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A review by clairealex
It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People's History by Alec Dunn, Moe Bowstern, Erin Yanke, Julie Perini, Mic Crenshaw, Celina Flores
4.0
This book is a compilation of oral histories, the comments grouped thematically into chapters. It is a useful format for completing the record, but it is rather hard to read with all the repetitions. From whatever source I'd found the book, I'd gotten the impression that there would be more about the murder of Mulugato Seraw than there was. Mostly the killing was summarized and presented as the moment that brought groups into coalition, thus beginning the history of the antifascist movement.
The brawling takes up about half of the space, various attitudes toward it, complaining that police considered it mere gang action while participants considered it important antifascist action, to discourage fascist recruiting in Portland. Though members spoke of that as political, later in the evaluations, participants spoke of a need for wider political awareness to create an alternative narrative. The portions I found most useful were the chapter on varied tactics, the one on Jon Bair's experience, and the evaluations at the end.
"Fascism can't be defeated by a subculture if the subculture places militance over politics--politics being development of critical capacities of all participants in the movement to engage whatever potential they have, and also the ability to collectively evaluate and engage in tactics and strategy" (Peter Little 240).
The brawling takes up about half of the space, various attitudes toward it, complaining that police considered it mere gang action while participants considered it important antifascist action, to discourage fascist recruiting in Portland. Though members spoke of that as political, later in the evaluations, participants spoke of a need for wider political awareness to create an alternative narrative. The portions I found most useful were the chapter on varied tactics, the one on Jon Bair's experience, and the evaluations at the end.
"Fascism can't be defeated by a subculture if the subculture places militance over politics--politics being development of critical capacities of all participants in the movement to engage whatever potential they have, and also the ability to collectively evaluate and engage in tactics and strategy" (Peter Little 240).