This Is Antifa

For too long, the name "Antifa" has been weaponized, abused, and used as a tool of disinformation. Starting now, that's over.

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1. Part 1: Introduction

The following written content is a verbatim script of the attached video content.

Hi, my name’s John Henry. You may have seen me recently or over the past eight years referring to myself as an “Antifa Leader.”

With the current spike in focus on the “Antifa” Facebook page, we thought it would be appropriate to present you with some information relevant to the common questions: Who am I, who are “we,” why are we here, and what are we actually doing?

To answer those questions we’ll be releasing a series of short videos over the next several hours, each spaced a few hours apart.

The first will be a prelude – a response to Sen. Jeff Merkley’s 22-and-a-half-hour Senate speech. This was filmed and framed separately from the series, but effectively frames the context of the final segment, our call to action for the next step in ending fascism.

Following this, three short videos answering those first three questions: Who am I? Who are “We?” Why are we here?

Finally, an action item for everyone to get involved in as a follow-up to our public letter from earlier this month addressing to our elected leadership.

So you’ve got a total of six videos, including this one; this one is just to set you up for the next five. (This introduction and the four core videos are embedded in this gallery post; the Merkley response is a separate post, here.)

We’ve done our best to keep it short, but there’s a great deal of information to communicate. In total, we believe all the content to clock in at just about forty minutes, including this introduction and the Merkley response.

We’re publishing the full text transcript of these videos on our website, weantifascists.com. They’ll also be published to various other platforms in various forms as links, video embeds, and so forth. In some cases like YouTube, they’ll be published through my existing personal platforms. In others, like Facebook, they’ll be distributed through our ‘Antifa/WeAntiFascists’ identities. We’ll tighten some of that up over time, but fundamentally, the website and the Facebook page (facebook.com/WeAntiFascists) are our core archival and distribution vectors.

We recommend all media inquiries be directed via e-mail to media at weantifascists dot com.

Thank you for your time and for standing with us against fascism, locally and globally.