Guest Column
HATEWATCH: NATIVIST NEWS
- An e-newsletter monitoring extremism in the anti-immigration
movement
For the week of October 9, 2007
[IL] Minuteman Project Re-Schedules Forum With Ohio Sheriff
Northwest Herald / September 30, 2007
One month after canceling a highly publicized seminar featuring an Ohio
sheriff know for his crackdowns on illegal immigrants, the Illinois
Minuteman Project announced the event will take place Oct. 26 at McHenry
County College.
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[CO] District Attorney Holds Controversial Immigrant Crime Forum
The Denver Post / October 2, 2007
The flag of the Minutemen was erected next to the Stars and Stripes at a
heated forum on immigrants and crime hosted by District Attorney Ken
Buck.
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[NM] Flag Ripper Denies Posting Racist Comments
Albuquerque Journal / October 3, 2007
A University of New Mexico student who vandalized a Mexican flag that
was flying on campus last month denies advocating the murder of
"wet-backs" in a MySpace message board post bearing his name and
photograph.
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[MO] Lawyer Decries Hate-Mongering And Vigilantism
The Kansas City Star / October 3, 2007
Attorney Ramon Murguia, head of the Greater Kansas City Hispanic
Development Fund, told an awards ceremony crowd, "[The Minutemen are]
not just after the undocumented in our community. They're going after
all of us Latinos. And we're not going to take it."
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For the week of September 25, 2007
[MO] Kansas City Becomes Flash Point In Minuteman Controversy
The Kansas City Star / September 22, 2007
The Heart of America chapter of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is
ground zero in the national debate over the true identity and purpose of
the Minutemen.
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[CA] ACLU Sues To Protect Privacy Of Day Laborer Employers
Los Angeles Times / September 20, 2007
The American Civil Liberties Union sued to block the release of the
names, addresses and phone numbers of individuals who obtained city
permits to hire day laborers to protect them from harassment by
anti-immigration activists.
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[AL] Alabama Mayor Speaks At Minutemen Meeting
Prattville Progress / September 17, 2007
Prattville, Ala., Mayor Jim Byard became the first elected official to
meet with the River Region Minutemen.
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[NY] Gilchrist Speech At Columbia
University Canceled
New York Sun / September 19, 2007
The Columbia Political Union, a nonpartisan student group, nixed plans
to bring Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchirst back to the university
roughly one year after he was forced off stage by protesters.
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For the week of September 18, 2007
[CA] Men Charged With Hate Crime For Attacking Janitor
OC Weekly / September 12, 2007
Three white men allegedly shouted, "Go back to Mexico, you wetback!"
before viciously beating a Latino immigrant who was on to work as night
janitor at a fast food restaurant.
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[MO] Minutemen Plan Counter-Protest Convention
KMBC-TV / September 14, 2007
The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps announced plans to hold a convention
in Kansas City in December after civil rights organizations threatened
to boycott the city to protest an MCDC member's appointment to a local
government board.
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[BLOG] "Americans First" Leader Joins Neo-Nazi Protest
HATEWATCH / September 14, 2007
J.T. Ready, a prominent anti-immigration activist, was photographed
standing
side-by-side with neo-Nazis wearing brown shirts and swastika armbands
at an
anti-immigration rally in Omaha.
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[CA] Airshow Rejects Minutemen
Victorville Daily Press / September 12, 2007
The Victor Valley Airshow Association reversed its decision to rent a
booth to Desert Cities Minutemen after human rights activists threatened
to picket the annual "patriotic family event."
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[KS] Minuteman Leader Blames Immigrants For Making Kansas A
"Cesspool"
The Wichita Eagle / September 14, 2007
Ed Hays, head of the Kansas chapter of the Minuteman Project, told a
forum crowd that immigrants fleeing crackdowns in Oklahoma and Missouri
are flocking to "this cesspool called Kansas."
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LEARN MORE
To learn more about the anti-immigration movement, read these articles
from the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report:
*** 'Christian' Nativism ***
A look at the way that Christian Right groups are dealing with the
contentious issue of illegal immigration.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/aBC6E0FNuiR0L1h0FA1y0A8">splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=724
*** Smokescreen ***
Anti-immigration activists are touting a "black" group as proof that
theirs
is not a racist movement. But the group is largely a creation of whites.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=672
*** Ruckus on the Right ***
Minuteman Project co-founder Chris Simcox has been an icon of the
anti-immigration movement. But now allies are accusing him of
improprieties.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=689
*** Policing the Undocumented ***
A lawyer writes that passing anti-'illegal alien' laws may be popular,
but
the end result will be costly litigation that localities will lose.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=682
*** Deadly Force ***
A profile of Roy Warden, a hard-line anti-immigration activist who
routinely threatens Latinos with death.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=671
*** The Nativists ***
A survey of hardliners who are fanning the flames of anti-immigration
extremism.
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*** The Little Prince ***
An investigative profile of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leader Chris
Simcox.
splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1&aid=149
*** Playing Rough ***
Profiles of some of the more than 40 anti-immigration vigilante outfits
formed in the first six months after the Minuteman Project.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=571
*** Open Season ***
A 2003 feature on anti-immigration vigilantes in the pre-Minuteman era.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=19
*** The Battle of Georgiafornia ***
A feature on the hate crime backlash against Hispanic immigrants in
Georgia.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=505
*** Arizona Showdown ***
A feature on the April 2005 Minuteman Project in Arizona.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=557
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