Two groups show up every weekend at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market to educate consumers about one vendor’s alleged tie to a white nationalist group.

Abby Ang, lead organizer for the group No Space for Hate, says her main goal is educating consumers, and she is not backing down.

“Right now, it’s four… five months,” she said. “and I think people probably thought that we’d lose energy, or we would stop coming here. But we’ve been here every Saturday.”

She says they are partnering with other organizations such as Pantry 279 to help get food to people in need while working on their mission.

“Our goal, of course,” Ang says. “is to not let people become complacent and not forget that there is white supremacy at the farmers market. So, continuing to educate and inform people.”

No Space for Hate organized the initial protests against Schooner Creek Farm after they discovered information they felt connected Schooner Creek to the group Identity Evropa. A group classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.

Ang says she wrote a letter to the market organizers with the information she had gathered connecting the owners of Schooner Creek to Identity Evropa but was told they couldn’t eject them because of their first amendment rights.

Since then, she says, she has been working to educate consumers on where their money is going and encouraging them to boycott Schooner Creek.

“There’s been a lot of crackdown in terms of rules,” Ang says. “Originally, people were allowed to carry signs in the marketplace. And then they said no you can’t do that. They have designated areas, designated protest areas.”

She says another form of pushback comes from people who are complacent about the issue. They say they don’t like knowing there’s white supremacy in the market and they want to go back to before.

“Because it’s uncomfortable,” Ang says. “to know that someone who is an active organizer of and member of this group is selling you vegetables.”

She says her main concern though is for those who feel unsafe by having Schooner Creek Farm at the market.

Shortly after the initial protests the market made a rule that signs were no longer allowed in the market for protests. No Space for Hate started passing out fliers on the outskirts of the markets.

A different group came up with a plan to continue protesting in the market: t-shirts.

The Purple Shirt Brigade sells shirts with “Boycott Schooner Creek Farm” written on the back and a quote on the front. While No Space for Hate focuses primarily on educating consumers, The Purple Shirt Brigade works on finding ways to protest inside the market, says Kate Blake, a member of The Purple Shirt Brigade.

“They’ve definitely asked us to leave,” says Blake.“And to move away from her stand but they haven’t forced us to yet.”

The mission, according to their Facebook page is to peacefully protest, and boycott the presence of Schooner Creek Farm.

“I think it works pretty effectively as a boycott,” Blake says. “there are a lot people who came back after school and didn’t know about the boycott. So, this has been pretty effective at informing them.”