Several organizations in Hamilton denounced the “active nationalist clubs” White, whose members were found by a recent CBC News research report that prepares for a “racial war” in gyms and parks of the area.
The Hamilton Anti Hate coalition, a group previously known as I did not hate in the hammer, said it is also asking the municipal authorities and neighbors to “act immediately” in the light of the research findings.
The members of the coalition have also issued their own statements since the initial investigation report was published on July 18.
The Hamilton Center for Civic Inclusion (HCCI), the Hamilton Anti-Racism Resources Center (Harrc) and the Hamilton Immigration Association Council (Hipc) have expressed their sentence and are asking for urgent actions to eliminate hatred.
Hipc said it is “deeply alarmed” by the report of the Visual Research Unit of the CBC.
“These groups are not benign social organizations. They are part of a transnational movement based on fascist ideology, white supremacy, misogyny and violent extremism,” Hipc said in a statement.
“Hipc unequivocally condemns the presence of these organizations fed with hate in our city,” says the statement. “Its activities, whether undercover or public, represent a serious threat to the safety of all Hamiltonians and are especially harmful to newly arrived and long -date racialized communities that already experience a greater risk of discrimination and violence.”
According to the president of the Hipc Anti -Racism Committee, Kim Martin, the newcomers and racialized communities face disproportionate barriers and discrimination.
“The organized presence of hate groups in our public spaces sends a chilling message,” Martin said. “This cannot be normalized. We must fulfill it with urgency, solidarity and zero tolerance for hate in all its forms.”
TO CBC visual researchIn collaboration with the fifth state, he recently identified local spaces where white nationalists are gathering to train, even in Myrtle and Gage Parks. Known within the White Nationalist communities such as “Active Clubs”, these training sessions are also part of the recruitment and propaganda of the groups.
Although clubs portray themselves as a promoted community, fitness and European heritage of Canada, some experts told CBC News that are a growing extremist threat.
The organization launches a survey to listen to residents
The report led HCCI, a community organization dedicated to making Hamilton an inclusive city, to obtain public information about the combination of hate.
HCCI has launched a survey that says they want to listen to people about what is needed and what experience already exists to determine “the best way to support the impacted communities.”
“Many of you have probably seen the disturbing reports published by CBC and CBC Hamilton On the so -called ‘active clubs’ operating in Hamilton gyms and local public spaces, “HCCI wrote in an email on July 23.
“The escalation of these activities in the current context is disturbing and we know that reading and seeing that this happens so close to home is very worrying,” HCCI said. “We also know that it triggers many historical memories and feelings among communities for those who, unfortunately, these threats are not new.”
HCCI has published a three questions survey to “see if there is any specific need to which we could help answer and find out if we can group some resources to add and amplify the knowledge and skills that we know that already exist in our communities.”
HCCI told CBC Hamilton residents interested in completing the survey that can be communicated directly with HCCI with their email address and name and send the link.
The CBC News visual team traces where two Ointario National Headquarters with headquarters recruit and train young men to fight. They are called ‘active clubs’ and are increasing in the world, even in Canada, where experts say they are one of the fastest growing extremist threats. We expose them to the owners of MMA and boxing clubs that have infiltrated.
The coalition against hate is also encouraging residents to “inform suspicious activities”, such as training groups in “questionable circumstances.” For example, they could use masks, seem strongly militarized and use white supremacy slogans.
There are several means to inform this activity, the group said, even through the Hamilton Police and Wesupporthamilton.caA website released in 2023 for people in the area to inform hate incidents. It is separated from the police.
Police say that criminal crimes related to groups were not reported
The Hamilton Police Service said it is aware of the groups mentioned in the CBC report and “continue monitoring their activities,” however, “no criminal crimes have been reported to the Hamilton police related to these clubs,” he said.
Police also said that “a training club in an installation is not a criminal offense. It depends on the individual business owner act accordingly. Each owner of a business has the right to choose how they respond.”
They advised anyone who sees the members of an active club working in a park that denounces it through the non -emergency number of the police or online.
On July 24, the Hamilton Police launched their 2024 hate crimes, showing that 297 crimes and incidents related to hatred or bias were reported to the police during the 12 -month period, an increase of 35 percent compared to the previous year.
Hamilton police reported 106 hate crimes, criminal crimes where hatred or bias is a clear motivation factor, and 191 hate incidents, which include actions with hateful connotations, but do not comply with the legal threshold for a crime.
Hate crimes were more frequently in the form of graffiti, but also included causes caused, assault, criminal harassment, theft and threats of pronunciation, among others, the police said. Black, Jewish and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities were the most frequent.
‘We need … preventive approaches’: Harrc
City officials, including Mayor Andrea Horwath and Ward 3 Couun. Nines Nann, has been urging residents to discover “hate” in their neighborhoods to inform it.
“Hamilton residents want to ensure that our local police service is working proactively to monitor, track, investigate and inform the people involved in the extremist organization in Hamilton with Canadian intelligence agencies,” Nann wrote in an email to CBC Hamilton.
“I encourage all city residents to learn more about hate symbols so that they can inform them precisely.”
Nann said he is working with HCCI and Harrc to build skills that residents can use to promote community safety in Ward 3 neighborhoods.
The executive director of Harrc, Lyndon George, said that “collective responsibility” is needed, and points out that “we cannot continue treating racism and hatred as individual experiences.”
“To face hatred in Hamilton, we need to go from ‘them’ to ‘us’. This is not a problem for impacted communities to solve alone;
George is concerned that racism and hate are reduced too frequently to “isolated incidents” or perpetuated by “bad actors” instead of being recognized as “systemic and collectively experienced by entire communities, often for generations,” he said.
“We need responsibility systems that include preventive approaches to address hatred, bias and radicalization before participating in violent extremism.”
