Anti-racist organizer and academic Helmut Harry Loewen discusses the organized racist movement in Canada, and reflects on the April 13 2005 murder of Wolfgang Droege, one-time leader of the Heritage Front.
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On April 13, 2005, fascist organizer Wolfgang Droege was murdered in the hallway of his apartment building in Toronto's east end.
In this fairly comprehensive overview of Droege's activities in the racist right, CKLN interviews Helmut Harry Loewen, professor at the University of Winnipeg and activist with the Canadian Anti-Racism Education and Research Society. Topics include Droege's history with the KKK, the failed invasion of Dominica, Libyan outreach to left and right in the 80s, the formation of the Heritage Front and the role of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service. Loewen also talks about current campaigns against the racist right in Western Canada, and successful strategies for exposing and confronting organized racism and fascism.
[the first minute or so is introductory and could be edited out]
