Andrew Yeoman & the Bay Area National Anarchists

I spent the morning researching the ‘New Right’ and National Anarchism. I still have 10 tabs open in my browser, and I listened to two different radio shows. The whole thing leaves me feeling ill. The phenomenon is complex but important. Let me summarize a few points:

National Anarchism is a fusion of white separatist beliefs with anarchist ideas. It seems to be strongest in the Anglo-American countries of Australia, USA and UK. The San Francisco Bay Area was the center point for America. Andrew Yeoman set up ‘Bay Area National Anarchists’ in East Bay.
For a time this group seemed to be the the center of American Anarcho-Fascism.
They got press by attending Anarchist Events. Interest peaked in 2009. Yeoman got press in 2011 by attending the Anarchist Book Fair and in 2011 by burning a Koran in San Francisco and issuing a Threat to Obama over twitter. I vaguely remember hearing about all three events. After the Feds cracked down on him Yeoman disbanded BANA in september 2011. His peeps seemed to have dressed in the Black bloc style, but he seems to have eschewed property destruction. Hopefully this means that The Bay Area will not see a neo-nazi black bloc phenomenon like the Autonome Nationalisten in Northern Europe.

Yeoman now writes about bitcoin, cryptography and Science FIction at his blog where I found this quote ‘The best thing about leaving politics behind me is knowing that none of my erstwhile allies or opponents will achieve their goals, and in particular, those I was allied with.’