Nationalist Movement

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The Nationalist Movement is a controversial Mississippi-based organization that advocates what it calls a "pro-majority" position. It has been called "white supremacist" by the Associated Press and Anti-Defamation League, among others.[1][2] Its First Officer and General-Counsel is Richard Barrett and its Secretary is Barry Hackney. Its activities include its Warrior-Training Camp, Unixandria Library, Crosstar website, Prisoner Pen-Pal Club, All The Way newspaper, Free-Tip news-service, Crosstar Forum, Airlink television-studios and Nationalist Legal-Defense Fund. The symbol of the movement is the Crosstar.

[edit] Lawsuits

In 1987, the Nationalist Movement won a lawsuit in which the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged that it had violated the Civil Rights Act. That same year, the Movement was denied non-profit status due to its activist nature, although it was later granted this status in 1994 [3]. Since then, it has been active in protests against Martin Luther King Day in Atlanta, Georgia in 1989, which drew the largest call-up of National Guard in peacetime to quell rioting against it. Its Neighborhood, Home, Family and Country parade and rally in South Boston drew crowds and police. It held a demonstration in Simi Valley, California in 1992, in defense of the police officers accused of beating Rodney King. It claims responsibility for the defeat of the Constructive Integration Plan in Dubuque, Iowa in 1992, as well as defeat of the King Holiday in Arizona in 1991. In 1993, it held a Majority-Rights Freedom Rally at the Colorado State Capitol, in opposition to homosexuals.

In 1992, it won in the United States Supreme Court, in Forsyth County, Georgia v. The Nationalist Movement, establishing new First Amendment jurisprudence, which lifted bans on its use of public property and mandated police protection for its parades and rallies. It was sued in 1993 by the Texas Human Rights Commission, alleging that it violated the federal-housing bill, but it won the case and had prohibitions against free-speech stricken from federal-housing regulations. It has won over two-dozen First amendment-related cases. It is financed by donations of members and occasional court-awarded damages from opponents. It sees itself as policing the ranks of Nationalists, often supporting the prosecution of competing white supremacists, such as Matthew Hale and David Duke. Its leader, Richard Barrett, calls for legally "using the system to change the system," rather than violent, underground, or illegal activity.

[edit] "All The Way"

"All The Way" is a nationalist newspaper. The official organ of The Nationalist Movement is published monthly at Learned, Mississippi. Correspondents include Travis Golie, Barry Hackney and Gerald McManus.

It was founded in June, 1987. Richard Barrett has served as Editor, since its founding. In 1996, the publication migrated to the Internet, appearing in both print and on-line versions, and, in 2003, in full-color, eight-page editions. It uses the Crosstar as its insignia.

The newspaper maintains editorial policies in favor of what it terms "majority rule democracy." It reports current events from a white supremacist standpoint, including appeals from Marines and others to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. All The Way showcases white supremacists such as Steve McDonald, Andrew Pearson and Mike Hutchins, but also negatively represents those who it accuses of bilking their supporters or besmirching the Nationalist cause. It has reprinted interviews with Bob Grant, Ken Hamblin, Tavist Smiley, Greg McClain, Richard French, Dunn Lampton, James Meredith, Jim Hood, Hal Turner and, perhaps its most-controversial, Edgar Ray Killen. It bills itself as "the longest-running, continually-published Nationalist newspaper."