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A Practical Way to Help Advance the
Struggle
by Vibeke Østergaard
July 24, 2002
One of the most common questions that comes up that is
almost never answered in Eurocentric circles in
countries that lack a viable pro-White electoral
option, such as the U.S.A., is what a normal person
can to do to help advance the struggle by reaching out
the general public. While no "miracle cure" exists,
well-founded hope does. I should state at the outset
that the nature of the struggle is long term and
requires real dedication equivalent to a part-time job
rather then just the occasional leaflet run, heading
to a gig, or helping out a demo. As a result, I
understand that plenty of people that actually are
part of the struggle or simply view themselves as such
are simply not up the method I will detail shortly but
I am hopeful that some will give this proven method a
serious effort.
First, a bit about what does not work. Leafleting is,
to my mind, not productive. I say this because the
results of such efforts are hysterical articles in the
local misinformation rag about "hate literature" that
always fail to present the material in question in an
accurate fashion while suggesting that such literature
is illegal, or at least that it should be, while
giving the ADL the chance to blather about the need to
stop "the hate." The consequences of such coverage include
the local police harassing area activists, the
confiscation of distributed literature, and the local
forces of diversity, love, and tolerance assaulting the
proponents of unfashionable ideas. Chances are that if
the agents of harmony and progress attack a "hater"
the former will not be prosecuted by the courts while
the later will. Such events tend to discourage new
recruits and increase the defeatism that is already
rife in American racial circles. Most discouraging
of all is that when a lemming is confronted with a
single sheet that contradicts what the Talmudvision
tells him he simply rejects the message out of hand.
In my experience, leafleting seldom results in more
then 5% of the recipients attempting to contact the
group. Worst of all, at best only half of such
respondents are responsive and fewer still are likely
to become active in the struggle.
Rallies are less then fruitful due to fees as well as
time and space restrictions placed by the authorities,
if they allow them at all, thereby preventing
nationalists from using a venue that provides decent
access to the public at large. Naturally, such events
also draw the attention of the masked proponents of
humane understanding who strike a blow for human
rights via crowbars, balloons of urine, rioting and
such forms of debate favored by groups like the ARA.
Naturally, media attention varies from mildly negative
to visceral condemnations the groups that organized
the rally. In any case, a couple of hundred
confrontational demonstrators carrying flags produces
little tangible benefits in terms of PR or recruiting
as can be readily seen from 30 years experience in the
states as well as the recent history of the UK's NF.
Electoral efforts in the states have been rare and are
doubtlessly fruitless beyond a local level. In part
this is due to the institutional strength of the anti
Occidental establishment in both parties, the high
costs associated with even a Congressional primary
bid, the lack of a viable nationalist electoral party
and a controlled media. Worst of all is that in the
states all electoral districts are represented by a
single winning candidate rather then by proportional
representation as is the rule in parliamentary based
systems. What this means is that if a racialist
candidate wins 49.9% of the vote in some local
election racialists receive exactly zero
representation. Any electoral bid with a reasonable
chance of success can only happen on a Congressional
or local level in an overwhelmingly white and
conservative district blessed with an articulate,
dedicated and PR conscious nationalist/populist
candidate.
In any case, given the current political climate, if
the occasional local candidate does achieve the rare
breakthrough it will require well over a decade of
work to establish an electoral party with the staying
power that the third party "personality vehicles" that
have always characterized alternate politics in the
states consistently lack. Excepting a profound,
systemic crisis occurring prior to the total
dispossession of Occidental America the outlook for
major Eurocentric electoral gains seems slim as can be
attested to by dismal outlook for even the near term
survival of neo-con treason by the GOP as stated at:
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/gop_future.htm ,
http://www.vdare.com/pb/election.htm and
http://www.vdare.com/pb/swept_away.htm.
However, if you are fortunate enough to live in a
locality that is genuinely conducive to a realistic
electoral foray such as Bill White's LSN network in
Montgomery County Maryland or Mr. Giles's bid in
Mississippi I would urge that you provide such
attempts with your full support if for no other reason
then to get some first-hand experience with real life
electoral politics.
Having talked about what has not worked I want to
present an approach that has provided encouraging
results many times in the past. I refer to simple
community activism combined with a low-key but
sustained local presence. By sustained I mean nearly
every weekend for no less then several months
involving no less then 3 local activists.
I first became aware of this tactic about 1984 or so
when a skinhead chum of mine from Northern England who
wanted to find a way for members from numerous
squabbling nationalist factions to do something
productive that they could all agree on rather than
hawking A4 sheets outside the local or getting
screamed at and attacked by ANAL/Antifa scum at
marches and demos. What such an effort entailed was
spending their weekends gathered together for the
purpose of fixing up the homes of local pensioners and
the disabled, raising a bit of cash for strapped
community programs, mending neglected parks, providing
services to shut-ins and the like. All the while having
small, professional-looking, non-confrontational
banners up at the site with a literature table near by
encouraging the locals to take up community service
with a contact address at the top. The literature
should be suited towards the project underway by for
instance pointing out the plight of our war pensioners
and what a nationalist government would do to help
them or how gangs of immigrants have over taxed and
ruined the park, youth center or what have you that
you are currently fixing and how nationalist policies
will help reverse such decay.
A personal favorite is a flyer stating the damaged
home/park/school/church you're repairing is how we help
our dispossessed kinfolk deal with the consequences of
rampant crime caused by government housing schemes
designed "diversify" a formerly safe neighborhood.
Another is to organize an effort to help out at a
local rape crisis center while pointing out how the
establishment has failed to protect the females of
your community and what a nationalist government would
do differently.
This remarkably simple and pleasant program had
several short-term benefits not least of which was
that it stopped local activists from rival
organizations endlessly splitting ideological hairs
which helped to make nationalist unity more then a
slogan. Within a few weeks local media coverage
cropped up that instead of having a screaming headline
about "hate" talked about how odd it was that the
local "yobs" were helping the community and addressing
issues of genuine local concern. Of course the usual
insinuations were made about the sinister intents of
such efforts but such coverage was far better then any
mainstream coverage given to some flag-waving demo.
In my experience, such efforts provide better PR then
anything else I know of.
Another upside is that while the typical lemming finds
logic and common sense unconvincing in terms of race,
politics and culture he does often respond to personal
experience. While the dedicated "anti-racist" will
despise you no matter how you behave many apathetic or
reflectively leftist types respond quite favorably to
the nationalist that proves by his actions to be the
antithesis of what he has been portrayed as by the
establishment. If one behaves in public like a
Hollywood Nazi he helps the enemy insure that the 14
Words are nothing more then a dream. If one proves to
the public that he is the opposite of what the media
claims racialism is all about public perception will
often change accordingly.
While handing out flyers tends to attract lots of
hostility from the defenders of leftist-defined
tolerance, mending the roof of a pensioner, clearing a
rubbish-strewn lot to make way for a garden or
repainting a youth hostel tends to attract favourable
interest by almost any well-adjusted person, many of whom
will gladly pick up your leaflet and often read it as
well. Often some passerby stops, finds out what you're
doing and joins your little project, providing the near
perfect opportunity for recruitment that extensive
one-on-one contact provides.
I have seen this method time and time again be used to
promote a more benign or even openly positive public
reaction to what our struggle is all about. It
provides an excellent contrast to unwashed, narcotic-fueled mask thuggery one finds among the ranks of
"anti racist" militants. By having nationalists be
seen as a socially responsible force it makes it much
easier to canvass votes for a local election or ballot
proposition favorably inclined towards our cause.
This method is no panacea by a long shot but it has
consistently yielded better long-term results than
anything else I have seen, provided you're willing to
make the time commitment. If the readership expresses
some real interest in trying this method out I can
provide plenty of tips and such on the details of
making a go of the approach. Those interested in
acting upon this method are encouraged to discuss it
at: http://www.polinco.com/forum/ under the "Unreported News" heading.
VIBEKE ØSTERGAARD
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