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E.W., et al, v. Lauderdale County, Miss.
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Across the country, thousands of children are languishing in abusive prisons and jails. These youths are disproportionately African American and Latino. Most live in poverty.
Many of these children were needlessly pushed out of school and into the juvenile justice system. But schools are just one entry point to the juvenile justice system – a system that too frequently cuts short the life chances of the young people it’s supposed to serve. Many youths are criminalized because of their experiences with failing foster care and mental health systems. Children and teens of color are imprisoned at almost three times the rate of their white counterparts – suggesting that they are often unfairly targeted for arrest and confinement.
Once arrested, children can stay in detention facilities for weeks or months before a judge hears their case. They often encounter abuse and neglect in overcrowded, squalid facilities – some operated for profit by private corporations. Few local juvenile detention centers have the resources to meet their educational, medical and mental health needs.
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When a judge hears their case, court-involved youths may be sentenced to a juvenile prison where they frequently endure brutal conditions. The SPLC has helped to expose instances of physical and sexual abuse, shackling of children and inadequate mental health care.
Today, an estimated 100,000 children and teens are locked up in juvenile facilities across the country, and thousands more are incarcerated in adult prisons. Children in adult prisons and jails face even worse conditions than those in the juvenile justice system.
U.S. Department of Justice research shows that youths incarcerated with adults are eight times more likely to commit suicide than in juvenile facilities, five times more likely to be sexually assaulted, three times more likely to be assaulted by prison staff and 50 percent more likely to be assaulted with a weapon than youths in a juvenile facility. And incarcerating children in the adult system doesn’t only put them at risk of unspeakable abuses – it fails to protect communities. The Department of Justice also has found “higher recidivism rates among juveniles convicted for violent offense in criminal court when compared with similar offenders retained in juvenile court.”
By reforming the juvenile justice system and providing support in our schools and communities, this cycle can be broken and we can dramatically reduce our country’s prison population – the world’s largest.
The SPLC uses legal action, community education and mobilization, and media and legislative advocacy to ensure that students get the educational services that can mean the difference between incarceration and graduation and to prevent school discipline practices from pushing students out of school. We work to replace unnecessary juvenile detention with proven, community-based alternatives. And we seek to protect imprisoned children and teens from abuse and safely reduce the number of imprisoned children.
We currently operate juvenile justice and education reform projects in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi – four of the states where children are most at risk of ending up in the juvenile justice system or dropping out of school. We’re also working with advocates for children in other Southern states and across the country.
Reforming School Discipline
For far too many children, the path to prison begins in our under-funded schools. Rather than invest in the basic educational and social services that will help troubled children succeed, many schools rely on harsh, “zero-tolerance” discipline policies that result in suspensions, dropouts and arrests for even minor, nonviolent misbehavior. These policies push students into a juvenile justice system that criminalizes many of them.
Too often, the juvenile justice system writes off misbehavior in affluent school districts as “typical adolescent rebellion” while the same behavior by a student in a poor, minority school district is likely to be viewed as “criminal behavior” that warrants harsh consequences. This misguided approach to school discipline is driving up the dropout rates for both students and teachers. It does little to improve school climates or make our communities safer. Reversing this trend will require a sea change in the way schools approach discipline.
A cultural shift from zero-tolerance policies is needed in our schools. One research-based alternative, known as Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), is gaining momentum among educators as a way to improve overall school climates, as well as academic performance, while keeping children in the classroom. PBIS has been successfully used in both urban and rural school districts and in districts with high and low concentrations of poverty.
Implementation of PBIS is a key provision in several class action settlements reached between the SPLC and school districts in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. The results have been promising. For example, two years after PBIS was implemented throughout the Jefferson Parish, La., school district, the out-of-school suspension rate for special education students was cut in half. Out-of-school suspensions for general education students dropped 24 percent after the first year.
PBIS implementation is just one of the ways we’re working to ensure that all children have access to a quality education. We’ve also launched campaigns to address the use of alternative schools to warehouse students and deny them the educational services to which they are entitled. In addition, we work to ensure that youths most likely to be pushed out of school receive individualized support to increase their chances of graduating, to address racial disparities in school discipline practices and to increase parental engagement in the formation of school discipline policies and practices.
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America must stop criminalizing its children
Time to reduce the number of children in Florida’s adult criminal justice system
SPLC reaches settlement with Mississippi school district to stop anti-LGBT bullying
Legislation seeks to reform Florida’s practice of prosecuting children as adults
SPLC goes to trial today to curtail use of pepper spray on children in Birmingham, Ala., public schools
Stories from the field: SPLC gives voice to Florida youths frustrated by state’s justice system
Joint Statement by the Louisiana Department of Education and the Southern Poverty Law Center
Settlement reached in SPLC’s pre-kindergarten discrimination lawsuit
More News Items
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Suspended Education
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout in Alabama
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Louisiana
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Mississippi
More Publications
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Case Docket Highlights
J.W. ex rel. Williams v. A.C. Roper
A.M. v. Jackson Public Schools
C.B., et al. v. Walnut Grove Correctional Authority, et al.
J.W. v. Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, et al.
E.W., et al, v. Lauderdale County, Miss.
A.H v. Hinds County (Miss.) School District
D.W., et al. v. Harrison County, Miss.
More Children at Risk Cases
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Across the country, thousands of children are languishing in abusive prisons and jails. These youths are disproportionately African American and Latino. Most live in poverty.
Many of these children were needlessly pushed out of school and into the juvenile justice system. But schools are just one entry point to the juvenile justice system – a system that too frequently cuts short the life chances of the young people it’s supposed to serve. Many youths are criminalized because of their experiences with failing foster care and mental health systems. Children and teens of color are imprisoned at almost three times the rate of their white counterparts – suggesting that they are often unfairly targeted for arrest and confinement.
Once arrested, children can stay in detention facilities for weeks or months before a judge hears their case. They often encounter abuse and neglect in overcrowded, squalid facilities – some operated for profit by private corporations. Few local juvenile detention centers have the resources to meet their educational, medical and mental health needs.
juvenile detention facility
When a judge hears their case, court-involved youths may be sentenced to a juvenile prison where they frequently endure brutal conditions. The SPLC has helped to expose instances of physical and sexual abuse, shackling of children and inadequate mental health care.
Today, an estimated 100,000 children and teens are locked up in juvenile facilities across the country, and thousands more are incarcerated in adult prisons. Children in adult prisons and jails face even worse conditions than those in the juvenile justice system.
U.S. Department of Justice research shows that youths incarcerated with adults are eight times more likely to commit suicide than in juvenile facilities, five times more likely to be sexually assaulted, three times more likely to be assaulted by prison staff and 50 percent more likely to be assaulted with a weapon than youths in a juvenile facility. And incarcerating children in the adult system doesn’t only put them at risk of unspeakable abuses – it fails to protect communities. The Department of Justice also has found “higher recidivism rates among juveniles convicted for violent offense in criminal court when compared with similar offenders retained in juvenile court.”
By reforming the juvenile justice system and providing support in our schools and communities, this cycle can be broken and we can dramatically reduce our country’s prison population – the world’s largest.
The SPLC uses legal action, community education and mobilization, and media and legislative advocacy to ensure that students get the educational services that can mean the difference between incarceration and graduation and to prevent school discipline practices from pushing students out of school. We work to replace unnecessary juvenile detention with proven, community-based alternatives. And we seek to protect imprisoned children and teens from abuse and safely reduce the number of imprisoned children.
We currently operate juvenile justice and education reform projects in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi – four of the states where children are most at risk of ending up in the juvenile justice system or dropping out of school. We’re also working with advocates for children in other Southern states and across the country.
Reforming School Discipline
For far too many children, the path to prison begins in our under-funded schools. Rather than invest in the basic educational and social services that will help troubled children succeed, many schools rely on harsh, “zero-tolerance” discipline policies that result in suspensions, dropouts and arrests for even minor, nonviolent misbehavior. These policies push students into a juvenile justice system that criminalizes many of them.
Too often, the juvenile justice system writes off misbehavior in affluent school districts as “typical adolescent rebellion” while the same behavior by a student in a poor, minority school district is likely to be viewed as “criminal behavior” that warrants harsh consequences. This misguided approach to school discipline is driving up the dropout rates for both students and teachers. It does little to improve school climates or make our communities safer. Reversing this trend will require a sea change in the way schools approach discipline.
A cultural shift from zero-tolerance policies is needed in our schools. One research-based alternative, known as Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), is gaining momentum among educators as a way to improve overall school climates, as well as academic performance, while keeping children in the classroom. PBIS has been successfully used in both urban and rural school districts and in districts with high and low concentrations of poverty.
Implementation of PBIS is a key provision in several class action settlements reached between the SPLC and school districts in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. The results have been promising. For example, two years after PBIS was implemented throughout the Jefferson Parish, La., school district, the out-of-school suspension rate for special education students was cut in half. Out-of-school suspensions for general education students dropped 24 percent after the first year.
PBIS implementation is just one of the ways we’re working to ensure that all children have access to a quality education. We’ve also launched campaigns to address the use of alternative schools to warehouse students and deny them the educational services to which they are entitled. In addition, we work to ensure that youths most likely to be pushed out of school receive individualized support to increase their chances of graduating, to address racial disparities in school discipline practices and to increase parental engagement in the formation of school discipline policies and practices.
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SPLC Releases Video to Help Law Enforcement Combat ‘Aryan’ Prison Gangs
Aryan Brotherhood Prison Gang Issues ‘Bounty’ for Black Teens Accused of Killing White Veteran
They Came, They Saw, They Went Home Again
Joseph Franklin, Prolific Racist Serial Killer, is Executed
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Greenwash: Nativists, Environmentalism and the Hypocrisy of Hate
Terror From the Right: Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City
Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.
The Second Wave: Return of the Militias
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Case Docket Highlights
Jouhari/Horton v. United Klans of America/Frankhouser
Keenan v. Aryan Nations
Johnson v. Amox et al.
More Hate and Extremism Cases
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The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups and other extremists throughout the United States and exposes their activities to law enforcement agencies, the media and the public. We publish our investigative findings online, on our Hatewatch blog, and in the Intelligence Report, our award-winning quarterly journal. We’ve crippled some of the country’s most notorious hate groups by suing them for murders and other violent acts committed by their members.
Currently, there are 784 known hate groups operating across the country, including neo-Nazis, Klansmen, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, black separatists, border vigilantes and others.
neo nazis
Since 2000, the number of hate groups has increased by 30 percent. This surge has been fueled by anger and fear over the nation’s ailing economy, an influx of non-white immigrants, and the diminishing white majority, as symbolized by the election of the nation’s first African-American president.
These factors also are feeding a powerful resurgence of the antigovernment “Patriot” movement, which in the 1990s led to a string of domestic terrorist plots, including the Oklahoma City bombing. The number of Patriot groups, including armed militias, skyrocketed following the election of President Obama in 2008 – rising 813 percent, from 149 groups in 2008 to an all-time high of 1,360 in 2012. The number fell to 874 in 2014.
This growth in extremism has been aided by mainstream media figures and politicians who have used their platforms to legitimize false propaganda about immigrants and other minorities and spread the kind of paranoid conspiracy theories on which militia groups thrive.
Fighting Hate in Court
In the early 1980s, SPLC co-founder and chief trial counsel Morris Dees pioneered the strategy of using the courts to battle organized, violent hate groups. Since then, we have won numerous large damage awards on behalf of victims of hate group violence. These cases are funded entirely by our supporters; we accept no legal fees from the clients we represent.
Among the groups shut down by crushing jury verdicts in SPLC cases are the White Aryan Resistance, the United Klans of America, the White Patriot Party militia and the Aryan Nations.
These cases have made the SPLC and Dees reviled enemies of the extremist movement. Our headquarters in Montgomery has been the target of numerous plots by extremist groups, including a firebombing that destroyed our offices in 1983. Several dozen people have been sent to prison for plotting against Dees or the SPLC.
Training Law Enforcement
SPLC representatives communicate regularly with law enforcement agencies about extremist activity and conduct in-person training for officers at the local, state and federal level. Thousands of officers have received training that helps them recognize and deal with hate crimes as well as threats posed by extremists. This training is available free to law enforcement agencies.
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‘Nativist Extremist’ Groups Decline Again
Domestic Terrorism Since 1995
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In This Section
Law Enforcement Resources
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Extremist Files
Learn more about the ideologies, groups and individuals in extremist movements.
Explore the Extremist Files
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Hatewatch Blog
Former Klansman, Once Defendant in SPLC Case, Identified as Murder Victim
SPLC Releases Video to Help Law Enforcement Combat ‘Aryan’ Prison Gangs
Aryan Brotherhood Prison Gang Issues ‘Bounty’ for Black Teens Accused of Killing White Veteran
They Came, They Saw, They Went Home Again
Joseph Franklin, Prolific Racist Serial Killer, is Executed
More Blog Posts
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Publications
Dangerous Liaisons
Greenwash: Nativists, Environmentalism and the Hypocrisy of Hate
Terror From the Right: Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City
Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.
The Second Wave: Return of the Militias
More Publications
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Case Docket Highlights
Jouhari/Horton v. United Klans of America/Frankhouser
Keenan v. Aryan Nations
Johnson v. Amox et al.
More Hate and Extremism Cases
..
The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups and other extremists throughout the United States and exposes their activities to law enforcement agencies, the media and the public. We publish our investigative findings online, on our Hatewatch blog, and in the Intelligence Report, our award-winning quarterly journal. We’ve crippled some of the country’s most notorious hate groups by suing them for murders and other violent acts committed by their members.
Currently, there are 784 known hate groups operating across the country, including neo-Nazis, Klansmen, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, black separatists, border vigilantes and others.
neo nazis
Since 2000, the number of hate groups has increased by 30 percent. This surge has been fueled by anger and fear over the nation’s ailing economy, an influx of non-white immigrants, and the diminishing white majority, as symbolized by the election of the nation’s first African-American president.
These factors also are feeding a powerful resurgence of the antigovernment “Patriot” movement, which in the 1990s led to a string of domestic terrorist plots, including the Oklahoma City bombing. The number of Patriot groups, including armed militias, skyrocketed following the election of President Obama in 2008 – rising 813 percent, from 149 groups in 2008 to an all-time high of 1,360 in 2012. The number fell to 874 in 2014.
This growth in extremism has been aided by mainstream media figures and politicians who have used their platforms to legitimize false propaganda about immigrants and other minorities and spread the kind of paranoid conspiracy theories on which militia groups thrive.
Fighting Hate in Court
In the early 1980s, SPLC co-founder and chief trial counsel Morris Dees pioneered the strategy of using the courts to battle organized, violent hate groups. Since then, we have won numerous large damage awards on behalf of victims of hate group violence. These cases are funded entirely by our supporters; we accept no legal fees from the clients we represent.
Among the groups shut down by crushing jury verdicts in SPLC cases are the White Aryan Resistance, the United Klans of America, the White Patriot Party militia and the Aryan Nations.
These cases have made the SPLC and Dees reviled enemies of the extremist movement. Our headquarters in Montgomery has been the target of numerous plots by extremist groups, including a firebombing that destroyed our offices in 1983. Several dozen people have been sent to prison for plotting against Dees or the SPLC.
Training Law Enforcement
SPLC representatives communicate regularly with law enforcement agencies about extremist activity and conduct in-person training for officers at the local, state and federal level. Thousands of officers have received training that helps them recognize and deal with hate crimes as well as threats posed by extremists. This training is available free to law enforcement agencies.
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SPLC lawsuit demands necessary health care for transgender inmate in Georgia prison
SPLC reaches settlement with Mississippi school district to stop anti-LGBT bullying
SPLC, allies ask federal court to order Alabama probate judges to issue same-sex marriage licenses
SPLC files ethics complaint against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore over pledge to defy federal law and enforce same-sex marriage ban
New Jersey judge excludes key ‘conversion’ therapy experts in SPLC consumer fraud case
Alabama recognizes SPLC client Paul Hard as surviving spouse on husband’s death certificate
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Paul Hard v. Robert Bentley, et al.
Tracey Cooper-Harris, et al. v. United States of America, et al.
Michael Ferguson, et al., v. JONAH, et al.
Kristina Hill, et al. v. Public Advocate of the United States
Doe, et al. v. Anoka-Hennepin School District No. 11, et al.
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Our work on LGBT issues spans decades – from an early case challenging the military’s anti-gay policy, Hoffburg v. Alexander, to the monitoring of anti-LGBT hate and extremist groups today. The SPLC is dedicated to defending the rights of the LGBT community. Our current work has a national reach but is primarily focused on the Southeast where relatively few organizations advocate for this community.
Tracey and Maggie Cooper-Harris are legally married, but the Department of Veterans Affairs denied Tracey's application for additional compensation to which other married veterans are entitled. (Valerie Downes photo)
Ensuring safe schools is a particular concern. The bullying of LGBT students is a severe, nationwide problem – one made more difficult by the reluctance of many school districts to take strong steps to prevent it. Nearly nine out of 10 LGBT students have experienced harassment, a survey by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) found. Also, a Southern Poverty Law Center analysis of FBI hate crime data found that LGBT people are far more likely to be victims of a violent hate crime than any other minority group in the United States.
The SPLC has worked to ensure safe schools for all students – including LGBT students – through educational campaigns and legal action. Our Teaching Tolerance program released the anti-bullying documentary Bullied in 2010. The free documentary and teaching kit, designed for both classroom use and professional development for educators, tells the story of one student’s landmark effort to stand up to his anti-gay tormentors.
More than 50,000 copies of the film have been distributed across the country – making Bullied the most successful film ever produced by Teaching Tolerance at that time and helping to raise awareness of this serious issue facing LGBT youth.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has also taken legal action to protect LGBT students. This includes litigation against school policy that creates an atmosphere hostile to LGBT students or otherwise isolates these students for harassment. Anti-LGBT policies and actions that infringe on the free expression and privacy rights of LGBT students are another focus of this work. Outside the classroom, the Southern Poverty Law Center focuses on the treatment of LGBT youth in juvenile and foster care facilities.
Other efforts focus on the rights of LGBT adults, including issues involving parenting rights and the treatment of LGBT seniors in nursing homes and other facilities.
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Our work on LGBT issues spans decades – from an early case challenging the military’s anti-gay policy, Hoffburg v. Alexander, to the monitoring of anti-LGBT hate and extremist groups today. The SPLC is dedicated to defending the rights of the LGBT community. Our current work has a national reach but is primarily focused on the Southeast where relatively few organizations advocate for this community.
Tracey and Maggie Cooper-Harris are legally married, but the Department of Veterans Affairs denied Tracey's application for additional compensation to which other married veterans are entitled. (Valerie Downes photo)
Ensuring safe schools is a particular concern. The bullying of LGBT students is a severe, nationwide problem – one made more difficult by the reluctance of many school districts to take strong steps to prevent it. Nearly nine out of 10 LGBT students have experienced harassment, a survey by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) found. Also, a Southern Poverty Law Center analysis of FBI hate crime data found that LGBT people are far more likely to be victims of a violent hate crime than any other minority group in the United States.
The SPLC has worked to ensure safe schools for all students – including LGBT students – through educational campaigns and legal action. Our Teaching Tolerance program released the anti-bullying documentary Bullied in 2010. The free documentary and teaching kit, designed for both classroom use and professional development for educators, tells the story of one student’s landmark effort to stand up to his anti-gay tormentors.
More than 50,000 copies of the film have been distributed across the country – making Bullied the most successful film ever produced by Teaching Tolerance at that time and helping to raise awareness of this serious issue facing LGBT youth.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has also taken legal action to protect LGBT students. This includes litigation against school policy that creates an atmosphere hostile to LGBT students or otherwise isolates these students for harassment. Anti-LGBT policies and actions that infringe on the free expression and privacy rights of LGBT students are another focus of this work. Outside the classroom, the Southern Poverty Law Center focuses on the treatment of LGBT youth in juvenile and foster care facilities.
Other efforts focus on the rights of LGBT adults, including issues involving parenting rights and the treatment of LGBT seniors in nursing homes and other facilities.
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Since 1991, Teaching Tolerance has equipped hundreds of thousands of educators with classroom tools and resources that reduce prejudice, improve intergroup relations and foster school equity. This anti-bias program creates and distributes—free of charge—award-winning content through curriculum guides, professional development materials, films, articles and blogs. Teaching Tolerance magazine is sent to 450,000 educators in all 50 states and Canada twice annually, with a Summer issue available online and on iPad, and tens of thousands of educators use our free curricular kits. Teaching Tolerance provides these materials and an entire anti-bias curriculum so educators can integrate them into core classroom units, their own professional development and school culture—and across whole school districts.
Mix It Up at Lunch Day, the anchor event for Teaching Tolerance’s Mix It Up program, encourages students to do something simple yet powerful—sit next to someone new in the cafeteria. More than 6,000 schools participated in our annual Mix It Up at Lunch Day program in 2013, and more than 95 percent of Mix It Up organizers say the event prompts students to interact outside their normal social circles. Nearly 80 percent report those interactions result in new friendships across racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and other divisions.
Feedback from the Teaching Tolerance audience also indicates that our resources deepen students’ understanding of human diversity, raise their awareness about social problems and increase behaviors that counteract those problems. Further, more than 90 percent of classroom teachers who read Teaching Tolerance magazine report that it helps them think more deeply about diversity issues, better meet students’ needs and better teach. Eighty-five percent use the suggested activities in their classrooms.
Teaching Tolerance has attracted considerable external recognition, including 35 honors from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP)—including the Golden Lamp, its highest honor—two Oscars®, an Emmy® and awards from the National Education Association, among others. In 2009, AEP named Teaching Tolerance magazine Periodical of the Year in Distinguished Achievement.
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That’s why we aim to put our legal work and Intelligence Project out of business: We’re reaching into schools across the nation with lessons to counter the bigotry and extremism that children hear in the media and even from people who are supposed to be role models. The SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance program works through educators to nurture a new generation that is more accepting of difference and more engaged in social justice than those that preceded it. We want kids to get along with each other and, just as important, see themselves as global citizens in a diverse society with the capacity to work together for a fairer world.
Since 1991, Teaching Tolerance has equipped hundreds of thousands of educators with classroom tools and resources that reduce prejudice, improve intergroup relations and foster school equity. This anti-bias program creates and distributes—free of charge—award-winning content through curriculum guides, professional development materials, films, articles and blogs. Teaching Tolerance magazine is sent to 450,000 educators in all 50 states and Canada twice annually, with a Summer issue available online and on iPad, and tens of thousands of educators use our free curricular kits. Teaching Tolerance provides these materials and an entire anti-bias curriculum so educators can integrate them into core classroom units, their own professional development and school culture—and across whole school districts.
Mix It Up at Lunch Day, the anchor event for Teaching Tolerance’s Mix It Up program, encourages students to do something simple yet powerful—sit next to someone new in the cafeteria. More than 6,000 schools participated in our annual Mix It Up at Lunch Day program in 2013, and more than 95 percent of Mix It Up organizers say the event prompts students to interact outside their normal social circles. Nearly 80 percent report those interactions result in new friendships across racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and other divisions.
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Teaching Tolerance has attracted considerable external recognition, including 35 honors from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP)—including the Golden Lamp, its highest honor—two Oscars®, an Emmy® and awards from the National Education Association, among others. In 2009, AEP named Teaching Tolerance magazine Periodical of the Year in Distinguished Achievement.
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Arson Charge Pending for Self-Described Antigovernment ‘Sovereign Citizen’
By Bill Morlin on April 23, 2015 - 4:53 pm, Posted in Antigovernment, Sovereign Citizens
An arson charge is pending against a 33-year-old antigovernment “sovereign citizen” accused of starting a fire outside a home occupied by his relatives last weekend in suburban Phoenix.
20150423 Ismael Roman Mota
Ismael Roman Mota.
Court records show Ismael Roman Mota’s antigovernment “sovereign citizen” views likely go back to 2007, when he was arrested in Maricopa County on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender. Mota was arrested again on Saturday when his young niece called to report that her uncle was trying to start a fire to burn down the residence.
When police and fire crews arrived, one side of the house was “engulfed in flames and several people were attempting to put out the fire with garden hoses,” KPHO-TV in Phoenix reported. No one was injured in the fire.
Police have said neighbors saw Mota start the fire and yelled at him to put it out. Mota responded that he didn’t care because the house belonged to him before fleeing the scene. He was arrested when he returned several hours later.
Firefighters determined the fire was started in a large bucket containing charcoal and gasoline, ignited about a foot from the house before spreading to the exterior wall of the residence.
Mota, who self-identified as a sovereign citizen, refused to acknowledge that officers had read him his Miranda rights, and he refused to cooperate with routine fingerprint and mug shot processes during the jail booking, police said.
Court records show Mota, who was arrested in 2000 on a felony charge of sexual (contact) with a minor, has used various combinations of his first, middle and last names, sometimes spelling his middle name as Ramon – all of which are common practices for sovereign citizens, who believe they are the sole arbiters of the law.
In 2007, when he was arrested in Maricopa County for failing to register as a sex offender, Mota submitted an affidavit to the court that resembles sometimes nonsensical, paper terrorism submitted to the judicial system by sovereign citizens. He said he was filing the paperwork as a “full recanting of any and all statements and pleas made by ‘Ismail Roman Mota.’”
That name, he contended, “is a fictitious entity and my real name is Ismael Mota Roman. Both names are prohibited for use in any type of communication whatsoever,” he told the court.
Mota also has displayed sovereign citizen views by refusing to comply with motor vehicle and driver’s licensing laws, court records show. He has been involved in 31 traffic court cases since 1999.
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Anti-immigrant Groups Flock to Large Earth Day Event in Texas This Weekend
By Hatewatch Staff on April 23, 2015 - 2:24 pm, Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Hate Groups, Nativist Extremist
Some of the most prominent anti-immigrant groups in the nation, including the hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), will be in Dallas this weekend to participate in a large Earth Day gathering.Earth Day Texas
While the established anti-immigrant movement in the United States has attempted for decades to coax environmentalists into taking an anti-immigrant stance by blaming immigrants for environmental degradation – a tactic called “greenwashing,” this year is different. At least five anti-immigrant groups will have exhibitor’s booths, including NumbersUSA, which routinely takes credit for stopping comprehensive federal immigration reform.
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Oath Keepers Descend Upon Oregon with Dreams of Armed Confrontation over Mining Dispute
By David Neiwert on April 23, 2015 - 11:02 am, Posted in Antigovernment, Patriot
What began as a paper dispute over the language in a claim for an old gold mine in the hills of southwestern Oregon has lurched into what the antigovernment “Patriots” arriving on scene seemingly hope will be an armed confrontation with federal authorities.
Most of those arriving at the scene of the dispute over the Sugar Pine Mine near tiny Merlin, Ore., and nearby towns such as Grants Pass and Medford, believe they are engaging in a stand against a tyrannical federal government and the Bureau of Land Management – the second chapter in a fight that began a year ago with the Bundy Ranch standoff.
But as the mine owners now are stressing to the militia members and antigovernment activists pouring into the valley after heeding the call: “This is NOT a standoff with BLM. We are NOT promoting any confrontation with BLM. This is a security operation for the protection of Constitutional Rights.”
“If you are on a fringe element, and you’re here to protest, or provoke a reaction with the federal government, I don’t want you here,” said Joseph Rice, the “security coordinator” for the Josephine County chapter of the Oath Keepers, in a YouTube video on the Oath Keepers site. “Let me repeat that: If you’re here to protest and to provoke a reaction with the federal government, I do not need you.”
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/23/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 23, 2015 - 7:52 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
New York Times: Deputy blames Sheriff Joe Arpaio for disobeying court over immigration sweeps.
Right Wing Watch: FRC’s Tony Perkins claims that Obama and gay-rights movement inspire ISIS to execute Christians.
Wonkette: Men’s rights activists tells Fox & Friends why marriage is just a female scam to take men’s money away.
Raw Story: Woman donates savings for new house to anti-LGBT rally because gays are ‘like Hitler’s Nazi regime.’
Huffington Post: Seven states’ designation of April as ‘Confederate History Month’ is an embarrassing abomination.
Think Progress: The U.S. Congress could be the next legislative body to fall victim to the ‘religious freedom’ scam.
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Mayor: Confederate Flag at Rural County Courthouse ‘Must Come Down’
By Don Terry on April 22, 2015 - 4:08 pm, Posted in Neo-Confederate
A large Confederate battle flag snapping in the wind at the top of a pole in front of the county courthouse in the small rural Georgia town of Summerville must come down and “it shouldn’t have been put up there in the first place,” the city’s first black mayor told Hatewatch today.
“It certainly sheds a negative light on the city and the county,” Mayor Harry Harvey said. “We have a lot of positive things going on in the area, a lot of progress, and this distracts from it. It’s not something we want to be known for.”
With permission from the Chattooga County Commissioner, Jason Winters, the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) raised the flag at the beginning of April (Confederate History and Heritage Month in Georgia) with plans to replace it at the end of the month with a rotation of other Confederate emblems, such as the Bonnie Blue flag, according to journalist Tyler Jett.
Jett said Commissioner Winters had told him two weeks ago that he would consider removing the flag if it caused any controversy in the city of 4,600 residents, about 28 percent of whom are black.
It has done just that, yet the flag remains, just yards from the front door of the Chattooga County Courthouse.
“County governments in Georgia should not approve another permanent display of the Sons of Confederate Veterans,” Rev. Dr. Francys Johnson, a civil rights attorney and president of the Georgia NAACP, said in a statement on April 13. “[SCV}’s insistence on using the Rebel Battle flag, a patently offensive symbol of hate, for display from the Courthouse and places of sovereignty such as flagpoles is a part of their effort to win a war that was lost 150 years ago.”
The flag overlooks a 7-foot tall granite monument on the courthouse lawn honoring Confederate soldiers. Stan Hammond, commander of the local SOCV chapter, told Jett that the monument and flag commemorate the fallen sons of the South. “They’ll never be forgotten,” he said.
But it is not just Summerville’s black population that wants the flag to come down, Jett said. “A ton of white people, that I’ve talked to in that town, aren’t happy with it either,” he said.
Sutton Connelly, an attorney who practices law in Summerville with his legendary grandfather Bobby Lee Cook, told Hatewatch that “people are starting to galvanize against” the battle flag.
“I do not believe that flag should be flying in front of the courthouse given the connotations it carries,” Connelly said. “We should have two flags in front of the courthouse: the Georgia State flag and the flag of the United States of America.”
Mayor Harvey, who took office in 2013, said the monument, which has been in place for about eight months, should also be removed from the front lawn of the courthouse – “one of those places where justice is supposed to be dispensed to everybody fairly.”
The mayor said he has spoken with Winters about removing, at the very least, the battle flag and the commissioner is “working hard on a resolution.”
“I don’t have a time table for when that will happen,” the mayor said. “But the commissioner wants to see the city progress, too.”
The telephone at Commissioner Winters’ office was repeatedly busy on Wednesday, and Hatewatch was not able to reach him for a comment.
When members of his congregation recently told Rev. Solomon Missouri that there was a large Confederate battle flag in front of the courthouse, the young pastor was incredulous. He could not believe that local and county officials would allow such a display on government property, not in 2015, 150 years after the Confederate surrender, not with a black man in the White House, not with Summerville’s black population pushing 30 percent and not, for the first time in the town’s history, with a black mayor and a black police chief.
“The flag must come down,” the pastor said in a letter he personally delivered to Winters’ office, according to Jett. “If this sign is part of your collective heritage, then your heritage bears the stench of oppression. If this sign evokes feelings of pride than (sic) your pride is indeed a sin.”
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Stars Behind Bars: League of the South Joins Republic of Florida Militia for FSU Protest
By Keegan Hankes on April 22, 2015 - 3:47 pm, Posted in Neo-Confederate
Members of the League of the South (LOS), the Republic of Florida Militia (ROF) and student protestors from Florida State University faced off last weekend in front of the Old Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Fla.
Members of the Republic of Florida, including Jordan Jereb, right, join the League of the South's Michael Tubbs, far right, to protest the burning of a Confederate flag in Florida. (Source: Facebook)
Members of the Republic of Florida, including Jordan Jereb, second from left, join the League of the South’s Michael Tubbs, far right, to protest the burning of a Confederate flag by students Florida State University. (Source: Facebook)
Prominent LOS leaders, including Brad Griffin, a key organizer, and Michael Tubbs, LOS chief of staff and an ex-Green Beret who stole weapons and explosives from the U.S. Army for the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in 1987, stood alongside members of the ROF to protest the school’s Students for Democratic Society (SDS) recently burning a Confederate flag to protest increased KKK recruiting in the Tallahassee area. Within days, the League and ROF, led by Jordan Jereb, organized a protest that culminated with a tit-for-tat response –– burning a Soviet flag.
“After talking it over, we decided that we would show up in Tallahassee, confront SDS, tell the communists to get out of Florida, and then spit on, stomp on, and burn the Soviet flag in front of them,” Brad Griffin, who sometimes goes by Hunter Wallace and runs the racist blog Occidental Dissent, wrote.
“A crowd of about 30 spoiled brats, communists, and trannies chanted for a while, shouted some unimaginative slogans, and gave a few speeches about the tyranny of ‘cisgender heteronormative privilege’ while 13 or us starred them down in bemusement while holding Reds Out of Florida Signs” and two flags, the Florida State Flag and the Bonnie Blue Flag,” Griffin wrote. “We unfurled the Soviet flag, laid it out before them, and took turns spitting on it, stomping on it, and standing on it underneath our boots.”
What seems especially notable about the event is the alliance between ROF and the League, which in recent years has grown more radical despite serious efforts to perfect its public image. While League members are encouraged to wear black polo shirts and khaki pants to public events in order to improve the public perception of the group, clothes can only do so much to make the man.
In fact, the League’s public makeover has proved to be nothing more than a mirage. Despite his desperate wishing for the LOS to become a respected voice in an imaginary struggle for the future of the South, Griffin, one of the standard-bearers for the League’s new image, has brought to the table an angry coalition of misfits and ex-cons – like Jereb and Tubbs.
“I’m angry. I’m full of HATE,” Jereb wrote on Facebook last week. “I’m not gonna lie about it. If there were a few hundred clones of me this system would have quite a situation on its hands. That is really how I feel. Is feeling that way a crime? Maybe. But blacks feel the same way and nobody seems to get mad at them for it.”
Days before that, barely a month after being released from jail on burglary charges, Jereb also professed his love for Molotov cocktails and shared a video that details an argument for when it’s okay to shoot a police officer.
As a convicted felon who can no longer own firearms, Jereb need not worry about shooting anyone, let alone a police officer – a fact he may be coming to terms with if his recent stream of Facebook photos is any indication. Photos of Jereb toting firearms have been replaced by workout selfies with captions such as, “Turning my body into a weapon.”
But perhaps LOSers hanging with criminals isn’t that surprising given recent developments in the organization.
Last September, Hatewatch revealed that LOS leadership, after years of increasingly violent rhetoric, had taken steps to make its vision for a new southern uprising a reality by forming its own paramilitary organization called the “Indomitables.” LOS president Michael Hill also recently espoused an anti-Semitism worldview in his online writings, posting articles written by disgraced, anti-Semitic professor Kevin MacDonald, claiming the South’s biggest problem is the “Jewry” problem.
Despite its best attempts to sterilize its vitriolic message, the façade put forth by the LOS continues to crumble.
Members like Jereb demonstrate the realities of its increasingly extreme membership — a membership that, at the end of the day, spends its free time harassing student organizations under the guise of moral outrage.
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/22/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 22, 2015 - 8:36 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
Right Wing Watch: Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton claims the group prevented a terrorist attack by reporting an ISIS base in Texas.
MLive.com: Twenty years after Oklahoma bombing, Michigan Militia linked to the case remains active.
Raw Story: Wal-Mart closings, military exercise ignite right-wing conspiracist fears of martial law and Russian ‘death domes.’
JoeMyGod: Far-right Catholic group Opus Dei sues LGBT group over rights to ‘Opus Gay.’
KSPR-TV (Springfield, MO): League of South billboard urging secession spurs residents of Ozarks town to confront racism.
Talking Points Memo: Michelle Bachmann thanks President Obama for bringing on the Apocalypse.
Mercury-News (San Jose, CA): Mountain View man arrested for hate crime after threatening to kill a black man.
Salon: What the Tea Party’s adherents will never understand about the Constitution they revere.
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/21/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 21, 2015 - 7:45 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
Kansas City Star: By ignoring terrorism from homegrown extremists, federal authorities have opened the door for more.
Media Matters: Meet ‘Oregonians for Immigration Reform,’ the nativist group using the media to derail reform.
Bloomberg News: Alex Jones wonders whether Jeb Bush will be attending a Bilderberg meeting, and a spokesman responds.
Toledo Blade (OH): Neo-Nazis from National Socialist Movement are outnumbered by protesters in downtown rally.
Raw Story: Michigan Man taunts neighbors with yard display featuring Confederate flag and nooses.
Buzzfeed: Pennsylvania high school students organize ‘Anti-Gay Day,’ complete with a ‘lynch list.’
Right Wing Watch: On Oklahoma City bombing anniversary, Alex Jones claims it was a ‘false flag’ operation to demonize conservatives.
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American Renaissance Conference Draws Record Audience
By Hatewatch Staff on April 20, 2015 - 4:37 pm, Posted in White Nationalism
With a theme of being a “refuge from lies and delusions” about race in America, the annual American Renaissance (AmRen) conference last weekend in rural Tennessee drew the largest audience since 2008 – a benchmark cementing it as the premier annual white nationalist event in the United States.
Jared Taylor.
Jared Taylor.
Despite the larger audience of about 200 participants, the broader themes remained remarkably similar to previous years: IQ differences between the races, opposition to non-white immigration, a call for community among white nationalists and questioning whether the American political system can be used to a white nationalist advantage.
But let’s not forget the virulent anti-Semitism sitting deep at the heart of the conference. While American Renaissance founder Jared Taylor historically has avoided public criticism of Jews – a fact that has made him a polarizing figure among his fellow white nationalists – others at the conference have not been so careful.
For example, during his comments at the conference, held in Burns, Tenn., Peter Brimelow, founder of the racist website VDARE, remarked that nobody under the age of 40 remembers the Cold War. But he quipped that “surprisingly” most know about the Holocaust. Brimelow called those promoting criticism white nationalist position, “the Holocaust-haunted rich,” a claim he has made before.
There were others, too.
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/20/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 20, 2015 - 9:12 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
ProPublica: Racist posts on New York police blog raise ire at a time of increasing tension.
Kansas City Star: Ex-police chief from Arkansas warns his fellow officers about the lethal threat of antigovernment ‘sovereign citizens.’
BuzzFeed: Iowa Rep. Steve King claims President Obama is ‘importing illegal aliens’ to create ‘massive electorate’ for Democrats.
Talking Points Memo: Bill O’Reilly insists that since he gives ‘big money’ to minorities, he has no complicity in white suppression.
BlackVoiceNews: Westboro Baptist protest at Howard University met with huge counter-protest.
Left In Alabama: Chief Justice Roy Moore hankers for the logic of segregation by praising Plessy v. Ferguson.
Des Moines Register: Speakers talk guns, immigration, and gas tax at Oath Keepers’ rally at Iowa Capitol.
Right Wing Watch: Alex Jones marks the anniversary of the Bundy Ranch standoff by promoting false-flag conspiracy theory.
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Arson Charge Pending for Self-Described Antigovernment ‘Sovereign Citizen’
By Bill Morlin on April 23, 2015 - 4:53 pm, Posted in Antigovernment, Sovereign Citizens
An arson charge is pending against a 33-year-old antigovernment “sovereign citizen” accused of starting a fire outside a home occupied by his relatives last weekend in suburban Phoenix.
20150423 Ismael Roman Mota
Ismael Roman Mota.
Court records show Ismael Roman Mota’s antigovernment “sovereign citizen” views likely go back to 2007, when he was arrested in Maricopa County on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender. Mota was arrested again on Saturday when his young niece called to report that her uncle was trying to start a fire to burn down the residence.
When police and fire crews arrived, one side of the house was “engulfed in flames and several people were attempting to put out the fire with garden hoses,” KPHO-TV in Phoenix reported. No one was injured in the fire.
Police have said neighbors saw Mota start the fire and yelled at him to put it out. Mota responded that he didn’t care because the house belonged to him before fleeing the scene. He was arrested when he returned several hours later.
Firefighters determined the fire was started in a large bucket containing charcoal and gasoline, ignited about a foot from the house before spreading to the exterior wall of the residence.
Mota, who self-identified as a sovereign citizen, refused to acknowledge that officers had read him his Miranda rights, and he refused to cooperate with routine fingerprint and mug shot processes during the jail booking, police said.
Court records show Mota, who was arrested in 2000 on a felony charge of sexual (contact) with a minor, has used various combinations of his first, middle and last names, sometimes spelling his middle name as Ramon – all of which are common practices for sovereign citizens, who believe they are the sole arbiters of the law.
In 2007, when he was arrested in Maricopa County for failing to register as a sex offender, Mota submitted an affidavit to the court that resembles sometimes nonsensical, paper terrorism submitted to the judicial system by sovereign citizens. He said he was filing the paperwork as a “full recanting of any and all statements and pleas made by ‘Ismail Roman Mota.’”
That name, he contended, “is a fictitious entity and my real name is Ismael Mota Roman. Both names are prohibited for use in any type of communication whatsoever,” he told the court.
Mota also has displayed sovereign citizen views by refusing to comply with motor vehicle and driver’s licensing laws, court records show. He has been involved in 31 traffic court cases since 1999.
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Anti-immigrant Groups Flock to Large Earth Day Event in Texas This Weekend
By Hatewatch Staff on April 23, 2015 - 2:24 pm, Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Hate Groups, Nativist Extremist
Some of the most prominent anti-immigrant groups in the nation, including the hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), will be in Dallas this weekend to participate in a large Earth Day gathering.Earth Day Texas
While the established anti-immigrant movement in the United States has attempted for decades to coax environmentalists into taking an anti-immigrant stance by blaming immigrants for environmental degradation – a tactic called “greenwashing,” this year is different. At least five anti-immigrant groups will have exhibitor’s booths, including NumbersUSA, which routinely takes credit for stopping comprehensive federal immigration reform.
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Oath Keepers Descend Upon Oregon with Dreams of Armed Confrontation over Mining Dispute
By David Neiwert on April 23, 2015 - 11:02 am, Posted in Antigovernment, Patriot
What began as a paper dispute over the language in a claim for an old gold mine in the hills of southwestern Oregon has lurched into what the antigovernment “Patriots” arriving on scene seemingly hope will be an armed confrontation with federal authorities.
Most of those arriving at the scene of the dispute over the Sugar Pine Mine near tiny Merlin, Ore., and nearby towns such as Grants Pass and Medford, believe they are engaging in a stand against a tyrannical federal government and the Bureau of Land Management – the second chapter in a fight that began a year ago with the Bundy Ranch standoff.
But as the mine owners now are stressing to the militia members and antigovernment activists pouring into the valley after heeding the call: “This is NOT a standoff with BLM. We are NOT promoting any confrontation with BLM. This is a security operation for the protection of Constitutional Rights.”
“If you are on a fringe element, and you’re here to protest, or provoke a reaction with the federal government, I don’t want you here,” said Joseph Rice, the “security coordinator” for the Josephine County chapter of the Oath Keepers, in a YouTube video on the Oath Keepers site. “Let me repeat that: If you’re here to protest and to provoke a reaction with the federal government, I do not need you.”
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/23/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 23, 2015 - 7:52 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
New York Times: Deputy blames Sheriff Joe Arpaio for disobeying court over immigration sweeps.
Right Wing Watch: FRC’s Tony Perkins claims that Obama and gay-rights movement inspire ISIS to execute Christians.
Wonkette: Men’s rights activists tells Fox & Friends why marriage is just a female scam to take men’s money away.
Raw Story: Woman donates savings for new house to anti-LGBT rally because gays are ‘like Hitler’s Nazi regime.’
Huffington Post: Seven states’ designation of April as ‘Confederate History Month’ is an embarrassing abomination.
Think Progress: The U.S. Congress could be the next legislative body to fall victim to the ‘religious freedom’ scam.
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Mayor: Confederate Flag at Rural County Courthouse ‘Must Come Down’
By Don Terry on April 22, 2015 - 4:08 pm, Posted in Neo-Confederate
A large Confederate battle flag snapping in the wind at the top of a pole in front of the county courthouse in the small rural Georgia town of Summerville must come down and “it shouldn’t have been put up there in the first place,” the city’s first black mayor told Hatewatch today.
“It certainly sheds a negative light on the city and the county,” Mayor Harry Harvey said. “We have a lot of positive things going on in the area, a lot of progress, and this distracts from it. It’s not something we want to be known for.”
With permission from the Chattooga County Commissioner, Jason Winters, the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) raised the flag at the beginning of April (Confederate History and Heritage Month in Georgia) with plans to replace it at the end of the month with a rotation of other Confederate emblems, such as the Bonnie Blue flag, according to journalist Tyler Jett.
Jett said Commissioner Winters had told him two weeks ago that he would consider removing the flag if it caused any controversy in the city of 4,600 residents, about 28 percent of whom are black.
It has done just that, yet the flag remains, just yards from the front door of the Chattooga County Courthouse.
“County governments in Georgia should not approve another permanent display of the Sons of Confederate Veterans,” Rev. Dr. Francys Johnson, a civil rights attorney and president of the Georgia NAACP, said in a statement on April 13. “[SCV}’s insistence on using the Rebel Battle flag, a patently offensive symbol of hate, for display from the Courthouse and places of sovereignty such as flagpoles is a part of their effort to win a war that was lost 150 years ago.”
The flag overlooks a 7-foot tall granite monument on the courthouse lawn honoring Confederate soldiers. Stan Hammond, commander of the local SOCV chapter, told Jett that the monument and flag commemorate the fallen sons of the South. “They’ll never be forgotten,” he said.
But it is not just Summerville’s black population that wants the flag to come down, Jett said. “A ton of white people, that I’ve talked to in that town, aren’t happy with it either,” he said.
Sutton Connelly, an attorney who practices law in Summerville with his legendary grandfather Bobby Lee Cook, told Hatewatch that “people are starting to galvanize against” the battle flag.
“I do not believe that flag should be flying in front of the courthouse given the connotations it carries,” Connelly said. “We should have two flags in front of the courthouse: the Georgia State flag and the flag of the United States of America.”
Mayor Harvey, who took office in 2013, said the monument, which has been in place for about eight months, should also be removed from the front lawn of the courthouse – “one of those places where justice is supposed to be dispensed to everybody fairly.”
The mayor said he has spoken with Winters about removing, at the very least, the battle flag and the commissioner is “working hard on a resolution.”
“I don’t have a time table for when that will happen,” the mayor said. “But the commissioner wants to see the city progress, too.”
The telephone at Commissioner Winters’ office was repeatedly busy on Wednesday, and Hatewatch was not able to reach him for a comment.
When members of his congregation recently told Rev. Solomon Missouri that there was a large Confederate battle flag in front of the courthouse, the young pastor was incredulous. He could not believe that local and county officials would allow such a display on government property, not in 2015, 150 years after the Confederate surrender, not with a black man in the White House, not with Summerville’s black population pushing 30 percent and not, for the first time in the town’s history, with a black mayor and a black police chief.
“The flag must come down,” the pastor said in a letter he personally delivered to Winters’ office, according to Jett. “If this sign is part of your collective heritage, then your heritage bears the stench of oppression. If this sign evokes feelings of pride than (sic) your pride is indeed a sin.”
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Stars Behind Bars: League of the South Joins Republic of Florida Militia for FSU Protest
By Keegan Hankes on April 22, 2015 - 3:47 pm, Posted in Neo-Confederate
Members of the League of the South (LOS), the Republic of Florida Militia (ROF) and student protestors from Florida State University faced off last weekend in front of the Old Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Fla.
Members of the Republic of Florida, including Jordan Jereb, right, join the League of the South's Michael Tubbs, far right, to protest the burning of a Confederate flag in Florida. (Source: Facebook)
Members of the Republic of Florida, including Jordan Jereb, second from left, join the League of the South’s Michael Tubbs, far right, to protest the burning of a Confederate flag by students Florida State University. (Source: Facebook)
Prominent LOS leaders, including Brad Griffin, a key organizer, and Michael Tubbs, LOS chief of staff and an ex-Green Beret who stole weapons and explosives from the U.S. Army for the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in 1987, stood alongside members of the ROF to protest the school’s Students for Democratic Society (SDS) recently burning a Confederate flag to protest increased KKK recruiting in the Tallahassee area. Within days, the League and ROF, led by Jordan Jereb, organized a protest that culminated with a tit-for-tat response –– burning a Soviet flag.
“After talking it over, we decided that we would show up in Tallahassee, confront SDS, tell the communists to get out of Florida, and then spit on, stomp on, and burn the Soviet flag in front of them,” Brad Griffin, who sometimes goes by Hunter Wallace and runs the racist blog Occidental Dissent, wrote.
“A crowd of about 30 spoiled brats, communists, and trannies chanted for a while, shouted some unimaginative slogans, and gave a few speeches about the tyranny of ‘cisgender heteronormative privilege’ while 13 or us starred them down in bemusement while holding Reds Out of Florida Signs” and two flags, the Florida State Flag and the Bonnie Blue Flag,” Griffin wrote. “We unfurled the Soviet flag, laid it out before them, and took turns spitting on it, stomping on it, and standing on it underneath our boots.”
What seems especially notable about the event is the alliance between ROF and the League, which in recent years has grown more radical despite serious efforts to perfect its public image. While League members are encouraged to wear black polo shirts and khaki pants to public events in order to improve the public perception of the group, clothes can only do so much to make the man.
In fact, the League’s public makeover has proved to be nothing more than a mirage. Despite his desperate wishing for the LOS to become a respected voice in an imaginary struggle for the future of the South, Griffin, one of the standard-bearers for the League’s new image, has brought to the table an angry coalition of misfits and ex-cons – like Jereb and Tubbs.
“I’m angry. I’m full of HATE,” Jereb wrote on Facebook last week. “I’m not gonna lie about it. If there were a few hundred clones of me this system would have quite a situation on its hands. That is really how I feel. Is feeling that way a crime? Maybe. But blacks feel the same way and nobody seems to get mad at them for it.”
Days before that, barely a month after being released from jail on burglary charges, Jereb also professed his love for Molotov cocktails and shared a video that details an argument for when it’s okay to shoot a police officer.
As a convicted felon who can no longer own firearms, Jereb need not worry about shooting anyone, let alone a police officer – a fact he may be coming to terms with if his recent stream of Facebook photos is any indication. Photos of Jereb toting firearms have been replaced by workout selfies with captions such as, “Turning my body into a weapon.”
But perhaps LOSers hanging with criminals isn’t that surprising given recent developments in the organization.
Last September, Hatewatch revealed that LOS leadership, after years of increasingly violent rhetoric, had taken steps to make its vision for a new southern uprising a reality by forming its own paramilitary organization called the “Indomitables.” LOS president Michael Hill also recently espoused an anti-Semitism worldview in his online writings, posting articles written by disgraced, anti-Semitic professor Kevin MacDonald, claiming the South’s biggest problem is the “Jewry” problem.
Despite its best attempts to sterilize its vitriolic message, the façade put forth by the LOS continues to crumble.
Members like Jereb demonstrate the realities of its increasingly extreme membership — a membership that, at the end of the day, spends its free time harassing student organizations under the guise of moral outrage.
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/22/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 22, 2015 - 8:36 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
Right Wing Watch: Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton claims the group prevented a terrorist attack by reporting an ISIS base in Texas.
MLive.com: Twenty years after Oklahoma bombing, Michigan Militia linked to the case remains active.
Raw Story: Wal-Mart closings, military exercise ignite right-wing conspiracist fears of martial law and Russian ‘death domes.’
JoeMyGod: Far-right Catholic group Opus Dei sues LGBT group over rights to ‘Opus Gay.’
KSPR-TV (Springfield, MO): League of South billboard urging secession spurs residents of Ozarks town to confront racism.
Talking Points Memo: Michelle Bachmann thanks President Obama for bringing on the Apocalypse.
Mercury-News (San Jose, CA): Mountain View man arrested for hate crime after threatening to kill a black man.
Salon: What the Tea Party’s adherents will never understand about the Constitution they revere.
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/21/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 21, 2015 - 7:45 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
Kansas City Star: By ignoring terrorism from homegrown extremists, federal authorities have opened the door for more.
Media Matters: Meet ‘Oregonians for Immigration Reform,’ the nativist group using the media to derail reform.
Bloomberg News: Alex Jones wonders whether Jeb Bush will be attending a Bilderberg meeting, and a spokesman responds.
Toledo Blade (OH): Neo-Nazis from National Socialist Movement are outnumbered by protesters in downtown rally.
Raw Story: Michigan Man taunts neighbors with yard display featuring Confederate flag and nooses.
Buzzfeed: Pennsylvania high school students organize ‘Anti-Gay Day,’ complete with a ‘lynch list.’
Right Wing Watch: On Oklahoma City bombing anniversary, Alex Jones claims it was a ‘false flag’ operation to demonize conservatives.
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American Renaissance Conference Draws Record Audience
By Hatewatch Staff on April 20, 2015 - 4:37 pm, Posted in White Nationalism
With a theme of being a “refuge from lies and delusions” about race in America, the annual American Renaissance (AmRen) conference last weekend in rural Tennessee drew the largest audience since 2008 – a benchmark cementing it as the premier annual white nationalist event in the United States.
Jared Taylor.
Jared Taylor.
Despite the larger audience of about 200 participants, the broader themes remained remarkably similar to previous years: IQ differences between the races, opposition to non-white immigration, a call for community among white nationalists and questioning whether the American political system can be used to a white nationalist advantage.
But let’s not forget the virulent anti-Semitism sitting deep at the heart of the conference. While American Renaissance founder Jared Taylor historically has avoided public criticism of Jews – a fact that has made him a polarizing figure among his fellow white nationalists – others at the conference have not been so careful.
For example, during his comments at the conference, held in Burns, Tenn., Peter Brimelow, founder of the racist website VDARE, remarked that nobody under the age of 40 remembers the Cold War. But he quipped that “surprisingly” most know about the Holocaust. Brimelow called those promoting criticism white nationalist position, “the Holocaust-haunted rich,” a claim he has made before.
There were others, too.
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/20/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 20, 2015 - 9:12 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
ProPublica: Racist posts on New York police blog raise ire at a time of increasing tension.
Kansas City Star: Ex-police chief from Arkansas warns his fellow officers about the lethal threat of antigovernment ‘sovereign citizens.’
BuzzFeed: Iowa Rep. Steve King claims President Obama is ‘importing illegal aliens’ to create ‘massive electorate’ for Democrats.
Talking Points Memo: Bill O’Reilly insists that since he gives ‘big money’ to minorities, he has no complicity in white suppression.
BlackVoiceNews: Westboro Baptist protest at Howard University met with huge counter-protest.
Left In Alabama: Chief Justice Roy Moore hankers for the logic of segregation by praising Plessy v. Ferguson.
Des Moines Register: Speakers talk guns, immigration, and gas tax at Oath Keepers’ rally at Iowa Capitol.
Right Wing Watch: Alex Jones marks the anniversary of the Bundy Ranch standoff by promoting false-flag conspiracy theory.
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Arrest in Miami IRS Office Bomb Threat
By Bill Morlin on April 28, 2015 - 1:53 pm, Posted in Extremist Crime
FBI terrorism task force agents investigating an antigovernment bomb threat in Miami last week went looking for a man named “Rabbit,” but ended up arresting “Squirrel,” instead.
Today, Morris R. “Squirrel” Whitehead sits in a jail without bond, accused in U.S. District Court of willfully making a telephone threat to damage or destroy an Internal Revenue Service office in Miami.
The threat was made on April 20 when someone called the FBI’s Miami Field Office and said — while being recorded — that “the IRS Building in Miami should be evacuated within two hours because it was going to go up in smoke.” ( continue to full post… )
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Anti-Semitic Killer, Frazier Glenn Miller, to Plead Guilty
By Don Terry on April 28, 2015 - 1:44 pm, Posted in Anti-Semitic, Extremist Crime
Sickly, 74, and behind bars for more than a year, neo-Nazi and accused triple-murderer Frazier Glenn Miller is apparently ready to officially confess at least some of his crimes and sins.
In a telephone call from jail on Monday, Miller reportedly told The Associated Press (AP) that he now intends to plead guilty to killing three people at two Jewish facilities in suburban Kansas City last spring. The rampage ended with the longtime white supremacist handcuffed in the back of a police car, screaming, “Heil Hitler.”
Miller, who suffers from chronic emphysema, told the AP he had wanted to go to trial quickly so he could explain in open court – more like rant and rave – the motive for his attack on three unarmed people, including an elderly man and his 14-year-old grandson. ( continue to full post… )
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/28/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 28, 2015 - 8:54 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
Media Matters: The first rule of hosting the leader of an anti-LGBT hate group is to identify him as that for your viewers.
Palm Beach Post: Police will pursue hate-crimes charges in beating death of Hispanic man by three white males.
Mother Jones: The Supreme Court will hear the scientific arguments about how gay marriage will destroy America.
Salon: What are Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee doing in the year’s most bigoted and vile documentary, ‘Light Wins’?
Crooks and Liars: Ron Paul plays a starring role in conspiracy-mongering extremists’ latest film, ‘Midnight Ride.’
Right Wing Watch: Right-wing anti-LGBT activists threaten revolution, uprising if Supreme Court OKs same-sex marriage.
Talking Points Memo: Iowa ‘Faith and Freedom Summit’ turns into a wild gay-bashing festival for GOP candidates.
AlterNet: Right-wing media cynically exploit unrest in Baltimore to promote narrative about a ‘race war.’
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Sovereign Oregon Pastor and Wife Flee Sentencing Hearing on Income Tax Evasion Charges
By Bill Morlin on April 27, 2015 - 4:15 pm, Posted in Antigovernment, Sovereign Citizens
Ronald D. Joling, 71, and his wife, Dorothea, 72, of Coquille, Ore., “have engaged in a shameless scheme “to defraud the United States and to evade payment of $1.2 million in federal taxes since 1992, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford said in court filings.
Ronald D. Joling, 71, and his wife, Dorothea, 72, of Coquille, Ore., “have engaged in a shameless scheme “to defraud the United States and to evade payment of $1.2 million in federal taxes since 1992, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford said in court filings.
An Oregon pastor and his wife — tax protesters who appear to have morphed into antigovernment “sovereign citizens” — are now federal fugitives after refusing to appear for sentencing last week in Eugene, Ore., following their convictions for income tax evasion.
Ronald D. Joling, 71, and his wife, Dorothea, 72, of Coquille, Ore., “have engaged in a shameless scheme to defraud the United States and to evade payment of $1.2 million in federal taxes since 1992,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford said in court filings.
As a deterrent to such antigovernment tax protesters, the prosecutor recommended that the 71-year-old pastor of the conservative Hope Covenant Reformed Church in Coquille be sentenced to 121 months in prison, with 60 months recommended for Dorothea Joling.
Prosecutors have seized multiple rental properties and land owned by the couple and have asked the federal court to order the Jolings to pay $1.2 million in restitution to the U.S. government.
But Assistant Federal Defender Mark Bennett Weintraub said such a sentence was excessive, claiming it “is unreasonable to believe” that antigovernment activists like the Jolings will be “deterred or dissuaded b y the federal government’s exercise of its immense power.” ( continue to full post… )
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Oath Keepers Come Out to Heckle Oregon Residents Who Want Armed Gathering to Disband
By David Neiwert on April 27, 2015 - 3:13 pm, Posted in Antigovernment, Militias
Perturbed by the influx of armed militiamen bristling with guns and angry rhetoric into their normally quiet little town, residents of rural Josephine County, Oregon, are fighting back, asking the assorted “Oath Keepers” and other “Patriots” who have arrived recently to ostensibly defend a local miner to pack their bags and leave.
As if to prove their point, a number of Oath Keepers showed up on the scene last week and heckled local residents, intimidating them into retreating through the courthouse where they had stood to hold a news conference on Friday.
The community residents – who included a sporting-goods business owner, a former dean at the local community college, and several local church leaders, each of whom read a prepared statement – spoke to reporters outside the Josephine County Courthouse in Grants Pass.
“Certainly the miners are entitled to get their fair day in court and not have anything done to them until after the legal process, but they don’t need gun toting people coming around, threatening the whole community,” said Jerry Reid, a former dean of Rogue Community College. ( continue to full post… )
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New Report on Jeff Rense and His Rense Radio Network
By Heidi Beirich on April 27, 2015 - 2:01 pm, Posted in Anti-Semitic, Extremist Propaganda
Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report on the Rense Radio Network and its owner, Jeff Rense. Rense, whose network hosts radio shows by former Klansmen David Duke and Don Black, has become increasingly anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi. This ugly turn to preaching hate hit a milestone last Monday when Rense.com celebrated Adolf Hitler’s birthday by posting a laudatory paean to Hitler that praised the genocidal leader for “standing up to International Jewry.”
The SPLC’s report looks at Rense’s anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, the extremist guests featured on his own radio program and the advertisers whose products make Rense Radio Network possible. It is accompanied by a selection of audio excerpts from Rense’s own radio program that document the program’s anti-Semitism and extremism.
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Jeff Rense: In His Own Words
By Heidi Beirich on April 27, 2015 - 1:50 pm, Posted in Anti-Semitic, Extremist Propaganda, Uncategorized
Jeff Rense, owner of the Rense Radio Network, hosts radio programs by well known racists and anti-Semites, including former Klansmen Don Black and David Duke. But Rense is not just the CEO of a hate radio empire, but a fellow ideological traveler and a self-professed friend of many extremists. He frequently hosts anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers on his own radio show, often endorsing their opinions.
Interview on April 9, 2015, with former Klansman and raging anti-Semite David Duke, who has his own radio show on the Rense News Network:
Jeff Rense regarding his relationship to David Duke: “I wanna bring on at this hour a very good friend of mine for a long time. Without question all of you know his name. Many of you fortunately know of his brave and valiant work. He is one of the great patriots in the history of this country. For all peoples, ALL peoples.”
Jeff Rense praising Duke’s anti-Semitic propaganda: “[Your videos] are without question the most brilliantly conceived and executed videos I have ever some across exposing the truth of Zionism as racism and the tribal effort to continue to subjugate and crush the western world and if you talk about ISIS, don’t forget, Zionism is right in the midst of the construct called ISISm or ISIS and they are trying to eradicate all remnants, all forms, all remnants of Christianity from Iraq, just for starters.”
Duke on Israeli support of ISIS: “Israel has supported the ISIS movement, has supported even al Qaeda and I don’t know of any better and more powerful truth that Americans no longer control America but these Jewish extremists, these Zionists control America…”
Interview on May 13, 2010, with Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, the first radio interview Zundel gave after his release on March 1, 2010 from a German prison where he served nearly three years for contravening Germany’s hate speech laws against inciting racial hatred.
Jeff Rense described Zundel as his “his friend” and “the world’s most famous political prisoner.” He also said Zundel is “a true visionary and an amazing journalist” and that Zundel sent him letters as well as watercolor paintings from prison.
Rense stated, “The letters that you sent me are very much treasured and the littler watercolors as well, and I want to thank you for that.”
On the show, Zundel proclaimed, “I knew that I was innocent.”
Rense agreed: “You were innocent, you are innocent, you always will be innocent. This was beyond an outrage.”
Interview on Jan. 16, 2015, with Harry Cooper, owner of Sharkhunters International, a travel outfit that takes neo-Nazis and others on celebratory trips to visit Nazi sites, and David Dees, an anti-Semitic illustrator whose “art” is frequently featured on rense.com. Dees most recent notable piece was a graphic paean to Hitler on rense.com that wished the genocidal leader of the Nazi party a “Happy Birthday” on April 20, 2015. Cooper is a regular guest on Rense the third Friday of every month and Rense serves on the Sharkhunters board according to Cooper.
Rense minimizing the Holocaust: “It’s a very, very sad story of massive brainwashing that has gone on for 60 years plus, and it’s not going to change. They’re teaching Holocaust history now in primary schools around the United States and in Europe and it’s only going to continue to get worse. No one defends the Holocaust, whatever it really was. No one defends picking up hundreds of thousands of people, maybe a couple of million, putting them in work camps, otherwise displacing them, taking their possessions, that’s not okay. That doesn’t work for me, but to lie about something and then capitalize on it and make trillions of dollars on it ultimately, doesn’t work for me either. Now somewhere in between there is the truth and it’s up to you to try and figure that out.”
Dees denying the Holocaust: “Also during the war, you know, they, the Americans and the Brits also flew over looking for any…also they bombed Germany back into the Stone Age. They dropped 75-100 percent more bombs on Germany than Germany was able to drop on England. But they also flew over Germany and took these incredible photographs, detailed photographs looking for targets and they were well aware of the concentration camps and all these photographs, there’s not a single one that has anything to do with mass graves. There were no mass graves, there was nothing that would give you evidence that any bodies were being burned, there was no people lined up and they had all these photographs and they never talk about the fact that there’s not one single photograph or any evidence of a Holocaust of a gas chamber that was being used to destroy people.”
Rense minimizing the Holocaust: “Yes, there were dead bodies in the camps, I must say David, but they died of typhus and starvation. Many of the other bodies shown as ‘allegedly Jews’ are actually Germans immolated in Dresden for example, piles and piles of bodies its just…you gotta hand it to them, they’re very cleaver.”
Interview on April 15, 2013, with anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Texe Marrs, who is a guest on Rense’s show the third Monday of each month.
Marrs on Jewish people: “The Jews cannot administer a country, they don’t know how to run a country, all they are, well they’re just plain, well, you know, they’re parasites. They can get into a country and take over its financial system, and use the propaganda organs of a country, but they really don’t know how to administer for the good of the people. They cannot even administer the economy in the nation of Israel today.”
Rense agrees: “It’s greed. And lust for self, that’s what it is.”
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/27/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 27, 2015 - 7:01 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
Kansas City Star: Is a major domestic terrorist attack by right-wing extremists only a matter of time?
Right Wing Watch: Mike Huckabee defends ex-gay therapy, warns gay rights will lead to criminalization of Christianity.
KMOX-TV (St. Louis): Local white activists confront Aryan Nations protesters over plea to free member of The Order.
Crooks and Liars: Nevada Rep. Michelle Fiore loses it on Assembly floor during debate over ‘Bundy bill’ to oust feds.
Washington Post: Justice Department will monitor the Arkansas gun range that announced it was ‘Muslim free.’
KCCI-TV (Des Moines, IA): Man shouting ‘English only!’ interrupts kindergarten concert because of Spanish translator.
Human Rights Campaign: Beleaguered National Organization for Marriage hosts yet another ill-attended anti-LGBT rally in D.C.
Raw Story: CBS host introduces FRC’s Tony Perkins as the leader of an anti-gay hate group, noting ‘You don’t speak for Christians.’
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‘Patriots’ Rally For Oregon Mine Owners Turns Out a Tepid Affair
By David Neiwert on April 24, 2015 - 5:05 pm, Posted in Antigovernment, Militias
So much for a repeat of the Bundy Ranch standoff.
Joseph Rice. (Credit: David Neiwert
Joseph Rice. (Credit: David Neiwert
A collection of antigovernment “Patriots” gathered Thursday in the parking lot of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in Medford, OR, to protest what they believe was the federal government’s “tyrannical” treatment of miners in the region.
But the organizers of the affair were adamant they were uninterested in a standoff with federal authorities similar to the confrontation between BLM agents and hundreds of heavily armed “Patriots” a year ago at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada. All they wanted, organizers claimed, was to defend ordinary citizens from federal abuses.
“You have untrained people, uneducated people, throwing around their weight, abusing people who are trying to earn a living, and they think it’s OK,” Joseph Rice, coordinator for the Josephine County chapter of Oath Keepers, told about 50 people gathered. “I took an oath to uphold the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, and a domestic enemy is anyone who will abuse someone’s rights within that Constitution.”
Rice added, “Today it is the BLM, because they did not allow the due process to occur. They need to seriously look at their administrative process and procedures and address that. It’s a cultural issue. We saw it a year ago. Here we are again today. It doesn’t seem to be willing to change or improve that.”
At issue is a dispute between the BLM and the owners of the Sugar Pine Mine near Merlin, Ore., who were given a “letter of noncompliance” last spring telling them they either needed to clear out of the mine within 60 days or file an appeal of the ruling that they were not in compliance with BLM mining regulations.
What followed was 328 Comments in imminent danger of having their constitutional right to due process destroyed by the BLM, according to the local chapter of the Oath Keepers that made the plea. And they called it a “security operation” because owner Rick Barclay insisted that the BLM was notorious for burning down miners’ cabins in the backwoods, and he believes they would have destroyed his mine if he had not called for help.
BLM spokesman Jim Whittington told Hatewatch that these were absurdly groundless fears. “The idea that we would go in on Friday and wipe everything off the claim is just not true,” he said. “It has no basis in reality.”
There were few guns on display, and no threats or intimidation. A large group of black-clad “III Percent” movement followers from Idaho made their presence known, but the crowd and the speakers remained relatively sedate. Even with such sedate activists, the BLM and the U.S. Forest Service closed their joint offices as a precautionary measure. Only five people spoke, including both of the mine owners and two local Oath Keepers. Within an hour, everyone was gone.
The issue persists, however. The miners and the “Patriots” insist the BLM’s issuance of a letter of non-compliance amounts to a denial of due process, and the Oath Keepers have insisted their presence is about “defending the Fifth Amendment rights” of the miners.
Rick Barclay, one of the mine owners, told Hatewatch that the BLM had violated his due process in the letter. “They short-circuited the due process by telling me I have to remove my equipment before I ever even get a hearing,” he said.
However, the letter of noncompliance is clear that removal of the cabin and equipment are only among the mine owners’ three options, and says at the end: “If you do not agree and are adversely affected by this decision you may ask for a review by the State Director … or you may appeal to the Interior Board of Land Appeals.”
Barclay filed paperwork in his appeals process on Wednesday, but indicated that he hoped the Oath Keepers would stay on site until he actually has a hearing. “After I get my day in court and get a stay, then they will go home,” he said. “Just because I turned in my paperwork doesn’t mean the BLM won’t come up there tomorrow and set everything on fire.”
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/24/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 24, 2015 - 9:15 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
Bloomberg: Ted Cruz encounters former Cliven Bundy security chief on the campaign trail, greets him warmly.
Right Wing Watch: Anti-LGBT pastor Scott Lively warns that only ‘torches and pitchforks’ will stop same-sex marriage.
Indian Country Today: Native American actors walk off set of Adam Sandler comedy, angered over racist jokes and disrespect of elders.
Raw Story: Oregon woman insists she’s ‘not a racist,’ but repeatedly calls black neighbor a ‘nigger’ in parking feud.
Savannah Today (GA): Meth operation headed by white supremacist prison gang is busted by Savannah drug agents.
Salon: Iowa Rep. Steve King says he wants to save the Constitution from gay marriage by ignoring the Constitution.
Talking Points Memo: Why racial politics is so often a zero-sum game for white people.
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Arrest in Miami IRS Office Bomb Threat
By Bill Morlin on April 28, 2015 - 1:53 pm, Posted in Extremist Crime
FBI terrorism task force agents investigating an antigovernment bomb threat in Miami last week went looking for a man named “Rabbit,” but ended up arresting “Squirrel,” instead.
Today, Morris R. “Squirrel” Whitehead sits in a jail without bond, accused in U.S. District Court of willfully making a telephone threat to damage or destroy an Internal Revenue Service office in Miami.
The threat was made on April 20 when someone called the FBI’s Miami Field Office and said — while being recorded — that “the IRS Building in Miami should be evacuated within two hours because it was going to go up in smoke.” ( continue to full post… )
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Anti-Semitic Killer, Frazier Glenn Miller, to Plead Guilty
By Don Terry on April 28, 2015 - 1:44 pm, Posted in Anti-Semitic, Extremist Crime
Sickly, 74, and behind bars for more than a year, neo-Nazi and accused triple-murderer Frazier Glenn Miller is apparently ready to officially confess at least some of his crimes and sins.
In a telephone call from jail on Monday, Miller reportedly told The Associated Press (AP) that he now intends to plead guilty to killing three people at two Jewish facilities in suburban Kansas City last spring. The rampage ended with the longtime white supremacist handcuffed in the back of a police car, screaming, “Heil Hitler.”
Miller, who suffers from chronic emphysema, told the AP he had wanted to go to trial quickly so he could explain in open court – more like rant and rave – the motive for his attack on three unarmed people, including an elderly man and his 14-year-old grandson. ( continue to full post… )
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/28/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 28, 2015 - 8:54 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
Media Matters: The first rule of hosting the leader of an anti-LGBT hate group is to identify him as that for your viewers.
Palm Beach Post: Police will pursue hate-crimes charges in beating death of Hispanic man by three white males.
Mother Jones: The Supreme Court will hear the scientific arguments about how gay marriage will destroy America.
Salon: What are Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee doing in the year’s most bigoted and vile documentary, ‘Light Wins’?
Crooks and Liars: Ron Paul plays a starring role in conspiracy-mongering extremists’ latest film, ‘Midnight Ride.’
Right Wing Watch: Right-wing anti-LGBT activists threaten revolution, uprising if Supreme Court OKs same-sex marriage.
Talking Points Memo: Iowa ‘Faith and Freedom Summit’ turns into a wild gay-bashing festival for GOP candidates.
AlterNet: Right-wing media cynically exploit unrest in Baltimore to promote narrative about a ‘race war.’
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Sovereign Oregon Pastor and Wife Flee Sentencing Hearing on Income Tax Evasion Charges
By Bill Morlin on April 27, 2015 - 4:15 pm, Posted in Antigovernment, Sovereign Citizens
Ronald D. Joling, 71, and his wife, Dorothea, 72, of Coquille, Ore., “have engaged in a shameless scheme “to defraud the United States and to evade payment of $1.2 million in federal taxes since 1992, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford said in court filings.
Ronald D. Joling, 71, and his wife, Dorothea, 72, of Coquille, Ore., “have engaged in a shameless scheme “to defraud the United States and to evade payment of $1.2 million in federal taxes since 1992, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford said in court filings.
An Oregon pastor and his wife — tax protesters who appear to have morphed into antigovernment “sovereign citizens” — are now federal fugitives after refusing to appear for sentencing last week in Eugene, Ore., following their convictions for income tax evasion.
Ronald D. Joling, 71, and his wife, Dorothea, 72, of Coquille, Ore., “have engaged in a shameless scheme to defraud the United States and to evade payment of $1.2 million in federal taxes since 1992,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford said in court filings.
As a deterrent to such antigovernment tax protesters, the prosecutor recommended that the 71-year-old pastor of the conservative Hope Covenant Reformed Church in Coquille be sentenced to 121 months in prison, with 60 months recommended for Dorothea Joling.
Prosecutors have seized multiple rental properties and land owned by the couple and have asked the federal court to order the Jolings to pay $1.2 million in restitution to the U.S. government.
But Assistant Federal Defender Mark Bennett Weintraub said such a sentence was excessive, claiming it “is unreasonable to believe” that antigovernment activists like the Jolings will be “deterred or dissuaded b y the federal government’s exercise of its immense power.” ( continue to full post… )
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Oath Keepers Come Out to Heckle Oregon Residents Who Want Armed Gathering to Disband
By David Neiwert on April 27, 2015 - 3:13 pm, Posted in Antigovernment, Militias
Perturbed by the influx of armed militiamen bristling with guns and angry rhetoric into their normally quiet little town, residents of rural Josephine County, Oregon, are fighting back, asking the assorted “Oath Keepers” and other “Patriots” who have arrived recently to ostensibly defend a local miner to pack their bags and leave.
As if to prove their point, a number of Oath Keepers showed up on the scene last week and heckled local residents, intimidating them into retreating through the courthouse where they had stood to hold a news conference on Friday.
The community residents – who included a sporting-goods business owner, a former dean at the local community college, and several local church leaders, each of whom read a prepared statement – spoke to reporters outside the Josephine County Courthouse in Grants Pass.
“Certainly the miners are entitled to get their fair day in court and not have anything done to them until after the legal process, but they don’t need gun toting people coming around, threatening the whole community,” said Jerry Reid, a former dean of Rogue Community College. ( continue to full post… )
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New Report on Jeff Rense and His Rense Radio Network
By Heidi Beirich on April 27, 2015 - 2:01 pm, Posted in Anti-Semitic, Extremist Propaganda
Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report on the Rense Radio Network and its owner, Jeff Rense. Rense, whose network hosts radio shows by former Klansmen David Duke and Don Black, has become increasingly anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi. This ugly turn to preaching hate hit a milestone last Monday when Rense.com celebrated Adolf Hitler’s birthday by posting a laudatory paean to Hitler that praised the genocidal leader for “standing up to International Jewry.”
The SPLC’s report looks at Rense’s anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, the extremist guests featured on his own radio program and the advertisers whose products make Rense Radio Network possible. It is accompanied by a selection of audio excerpts from Rense’s own radio program that document the program’s anti-Semitism and extremism.
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Jeff Rense: In His Own Words
By Heidi Beirich on April 27, 2015 - 1:50 pm, Posted in Anti-Semitic, Extremist Propaganda, Uncategorized
Jeff Rense, owner of the Rense Radio Network, hosts radio programs by well known racists and anti-Semites, including former Klansmen Don Black and David Duke. But Rense is not just the CEO of a hate radio empire, but a fellow ideological traveler and a self-professed friend of many extremists. He frequently hosts anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers on his own radio show, often endorsing their opinions.
Interview on April 9, 2015, with former Klansman and raging anti-Semite David Duke, who has his own radio show on the Rense News Network:
Jeff Rense regarding his relationship to David Duke: “I wanna bring on at this hour a very good friend of mine for a long time. Without question all of you know his name. Many of you fortunately know of his brave and valiant work. He is one of the great patriots in the history of this country. For all peoples, ALL peoples.”
Jeff Rense praising Duke’s anti-Semitic propaganda: “[Your videos] are without question the most brilliantly conceived and executed videos I have ever some across exposing the truth of Zionism as racism and the tribal effort to continue to subjugate and crush the western world and if you talk about ISIS, don’t forget, Zionism is right in the midst of the construct called ISISm or ISIS and they are trying to eradicate all remnants, all forms, all remnants of Christianity from Iraq, just for starters.”
Duke on Israeli support of ISIS: “Israel has supported the ISIS movement, has supported even al Qaeda and I don’t know of any better and more powerful truth that Americans no longer control America but these Jewish extremists, these Zionists control America…”
Interview on May 13, 2010, with Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, the first radio interview Zundel gave after his release on March 1, 2010 from a German prison where he served nearly three years for contravening Germany’s hate speech laws against inciting racial hatred.
Jeff Rense described Zundel as his “his friend” and “the world’s most famous political prisoner.” He also said Zundel is “a true visionary and an amazing journalist” and that Zundel sent him letters as well as watercolor paintings from prison.
Rense stated, “The letters that you sent me are very much treasured and the littler watercolors as well, and I want to thank you for that.”
On the show, Zundel proclaimed, “I knew that I was innocent.”
Rense agreed: “You were innocent, you are innocent, you always will be innocent. This was beyond an outrage.”
Interview on Jan. 16, 2015, with Harry Cooper, owner of Sharkhunters International, a travel outfit that takes neo-Nazis and others on celebratory trips to visit Nazi sites, and David Dees, an anti-Semitic illustrator whose “art” is frequently featured on rense.com. Dees most recent notable piece was a graphic paean to Hitler on rense.com that wished the genocidal leader of the Nazi party a “Happy Birthday” on April 20, 2015. Cooper is a regular guest on Rense the third Friday of every month and Rense serves on the Sharkhunters board according to Cooper.
Rense minimizing the Holocaust: “It’s a very, very sad story of massive brainwashing that has gone on for 60 years plus, and it’s not going to change. They’re teaching Holocaust history now in primary schools around the United States and in Europe and it’s only going to continue to get worse. No one defends the Holocaust, whatever it really was. No one defends picking up hundreds of thousands of people, maybe a couple of million, putting them in work camps, otherwise displacing them, taking their possessions, that’s not okay. That doesn’t work for me, but to lie about something and then capitalize on it and make trillions of dollars on it ultimately, doesn’t work for me either. Now somewhere in between there is the truth and it’s up to you to try and figure that out.”
Dees denying the Holocaust: “Also during the war, you know, they, the Americans and the Brits also flew over looking for any…also they bombed Germany back into the Stone Age. They dropped 75-100 percent more bombs on Germany than Germany was able to drop on England. But they also flew over Germany and took these incredible photographs, detailed photographs looking for targets and they were well aware of the concentration camps and all these photographs, there’s not a single one that has anything to do with mass graves. There were no mass graves, there was nothing that would give you evidence that any bodies were being burned, there was no people lined up and they had all these photographs and they never talk about the fact that there’s not one single photograph or any evidence of a Holocaust of a gas chamber that was being used to destroy people.”
Rense minimizing the Holocaust: “Yes, there were dead bodies in the camps, I must say David, but they died of typhus and starvation. Many of the other bodies shown as ‘allegedly Jews’ are actually Germans immolated in Dresden for example, piles and piles of bodies its just…you gotta hand it to them, they’re very cleaver.”
Interview on April 15, 2013, with anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Texe Marrs, who is a guest on Rense’s show the third Monday of each month.
Marrs on Jewish people: “The Jews cannot administer a country, they don’t know how to run a country, all they are, well they’re just plain, well, you know, they’re parasites. They can get into a country and take over its financial system, and use the propaganda organs of a country, but they really don’t know how to administer for the good of the people. They cannot even administer the economy in the nation of Israel today.”
Rense agrees: “It’s greed. And lust for self, that’s what it is.”
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/27/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 27, 2015 - 7:01 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
Kansas City Star: Is a major domestic terrorist attack by right-wing extremists only a matter of time?
Right Wing Watch: Mike Huckabee defends ex-gay therapy, warns gay rights will lead to criminalization of Christianity.
KMOX-TV (St. Louis): Local white activists confront Aryan Nations protesters over plea to free member of The Order.
Crooks and Liars: Nevada Rep. Michelle Fiore loses it on Assembly floor during debate over ‘Bundy bill’ to oust feds.
Washington Post: Justice Department will monitor the Arkansas gun range that announced it was ‘Muslim free.’
KCCI-TV (Des Moines, IA): Man shouting ‘English only!’ interrupts kindergarten concert because of Spanish translator.
Human Rights Campaign: Beleaguered National Organization for Marriage hosts yet another ill-attended anti-LGBT rally in D.C.
Raw Story: CBS host introduces FRC’s Tony Perkins as the leader of an anti-gay hate group, noting ‘You don’t speak for Christians.’
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‘Patriots’ Rally For Oregon Mine Owners Turns Out a Tepid Affair
By David Neiwert on April 24, 2015 - 5:05 pm, Posted in Antigovernment, Militias
So much for a repeat of the Bundy Ranch standoff.
Joseph Rice. (Credit: David Neiwert
Joseph Rice. (Credit: David Neiwert
A collection of antigovernment “Patriots” gathered Thursday in the parking lot of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in Medford, OR, to protest what they believe was the federal government’s “tyrannical” treatment of miners in the region.
But the organizers of the affair were adamant they were uninterested in a standoff with federal authorities similar to the confrontation between BLM agents and hundreds of heavily armed “Patriots” a year ago at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada. All they wanted, organizers claimed, was to defend ordinary citizens from federal abuses.
“You have untrained people, uneducated people, throwing around their weight, abusing people who are trying to earn a living, and they think it’s OK,” Joseph Rice, coordinator for the Josephine County chapter of Oath Keepers, told about 50 people gathered. “I took an oath to uphold the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, and a domestic enemy is anyone who will abuse someone’s rights within that Constitution.”
Rice added, “Today it is the BLM, because they did not allow the due process to occur. They need to seriously look at their administrative process and procedures and address that. It’s a cultural issue. We saw it a year ago. Here we are again today. It doesn’t seem to be willing to change or improve that.”
At issue is a dispute between the BLM and the owners of the Sugar Pine Mine near Merlin, Ore., who were given a “letter of noncompliance” last spring telling them they either needed to clear out of the mine within 60 days or file an appeal of the ruling that they were not in compliance with BLM mining regulations.
What followed was 328 Comments in imminent danger of having their constitutional right to due process destroyed by the BLM, according to the local chapter of the Oath Keepers that made the plea. And they called it a “security operation” because owner Rick Barclay insisted that the BLM was notorious for burning down miners’ cabins in the backwoods, and he believes they would have destroyed his mine if he had not called for help.
BLM spokesman Jim Whittington told Hatewatch that these were absurdly groundless fears. “The idea that we would go in on Friday and wipe everything off the claim is just not true,” he said. “It has no basis in reality.”
There were few guns on display, and no threats or intimidation. A large group of black-clad “III Percent” movement followers from Idaho made their presence known, but the crowd and the speakers remained relatively sedate. Even with such sedate activists, the BLM and the U.S. Forest Service closed their joint offices as a precautionary measure. Only five people spoke, including both of the mine owners and two local Oath Keepers. Within an hour, everyone was gone.
The issue persists, however. The miners and the “Patriots” insist the BLM’s issuance of a letter of non-compliance amounts to a denial of due process, and the Oath Keepers have insisted their presence is about “defending the Fifth Amendment rights” of the miners.
Rick Barclay, one of the mine owners, told Hatewatch that the BLM had violated his due process in the letter. “They short-circuited the due process by telling me I have to remove my equipment before I ever even get a hearing,” he said.
However, the letter of noncompliance is clear that removal of the cabin and equipment are only among the mine owners’ three options, and says at the end: “If you do not agree and are adversely affected by this decision you may ask for a review by the State Director … or you may appeal to the Interior Board of Land Appeals.”
Barclay filed paperwork in his appeals process on Wednesday, but indicated that he hoped the Oath Keepers would stay on site until he actually has a hearing. “After I get my day in court and get a stay, then they will go home,” he said. “Just because I turned in my paperwork doesn’t mean the BLM won’t come up there tomorrow and set everything on fire.”
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Hatewatch Headlines 4/24/15
By Hatewatch Staff on April 24, 2015 - 9:15 am, Posted in Hatewatch Headlines
Bloomberg: Ted Cruz encounters former Cliven Bundy security chief on the campaign trail, greets him warmly.
Right Wing Watch: Anti-LGBT pastor Scott Lively warns that only ‘torches and pitchforks’ will stop same-sex marriage.
Indian Country Today: Native American actors walk off set of Adam Sandler comedy, angered over racist jokes and disrespect of elders.
Raw Story: Oregon woman insists she’s ‘not a racist,’ but repeatedly calls black neighbor a ‘nigger’ in parking feud.
Savannah Today (GA): Meth operation headed by white supremacist prison gang is busted by Savannah drug agents.
Salon: Iowa Rep. Steve King says he wants to save the Constitution from gay marriage by ignoring the Constitution.
Talking Points Memo: Why racial politics is so often a zero-sum game for white people.
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Founded: 1995
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Profiled Leadership: Don Black
Ideology: White Nationalist
Founded: 1995
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Profiled Leadership: Don Black
Ideology: White Nationalist
Created by former Alabama Klan boss and long-time white supremacist Don Black in 1995, Stormfront was the first major hate site on the Internet. Claiming more than 130,000 registered members (though far fewer remain active), the site has been a very popular online forum for white nationalists and other racial extremists. But a 2008 assertion by Black's wife that she opposes racist beliefs damaged Black's standing in the white supremacist movement.
In Its Own Words
"Our mission is to provide information not available in the controlled news media and to build a community of White activists working for the survival of our people."
— From "Guidelines for Posting," Stormfont.org
"White Pride Worldwide"
— Stormfront.org motto
"Beating down a mud [a non-white person] when they try to poisen [sic] one of our own or when they try to seduce one of our girls may not be God inspired, but rather a righteous act of collective preservation."
— Preston Wiginton, Stormfront.org post, 2007
"The critically important concepts of pulling your own weight and not leeching off other parts of society are alien concepts to Blacks. They realize that on their own, they will never have very much so they happily take all the welfare and other hand outs they can get even if this makes them parasites. They don't have any qualms about stealing millions of jobs and promotions thanks to racial quotas — this is the last government-approved racial discrimination program, which has gone on for four decades."
— "Whiterights," 2008 post to Stormfront
"Pure nigger or mixed nigger, is that really matters [sic]?? Nigger. Period."
— "war2war," 2008 post to Stormfront
Background
Don Black, a former Klan leader who served three years in prison for plotting to overthrow a Caribbean island government, was the first hate propagandist to fully appreciate the potential of the Internet. After learning to operate and program computers in prison, he emerged to set up Stormfront in March 1995, just a month before the Oklahoma City bombing. Being the first of its kind helped Stormfront win enormous publicity. Black and his site, run out of his Florida home, were written up in newspapers around the country and the world. He also frequently appeared on major network news shows like ABC's "Nightline," where, clad in suit and tie, he talked politely about allowing people access to information not filtered by the "media monopoly." Though he undoubtedly turned off many viewers, each major TV appearance led to a spike in visitors to Stormfront.
Stormfront has since grown into what may be the Western world's most popular forum for so called "white nationalists" to post articles, engage in discussions, and share news of upcoming racist events. One of the secrets to Stormfront's success is its focus on community building. Whereas typical hate sites function as one-way transfers of information — rather like a brochure that can be read but not responded to — Stormfront has always been organized as a message board. Members can post opinions, listen to others respond, then post more feedback for all to read. The potential for dialogues to develop was built in — and, therefore, so was the potential to develop a genuine white supremacist cyber-community.
Below the Stormfront motto, "White Pride World Wide," are links to racially charged news stories like "Mestizo Rapes White Woman in Elevator" and "Negro Man Stabs Elderly Woman, Shoots Detective, Negroes Screaming ‘Police Brutality." Members of Stormfront's various forums can also post comments to discussion threads with titles like "What do you want done with the Jews?", "Aryan Storm Rising" and "To Hate or Not to Hate." But one thing you won't usually find of late on Stormfront are racial slurs, which, though they sometimes get through, are banned in recent guidelines: "No profanity. Avoid racial epithets." New members are explicitly warned not to use such language, and also not to post violent threats or anything describing illegal activity. It's not that Stormfront is about moderation or rational discussion. The talk is all about the evils of African Americans, LGBT people, non-white immigrants, and, above all, Jews, who are blamed for most of what's wrong in the world. But Black clearly has modeled his site on some of the tactics used by David Duke, who famously urged his Klan followers to "get out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms." As Black once told a reporter, "We don't use the ‘nigger, nigger' type of approaches."
The ideal of creating an online community was expanded upon in 2002, when Jamie Kelso joined Stormfront. He successfully began to push leading radical-right movement writers — men like Sam Dickson, a leader of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, and Willis Carto, publisher of the Holocaust-denying journal The Barnes Review — to start posting. That was just part of an effort to make the site more inclusive. Although some posts are censored on the site (several posts critical of the National Alliance — a major neo-Nazi group — were deleted after the group's founder, William Pierce, died, and an internal war of succession broke out), it generally has tried to maintain a relatively nonsectarian stance, making people from different sectors of the radical right feel welcome to join in. As Black once told a reporter for Newhouse News Service: "Anyone can work to promote our ideas without being a member of any organization. I used to be annoyed by people who didn't join my organization, but I see the advantage now."
Black and Kelso have taken care to avoid appearing dictatorial. One result is that the forum, within the bounds of the radical right, feels relatively democratic — a gathering of people with similar interests in what increasingly looks like a real community. Every member can choose a graphic to accompany their postings.
Little smiley faces and other signs abound (Nazi symbology was common until it was banned, along with slurs like "nigger," in the spring of 2008). It's not unusual to spot two members using an animation where the faces toast with mugs of beer. There is a list of birthdays of members on the main page. Birthday greetings are frequently exchanged, along with notes of consolation or encouragement. There are essay contests and $2,000 scholarships for white kids.
In the fall of 2008, a private “sustaining members” section was added to the forum, specifically for those who have supported the site financially. The exclusive enclave of Stormfront’s most influential users eliminated much of the ‘noise’ found in the more popular and openly available sections such as “Newslinks & Articles.” It is also home to the majority of Don Black’s infrequent postings.
The results have been fairly spectacular. In January 2002, Stormfront had a mere 5,000 members. A year later, membership reached 11,000; and a year after that, in early 2004, it had 23,000. By 2008, membership had topped 133,000 registered users, although only about 20,000 were believed to be active posters. That doesn't include the large numbers of those who simply read Stormfront postings without joining up (becoming a member allows one to post messages and also to view personal information posted by other members).
But Stormfront may have been weakened in the summer of 2008, when the Intelligence Report reported that Black's wife Chloe worked for Emilia Fanjul, wife of Florida sugar baron Jose "Pepe" Fanjul, as an executive assistant. Part of Chloe's duties involved serving as a publicist for Glades Academy, a charter school created by Emilia Fanjul to help poor minority children — an irony picked up on by many major media outlets. Despite having a long movement history of her own and having attended an event put on a month earlier by the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, Chloe Black told The Palm Beach Post that she was "not involved with the Web site and do not agree with extremist or racially prejudiced views." White supremacists were not happy. In racist Web forums, they ripped both Don and Chloe as less than true-blue racists, denouncing them for caring more about money, through Chloe's job, than their beliefs.
In 2010, Black, his son Derek, who has since renounced white nationalism, and Duke took up residence on a South Florida news and talk radio station with a large Haitian audience. This bi-weekly program, hosted by the far right-wing Rense Radio Network, was the predecessor for Stormfront Radio, which now reaches North America, as well as over 100 million homes in Europe and the Middle East, daily via satellite.
Later that same year, Stormfront introduced its now annual “Smoky Mountain Summit” near Knoxville, Tenn. Past speakers have included David Duke, Sam Dickson, a CCC member and well known Klan lawyer, Paul Fromm, Matthew Parrott, of the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), Matthew Heimbach, also of TYN, Timothy Murchoch, also known as ‘Horace the Avenger’ of White Rabbit Radio, and Freeland Roy Dunscombe, also known as ‘Truck Roy,’ Don Black’s co-host on Stormfront radio. Plans have already been announced to continue the summit in 2015.
In April of 2014, the Southern Poverty Law Center published a white paper entitled “White Homicide Worldwide” documenting the nearly 100 murders committed by members of Stormfront.
Stormfront has accumulated nearly 300,000 members as of its 20th anniversary in March of 2015. This growth in membership seems poised to continue, despite declining Alexa Internet traffic ratings, as the majority of the radical right continues to use the Internet as its primary source of activism.
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Founded: 1995
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Profiled Leadership: Don Black
Ideology: White Nationalist
Founded: 1995
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Profiled Leadership: Don Black
Ideology: White Nationalist
Created by former Alabama Klan boss and long-time white supremacist Don Black in 1995, Stormfront was the first major hate site on the Internet. Claiming more than 130,000 registered members (though far fewer remain active), the site has been a very popular online forum for white nationalists and other racial extremists. But a 2008 assertion by Black's wife that she opposes racist beliefs damaged Black's standing in the white supremacist movement.
In Its Own Words
"Our mission is to provide information not available in the controlled news media and to build a community of White activists working for the survival of our people."
— From "Guidelines for Posting," Stormfont.org
"White Pride Worldwide"
— Stormfront.org motto
"Beating down a mud [a non-white person] when they try to poisen [sic] one of our own or when they try to seduce one of our girls may not be God inspired, but rather a righteous act of collective preservation."
— Preston Wiginton, Stormfront.org post, 2007
"The critically important concepts of pulling your own weight and not leeching off other parts of society are alien concepts to Blacks. They realize that on their own, they will never have very much so they happily take all the welfare and other hand outs they can get even if this makes them parasites. They don't have any qualms about stealing millions of jobs and promotions thanks to racial quotas — this is the last government-approved racial discrimination program, which has gone on for four decades."
— "Whiterights," 2008 post to Stormfront
"Pure nigger or mixed nigger, is that really matters [sic]?? Nigger. Period."
— "war2war," 2008 post to Stormfront
Background
Don Black, a former Klan leader who served three years in prison for plotting to overthrow a Caribbean island government, was the first hate propagandist to fully appreciate the potential of the Internet. After learning to operate and program computers in prison, he emerged to set up Stormfront in March 1995, just a month before the Oklahoma City bombing. Being the first of its kind helped Stormfront win enormous publicity. Black and his site, run out of his Florida home, were written up in newspapers around the country and the world. He also frequently appeared on major network news shows like ABC's "Nightline," where, clad in suit and tie, he talked politely about allowing people access to information not filtered by the "media monopoly." Though he undoubtedly turned off many viewers, each major TV appearance led to a spike in visitors to Stormfront.
Stormfront has since grown into what may be the Western world's most popular forum for so called "white nationalists" to post articles, engage in discussions, and share news of upcoming racist events. One of the secrets to Stormfront's success is its focus on community building. Whereas typical hate sites function as one-way transfers of information — rather like a brochure that can be read but not responded to — Stormfront has always been organized as a message board. Members can post opinions, listen to others respond, then post more feedback for all to read. The potential for dialogues to develop was built in — and, therefore, so was the potential to develop a genuine white supremacist cyber-community.
Below the Stormfront motto, "White Pride World Wide," are links to racially charged news stories like "Mestizo Rapes White Woman in Elevator" and "Negro Man Stabs Elderly Woman, Shoots Detective, Negroes Screaming ‘Police Brutality." Members of Stormfront's various forums can also post comments to discussion threads with titles like "What do you want done with the Jews?", "Aryan Storm Rising" and "To Hate or Not to Hate." But one thing you won't usually find of late on Stormfront are racial slurs, which, though they sometimes get through, are banned in recent guidelines: "No profanity. Avoid racial epithets." New members are explicitly warned not to use such language, and also not to post violent threats or anything describing illegal activity. It's not that Stormfront is about moderation or rational discussion. The talk is all about the evils of African Americans, LGBT people, non-white immigrants, and, above all, Jews, who are blamed for most of what's wrong in the world. But Black clearly has modeled his site on some of the tactics used by David Duke, who famously urged his Klan followers to "get out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms." As Black once told a reporter, "We don't use the ‘nigger, nigger' type of approaches."
The ideal of creating an online community was expanded upon in 2002, when Jamie Kelso joined Stormfront. He successfully began to push leading radical-right movement writers — men like Sam Dickson, a leader of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, and Willis Carto, publisher of the Holocaust-denying journal The Barnes Review — to start posting. That was just part of an effort to make the site more inclusive. Although some posts are censored on the site (several posts critical of the National Alliance — a major neo-Nazi group — were deleted after the group's founder, William Pierce, died, and an internal war of succession broke out), it generally has tried to maintain a relatively nonsectarian stance, making people from different sectors of the radical right feel welcome to join in. As Black once told a reporter for Newhouse News Service: "Anyone can work to promote our ideas without being a member of any organization. I used to be annoyed by people who didn't join my organization, but I see the advantage now."
Black and Kelso have taken care to avoid appearing dictatorial. One result is that the forum, within the bounds of the radical right, feels relatively democratic — a gathering of people with similar interests in what increasingly looks like a real community. Every member can choose a graphic to accompany their postings.
Little smiley faces and other signs abound (Nazi symbology was common until it was banned, along with slurs like "nigger," in the spring of 2008). It's not unusual to spot two members using an animation where the faces toast with mugs of beer. There is a list of birthdays of members on the main page. Birthday greetings are frequently exchanged, along with notes of consolation or encouragement. There are essay contests and $2,000 scholarships for white kids.
In the fall of 2008, a private “sustaining members” section was added to the forum, specifically for those who have supported the site financially. The exclusive enclave of Stormfront’s most influential users eliminated much of the ‘noise’ found in the more popular and openly available sections such as “Newslinks & Articles.” It is also home to the majority of Don Black’s infrequent postings.
The results have been fairly spectacular. In January 2002, Stormfront had a mere 5,000 members. A year later, membership reached 11,000; and a year after that, in early 2004, it had 23,000. By 2008, membership had topped 133,000 registered users, although only about 20,000 were believed to be active posters. That doesn't include the large numbers of those who simply read Stormfront postings without joining up (becoming a member allows one to post messages and also to view personal information posted by other members).
But Stormfront may have been weakened in the summer of 2008, when the Intelligence Report reported that Black's wife Chloe worked for Emilia Fanjul, wife of Florida sugar baron Jose "Pepe" Fanjul, as an executive assistant. Part of Chloe's duties involved serving as a publicist for Glades Academy, a charter school created by Emilia Fanjul to help poor minority children — an irony picked up on by many major media outlets. Despite having a long movement history of her own and having attended an event put on a month earlier by the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, Chloe Black told The Palm Beach Post that she was "not involved with the Web site and do not agree with extremist or racially prejudiced views." White supremacists were not happy. In racist Web forums, they ripped both Don and Chloe as less than true-blue racists, denouncing them for caring more about money, through Chloe's job, than their beliefs.
In 2010, Black, his son Derek, who has since renounced white nationalism, and Duke took up residence on a South Florida news and talk radio station with a large Haitian audience. This bi-weekly program, hosted by the far right-wing Rense Radio Network, was the predecessor for Stormfront Radio, which now reaches North America, as well as over 100 million homes in Europe and the Middle East, daily via satellite.
Later that same year, Stormfront introduced its now annual “Smoky Mountain Summit” near Knoxville, Tenn. Past speakers have included David Duke, Sam Dickson, a CCC member and well known Klan lawyer, Paul Fromm, Matthew Parrott, of the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), Matthew Heimbach, also of TYN, Timothy Murchoch, also known as ‘Horace the Avenger’ of White Rabbit Radio, and Freeland Roy Dunscombe, also known as ‘Truck Roy,’ Don Black’s co-host on Stormfront radio. Plans have already been announced to continue the summit in 2015.
In April of 2014, the Southern Poverty Law Center published a white paper entitled “White Homicide Worldwide” documenting the nearly 100 murders committed by members of Stormfront.
Stormfront has accumulated nearly 300,000 members as of its 20th anniversary in March of 2015. This growth in membership seems poised to continue, despite declining Alexa Internet traffic ratings, as the majority of the radical right continues to use the Internet as its primary source of activism.
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Jonathan Schmidt, 29, founder of the racist skinhead group Crew 41, was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly attacking several people at a bar.
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Aharon Hollender, 28; Abraham Winkler, 39; Mayer Herskovic, 21; Pinchas Braver, 19; and Joseph Fried, 25, were charged with gang assault for allegedly attacking a gay black man.
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Reported: 04/22/2014
Portland, OR
White supremacist David 'Joey' Pedersen, 33, pleaded guilty to two counts of carjacking resulting in death for his part in a 2011 killing spree.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/22/2014
New York, NY
Christian Morales, 20, was charged with a hate crime and aggravated harassment for his role in a September 2013 attack on a Columbia University professor.
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Reported: 04/18/2014
Carnegie, PA
Fliers from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left on cars.
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Reported: 04/16/2014
New York, NY
Perry Germano, 50, was charged with attempted assault, aggravated harassment and menacing in an April 7 assault on a 15-year-old girl riding a city bus. He allegedly made statements attacking Islam, spat on the girl, and threatened to punch her.
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Reported: 04/15/2014
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Allen Wayne Densen Morgan, 29, was sentenced to 72 months in prison for attempting to hire alleged Ku Klux Klan members to murder a black neighbor in August 2013.
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Reported: 04/13/2014
Hurricane, UT
Robert Keller, 70, was charged with two counts of criminal interference for allegedly threatening an interracial family.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/13/2014
Lake Elsinore, CA
Jonathan Schmidt, 29, founder of the racist skinhead group Crew 41, was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly attacking several people at a bar.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/12/2014
Overland Park, KS
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Jeremy Moody, 30, and his wife, Christine, 36, members of the racist skinhead group Crew 41, were each sentenced to life in prison for the July 2013 murder of a registered sex offender and his wife.
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Reported: 05/05/2014
Van Nuys, CA
Amos Hason, 49, was charged with three counts of a hate crime and three counts of vandalism for allegedly painting swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on a Jewish-owned business.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/04/2014
New York, NY
Former New York City police officer Michael Setiawan, 36, was arrested for allegedly spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on 15 vehicles and four buildings near a synagogue and Jewish school.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/02/2014
Marysville, CA
Anthony Merrell Tyler, 33, pleaded guilty to violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act for his role in a racially motivated attack on a white man and a black woman in 2011.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/01/2014
Roanoke, VA
Former neo-Nazi leader William A. White, 36, was sentenced to seven years and eight months in federal prison for threatening his ex-wife and trying to extort money from her in 2012.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/30/2014
Chicago, IL
Richard Hyerczyk, 54, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for mailing more than 90 threatening, racist letters to government and law enforcement officials as well as schools and religious institutions from 2003 to 2012.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/29/2014
North Andover, MA
White supremacist Justin R. Ladd, 33, pleaded not guilty for sexually assaulting and torturing his two teenage stepdaughters, from September 2008 to February 2013, because they were Latina.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/29/2014
Leith, ND
White supremacist Craig Cobb, 62, was sentenced to four years of probation but no additional jail time for brandishing weapons as he and a fellow white supremacist walked through town in December.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/28/2014
New York, NY
Yousef al-Khattab, co-founder and former leader of Revolution Muslim, a fringe anti-Semitic Muslim group, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for using his group's website in 2009 to threaten Jews and Jewish institutions.
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Potomac, MD
Two Montgomery County high school students, ages 16 and 17, were charged with hate crimes and vandalism for allegedly painting anti-Semitic graffiti on the sign of a synagogue; an anti-Jewish slur and swastika on two buses at a child care facility; and a swastika and a SS Nazi symbol on the windshield of a car at a nearby residence.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/08/2014
Union, SC
Jeremy Moody, 30, and his wife, Christine, 36, members of the racist skinhead group Crew 41, were each sentenced to life in prison for the July 2013 murder of a registered sex offender and his wife.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/05/2014
Van Nuys, CA
Amos Hason, 49, was charged with three counts of a hate crime and three counts of vandalism for allegedly painting swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on a Jewish-owned business.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/04/2014
New York, NY
Former New York City police officer Michael Setiawan, 36, was arrested for allegedly spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on 15 vehicles and four buildings near a synagogue and Jewish school.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/02/2014
Marysville, CA
Anthony Merrell Tyler, 33, pleaded guilty to violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act for his role in a racially motivated attack on a white man and a black woman in 2011.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/01/2014
Roanoke, VA
Former neo-Nazi leader William A. White, 36, was sentenced to seven years and eight months in federal prison for threatening his ex-wife and trying to extort money from her in 2012.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/30/2014
Chicago, IL
Richard Hyerczyk, 54, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for mailing more than 90 threatening, racist letters to government and law enforcement officials as well as schools and religious institutions from 2003 to 2012.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/29/2014
North Andover, MA
White supremacist Justin R. Ladd, 33, pleaded not guilty for sexually assaulting and torturing his two teenage stepdaughters, from September 2008 to February 2013, because they were Latina.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/29/2014
Leith, ND
White supremacist Craig Cobb, 62, was sentenced to four years of probation but no additional jail time for brandishing weapons as he and a fellow white supremacist walked through town in December.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/28/2014
New York, NY
Yousef al-Khattab, co-founder and former leader of Revolution Muslim, a fringe anti-Semitic Muslim group, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for using his group's website in 2009 to threaten Jews and Jewish institutions.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 04/24/2014
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Gettysburg, PA
Approximately 10 members of the Traditional Rebel Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held a rally.
Type: Rally
Reported: 06/27/2014
Helotes, TX
David Malcolm Strickland, 27, was charged with capital murder, aggravated assault with a weapon and aggravated sexual assault for the 2012 attack on a 19-year-old lesbian, Mollie Olgin, because of her sexual orientation.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/19/2014
Trenton, NJ
New Black Panther Party National Field Marshal King Samir Shabazz was arrested on weapons charges after officers allegedly found a handgun, rifle rounds and an armor piercing bullet in his room.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/18/2014
Washington, DC
Michael Phillips, 36, was sentenced to 28 months in prison after pleading guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon, enhanced as a hate crime, for pistol-whipping a transgender woman in January.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/15/2014
New York, NY
Bernhard Laufer, awaiting trial for attempted murder at a mosque in 2012, was arrested on charges of threatening to kill leaders of a leading Muslim civil rights organization, The Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/13/2014
Briceville, TN
White supremacists Leonard Lionel Kilgore, 36; Jacob Eli Campbell, 33; Michael James O’Conner Jr. and David Lee Dozard, both 32; and Crystal Lynnette McGuire, 37, were each charged with attempted first-degree murder for the December beating of a former acquaintance.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/09/2014
Portland, OR
Three suspected white supremacists were arrested after authorities allegedly discovered methamphetamines, a marijuana grow operation, and five weapons at a residence.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/29/2014
Ozark, AL
Steven Joshua Dinkle, 28, former local leader of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for his role in a 2009 cross burning.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/15/2014
Springfield, TX
Brice Johnson, 19, was indicted on federal hate crime charges for allegedly assaulting a man in September because of his sexual orientation.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/14/2014
Boise, ID
Jonathan Lynn Henery, 28, and Beau Edward Hansen, 30, were indicted on federal hate crime charges for allegedly attacking a black man because of his race in October 2013.
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State
AllAlaskaAlabamaArkansasArizonaCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDistrict of ColumbiaDelawareFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIowaIdahoIllinoisIndianaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMassachusettsMarylandMaineMichiganMinnesotaMissouriMississippiMontanaNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaNebraskaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNevadaNew YorkOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVirginiaVermontWashingtonWisconsinWest VirginiaWyomingPuerto Ricothe Virgin Islands
Search returned 3937 results.
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Gettysburg, PA
Approximately 10 members of the Traditional Rebel Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held a rally.
Type: Rally
Reported: 06/27/2014
Helotes, TX
David Malcolm Strickland, 27, was charged with capital murder, aggravated assault with a weapon and aggravated sexual assault for the 2012 attack on a 19-year-old lesbian, Mollie Olgin, because of her sexual orientation.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/19/2014
Trenton, NJ
New Black Panther Party National Field Marshal King Samir Shabazz was arrested on weapons charges after officers allegedly found a handgun, rifle rounds and an armor piercing bullet in his room.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/18/2014
Washington, DC
Michael Phillips, 36, was sentenced to 28 months in prison after pleading guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon, enhanced as a hate crime, for pistol-whipping a transgender woman in January.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/15/2014
New York, NY
Bernhard Laufer, awaiting trial for attempted murder at a mosque in 2012, was arrested on charges of threatening to kill leaders of a leading Muslim civil rights organization, The Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/13/2014
Briceville, TN
White supremacists Leonard Lionel Kilgore, 36; Jacob Eli Campbell, 33; Michael James O’Conner Jr. and David Lee Dozard, both 32; and Crystal Lynnette McGuire, 37, were each charged with attempted first-degree murder for the December beating of a former acquaintance.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/09/2014
Portland, OR
Three suspected white supremacists were arrested after authorities allegedly discovered methamphetamines, a marijuana grow operation, and five weapons at a residence.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/29/2014
Ozark, AL
Steven Joshua Dinkle, 28, former local leader of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for his role in a 2009 cross burning.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/15/2014
Springfield, TX
Brice Johnson, 19, was indicted on federal hate crime charges for allegedly assaulting a man in September because of his sexual orientation.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/14/2014
Boise, ID
Jonathan Lynn Henery, 28, and Beau Edward Hansen, 30, were indicted on federal hate crime charges for allegedly attacking a black man because of his race in October 2013.
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Sexual Violence Against Farmworkers: A Guidebook for Legal Providers
04/2010
The goal of this guidebook is to increase the knowledge and skills of legal professionals so that you can better serve farmworkers who have experienced sexual violence. It provides helpful explanations about the life and work of farmworkers as well as unique issues that may impact the services you provide.
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Sexual Violence Against Farmworkers: A Guidebook for Criminal Justice Professionals
04/2010
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Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
02/2010
This guide sets out 10 principles for fighting hate, along with a collection of inspiring stories of people who worked to push hate out of their communities.
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Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.
Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.
09/2009
This study reveals how Latino immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y., are routinely the target of violent attacks, harassment and abuse driven by a virulent anti-immigrant climate that has been fostered by community leaders and law enforcement practices.
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The Second Wave: Return of the Militias
The Second Wave: Return of the Militias
08/2009
In this report, SPLC investigates the resurgence of the antigovernment militia movement across the country, which has been fueled by fears of a black man in the White House, the changing demographics of the country, and conspiracy theories increasingly spread by mainstream figures.
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Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Louisiana
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Louisiana
05/2009
This report outlines a research-based approach to school discipline that reduces student and teacher dropout rates while improving academic performance and the overall climate in Louisiana schools.
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Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South
Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South
04/2009
In this study, the Southern Poverty Law Center found that Latinos are facing increasing hostility and discrimination as they fill low-wage jobs in Southern states that previously had few Latino residents. Based primarily on a survey of 500 low-income Latinos at five locations in the South, the report documented wage theft, racial profiling and other abuses driven by an anti-immigrant climate that harms all Latinos regardless of their immigration status.
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The Nativist Lobby: Three Faces of Intolerance
The Nativist Lobby: Three Faces of Intolerance
02/2009
This report describes how the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA were founded and funded by John Tanton, a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who operates a racist publishing company and has written that to maintain American culture, "a European-American majority" is required.
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Voices for Justice
Voices for Justice
01/2009
This booklet is designed to educate farmworker and other low-wage immigrant women about their legal rights.
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Human Trafficking Manual
Civil Litigation on Behalf of Victims of Human Trafficking
12/2008
An introduction to basic litigation tools for attorneys representing trafficked clients.
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Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Alabama
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout in Alabama
07/2008
This report outlines a research-based approach to school discipline that reduces student and teacher dropout rates while improving academic performance and the overall climate in Alabama schools.
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Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Mississippi
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Mississippi
04/2008
This report outlines a research-based approach to school discipline that reduces student and teacher dropout rates while improving academic performance and the overall climate in Mississippi schools.
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Mississippi: An Assessment of Access to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Youth Court Proceedings
01/2007
An assessment of access to counsel and quality of representation in youth court proceedings in the state of Mississippi.
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Beyond the Golden Rule
Beyond the Golden Rule
01/2007
Whether you are the parent of a 3-year-old who is curious about why a friend’s skin is brown, the parent of a 9-year-old who has been called a slur because of his religion, or the parent of a 15-year-old who snubs those outside of her social clique at school, this book is designed to help you teach your children to honor the differences in themselves and in others - and to reject prejudice and intolerance.
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Beneath the Pines
Beneath the Pines
05/2006
In their own words, migrant forestry workers describe how they routinely earn less than the minimum wage, suffer frequent accidents on the job and are held virtually captive by employers who seize their passports and other identification. The report also offers specific policy recommendations to ensure the safety and fair treatment of migrant workers.
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Protecting Your Health and Safety: Prisoner's Rights
Designed to help inmates who are not represented by an attorney, Protecting Your Health & Safety explains the legal rights inmates have regarding health and safety – including the right to medical care and to be free from inhumane treatment.
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Racist Skinheads: Understanding the Threat
This report features a general essay on the history and nature of the skinhead movement.
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Emmett Till - 40 Lives for Freedom
40 Lives for Freedom
"Forty Lives For Freedom" briefly tells the stories behind the names inscribed on the Civil Rights Memorial.
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Sexual Violence Against Farmworkers: A Guidebook for Social Service Providers
The goal of this guidebook is to increase the knowledge and skills of social service providers so that you can better serve farmworkers who have experienced sexual violence. It provides helpful explanations about the life and work of farmworkers as well as unique issues that may impact the services you provide.
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Terror from the Right
Terror From the Right: Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City
He is sentenced in January 2013 to almost twenty-six years in federal prison.
This report contains the stories of plots, conspiracies and racist rampages since the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Sexual Violence Against Farmworkers: A Guidebook for Legal Providers
04/2010
The goal of this guidebook is to increase the knowledge and skills of legal professionals so that you can better serve farmworkers who have experienced sexual violence. It provides helpful explanations about the life and work of farmworkers as well as unique issues that may impact the services you provide.
Read Online»
Download (1.39 MB) »
En Español»
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Sexual Violence Against Farmworkers: A Guidebook for Criminal Justice Professionals
04/2010
The goal of this guidebook is to increase the knowledge and skills of criminal justice professionals so that you can better serve farmworkers who have experienced sexual violence. It provides helpful explanations about the life and work of farmworkers as well as unique issues that may impact the services you provide.
Read Online»
Download (1017.97 KB) »
En Español»
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Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
02/2010
This guide sets out 10 principles for fighting hate, along with a collection of inspiring stories of people who worked to push hate out of their communities.
Read Online»
Download (714.03 KB) »
.
Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.
Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.
09/2009
This study reveals how Latino immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y., are routinely the target of violent attacks, harassment and abuse driven by a virulent anti-immigrant climate that has been fostered by community leaders and law enforcement practices.
Read Online»
Download (1.02 MB) »
En Español»
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The Second Wave: Return of the Militias
The Second Wave: Return of the Militias
08/2009
In this report, SPLC investigates the resurgence of the antigovernment militia movement across the country, which has been fueled by fears of a black man in the White House, the changing demographics of the country, and conspiracy theories increasingly spread by mainstream figures.
Read Online»
Download (348.89 KB) »
.
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Louisiana
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Louisiana
05/2009
This report outlines a research-based approach to school discipline that reduces student and teacher dropout rates while improving academic performance and the overall climate in Louisiana schools.
Read Online»
Download (1.75 MB) »
.
Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South
Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South
04/2009
In this study, the Southern Poverty Law Center found that Latinos are facing increasing hostility and discrimination as they fill low-wage jobs in Southern states that previously had few Latino residents. Based primarily on a survey of 500 low-income Latinos at five locations in the South, the report documented wage theft, racial profiling and other abuses driven by an anti-immigrant climate that harms all Latinos regardless of their immigration status.
Read Online»
Download (1.27 MB) »
En Español»
.
The Nativist Lobby: Three Faces of Intolerance
The Nativist Lobby: Three Faces of Intolerance
02/2009
This report describes how the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA were founded and funded by John Tanton, a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who operates a racist publishing company and has written that to maintain American culture, "a European-American majority" is required.
Read Online»
Download (389.8 KB) »
.
Voices for Justice
Voices for Justice
01/2009
This booklet is designed to educate farmworker and other low-wage immigrant women about their legal rights.
Read Online»
.
Human Trafficking Manual
Civil Litigation on Behalf of Victims of Human Trafficking
12/2008
An introduction to basic litigation tools for attorneys representing trafficked clients.
Read Online»
Download (456.74 KB) »
.
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Alabama
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout in Alabama
07/2008
This report outlines a research-based approach to school discipline that reduces student and teacher dropout rates while improving academic performance and the overall climate in Alabama schools.
Read Online»
Download (527.15 KB) »
.
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Mississippi
Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Mississippi
04/2008
This report outlines a research-based approach to school discipline that reduces student and teacher dropout rates while improving academic performance and the overall climate in Mississippi schools.
Read Online»
Download (830.51 KB) »
.
Mississippi assessment cover
Mississippi: An Assessment of Access to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Youth Court Proceedings
01/2007
An assessment of access to counsel and quality of representation in youth court proceedings in the state of Mississippi.
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Beyond the Golden Rule
Beyond the Golden Rule
01/2007
Whether you are the parent of a 3-year-old who is curious about why a friend’s skin is brown, the parent of a 9-year-old who has been called a slur because of his religion, or the parent of a 15-year-old who snubs those outside of her social clique at school, this book is designed to help you teach your children to honor the differences in themselves and in others - and to reject prejudice and intolerance.
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Beneath the Pines
Beneath the Pines
05/2006
In their own words, migrant forestry workers describe how they routinely earn less than the minimum wage, suffer frequent accidents on the job and are held virtually captive by employers who seize their passports and other identification. The report also offers specific policy recommendations to ensure the safety and fair treatment of migrant workers.
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Protecting Your Health and Safety: Prisoner's Rights
Designed to help inmates who are not represented by an attorney, Protecting Your Health & Safety explains the legal rights inmates have regarding health and safety – including the right to medical care and to be free from inhumane treatment.
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Racist Skinheads: Understanding the Threat
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Emmett Till - 40 Lives for Freedom
40 Lives for Freedom
"Forty Lives For Freedom" briefly tells the stories behind the names inscribed on the Civil Rights Memorial.
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Sexual Violence Against Farmworkers: A Guidebook for Social Service Providers
The goal of this guidebook is to increase the knowledge and skills of social service providers so that you can better serve farmworkers who have experienced sexual violence. It provides helpful explanations about the life and work of farmworkers as well as unique issues that may impact the services you provide.
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Terror from the Right
Terror From the Right: Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City
He is sentenced in January 2013 to almost twenty-six years in federal prison.
This report contains the stories of plots, conspiracies and racist rampages since the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Alabama's Shame: HB 56 and the War on Immigrants
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This report contains stories reported to the Southern Poverty Law Center. They illustrate the devastating impact HB 56 has had on Alabama Latinos, regardless of their immigration status. The stories also illustrate that HB 56 has unleashed a kind of vigilantism, leading some Alabamians to believe they can cheat, harass and intimidate Latinos with impunity.
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Review of Services for Alabama Girls Charged with Delinquency
01/2012
Alabama has made many important changes to the juvenile justice system. There is now an opportunity to create a statewide model for girls. Developing a statewide, locally run model system of care for girls will again demonstrate the state’s commitment to move away from a typical correctional institutional approach to troubled youth. Report by Marty Beyer, Ph.D. and Paul DeMuro.
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The Propagandists
10/2011
The American Family Association (AFA) is one of most powerful religious-right groups in the nation, with a $20 million budget, a network of 200 radio stations and two Internet television channels The AFA and its spokesman, Bryan Fischer, are famous for their anti-gay bigotry. What’s less known is how ‘mainstream’ Idahoans jump-started Fischer’s career
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The Anti-Gay Lobby
The Anti-Gay Lobby: The Family Research Council, the American Family Association & the Demonization of LGBT People
10/2011
Together, the Family Research Council (FRC) and the American Family Association (AFA) may comprise the most important anti-gay lobby in this country.
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Teaching the Movement
Teaching the Movement
09/2011
The National Assessment of Educational Progress—commonly called “The Nation’s Report Card”—tells a dismal story: Only 2% of high school seniors in 2010 could answer a simple question about the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. And it’s no surprise. Across the country, state educational standards virtually ignore our civil rights history.
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Rights of Hospitality Workers
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Intelligence Report Special Edition - Sovereign Citizens
05/2011
An examination of the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement, including articles that previously appeared in the Intelligence Report.
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Attacking the Constitution: SLLI & the Anti-Immigrant Movement
Attacking the Constitution: State Legislators for Legal Immigration & the Anti-Immigrant Movement
03/2011
This report profiles a dozen leading members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI), an organization that specializes in mounting legislative attacks on immigrants in states around the country. SLLI is now working to end the 14th Amendment's promise of birthright citizenship.
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Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism
Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism
03/2011
This report on the history of the Ku Klux Klan, America’s first terrorist organization, was prepared by the Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Klanwatch was formed in 1981 to help curb Klan and racist violence through litigation, education and monitoring.
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Mr. Kobach Comes to Town
When Mr. Kobach Comes to Town: Nativist Laws and the Communities They Damage
01/2011
This report examines the impact of harsh anti-immigrant laws enacted in communities across the country. These laws, which have been promoted and defended by former law professor and newly elected Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, have burdened taxpayers with millions in legal expenses, inflamed racial tensions and devastated businesses.
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Access Denied
Access Denied: New Orleans Students and Parents Identify Barriers to Public Education
12/2010
New Orleans families remember the hope they felt after Hurricane Katrina when education stakeholders promised a “world-class” public school system, “in which every decision focuses on the best interests of the children.” The pledge to rebuild New Orleans public schools hinged on a model in which quality schools would be accessible to all, while providing innovative education practices tailored to meet the long-neglected needs of students. Unfortunately, these promises remain empty for many New Orleans students.
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Fiscal Responsibility: The Key to a Safer, Smarter, and Stronger Juvenile Justice System
12/2010
Despite record budget deficits, Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice continues to spend enormous sums of taxpayer dollars on expensive residential institutions. These institutions hold thousands of children who could be better served in less expensive, more effective community-based programs — programs that hold youth accountable, protect public safety, produce better outcomes for children and families, and make it more likely that children go on to become productive and employable members of society.
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Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry
Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry
11/2010
This report is based on extensive interviews conducted with 150 immigrant women from Mexico, Guatemala and other Latin-American countries. They live and work in Florida, California, North Carolina, New York, Iowa, Arkansas and other states. All have worked in the fields or in the factories that produce our food. They are among the 4 million undocumented women living in the U.S.
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Suspended Education
Suspended Education
09/2010
This report seeks to answer the issues of efficacy and fairness in the use of out-of-school suspension, the usage of which has increased dramatically as a form of discipline. In part, the higher use of out-of-school suspension reflects the growth of policies such as "zero tolerance," an approach to school discipline that imposes removal from school for a broad array of school code violations - from violent behavior to truancy and dress code violations.
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Greenwash: Nativists, Environmentalism and the Hypocrisy of Hate
07/2010
This report describes how right-wing nativists are targeting the mainstream environmental movement with advertisements, websites and even a newly formed "progressive" organization that purports to represent liberals who believe immigration must be radically curtailed to preserve the environment.
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Review of Services for Alabama Girls Charged with Delinquency
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The Propagandists
10/2011
The American Family Association (AFA) is one of most powerful religious-right groups in the nation, with a $20 million budget, a network of 200 radio stations and two Internet television channels The AFA and its spokesman, Bryan Fischer, are famous for their anti-gay bigotry. What’s less known is how ‘mainstream’ Idahoans jump-started Fischer’s career
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The Anti-Gay Lobby: The Family Research Council, the American Family Association & the Demonization of LGBT People
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Teaching the Movement
Teaching the Movement
09/2011
The National Assessment of Educational Progress—commonly called “The Nation’s Report Card”—tells a dismal story: Only 2% of high school seniors in 2010 could answer a simple question about the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. And it’s no surprise. Across the country, state educational standards virtually ignore our civil rights history.
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Attacking the Constitution: State Legislators for Legal Immigration & the Anti-Immigrant Movement
03/2011
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Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism
Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism
03/2011
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Mr. Kobach Comes to Town
When Mr. Kobach Comes to Town: Nativist Laws and the Communities They Damage
01/2011
This report examines the impact of harsh anti-immigrant laws enacted in communities across the country. These laws, which have been promoted and defended by former law professor and newly elected Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, have burdened taxpayers with millions in legal expenses, inflamed racial tensions and devastated businesses.
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Access Denied
Access Denied: New Orleans Students and Parents Identify Barriers to Public Education
12/2010
New Orleans families remember the hope they felt after Hurricane Katrina when education stakeholders promised a “world-class” public school system, “in which every decision focuses on the best interests of the children.” The pledge to rebuild New Orleans public schools hinged on a model in which quality schools would be accessible to all, while providing innovative education practices tailored to meet the long-neglected needs of students. Unfortunately, these promises remain empty for many New Orleans students.
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Fiscal Responsibility: The Key to a Safer, Smarter, and Stronger Juvenile Justice System
12/2010
Despite record budget deficits, Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice continues to spend enormous sums of taxpayer dollars on expensive residential institutions. These institutions hold thousands of children who could be better served in less expensive, more effective community-based programs — programs that hold youth accountable, protect public safety, produce better outcomes for children and families, and make it more likely that children go on to become productive and employable members of society.
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Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry
Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry
11/2010
This report is based on extensive interviews conducted with 150 immigrant women from Mexico, Guatemala and other Latin-American countries. They live and work in Florida, California, North Carolina, New York, Iowa, Arkansas and other states. All have worked in the fields or in the factories that produce our food. They are among the 4 million undocumented women living in the U.S.
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Suspended Education
Suspended Education
09/2010
This report seeks to answer the issues of efficacy and fairness in the use of out-of-school suspension, the usage of which has increased dramatically as a form of discipline. In part, the higher use of out-of-school suspension reflects the growth of policies such as "zero tolerance," an approach to school discipline that imposes removal from school for a broad array of school code violations - from violent behavior to truancy and dress code violations.
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greenwash
Greenwash: Nativists, Environmentalism and the Hypocrisy of Hate
07/2010
This report describes how right-wing nativists are targeting the mainstream environmental movement with advertisements, websites and even a newly formed "progressive" organization that purports to represent liberals who believe immigration must be radically curtailed to preserve the environment.
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Date of Birth: 1951
Location: Sherwood, N.D.
Ideology: Neo-Nazi
Craig Cobb is best known for his botched effort to transform the tiny hamlet of Leith, N.D., into an Aryan stronghold, a secret campaign which ultimately landed him in jail and, in 2014, on four years of probation while tethered to a monitoring device. An itinerant neo-Nazi who joined a whole variety of racist groups over the decades and even operated from Estonia for a time, Cobb became known as an especially vicious character who posted horrific videos of things like Russian neo-Nazis beheading immigrants on his Podblanc video-sharing site. But his failed campaign in Leith, along with his submitting to a DNA test that publicly revealed that his genes were 14% sub-Saharan African, made him a national laughing stock, even among many of those white supremacists who had earlier supported him. In addition, after furiously threatening a number of Leith residents at gunpoint in the aftermath of the DNA test, he pleaded guilty to one count of felony terrorizing and five of misdemeanor menacing and was placed on four years’ probation.
In His Own Words:
“Rosa Parks was a shitskin communist. I’m here to celebrate her death.”
—October 2005, at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, where the civil rights icon’s body lay in state
“I plan on staying and … and bring[ing] more people to Leith. I would love to see the white nationalist flag flying in town. … Welfare dependency is breeding killers and violent subhumans. People need to love their race and their own people.”
—August 23, 2013, quoted in the Grand Forks Herald
“Hey, fuck you with your double-talk Christian shit, man. You act like a man. You go up there and tell the rest of them to comport themselves with some goddamned dignity. … You fucking kike, Jew cocksucker."
—Nov. 16, 2013, videotaped rant against a resident while “patrolling” the streets of Leith
“I’d like to be left alone. I consider myself retired [from white nationalism]. It’s the people of North Dakota who have decided I can’t have a quiet, peaceful existence.”
—July 3, 2014, quoted by The Associated Press
Background:
Craig Cobb grew up in Boston, the son of a businessman and a teacher. After high school, he joined the military and then moved to Edmonton, Canada, for five years. Little is known about Cobb’s early employment history.
Cobb left Canada in the early 1970s and moved to Hawaii, a racially diverse state where he first surfaced as an active white supremacist and anti-Semite. He joined the Church of the Creator (later renamed the World Church of the Creator and then The Creativity Movement), which primarily attracted racist skinheads known for their frequent criminal violence. As a “church,” it preached that whites were the superior race, the true gods, and that progress for human beings hinged on white domination of others. The group pilloried Christians, Jews and all non-whites, among others. During his more than two decades in Hawaii, Cobb also worked as a cab driver. (He even told a Bemidji, Minn., newspaper in 2013 that Barack Obama had been one of his passengers and had said he was not born in Hawaii.)
In 2003, Cobb relocated to friendlier (which is to say, whiter) environs, the small town of Frost, W.V., not far from the headquarters of the National Alliance, which was then still the country’s dominant neo-Nazi group. He opened a grocery store and a business called Gray’s Store, Aryan Autographs and 14 Words, L.L.C. (The “14 Words,” coined by the late white supremacist terrorist David Lane, are a famous catchphrase on the radical right: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.”) Cobb wasn’t too successful as a conventional businessman, probably because he opened just a couple of hours a day, painted the sides of his shop with the website addresses of hate groups, and pushed material about white supremacy on his customers.
Instead of taking care of business, he was busy raising his profile in the hate community. Three years after U.S. District Court Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow ruled against the World Church of the Creator in a trademark infringement suit in 2000, group leader Matthew Hale was arrested for soliciting Lefkow’s murder. He was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison, where he remains today. In retaliation, Cobb published the judge’s home address and a map to the location on the Internet. He also posted pictures of Lefkow’s husband and children on Stormfront, the world’s largest white supremacist website. Two years after that, in 2005, Lefkow’s husband and mother were murdered inside her Chicago house. As it turned out, however, the killer had nothing to do with white supremacy, but was aggrieved over Lefkow’s ruling in another case.
In the fall of 2003, Cobb was invited to the National Alliance’s invitation-only “leadership conference,” considered an exclusive and important event on the white supremacist calendar. Later, he soon became an avid distributor of The Aryan Alternative, a white supremacist periodical published by neo-Nazi Alex Linder, founder of the virulently racist website Vanguard News Network. Videos posts to the Internet show Cobb distributing the hate periodical in at least a dozen states, along with the District of Columbia. He is shown in cars packed with the newsletters, tossing them in front of houses, and giving them to passersby.
Cobb also acted on his view that you’ve got to teach hate early in life. During his years in West Virginia, he volunteered to help distribute CDs of racist “hatecore” music to elementary, middle and high school students outside their schools. The distribution was the core of “Project Schoolyard,” a nationwide propaganda campaign launched by Panzerfaust, a white power music label, that aimed to bring more young people into the white supremacist movement.
But Cobb wanted to do more. After receiving an inheritance in 2005, he moved to Tallinn, Estonia, an overwhelmingly white area of Eastern Europe with a substantial history of fascist movements. With the kind of bombastic flourish that typified him, he announced the opening of an “International Office of White Diaspora” meant to bring U.S. and British whites to white-dominated European countries. The announcement came to nothing, however.
The Internet enabled Cobb to gain more substantial traction in spreading anti-Semitic, anti-gay and racist propaganda. In 2007, he founded Podblanc, a major video-sharing website that he touted as an alternative to YouTube (pilloried by Cobb as “JewTube”). With more than 1,000 channels directed by different registered users, it became a go-to outlet for white nationalists. One popular but horrific video shows Russian neo-Nazis beheading and shooting Asian immigrants. Others show the torture of orthodox Jews and non-whites randomly selected on public streets. He also posted how-to guides for homemade explosives and combat handgun training, and detailed security measures at three California synagogues. For inspiration, Cobb’s site provided an audio recording of The Turner Diaries, the notorious race-war fantasy novel that helped inspire the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, among many other atrocities.
Some people not only drank Cobb’s toxic brew but took it to heart. For example, a Boston-area white supremacist named Keith Luke later said he decided to murder blacks, Latinos and Jews after reading about “the demise of the white race” on Podblanc. Luke was convicted of murdering a man and a woman, and raping and critically wounding another woman, in Brockton, Mass., the day after Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009. Luke told police that had he not been arrested after the double murder, he planned to go on to kill as many Jews as possible later the same day, at a local synagogue’s bingo night.
In Estonia, however, the authorities were tiring of Cobb’s online vitriol. In 2009, he was tried and found guilty of endangering public security, public order, public safety, moral standards and health. He was banned from the country for 10 years.
Cobb moved to Vancouver early in 2010, but he once again blundered by choosing a haven that lacked the vigorous free speech protections seen in the U.S. As a result, in June of that year, he was arrested on suspicion of promoting hatred while using a computer at a Vancouver public library. Cobb, who has said he has dual U.S./Canadian citizenship, managed to flee the country after he was released from custody pending approval of the charge by a provincial attorney general.
Cobb soon resurfaced in Kalispell, Mont., where a handful of other white supremacists already were making a weak effort to create a “Pioneer Little Europe,” a whites-only enclave populated by racists. Cobb soon was showing a Holocaust-denial film at the Kalispell public library and distributing literature on public sidewalks that was labeled “teaching information” but contained such lines as “Nothing will change until the jews [sic] are killed.” Meanwhile, Canadian authorities issued a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear on the hate crime charge in that country. Cobb responded by taunting Canadian police in a January 2011 blog entry: “You can find me in the orange easy chair near the elevator” at the Flathead County Library in Kalispell, he wrote.
But the wandering neo-Nazi didn’t stay in the library long. Instead, he began to dream of creating his own Pioneer Little Europe. In 2011, he headed to rural North Dakota to find work. Soon, he began to quietly buy ramshackle properties in the Leith area, about 70 miles southwest of Bismarck, S.D., and within a year, he had amassed more than a dozen. In 2012, he announced his heretofore secret project on the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network (VNN) online forum, saying he hoped to create an all-white bastion of neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Leith, which the latest census found had a mere 16 residents, and rename the town “Cobbsville.” “This is an open invitation to all WN [white nationalists] to come and settle in this town,” he wrote on the VNN site. Cobb touted the great employment prospects, with North Dakota’s economy booming after the discovery of oil. But when the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Bismarck Tribune made his plans public to a much broader audience in 2013, all hell broke loose.
A protest rally against Cobb’s designs organized by concerned local residents drew several hundred participants in September of that year. But by that time, Cobb already had sold properties (for $1 each) to Tom Metzger, the virulently racist leader of White Aryan Resistance, and Alex Linder, who runs the VNN site. Cobb also said he’d donated buildings to the National Socialist Movement, then the largest neo-Nazi group in the U.S. He was fired from his job with a local road-paving contractor shortly after the rally. But that didn’t dampen his enthusiasm for his Leith project. In a photo of Leith posted on VNN, Cobb was shown standing in a grassy lot that he said he planned to turn into a park in honor of Adolf Hitler. He also wrote on VNN that he planned to amend Leith’s ordinances to allow discrimination against minorities and leftist journalists.
As the story of Cobb’s attempted takeover of Leith became national news — including a front-page story in The New York Times — the propagandist for a pure-white America made an incredibly ill-advised move. Cobb agreed to submit to a DNA test of his genetic background and have the results revealed on a live episode of NBC’s “The Trish Goddard Show,” whose host is a black woman. The results were predictable for anyone whose family has been in America for a few generations: To Cobb’s stunned disbelief, Goddard opened the envelope, to the delight of her studio audience and millions of others, to reveal that Cobb’s genes were 14% sub-Saharan African — which is to say, black.
A few days later, still burning with his very public humiliation, Cobb and one of his young followers, Kynan Dutton, conducted an armed “patrol” on the streets of Leith after he returned from his New York TV date to find his house daubed with anti-racist slogans. In a cell phone video shot by Dutton’s girlfriend and proudly posted online, the pair are shown marching through town with long guns, stopping vehicles and threatening and cursing residents. Dutton, 29, wears combat fatigues, but Cobb appears in an outfit composed of jeans, a windbreaker, white socks and sandals, not exactly the uniform of the Aryan movement. The white nationalist website Occidental Dissent posted the video under its “humor” tag and, a few months later, a story on the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer conceded, “He really did make a bad impression.”
Within days of the incident, Cobb and Dutton were charged with seven felony counts of terrorizing. Cobb stayed in jail for more than three months because he couldn’t make bail, offering at one point to leave the state or even the country if only the authorities would drop the charges. There were no takers. He even staged a hunger strike in jail, but that only earned him a trip to the state mental hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. Finally, on Feb. 27, 2014, Cobb pleaded guilty to one count of felony terrorizing and five counts of misdemeanor menacing in a plea deal that gave him four years of supervised probation.
The deal, which meant no further jail time for Cobb, didn’t please all Leith residents, but it did signal the end of the Leith saga. Today, Cobb no longer owns any buildings in Leith. He deeded six properties back to the town at no charge and sold off a few others. Three are still owned by other white supremacists, but they have shown little inclination to take up where Cobb left off.
Things did not improve for Cobb in the aftermath. His application to serve his probation in Missouri, where he said he wanted to care for his 90-year-old mother, was denied, with Missouri officials saying he’d had scant contact with his mother for the last four decades. In retaliation, he posted information about several of those officials. In addition, the FBI seized his computers. In any event, Cobb was allowed to live anywhere in North Dakota except in the Leith area, but was ordered to wear a global positioning tether that informs authorities of his whereabouts at all times. In July 2014, he paid $1,084 in back taxes to purchase an empty house in Sherwood, about 180 miles north of Leith and hard on the Canadian border, where he says he intends to remain.
Cobb announced after leaving jail that he was “retired” from white nationalism. But he continued to write to racist websites, and posted hundreds of times to WhiteNation.com, a racist forum. A Bismarck television station reported in July 2014 that Cobb, who never seems to stay out of trouble for long, was under investigation for violating the terms of his probation by posting on the racist forum.
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Date of Birth: 1951
Location: Sherwood, N.D.
Ideology: Neo-Nazi
Craig Cobb is best known for his botched effort to transform the tiny hamlet of Leith, N.D., into an Aryan stronghold, a secret campaign which ultimately landed him in jail and, in 2014, on four years of probation while tethered to a monitoring device. An itinerant neo-Nazi who joined a whole variety of racist groups over the decades and even operated from Estonia for a time, Cobb became known as an especially vicious character who posted horrific videos of things like Russian neo-Nazis beheading immigrants on his Podblanc video-sharing site. But his failed campaign in Leith, along with his submitting to a DNA test that publicly revealed that his genes were 14% sub-Saharan African, made him a national laughing stock, even among many of those white supremacists who had earlier supported him. In addition, after furiously threatening a number of Leith residents at gunpoint in the aftermath of the DNA test, he pleaded guilty to one count of felony terrorizing and five of misdemeanor menacing and was placed on four years’ probation.
In His Own Words:
“Rosa Parks was a shitskin communist. I’m here to celebrate her death.”
—October 2005, at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, where the civil rights icon’s body lay in state
“I plan on staying and … and bring[ing] more people to Leith. I would love to see the white nationalist flag flying in town. … Welfare dependency is breeding killers and violent subhumans. People need to love their race and their own people.”
—August 23, 2013, quoted in the Grand Forks Herald
“Hey, fuck you with your double-talk Christian shit, man. You act like a man. You go up there and tell the rest of them to comport themselves with some goddamned dignity. … You fucking kike, Jew cocksucker."
—Nov. 16, 2013, videotaped rant against a resident while “patrolling” the streets of Leith
“I’d like to be left alone. I consider myself retired [from white nationalism]. It’s the people of North Dakota who have decided I can’t have a quiet, peaceful existence.”
—July 3, 2014, quoted by The Associated Press
Background:
Craig Cobb grew up in Boston, the son of a businessman and a teacher. After high school, he joined the military and then moved to Edmonton, Canada, for five years. Little is known about Cobb’s early employment history.
Cobb left Canada in the early 1970s and moved to Hawaii, a racially diverse state where he first surfaced as an active white supremacist and anti-Semite. He joined the Church of the Creator (later renamed the World Church of the Creator and then The Creativity Movement), which primarily attracted racist skinheads known for their frequent criminal violence. As a “church,” it preached that whites were the superior race, the true gods, and that progress for human beings hinged on white domination of others. The group pilloried Christians, Jews and all non-whites, among others. During his more than two decades in Hawaii, Cobb also worked as a cab driver. (He even told a Bemidji, Minn., newspaper in 2013 that Barack Obama had been one of his passengers and had said he was not born in Hawaii.)
In 2003, Cobb relocated to friendlier (which is to say, whiter) environs, the small town of Frost, W.V., not far from the headquarters of the National Alliance, which was then still the country’s dominant neo-Nazi group. He opened a grocery store and a business called Gray’s Store, Aryan Autographs and 14 Words, L.L.C. (The “14 Words,” coined by the late white supremacist terrorist David Lane, are a famous catchphrase on the radical right: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.”) Cobb wasn’t too successful as a conventional businessman, probably because he opened just a couple of hours a day, painted the sides of his shop with the website addresses of hate groups, and pushed material about white supremacy on his customers.
Instead of taking care of business, he was busy raising his profile in the hate community. Three years after U.S. District Court Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow ruled against the World Church of the Creator in a trademark infringement suit in 2000, group leader Matthew Hale was arrested for soliciting Lefkow’s murder. He was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison, where he remains today. In retaliation, Cobb published the judge’s home address and a map to the location on the Internet. He also posted pictures of Lefkow’s husband and children on Stormfront, the world’s largest white supremacist website. Two years after that, in 2005, Lefkow’s husband and mother were murdered inside her Chicago house. As it turned out, however, the killer had nothing to do with white supremacy, but was aggrieved over Lefkow’s ruling in another case.
In the fall of 2003, Cobb was invited to the National Alliance’s invitation-only “leadership conference,” considered an exclusive and important event on the white supremacist calendar. Later, he soon became an avid distributor of The Aryan Alternative, a white supremacist periodical published by neo-Nazi Alex Linder, founder of the virulently racist website Vanguard News Network. Videos posts to the Internet show Cobb distributing the hate periodical in at least a dozen states, along with the District of Columbia. He is shown in cars packed with the newsletters, tossing them in front of houses, and giving them to passersby.
Cobb also acted on his view that you’ve got to teach hate early in life. During his years in West Virginia, he volunteered to help distribute CDs of racist “hatecore” music to elementary, middle and high school students outside their schools. The distribution was the core of “Project Schoolyard,” a nationwide propaganda campaign launched by Panzerfaust, a white power music label, that aimed to bring more young people into the white supremacist movement.
But Cobb wanted to do more. After receiving an inheritance in 2005, he moved to Tallinn, Estonia, an overwhelmingly white area of Eastern Europe with a substantial history of fascist movements. With the kind of bombastic flourish that typified him, he announced the opening of an “International Office of White Diaspora” meant to bring U.S. and British whites to white-dominated European countries. The announcement came to nothing, however.
The Internet enabled Cobb to gain more substantial traction in spreading anti-Semitic, anti-gay and racist propaganda. In 2007, he founded Podblanc, a major video-sharing website that he touted as an alternative to YouTube (pilloried by Cobb as “JewTube”). With more than 1,000 channels directed by different registered users, it became a go-to outlet for white nationalists. One popular but horrific video shows Russian neo-Nazis beheading and shooting Asian immigrants. Others show the torture of orthodox Jews and non-whites randomly selected on public streets. He also posted how-to guides for homemade explosives and combat handgun training, and detailed security measures at three California synagogues. For inspiration, Cobb’s site provided an audio recording of The Turner Diaries, the notorious race-war fantasy novel that helped inspire the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, among many other atrocities.
Some people not only drank Cobb’s toxic brew but took it to heart. For example, a Boston-area white supremacist named Keith Luke later said he decided to murder blacks, Latinos and Jews after reading about “the demise of the white race” on Podblanc. Luke was convicted of murdering a man and a woman, and raping and critically wounding another woman, in Brockton, Mass., the day after Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009. Luke told police that had he not been arrested after the double murder, he planned to go on to kill as many Jews as possible later the same day, at a local synagogue’s bingo night.
In Estonia, however, the authorities were tiring of Cobb’s online vitriol. In 2009, he was tried and found guilty of endangering public security, public order, public safety, moral standards and health. He was banned from the country for 10 years.
Cobb moved to Vancouver early in 2010, but he once again blundered by choosing a haven that lacked the vigorous free speech protections seen in the U.S. As a result, in June of that year, he was arrested on suspicion of promoting hatred while using a computer at a Vancouver public library. Cobb, who has said he has dual U.S./Canadian citizenship, managed to flee the country after he was released from custody pending approval of the charge by a provincial attorney general.
Cobb soon resurfaced in Kalispell, Mont., where a handful of other white supremacists already were making a weak effort to create a “Pioneer Little Europe,” a whites-only enclave populated by racists. Cobb soon was showing a Holocaust-denial film at the Kalispell public library and distributing literature on public sidewalks that was labeled “teaching information” but contained such lines as “Nothing will change until the jews [sic] are killed.” Meanwhile, Canadian authorities issued a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear on the hate crime charge in that country. Cobb responded by taunting Canadian police in a January 2011 blog entry: “You can find me in the orange easy chair near the elevator” at the Flathead County Library in Kalispell, he wrote.
But the wandering neo-Nazi didn’t stay in the library long. Instead, he began to dream of creating his own Pioneer Little Europe. In 2011, he headed to rural North Dakota to find work. Soon, he began to quietly buy ramshackle properties in the Leith area, about 70 miles southwest of Bismarck, S.D., and within a year, he had amassed more than a dozen. In 2012, he announced his heretofore secret project on the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network (VNN) online forum, saying he hoped to create an all-white bastion of neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Leith, which the latest census found had a mere 16 residents, and rename the town “Cobbsville.” “This is an open invitation to all WN [white nationalists] to come and settle in this town,” he wrote on the VNN site. Cobb touted the great employment prospects, with North Dakota’s economy booming after the discovery of oil. But when the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Bismarck Tribune made his plans public to a much broader audience in 2013, all hell broke loose.
A protest rally against Cobb’s designs organized by concerned local residents drew several hundred participants in September of that year. But by that time, Cobb already had sold properties (for $1 each) to Tom Metzger, the virulently racist leader of White Aryan Resistance, and Alex Linder, who runs the VNN site. Cobb also said he’d donated buildings to the National Socialist Movement, then the largest neo-Nazi group in the U.S. He was fired from his job with a local road-paving contractor shortly after the rally. But that didn’t dampen his enthusiasm for his Leith project. In a photo of Leith posted on VNN, Cobb was shown standing in a grassy lot that he said he planned to turn into a park in honor of Adolf Hitler. He also wrote on VNN that he planned to amend Leith’s ordinances to allow discrimination against minorities and leftist journalists.
As the story of Cobb’s attempted takeover of Leith became national news — including a front-page story in The New York Times — the propagandist for a pure-white America made an incredibly ill-advised move. Cobb agreed to submit to a DNA test of his genetic background and have the results revealed on a live episode of NBC’s “The Trish Goddard Show,” whose host is a black woman. The results were predictable for anyone whose family has been in America for a few generations: To Cobb’s stunned disbelief, Goddard opened the envelope, to the delight of her studio audience and millions of others, to reveal that Cobb’s genes were 14% sub-Saharan African — which is to say, black.
A few days later, still burning with his very public humiliation, Cobb and one of his young followers, Kynan Dutton, conducted an armed “patrol” on the streets of Leith after he returned from his New York TV date to find his house daubed with anti-racist slogans. In a cell phone video shot by Dutton’s girlfriend and proudly posted online, the pair are shown marching through town with long guns, stopping vehicles and threatening and cursing residents. Dutton, 29, wears combat fatigues, but Cobb appears in an outfit composed of jeans, a windbreaker, white socks and sandals, not exactly the uniform of the Aryan movement. The white nationalist website Occidental Dissent posted the video under its “humor” tag and, a few months later, a story on the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer conceded, “He really did make a bad impression.”
Within days of the incident, Cobb and Dutton were charged with seven felony counts of terrorizing. Cobb stayed in jail for more than three months because he couldn’t make bail, offering at one point to leave the state or even the country if only the authorities would drop the charges. There were no takers. He even staged a hunger strike in jail, but that only earned him a trip to the state mental hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. Finally, on Feb. 27, 2014, Cobb pleaded guilty to one count of felony terrorizing and five counts of misdemeanor menacing in a plea deal that gave him four years of supervised probation.
The deal, which meant no further jail time for Cobb, didn’t please all Leith residents, but it did signal the end of the Leith saga. Today, Cobb no longer owns any buildings in Leith. He deeded six properties back to the town at no charge and sold off a few others. Three are still owned by other white supremacists, but they have shown little inclination to take up where Cobb left off.
Things did not improve for Cobb in the aftermath. His application to serve his probation in Missouri, where he said he wanted to care for his 90-year-old mother, was denied, with Missouri officials saying he’d had scant contact with his mother for the last four decades. In retaliation, he posted information about several of those officials. In addition, the FBI seized his computers. In any event, Cobb was allowed to live anywhere in North Dakota except in the Leith area, but was ordered to wear a global positioning tether that informs authorities of his whereabouts at all times. In July 2014, he paid $1,084 in back taxes to purchase an empty house in Sherwood, about 180 miles north of Leith and hard on the Canadian border, where he says he intends to remain.
Cobb announced after leaving jail that he was “retired” from white nationalism. But he continued to write to racist websites, and posted hundreds of times to WhiteNation.com, a racist forum. A Bismarck television station reported in July 2014 that Cobb, who never seems to stay out of trouble for long, was under investigation for violating the terms of his probation by posting on the racist forum.
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Bryan Fair is the Thomas E. Skinner Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is a distinguished scholar whose academic pursuits center on race and constitutional law. In addition to having served as the faculty adviser to the moot court team and the Black Law Students Association at the University of Alabama, he served as the university’s assistant vice president for academic affairs for three years. He also has significant nonprofit experience, having served on the board of directors for the Equal Justice Initiative, Alabama Appleseed and the Alabama Credit Union.
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Alan B. Howard is a partner in Crowell & Moring's New York office. He centers his practice on trial work, international arbitration and complex litigation management. He handles litigation matters in a wide variety of areas, including securities law, class actions, commercial disputes, mass tort, product liability and false advertising. Howard has been a successful lead trial lawyer in cases involving, among others, a large communications company, a major consumer products company and a transportation manufacturer. He also does extensive pro bono work.
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Joseph J. Levin, Jr. co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971. As legal director from 1971 to 1976, Levin worked on more than 50 major civil rights cases. He argued the landmark sex discrimination case Frontiero vs. Richardson, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law giving preferences to men in the military. In 1976, Levin joined the Carter administration, supervising the Justice Department’s transition team before serving as special assistant to the attorney general and then as chief counsel for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In 1979, he entered private practice in Washington, D.C., but continued his association with the SPLC by serving as its board chairman until 2003. Levin was also president of the SPLC from 1996 to 2003, when he became general counsel. He served as a board member from 1971 until 2009.
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Joseph J. Levin, Jr. co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971. As legal director from 1971 to 1976, Levin worked on more than 50 major civil rights cases. He argued the landmark sex discrimination case Frontiero vs. Richardson, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law giving preferences to men in the military. In 1976, Levin joined the Carter administration, supervising the Justice Department’s transition team before serving as special assistant to the attorney general and then as chief counsel for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In 1979, he entered private practice in Washington, D.C., but continued his association with the SPLC by serving as its board chairman until 2003. Levin was also president of the SPLC from 1996 to 2003, when he became general counsel. He served as a board member from 1971 until 2009.
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Julian Bond has been one of America’s most prominent civil rights figures since he led demonstrations as a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta in the early 1960s. He was a longtime board member of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, and served as its chair from 1998 until 2010. Bond was also a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He served in the Georgia General Assembly for 20 years and was the SPLC’s first president. He is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.
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A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Richard Cohen came to the SPLC in 1986 as its legal director after practicing law in Washington, D.C., for seven years. Under his guidance, the SPLC won a series of landmark lawsuits against some of the nation’s most violent white supremacist organizations. He also successfully litigated a wide variety of important civil rights actions – defending the rights of prisoners to be treated humanely, working for equal educational opportunities for all children, and bringing down the Confederate battle flag from the Alabama State Capitol. Prior to becoming SPLC president in 2003, Cohen served as its vice president for programs, which include the Intelligence Project and Teaching Tolerance.
In 1997, the national legal magazine The American Lawyer selected him as one of 45 public sector lawyers “whose vision and commitment are changing lives.” In 1999, he was a finalist for the national Trial Lawyer of the Year Award for his work on Macedonia Baptist Church v. Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a lawsuit that ended with a record $37.8 million judgment against a Klan group for its role in the burning of a South Carolina church.
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A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Richard Cohen came to the SPLC in 1986 as its legal director after practicing law in Washington, D.C., for seven years. Under his guidance, the SPLC won a series of landmark lawsuits against some of the nation’s most violent white supremacist organizations. He also successfully litigated a wide variety of important civil rights actions – defending the rights of prisoners to be treated humanely, working for equal educational opportunities for all children, and bringing down the Confederate battle flag from the Alabama State Capitol. Prior to becoming SPLC president in 2003, Cohen served as its vice president for programs, which include the Intelligence Project and Teaching Tolerance.
In 1997, the national legal magazine The American Lawyer selected him as one of 45 public sector lawyers “whose vision and commitment are changing lives.” In 1999, he was a finalist for the national Trial Lawyer of the Year Award for his work on Macedonia Baptist Church v. Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a lawsuit that ended with a record $37.8 million judgment against a Klan group for its role in the burning of a South Carolina church.
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Morris Dees co-founded the SPLC in 1971 following a successful business and law career. He started a direct mail sales company specializing in book publishing while still a student at the University of Alabama, where he also obtained a law degree.
After launching a law practice in Montgomery in 1960, he won a series of groundbreaking civil rights cases that helped integrate government and public institutions. He also served as finance director for former President Jimmy Carter’s campaign in 1976 and for Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern in 1972.
Known for his innovative lawsuits that crippled some of America’s most notorious white supremacist hate groups, he has received more than 20 honorary degrees and numerous awards. Those include Trial Lawyer of the Year from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Award from the National Education Association and The Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice.
He was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal in 2006. In addition, the University of Alabama Law School and the New York law firm Skadden, Arps jointly created the annual Morris Dees Justice Award to honor a lawyer devoted to public service work. Dees has written three books: A Season For Justice, his autobiography; Hate on Trial: The Case Against America’s Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi; and Gathering Storm: America’s Militia Threat. In 1991, NBC aired a made-for-TV movie called “Line of Fire” about Dees and his landmark legal victories against the Ku Klux Klan.
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Morris Dees co-founded the SPLC in 1971 following a successful business and law career. He started a direct mail sales company specializing in book publishing while still a student at the University of Alabama, where he also obtained a law degree.
After launching a law practice in Montgomery in 1960, he won a series of groundbreaking civil rights cases that helped integrate government and public institutions. He also served as finance director for former President Jimmy Carter’s campaign in 1976 and for Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern in 1972.
Known for his innovative lawsuits that crippled some of America’s most notorious white supremacist hate groups, he has received more than 20 honorary degrees and numerous awards. Those include Trial Lawyer of the Year from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Award from the National Education Association and The Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice.
He was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal in 2006. In addition, the University of Alabama Law School and the New York law firm Skadden, Arps jointly created the annual Morris Dees Justice Award to honor a lawyer devoted to public service work. Dees has written three books: A Season For Justice, his autobiography; Hate on Trial: The Case Against America’s Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi; and Gathering Storm: America’s Militia Threat. In 1991, NBC aired a made-for-TV movie called “Line of Fire” about Dees and his landmark legal victories against the Ku Klux Klan.
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War And Terrorists And Floods, Oh My! The Right's Five Worst Predictions About Marriage Equality
4/28/15 @ 4:20pm
Mike Huckabee thinks Christianity will soon be outlawed to make room for gay rights. Ted Cruz fears “liberal fascism” and a pro-gay “jihad” are destroying liberty. Bobby Jindal believes freedom will soon be extinguished as reality stars lose their apparent constitutional ri... MORE
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4/28/15 @ 4:13pm
On his radio program today, Glenn Beck and his co-hosts were discussing various right-wing conspiracy theories about President Obama supposedly refusing to leave office at the end of his term and the segment eventually got around to discussing the conspiracy theory that Bill and Hillary Clinton had... MORE
Rick Santorum: Supreme Court Marriage Ruling Could Lead To Christians Being 'Persecuted And Maybe Even Prosecuted'
4/28/15 @ 3:43pm
Rick Santorum’s movie studio, EchoLight Studios, issued a press release yesterday in anticipation of today’s arguments in the marriage cases before the Supreme Court, warning that a decision in favor of marriage equality could lead to the persecution of people who reject “the secul... MORE
The Two Faces Of Samuel Rodriguez
4/28/15 @ 3:39pm
For years we have been noting how Rev. Samuel Rodriguez has somehow managed to craft a reputation as a moderate and nonpartisan religious leader while simultaneously serving as a leading anti-gay Religious Right activist. Nothing better illustrates this duality than the fact that Rodriguez was among... MORE
Peter LaBarbera Is 'Hoping And Praying' For A 'Constitutional Crisis' On Marriage
4/28/15 @ 3:30pm
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality said last month that he is “hoping and praying” that if the Supreme Court strikes down state bans on same-sex marriage, enough states will follow the lead of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in defying the decision that it will... MORE
Mat Staver Expects Every Presidential Candidate To Pledge To Disobey Any Pro-Marriage Equality Ruling From SCOTUS
4/28/15 @ 1:00pm
Last week, Miranda noted that Mike Huckabee and Rick Scarborough had joined with dozens of anti-gay Religious Right activists in signing a pledge vowing not to obey any Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage. Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver, one of the co-authors of the pledge, appeared on Ne... MORE
Kenneth Copeland: I'm Like Osama Bin Laden, But In A Good Way!
4/28/15 @ 12:45pm
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland appeared on “The 700 Club” today to triumphantly announce to host Pat Robertson that God’s healing power is sweeping over the world, especially at his Texas church, which he failed to mention was the center of a measles outbreak in 2013. Copeland told... MORE
Justice Ginsburg Tackles Idea That Marriage Definition Has Existed For Millennia
4/28/15 @ 12:43pm
One of the words being bandied about at this morning's oral arguments in the marriage cases was "millennia." One of the anti-equality side's main talking points is that equality proponents are asking the Justices to "redefine marriage," as if marriage has been static in n... MORE
Bryan Fischer: Gay 'Supremacists' Will 'Brainwash' Kids, 'Want It To Be Gay Rights Über Alles'
4/28/15 @ 12:30pm
Yesterday on “Focal Point,” Bryan Fischer got heated during a rant about Justice Anthony Kennedy, whom he believes will tip the balance in favor of marriage equality advocates at the Supreme Court. “I got worked up about that but that just tees me off, I cannot tell you the level o... MORE
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Revolution! Anti-Gay Activists Threaten Uprising If Supreme Court Approves Marriage Equality
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Speaking from the pulpit of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in May 2004, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Dobson’s words were simulcast into churches across the country as part of a “B... MORE
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Former Rep. Michele Bachmann suggested in an interview this weekend that President Obama’s “anti-Israel” and “pro-the goals of Islamic jihad” policies have brought the world into the biblical End Times. Bachmann made the comments in an interview with radical talk... MORE
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4/23/15 @ 1:15pm
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