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The Nation's Capital and the City of Brotherly Love saw dueling rallies where antifa turned out to confront neo-Nazis as they held demonstrations in both towns. In Washington, the National Socialist Movement held a march and rally, while in Philadelphia, two bonehead crews joined with the local Fraternal Order of Police to stage a counter-protest to a rally held to support political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Those participating in the Abu-Jamal rally in Philadelphia were more than prepared for the presence of Keystone State (KSS) and Maryland "Skinheads" (MDS), as flyers were produced prior to the rally about their planned counter-protest featuring pictures of individuals expected to show. In the end there were a paltry thirty participants - not one of them a person of color - in the counter-protest that took place at the beginning of the march up Market St. According to sources, members of the two bonehead crews left the Vista Ave. home of Keith Carney and Andrew Boyle at approximately 10:30 AM. They were not seen again until they, along with Erick Weigel of the National Vanguard spinoff group Nationalist Coalition, who is also known as "Erick_K_W" on Stormfront and for getting involved in a physical altercation with counter-protestors of an immigration rally in Morristown, NJ last summer, stood with members of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). They brought large signs which they used to hide their faces from time to time whenever they noticed a camera trained on them. Rally participants, whose numbers overwhelmed the racist crowd, called them out as they marched past, matching up the faces on the flyer with those they saw standing on the curb. After the march passed the counter-protest, everyone went their separate ways. Reportedly, KSS and MDS were expected to go to the home of MDS member Clemie Richard Haught at 1604 Iverness Ave. in Baltimore, Maryland to watch the UFC Championship fight between Matt Serra and Georges St-Pierre. They did manage to suffer at least one casualty. One bonehead wearing a T-shirt promoting Death in June, a band fronted by American Front associate Boyd Rice, reportedly walked through the pro-Mumia crowd prior to the march and was promptly beaten up. There were no arrests.

Flyers belonging to KSS were found posted along Market St., but were taken down by antifa before the march.

In Washington, fireworks began even before the National Socialist Movement (NSM) even arrived, which itself didn't even happen until two and a half hours before their expected time. Reportedly, three supporters of the NSM were seen at the Washington Monument and was set upon by antifa and tourists. While the supporters took some substantial hits, police arrested three antifa. Those who were not arrested continued to follow the supporters as they tried to get away.

At approximately 2:30 PM, the NSM and their supporters, which included Hal Turner who was scheduled to speak and his friend Moreland Huber, who writes under the pen name "Tripp Hendersen", arrived in a blue prison bus at 15th and Consitiution Ave. According to WSQT Guerrilla Radio, the approximately thirty of them marched to the Capitol under heavy police protection but closely followed by the significantly larger group of antifa and others who joined in from the street. "At the Capitol, protesters got close enough to distract many of them from the speakers but not into decent projectile range," the WSQT report published on DC Indymedia read. "The march was under a barrage of insults against racist scumbags, but the only thrown projectile I can verify is one well-earned water balloon."

Photographer David Holloway, an associate of white supremacist Billy Roper that was a part of a group of photographers for the White House, was seen at the rally, but disappeared soon after.

Antifa in both cities came from as far out as the Midwest to participate in the rallies. Numerous Anti-Racist Action chapters represented as well as the chapters of Food Not Bombs and Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists from Syracuse, NY. Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal were on hand to augment the antifa presence there while tourists visiting Washington joined antifa in haranguing the NSM. Plans are being made for some activists to attend the April 25 court appearance of KSS members who are on trial on attempted murder and weapons charges stemming from the Memorial Day attack on one of their own, as well as the May 24 anti-immigration rally in Lakewood, NJ, which is expected to attract neo-Nazis, particularly those who are members of the Nationalist Coalition.