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PRA in the News
Chip Berlet, quoted in The New Republic
Date posted: March 12, 2008
Yet, for every instance of loony racist paranoia, one finds a countervailing explanation for why Obama's rise is not a story about black America rising up. White supremacists are less inclined to hate Obama than the white race-traitors who are enabling him. "If you are a white supremacist who is dedicated to a biological understanding of racism that says blacks are inferior, the only way [Obama] could be elected is with the conniving of unseen forces," explains Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, a Boston-based expert on white supremacists.
Senior Analyst Chip Berlet, quoted in United Press International
Date posted: March 11, 2008
"Many of the people had such huge egos that they didn't know how to work together and keep the movement going," Chip Berlet, a senior analyst at the Political Research Associates think tank, told the Times. "So it basically unraveled."
Senior Analyst Chip Berlet, quoted in LA Times
Date posted: March 11, 2008
... going," said Chip Berlet, a senior analyst at the liberal Political Research Associates think tank who specializes in the study of right-wing networks. ...
Texas Director of Science Curriculum Forced Out
Date posted: December 3, 2007
According to Pam Chamberlain, senior researcher at Political Research Associates, a Massachusetts-based think tank that studies the religious right, the battle in Texas is part of a much larger and longer-running battle.
"The k-12 education system has been fraught with controversy for decades," Chamberlain said, "reaching all the way back to the Scopes Trial in 1925. These battles don't take place just at the intersection of religion and science; there has been a concerted effort by conservative groups to put their imprint at all levels and on all subjects, including history, science, and civics."
The amero conspiracy
Date posted: November 25, 2007
"In the 1990s in particular, with the militia movement, you had all the rumors of black helicopters and jackbooted UN troops," says Chip Berlet, an analyst at the liberal, Somerville-based think tank Political Research Associates. "There was this sense that the secret elites behind the UN were the same secret elites who had been behind the Soviet Union."
Program aims to hone students’ intellectual skills, preparing them to take their conservative Christ
Date posted: November 11, 2007
"It's a complicated time for the Christian right. They regrouped after the last election and decided they won't be able to capture the presidency, so they are digging further into the grass roots for the future."
Tarso Luis Ramos Speaks to Counterspin about the 2007 Values Voters Summit
Date posted: November 2, 2007
Were the values voters ever all the media cracked them up to be? Janine Jackson of the nationally syndicated radio show Counterspin asks PRA Research Director Tarso Luis Ramos.
Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
Date posted: November 1, 2007
Political Research Associates' "Public Eye" blog
Date posted: October 22, 2007
PRA-Wire has been listed as a Featured Resource on the Religious Right Watch.
Dubofsky: New day of equality hasn't dawned yet
Date posted: October 14, 2007
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