An anti-NAZI group is fighting back in Kansas City on Saturday.

The Institute for Research & Education On Human Rights announced that a rally is planned at 3:00 p.m. Saturday at Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial.

The IREHR says a wide variety of civil rights and human rights organizations, city officials and concerned individuals will gather.

 

“The National Socialist Movement and whatever friends they can gather up are coming to the Kansas City are for a weekend of private sessions on national socialist ideology, a public rally in the center of downtown Kansas City, Missouri and then a nighttime swastika burning on private land,” according to the announcement, which likens that latter affair to a Klan cross burning.

IREHR says the 50-to-100 neo-Nazis who rally during the day will hope for some conflict on the streets, saying “it is what helps them gather new members.”

“The nighttime swastika-burning, however, is likely to draw more racists to it than the daytime rally,” according to the IREHR announcement.

Organizers of the Liberty Memorial event are planning a non-violent, non-confrontation rally, a place where people of all types can gather. They are also aware that the day is the 74th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and they will remember those who died, were burnt out of their homes and shops, and shuffled off to concentration camps. Their event is at the same time as the neo-Nazi rally downtown.

The KCMO City Counsil last Thursday passed a resolution opposing and rejecting the National Socialist Movement and its ideology.