Press Release : True Blues NYCFC :: NYCFC inaction over fascist skinheads continues
9 May 2019
Recently we’ve been sent this, “River Avenue Casuals” new ‘music’, urging folks to engage in violence at NYCFC matches. A territory they comfortably claim as their own.
Note this is Irv Antillon’s fascist Oi band, “Venganza Tatuada”, which has had shows shut down by antifascists, and does covers of songs by proudly neo-Nazi bands, like “Batallion 88” from France (the 88 is for “HH/Heil Hitler”) https://nycantifa.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/neo-nazi-show-in-nyc-shut-it-down/ Irv Antillon was among the 11 “Proud Boys” charged with assault in the late 2018 rally in Manhattan, called to commemorate the anniversary of the murder of a Japanese socialist politician. To date, several extreme right activists seen participating in both this and the August 2017 Charlottesville fascist march, still regularly attend NYCFC matches in the “supporters section”, specifically in the sections inhabited by the officially recognized “New York City Supporters Club/Templados” supporters group. These groups continue to receive special permissions and tickets from the team’s management.
The people who identify with this “River Avenue Casuals” organization (which borrows it’s acronym from the famous Nazi band Skrewdriver’s preferred name for their music, RAC) are easily identifiable from their social media and in the stadium, while many members publicly identify themselves as such there and elsewhere. Several of us have repeatedly sent NYCFC’s head of operations and other executives details about this, who these people are, and evidence that they are both Nazis, have engaged in all sorts of threats and violence, and are using Yankee Stadium as a recruiting ground for fascist politics and their “211 skinheads” gang, over almost a year. Heads of NYCSC and Templados have been warned about this, publicly and privately, continually, since 2015.
So far there is almost zero action on this, and members if these groups, working with official supporters group NYCSC/Templados, continue to attend matches home and away.
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2 threads containing links to photos, quotes, past news article
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Further background from late 2018
https://yankees161.wordpress.com/
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