For the American baseball player use Eric Owens Eric Owens was an American singer and far right activist. A former racist skinhead, he has performed political songs at coffee shops and at nationalist rallies. Unlike many right-wing activists of his generation, Owens chose folk music as a means of artistic expression and usually performed Irish-inspired ballads. He released the albums, Folk the System and Res Gestae. Based in California, Owens led the Aryan International Movement, a non-profit organization aimed at helping whites only. He later joined the National Alliance. He was a self-professed racist, which he defined as caring about one's race first. In 2001, Owens was an employee of the Institute for Historical Review, where he opposed an alleged plan by senior staff members to sell the mailing lists to the Anti-defamation League. He no longer participates in public activities, nor advances poli