Canada's White Power Active Clubs
Part 2 of Mapping Canada's White Power Ecosystem
Hello Insight Monitor subscribers! I’m happy to share the second installment in our series Mapping Canada’s White Power Ecosystem. If you missed the introduction and the first part (on the Diagolon network), you can find links for them below. Today we’re looking at the role of Active Clubs in Canada’s white power ecosystem. Have a read and let us know what you think!
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Thanks for reading,
~Jess
The series:
Introduction: Mapping Canada's White Power Ecosystem
Part 1: The Diagolon Network
Active Clubs
Active Clubs are fraternal white-only fitness groups that use physical fitness as a lifestyle draw to funnel (primarily) men into white nationalism and militant neo-Nazism. “Active Clubs” under the umbrella of the Will2Rise movement are decentralized fitness groups made as successors to the Rise Above Movement (RAM) by the movement’s founder, American neo-Nazi Rob Rundo. In addition to using fitness culture as a means of influence and recruitment, the fitness proposition of Active Clubs allows white nationalists to train for street violence similarly to the neo-Nazi fight clubs in Rundo’s RAM. A report by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) found that Canada had 22 known chapters, including the only known women’s chapter of an Active Club that has been publicly reported on, although women are increasingly portrayed in Active Club propaganda.
