![]() We need people who care enough about Mother Jones’ journalism to be reading a blurb like this to decide to pitch in and support it if you can right now. Straight up: We need this pitch, what you're reading right now, to start earning significantly more donations than normal. And this next one simply has to be a year of growth-particularly for donations from online readers to help counter the brutal economics of journalism right now. ![]() We need to start being more upfront about how hard it is keeping a newsroom like Mother Jones afloat these days.īecause it is, and because we're fresh off finishing a fiscal year, on June 30, that came up a bit short of where we needed to be. AN IMPORTANT UPDATE ON MOTHER JONES' FINANCES “I think a lot more people are going to die here,” he says, smirking, and predicted even more violent encounters in the future.īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. “The fact that nobody on our side died, I’d go ahead and call that points for us.” “I’d say it was worth it,” Cantwell says. “We’re not non-violent, we’ll fucking kill these people if we have to,” he tells Vice News Tonight correspondent, Elle Reeve, after we’ve seen him rinsing mace off his face with milk.įollowing the car attack that took the life of one of the protesters, 31-year-old Heather Heyer, and injured 19 others, Cantwell showed no regret, much less remorse. In the documentary, Cantwell and a posse of assorted white supremacists speak forcefully about the warped theories underpinning what they consider to be an impending and inevitable race war. Cantwell is a prominent “alt-right” shock jock who came to Charlottesville to speak at the “United the Right” rally. ![]() ![]() “Charlottesville: Race and Terror,” follows Christopher Cantwell, an unabashed white supremacist who spews racist invective while traveling around with a band of neo-Nazis. The video has already received nearly 7 million views in the last 17 hours on Facebook. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ī 22-minute documentary released Monday on HBO’s Vice News Tonight offers a chilling look behind the battle lines in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, with a reporter who embedded with some of the white supremacists who engaged in the violence that ended in the death of one counter-protester and two state troopers. ![]()
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