Full Description
When Hate Groups March Down Main Street is a comprehensive, authoritative resource guide for communities, organizations, and individuals who are concerned and intimidated by the resurgence of neo-Nazi and extreme right wing groups in the United States. Their incursions into communities often leads to violence, deaths, injuries, property destruction, as shown in Charlottesville, Berkeley, Parkland High School, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. Communities have often been caught flat-footed when confronting neo-Nazi and far right wing extremist incursions. This book examines how neo-Nazis and far right wing extremists act, what motivates them, discusses how to counter-act them, and how to equip communities to successfully respond to these incursions by taking a community-as-a-whole approach. This book synthesizes the state of the field, which is developing and not set, and provides innovative ideas, as well as initiatives that have worked in the recent past. The author's objectives include providing resources to communities that are threatened with extremist activities and other stakeholders such as academia, law enforcement, and faith groups. They provide guides to extremist groups and the code language and tactics they use. Case studies provide examples of how their disruption and violence are managed.
Contents
Preface
1 The Local-Global Context
2 Hate and Neo-Nazis
3 Hate and White Supremacists
4 The Hate Message Online
5 Hate Crime Connection
6 Corporate and Legal Context
7 Community Organizing
8 Recruitment and Radicalization
9 What Is Our Moral Obligation?
10 Globalization and Economic Disparities
11 Bias, Prejudice, and Hate
12 The Special Responsibility of Schools
13 Holocaust Education
14 Interfaith Efforts
15 Conclusions
16 Postscript
Glossary
Resources
Appendix 1: Know Your Enemy
Appendix 2: National Socialist Rally: Press Release
Appendix 3: Compassionate Witnessing and Rehumanizing the Enemy
Appendix 4: Example of Anti-Nazi Resolution
Appendix 5: Sample Hate Crime Policy
Appendix 6: Sample Bias Incident Response Protocol
Appendix 7: CRS Efforts to Defuse Hate Crime Activity
Appendix 8: Holocaust Ethical Implications
Appendix 9: Human Rights First
Appendix 10: Financial Help with Security of Institutions
Appendix 11: Bomb Threat Checklist
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
