workingclasshistory:

In this month, October 1994, the Anti-Racist Action network was established at a conference in a high school in Columbus, Ohio, USA, initially under the name of the Midwest Anti-Fascist Network. The conference grew out of years of organizing by anti-nazi, anti-Klan, anti-racist, and pro-choice organizers across the US and Canada. The network went on to mobilize thousands of activists in hundreds of chapters in anti-fascist and anti-racist work. In 2013, the last ARA conference voted to rename itself the TORCH Network, which is still active today. To learn more about ARA, you can pre-order a discounted copy of We Go Where They Go: the Story of Anti-Racist Action, from our Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrkclasshistory/we-go-where-they-go-the-story-of-anti-racist-action https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2123622227822916/?type=3