Aryan Freedom Network – Atlanta Antifascists

Meet George Raymond Haynie III and Shannon Ashley Haynie: “Aryan Fest” Hosts and Neo-Nazi Pregnancy Crisis Housing Organizers

Update, night of November 1, 2024: The Schatzkind Services website has been taken down. Archives of its content are available here.

On Saturday, October 26, 2024 the Aryan Freedom Network, a neo-Nazi organization, held their Aryan Fest gathering in Georgia. (See background information here.) We quickly discovered the location of the event, which was on a property at the northeast corner of Elberton Road and Brown’s Chapel Road in Lexington, Georgia. We recorded video from the ground and sky, including the clip below, in order to establish definitive proof of the correct address. Note the giant wooden swastika on the land, which was burned in a swastika lighting ceremony that night.

*Swastika lighting at “Aryan Fest” 2024*

We now wish to expose the hosts of the neo-Nazi gathering: Shannon Ashley Haynie and George Raymond Haynie III.

Alert: “Aryan Fest” in Georgia, October 26

Update 11/1/2024: “Aryan Fest” 2024 was held on the property of George Haynie III and Shannon Haynie in Lexington, Georgia.

The Aryan Freedom Network (AFN) is a neo-Nazi group that claims to operate within 26 US states, according to the chapter listings on its website. AFN is currently advertising its national “Aryan Fest” gathering—a major get-together for AFN and its white supremacist allies—for Saturday, October 26th at an undisclosed location in Georgia. While AFN also advertised an “Aryan Fest” in Georgia last year, that year’s event was eventually rescheduled and relocated to Texas. However, the 2024 event appears likely to take place as announced in our state.

Inside Southern Sons Active Club (Part I)

Summary: In January, we began infiltrating the Southern Sons Active Club (SSAC), a racist group operating in the Carolinas and in Georgia that is part of the broader “Active Club” network. With this two-part report, we identify twelve SSAC members and two former members. We also discuss a Georgia participant in the “Revolutionary White Brotherhood” (formerly “Blood and Soil Crew”), a regional neo-Nazi youth group with close ties to SSAC. We document SSAC’s ties to a white supremacist now facing charges for his part in a bank robbery conspiracy. In another instance of the club attracting violence-prone neo-Nazis, we discuss an underground cell in North Carolina dedicated to “direct action” whose members were previously in SSAC. Finally, we detail the club’s ties to other far-right projects operating regionally. SSAC plans to send a contingent to an upcoming national event by Patriot Front, May 12-14 in the southern Mid-Atlantic region.

This is Part I of a two-part article. For Part II, click here.