Earlier this year, Auckland mayor Phil Goff cancelled far-right events at council venues - a controversial precedent of Council intervention in which acts they're prepared to host.
Often spotted on the periphery of far-right events in recent months, Three Percenters tend to sport military fatigues and lots of guns.
Such shows of menacing bravado are typical for far-right events, which play an important role in boosting scene morale, experts say.
Kevin Metcalf, an activist who independently tracks extremism in Toronto, walked into an far-right event last month with a camera in his hand.
At Saturday's march, it's likely that, once again, many attendees will not consider themselves to be part of a far-right event.
For that reason, hundreds, if not thousands of neo-Nazis from central Europe are expected to descend on the tiny east German town of Ostritz Friday to attend the Shield and Sword Festival — a far-right event that promises ultranationalists a full-spectrum modern festival experience, running the gamut of neo-Nazi subculture.
This historical narrative shows no signs of changing, given the reactions of the far right to recent events, including restricting voter registration, blocking immigration reform, and the grand jury decisions in Staten Island, N.Y., and in Ferguson, Missouri.
Then, around 2009, when searching for a cover photo for what would later become her book Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany, she fell in with a group of photographers who had been tracking the far right at public events.
At the Costume Institute gala, Giovanna Battaglia (far right) tapped into the event's Surrealist mood with a floral headpiece inspired by Frida Kahlo.
We know the French far right is already exploiting the events, spreading hate, encouraging violence.
