Fight Dem Back

] -->Fight Dem Back, often abbreviated FDB, is an Australian and New Zealand anti-racist group. It concentrates its attention on the Australian & New Zealand white nationalist, fascist and neo-Nazi scenes.

Politics

The group was founded by a collective of internet activists from across Australia and New Zealand in late 2004. In Sydney, these people included former advertising copywriter turned law student Mathew Henderson-Hau, generally known as 'Darp', who prior to starting the group was mainly known as a prolific blogger, winning best NSW blog in the 2005 Australian blogging awards. In Melbourne, the organisation was headed up by Cam Smith, a multimedia producer and radio journalist. In Perth, Donald Oorst, a part-time academic and author helped build the group up. In New Zealand, the public faces of the group were Robert Trigan and well known community activist and anarchist Asher Goldman from Wellington whilst many other individuals toiled away under the guise of their online pseudonymns. Trigan left FDB and New Zealand in July 2005 for New York [http://fightdemback.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=439] [see Website seeks net loss for Nazis, by Peter Kohn, Australian Jewish News, 17 June 2005] [see Website target of hate emails, by Mike Houlahan, Christchurch Press, 14 June 2005] [see Extremely Vulnerable, by David King and Paige Taylor, The Australian, December 24 2005]

Activities

FDB have conducted a number of disruption campaigns against allegedly racist organisations and their supporters. FDB's campaigns have included attempts to reveal the identity of a person responsible for an anti-immigration campaign in Toowoomba, QLD; [see Toowoomba Chronicle, Jul 14, 2005, "Net Closes on Racists". [http://www.thechronicle.com.au/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=localnews&storyid=3643749 ] ] campaigning for changes to the parole conditions of neo-Nazi axe murderer Dane Sweetman; [see Outcry at neo-Nazi's 'soft drink' parole switch, by Greg Roberts, The Australian, 25 January 2006] and general campaigning against the Australia First Party, the Patriotic Youth League and the New Zealand National Front. These campaigns have resulted in a number of reprisals from radical organisations which have ranged from libel to vandalism and death threats. [see The Age, December 18, 2005, "White Supremacists Hide in Quiet Suburbs.". [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/white-supremacists-hide-in-quiet-suburbs/2005/12/17/1134703644879.html] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.fightdemback.org/ FightDemBack website]