Of the, a discussion role of antifascist groups at recent demonstrations around the country. This is about 25 minutes. Welcome back. We are going to speak with mark about the antifa movement. Handbook. Thank you for being with us this morning. Guest a pleasure. Host what is your relationship to the movement . Guest sure, im a longtime activist and historian. I was involved in occupy wall street in new york city back in 2011. Involved in a variety of social justice movements. With the resurgence of the old right, there is actually relatively little written about postwar antifascism after world war ii. Socialist, think the they fought against hitler and mussolini, but they know less about the second half of the story when selfdefense groups were formed in britain and germany, among immigrants and leftists to defend themselves against the neonazi skinhead wave that was unleashed in response to waves of migration and how it moved over to the United States with the development of antiracist
Of the, a discussion role of antifascist groups at recent demonstrations around the country. This is about 25 minutes. Welcome back. We are going to speak with mark about the antifa movement. Handbook. Thank you for being with us this morning. Guest a pleasure. Host what is your relationship to the movement . Guest sure, im a longtime activist and historian. I was involved in occupy wall street in new york city back in 2011. Involved in a variety of social justice movements. With the resurgence of the old right, there is actually relatively little written about postwar antifascism after world war ii. Socialist, think the they fought against hitler and mussolini, but they know less about the second half of the story when selfdefense groups were formed in britain and germany, among immigrants and leftists to defend themselves against the neonazi skinhead wave that was unleashed in response to waves of migration and how it moved over to the United States with the development of antiracist
Use the hashtag artist places. Fire up your smart phones if you get a chance. I am mark muro, senior fellow at the metropolitan policy program and my privilege to kick off todays auspicious event. I say our event today is auspicious for several reasons. It is always auspicious to welcome and help launch a book into the world, given it is a red letter day for fred bacher whose excellent book the smartest places on earth is just out and if i do say so, rush to pick up a copy, we have some out beyond the back, on the way out please do that. Also two experienced economic observers focusing not on the standard inside the beltway with spin cycles, and at brookings, the most fundamental elements of national wellbeing, r d and stem worker advanced industries from aerospace, Regional Technology clusters, Regional Technology ecosystems, critical, that is part of their focus, and collaborations they accelerate. The fact that cities and regions themselves can become incubators of growth. They trav
Has the kind of discipline, the kind of intellectual rigor to unpack the complexity of the industries and then figured out what the Public Policies needs to flow from. My question is this. I used left fairly often and what i find depressing is often the guy thats driving is very highly qualified but hasnt to me the operationalization of what youre talking about here is how to get people educated with the right tools so they dont become to janitors in West Virginia but they become contributors to this new economy. Have you thought about that i have come its called the most important job youll ever have and the most important job youll ever have is being a parent. I wouldnt pretend to be a parenting guru and my children here today would remind me. But what i do is take the voices and perspectives of the people in the book and i ask them all the same questions what will todays kids need to make it in tomorrows economy so theres a full treatment of that. Now that of course doesnt relate to
And i caught the slightest glimpse which ended soon thereafter. And then finally they said you can go but i asked if i could take a picture. That was far away. Kim and i take a picture . They said no. I said why . Because the other agent from behind said it is National Security zone was not allowed to take that picture. When we moved away he immediately called and made a complaint. He took the agents name and he called the station to make a complaint. I felt like i got a glimpse of what people are talking about if they talk about all kinds of things that lots of people say that we live in the occupied territory. Talking about being tailgated in the Homeland Security or border virtual vehicles from the back of their cars and people talk about coming onto their property without a warrant and home invasions i interviewed a man who was pulled out of the vehicle and hit with a baton. There is more stories like that. At one town hall meeting recently with the aclu looking into abuses they as