While allowing time for the landlord of the Banyas couple in Albany as well as Nicholas Cheshire\u2019s employer in Portland to respond following the information revealed on the Day of Action, one of the worst cases of neo-Nazi terrorism in recent years took place in America. In Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Hammerskin Nation member Wage Michael Page murdered six people in his attack on the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin there. While Page himself was not a member of Volksfront International, the organization we concentrated on in our Day of Action, Rose City Antifascists and the media at large have compiled documentation that several links exist<\/a> between the murderer Page and Volksfront. <\/p>\n Volksfront also has its own extensive history of violence, including the targeting of synagogues, numerous racist street assaults, and even the murder of a homeless man, Mark Randall Townsend, in Tacoma, Washington by the leader of a probationary Volksfront unit and his associates there during 2003. Volksfront furthermore have raised funds for one of the 1988 murderers of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw in Portland, while involving another of these killers in Volksfront circles once he was released from prison. Volksfront has also raised funds for and supported members of The Order\/Silent Brotherhood, a racist terrorist group responsible for bank robberies and murder in the 1980s. Given their extensive history of violence plus ties to racist murderers and terrorists, we believe that the presence of Volksfront members in workplaces and communities poses a clear danger to people of color, Jewish people, sexual minorities, and other potential targets for Nazi violence within these settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Casey Banyas has recently been extremely active in Volksfront\u2019s organizing, particularly in Lane and Linn counties near his Albany, OR home. His wife, Alaina Joy Banyas, is involved in Volksfront\u2019s sister organization, the Folkish Women\u2019s Front, and is heavily active in organizing social events for Volksfront, including a 2011 Thanksgiving party which was hosted at the Banyas home. Events of these sort provide recruiting opportunities for the neo-Nazi group, and heighten the danger of violence in the area by bringing together a significant concentration of hardcore racist activists in one location. \u00a0<\/p>\n It appears that Casey Banyas makes a living for himself tattooing racist symbols on his friends through an unlicensed tattoo shop called \u201cHooligan Ink\u201d (name may have recently changed to \u201cAnarchy Ink\u201d). Banyas has tattooed Volksfront symbols on many group members as a sign of their dedication to the organization and to white supremacy. Banyas may soon be seeking licenses so as to turn his tattoo venture from an underground operation into a legal business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Picture\"](\"http:\/\/rosecityantifa.weebly.com\/uploads\/4\/0\/5\/8\/4058617\/9672655.png?1345050333\")
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