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  • New Report Exposes U.S. Christian Right Agenda in Africa

    Today, Political Research Associates (PRA) released its new report, Colonizing African Values: How the U.S. Christian Right is Transforming Sexual Politics in Africa (pdf), which exposes the U.S. Christian Right’s growing infrastructure for…

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  • Reconsidering Hate

    A Forum on The “Hate” Frame in Policy, Politics, and Organizing

    From the killing of Matthew Shepard to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, horrific incidents of violence against members of marginalized communities galvanized the social justice movement to pursue measures to prevent such acts — including pushing for…

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  • Report Warns Homophobia Still Major Right-Wing Tool

    On the heels of President Barack Obama’s public statement favoring marriage equality, a new Political Research Associates (PRA) report indicates that homophobia remains one of the most successful right-wing tools for mobilizing electoral …

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  • Muslim Community Resistance

    Organizing & Advocacy in a Time of Struggle
    A woman in a hijab smiling, holding a poster that says No Muslim Ban

    Since 9/11, the New York Police Department’s Pre-Ramadan Conference and Breakfast has become one of the largest gatherings of Muslim leadership in New York City. Last July, I sat among a sea of suits and uniforms, colorful headscarves, turbans, and…

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  • It's Their Party

    How the Tea Party Sustains the Anti-LGBT Right
    Two transmasculine people embracing while sitting on stairs.

    2011 was a frustrating year for the anti-LGBT Right. Despite millions of voters and many millions of dollars generated by a loose coalition of conservative forces to oppose LGBT rights, the LGBT rights movement has made tremendous progress. While…

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  • Michigan Intelligence Operations Center (MIOC) Partners

    The Michigan Intelligence Operations Center names the following partners -Michigan State Police (MSP) -Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) -Michigan National Guard -U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) -U.S. Coast Guard -U.S.…

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  • When Secure Communities Meet Border Security

    Looking at Michigan’s Fusion Centers
    People standing on a platform with a table in front of them with a banner hanging off the table that says "A voice for Working America."

    In the Winter 2009/Spring 2010 edition of The Public Eye, we reported on the rise of Intelligence Fusion Centers, created to coordinate the national security intelligence efforts of the Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Justice, CIA…

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  • Law Enforcement Training and the Institutionalization of Islamophobia

    According to Slate, Department of Homeland Security has doled out more than $300 million since 9/11 to at least eight prestigious U.S. universities to support “centers of excellence” including the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and…

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  • Michigan Operational Integration Center's (MOIC) Response to Environmental Threat

    What’s the scorecard on the Michigan Operational Integration Center’s ability to combine information from different sources when the threat is not terrorism but environmental disaster?

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  • Resisting the Rainbow

    Right-Wing Responses to LGBT Gains

    The hard truth: homophobia remains one of the right-wing’s most successful tools for mobilizing political support. Even as LGBT advocates celebrate recent victories—four ballot measure victories in 2012, President Obama’s public support for marriage…

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  • Is the Obama Administration Serious about Anti-Muslim Demonization in Law Enforcement?

    On August 4, 2011, the White House released a new strategy to counter violent extremism. The Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) expressed support for the plan, Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States, which…

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  • The Attack on Unions

    Right-Wing Politics and Democratic Possibilities
    A man in winter clothes holding a board that says "walker is a koch-conspirator"

    More than a million people watched on Youtube as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie sneered at a public school teacher who had the temerity to ask him at a September 2010 town meeting how his policies would help the middle class when so many…

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  • “The Trouble with Public Sector Unions”

    Journalist Steven Greenhut of the Pacific Research Institute set off the current debate over public-sector unions with his 2009 book Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation, in…

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  • The Tea Party: The New Populism

    Protesters with signs that say "Obama why are you dividing America? And inciting violence!" and "Obama Why are you collapsing our economy?"

    On Feb. 19, 2009, two days after President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus bill into law1 and one day after the White House announced $75 billion in direct aid to help homeowners refinance troubled mortgages,2 CNBC commentator…

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  • Talking to the Tea Partiers

    I met Barry Silverman at a gathering of the Rockland County Tea Party/Coffee Party at the New City Public Library, about twenty miles north of New York City, in January 2011.

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  • Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Law SB1070

    Where did it it come from, where is it going?

    Misericordia. The word washes across the congregation at the tiny church, carried by voices singing in Spanish. Mercy.

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  • The Norway Attacks: "Marketing" the Christian Right Culture Wars

    On Friday, July 22, at least 76 people were killed in the Oslo bombing and the shooting rampage at a Labor Party summer training camp for young liberal political activists. Immediately following news of the Norway terrorism, the internet buzzed with…

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  • John Guandolo: Another Counterterrorism Expert Exposed

    PRA’s groundbreaking exposé of how tax dollars fund anti-Muslim trainings for police and counterterrorism personnel won the attention of news outlets and policy makers at its release this spring. We’ve been keeping the pressure on the Department of…

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  • FBI Using Next Generation of Big Brother to Cajole States into Targeting Immigrants?

    Post-9/11 congressional mandates for better interagency information sharing have often been taken in a direction that undermines community safety and threatens personal privacy. According to new government records released to the public on July 6,…

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  • U.S. Conservatives Who Inspired Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill Must Act Immediately to Stop Its Passage

    Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill will be debated in Parliament today and voted on tomorrow, Wednesday May 11. The bill, thought by many to have been shelved, had in fact remained before a committee of Uganda’s parliament. There were hearings on…

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