News from SPLC

May 29, 2009

New SPLC Intelligence Report released Mark Potok's editorial describes a "resurgence of right-wing hate groups and radical ideas" in the United States. Five police officers have been killed by extremists in recent weeks. Also in the issue: "From Hate to Hurt" - Experts discuss the link between hate propaganda and violence.

Abuse in Mississippi SPLC has filed a federal class action suit to stop the horrible abuse of children at a for-profit, Mississippi detention center, where juveniles are confined in filthy, bug-infested cells for 23 hours a day with no adequate mental health or education services. Lawsuits are just one of the strategies SPLC is using to reform a system that jails children, most of whom are poor and black, instead of providing adequate education and mental health services. SPLC President Richard Cohen is calling for a national dialogue on the issue.

Latest Teaching Tolerance kit, Viva la Causa, is helping students gain understanding Amid anti-immigrant rhetoric on the airwaves and escalating violence toward Latinos, our new teaching kit, Viva la Causa, is giving students a new understanding of the Latino struggle for civil rights. This school year, more than 2 million students have benefited from the kit, which teaches about César Chávez and the 1960s California farmworker strike and grape boycott.

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