Rebecca Kasen has seen and heard that she never expected in the capital of Michigan in recent years.
Kasen said, “It’s a very strange time in our lives. Women’s center of larger lancing.
In November, a group of people took an early surveillance video in the front window of the center one morning, mocking the “Black Lives Matter” signs, and one of them destroyed free food storage rooms. In the same fall, the female center staff reported that it was bullied.
East Michigan Avenue, Strange Matter Coffee, which supports the progressive causes of the community, faced several blocks.The 1st Crystal Audit OfficerKasen said, “Some guns, cameras, sometimes slogans that support President Donald Trump, and slogans that support customers and employees, Kasen said.
Many cases Extremist And action Due to deepening throughout the United States over the past few years Political party And information-based rebellion against the response to covid-19 pandemic. In recent years, tension has increased due to backlash against immigration and diversity, equity and initiative.
Last year Southern Poverty Law Center Documentation 1,371 hatred and extremist groups Through extensive tactics, sowing anxiety nationwide is sometimes violent. Over the past few years, the organization has been changing political rights to more and more “authoritarian and patriarchal”. Christian superiority We are doing our best to eradicate inclusive democracy and the value of public institutions. ”
Researcher Polarization and extremist research and innovation research instituteOr risks say that in the online space, “hate is cross.” (For example, Peril’s research director Pasha Dashtgard often explains that a platform dedicated to male supremacy is often anti -Semitism.) The harmless discussion on Vitriol has stimulated charges of casting black women and non -rational people due to the launch of the “Minecraft movie”.
The continuous escalation led the employees of Peril and Southern Poverty Law Center to approach problems from different angles. Treat extremism as a public health problem. Community advisory, resources and education centers It is currently operated in Michigan Lansing and Georgia Athens, and provides training, support, recommendation and resources to those who focus on communities and young people affected by hatred, discrimination, and superior ideology.
The team defines extremism as the belief that its group is a direct and written conflict with another identity of other identity (ideology, race, gender identity or expression). This improves the United States’ non -stone theme spirit in a guilty ruling that it can only be solved through separation, domination or doctoral doctor.
Researchers who study extremism say the state and community recognize themselves as the federal government terminates subsidies to prevent violence. (Nursing does not receive federal funds.)
Aaron Flanagan, the deputy director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, gathered his organization and risks about five years ago to investigate joint research questions. What is the way to create a nationwide model and provide solution residents’ trust to prevent youth -based schools with roots in the community?
They saw a German anti -stressed model decades ago called the Mobile Advisory Center. Dashtgard is to participate in the dialogue between “equipped with and solves and solves technology and knowledge that recognizes extremism in all levels of civil society.”
“We are not about ‘how do you react to the Patriot front people who march your village?’ Pete Kurtz-Glovas, who worked as a regional partnership director of Peril by June, explained during January training. How does a member of the congregation react when expressing these extremist ideas? ‘
Michigan has been considered for a long time. Fertile basis for extremism. Timothy McVeig and Terry Nichols, who were convicted of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, were related to the main militia group. Some men were prosecuted in conspiracy in 2020. Democratic Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitper There was a relationship with the militia group called Wolverine Watchman.
The main capital and adjacent East Lancing with Michigan State University are relatively progressive but conflicted.
Will Verchereau has vivid memories since the early days of infectious diseases. We joined the Rolling protests protesting Whitmer’s Kovid Lock Guidelines by blocking the pickup trucks that cross the road, the alliance flag, the music explosion, and the distance around Capitol.
Gradually, the community responded to this extremist expression. After confrontation with Strange Matter Coffee Safety centerThose who advocated and applied for the LGBTQ+ community gathered together to talk together to talk about “safe ways, as much as possible at that moment and where to escalate.”
Care initiative strengthens such efforts. The center offers a tool kit offered to a particular audience. Among them are: Parent and caregiver guide Online radical wave, A Community guide to youth radicalsand “In addition to jokes, understanding and preventing gender and sexual base prejudice and prejudice. ”
Flanagan said the team believes that the public health model is complemented separately from the enforcement mediation. The goal is to participate in the law as minimal as possible. It is to detect the initial warning mark and solve it before the police are involved.
This data helps to identify the conditions that can manipulate more people by extremists, such as trauma such as experienced behavioral health problems and vulnerabilities or loss of loved ones.
Erin Buitendorp, a lantern resident, witnessed protesters, and some of them flooded the parliamentary building and ordered masking orders due to infectious diseases. She is a supporter of public health approach. “It’s a strategy to provide people with agents and move forward,” she said. It is a way to convey energy. “I think it can actually make a change with the community.”
Lancing and Athens have been selected for various reasons, including proximity to universities and rural communities that can serve as partners.
In a small village in Howwell, 40 miles southeast of Lancing The protesters gave up the Nazi flag Outside of the “Anne Frank’s Diary” in American Legion Post.
In nearby Dewitt, local school districts proposed a mini lesson for pronouns for first -year classes reading picture books. There was a threat to the staff, and the officials canceled the class. Since then, the nursing team has helped to talk to the subjects that are controversial in the classroom and provide support to teachers dealing with skeptical parents.
Flanagan said, “It is really important that the rural community is not left.” They are constantly in the United States, often the most extreme or extreme political issues and challenges.
The care team hopes to expand the program nationwide. Similar public health initiatives of Boston Children’s Hospital began elsewhere. Trauma and Community Elasticity Center and Deep programIt is operated by New York City CRIME COMMISSION.
And in June, the new tool is The Reach the resource hubI lived by providing guidance to prevent violent extremism.
PETE SIMI, a sociology professor at Chapman University and the best expert in extremism, is seeing difficult tasks as extremism has become more mainstream for the past 25 years. “It’s just destructive,” he said. “It’s really amazing.”
SIMI had previously talked about overton Window’s shifts, but the scope of ideas that could be politically accepted in the mainstream society said, “I will say that it is completely shattered.” Violent extremists now feel that they are being “receiving a new administration’s dependence.”
SIMI said, “We are now in a more dangerous time.
Pastor Pippin Whitaker was ministered last year in Georgia’s universalism in Athens, and last year, he received a ammunition package with a mail without a memo. She accepts extremism and people who frame extremism and lacks awareness due to public health problems.
“If you have bacteria, people can protect themselves if they wash their hands and do not know that it is a real problem.
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