Author: bay161

UPDATE: Golden Bull did the right thing and has since canceled the show.

It has recently come to our attention that Black Mountain Cult, Slege, Engendro Malevolo, and Oneiric Eclipse have Neo-Nazi and NSBM (“National Socialist Black Metal”) ties. The upcoming show at Golden Bull proves concerning as various actors involved have direct connections to Neo-Nazi organizers in the black metal scene as well as a seeming affinity for occult and esoteric fascism. Please politely call Golden Bull at 510-224-5522 or email at goldenbullbar[at]gmail[dot]com and ask them to sever ties with Black Mountain Cult booking, and to cancel the upcoming Sept. 10 show.

***This article will be update with more information following the date of the show, and as additional information comes to light***

Engendro Malevolo (San Leandro): One of the bands set to play on the tenth have recently played the “Ancient Rites through Native Pride” NSBM show in LA featuring The Mentors a “rape-rock” and “anti-antifa” band, as well as Pokol a band slated to play the upcoming Rise of the Black Sun organized by Roxy and Nino Mejia of Splendour Solis Prod. The flier for the event was put out with a profile picture depicting the Black Sun, commonly used by Neo-Nazis due to it being less recognizable than a swastika. Like many other acts on the bill, Engendro Malevolo has ties to Nuclear War Now Productions and Iron Bonehead Prod. and played their Never Surrender Fest in 2019.

Slegë (San Jose):  Seemingly the main driving force behind the recent shows with “Jordan Noir” guitarist of Slegë running Black Mountain Cult, current members Gabe Gabriel and Alex Kristoff Braslin and former Slegë member Nicholas Mendiola have significant fascist ties. Despite presenting outwardly as USBM (“United States Black Metal”) their NSBM connections appear significant enough for member Alex Kristoff Braslin of Morgan Hill to delete his personal facebook and erase the majority of his posts on his alt account after Golden Bull was initially reached out to and asked about the upcoming show.

Oneiric Eclipse (Santa Rosa): With a sparser internet presence than the previous two bands, one Oneiric Eclipse member going by “Vaeldrin Gundisalvus” on facebook still “likes” NSBM pages, as well as Never Surrender Fest (More info: https://nsbmboneheads.wordpress.com), and possibly appears to adhere to folkish (racialized) norse paganism. Another Santa Rosa user Andres Gonzalez, listed as Gundisalvus’s “brother” frequently posts Nazi content that he interacts with, including explicitly neo-nazi imagery, 4chan tier misogyny, and fanboys for racist Norwegian Black Metal bands like Burzum.

 

UPDATE: Oneiric Eclipse has since dropped from the bill

The upoming show proves especially concerning as Golden Bull also hosts queer and leftist shows often, and will potentially allow esoteric fascists and Nazi metalheads space to organize and recruit in. Golden Bull was initially contacted with much of the above information and said they would ask the performers about it, with the show a day away and no response since, at least one individual, Alex Kristoff Braslin has cleaned up his internet presence. And at the time of this writing the show looks to still be on. Hate music and nazi violence go hand in hand, Wade Michael Page of Blue Eyed Devils (who are listed on some fliers for the upcoming Rise of the Black Sun fest) killed six people at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin in 2012 after a career playing in Rock Against Communism bands. If the show moves forwards as planned it will likely bring Nazi metalheads out to the streets of Oakland, don’t allow subcultural fascist space to organize, please call Golden Bull at 510-224-5522 or email at goldenbullbar[at]gmail[dot]com and ask them to sever ties with Black Mountain Cult booking, and to cancel the upcoming Sept. 10 show.

If you have any info on Black Mountain Cult, NSBM bands and promoters in the Bay Area, or any other fascist and neo-nazis organizing in heavy/extreme music subculture please reach out to bay161[at]riseup[dot]net

On June 11th, about a dozen Proud Boys and sympathizers stormed the San Lorenzo Drag Queen Story Hour hosted by the library and featuring local drag artist Panda Dulce. Proud Boys gathered outside before storming the event, screaming slurs and verbally harassing performers, library staff and parents attending the event with their children, with the goal of shutting down the event and intimidating parents into disavowing drag and by proxy LGBTQ visibility. After disrupting the event and being told they would be charged with trespassing, Proud Boys exited the facility, shook hands with the Police outside, and continued their harassment with an outdoor megaphone rally. One Bay Area Proud Boy prominently photographed and circulated on social media wearing a t-shirt reading “Kill Your Local Pedophile” is Martinez, CA white supremacist Ian Donald Kearns.

On the alt-tech platform Gab Ian Kearns goes by “@MyWhiteLifeMatters” and shares openly segregationist pro-KKK and neo-nazi content expressing general hatred against anyone not straight, cisgender, white, Christian, and aligned with his neo-fascist worldview. 

The Free Press Project (@FreePressProj) was quick to point out that Kearns was a fixture at the Lafayette El Curtola overpass Trump rallies over the course of several months, where he attempted to intimidate a local student journalist for The Diablo Valley College Inquirer, and was noticeably violent. Kearns appears in various photographs over the course of the El Curtola protests and appears to have been involved in the behind the scenes organization of various similar overpass rallies and flag waves in Contra Costa and Alameda county.

Kearns was also an attendee of the Santa Rosa “Proud of Your Baby” Planned Parenthood harassment rally organized by the Bay Area Proud Boys that coincided with a twin San Jose rally which featured Straight Pride organizer and Constitution Party of California figurehead Donald James Grundmann. Kearns was also spotted at a recent Proud Boy disruption of a local Davis school board meeting over mask mandates, accompanying Sacramento Proud Boys like arms dealer and closeted nazi Brandon Revering and Placerville “Hangtown” Proud Boys. Attendees of the school board meetings noted Proud Boys screamed slurs, praised National Socialism (Nazism), flashed white supremacist hand gestures, and harassed people leaving the meeting outside.

Ian Donald Kearns seems intent to continue his anti-LGBTQ and racist harassment, his attendance at events including Planned Parenthood harassment, local school board intimidation as well as threatening drag artists and parents taking their children to a library storytime event, shows he is committed to materializing his fascist politics through violence (which he anonymously fantasizes about constantly on online racist cesspools such as Gab). These are the same tactics fascists have employed since Mussolini’s blackshirted squadristi, yet instead of crushing labor unions local Proud Boys are attempting to shut down local access to reproductive and gender affirming healthcare. With their attempts to physically repress drag culture, and by proxy the entirety of LGBTQ+ existence from positions of visibility, they are hoping to turn parents against drag and push potentially questioning children back into the closet. For the stated reasons above, we believe that the various communities Ian Donald Kearns regularly targets and harasses should be alerted to his identity, so as to impede his ability to engage in organized hate in the future.

We ask that Martinez residents as well as Bay Area residents in general alert their neighbors and communities to Ian Donald Kearns and the Bay Area Proud Boys. Wherever they go we go, support and defend your local Drag and LGBTQ+ events and spaces.

Address: 188 Village Pl Martinez, CA 

Tattoos and Identifying Features:

Most Recent Employment: Kearns has posted describing himself as a full-time student veteran enrolled in Martinez Adult Education, and listed work at the local Martinez VA Health Care Systems as his most recent employment.

Vehicle: White Volkswagen Jetta, CA Plate #80756 DV. Various USMC, anti-Biden, and anti-immigrant bumper stickers on the rear window

Please send any and all information regarding Ian Donald Kearns, the Bay Area Proud Boys, and any other local fascists and white supremacists to bay161[@]riseup[dot]com

On February 12th of this year, the newest iteration of the Bay Area Proud Boys attempted to host dual North Bay/South Boy rallies, harassing patients at Planned Parenthood in Santa Rosa and San Jose. Outnumbered and opposed at both locations, the rallies were a flop and saw South Bay Proud Boys ditch and run after a minor police presence showed – but not before meeting up in San Jose with genocidal transphobe, homophobe and leader of “a perfectly peaceful racist group (sic)” the National Straight Pride Coalition, Donald James Grundmann.

Among those in San Jose on Feb 12th wearing off-brand Fred Perrys were Robert Michael Gomez and brother Joseph Thomas Gomez, two Bay Area Proud Boys. The Gomez brothers run a family business, Door Guys Co. out of Gilroy, CA and hold a C-61/D28 License for Doors, Gates, and Activation Devices installation, with work experience that includes local school districts and various tech companies in the South Bay. On the ground reports noted a white van transporting several Proud Boys that day — which match descriptions of the Gomez brother’s work van — staging on the grounds of the nearby Herbert Hoover Middle School.

The Gomez brothers’ work seems further intertwined with their role within the Bay Area Proud Boys, with graphics on the Door Guys Co. website matching graphics for their “Groyper” style podcast and telegram channel, and the hosting of their work website with neo-Nazi friendly hosting service Epik (who recently suffered a serious data breach), matching Robert’s registration of the Bay Area Proud Boy’s website.

Of additional concern is the relationship the Gomez brothers held with New Jersey area Neo-Nazi Boogaloo Boy Paul Miller aka “Gypsy Crusader”, a former Proud Boy associate turned accelerationist neo-Nazi Omegle streamer, who among other things called for the murder of Rep. Ilhan Omar, praised Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant, and spent stream after stream screaming slurs at children, sieg heiling, and urging his followers on to race war and genocide. Miller is currently serving a sentence for firearms related charges. On the Gomez brothers’ podcast they idealized Miller as “the scourge of Antifa” and later telegram messages show a long-winded rant after Miller’s arrest idealizing him and playing into his self-made mythology of victimhood, saying that they “(…) have interviewed and talked to this man for years and he’s a normal dude”. Miller as “GypsyCrusader” and the Gomez brothers were also mutual followers on Gab, the social media site notorious for hosting Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooter Robert Bowers.

The brothers’ social media presence also clearly indicates that the two are followers and adherents of Nick Fuentes’s paleo-conservative tinged white nationalist America First movement, as well as supporters of the Mannerbund, a neo-fascist movement arguing for the creation of masculine fraternities as a means of materializing white nationhood. They are also fans of Robert “Azzmador” Ray of the Daily Stormer, who is currently on the run after charges stemming from Unite the Right in Charlottesville, as well as the work of Proud Boy doxxer “Elias McMahone” Chadwick Seagraves. The Mannerbund’s main “contribution” to the broader movement is its anthem “By God We’ll Have Our Home Again” which has been adopted by Kyle “Based Stickman” Chapman’s explicitly Nazi offshoot, the “Proud Goys” and was sung in Sacramento as “the Proud Boy Anthem” at the height of the “Stop the Steal” protests, as well as at a Proud Boy gathering in Modesto. The Bay Area Proud Boys have posted videos using the same song and have used skull mask imagery reminiscent of Atomwaffen Division and the neo-fascist Iron March forum.

Considering the recently leaked Supreme Court draft decision seeking to overturn Roe v. Wade and potentially empower states to go after similar rights to privacy such as same-sex marriage, contraception access and consensual private sexual activity, the Proud Boys’ attacks on Planned Parenthoods can hardly be considered an anomaly. Following the 2020 George Floyd Uprisings, the American far-right has doubled down on their attempts to repress political dissent, restrict or eliminate reproductive freedoms, and have further sought to marginalize queer and trans people – including criminalizing hormone replacement therapy for minors and people under 25, advancing “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, and furthering the narrative that LGBTQ+ individuals are “groomers” and should be removed from positions of visibility and from gainful employment. All these crackdowns on individual rights reflect the classic fascist obsession with “degeneracy”, as theorized by Julius Evola in Revolt Against the Modern World, condemned by Benito Mussolini and his henchmen, and realized in the early street actions of the Nazi SA. In the U.S., in addition to restricting access to reproductive and gender affirmative healthcare, this has manifested as targeted resistance to racial integration, anti-sodomy laws, fetal endangerment prosecutions, and other state interventions that venerate the “traditional family” and work in tandem with white identitarian concepts of hyper-natalism, or the obsession with increasing white birth rates to avoid ethnic “replacement”.  Last month, 18 year old white nationalist Payton S. Gendron walked into a Buffalo, NY supermarket and and murdered 10 people, specifying in his manifesto that he was looking to kill Black people. Gendron’s manifesto and attack explicitly reference the 2019 El Paso shooting, as well as Christchurch mass shooter Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto “The Great Replacement” which advanced the conspiracy theory of “white replacement”, repeatedly emphasized declining white birthrates, and called for white hyper-natalism and the murder of non-whites. These accelerationist attacks and fascist street actions work hand in hand with the post-Trump GOP to blatantly encourage and enact violence and murder, influenced by the reactionary desire to create a world where the totality of their “anti-modern” white nationalist vision can be realized.

Wherever these fascists take to the streets to victimize and harass, antifascists and community members need to stand up and confront them – there is no such thing as the Bay Area “liberal bubble” for the marginalized individuals they regularly seek to target. For the reasons listed above, and because of the Gomez brothers’ obvious intent to repeatedly threaten and intimidate Planned Parenthood patients, their evident anti-Black racism, hatred of transgender people and Muslims, as well as their concerning history of employment contracts with local school districts and presence on middle school campuses, we believe residents of Gilroy and the surrounding South Bay should avoid patronizing their business, and alert their neighbors and their community to these fascists organizing in their neighborhood and the wider Bay Area.

Robert Michael Gomez                                                                                                          

1390 Peregrine Dr., Gilroy, CA 95020

Robert Gomez’s White Nissan NV200 SV “Door Guys Co.” Work Van Grey Racks On Top w/ Gilroy Nissan plate trim CA Plate #: 86484V1 **has used this vehicle to transport Proud Boys to and from rallies**

Robert’s Silver Ford F-150 “Yee Yee” sticker and other Chud/2nd Amendment Stickers Paso Robles Ford plate trim CA Plate #: 16467K3

Wife Genieve M. Gomez’s (née Carlino) Blue Honda Pilot Sunnyvale Hopkins plate trim, CA Plate #: 7ZAN022

Door Guys Co.
505 Mayock Rd. Gilroy, CA (Unit D-16)                                                              

For more information on the Bay Area Proud Boys be sure to check out @Borwin10’s thread on BAPB North Bay VP Richard Kenney Lewis Jr. aka “DrtyDeedz”

Please report any and all info on the Bay Area Proud Boys, Joe & Robert Michael Gomez, or any other regional fascist activity to bay161[@]riseup[dot]net.

**Disclaimer: Many of the Pagan symbols discussed in this article are not necessarily indicators of neo-Nazism, Please use discretion before judging or confronting someone based on these symbols alone.**

On March 15, Justin Peoples (30) of Stockton, CA, a Black Navy veteran and father of two, was murdered by white supremacists Christina Lyn Garner and Jeremy Wayne Jones – completely unprovoked, while stopped at a Chevron gas station in nearby Tracy. Peoples was said to be working two jobs with the hopes of soon buying a home, and was shot first by Garner and then stabbed repeatedly by Jones. Peoples would later be pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Jeremy Wayne Jones (49), originally from Livermore and girlfriend Christina Lyn Gardner (42) originally from Manteca, now both living in Stockton, would be arrested the next day, after being identified by Jones’ new throat tattoo “Christina”. Jones’ social media documents his time inside the California Prison System, his recent release on March 1st, and his affiliations which are clearly visible via his various white power tattoos. Clear from both a current Facebook account and an older account circa 2018 is Jones’ involvement with white supremacist prison gangs like Aryan Brotherhood, as well as with racist or “folkish” paganism also sometimes called “Odinism”. A third person, Christopher Angelo Dimenco (52) was arrested as accessory to the murder.

Graphics shared by Jones suggest a level of involvement with “Odinist” prison gangs and religious groups, and an investment in pagan white power identity. Jones signed off various posts vaguely targeted at those he felt had wronged him with “Victory or Valhalla” (essentially victory or death in combat) and posts display various Viking imagery, Germanic and Norse Runes, mixed with overt Nazi symbolism and numerology.

On a photo Jones posted while incarcerated, a Facebook friend posted “Can’t wait until you’re on this side of the fence bro!! You have a fat steak dinner coming!” this poster, Francisco “Frankie” B. Moreira of Stockton California, like Jones, adheres to racist interpretations of the Prose & Poetic Edda, and appears to believe in an idealized “Odinist” interpretation of white genealogy, white supremacy, and racialized spirituality. Posts from Moreira show his involvement in racist skinhead culture, with him pictured alongside Asatru Folk Assembly “folkbuilder” Marc Macleod (whom he refers to as his “Brüder”) while otherwise dressing the part and hinting at skinhead affiliation. Moreira’s additional posts of a celtic cross burning, and various slavic and pagan symbols frequently used by neo-Nazis denote adherence to folkish Asatru and white supremacy.

Moreira can be seen attending a large gathering at the “whites-only” Asatru Folk Assembly’s Brownsville location “Odinshof” a hub for organized skinheads, white nationalist identitarians, and esoteric pagan neo-nazis to gather under the guise of practicing the “indigenous religion for white people”. MacLeod and many other organized racists both Asatru Folk Assembly members and not can be pictured, despite the organization’s 501(c)3 legal status and weak claim to not be involved with organized neo-Nazis or white supremacists.

Founded in 1994 by Army veteran, former national guardsmen, and white nationalist propagandist, Steven A. McNallen, the Asatru Folk Assembly attempts to materialize white nationalism through the creation of a “whites-only” explicitly racist form of Norse Paganism. Headquartered in Brownsville, CA at “Odinshof” with two additional hofs in Linden, NC and Murdock, MN the Asatru Folk Assembly draws recruits from the MAGA movement, skinhead groups like Golden State Skinheads, Black metal and neofolk subcultures, and from “Odinist/Folkish Asatru” organizing and “advocacy” within prison and the armed forces. Up at Odinshof and at their two other hofs (with plans to expand with hofs in Florida and Ohio), the Asatru Folk Assembly conduct lectures on “metagenetics” and white identity, conduct 501(c)3 mandated food distributions,  and educate the children of members in a curriculum of white supremacy. Moreira and Cloos explicit support of the Asatru Folk Assembly, and attendance at events at Odinshof should be noted.

Posts by Moreira indicate his involvement with local biker culture, and from comments on his Facebook looking to buy Hell’s Angels Supporters merch it looks like he may occasionally attend Hells Angels and other regional MC’s events.

We are releasing this information due to Moreira and Cloos open support and affiliation with the Asatru Folk Assembly, a designated hate group operating inside and out of the California Prison System, various armed forces, and that houses a wide variety of neo-Nazis and white supremacists. In addition, we believe that Moreira’s connection and open support and sympathy for Jeremy Wayne Jones while his connections to Aryan Brotherhood and organized hate within the California Prison system were clearly apparent hints towards a level of involvement in the same circles and the same feedback loop of the Asatru Folk Assembly, Aryan Brotherhood, and racist skinhead crews that regularly seek to kill. The fact that they appeared to both reside in Stockton for an overlapping time-frame make us believe that publicizing Moreira’s connections to Marc Macleod, Jeremy Wayne Jones, and the Asatru Folk Assembly is in the interest of residents of Stockton, Tracy, and the broader SF bay area.

Francisco B. Moreira  & Katie E. Cloos

Address: 1149 Calhoun Way, Stockton CA 95207                                                         

Employment: (Francisco Moreira) Refrigeration pipefitter at Climate Pros HVAC & Refrigeration cs[@]climateprosinc[dot]com (630) 893-8511 (Katie Cloos) Medical Assistant & Manager at ExamWorks (404) 952-2400 www.examworks.com                                           

Vehicles: Dark Grey 2013 Dodge Challenger (Cloos), Black Harley-Davidson Street Glide Motorcycle (Moreira), White Climate Pro Van Plate: 5141583 (Moreira)

Please send any and all information pertaining to Frankie Moreira, Katie E. Cloos, the Asatru Folk Assembly or any other regional neo-Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists  to bay161[@]riseup[dot]net.

This past October, Texas residents were repeatedly harassed by Neo-Nazi group the “Goyim Defense League” and their fifth antisemitic propagandist “Name the Nose” tour. Organized by Jon Eugene Minadeo II “Handsome Truth”, a failed Bay Area actor/rapper and Nazi streamer, NTN5 saw numerous publicity stunts like “Hug a Nazi”, a freeway banner drop with the slogan “Vax the Jews” and several swastika burnings. Following the tour, an Austin synagogue was set on fire by Telegram nazi Franklin Barrett Sechriest, who if not connected directly to the GDL was likely emboldened by the week’s intensified and blatant Nazi street actions.

With the GDL in Texas was Robert Frank Wilson of Chula Vista, CA who occasionally streams on Omegle as “Aryan Bacon”, and films one on one video chat-rooms with minors where he attempts to trot out his white nationalist arguments to bored teenagers and whoever happens to hop onto Omegle late at night. Following NTN5, Wilson started publicly organizing with SoCal “White Lives Matter” and carried out several banner drops in Orange County and San Clemente. Around this time Wilson’s identity became public due to a hate crime he was arrested for, when he trapped a neighbor in his driveway by blocking it with his vehicle, repeatedly yelled homophobic slurs at him, then reached into his vehicle and hit him in the face. Wilson was also charged for his participation in hanging an antisemitic banner over the I-805 freeway in San Diego just after the incident near his home.

Since then, Wilson has attempted to keep a low profile due to ongoing legal troubles, until March 12th when he drove through San Diego in a UHaul truck awkwardly covered with various antisemitic conspiracies, anti-LGBTQ slogans, and other provocative hate screed.

While news outlets have covered Wilson’s arrest and noted his involvement with the GDL, Wilson’s occupation as the owner of California Audio Video has not yet come to light. Operating out of Wilson’s home at 550 1st Ave, Chula Vista with a business address in La Jolla (7660-H 116 Fay Ave) it appears that his travels as “Aryan Bacon” to NTN4 in Florida, and racist harassment in Texas for NTN5 were financed by the proceeds from his business And it does not seem that Wilson’s neo-nazism is confined to his streams, as one review of California Audio Video states that he began screaming at an elderly Jewish woman that his company did not serve Jews after he saw a mezuzah affixed to her doorway, other reviews note similar experiences. While streaming as Aryan Bacon, it also seems that the flatscreen behind him on stream is set-up in the style of installations California Audio Video offers in their advertisements. Needless to say, those seeking professional audio/video services should look elsewhere to get their needs met.

Wilson and the rest of the GDL cloak their genocidal beliefs in slogans, feigned irony, esoteric in-jokes, and bottom of the barrel anti-Black racism. But despite their propensity to lie like children when pressed on their obviously hateful and murderous agenda, make no mistake – their beliefs are heartfelt and their organizing should be shut down whenever present. They exist to create an environment of terror and intimidation for Jewish people and others who are marginalized. Public displays and propagation of hate speech are an incitement to hate activity and violence and all members, associates, and anyone linked to the Goyim Defense League are a threat to our communities.

Address: 550 1st Ave, Chula Vista, CA 91910

Employment: Owner of California Audio Video, operating out of 550 1st Ave location, with an additional location in La Jolla at 7660-H 116 Fay Ave. La Jolla, CA 92037

Vehicle: Black Mercedes-Benz Sprinter with California AV advertisements, CA Plate: 77435E2

Please send any and all information pertaining to Robert Frank Wilson “Aryan Bacon”, Jon Eugene Minadeo II “Handsome Truth”, and “Goyim Defense League” regional organizing in California to bay161[at]riseup[dot]net.