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White Anti-Diversity Protesters Target Portland IRCO
A
small group of protesters displayed
anti-immigrant signs outside the
entrance to the Immigrant and
Refugee Community Organization Monday
morning.
Around 9:30 a.m. July 7, a handful of
people, including a child, arrived at IRCO’s
offices on 103rd and N.E. Glisan Street,
said Margaret Malarkey, the nonprofit’s
community relations specialist. The group
had signs, with white supremacist messages
Portlanders settle in the United States and
become productive citizens. The nonprofit
serves families and children, placing about
800 people in jobs, annually. IRCO’s clients
come from all over the world including
Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.
“We were concerned that our clients
might be harassed,” Malarkey said. “I went
out and talked with them and they said they
were here to let people know that immigra-
tion is an attack on the white race and white
genocide.
The group was handing out flyers with
messages against diversity, claiming that
‘They said they were here to let people know
that immigration is an attack on the white race
and white genocide’
and flyers.
The largest sign said: “Diversity = White
Genocide.” Other signs said “Google white
genocide, “ and “Globalism is imperial-
ism.”
IRCO works with about 1,000 refugees
and immigrants every year, helping new
anti-racist equals anti-white.
Malarkey said the protesters disappeared
shortly after staff called police to the clinic.
Protest is allowed on public sidewalks,
Malarkey said, but a permit is needed. If the
protesters return, she said, IRCO staff will
be outside when clients arrive to make sure
PHOTO COURTESY IRCO
By Helen Silvis
Of The Skanner News
Around 9:30 a.m. July 7, a handful of people, including a child, arrived at
IRCO’s offices on 103rd and N.E. Glisan Street. The group had signs with white
supremacist messages, and flyers.
they are safe.
“The first thing we are going to do is to
ask them if they have a protest permit,” she
said.
A website named the white genocide proj-
ect lists numerous grievances against
immigration worldwide.
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But Grigsby expressed no regret for
white supremacist beliefs, only the effect
her crimes would have on their public per-
ception.
“My actions have further damaged the
reputation of a movement misunderstood,”
she said “I deeply regret this.”
Grigsby and her boyfriend — David
“Joey” Pedersen — were arrested in 2011
following the deaths of four people: Peder-
supremacist prison gang, and he told Grigs-
by about his desire to start a revolution
with a killing rampage targeting Jewish
leaders.
It started on Sept. 26, 2011, when Joey
Pedersen shot his father in the back of the
head while the elder Pedersen was driving,
authorities said. Red Pedersen moved and
moaned for at least 30 minutes before
dying, prosecutors said.
Grigsby told officers they were on their way to
Sacramento to ‘kill more Jews’
sen’s father and stepmother in Everett,
Washington, an Oregon teenager and a Cal-
ifornia man.
Grigsby pleaded guilty in March to rack-
eteering charges connected to the four
killings, and the plea agreement called for
a life sentence with no chance for release.
Joey Pedersen has pleaded guilty to two
counts of carjacking resulting in death —
one for the death of teenager Cody Myers
on the Oregon coast and the other for the
killing of Reginald Clark in Eureka, Cali-
fornia. He will be sentenced to life in
prison at an Aug. 4 hearing in federal court.
He previously pleaded guilty in Washing-
ton state court to murder in the slayings of
David “Red” Pedersen and Leslie “Dee
Dee” Pedersen and was sentenced to life in
prison.
Dee Dee Pedersen’s daughter, Lori
Nemitz, told Grigsby in court that the mur-
ders were heinous and “beyond cruel,” and
made no sense since Grigsby had been wel-
comed into the home as family.
“I hugged you for God’s sake,” Nemitz
said.
Pedersen is the founder of a white
Pedersen and Grigsby returned to the
house. Dee Dee Pedersen was bound with
duct tape, cut in the neck and left to bleed
to death.
“Animals are treated more humanely
going to slaughter than your victims were,”
said Holly Perez, the daughter of Red Ped-
ersen and sister of Joey Pedersen.
The couple then drove Red Pedersen’s
vehicle south into Oregon, where they shot
and killed 19-year-old Myers and stole his
car, authorities said. They shot Myers, who
was Christian, because his name sounded
Jewish, according to court documents.
Pedersen and Grigsby then headed to
Northern California, where Clark, a 53-
year-old black man, was shot to death.
Grigsby and Pedersen were arrested Oct.
5, 2011, outside Yuba City, California,
when a police officer spotted them in
Myers’ car. Grigsby told officers they were
on their way to Sacramento to “kill more
Jews,’” court documents said.
Prosecutors said Grigsby has been a
white supremacist since her early teens,
and did not fall under Pedersen’s spell.
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