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Health Care Providers Told Their Faith is Irrelevant
Date posted: June 30, 2008
Katherine Ragsdale with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights provides an excellent explanation of what the anti-religious folks are saying


Advance press for Chip's Ohio speeach at ComFest
Date posted: June 23, 2008
In keeping with this year's festival theme, "Be the Change," organizers have brought in Massachusetts-based journalist and policy researcher Chip Berlet; ...


Chip quoted in Article by AlterNet - The "War on Terror" Hits the Web
Date posted: June 12, 2008
"The report is terrible," added Chip Berlet, senior analyst with Political Research Associates. "It is so unprofessional and ignorant of modern social...


Fantastic Elastic Fundamentalism
Date posted: June 12, 2008
Sharlet: Veteran Christian Right-watcher Frederick Clarkson reviews The Family for The Public Eye, the publication of Political Research Associates, a public think tank.


LaRouchites Try for a Foothold in County
Date posted: June 12, 2008
Researcher and writer Chip Berlet notes that LaRouche claimed he has no income “although he lived in a huge mansion surrounded by armed guards...


Chip Berlet helps explain antisemitic comic book
Date posted: May 29, 2008
With commentary by Chip Berlet, Bruce Wilson of the Huffington Post describes a new Christian comic book, now sold in major book stores, that contains "ghastly and horrific" portrayals of Jews.


Pam Chamberlain to appear on panel examining Safe Schools movement
Date posted: May 29, 2008
Stonewall Communities Lifelong Learning Institute will hold its second program looking at the history of the Massachusetts Safe Schools movement on June 3 with a panel discussion called "Liberty & Justice for LGBT Students: What the Safe Schools Movement Teaches Us About Organizing." The panel, which will be held at Wheelock College, will feature Pam Chamberlain; John Auerbach, commissioner of the state Department of Public Health; and the Rev. Irene Monroe, a religion columnist and public theologian.


Jean Hardisty interviewed on Bush’s marriage initiatives
Date posted: May 22, 2008
Jean Hardisty sat down with Meria Heller to talk about the Bush Administration's discriminatory marriage policies and much more.


Conventional Dissent: Free Speech in the Streets
Date posted: May 14, 2008
In NYC, during the 2004 Republican National Convention, police violated the rights of thousands of protestors. We talk with people who exposed the abuses, and lawyers in the cities where the Democratic and Republican conventions will be held this summer, as they fight to prevent similar tactics. Abby Scher, Editor of Public Eye, presents this half-hour report for the nationally syndicated radio show Making Contact.


Chip Berlet talks on new conspiracy theories about the "North American Union"
Date posted: May 12, 2008
Chip Berlet explains how recent right-wing populist fears of a collectivist one-world government and new world order that fueled Cold War anticommunism, mobilized opposition to the Civil Rights Movement, and spawned the armed citizens militia movement in the 1990s, have resurfaced as an elaborate conspiracy theory about the alleged impending creation of a North American Union that would merge the United States, Canada, and Mexico.


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