Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia

The Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (Антиглобалистское движение России, AGMR) is a Russian government-fundedAdvocate's Russian ties cause concern in state secession movement by Melody Gutierrez (February 3, 2017 Updated: February 3, 2017 10:08pm) The San Francisco Chronicle. anti-globalization astroturf organization, consisting of a single member, Alexander Viktorovich Ionov (Александр Ионов)Our Team The Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (archived from 5 Feb 2017 01:17:26 UTC) and two "Honorable" Members, Bashar Hafez Al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Honorable "Members The Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (archived from 3 Jan 2017 20:33:03 UTC)
==Calexit==
A Calexit ballot initiative, sponsored by Yes California (a.k.a., "CalExit"), has received financial aid from and partnered with AGMR. AGMR had a Calexit "embassy" in Moscow in 2017.'Calexit': Yes California movement opens ‘embassy’ in Moscow The Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (archived from 3 Jan 2017 20:31:01 UTC) Yes California is itself an astroturf organization, the president of which is Louis J. Marinelli III .Louis J. Marinelli, III Ballotpedia. Marinelli is a US citizen from New York who has lived in Russia. He admitted to voting for Donald Trump in 2016.How to Make California Great: Secede, With a Little Help From Putin: A leader of ‘Calexit,’ the Golden State’s independence movement, sees Trump—and the Kremlin—as a boon by Leonid Ragozin (December 7, 2016, 5:00 AM PST) Bloomberg Business Week. Both MarinelliCalifornia to leave US under Crimean scenario 20.09.2016 Pravda.ru and IonovCalifornia dreamin': California Secessionist movement opens first "embassy" — and it’s in Moscow by Alec Luhn (Dec 21, 2016) Vice. suggested that California might follow the Crimean scenario in which Crimea voted for independence before being immediately annexed by Russia. In 2017, Marinelli indicated that he would be seeking permanent residence in Russia and that the current petition would be withdrawn.Louis Marinelli's Farewell Statement by Louis Marinelli (April 17, 2017 1:37 PM) Yes California (archived from April 20, 2017). In 2023, Marinelli was still blowing hot air about another ballot measure ("CalExit 3.0"),Announcing CalExit 3.0 (January 15, 2023) Yes California (archived from April 22, 2024). which did not materialize in 2023 or 2024.
==Other secession movements==
Russia has also funded other astroturf secession movements in the United States, including in Texas, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The largest secession group in Texas, "Heart of Texas" (txrebels), turned out to be a Russian front with over 225,000 followers on Facebook as of summer 2017 before it was removed by Facebook. The Facebook page was xenophobic, nativist, and anti-immigrant; it had many posts targeting Muslim immigrants and refugees, liberals, LGBT activists, vegetarians and Hillary Clinton.How Russia Created the Most Popular Texas Secession Page on Facebook: When is a Texan not a Texan? by Casey Michel (Sep 7, 2017). ExtraNewsFeed.How the Russians pretended to be Texans — and Texans believed them by Casey Michel (October 17, 2017) The Washington Post.
The stated aim of AGMR is "against the global dominance of transnational corporations and supranational trade and financial institutions",About December 22, 2016. Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (archived from 3 Jan 2017 20:32:51 UTC) but is more likely specifically against the economic dominance of the United States and the EU.
Curiously, despite being funded from the Russian government (or perhaps to distract from the obvious astroturf of the site), there are three news feeds from radical partner organizations on the main webpage: Black Agenda Report, Fight Back News, and Rsf.ie News (Republican Sinn Féin).
==African People’s Socialist Party/Uhuru House==
Uhuru House and its lesser-known parent organization, African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), have been associated with AGMR, having sent delegates to Moscow in 2015 for an anti-globalization conference organized by AGMR.Russian national charged with U.S. political influence operation: Florida activist group was used to sow discord and spread pro-Russian propaganda, Justice Dept. says by Devlin Barrett (July 29, 2022) The Washington Post. In 2023, four American members of APSP (Omali Yeshitela, Penny Joanne Hess, Jesse Nevel and Augustus C. Romain Jr.) were charged with conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agents for Russia under the direction of Ionov and two other Russians (Yegor Sergeyevich Popoov and Aleksey Borisovich Sukhodolov).U.S. Citizens and Russian Intelligence Officers Charged with Conspiring to Use U.S. Citizens as Illegal Agents of the Russian Government: Defendants Sought to Sow Discord, Spread Pro-Russia Propaganda and Interfere in Elections Within the United States (April 18, 2023) The United States Department of Justice.U.S. charges four Americans with aiding Kremlin efforts: Charges are the latest Justice Department effort against secret foreign propaganda networks on U.S. soil by Devlin Barrett (April 18, 2023 at 2:02 p.m. EDT) The Washington Post. In 2024, those same four were convicted of interfering in an election in St. Petersburg, Florida.Activists convicted of working with Russian government to interfere with St. Pete elections, Nathaniel Rodriguez, WFLA 12 September 2024
===Black Hammer===
The African People’s Socialist Party also operates under the name Black Hammer in Georgia. Black Hammer is led by Augustus Cornelius Romain Jr., who also goes by the name Nazi Bozo "Gazi Kodzo". The group is notorious for their antisemitism, such as burning copies of Anne Frank's diary.Mira Fox (December 12, 2022). "How could anyone ever hate Anne Frank — why a fringe group declared war on the Holocaust’s most famous victim". The Forward.The Black Hammer Organization, Anti-Defamation League In 2021, they tried to buy land in the Colorado desert in order to build an ethnostate, but they failed miserably.A Black separatist group’s utopian dream for land near Telluride withered after an armed standoff, Grant Stringer, Colorado Sun 8 February 2022 Ultimately, the group, dubbed as a cult by many of its former members, fell apart in 2022 after Kodzo was arrested because a dead body was found in a house rented by Black Hammer.Infamous ‘Cult’ Leader Arrested After Dead Body Found in Home, Will Sommer, The Daily Beast 20 July 2022
==External links==
*The Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (archived from 5 Feb 2017 01:16:18 UTC)
*Антиглобалистское движение России — the Russian language version of The Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (archived from 4 May 2013 06:34:32 UTC)
*Антиглобалистское движение России — the Russian language version of The Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (archived from 11 Sep 2014 10:44:05 UTC)
*Is the #Calexit Campaign Supported by Russia? There are ties between the Yes California campaign and an "anti-globalist" Russian group that has received funding from the Kremlin by Bethania Palma (Updated: Jan 31, 2017) Snopes.com]
*From His Home in Russia, #Calexit Leader Plots California Secession by John Sepulvado (December 13, 2016) KQED
*African People’s Socialist Party
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