A feature earlier this week on NPR led me to this coverage of the Aryan Nations’ plans to set up headquarters in remote Potter County PA, including a paramilitary training camp, under the direction of virulent racist August Kreis. Kreis may have wrested leadership of the far-right group from Richard Butler, 83-year-old Aryan Nations leader who lost the group’s former headquarters in Idaho in a court case brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center which the SPLC’s Morris Dees predicted had broken the back of the Aryan Nations. In radio and print interviews, Kreis is both brazen and savvy, stressing the importance of forging links with other far-right groups such as the World Church of the Creator. With cocky self-assurance, he states that the new degree of interconnectivity and fusion among far-right hate groups will push their activities to a new level. There are suggestions that recruitment to the Aryan Nations is once again on the rise.

Grassroots opposition groups such as the Education and Vigilance Network, to whose site the above link points, and Community Action Against Racism are raising the hue and cry. As readers of FmH know, I think there’s no more urgent cause than combatting virulent racist hatred from the far right. Consider supporting the Southern Poverty Law Center, which regularly litigates important anti-hate victories with courage and conviction. Disclaimer: I have no financial ties with the SPLC; just an interested contributor myself.