As I write this, our petition is almost at 50,000 signatures. We know that your calls and emails to Immigration Minister David Coleman are having an impact. Now, we need to keep up the pressure.

Can you call or email Minister Coleman and respectfully tell him that Australia is no place for violent extremism?

Email: Minister@homeaffairs.gov.au
Phone: 02 6277 4188

If you need some inspiration, look no further than the Southern Property Law Center (SPLC) who has compiled this list of recent violent activity from the Proud Boys. All of the text below is via the SPLC.

Here is an incomplete, recent list of Proud Boys engaging in violence or intimidating behaviour:

1. Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys were kicked off of Facebook this week specifically because of their use of violence and the way they used the platform to recruit and plan events.
2. In May, a Proud Boy appeared at the home of a video editor in an effort to intimidate him. The video editor had published videos lampooning the group and its founder, Gavin McInnes.
3. On June 3, Donovan Flippo, a Proud Boy, and Allen Puckett of the rabidly anti-LGBT Hells Shaking Street Preachers, were filmed attacking a man outside of a parking garage in the midst of a Patriot Prayer (a far-right organization out of the Portland, Oregon area that is a partner organization to the Proud Boys) rally in Portland.
4. On June 8, Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, a Proud Boy and muscle for U.S. Senate candidate Joey Gibson of Patriot Prayer, emerged from a group of men in a truck who were shouting “support Trump build the wall!” and punched a man in the face, according to the victim.
5. On June, 30 Patriot Prayer held a rally in Portland that descended into a riot. One Proud Boy, Ethan “Rufio Panman” Nordean, knocked out a counter-protester with a single punch. The Proud Boys celebrated that moment of violence, endlessly promoting the video and using it to gain new recruits. Nordean even appeared on an episode of McInnes’ CRTV show Get Off My Lawn that was devoted entirely to the riot. McInnes praised the Proud Boys for “mowing the human antifa lawn” and called Nordean’s punch a “beautiful moment.” At that same event, one counter-protester reportedly suffered from cranial haemorrhaging after being beaten by a group of Proud Boy and Patriot Prayer members.
6. After the Portland riot on June 30, a freelance journalist was threatened on Twitter by a Proud Boys member who wrote “We aren’t going to let you lie about us anymore and we are going to beat the ever living sh*t out of every single one of your douche-bag comrades who assaults us from now on.”
7. At a massive August 4 Patriot Prayer/Proud Boys rally in Portland, police found a group of men associated with the two groups with a cache of weapons on a rooftop overlooking the event. [SPLC] published a story prior to the rally warning that attendees were planning to bring firearms.
8. At a September 22 rally in Austin held to support the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Proud Boy Tusitala “Tiny” Toese attempted to attack two black men who were wearing Obama hats. They retreated into a store, but Toese continued to yell at them through the glass. “You won’t survive in my world, boy! You won’t survive in my world!” he yelled and threatened to “blow through your f**kin’ window,” before police intervened.
9. On October 6, Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, and American Guard (an SPLC-designated hate group headed by Brien James, the founder of the racist skinhead group Vinlanders Social Club) teamed up in Providence for a “Resist Marxism” rally. Clashes broke out and the Vice President of the New Hampshire chapter of American Guard was filmed repeatedly yelling “I will fucking kill you!” at counter-protesters (that incident begins just before the 8:00 mark).
10. On October 12, Gavin McInnes spoke at the Metropolitan Republican Club in New York City, where he acted out the assassination of a Japanese socialist. Afterward, a group of Proud Boys—along with several far-right skinheads—beat several counter-protesters just blocks from McInnes’ event.
11. On October 13, Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys held a “flash march” in downtown Portland, which resulted in a clash where a counter-protester was kicked and stomped.

Can you call or email Minister Coleman today and respectfully tell him that Australia is no place for violent extremism?

Email: Minister@homeaffairs.gov.au
Phone: 02 6277 4188

If you call Minister Coleman’s office, please be respectful and brief. You could say something like this:

“Hello, I am calling to support the petition requesting that Minister Coleman revoke the visa of hate-group founder Gavin McInnes. I strongly believe that Australia is no place for McInnes’ violent extremism, and I urge the minister to respond to the petition, and to Shayne Neumann’s formal letter. Thank you for your time.”

Thank you,
Nyadol Nyuon

Image: SPLC