The symbol most people associate with ARA Anti_Racist Action Network (ARA) is a decentralized network of anti_fascist and anti-racist activists. ARA activists organize actions to disrupt neo-nazi and white supremacist groups and help to organize resistance mainly to fascist and racist ideologies. ARA groups also oppose sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, anti-Semitism and discrimination against the disabled, the old, the young and others seen to be oppressed. They are staunchly Left-Wing, and are sometimes seen to be "Red" or Communist, particularly by detractors, however, their politics are more consistent with anarchism. Members of Love and Rage, a revolutionary anarchist organization played a major role in building ARA groups and the ARA Network in the 1990s. They are sometimes associated with the Skinhead subculture and work with organizations such as Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP).
In Canada, they were involved in a number of violent incidents in the 1990s which included a 1993 brawl on Parliament Hill in Ottawa with members of the neo_nazi Heritage Front in which several Heritage Front members, including RaHoWa lead singer George Burdi, were arrested.
The ARA staged a subsequent protest in Toronto outside the rented house of Heritage Front spokesman Gary Schipper. During the protest, several individuals entered Schipper's house and proceeded to vandalise the home, doing causing approximately $20,000 in property damage. Following this event members of the Heritage Front, including its leader, Wolfgang Droege, attacked members of ARA outside of a Toronto pub resulting in the arrest and conviction of Droege and several of his associates for aggravated assault.
History
ARA started in Minneapolis, MN in 1987. Since then it has been expanding to different communities, countries and continents.
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