Southern Poverty Law Center
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American non-profit legal organization, whose stated purpose is to combat racism and promote civil rights through research, education and litigation. The Center is based in Montgomery, Alabama, in the Southern United States. It was founded in 1971 by Morris Dees and Joe Levin as a civil rights law firm. It is known for its tolerance programs, its many legal victories against white supremacist individuals and groups, and its investigations of alleged hate groups. The Center publishes a quarterly Intelligence Report which investigates groups ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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The Year in Hate
As in recent years, hate groups were animated by the national immigration debate. But two new forces also drove them in 2008: the worsening recession, and Barack Obama's ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Close to Slavery - Guestworker Programs in the United States
Unlike U.S. citizens, guestworkers do not enjoy the most fundamental protection of a competitive labor market -- the ability to change jobs if they are mistreated. Instead, ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The New Crusaders
"The perpetual enemy of Christ is the Jewish nation," Brother Mary roared, explaining that the aim of the Jews is to "destroy all Christian nations." Mary blamed Jews for both ...Posted by Rebecca Hale
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Terror from the Right: 75 Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City
What follows is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the years since Oklahoma City.Posted by Dwight Rousu -
SPLC Report: Militia Movement Resurgent, Infused with Racism
Almost a decade after virtually disappearing from public view, the antigovernment militia movement is surging across the country, fueled by fears of a black man in the White ...Posted by Eddie Louis Harris -
SPLC Creates Teacher's Guide for HBO Documentary
Prom Night In Mississippi In 2008, Mississippi's Charleston High School held its first racially integrated prom.Posted by Eddie Louis Harris -
Alleged plotter against Obama was member of Supreme White Alliance
Daniel Cowart, one of the two men arrested Friday in an alleged plot to assassinate Barack Obama and murder more than 100 people, was a member of a racist skinhead group ...Posted by Marsha Iverson -
'Arming' for Armageddon
Todd Bentley has a long night ahead of him, resurrecting the dead, healing the blind, and exploding cancerous tumors. Since April 3, the 32-year-old, heavily tattooed, ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Evidence of Extremist Infiltration of Military Grows
alarming numbers of neo-Nazi skinheads and other white supremacist extremists [are] taking advantage of lowered armed services recruiting standards and lax enforcement of ...Posted by Lynn Caporale -
New Center Report: Foreign Guestworkers Routinely Exploited by U.S. Employers
Guestworkers who come to the United States are routinely cheated out of wages; forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low-wage, temporary jobs; held virtually captive by ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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