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The Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.

This is Robbie Martin. Welcome.

So we just did a pretty long podcast, but we wanted to do another one because of the horrific events that unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.

For people who haven't been paying attention, a woman, 32-year-old woman named Heather Heyer, was viciously mowed down by a neo-Nazi.

In Charlottesville, it was the scene of hundreds of neo-Nazis and white supremacists

who had descended to protest the removal of a Robert Lee statue, a Confederate statue,

and we're seeing this heated debate going on all over the country

about these Confederate statues coming down.

Yeah.

So all these neonatries.

Robert Lee statue erected in 1924.

Wait, you mean it wasn't after the Civil War that the statue went up?

Crazy.

So yeah, these white supremacists came to, they were just statue enthusiasts. You know,

they just wanted to, they were just really excited about the statue and they really didn't want to see

it go down, Robbie. They were statue in history buffs. So these people descended upon Charlottesville

to protest the removal of a Confederate statue that shows you how childish and babyish these people are. And of course,

Antifa again showed up in the streets to confront neo-fascism, like they do all over the place.

And like they have been this whole time. And for people who think that Antifa just showed up

on the map, they've been around for decades, all over the world. This is a movement that you can

learn more about. Democracy now just had on this guy who did a really good breakdown of who

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