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2023 Year End Top Tens, Part One - MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL

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It Did Happen Here

In the 1980s, before gentrification, before Portlandia, Portland, Oregon was a sleepy city that existed outside of the national spotlight.  Skinheads had always been part of the local punk scene. In the late 1980s, punks and skins started being recruited by national white supremacist organizations, and that organizing work took off.

A New Podcast Explores the Roots of Antifascist Organizing in Portland

WW  presents “Distant Voices,” a daily video interview for the era of social distancing. Our reporters are asking Portlanders what they’re doing during quarantine. Anyone who thinks anti-fascists and right-wing groups only started fighting each other in the Trump era clearly didn t go to punk shows in the 80s. Erin Yanke is among those who were there. Growing up in Northern California, she confronted neo-Nazism in her own scene, and she remembers being deeply shaken by the killing of Mulugeta Seraw in Portland by racist skinheads, even from afar. Related:  The idea they would not be a problem just for our scene and actually murder an immigrant was just gut wrenching at the time, she says.

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