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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Groups | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Radical Campus Organization Linked to Southern Hate Group | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
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League of the South: ‘What Would it Take to Get You to Fight?’ | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Jihad Against Islam
an astonishing number of people have turned into a kind of political wolf pack, convinced that 0.6% of the U.S. population is on the verge of trampling the Constitution and ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
SPLC Launches Federal Court Challenge to Alabama’s Discriminatory Anti-Immigrant Law | Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is leading a coalition of civil rights groups in filing a federal lawsuit challenging Alabama’s extreme anti-immigrant law, passed last month ...Posted by Eddie Louis Harris -
Inside the DHS: Former Top Analyst Says Agency Bowed to Political Pressure
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U.S. Hate Groups Top 1,000
The number of active hate groups in the United States topped 1,000 for the first time and the antigovernment “Patriot” movement expanded dramatically for the second ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
SPLC Report: Nativist Laws Cost Communities Millions, Inflame Racial Tension
Harsh anti-immigrant laws enacted in communities across the country – promoted by national nativist organizations that want to severely limit immigration – have burdened ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Who is Jared Lee Loughner? | Hatewatch
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Legislators Work with Anti-Immigrant Hate Group to Gut 14th Amendment | Hatewatch
(Blog Post) SLLI is often described as the legislative arm of FAIR, which is apt given the group says on its website that it has a “working partnership” with FAIR. SLLI’s ...Posted by Lynn Caporale
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