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Posted on 07/21/2022 4:00:10 PM PDT by usconservative
I see you recognized the enemy. ;-)
Saturday is my day at the sports club and shooting range. I'll be qualifying on the 600y range. ANTIFA won't get within 600y of me when I'm done.
Paging Anders Breivik! Will Mr. Breivik please pick up the white courtesy telephone!
Isn't that BLM's job?
Very old Communist tactic. There are camps like this around the country.
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‘It shouldn’t even exist’: Park founded by Finnish radicals is one of Minnesota’s best-kept secrets
Once spied on by the FBI, the co-op park on Minnesota’s Iron Range just celebrated its 90th anniversary.
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https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2015/0610/My-time-at-Commie-Camp
My time at ‘Commie Camp’
My parents insisted the camp in Upstate New York was acceptably socialist. But then there was that statue.
. . . My husband, a stockbroker who had been a history major in college, was interested in looking at the old photographs that were on display. He lingered in front of one, then gestured for me to join him. He pointed and said, “This wasn’t a Socialist camp, like your father told you. It was a Communist camp.”
“Why do you say that?” I asked.
He moved closer to the photo and pointed. “Look at the statue of Lenin in the middle of the camp.” I laughed.
A few years later, that camp became famous. There was a lengthy article about it in The New York Times and an independent film was produced. The title was “Commie Camp.” . . .
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https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2017/06/23/the-utopian-leftist-camp-that-helped-spawn-the-american-folk-music-movement/
The utopian leftist camp that helped spawn the American folk music movement
by Paul Smart July 6, 2017
Two of the many great legends that captured Shandaken in the last century were about American Nazi Bund meetings during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and a utopian leftist camp that helped spawn the American folk music movement and engendered the interest of the same rabid anti-Communists responsible for the Red Scare and blacklisting of much of our nation’s creative community.
Talk about an historical dialectic that’s perfect for today’s political fears.
Saturday June 24, and Sunday June 25, Washington D.C.-based civil rights attorney Bill Horne will be reading from and talking about his great local history, The Improbable Community: Camp Woodland and The American Democratic Ideal, at 1:45 p.m. Saturday, June 24 at the Catskill Interpretive Center’s Book Fair (5096 Rte 28
Mt Tremper) and at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 25 at the Golden Notebook (28 Tinker Street, Woodstock).
Horne’s book describes how Midwesterner Norman Studer found it in himself to take a shared dream of an idyllically-diverse summer camp for city kids in the mountains to a reality based on Catskills culture and the same sort of fun-filled can-do activism that allowed Hervey White to build up his Maverick Colony in nearby Woodstock a few decades earlier. . .
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Kinderland
Camp Kinderland is a summer camp located in Tolland, Massachusetts for people aged eight through sixteen. The camp’s motto is summer camp with a conscience since 1923. The main topics of the curriculum are: equality, peace, community, social justice, activism, civil rights, Yiddishkeit, and friendship. Campers may stay for four weeks in July, three weeks in August, or all seven of the offered weeks. There is also a two-week session available for first-time campers in the youngest group. . .
Founding and history
Kinderland was founded by members of The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, a leftist Jewish fraternal organization, in 1923 in Hopewell Junction, New York. Camp Kinderland, along with the rest of the left wing of the Workmen’s Circle, split off in 1930 and created the International Workers Order and became the official summer camp of the Jewish section of the International Workers Order. In 1954, the IWO was shut down and its assets liquidated by the government, which had determined that it was a Communist organization. At that time, Camp Kinderland became an independent corporation. Camp Kinderland is now a multicultural summer camp and community. While campers come from around the US, many are from the New York area, especially Brooklyn, where there is a kindershule, or secular school.
Social values
Camp Kinderland promotes progressive social values through its cultural program. It is anti-death penalty, pro-labor union, and generally socialist. Every year it holds the Peace Olympics, where camp is evenly divided into four teams, each representing a movement or nation that the camp’s directors feel is advancing the progressive cause.[citation needed]
Politics
The camp’s left-wing politics led it to be the place many red diaper babies were sent growing up,[1] which caused it to be investigated during the McCarthy era.
Notable Kinderland alumni
Spencer Ackerman, progressive blogger
Chesa Boudin, lawyer and activist; San Francisco District Attorney.
Lawrence Bush, editor, Jewish Currents
Jules Dassin, film director
Delia Graff Fara, philosopher of language
Ted Gold, a member of Weatherman Underground
Katie Halper, podcaster
Max Kellerman, sports commentator
Michael Klonsky, education policy expert
Harvey Kurtzman, cartoonist and founder of Mad Magazine
Ivy Meeropol, documentary filmmaker, granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Marky Ramone, drummer, The Ramones, Misfits
Suze Rotolo, artist and teacher[2]
Ben Shuldiner, 2006 Democratic candidate for New York’s 19th Congressional District
Paul Stanley, singer and guitarist, KISS
Sol Stern, senior fellow, Manhattan Institute
Marisa Tomei, actress
Merritt Wever, actress
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Unity
Camp Unity
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Camp Unity was a Communist-affiliated summer resort for adults located in Wingdale, NY. It was one of the first multiracial camps of its kind in the United States.[1]
Camp Unity was founded in 1927 and described itself as “the first proletarian summer colony.”[2] The camp was located in the Berkshire Mountains near the border of New York state and Connecticut, just east of Poughkeepsie. It was one of several “workers’ retreats” founded outside of major East Coast urban centers by the Communist Party and related socialist organizations.[3]
The camp began as an outgrowth of the cooperative housing movement of the 1920s, and its founders were members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. In the early days guests were predominantly Jewish, but over time Camp Unity drew a more racially and religiously diverse crowd.[4] It was unusual for leisure resorts to be integrated in the early 20th-century United States, and the camp’s tolerant atmosphere and proximity to New York City was attractive to vacationers seeking a progressive environment.[3] Broadway producer and former camp staffer Philip Rose later described the integrated clientele as “almost unique among the major Catskills resorts.”[5]. . .
Red scare investigations
Camp Unity was among the organizations investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during the period now known as the Second Red Scare. This was not the first time it had come under federal scrutiny for its Communist Party connections; in 1930 members of the anti-Communist Fish Committee visited the camp for an inspection. They were met with ridicule and protests from camp residents, who escorted the representatives off the grounds while singing the Internationale.[16]
The FBI informer Harvey Matusow, who later recanted the majority of his allegations, testified before HUAC in 1952 about Communist activity he observed during a 1947 stay at Camp Unity, delivering lurid, exaggerated tales of indoctrination and “sexual immorality.”[17]
The camp’s entertainment director, Elliott Sullivan, was compelled to testify before HUAC in 1955. He refused to cooperate with their questioning about his political and personal associations, and was indicted for contempt of Congress.[18][19] That same year, Camp Unity was one of the organizations involved in a New York state investigation into possible Communist affiliations among summer camps and resorts. The committee subpoenaed Janet Moore, a onetime camp guest, in an attempt to compel her to name the individuals who had recommended she stay there. Like Sullivan, Moore refused to name names.[20]
In 1957, two Black New York City police officers alleged that they had been passed over for promotions because they had vacationed at Camp Unity.[21] One of them, John Hughes, eventually received a promotion to sergeant after a sustained legal battle.[22]
Notable guests and residents
Lead Belly, musician[11]
Harry Belafonte, singer and activist[10]
Herschel Bernardi, actor[5]
Robert de Cormier, musician[23]
Dean Dixon, conductor[24]
Alice Childress, actor and writer[2]
Lonne Elder III, actor and writer[5]
Dizzie Gillespie, musician[25]
Michael Gold, writer[26]
Lorraine Hansberry, writer[27]
Alfred Hayes, writer[28]
Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, gangster[3]
Joe Lillard, football player[7]
William Mandel, journalist and left-wing activist[10]
Harvey Matusow, FBI informant[17]
Julian Mayfield, actor and writer[3]
Abel Meeropol, writer[11]
Robert Nemiroff, producer and writer[27]
George Pickow, photographer and filmmaker[29]
Carl Rakosi, writer[30]
Rafael Ríos Rey, muralist[31]
Paul Robeson Jr., writer and historian[32]
Earl Robinson, composer[11]
Edwin Rolfe, writer[33]
Philip Rose, producer[27]
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Was just thinking of him and his exploits at the Communist Training camp...
I still can’t get on board with killing kids... But killing Communists? “Free helicopter rides”...
In the late 1960s the Black Panthers used to bring breakfast to schools for the elementary school children. In their black leather jackets and jaunty berets, they would push their racism and extoll Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book.
Those grown up 60s kids are probably on juries, in school board meeting rooms and in mayor’s offices today. Explains a lot.
Many of those named as having gone to the CPUSA’s Camp Unity and Wind e Roland were hardcore Party members which the leftist Wikipedia writer/contributirs deliberately left out.
Matthew was one, but also crazy, a liar and involved in some reported sex activities in NY. There are many HCUA hearing volumes with his true testimonies, his reported Party double-back lies/perjury, etc.
Paul Robeson Jr., son of CP key member Paul Robeson Sr., the actor, singer etc was also a Party member.
Many others on therapists were either avowed CP members or open supporters of the CPUSA.
Many of them were identified in congressional hearings such as HCUA/HISC, SISS, SPCUA, and the Subversive Activities Control Board hearings as well as in state committee hearings, esp. Those of California and New York.
The Pink Sheet on the Left/Anerican Sentinel exposed actress Lorraine Hansberry, the wife of Party member Robert Nemeroff, as a secret Party member based on a Party publication’s reference to it (Political Affairs, about 1964).
Welcome to the wonderful world of subversion! !
That act was coldly logical. He wiped out the next generation of Norwegian communists and traumatized the current generation. As a consequence Norway has been moving to the right.
War by other means is what happened.
Read his manifesto. It wasn’t as radical as those on the Left made it seem. Mostly technical... A few WTF parts.
Communism, Stalin’s holodomor, killed my GreatGrandparents in Ukraine. I do not mourn the death of them...
And several future Weather Underground terrorists were alumni of those camps.
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