The Southern Poverty Law Center examines the situation over at the white nationalist website VDARE, where its leader Peter Brimelow is begging for money after one of his major funders backed out, cutting VDARE’s funding by one third.
Politics
Cross-post: Violent Rhetoric At The 2nd Amendment Rally
Media Matters put together this video portraying some of the violent rhetoric uttered by speakers and members of the crowd at the DC Second Amendment rally on April 19. Speakers at the DC Second Amendment rally on April 19, 2010 … Continued
Food Justice
Great Successes at the Latino Worker Health & Safety Summit
Last week we took workers to Houston, Texas for what could be a historical event, the National Action Summit for Latino Worker Health & Safety. The worker leaders who joined us on the trip have helped to build the Health … Continued
Ecopolitics
Farmworker Freedom March
The surge of emotion that welled up within me, as I looked at the vast line of hundreds of people marching through the streets of Lakeland, FL this past Sunday, was one of admiration, pride and humility. As if I … Continued
Ecopolitics
Earth Day Will Not be Rooted in Immigrant Bashing
This Earth Day we must counter attempts to infiltrate our festivities. Anti-immigrant groups like California Population Stabilization (CAPS) and NumbersUSA are attempting to focus on overpopulation by specifically bashing immigrants and blaming them for environmental degradation. As environmentalists and activists, … Continued
Politics
Che Attends a Tea Party
Beautiful spring day in downtown Houston. Seventy degrees. Sunny. The Tea Partiers have gathered to vent. The usual signs—Obama is a Marxist, socialist, commie, fill-in-the blank with your favorite epithet. Huge “Don’t Tread on Me” flags outnumber American flags. “Secede … Continued
Politics
Neo-Nazi and Senate Candidate Runs Racist Ads in Missouri
Last week I came across a pair of radio advertisements by a man named Glenn Miller who is running for U.S. Senate in Missouri. The ads were so racist that at first I thought they were a joke, but after … Continued
Politics
Blackface and the Far Right
Why is putting on blackface such the rage on the far right? The mighty pale Tea Party movement is not the first to try this tactic. The nearly all white anti-immigrant movement has been trying on blackface over the last … Continued
Politics
Fifteen Years After Oklahoma City Multiracial America Still at Risk
In Oklahoma City, on the morning of April 19, 1995, far right activist Timothy McVeigh detonated an explosive device beneath the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building murdering 168 people and injuring 680. Fifteen years later the lesson of Oklahoma City … Continued
Politics
Politics Mixes with Everything!
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu delivered the keynote for the International Conference of the Association of Fundraising Professionals on April 13, 2010. As he addressed 3,000 professional fundraisers from dozens of countries, I wondered how his remarks would be received. … Continued