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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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The Attack on Working People & Organized Labor

It became clear in 2011 that there was a broad attack on working people, especially those in unions. Anti-labor campaigns by corporate interests are nothing new, and are frequently masked by rhetoric about freedom of choice for employees.

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Resources For Organized Labor and Working People

Right-wing attacks on organized labor and working people are nothing new. This page is a starting point for connecting to resources and conducting research into this problem. Recognize that the Right is a complex movement.

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Sectors of the U.S. Right Active in the Year 2011

There is much overlap and sectors are not mutually exclusive. Methodologies range from cautious moderation, to militant activism, to insurgency, to violence.

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Tax Dollar Funding for Anti-Muslim Counterterrorism Training Revealed In Detailed Report to Congress

Today, in a comprehensive 80-page report that details a systemic failure to regulate content in nationwide counter-terrorism training, Political Research Associates (PRA), exposes the inaccurate and conspiratorial myths that may put the rights of…

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The Conservative Attack on Birthright Citizenship

Any challenges to the 14th Amendment cannot be supported by the history leading up to the passage of it, the intent of the Framers who drafted it, or the Supreme Court’s interpretation of it.

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Father's Rights Groups Threaten Women's Gains—And Their Safety

In June 2010, Ned Holstein, the president of the national group Fathers and Families, appeared on a Boston call-in radio show to promote a child-custody bill before the Massachusetts legislature.

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Lively's Lies

A Profile of Scott Lively

In March 2009, Scott Lively traveled more than 8,000 miles from his home in Springfield, Massachusetts, to talk to a small audience at the Triangle Hotel in Kampala, Uganda, about homosexuality. “My name is Scott Lively,” he began. “I’m married. I…

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Political Research Associates Condemns the Brutal Murder of Ugandan Human Rights Activist David Kato

David Kato, an openly gay human rights activist and advocacy officer at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), was attacked in his home in Mukono, Uganda, on January 26, and died on his way to the hospital. Kato had received death threats since October,…

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Those Who Demonize Are Morally Culpable

The tragic shooting in Tucson this past weekend claimed the lives of six, including Federal Judge John Roll, and left congressional Representative Gabrielle Giffords—-the evident target of alleged gunman Jared L. Loughner—-in critical condition…

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Manufacturing the Muslim Menace

Private Firms, Public Servants, & the Threat to Rights and Security

The product of PRA’s comprehensive, nine-month investigation, Manufacturing the Muslim Menace (pdf) details a systemic failure to regulate content…

The Long Hurricane

The New Orleans Catastrophe Predates Katrina

Survivors' Village at St. Bernard Projects, New Orleans.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina and the “federal flood,” as locals call the disaster, the new New Orleans is as much the product of decades of antiwelfare ideology in local and national governments as it is of the unique circumstances of the…

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Beyond Green Jobs

People in hi visibility jackets pointing upwards.

Everyone wants to be green. Fossil fuel companies tout their commitments to the environment, with BP sporting its green and yellow flower logo and Chevron scooping up a Green Apple award for promoting public-school energy efficiency. In 2009 Exxon-…

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Who’s Colonialist?

African Anti-Gay Politics In The Global Discourse

In August 2010, more than 400 African Anglican Bishops gathered in Entebbe, Uganda, for their second All-Africa Bishops Conference, which attracted global media attention because of the debates on LGBT rights.

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FBI Raids Reveal Repressive Apparatus Run Amok

A recent Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s investigations of certain domestic advocacy groups from 2002-2006 found that the agency considered routine civil-disobedience violations, such as trespassing or vandalism, potential terrorism. For…

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