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Invitation to discussion on

Barriers to Transformation: Government Repression
and White Supremacy

Pace University, New York City
Room: E323, Time: Saturday, 8th of June  05:30pm-07:10pm

Abstract: Activists mobilizing for economic and ecological transformation confront apathy, corporate greed and political opposition…. And do it all with targets on their backs. We’ll expose the connections between white supremacists, the Christian Right and government repression of progressive social movements in the U.S., starting with a quick presentation on the 3,000 year history of the Christian Right (starting with Zarusthra). We’ll focus particular attention on the intersection of the war on terror, the national security state and anarchists. Panelists will examine how activists are confronting and overcoming right wing and government attacks, question whether those attacks become excuses for lack of success, and discuss how solidarity across movements is crucial to success.
Chair, Sarah Hogarth -- Defending Dissent Foundation
Speakers:
Chip Berlet -- Defending Dissent Foundation
Arun Gupta, General Media Troublemaker
George Friday, 7th of June day -- Bill of Rights Defense Committee,

Left Forum is the largest annual conference of the broad Left in the United States. Each spring thousands of conference participants come together to discuss pressing local, national and global issues; to better understand commonalities and differences, and alternatives to current predicaments; or to share ideas to help build social movements to transform the world.
This year's theme of Left Forum is
"Mobilizing for Economical/Ecological transformation.”  
Speakers include Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone and Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera
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Chip Berlet is an investigative reporter, independent scholar, photographer, videographer, and progressive activist specializing in the study of right-wing movements in the United States, civil liberties, and the global Human Rights Movement.

He used to be a print journalist, but now is a content provider. < (irony alert)

His byline has appeared in publications ranging from the New York Times to the Progressive; and he is a frequent guest on radio and television programs from Nightline to Democracy Now.

Berlet also has written scholarly articles on conspiracy theories, religious apocalyptic aggression, and organized racist groups. For thirty years he was senior analyst at Political Research Associates. He is the co-author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort and a vice president of the Defending Dissent Foundation.

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Selected Articles

Focus on Civil Liberties

Focus on Scholarly Writing

Current Writing Projects

Recent Scholarly Writing Projects

  • Just Published!:
    Chip Berlet. 2012. “Reframing Populist Resentments in the Tea Party Movement.” In Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
    An early draft is HERE. But the print chapter that went through serious editing is much better.
  • _______. 2012. “Collectivists, Communists, Labor Bosses, and Treason: The Tea Parties as Right–Wing Populist Countersubversion Panic. In Critical Sociology.
  • Anders Breivik, Political Murder, and Right-Wing Demagogues (under journal review)
  • _______. 2011. “Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium.” In Richard Landes and Steven Katz, The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-year Retrospective on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: New York Univ. Press. Based on earlier study, Toxic to Democracy.
    _______. 2011. “Muckraking Gadflies Buzz Reality” In Ken Wachsberger, ed., Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 1, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State Univ. Press, pp. 267-297. Read the first few pages here.
  • _______. 2011. “Analyzing Breivik’s Ideology with Social Network Research.” In e-Extreme, the online journal of ECPR, the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, Vol. 12, No. 3, (October), pp. 7-8.
    _______. 2011. “Taking Tea Parties Seriously: Corporate Globalization, Populism, and Resentment.” In Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Global Studies Association of North America, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 11-29.

    Recent Popular Writing Projects

  • "Anti-Obama Anger, Populist Rage, and Conspiracy Theories"  for In These Times
  • "Taking Tea Partiers Seriously"  for the Progressive

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