Threat of Antifa Violence Shuts Down “Antifa” Documentary Premier

The September 25 premier at Free Speech Week at U.C. Berkeley of the latest feature-length documentary by Dangerous Documentaries (the film wing of Capital Research Center), “America Under Siege: Antifa,” was cancelled in part due to security threats concerning members of the radical terrorist organization Antifa.

The disruption of “Antifa,” which was scheduled to premier at conservative activist Milo Yiannopolous’ Free Speech Week at the University of California, Berkeley, is extremely disappointing. Worse, it is a major blow to the First Amendment right to free speech. The threat of violence that led U.C. Berkeley authorities to shut Free Speech Week down stems from members of the far-left movement Antifa (“anti-fascist action”)—the very group CRC’s film exposes—and not from anyone involved in organizing the free speech event.

Let’s be clear: Antifa shut down a film screening criticizing Antifa’s extremism using fear and threats.

In response to these outrageous free speech violations, a group associated with Yiannopoulos and the Free Speech Week has filed litigation with the U.S. Department of Justice,

“alleging that [U.C. Berkeley’s] administration has engaged in a pattern and practice of systematic suppression of [our] First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.”

“Antifa” is the third film in CRC’s series, “America Under Siege,” after “Civil War 2017” and “Soviet Islam.” Each film explores Marxist groups intent on destroying individual freedom in the United States.

Dressed in all black from head to toe, wearing masks, wielding bats, and throwing urine bottles while chanting “No Trump, No Wall, No USA at All!”, the communist movement known as Antifa has caught the attention of the nation, gaining fame after the violence this past year in Charlottesville, Virginia and Berkeley, California.

Partnering with conservative author and investigative journalist Trevor Loudon, “Antifa” answers three key questions: Who is Antifa? Why are they organizing? What are their goals?

The film exposes Antifa’s shadowy origins in Leon Trotsky’s communist ideology, and how the movement’s violent, extremist beliefs are rooted in far-left fascism. Despite U.C. Berkeley’s decision to cancel Free Speech Week, “America Under Siege: Antifa” will release on September 25, and can be streamed at One America News Network, and for free at DangerousDocumentaries.com and our YouTube channel.

The film is hosted and written by Trevor Loudon, directed by Judd Saul, and produced by Cohesion Films in partnership with Dangerous Documentaries (a project of the Capital Research Center).