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5th October 2009, 14:05
Calgary police are investigating an alleged hate crime in the city's southeast early Saturday morning.
Bonnie Devine, who is involved in an anti-racism group, told CBC News a construction block was thrown through her front window and a swastika was spray-painted on her front door.
"We woke up to the sound of glass breaking, and when we came downstairs we discovered that a cement block had been thrown through the glass window, and then our children had yelled that there was glass in their room as well," she said.
Devine, a spokesperson for the advocacy group Anti-Racist Action Calgary, believes her family was targeted because of a rally the group is holding in the Bridgeland neighbourhood of Calgary on Oct. 10.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/10/03/calgary-alleged-hate-crime-anti-racist-action.html
But Jason and Bonnie are enemy Number One and Two for Calgary's legion of white-pride activists, whose belief in Caucasian superiority ranges from intolerance to outright hatred of anyone who disagrees with them.
The Devines couldn't disagree more strongly. As leaders of Anti-Racist Action Calgary, they are the ones who help organize protest rallies against the white-pride movement.
Last year, a firebomb was hurled through the family's rear window, and this past June, Nazis painted swastikas and C-18 on their home.
Jason said the neighbours, rather than being frightened, seem disturbed such racism happens in Canada.
"One lady told me she moved here from Europe to get away from this sort of thing," said Jason.
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/columnists/michael_platt/2009/10/05/11304591-sun.html
Bonnie Devine, who is involved in an anti-racism group, told CBC News a construction block was thrown through her front window and a swastika was spray-painted on her front door.
"We woke up to the sound of glass breaking, and when we came downstairs we discovered that a cement block had been thrown through the glass window, and then our children had yelled that there was glass in their room as well," she said.
Devine, a spokesperson for the advocacy group Anti-Racist Action Calgary, believes her family was targeted because of a rally the group is holding in the Bridgeland neighbourhood of Calgary on Oct. 10.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/10/03/calgary-alleged-hate-crime-anti-racist-action.html
But Jason and Bonnie are enemy Number One and Two for Calgary's legion of white-pride activists, whose belief in Caucasian superiority ranges from intolerance to outright hatred of anyone who disagrees with them.
The Devines couldn't disagree more strongly. As leaders of Anti-Racist Action Calgary, they are the ones who help organize protest rallies against the white-pride movement.
Last year, a firebomb was hurled through the family's rear window, and this past June, Nazis painted swastikas and C-18 on their home.
Jason said the neighbours, rather than being frightened, seem disturbed such racism happens in Canada.
"One lady told me she moved here from Europe to get away from this sort of thing," said Jason.
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/columnists/michael_platt/2009/10/05/11304591-sun.html