Golden Dawn
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Golden Dawn, Holocaust Denial & Facebook
The Greek parliament has just passed a legislation outlawing Holocaust denial and expanding prosecution powers against the incitement of racial violence (read here). This follows a number of violent attacks against immigrants and the rise of the extreme-right Holocaust-denying political party Golden Dawn in Greece. OHPI has been campaigning with Facebook to include Holocaust denial…
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18C helped beat Facebook hate page
COMMUNITY leaders say section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) helped them to persuade Facebook this week to close down a page run by the Australian branch of the far-right Greek political party Golden Dawn. The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) presented the social networking site and the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) with…
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The Australia First Party. LOLWUT.
May 11, 2014: The Australia First Party. LOLWUT., Slackbastard, http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=36306 The Australia First Party (AF), a White nationalist/neo-fascist party, has been mentioneda few times in the media recently, chiefly on account of its organisation of a rally in Brisbane on May 2 in solidarity with the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn (GD). Since then, the Melbourne-based Online Hate Prevention Institute has…
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Social media connects far-right groups
Last week the far-right Australian political party Australia First and Australian members of the Greek far-right political party Golden Dawn held a rally in Brisbane. A new briefing from the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) examines how these groups connected through social media following revelations of on 60 Minutes on April 13 that Golden Dawn…
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Golden Dawn Australia Update
Updated: 12 May 2014, 6pm – earlier today OHPI wrote to both Facebook and the Australian Human Rights Commission to notify them of our work on the Australians for Golden Dawn page. Following those e-mails we’re please to report that the page has now been closed by Facebook. The original post which we sent Facebook…
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PRESS RELEASE: Golden Dawn’s Australian Fascists
Greek far-right political party Golden Dawn now has a presence in Australia. Last week they linked up with an Australia far-right political party for a rally in support of Golden Dawn. Social media has played an important role in bringing the groups together. The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), an Australian charity, has examined the…
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Golden Dawn’s Australian Fascists
The Greek Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn now has branches in Australia, and with the help of Social Media, they have connected with the Australian far-right party Australia First. Brought together through social media, the fascists stood side by side at a rally last week in the Australia city of Brisbane. The globalisation of the far-right,…
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Social Media, Golden Dawn and Australia’s Far-Right
An update to this briefing is available here. On 30 January, 2013, the Australian First Party Brisbane created a Facebook page. On November 7, 2013, a Facebook page called Australians for the Golden Dawn Party was created. Five months later, on May 2, 2014, Brisbane became the site of a Golden Dawn solidarity rally. The…