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  Learning from a Legacy of Hate
Burdi says he never personally kicked the woman, but he was imprisoned anyway.
George Burdi is now the front man for a band called Novacosm, which sings a completely different tune (and has two Black members).
Burdi’s experience changed his life; he was able to denounce White pride and become a man interested in peace and the tranquil teachings of Buddha.
www.bsu.edu /learningfromhate/mu_rahowa.htm   (383 words)

  
  George Burdi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Burdi aka George Eric Hawthorne (born 1970), a Canadian citizen who became infamous as the leader of the Canadian branch of Church of the Creator a white supremacist organization, which formed an allegiance with the now defunct neo-nazi organization Heritage Front.
Burdi was subsequently convicted under the Canadian Criminal Code for assault causing bodily harm receiving a one year prison sentence.
Burdi was the founding president of Resistance Records, which was the distributor for his band and other white supremacist bands.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Burdi   (711 words)

  
 George Burdi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
George Burdi (born 1970), also known as George Eric Hawthorne, is a former white supremacist (and leader of the white power music scene) who is now a Canadian musician.
Burdi was the founder president of Resistance Records, which was the distributor for his band and other white supremacist bands.
Burdi was convicted of assault causing bodily harm in 1995 for kicking an anti-Nazi activist in the face during a riot that followed a RaHoWa concert in Ottawa in 1993.
www.waukegan.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/George_Burdi   (459 words)

  
 George Burdi - Definition, explanation
George Burdi (born 1970), also known as George Eric Hawthorne, is a former white supremacist (and leader of the white power music scene) who is now a Canadian musician.
Burdi was the founder president of Resistance Records, which was the distributor for his band and other white supremacist bands.
Burdi was convicted of assault causing bodily harm in 1995 for kicking an anti-Nazi activist in the face during a riot that followed a RaHoWa concert in Ottawa in 1993.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/ge/george_burdi.php   (450 words)

  
 RaHoWa (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The band was founded by George Burdi using the pseudonym George Eric Hawthorne.
Burdi was a white supremacist, and at one time the leader of the Church of the Creator and the owner of Resistance Records that acted as the groups distributor.
He was convicted of assault causing bodily harm in 1995 for kicking an Anti-Racist Action member Alicia Reckzinin in the face during a riot that followed a RaHoWa concert in Ottawa in 1993.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RaHoWa_(band)   (300 words)

  
 Resistance Records Peddles HateCore Music For Profit
Resistance Records was launched in 1993 and officially incorporated in 1994 by George Burdi and other members of a Canadian chapter of the racist and anti-Semitic World Church of the Creator (WCOTC).
Burdi, also known as George Eric Hawthorne, was born in Toronto in 1970 and became radicalized at age 19.
Burdi was also a singer and lyricist for the skinhead rock group RaHoWa, named for WCOTC's acronym for "racial holy war," something the group hopes to hasten.
www.adl.org /resistance_records/Hate.asp   (333 words)

  
 Skinheads Versus Burdi and Dees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
George Burdi was once touted by the news-media as a "Skinhead." But Skinheads had been suspicious, all along, because Burdi wore a goatee, associated with "grunge" individuals, mocked religion and was pushed by no friends of ours.
Burdi, with some childhood crush trivializes your own ability to grasp patriotism and the fundamental life-stuff which makes up a nation and a people.
Burdi was only in a small and discredited segment of the movement, as a whole, and no one, today, regards him as a part of that movement.
www.skinheadz.com /news/articles/2002/jan/burdi.html   (2546 words)

  
 Resistance Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The label was founded in Windsor, Ontario in 1993 by neo-Nazi George Burdi.
Burdi eventually ended up serving a 2 year jail sentence, after which he renounced racism and formed an ethnically diverse band.
Among the acts signed to Resistance was Burdi's own RAHOWA (short for "RAcial HOly WAr"), which disbanded after Burdi renounced neo-Nazism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Resistance_Records   (312 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
George Burdi: Stop promoting mainstream artists that represent culture-destroying elements, and do more to promote positive bands with lyrics that uplift and inspire our youth to be better people, regardless of background.
George Burdi: The punk scene is based on shock value as a rejection of socio-cultural stigmas.
Burdi, I am a african-american male, yet, I still don't understand the motivations of hate groups, given that they are normally the oppressors.
www.usatoday.com /community/chat/2002-02-18-burdi.htm   (1949 words)

  
 Novacosm > News
George Burdi, singer/songwriter for Novacosm, has agreed to terms with Legacy Media Corp., a Toronto-based indie, to release him from his three-album obligation.
George Burdi of Novacosm is to be interviewed live-on-the-air on Australia's Radio National show 'Life Matters', which is "a unique daily interview program about social change and day-to-day life." The program focuses on stories involving a wide variety of social issues, "as well as personal stories which will move and inspire you."
George Burdi and Novacosm are featured in this special presentation, which focuses on love as the defining emotion of human faith.
www.novacosm.com /news   (1153 words)

  
 Zundel's Ringing Defense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Burdi in engaging in terrorism, being a danger to the security of Canada or engaging in acts of violence that would or might endanger the lives or safety of persons in Canada.
Burdi is dealt with at paragraphs 125, 127, 128 and 138-142 of the Ministers' Memorandum of Argument on Detention, dated December 4, 2003.
Burdi is mentioned in passing in paragraph 37 of the Ministers' Memorandum of Argument dated October 1, 2004.
www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=4046   (9114 words)

  
 Recomnetwork | Ex-skinhead testifies for Zundel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On the same video, made in Toronto by the Heritage Front, was George Burdi, a former white supremacist punk rocker who testified on behalf of Mr.
Burdi, who once called himself Reverend George Eric Hawthorne and wrote songs calling for the hunting down of fls and the gassing of Jews, told the court he used to type and edit Mr.
Burdi, 32, testified that he has rejected the violent white supremacist ideas of his youth and is now an antiracist.
www.recomnetwork.org /articles/03/05/20/156213.shtml   (491 words)

  
 EZF - Hate Rock to Spiritual Revelation - The Transformation of George Burdi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
George Burdi, is a Toronto native who, in addition to leading RaHoWa, also founded a very well known white supremacy music label called Resistance Records.
Additionally, George was one of the largest promoters of white supremacy material in the United States, Canada, and throughout Europe, and has been interviewed on such public media venues as CNN and MTV.
I found George and contacted him through Novacosm's website shortly after the documentary aired to say what shock it was for me to have learned that he had turned to spirituality.
www.engaged-zen.org /articles/Brian_W_Blueskye-Hate_Rock_Spiritual_Revelation.html   (2948 words)

  
 George Burdi Convicted
[Burdi convicted of] assault causing bodily harm for kicking an anti-Nazi activist in the face...
Burdi, a Canadian citizen, could be barred from entering the United States under immigration regulations that exclude foreigners with criminal records.
Burdi was in Ottawa with his band RaHoWa (Racial Holy War) to play a concert, which was broken up by anti-racists and the Ottawa police riot squad.
www.nizkor.org /hweb/people/b/burdi-george/press/burdi-convicted.html   (334 words)

  
 Former Neo-Nazi Leader Releases Documentary: Novacosm -- The Power of Music
TORONTO, Ontario - Dec. 17, 2001 -- If someone would have told George Burdi five years ago that he would be in a band with a fl bassist and engaged to an East Indian girl, he would have laughed with contempt.
George Burdi spent most of the 1990's being one of the most high-profile Neo-Nazi youth leaders and white power musicians in the world.
Burdi sings upon a swirling soundscape provided by bassist B. Valentine (who also produced the recordings) and guitarist Sy Sylver, who also happens to be Jewish.
www.ereleases.com /pr/2001-12-17c.html   (400 words)

  
 Appeal Court Judgement on George Burdi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
[para1] THE COURT (endorsement):-- The appellant, George Burdi, was convicted of assault causing bodily harm and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment as a result of a violent confrontation which occurred in Ottawa in May, 1993.
She saw Burdi kick her in the face and utter "This is the cunt that started the whole thing." As a result of the assault, the complainant suffered a broken nose, temporarily lost consciousness, and had memory problems for weeks.
The march through Ottawa streets was designed by Burdi to incite his Neo-Nazi followers to a frenzy of hatred.
www.web.apc.org /~ara/documents/news/appeal.htm   (733 words)

  
 NOW On / Newsfront / News / Jan 25 - 31, 2001
Farber offered to put in a good word with the Crown if Burdi would be prepared to sign a statement publicly renouncing the racialist views he'd formed in high school, when he met Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel and worked stuffing envelopes printed with "Did six million really die?" out of Zundel's bunker on Carlton.
The CJC had several discussions with Burdi's lawyer, several more statements were drafted and overtures made to Burdi about going on a speaking tour.
Burdi was free to withdraw to a life of anonymity.
www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-01-25/news.html   (1446 words)

  
 Vanguard News Network Forum - View Single Post - George Burdi, our Muslim friends and White Nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I was reading the Burdi (of RAHOWA fame) interview and he was complaining about whites turning their back on him, so he just up and decided to turn his back on White Nationalism.
One of his band members (Jamaican I think) said if he had met Burdi when he was with RAHOWA he would have punched him right in the face.
I am not ragging on Burdi but he should realize that being a white nationalist is a thankless job.
www.vnnforum.com /showpost.php?p=83768&postcount=1   (1052 words)

  
 George Burdi, our Muslim friends and White Nationalism - Vanguard News Network Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
So for someone like Burdi (who was in a WN band and had many fans, supporters, promoters, fellow band members, record label people, etc. around him, all of whom were WNs) it's a bit different than you or me falling on hard times.
Burdi was different than most of us because he was a very high profile public individual.
Burdi always had a super-sized ego and when his 'phase' got old, it just wasn't worth sticking around.
www.vnnforum.com /showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=7079   (5015 words)

  
 SPLCenter.org: Present at the Creation
Burdi was imprisoned in 1997 in connection with the beating of a female anti-racist activist following a fiery Burdi speech in Ottawa.
Today, Burdi, 31, plays in a band with two fl members and is engaged to an East Indian woman.
GEORGE BURDI: I was born in 1970, and I grew up in a small, middle-class suburb of Toronto.
www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=179   (1218 words)

  
 Tolerance.org: Present at the Creation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Along the way, Burdi -- a member of the U.S.-based, neo-Nazi Church of the Creator (COTC) -- edited Resistance magazine, sang for the band Rahowa (short for ýracial holy war,ý the slogan of COTC), and became one of the worldýs most visible racists.
BURDI: German Skinheads are smarter than the Americans, and theyýre often in it for different reasons.
BURDI: Yes, there were about 40 European labels we kept in contact with -- labels in Poland, the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, England, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Lithuania, Russia.
web4.tolerance.org /news/article_hate.jsp?id=402   (3810 words)

  
 HITLER'S CHOIR: ROCK AND ROLL FASCISM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1991, at the age of 21, George Burdi became the Canadian leader of the Church of the Creator, an ultra-violent neo-fascist organization with connections to Canada's Heritage Front and to the National Alliance, the leading Nazi organization in the USA.
Burdi's songs were openly fascist, as the lyrics from "Third Reich" demonstrate: "Kill all the niggers and gas all the Jews, Kill a gypsy and a colored too, You just killed a kike, Don't it feel right, Goodness gracious, darn right."
And in the same year, Burdi was sentenced to a year in jail for criminal assault during a previous 1993 racist rally.
bethuneinstitute.org /documents/hitlerschoir.html   (697 words)

  
 Comments on 15572 | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Burdi was a member of the skinhead band Rahowa(RAcial HOly WAr) and considered by many to be the next major ambassador of hate to the mainstream.
Ifilm currently has a nice documentry that Burdi had made himself, and he was recently featured on the Vh1 Inside Hate Rock episode among other press as well.
Besides all the hoopla, I try to keep in mind that George Burrdi has a remarkable voice and a fine musical talent that I am just a happy that he has decided to share with the rest of the world.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/15572   (1127 words)

  
 PV Article
Burdi was the son of wealthy parents and attended private schools in the Toronto area.
Burdi was also the lead singer for RaHoWa (Racial Holy War), a white power racist rock group.
Burdi was sentenced to a year in jail for criminal assault during a 1993 racist rally.
www.communist-party.ca /english/pv/jan1_00_antifa.html   (762 words)

  
 'Hatecore' uses music to lure angry white youth
He was the lead singer of Rahowa, then the most influential "hatecore" band in the country.
After having a Saul-on-the-Damascus-road experience while in prison, the 30-something Burdi renounced the racial hatred that had distorted his personality since he was a teen-ager.
Burdi tore up his copy of "Mein Kampf," made a clean break with Rahowa, hooked up with a beautiful East Asian woman and now fronts a multi-racial band called Novacosm that includes two very cool-looking fl guys with dreadlocks.
www.post-gazette.com /columnists/20020219tony0219p3.asp   (714 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Novacosm
George Burdi sings, "If I ask to be...
As I noted earlier, Novacosm's story is intriguing, and the documentary found on the EP (and at ifilm.com) presents Burdi's specifics without sentimentality or fear.
Burdi was a rebellious, confused youth who "identified" with Hitler and Mussolini, and was known in Toronto as a "high profile young racist." He formed the hate-spewing hardcore band RAHOWA (Racial Holy War) and Resistance Records, a label dedicated to "White Power," and became an outspoken neo-nazi/fascist...
www.ink19.com /issues/august2003/musicReviews/musicN/novacosm.html   (424 words)

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