November 22, 2024

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Archived articles originally found on the One People's Project website.

HEY BONEHEADS, GET YER OWN ARTWORK!

The boneheads are going to have to do a little more research on the clip art they use. The flyer pictured here is what supporters of detained illegal immigrant neo-Nazi Henrik Holappa passed around in support of a day of action for the POS. The problem with it is the artist isn’t too keen on its usage, and let us – and them – know. Eric Drooker is a professional artist who is not just against neo-Nazis, but he is also a particularly active progressive. Needless to say, a cease-and-desist order is forthcoming.

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An image used in a graphic to promote support for a Finnish neo-Nazi currently being detained in the United States cannot be used in any future promotions by the person and groups responsible, according to the artist.

Eric Drooker, whose work appears on covers of the New Yorker magazine, as well as a Faith No More album cover, will ask the owner of a blog supporting Henrik Holappa to cease and desist using his work. A website banner announcing March 23 to be a “day of action” in support of Holappa features artwork by Drooker titled “Lockdown Dissent”. It depicts a guard locking a jail cell on a prisoner holding a writing pencil. The URL leading to the blog is registered to Nationalist Coalition member Erick Weigel of Belvidere, NJ, who was one of the attendees of a March 21 meeting of the League of American Patriots in Clifton, NJ that was disrupted by antifa. Weigel never contacted Drooker for permission to use the artwork.

Holappa, a 24-year old writer whose articles have been published regularly in Bill White’s now defunct magazine the National Socialist, faces over four years in prison for what Finland calls ethnic agitation, after publishing one of his many writings attacking immigrants from Somalia. He was in the country on a temporary visa, and was seeking political asylum to prevent having to return to Finland and face those charges when he was arrested last month by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

Drooker is an artist that has had a particular leftist lean to his work. Besides the New Yorker, his work has been seen in publications like People’s Daily World and The Progressive, as well as the artwork for Canadian punk band Propagandhi’s Potemkin City Limits. “Lockdown Dissent” has been seen on Indymedia and as a graphic on a website in support of Black Panther Robert “Seth” Hayes who has spent 30 years in prison for the 1973 shooting death of a New York City police officer, a crime he and supporters say he didn’t commit.

Ironically however, this latest use of his work is not the first time it has been used by the neo-Nazi crowd. Drooker told One People’s Project he had to contact the bonehead crew Volksfront five years ago to request they too must cease using his art , which illustrated a banner supporting the white supremacist terrorist group the Order and the German white power group Landser, who were imprisoned in Germany for performing neo-Nazi music. Even more ironic was how on the site, Volksfront noted that “All logos, articles, literature and content in this site are property of Volksfront and may not be reproduced, copied transmitted or distributed in any fashion without the expressed written concent of a Volksfront Officer unless otherwise noted.” VolksfrontInternational is the chief sponsor of a white supremacist conference taking place April 11 near Boston, MA. Henrik Holappa was scheduled to speak there prior to his arrest.

“The powerful social critique in my art is drawn from the perspective of the oppressed peoples everywhere,” Drooker wrote in a statement to One People’s Project. “Progressive groups routinely use my art on posters, books and websites across the globe. Rarely, but from time to time, a right-wing hate group will use my work to publicize their cause.

“In their ignorance, they no doubt feel it is THEY who are persecuted,” he continued. “I suppose they too can be seen as victims of racism, class discrimination . . . and a society that diverts funds for educating its people–to foreign military adventures.”

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