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You can choose to ignore it, you can choose to enlist support from groups normally targeted by the alt-right, or you can simply choose to hold a "joyful" peaceful protest.

Whatever you do, you should deny the speaker a "spectacle" or "heated confrontations."

The guide came out just a few days before the clashes and confrontations sparked by the weekend's planned "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, home of the University of Virginia. Lecia Brooks, SPLC director of outreach, said she thinks the guide could have been helpful in that situation, because it could have helped single out the violent groups that went to Charlottesville for the rally.

The SPLC is an Alabama-based nonprofit organization that monitors hate crimes and hate speech across the country. It released the guide because it believes students are not adequately prepared to deal with the influx of alt-right speakers that have started to flood college campuses throughout the country.

The term alt-right has become intertwined with the term white nationalism, which originated as a euphemism for white supremacy, the belief that white people are superior to all other races and should therefore dominate society, according to Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism.

Though people who hold these beliefs may go by names like alt-right, identarians or race realists, this is simply a rebranding: "a new name for this old hatred," Segal said.

Reflecting what observers say is a glaring nationwide trend, many college campuses have seen increasing tensions -- in some cases outright confrontations -- surrounding controversial speakers and programs in recent months.

The SPLC guide is "meant to educate the students in advance," said the SPLC's Brooks. She said college administrators and leaders of college groups were ill-equiped to deal with these speakers.

"What often happens is [these speakers] will present themselves as conservative thinkers," Brooks said. "They don't really identify themselves as white nationalists."

The guide is being distributed by the SPLC's on-campus program. It is being sent to over 2,000 schools across the country, including historically black colleges and universities.

On the receiving end are student unions, student groups and college administrators.

Aside from identifying and explaining the main actors behind the alt-right movement, it also offers tips on how to address the situation before the speakers come to campus.

It encourages students to speak to their classmates, make a YouTube video or print out a pamphlet. Other ideas include passing out buttons and making T-shirts.

The guide also suggests enlisting college leadership, faculty and others for help.

Brooks said white nationalism began to grip college campuses throughout America around 2012, with the first "White Students Union."

The union was founded by Matthew Heimbach at Towson University in Maryland. Since then, various other alt-right speakers, such as Yiannopoulos and Spencer, have had successful campus tours. College is a formative time and these speakers normally thrive in that atmosphere, according to Brooks.

For Brooks and the SPLC, the guide isn't about radical new ideas to combat the alt-right and white nationalism, it is more of a way to introduce Yiannopoulos and Spencer to the average college audience and explain that behind the "conservative" speaker is really a white nationalist mentality.

"Students often don't know who they are," Brooks said, and college administrators find themselves in a tough situation trying to protect free speech and also curb hate speech.

The guide's most crucial piece of advice is to not engage directly with the speaker or resort to violence.

"There are many other ways to challenge the beliefs of this movement." it reads.

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The alt-right movement has sought over the past two years to rebrand white nationalism, lifting it out of the obscure corners of the website Stormfront and elevating it into the mainstream political discussion.

In some ways the effort succeeded. President Trumps campaign offered white nationalists a political home in the mainstream. They heard Trumps hardline anti-immigration stances and repeated refusals to disavow racists as a dog whistle. The alt-right itself was media- and internet-savvy and appealed to a younger demographic. Its leaders became household names. Hillary Clinton even gave a speech about the movement.

How Will the Church Reckon With Charlottesville?

Two incidents over the past year show why the alt-rights pivot failed. One is the infamous speech given by alt-right leader Richard Spencer at a conference last year, where The Atlantic recorded attendees giving Nazi salutes. The other is what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, where a white-nationalist Unite the Right rally starring several of the alt-rights leading lights turned violent. At the end of the day, three people had died, and at least 19 more were injured. The photos from Charlottesville show Confederate flags, Nazi insignia, and militia members with guns. David Duke was there. In the end, the alt-right never shed its association with older fascist and white-supremacist ideas and movements, and arguably never really tried.

Spencer was eager to distance himself from the chaos of Charlottesville when I spoke to him on Saturday night.

Going forward were going to have more tightly controlled rallies and demonstrations, he told me by phone from an alt-right afterparty for the event. Spencer said this was not his event. I accepted an invitation, he said, from the rallys organizer, Jason Kessler. Spencers name was on the flyer for the event.

I dont think that adopting the garb of a movement from 70 years ago is going to be very productive, Spencer said. I certainly evoke the past in a lot of my aesthetic but Ive never tried to engage in live-action role-playing reenactmentI dont think thats ever going to be positive. Spencer was on stage in November when his conference attendees began giving Nazi salutes, and he said Hail Trump in his speech. He excused this to me later as a moment of utter exuberance and craziness.

Kessler declined to be interviewed on Saturday night, saying he felt it would be biased. But he disputed the claim that Nazi symbols had been an important element of the march, saying there had been just one guy with a Nazi flag. (Photos from the march show a swastika armband on a featured speaker, T-shirts quoting Hitler, and other Nazi iconography.)

Over the past year a schism had already taken place among the alt-right, particularly after Spencers conference. Some right-wing activists who had once called themselves alt-right began peeling off, favoring terms like new right. The blogger and Twitter personality Mike Cernovich, who has clashed with Spencer, is one of these. Cernovich has revamped himself as a key figure in the pro-Trump media sphere, which has become obsessed with rooting out globalist enemies of Trump rather than advancing overtly racial politics.

These alt-right people are so scared of people calling them a cuck they walked with them, Cernovich said, referring to the neo-Nazis. Those dumb motherfuckers, are you kidding me? Theyre gonna let themselves be in pictures with the Nazi flag?

Thats all the alt-right stands for, is white nationalism, he said. They are now indistinguishable. Worse than that, they are now associated with domestic terrorism.

Their dream is over as of today, he said of the alt-right. As of salute-gate, it was over.

Were on the winning side for the first time in my experience.

James Alex Fields, the man suspected of driving his car into a crowd of people protesting the rally and killing one, was photographed earlier that day with the Vanguard America group. The fact that the alt-right is now associated with the political violence he perpetrated is a turning point.

I certainly hope that white advocacy does not become irrevocably linked in the publics mind with violence and confrontation, said Jared Taylor, the founder of American Renaissance, who hosts a white-nationalist conference every year and who Spencer has credited with red-pilling him, or converting him to the movement. Taylors conference has attracted an increasing number of young alt-right attendees in the past couple years; when I went last year, there was a large contingent of MAGA-hat-wearing young men.

You cant control who comes to a public rally, Taylor said. Whether or not they invited certain groups, I dont know whether or not they were welcome, but youd have to ask Jason Kessler.

I try to set boundaries but you have to ask them, Taylor said.

The paradox of the alt-right in this moment is that just when it had seemed to achieve political legitimacy beyond its wildest dreams, it has also shown it cant figure out how to bring itself out of the darkest corners of political thought. Some ideas are considered beyond the pale for a reason. Members of the alt-right and people sporting Nazi symbols attend rallies together for a reason.

Spencer told me last year that were on the winning side for the first time in my experience. In one sense, hes still right. Their preferred candidate won, and as president he is still reluctant to disavow the white nationalists who support him, going out of his way to blame many sides for the violence on Saturday. Hundreds of torch-bearing white nationalists marched the night before the rally through the University of Virginia, not wearing masks or hoods, unafraid to show their faces. But the events in Charlottesville the next day unmasked them anyway.

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After a chaotic 24 hours in Charlottesville, Virginia, people on both sides of violent clashes are describing this as a pivotal moment for Americas future.

White nationalists who gathered for the Unite the Right rally blame those who turned out to stop them. Theyre damn communists, says Andrew Dodson, a 33-year-old inventor who calls himself a racial realist and says he is fighting to save white America.

Ive talked to a lot of people like Dodson in the past year. In 2016, I produced a documentary on Richard Spencer, the white nationalist who has become an icon for the alt-right.

The movement was once an umbrella for many far-right, pro-Trump groups. But once Spencer and others began speaking publicly about their beliefs of white supremacya turning point was at a conference I filmed, in November, when attendees broke out in Nazi salutesmany previously in Spencers camp began to distance themselves from the movement.

Today, the alt-right is unabashedly white nationalist, and unafraid to share their views. Richard Spencer fantasizes about a white ethno-statea vision he told me would be like the Roman empire. Many in the movement go even farther, calling for mass deportation and ethnic cleansing for Jews and people of color. Though the alt-right is well versed in the language and humor of the internet communicating in forums like 8chan and Gab their politics are consistent with previous white supremacist groups.

Charlottesville is now the epicenter of the struggle for white America, Dodson told me. And just because Saturdays violence seemed to have been contained, the alt-right will continue to give them hell in the city.

Dodson seemed annoyed, more than anything, at the news that a car had rammed into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one of them. (Two Virginia state troopers were killed in helicopter crash nearby, in a separate incident.) According to Dodson, the car incident gave the police justification to shut down a large area and end the alt-right's peaceful assembly. He and his friends were stuck hanging out in a hotel room nearby as a result, he said.

Along with Dodson and his friends, high-profile anti-fascists have descended on Charlottesville this weekend. Daryl Lamont Jenkins, who is known for doxxingor revealing the identities ofanonymous white supremacists, was hanging out by the First United Methodist Church in Charlottesville when he picked up the phone to take my call.

Jenkins sounded frustrated. No one can pat themselves on the back after today, he told me. The way Jenkins sees it, the city took too long to intervene. Officials let the alt-right do whatever they wanted until the protests got violent.

But, hes still optimistic. This is the beginning of the end of the alt-right, that's for sure, he said. Todays violence will wake liberals out of their idleness, he said. But is awareness enough to stop violent clashes in the future?

Not if Dodson and his crew have anything to say about it. To him, and to other members of the alt-right, the chaos proves a point. This is a phenomenal victory, he said.

Our ideas are so powerful, that the cops have to break the law and use violence against us to shut us down, he said in a text message after our initial conversation. This shows just what an unbelievable threat we are to the system.

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Prominent alt-right media personalities and websites framed a Michigan man that one labeled an anti-Trump druggie for Saturdays car attack on anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, Va that killed one and injured 19 others.

Police said the suspect in the incident is 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. from Maumee, Ohio. That is not the name of the man identified by the websites Gateway Pundit and GotNews earlier in the day.

REPORT: Driver in Virginia Car Attack Was Anti-Trump Protester, Gateway Pundit blared, plus the name of the Michigan man, whose name The Daily Beast is withholding. WOW! DUDE HIT THE WRONG CROWD, the subheadline read.

The report Gateway Pundit cited was a now-deleted tweet by a Twitter user named @Aristotle_Code, who goes by Michael and whose profile picture is of a sportscar. Michael has less than a thousand Twitter followers.

The post was deleted with no retraction.

BREAKING: #Charlottesville Car Terrorist Is Anti-Trump, Open Borders Druggie, reported GotNews, a website owned by far-right provocateur Chuck Johnson.

The post, which does not have a byline, cites a Facebook crawl of relatives of license plate searches of the Dodge Challenger that was used in the attack.

[Name redacted] likes taking drugs and getting stoned, a look at his social media shows. What he under the influence when he crashed into the crowd at Charlottesville? the post read.

That post has since been removed.

Still, readers flocked to the Facebook page of the Michigan man who was falsely accused of the homicide. Users finally began to slow the harassment on his page when he posted to Facebook several times while the suspect of the car attack was in custody.

The wrongly accused man has since set his Facebook page to private.

Users on 4chan also believed they had identified the cars owner by viral posts allegedly identifying the vehicles VIN number and license plate. They used that to claim the Michigan man was truly behind the attack.

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The publisher of the Federalist and CBS contributor Ben Domenech fueled speculation that 4chan was about to crack the case.

I told you last night it could get worse. Awful. Particularly if 4chan is accurate as to the identity of the driver, he wrote. They were not.

Daily Caller reporter Ian Miles-Cheong also pushed his readers to 4chans /pol/ message board.

What if I told you that /pol/ has mobilized to find out who the driver of the #Charlottesville car is, and it isn't who you think it is? he tweeted. I've been reviewing the evidence, the Ohio license plate, etc. The owner of the car is anti-Trump and made posts supporting communism.

Cheong, who has appeared on Fox News Hannity in the past month, wound up being incorrect.

/pol/ is now saying it might be some guy who might be alt-right guy now. Hah. Who knows with anything anymore. Just wait for the police, he later wrote.

This is not Gateway Pundits first time this calendar year accusing the wrong person of a terror attack. In January, Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft claimed CNN had lightened a picture of a man named Esteban Santiago, who had shot up a Fort Lauderdale airport.

Not only had CNN not even identified a suspect, let alone lightened a picture of one, Hofts post featured a picture of an entirely separate Esteban Santiago, who was not the same age or from the same state as the one who perpetrated the shooting.

The post was shared by the former Republican Congressman representing Fort Lauderdale, Allen West, before it was changed to say this may be a different Esteban Santiago hours later.

In 2014, GotNews founder Chuck Johnson wrongly identified the accuser in the famous University of Virginia rape story that was later separately retracted by Rolling Stone. (UVAs campus, coincidentally, is in Charlottesville).

Johnson made headlines earlier this week for setting up a fundraiser for James Damore, the author of the anti-diversity Google memo that went viral this week. Hes raised $43,000 on Johnsons WeSearchr site, which uses Make Journalism Great Again as its catchphrase.

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Top story: Call evil by its name

Good morning, Graham Russell here with the news to start your week.

A man who is accused of murder after driving into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville faces court on Monday as Donald Trump continues to draw criticism from all sides for failing to condemn white supremacists when a rally turned fatal.

Tensions ran high throughout the weekend after the death of rights activist Heather Heyer on Saturday, with the organiser of the extremist rally chased away as he tried to give a speech on Sunday.

But it was Trump who again became the focal point of anger. He denounced hatred and violence on many sides but stopped short of calling out white supremacists, whose attempt to hold the protest resulted in a state of emergency in Virginia.

Leading Republicans, a slew of Democrats and even Anthony Scaramucci lined up to urge Trump to be more specific. Republican senator Cory Gardner tweeted: Mr President, we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism. The Guardian view: Trumps moral failure shames America.

Murder suspect James Fields who was earlier spotted at a neo-Nazi rally is accused of multiple charges relating to the car attack in which 19 others were injured.

Hammond being played? The chancellor has been accused of abandoning his previous position on a soft Brexit after putting on a display of unity with Liam Fox over departure from the EU customs framework. Richard Corbett, the deputy leader of Labour MEPs, said Philip Hammond had caved in, former Brexit minister David Jones said he had rowed back and Vince Cable said he had teamed up with one of the more extreme and ideological supporters of a hard Brexit.

Amid the political chaos, Britains retirees are wasting no time in heading for Spain, France and Portugal. Experts say it is extremely unlikely European countries would let older Britons make such a move so easily in future.

Falling through the cracks More than 100,000 children in England feared to be at risk of abuse or neglect receive help only when they are at crisis point, a new report has warned. The children were highlighted as needing help but did not meet the criteria for statutory support, said Action for Children. Responding to the report, Richard Watts from the Local Government Association said in many areas services were being pushed to breaking point.

Scaramucci speaks Trumps former communications director has used his first TV interview since his sacking to warn the president of subversive elements within the White House. In a move that will surely feed the presidents apparent love of conspiracy theories, Anthony Scaramucci said an enemy within was scuppering his agenda and urged him to bring in more loyalists. He also likened himself to Harvey Keitels character in Pulp Fiction.

Different medium, same abuse Almost half of girls are harassed or abused online, a survey has found, with the nature of the abuse echoing what they face in the real world. Childrens charity Plan International said its survey of 11- to 18-year-olds revealed girls were being told what to wear, how to look, to shut up about their opinions. The poll also showed that 40% of boys have received harassment online.

Vile high club Arrests for drunkenness on flights or at UK airports increased by 50% in the past year, with routes to Spain singled out as particularly troublesome. Cabin crew told the BBCs Panorama programme of the resulting sexual harassment, with passengers seeing them as barmaids in the sky.

Im going to be here for 24 hours and I wont be sleeping, says Glen Nagle enthusiastically. He is one of the space experts Nasa is relying on in Australia to capture what Nagle calls the last breath of data from spacecraft Cassini as it hurtles into Saturns atmosphere next month. The end of its 20-year voyage means all eyes will be on Tidbinbilla, a serene station outside Canberra enveloped by national parks and sheep where the hum of moving antennas and the occasional paging announcement are the only sounds.

Top-flight football is back and Manchester Uniteds performance in their 4-0 win over West Ham, in which Jos Mourinho paired Romelu Lukaku with Marcus Rashford, gave renewed hope to the club. Rafael Bentez has revealed that Jonjo Shelvey apologised after collecting an inevitable red card in Newcastles defeat to Tottenham in Sundays other Premier League game. Meanwhile, Diego Costa has accused Chelsea of treating him like a criminal and revealed he will not return to the club. In France, the worlds most expensive player, Neymar, scored on his Paris Saint-Germain debut while in Spain Cristiano Ronaldo scored a sensational goal and was then sent off for a combination of his provocative celebration and for diving as Real Madrid beat Barcelona.

Two more medals on Sunday a silver in the womens 4x400m and a bronze in the mens 4x400m meant Britain completed a sweep of relay honours and took their final tally in the world athletics championships to six, as Mo Farah accused sections of the media of trying to destroy his achievements on the track. And Englands defence of their Womens Rugby World Cup title continues to simmer in Dublin after try doubles from Emily Scarratt, Danielle Waterman and Lydia Thompson lit up a comfortable 56-13 victory over Italy.

The Japanese economy has recorded its longest period of expansion for more than a decade after figures revealed a sixth straight quarter of positive growth on Monday. It is the best run since 2006 and is good news for Shinzo Abes attempts to kickstart an economy dogged for years by deflation. It didnt do much for the Nikkei average in Tokyo, however, which was off 0.8% in contrast to positive showings in other markets in Asia. The FTSE100 is set to rise 0.3% this morning, according to futures trading.

The pound is flat at $1.30 and 1.10.

We have the usual variety of news angles to start the week. The Sun reports on Hunts 44k flush fund and claims the health secretary demanded a new toilet and shower in his office so he could freshen up after cycling to work.

The Guardian leads on the events in Charlottesville and Donald Trumps muted reaction to it.

The Telegraph has the Tory backbencher and definitely not future leader Jacob Rees-Mogg calling for stamp duty cuts.

The Mirror goes with TV celebrity Ant McPartlins hopes of saving his marriage after apparently being treated for addiction to painkillers.

The Times meanwhile claims Theresa May is under fire from Whitehall officials for trying to rush through Brexit decisions during a chaotic summer.

The Mails headline is War on heart deaths and says GPs are to offer check-ups for people at risk.

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