a small town in central Italy, wounding six migrants of African origin. Luxton also shared a meme on Gab, a social media network favored by white nationalists, that appropriates an image of Al Pacino spraying machine-gun fire from the movie Scarface, along with the text, “Fucking kikes!” Reached for comment, Luxton ignored a set a detailed questions, though he did reply: “I don’t remember the Scarface meme, but it sounds funny.”

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Cast of characters:

Cody Beachy — Active with Guilford County Militia; present at June 2016 Trump rally in Greensboro and June 2017 Raleigh “anti-sharia” rally but did not go to Charlottesville; Facebook posts demonstrate admiration for Adolf Hitler, and hostility towards migrants; lives in northeast Greensboro Casey Becknell — Civil War reenactor and self-proclaimed Three Percenter; joined NC Shield Guard at Charlottesville, and also attended May 2017 Confederate Memorial Day rally in Graham and June 2017 “anti-sharia” rally in Raleigh; lives in Lexington Clyde Bone — Framing carpenter in Gaston County; attended Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville as part of NC Shield Guard

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Nikita Bone — Davidson County resident; joined NC Shield Guard in Charlottesville; Facebook posts reveal an admiration for fascist philosopher Julius Evola, and hostility towards migrants

James Campbell — Active with Guilford County Militia and went to Charlottesville as part of NC Shield Guard; also June 2016 Trump rally in Greensboro, May 2017 Confederate Memorial Day rally in Graham and June 2017 “antisharia” rally in Raleigh; primarily identifies as a Constitutionalist and Second Amendment activists and denies being a white nationalist, but maintains a friendship with Manuel Luxton; lives in Browns Summit Manuel Luxton — Self-avowed “national socialist,” or nazi, who is a sympathetic to Russia, also a flat-earther; longtime friend of Jason Passmore and James Campbell; active with Guilford County Militia and went to Charlottesville as part of NC Shield Guard; also June 2016 Trump rally in Greensboro, May 2017 Confederate Memorial Day rally in Graham and June 2017 “anti-sharia” rally in Raleigh; residence unknown, although he likely lives in Guilford County considering that he maintains Facebook and Gab social media accounts under the name “Guilford News Network”; Social media posts show extreme hostility towards Jews and migrants, and a casual celebration of violence; his identification with perpetrators of racist violence include celebrating the vehicle allegedly used by James A. Fields Jr. to murder Heather Heyer, and recently adopting a photo of an Italian man accused of shooting migrants as his Facebook profile photo Jason Passmore — Former military contractor who founded Guilford County Militia; now lives in Stokes County and is a member of the Stokes County Militia; attended June 2016 Trump rally in Greensboro and May 2017 Confederate Memorial Day in Graham, but did not go to Charlottesville; espouses an extreme libertarian philosophy and supports racial separatism, although his children from a previous marriage are biracial; while he denies being a white nationalist, he makes no apology for conducting firearms training with Manuel Luxton and Cody Beachy; social media posts display an eagerness for confrontation with the federal government and “antifa” Zach Smiley — Joined the NC Shield Guard in Charlottesville, while also appearing at the June 2017 “anti-sharia” rally in Raleigh; his Facebook page indicates he’s from Davidson County Hunter Smith — Civil War reenactor and avowed white nationalist; carried a shield displaying the number “14” representing a popular white nationalist slogan in the NC Shield Guard in Charlottesville while also participating in May 2017 Confederate Memorial Day rally in Graham and June 2017 “anti-sharia” rally in Raleigh; Facebook comments have expressed admiration for the Unabomber; interested in self-sufficiency and living off the grid; currently lives in Denton

Casey Becknell, Clyde Bone, Nikita Bone, Manuel Luxton, Hunter Smith and Zach Smiley (l-r) were to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017.

Matter leader. That man, Jovanni Valle of Brooklyn, came to some national renown in July 2017 after his face was slashed in a bar in lower Manhattan by a man who took offense to his pro-Trump hat. Valle identifies with the Proud Boys, a street-fighting outfit that is described by its founder as a “proWestern fraternal organization.” Valle struck up a conversation with Gregory’s friend and goaded him to get on stage and give a speech. The speech, which struck soothing notes of unity and the importance of reaching beyond divisions for the sake of children, went over well, but Gregory says he thought Valle’s encouragement was a “trick.” (The friend, who was contacted for this story, asked that his name not be published.) In an interview, Valle all but confirmed Gregory’s suspicions of his motives. “I told him to speak because he was being very loud,” Valle says. “If you’re going to speak to me, everyone may as well hear it.” Valle added that he was disappointed that Jason Kessler, who organized the Unite the Right rally, wasn’t given a platform to speak at the militia gathering. “The guy they think is a white supremacist, they didn’t allow him to speak,” Valle said. “The guy with BLM was allowed to speak. I was bothered by that.” In Facebook comments, Campbell defended Gregory’s presence at the summit. But Campbell’s friendly posture toward Gregory is at odds with his participation in a comment thread shortly after the summit calling attention to a photo of Gregory posing with members of Redneck Revolt.

“Notice the black guy in the identified as Monk A. Lightfoo communist militia the Redneck wondering why he was there w tee no one did their homework “Look at Redneck Revolt LO “Hardcore fighters. I wonder h from this picture.” Campbell noted in the thread Redneck Revolt member who h by Kessler and others of causin attack — is standing to Gregor Other alumni from the NC S posted a meme mocking Dixon mie punk bitch!” The aggressio raises concerns about the poten in a state with no shortage of su 1979 Greensboro Massacre, wh Ku Klux Klan members drove and opened fire on a group of to 1979, much of the hostility e expressed through anti-commu Told about Campbell’s partic and his association with white n surprise. “I never heard of him being Gregory said shortly after the s He reached out to me. We talke hour. He wanted me to come u A few weeks later, Gregory h

ACT for America — Organization founded by Brigitte Gabriel that promotes a hateful view of Islam as inherently duplicitous and violent, and bent on dominion over the United States

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Black Lives Matter of Gaffney — Organization that addresses police abuses and institutional racism in Gaffney, SC; not affiliated with the Black Lives Matter Global Network Guilford County Militia — Constitutionalist militia founded in 2016 by Jason Passmore, James Campbell that adopted the Guilford Courthouse battle flag; although the militia is no longer active, former members still use the Guilford Courthouse battle flag for various far-right activities

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Guilford Network News — Name on social media accounts used by Manuel Luxton to promote white nationalism Identity Dixie — Website and podcast curated by “Musonius Rufus,” “Mencken’s Ghost” and Ryan McMahon that advocates for a white ethno-state in the former states of the Confederacy

among the North Carolina far-right activists who brought matching shields

Proud Boys — A “Western chauvinist” fraternity and street fighting formation founded by Gavin McInnes Redneck Revolt — An antiracist far-left militia that opposes white nationalist groups and seeks to counter-recruit patriot militias; members armed with assault rifles secured a park used as a staging area by anti-racist activists in Charlottesville South Carolina Secessionist Party — An organization that challenges the view that those who fought for the Confederacy upheld slavery and committed treason, and that promotes false stereotypes of undocumented immigrants as being criminals and unfounded fears of “Islamification growing in the West.” Stokes County Militia — Militia led by Darrell Calloway that advocates limited government and provides emergency relief; members opted to not attend the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville Traditionalist Worker Party — White nationalist organization that deployed with shields alongside the NC Shield Guard at Unite the Right; the organization recently disintegrated amidst revelations of infidelity by founder Matthew Heimbach and the wife of another prominent member Vanguard America — White nationalist organization that fought alongside NC Shield Guard in Charlottesville; James A. Fields, who is accused of the murder of Heather Heyer, rallied with Vanguard America in Charlottesville. After Unite the Right, the group attempted to rebrand itself as Patriot Front

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involved in racism at all,” summit. “That’s new to me. ed on the phone about an up and go shooting with him.” had reconsidered his opinion

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d that Dwayne Dixon — a has been accused without basis ng James Fields’ car-ramming ry’s left in the photo. Shield Guard piled on. Luxton n. Becknell fulminated, “Comon directed at Redneck Revolt ntial for violent confrontation uch episodes, including the hen a coalition of nazis and into a black housing project anti-racists organizers. Similar expressed by the far-right is unist rhetoric. cipation in Unite the Right nationalists, Gregory expressed

of Campbell: “I think he’s full of shit. Don’t say you want to bring unity, and the whole time you’re part of a whitesupremacist group, and you hang with white supremacists.” On a separate thread on the final day of the summit, Passmore also defended Gregory’s presence, arguing that he had paid the entry fee and should enjoy the same right as anyone else to express his views. “I will fight tyranny in government with anyone by my side, and if we have differences after the tyrants are gone, then there is two ways to handle that: One is we fight later, or separate spaces and mind our own business,” Passmore wrote. “Blacks and whites have different cultures, there’s no denying it,” Passmore explains in an interview. “I did mean it in a racial sense. Or a political sense. I grew up in east Greensboro. The cultures are not the same. If people want to live separately, they should be able to live separately.” Passmore quickly adds that he is dating a woman from Ecuador, while noting that he has mixed-race children from a previous marriage. Asked how he could rationalize conducting firearms training with both a Black Lives Matter activist and white nationalists, Passmore doesn’t back down, mentioning Andre Gregory, Manuel Luxton, and Hunter Smith as people he would be comfortable fighting alongside. “One goal would be to work together as a tactical unit, so you don’t oppose each other,” Passmore says. “If things go down in the streets of Greensboro, those groups aren’t my enemy. The tyrannical government is my enemy. I need to coordinate with these groups so I can walk the neighborhoods.”

League of the South — Preeminent Southern white nationalist organization; deployed members in Charlottesville with shields alongside the NC Shield Guard

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Since the 2016 election and the advent of Donald Trump’s presidency, white nationalism, Islamophobia and hatred of migrants have rightfully come to be viewed as vectors of potential violence. In 2017, these seeds bore hideous by Jordan Green fruit, when, among other spasms of violence, Jeremy Joseph Christian stabbed two men to death on a Portland, Ore. commuter train after shouting anti-Muslim slurs at two teenage girls, and later at the culmination of the “summer of hate,” when James A. Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters and killed Heather Heyer. Since the Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, there has been plenty of senseless violence, such as the Las Vegas massacre, where the shooter’s motive remains a mystery. But in those cases where the perpetrators of mass violence have advertised their motives, the source as often as not has been misogyny. In one of the most horrific incidents this year, Alek Minassian, a 25-year-old man drove a rental van into a crowd of people in Toronto in late April, killing 10. Minassian explicitly politicized his act of terror by writing on Twitter shortly before the attack: “Private (Recruit) Minassian Infantry 00010, wishing to speak to Sgt 4chan please. C23249161. The incel rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!” At first glance, this might sound like gibberish, but “incel” stands for “involuntary celibate.” “Stacys” refer to the attractive women who are sexually unavailable while “Chads” are popular men who are presumed to have sex with lots of women. Elliot Rodger was a 22-year-old man who killed six people near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014, after posting a YouTube video discussing his plans to kill men and women due to his sexual frustration and penning a 150-page manifesto linking himself to the incel movement. Nikolas Cruz, the shooter in the Parkland massacre in south Florida, commented on the video: “Elliott Rodger will not be forgotten.” Whether motivated by misogyny or white nationalism, these attacks are fueled by an extreme sense of entitlement and an acute anxiety about perceived loss of status. Of course, white supremacy and patriarchy have always been closely entwined. In our own country, think of the fixation on the “purity” of white womanhood and false depictions of black men as rapists and savage brutes that were deployed to restore white supremacy in the South in the late 19th Century. Granted, many of the incel perpetrators are racial minorities, including Minassian, who is of Armenian descent, and Rodger, whose mother is from Taiwan. But the overlaps between white nationalism and politicized misogyny are striking. White nationalist formations from the National So-

cialist Movement to the League of the South seek not just to establish a white ethno-state, but to restore traditional gender relations that subordinate women beneath men. Their animating energy is a fear that white men are being rendered obsolete by the forces of modernity. The overlap between white nationalism and men’s grievance is at least substantial enough for white nationalist Jared Howe to warn in a homemade meme earlier this month: “MGTOW is the male version of becoming a cat lady./ Don’t let yourself die alone and childless.” The meme assumes a level of familiarity within its target audience that isn’t shared by the larger public: “MGTOW” stands for “Men Going Their Own Way.” The movement absurdly declares sovereignty — or “supreme power or authority, autonomy, independence, self-government, self-rule, self-determination” — for men. Of course, male autonomy would be self-defeating for a white nationalist movement preoccupied with racial demography. Besides the nakedly white nationalist and anti-Semitic chant “Jews will not replace us” at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, the event was notable for its dizzying array of flags, poses, causes and extremist genres. But one striking theme was the vicious misogyny that white nationalists directed at white women on the other side of the barricades. In one open-source video, James A. Fields Jr., who would later plow his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, can be seen wearing the white polo shirt and khaki pants that served as the uniform of the white nationalist group American Vanguard. Fields and other members of the group chanted, “You fags, go home/ You have no testosterone.” Later, American Vanguard took up the bizarre chant: “White sharia.” The slanderous claim that Muslims in the United States are seeking to impose a barbaric religious law on non-believers had been turned on its head to promote the idea of white men subjugating and oppressing women. As the chant subsided, a speaker can be heard marveling, “I never thought they’d start chanting that,” as if it’s hilarious inside joke. “Now, there’s going to be an article about white sharia in the New York Daily News,” another speaker says. Another group of white nationalists mocked a white woman holding a sign reading, “Love is love.” “We’re going to put you in a f***ing burka,” one of the men threatens. When racist men are challenged by anti-racist women, apparently they feel compelled to present themselves as both protector and subjugator. “Why don’t you come over here, and we’ll show you white sharia,” he says. “Baby, why don’t you come over here, and let me show you what it’s like to be with a real man. “Hey, if whites become a minority, they’re gonna slaughter you with the rest of us,” he adds. “Just keep that in mind.”

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The court of public opinion has ruled But, of course, they did not. Sessions on the Trump Administrations policy of announced the “Zero Tolerance” policy separating families at the border and on May 8, at a press conference on the detaining the kids, some of them still in Mexican border at Tijuana. diapers, in locked, chain-link cages set “We don’t want to separate families, up inside old Walmarts. but we don’t want families to come These are internment camps: tempoto the border illegally and attempt to rary confinements for large groups of enter into this country improperly,” people, held without benefit of trial. he said. “The parents are subject to Turns out we don’t like it under any prosecution while children may not circumstances — except, be. So, if we do our of course, for the dumbduty and prosecute est and meanest among us those cases, then There’s nothing who approve of President children inevitably Trump can do that his for a period of time Trump’s strongman tactics followers and sycono matter how many crying might be in different children are calling for their conditions.” phants won’t abide. mothers. Trump pledged The situation hit critical on Wednesday mass this week, though afternoon to end the anyone who has been paying attention practice — the one he signed off on in marked the day in May when Attorney May. General Jeff Sessions announced this This contradicted the first lie: that new policy. And the story itself has only the Dems can do anything about been live for weeks, when reports of it. And the second lie — that this has the camps first surfaced. But this week been going on since the Clinton Adcame footage, firsthand reports, tweetministration, lives on among the fathful. storms and the sort of social-media Republicans in the General Assembly argument that even the most repughave a lot on the line, particularly an nant among us have trouble justifying, election in a few months. though somehow they manage. Not Trump, though. He’s safe until The ransom note came first. Trump 2020, and, probably, another four years pledged to stop taking babies away after. As of yet, the Dems have no from their mothers if only Democrats candidates for the next cycle. And as would do something about immigration. we’ve seen, there’s nothing Trump can Then came the lie: Why, we’ve been do that his followers and sycophants doing this all along! The Clintons did won’t abide. this. Obama did this!

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film camera lens aching to tell what they’ve seen. “Vanitas” logical and sociological frameworks, tackling gender, sexualis a term from the 17th Century Dutch Baroque genre, which ity, race and religion. frequently included symbols of death, evoking reminders of Rocio García is among them. “Sequence Shot 12. Like the the transience of life. Pavón replaces still-life skulls with very Last Blues” from her series The Thriller, depicts a moonlit hell much alive faces. The Latin phrase “vae victis” translates to for three naked, male-bodied captives in a building on the “woe to the conquered,” stemming from a legend about the shoreline, yet so distant in their bondage from the faraway Gauls’ devasting sack of Rome in 390 BCE; those conquered ship traversing the sprawling sea around their island home, find themselves at the mercy of their conquerors. another escaping at risk of death in the far background. The Selections from prolific selfcaptives’ keeper drinks champagne, portrait artist Aimée García’s series shirtless, pants unzipped, a bowtie Repression illuminates the political on the table. They look at each other, Learn more at secca.org and visit as personal; focusing a career on powerless. García no doubt touches at 750 Marguerite Drive (W-S). self-portraiture in an authoritarian on male power on a systems level but collectivist state is quite the political also the interpersonal; she is disact considering, too, that García is a tinct among Cuban contemporaries woman. She overlays her oil-on-wood for addressing homoeroticism as a paintings with fabric and thread fibers, articulating freedom recurring motif in her paintings. Her body of work points to curtailed through tightly-sewn blood-red threadwork and the ubiquity of eroticism, especially given that political and edging the restrictive prison-like bars — perhaps symbolizing social power hinges on domination, and this is true beyond the censorship and subjugation she incurs — into the viewer’s borders of her homeland. material space. Her gaze is nervous, but steadfast. Americans do not need to wonder, Who are the people of But the story of modern totalitarianism in Cuba is incomCuba? Because they are just like us. They are already telling us, plete, told solely through political lenses. Several artists if only we choose to look and listen. featured in the exhibit approach their work through psycho-

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CULTURE Andrew Kasab nerds out on harp guitar

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ndrew Kasab says he wrote most dozen or so people to his strange and intriguing of the song in his head at a wedinstrument. ding, after ditching the adults He’s got a handful of albums and a catalog of and hanging out with the kids in original music. He’s worked with Warren Zevon a field at dusk, as the fireflies twinkled and Steve Vai. And he’s as much a scholar and to life. evangelist for the instrument as he is a perHe watched the kids catch fireflies and former. put them in the pockets of their white The thing about the harp guitar… well, there dress shirts, blinking accessories that are a lot of things about the harp guitar. inspired the melody. He wrote the rest, For one, it’s a beast: a traditional six-string he tells the crowd at Common Grounds acoustic with a six-string harp grafted onto it, on Saturday night, “one autumn mornits own body jutting out like a hollow leg. And ing instead of raking the leaves.” while the guitar strings lay in order, high to low, He hoists his harp guitar, big as a golf the harpstrings alternate, low-high-low, allowbag, into position and his fingers haming for versatility on the bottom end. mer a melody on the guitar, dancing It’s been around since the early 18th Century and gained popularity in the United States in the with the soft bassline his thumb coaxes early 1900s and then disappeared from manufrom the harpstrings. Like fireflies. facture for another 50 years. Kasab recounts the Kasab admits that his chosen instrustory like a college professor giving a lecture. ment — more awkward than an accordiFor another, it’s obscure. Very little music on, sillier-looking than a keytar — is not exists for the instrument, and Kasab says the suited for heavy metal, or on-the-beat, technical aspects of playing it have not yet been Neil Diamond-type stuff. But, he says, as fully explored. So his set is limited to the few one of “maybe five people in the United works that have been composed for harp guitar, States who tour on harp guitar,” he’s BRIAN CLAREY Clunkier than an accordion, more versatile than a keytar, adaptations of other pieces of music or original carved out a fine niche. the harp guitar has very few true masters. works like the firefly piece. He’s back on the road after 10 years, But the breadth of with an ambitious acoustic, he again shoulders the beast and works a version sound created by the two aspects schedule that will of the Peanuts theme with all 10 fingers, then eases into of the machine speaks to its adapttake him from his “Because It’s There,” a composition by fellow harp-guitarist Learn more at andrewkasab.com ability. home in Raleigh Michael Hedges. This is one-man-band-type stuff: up and down the Then the harpstrings lay the groundwork for Queen’s “Bohethe subwoof of waxed harpstrings Washington, DC mian Rhapsody” as Kasab leans into the song’s opening harcontrasting with the peals of guitar; he thumps percussion on corridor, through the Midwest states monies on the lower neck. It’s all there: the staccato refrains, the body, pokes and prods like Stanley Jordan, taps like Eddie of Minnesota and Nebraska, and then the operatic swells, the orchestration. Van Halen. No loops, little amperage and minimal effects. Colorado, the Pacific Northwest, CaliforIt sounds like it was written for harp guitar. But of course it After a blistering performance of the theme song from nia, Utah, Montana and Kansas before wasn’t. “The Lone Ranger,” also known as the finale of The William circling back to the South. Tonight at Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini on his traditional six-string Common Grounds, he’ll expose another

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Every culture has its own fermen(spicy) and white (tangy) Korean-inspired kimchi and the tation heritage. “beetiful curtido,” loosely based on the traditional Salvadoran In the United States today, fermented dish. products are cropping up alongside “I’m not Korean and I’ve never been to Korea but there trends like the craft beer movement are lots of types of kimchi,” Peddie says. “Mine is sort of in as consumers turn an eye toward slow a sauerkraut style because it has no fish and the method of food, sustainability and trust in gutit — I want to know exactly how much salt is involved in the health science. Ferments are rich with process, and when you make kimchi the authentic way, you probiotics, microorganisms naturally salt it liberally.” present in our intestinal tract that aid She purchases from the best wholesalers she can find (and in food digestion, produce vitamins and afford) and sources locally whenever possible. Her ferments ward off disease-inducing microorgansit for at least two weeks under airlock so that gases created isms. during the process can exit, but nothing can enter, encourag“When I started eating fermented ing consistently excellent probiotic profiles. foods a lot it was out of exhaustion with “I create an environment with an amount of salt that favors all the supplements I was taking,” Amy a certain type of bacteria — so, lactobacilli and not things like Peddie says. “I couldn’t tell if any of botulism — and then during the lactobacilli life processes it’s them were working and I was spending a eating all the carbs and sugars. So the white kimchi has fruit fortune on them, esin it, but it doesn’t taste sweet because [the pecially probiotics.... bacteria] eats all the sugars.” When I was workPeddie uses Redmond’s Real Salt, mined in Learn more at ing at Deep Roots, Redmond, Utah, because determining ethiI started trying cal mining practices proved difficult during fermentologyfoods.com. fermented foods… research on Himalayan salt sourcing. [and] I could tell Understandably, citizen scientists raise that it was working concern because many food-grade plastics because I could tell it was still alive.” leach in the presence of sunlight, which breaks down carbon Peddie is the creator of Fermentology, bonds. a small business based in Greensboro “I get a lot of pushback from customers who think I should focused on producing fermented foods be using crocks,” she says. “I’m of the opinion that — besides from vegetables and fruits. being expensive and heavy — you could have hairline cracks “[Grove Street] People’s Market in crocks that you’d never see and I’m just not comfortable started, and I wished someone was sellusing something like that that I can’t tell if it’s is completely ing ferments for an affordable rate for sanitized and then selling it to people.” people in the community to get healthy Peddie reassures potential customers she’s done her probiotics and whole foods into their research, too — she keeps the containers in a room without diets,” Peddie says. “I thought, I guess I windows. When it comes to shelf packaging, she uses recycled should do it. And then it was really lo-fi glass jars and a safe plastic lid. She says the two-part metal bootstrappin’. All I had was red kimchi lids associated with canning can contain trace amounts of and green kraut out of the back of my BPA, an industrial chemical used in the production of some truck.” plastics since the 1960s. Until her big break when she joined The most common reaction she encounters at markets, Kitchen Connect GSO, a shared-use though, is skeptics’ scrunched-up faces. kitchen for local food business entre“If people will just try any sample, that’ll satisfy me,” she preneurs that provides resources like says. “A lot of people won’t because they think sauerkraut is food-safety training and small-business disgusting and limp and pasteurized and canned, which is disclasses in merchandising, marketing gusting. So when someone comes by and tries your sauerkraut and finance that opened last year. She and says, ‘That’s better than what my grandmother made,’ it’s produces and packages Fermentology incredible.” foods there, start to finish. She hopes to Peddie, who keeps three chickens, pairs her morning eggs pay herself soon. with green kraut and gravitates toward eating the beetiful “Everyone wants to make their busicurtido in grain bowls garnished with cilantro and mint lately. ness profitable and be able to offer jobs “One that blows people’s minds is red kimchi with peanut to folks at living wages,” Peddie says. butter as a sauce,” she says. “The other day, I made some

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Prolific author Asimov Financial record, for short Like some mushrooms, ravioli, and wontons a la “Rangoon”? Seagoing (abbr.) “So ___ to the guy ...” Prefix with phobia or bat Ann Landers’s sister Big name in car racks New restaurant logo in a June 2018 promotion (and inspiration for the theme answers) Answers from previous publication.

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37 “Atomic Blonde” star Charlize 39 Not like in the least 44 Charity event 48 Three-part vacuum tube 51 Feline 53 Bouncer’s letters? 54 “Archer” agent Kane 55 Words after call or hail 56 Be effusive 57 Actress Summer of “Firefly” 59 Antioxidant-rich berry 60 Half an M? 61 L.B.J. biographer Robert 64 Rapper ___ Uzi Vert 65 Drew’s predecessor on “The Price is Right”

News

Down 1 Roswell visitors, for short 2 “Lay It Down” ‘80s rockers 3 Hindu spiritual guide 4 Ending for hip or dump ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) 5 2018 Oscar winner for Original Screenplay 22 Powdered green tea leaves 6 5-Down costar Lil ___ Howery 24 Grammy winner Carey 7 ___ the last minute 26 “I surrender!” 8 Original Skittles flavor 27 Reef makeup 9 Beirut’s country 28 Baby bear owned by a hardware company? 10 Pisces follower 29 Part of DVD 11 Be aware of unnecessary chatter? 31 Run out, as a subscription 12 Soybean stuff 32 Guinea-___ (West African nation) 13 Four-letter word with eight sides? 34 Honda subdivision 18 Recede gradually 35 Knitter’s coil

Up Front

Across 1 There are 10 million in a joule 5 Cookout unit 10 Nos. on checks 14 Free of slack 15 First word of a counting rhyme 16 Sidesplitting show 17 Gyro meat from a roadside cart? 19 Lowdown 20 Sports car engine type 21 Got together 23 Seat in Parliament? 25 Thomas who drew Santa Claus 26 The Tritons of the NCAA 30 David ___, founder and former CEO of Salon 33 Owns 36 “Don’t pick me” 38 Redeemable ticket 40 “Blue screen of death” event 41 Addresses represented by URLs 42 Seat of the Dutch government, with “The” 43 Singer with the autobiography “Out of Sync” 45 Company with an early console 46 Bent pipe shape 47 Stick in the microwave 49 Israel’s first U.N. delegate Abba 50 Bus. major’s course 52 Coffee dispenser 54 Really fail

June 21-27, 2018

CROSSWORD

SODUKO Culture

Answers from previous publication.

Shot in the Triad

Puzzles