Original Recording Date: 2025APR29.

Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch.

Views and opinions of the participants are their own.

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TOPICS:

• Guest: Mark Messina - Vice President for QRFup and a retired US Army Veteran whose organization and strategic leadership will bring the vision of QRFup across the nation. Mark's deference for the mission of this organization is bar none, and his determination will disrupt the current order.
• Mark's personal story.
• The QRFup story.
  • Providing timely response to those at the edge.
• Keeping the responders safe. A time and place for everything.
• The numbers that will shock you.
• Progressing toward nation-wide coverage.
• What's next?

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REFERENCES / RESOURCES:

Important Links:

1. Get the QRFup Application:
   • Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/qrfup/id6511219491
   • Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qrfup
2. QRFup website: https://www.qrfup.org/
3. QRFup merchandise (SUPPORT THE CAUSE!): https://www.qrfup.shop/

Profiles and Social Media:

1. Find QRFup on:
   • LinkedIn: https://instagram.com/qrfup.organization
   • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/QRFup/61558629835156/
   • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qrfup
2. Find Mark on:
   • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-messina-53b3b9178/
   • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grey6_official/

Original Recording Date: 2025APR28.

Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch.

Views and opinions of the participants are their own.

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TOPICS:

• Guest: Luis Horacio Najera - is an acclaimed journalist and crime analyst from Mexico who has lived in exile in Canada since 2008. He was the PEN Canada-George Brown Writer in Residence in Toronto, and recipient of the 2010 CJFE International Press Freedom Award and one of the 2011 Human Rights Watch Hellman/Hammet Awards. In 2022 he was named one of the 10 Most Influential Hispanic-Canadians.
• Personal story.
  • Reporting from the most dangerous places on Earth.
• Losing friends and colleagues to violence.
• Truth in reporting.
• Life in exile.
  • Organized crime & government.

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REFERENCES / RESOURCES:

Important Links:

1. Luis' books:
   • The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld - https://a.co/d/aT0UA2m
   • The Uncaged Voice: Stories by Writers in Exile - https://a.co/d/6K5g4UF
2. Luis' podcast:
   • Dos Amigos: Ideas que florecen del desierto - https://open.spotify.com/show/4hFkRaBgbPKVluH3RmSu1G

Profiles and Social Media:

1. Find Luis on:
   • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arnomichaelis/
   • LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/luishnajera
   • X: https://x.com/najera13

Original Recording Date: 2025APR14.

Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch.

Views and opinions of the participants are their own.

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TOPICS:

• Guest: Arno Michaelis – filmmaker, speaker, and author of My Life After Hate and co-author of The Gift of Our Wounds. Arno WAS a founding member of what became the largest racist skinhead organization in the world and lead singer of the race-metal band Centurion. NOW, he works as an interventionist with groups such as Parents 4 Peace, helping to lead people away from all violent extremist ideologies, and to support their families.
• The story of extremism and “Romantic Violence”.
  • What does it mean?
• Recruitment into the fold.
• Racism & anti-racism – two sides of the same coin.
  • Tactics and techniques that lead to a familiar place.
• The battle against the narratives. Solutions.

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REFERENCES / RESOURCES:

Important Links:

1. Parents 4 Peace website: https://www.parents4peace.org/
2. Arno on Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-neo-nazism-actually-works-former-white-supremacist-2025-3

Profiles and Social Media:

1. Find Arno on:
   • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arnomichaelis/
   • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnomichaelis
2. Parents 4 Peace on:
   • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/parents-for-peace/
   • X: https://x.com/parentsforpeace
   • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parents4peace/
   • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parents4peace/
   • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyAPDWKMhF_feY-vmXQhCFg