Every year on Columbus Day weekend, members of a neo-Nazi organization going by the name of “Keystone United” – formally the Keystone State Skinheads – flock to Philadelphia from all over the state of Pennsylvania to lay a wreath upon a statue of Leif Ericson in “commemoration” of his journey and, later, the settlement of the first Europeans in North America. Leif Ericson Day, as it is known formally in the United States, is a 
federally recognized holiday; however, neo-fascists utilize October 9th every year as a way to profess their virulently deceptive notions of Euro-centric superiority, racial and ethnic bigotry, and every other conceivable type of demagoguery intended to win over downtrodden and embittered – due in large part to the recurrent crises of capitalism – “white” workers and youth to Fascism through strategically-subtle “cultural” events such as the kind mentioned above. Nevertheless, their day did not go according to plan; something was standing in their way…