September 2, 1990

By Hiya Swanhuyser

Nazi punks, fuck off! The night of a small-town rebellion.

Bad trouble came to Petaluma’s Phoenix Theater in the form of skinheads wearing military-style jackets, tall boots, and armbands with swastikas. That night, a group of teenagers banded together to resist that racist violence—culminating in an intense but nearly forgotten confrontation.