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Beyond Green Jobs 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-Mobil got itself named Forbes magazine’s Green Company of the Year for stepping up its natural gas production.
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| From Schoolhouse to Statehouse: CURRICULUM FROM A CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST WORLDVIEW By Rachel Tabachnick The Public Eye On May 21, Texas School Board member Cynthia Dunbar opened the board’s meeting with an invocation: “Whether we look to the first charter of Virginia, or the charter of New England, or the charter of Massachusetts Bay, or the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the same objective is present—a Christian land governed by Christian principles.” Read more
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The U.S. Christian Right and the Attack on Gays in Africa For two days in early March 2009, Ugandans flocked to the Kampala Triangle Hotel for the Family Life Network's "Seminar on Exposing the Homosexuals' Agenda." The seminar's very title revealed its claim: LGBT people and activists are engaged in a well thought-out plan to take over the world. The U.S. culture wars had come to Africa with a vengeance. Read more...
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| Vol. 24, No. 3 - Fall 2009 [PDF version] | ||
The Politics of Schism in the Catholic Church I heard recently from one of my regular readers (I’ll call her “Kathy”) who shared her concerns about the future of our shared faith. Like me, she is a Roman Catholic with liberal religious and political inclinations. And, like me, she was distressed by several recent major events in the Church: the Ryan Report documenting generations of sexual abuse by the clergy in Ireland, the hostility expressed by several American bishops towards Notre Dame University for inviting President Obama to give the commencement address, and the recent conversion of Florida’s Father Alberto Cutié to the Episcopal Church. |
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| Vol. 24, No. 2 - Summer 2009 [PDF version] | ||
From Movements to Mosques, Informants Endanger Democracy In February, 2009, members of the Islamic Center of Irvine learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had hired Craig Monteilh, a 46-year-old fitness instructor and convicted con man, to infiltrate their mosque and keep it under surveillance. Members had wondered about Monteilh for a while. Back in 2007, the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), alarmed by his talk of jihad and plans for a terrorist attack, reported him to Irvine police and secured a three-year restraining order against him. |
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| Vol. 24, No. 1 - Spring 2009 [PDF version] | ||
Younger Evangelicals Last October a chartered bus rolled deep through the South, its passengers college-aged young people drawing inspiration from the Freedom Riders of the 1960s. The black vinyl advertising plastered on the side broadcast the riders’ goals, “Equality Ride 2008: Faith in Action: Social Justice for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People.” The bus brought young LGBTQ activists and their allies face to face with students at 15 Christian colleges in an attempt to generate more acceptance of homosexuality at evangelical schools. |
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| Vol. 23, No. 4 - Winter 2008 [PDF version] | ||
Post-Palin Feminism From the podium at the Christian Right’s Values Voter Summit in mid-September, National Review Institute’s Kate O’Beirne, 59, pronounced that the “selection of Sarah Palin [as the GOP vice presidential nominee] sounded the death knell of modern American feminism.” “She’s a prick to the liberal establishment, to the feminists, and to the men who fear them,” she jeered to the audience of Christian Right activists. |
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| Vol. 23, No. 3 - Fall 2008 [PDF version] | ||
The Osseo Public School District is in most ways a typical Minnesota suburban system: three high schools, scores of athletic teams, and a graduation rate of 94 percent. But for the past ten years, it has run a dual-track curriculum in sexuality education. Students can choose between an abstinence-only health class and a comprehensive sexuality education class—the result of a prolonged, and expensive, debate among community members ofthe district’s human sexuality curriculum advisory committee. |
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| Vol. 23, No. 2 - Summer 2008 [PDF version] | ||
If the September 2007 Values Voters Summit is anything to go by, the Christian Right is now nearly as worked up about illegal immigration as about abortion and same-sex marriage. At that political gathering—sponsored annually in Washington D.C. by such key groups as the Family Research Council and attracting grassroots activists from across the country —the Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector used fuzzy math as he told a packed room that low-skilled immigrants from Latin America actually drain, rather than bolster, the U.S. economy. A parade of Republican presidential hopefuls there to court support from right-wing Protestant evangelicals attempted to outdo each other with the aggressiveness of their border security plans and the severity of their proposed policies towards immigrants. |
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| Vol. 23, No. 1 - Spring 2008 [PDF version] | ||
The same right-wing populist fears of a collectivist one-world government and new world order that fueled Cold War anticommunism, mobilized opposition to the Civil Rights Movement, and spawned the armed citizens militia movement in the 1990s, have resurfaced as an elaborate conspiracy theory about the alleged impending creation of a North American Union that would merge the United States, Canada, and Mexico. No such merger is seriously being contemplated by any of the three governments. Yet a conspiracy theory about the North American Union (NAU) simmered in right-wing “Patriot Movement” alternative media for several years before bubbling up to reach larger audiences in mass media when callers to talk radio and cable television news programs began asking about the alleged plans for the North American Union, and what was dubbed the “NAFTA Superhighway” linking Mexico to Canada through the American heartland. |
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Also in this issue: by Jean V. Hardisty by Frederick Clarkson by Eleanor J. Bader by Laura Carlsen by Roberto Lovato |
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| Vol. 22, No. 4 - Winter 2007 [PDF version] | ||
Miles Swanson was a legal observer at the 2003 protests in Miami against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas when he became victim of a “snatch squad,” a new police tactic where officers drag protestors off, having singled them out based on their perceived political ideology. It is unconstitutional to target someone for arrest based on their political views, but snatch squads are only one of many new government tactics that are chilling Americans’ free speech rights. These measures are rarely passed by Congress or a state legislature, but are devised and adopted informally through expanding networks of police agencies. Now lawyers are learning from past abuses to try to protect protestors attending the Republican and Democratic conventions next summer. |
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| Vol. 22, No. 3 - Fall 2007 [PDF version] | ||
The memories and legacy of lynchings of African Americans fifty years ago still shape the politics and lives of those living where they happened. So discovered civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill while she was trying a discrimination case in Maryland. The Public Eye explored the impact in this exclusive interview. |
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| Vol. 22, No. 2 - Summer 2007 [PDF version] | ||
In the high-adrenaline, and heavily heterosexual, world of Beltway lobbyists, the gay Log Cabin Republicans have their work cut out for them. Ostracized by the Republican Party which continues to receive their fierce loyalty, the LCR is the group that represents the dilemma of gay conservatives: they want to be players on the Republican team, but who is willing to put them in the lineup? |
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Also in this issue: by John Dorhauer by Doug Muder Border Watchers: Catching Anti-Immigrant Vigilantes on Film and Racism in the Service of Science |
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| Vol. 21, No. 2 - Spring 2007 [PDF version] | ||
The notion that America was founded as a Christian nation is a central animating element of the ideology of the Christian Right. It touches every aspect of life and culture in this, one of the most successful and powerful political movements in American history. The idea that America’s supposed Christian identity has somehow been wrongly taken, and must somehow be restored, permeates the psychology and vision of the entire movement. |
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Also in this issue: by Roberto Lovato by Jill Williams Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized |
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| Vol. 21, No. 1 - Winter 2006 [PDF version] | ||
Over the course of the 1990s, the economic conservatives successfully recast the estate tax as a "family" issue, using language that appealed more directly to conservative evangelicals. And the Christian Right, primed by years of describing themselves as a "pro-family movement," and spurred on by a group of intellectuals who put forth a Christian economics of the family, jumped at the bait, becoming staunch supporters of repeal. |
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Also in this issue: by Jeremy Adam Smith by Pam Chamberlain and Chip Berlet ProLife Feminism: Yesterday and Today and Jesus Camp |
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| Vol. 20, No. 3 - Fall 2006 [PDF version] | ||
If you want to understand how Homeland Security influences us, go to south Texas and take a walk around neighborhoods whose streets were paved by the "clash of civilizations" in cities and towns at or near the border. One such street is San Antonio's Military Drive where, on any Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night, you can, if you pay close attention, watch some of the directions Latino identity is taking in times of war. |
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| Vol. 20, No. 2 - Summer 2006 [PDF version] | |
White Power Cyberculture By Pete Simi and Robert Futrell Today, with a simple keyword search such as "Aryan" or "white power," websurfers can easily find a growing number of white power websites where acidly racist and anti-Semitic themes replete with visions of racial separation or even violent racial extermination are the norm. |
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| Vol. 20, No. 1 - Spring 2006 [PDF version] | |
Designs on the Culture By Jeffrey P. Moran Dover is over, for now. Beginning in 2004, an elected school board attempted to change the Dover, PA, science curriculum so that it cast significant doubt on the evolutionary hypothesis. |
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| Vol. 19, No. 3 - Winter 2005 [PDF version] | |
George Wallace and the Rightward Turn in Today’s Politics By Dan T. Carter In the spring of 2005, Georgia's Republican-controlled legislature passed a law requiring all voters to appear at their proper polling place carrying either a Georgia driver's license or an official photo ID issued by the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles. |
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Conservative Campus Organizing By Pam Chamberlain Growing Pains or Arrested Development? |
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The Extreme Right in Europe By Jérôme Jamin Fascist or Mainstream? |
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| Vol. 18, No. 3 - Winter 2004 - Righting Crime [PDF version] | ||
Crime and Political Ideology By Jean Hardisty It wasn't simply economic and social tensions that underlay the New Right's success in promoting its message on crime. "Law and order" resonated with a powerful ideological strain within the U.S. populace- the conservative worldview. You might think of this worldview as the ideological default to which many White Americans return when they are anxious, confused, or resentful.... |
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The Roots of Corporate Globalization in IMF/World Bank "Structural Adjustment" Policies By Soren Ambrose This year marks the 60th anniversary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Although they have always been located in Washington, DC, people in the United States very often do not know much about what they do. People in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia know a great deal about them, however. When a delegation from either institution arrives in a country in any of these regions, it's often front-page news; when economic crises hit, people protest outside the local offices of the IMF/WB... |
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Policing Civil Society: NGO Watch By Jean Hardisty and Elizabeth Furdon On June 11, 2003, an international group of right wing think tanks organized a conference held at the American Enterprise Institute offices in Washington, D.C. The conference laid the ground for the launch of "NGO Watch," a website and political campaign designed to monitor and critique "liberal" U.N.-designated NGOs. This campaign will undoubtedly be applied to other nonprofits with similar liberal politics... |
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