Attending ceremony to receive her Anniversary Pin for 30 Years of Effort, Attempting To Turn Iowa (and specifically Des Moines) Into A Liberal Hell Hole
Posted on 12/26/2007 8:19:33 PM PST by stan_sipple
It’s not just about illegal aliens (yes aliens), it’s about losing our superior culture (yes, superior) and the lack of assimilation by the new aliens or “immigrants”
Most of them here don’t give a damn about our culture or laws. This place is just an ATM for them.
Yeah, I’m sure Alicia Claypool represents the views of most Iowans on this issue.
Rev. David Ostendorf, Center for New Community Max Cardenas, Iowa Project for Immigrant Justice, Center for New Community
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Rev. David Ostendorf
David Ostendorf is a United Church of Christ Minister currently serving as director of the Chicago-based Center for New Community. Since 1974 he has been engaged in social, economic and racial justice organizing, and in that capacity has worked closely with the nation’s religious and civic community at every level. The Center, established in 1995, is committed to building democratic communities for justice and racial equality. Its faith-based organizing commitments, and its commitments to build a racially just society are carried out nationwide. From 1981 until 1993 he served as executive director of PrairieFire Rural Action, a rural education, training and organizing group based in Des Moines, Iowa. Prior to that he served on the national staff of Rural America. He began his organizing work in the coalfields of southern Illinois.
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State Of Hate: White Nationalism In The Midwest 2001-2002 -
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are likely to embolden white nationalist groups to turn up their assault on immigrants, said the Rev. David Ostendorf
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Rural frustrations: breeding ground for the far right
Christian Century, Sept 27, 1995 by David Ostendorf
In 1985 Prairie Fire Rural Action became aware of the rise of far-right groups and launched an effort to bring religious, farm, rural and labor organizations together to educate their members about the far right and to develop countermeasures. Aggressive public education and organizing campaigns to expose the hate groups were mounted by a strong interfaith religious community, by grass-roots farm groups and by new coalitions. Training sessions involving some 2,000 community leaders and clergy from across the U.S. and Canada yielded effective community and state-level strategies to counter the movement. Over a period of three years this collective effort helped push the organized far right out of the farmbelt.
The far right is not just one more issue to take on. The resurgence of this movement underscores the need to develop in churches a biblically engaged and theologically motivated community that can stand up to the purveyors of religion-based hatred and simultaneously create a new vision of human community. It compels congregations to engage in social analysis and to work in coalition with other faith traditions, farm and rural organizations, labor and community groups to tackle the harsh socioeconomic problems that push people to embrace hatred and violence. It forces us to lay solid groundwork for the long process of creating a new vision of democratic community.
Such work is under way. In 1991 PrairieFire and six denominations launched the Renewing Rural Iowa project in some of the state’s poorest counties. In 1993 the Missouri School of Religion and the North Dakota Conference of Churches began similar initiatives to develop strong, biblically based congregations equipped to address in creative ways rural social and economic realities.
The General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church has moved quickly to equip rural chaplains for ministry in the face of violence and hatred, and recently the board held a national Consultation on Christian Ministry in the Midst of Hate and Violence.
David Ostendorf, a United Church of Christ minister, directs the Center for New Community, a rural-urban training organization for congregations and communities. He is former executive director of the Des Moines-based Prairie Fire Rural Action.
The AP around here is a loyal cheerleader for reconquista
"The church of Morris Dees: How the Southern Poverty Law Center profits from intolerance" by Ken Silverstein, November 2000, Harpers
Thars' gold makin' them thar' lists of "hate" groups!
in other words Rev. Ostendorf is Hugo Chavez’s man des moines
anyone who thinks Texas New Mexico Arizona and California belong to the United States is a hate group according to the SPLC
I'm not really sure Mr. Stein understands the purpose of a debate...
National Coalition Launches Hate Crimes Awareness Initiative
Rev. David Ostendorf, director of the Center for New Community. “But on a broader scale, our center is tracking 272 hate groups in a nine state region in the Midwest. That reflects the breadth and depth of this problem.”
Other co-sponsors include the Illinois Conference of Churches, the National Council of Churches, the Atlanta-based Center for Democratic Renewal, the National Coalition for Burned Churches, the Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, the Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ; the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the National Board for Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church; and the National Black United Front.
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The Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR) is affiliated with Political Research Associates and the Policy Action Network.
CDR was co-founded by the legendary civil rights leaders, Rev. C.T. Vivian and by Anne Braden
After working on newspapers in Anniston and Birmingham, she Anne Braden) returned to Kentucky as a young adult to write for the Louisville Times. There, she met and in 1948 married fellow newspaperman Carl Braden, a left-wing trade unionist.
In 1948, Anne and Carl Braden immersed themselves in Henry Wallace’s run on the Progressive Party for the presidency. Soon after Wallace’s defeat, they left mainstream journalism to apply their writing talents to the interracial left wing of the labor movement through the FE (Farm and Equipment Workers) Union, representing Louisville’s International Harvester employees.
After Carl’s death in 1975, Anne Braden remained among the nation’s most outspoken white anti-racist activists. She instigated the formation of a new regional multi-racial organization, the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC), which initiated battles against environmental racism. She became an instrumental voice in the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition of the 1980s and in the two Jesse Jackson presidential campaigns, as well as organizing across racial divides in the new environmental, women’s, and anti-nuclear movements that sprang up in that decade.
CDR helped put language that included sexual orientation in the Hate Crimes Statistical Reporting Act passed in 1990. We were the first in the nation to expose the skinhead movement, the Christian Identity Church (white supremacist theology) as well as the epidemic of black church burnings in the South. We worked in collaboration with the National Council of Churches as a research arm and to enact the federal Church Arson Task Force. CDR convened the country’s first Hate Crime Summit and the first national summit of diverse young leaders on youth and hate violence. CDR founded the National Coalition of Burned Churches to address the continuing arsons and recently established the National Southern Coalition Against Racism and Bigotry that involves 80 organizations (still growing) out of our Southern Action Project.”
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On Friday, October 25, 1996, the National Black United Front (NBUF) launched a National Petition Drive charging the United States Government with genocide.
The National Black United Front takes the position that the proliferation of the distribution and sale of crack cocaine by Africans in America street organizations has reached epidemic proportions, causing serious harm to the African community in America. This harm can only be described as acts of genocide by the United States government through its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches have never been a carefully guarded secret. Today, as it did in the past, the NCC has existed as a political, religious, philanthropic, or humanitarian organization that unfortunately has succumbed to the infiltration of the fringe left. Actually, it never really shifted to the left - it was designed in mind as a front group from the very beginning! What better way to bring revolution to the world than by using religion with it’s message of equality and the meek inheriting the earth.
One look at the NCC website and the rhetoric of their anti American “social justice” programs, gives a clear indication that this outfit is not so holy in nature, but actually exists to destroy the very foundations that Western civilization is built on. Even more disturbing, the NCC has managed to twist and pervert the teachings of Christianity by embracing philosophies, political movements, and sexual practices that are anathema to all religions.
Cuban President Fidel Castro waves his hat to the congregation as he arrives at the National Council of Churches affiliated Riverside Church in New York. Joan Brown Cambell was in attendance. But of course. CASTRO IS APPLAUDED AT RIVERSIDE CHURCH—Mass-murdering communist atheist Fidel Castro spoke for four hours to a crowd of 2,000 admirers at notoriously liberal Riverside Church in New York after attending the UN Millennium Summit Former NCC head Joan Brown Campbell and Maxine Waters were in the crowd that applauded.
NCC operative, The Rev. Roger Ireson, top executive of the United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry, frolics with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Castro’s translator who works for Cuban State Security.
While the NCC simply stated that it was working on behalf of Elian’s father, it was evident that Joan Brown Campbell and her “humanitarian” organization had a covert agenda to fulfill. They were actually acting on the orders of Fidel Castro, his security apparatus and the Clinton administration.
The most unbelievable aspect of the “Christian” NCC’s bravado was that it went to great financial, and PR lengths to return the boy to a draconian regime that has killed and jailed clergy; and has practiced state sponsored atheism for over four decades.
The National Council of Churches was most famous for its relentless propaganda over many years to the effect that there was no persecution of Christians in the old Soviet Union. When the Berlin Wall fell, Christians on the other side were none too happy with them. Needless to say, they are now in the forefront of those who help cover up the ongoing persecution of Christians in Cuba, China and the Sudan.
Center for New Community Board of Directors
The Reverend Kazi Joshua, Chair
Coordinator of Enrollment Management for Multicultural Development
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Aurora, Illinois
Kaziputalimba Joshua is a faculty member of North Park Theological Seminary and director of the Center for Justice Ministries. He is also the Dean of Multi-Cultural Development at North Park University. Dedicated to racial reconciliation and economic justice issues, Joshua has taught courses in theology and culture at the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE). He is also the associate minister at Progressive Community Center on the south side of Chicago. He has been on the steering committee and has taught at World and World, an organization committed to educating Christians for work in social transformation.
Rev. Kaziputalimba Joshua, of Malawi is completing his doctorate at the University of Chicago, writing his dissertation on “African Independent Churches.” He is a Chicago community activist, on the pastoral staff of Progressive Community Church on the southside. He is also Director of SCUPE’s Nurturing the Call program.
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Enrique E. Figueroa, Ph.D
Director, Roberto Hernandez Center and Assistant to the Provost for Latino Affairs
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconson
Anne Ronce
Clarke Ronce and Executive Director, California Human Rights Advocates
San Francisco, California
Betsy Shuman-Moore
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Chicago, Illinois
Olgha Sierra Sandman
National Farm Worker Ministry
Oak Brook, Illinois
Robin Williams
Associate Director, Civil Rights and Community Action Department
United Food & Commercial Workers International Union
Washington, D.C.
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Center for New Community Staff
The Reverend David L. Ostendorf
Executive Director
Axel Fuentes
Organizer, Midwest Immigrant Health Project (Missouri)
Axel Fuentes joined the Center for New Community in 2007 to lead the grassroots and congregation-based organizing efforts to address immigrant worker health issues in meat packing and poultry processing communities in Missouri. The first phase of this work will begin in 2007 and continue through 2010.
He studied education at the San Carlos University in Guatemala and is certified as an Elementary Teacher in Guatemala.
Carlos Rich
Organizer, Midwest Immigrant Health Project (Iowa)
Carlos joined the Center for New Community in 2007 to lead the grassroots and congregation-based organizing efforts to address immigrant worker health issues in meat packing and poultry processing communities in Iowa. The first phase of this work will be 2007-2010. Carlos previously worked as a Community Living Program Coordinator in Wichita, Kansas and also for the Wichita Children’s Home. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Kansas State University in 2003.
Leone Bicchieri
Senior Organizer
Leone Jose Bicchieri has almost 20 years experience organizing Latino and other immigrant workers, workers of all backgrounds, and organizing around community and immigration issues. He is currently Senior Organizer at the Chicago-based Center for New Community, where he is Coordinator of the Midwest Immigrant Health Project, a community-based effort to organize immigrant workers (largely Latinos) around health care access, as well as in-plant health and safety issues in several meatpacking communities in the Midwest.
Before joining the Center for New Community in early 2007, Bicchieri was Lead Organizer for two years with a “Justice for Janitors” campaign in Madison, WI. In 2003 Bicchieri was a national staff person with the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, coordinating the 13-city route which the two Los Angeles buses took across the country to the East Coast. He came to Chicago in 2000 to work with Interfaith Worker Justice, where from 2000-2003 he coordinated a national coalition to bring justice to the poultry industry, both to plant workers as well as to chicken farmers, primarily in Arkansas, North Carolina, and other southern states.
Devin Burghart
Director, Building Democracy Initiative
Devin Burghart is director of the Center for New Community’s Building Democracy Initiative - a national program to defend civil and human rights based in Chicago. He joined the Center in 1997. Devin is an internationally recognized expert on nativism and white nationalist movements. He has researched, written, and organized on all facets of the anti-immigrant movement for more than a decade. His latest book, Lady Liberty No More: The New Nativism in the United States will be published later this year. He also co-wrote and edited Soundtracks to the White Revolution: White Supremacist Assaults on Youth Music Subcultures, and the Turn It Down Resource Kit – two vital elements in the Center’s hugely successful campaign with young people to address organized racism.
Melissa Nalani Ross
Research Analyst, Building Democracy Initiative
Melissa Nalani Ross is the Research Analyst for the Center for New Community’s Building Democracy Initiative. She joined the Center in 2006. Her strategic research, investigation and analysis helps CNC identify threats to civil and human rights and add to the public discourse and understanding of nativism, bigotry and racism.
Before joining the staff at CNC, Melissa worked on policy and campaigns for the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based social justice company, focusing predominantly on issues of police brutality and violence against women on college campuses. She also served as an AmeriCorps VISTA at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, working on housing and energy policy. Melissa received her B.A. in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Arizona.
Eric Ward
National Field Director, Building Democracy Initiative
Eric Ward is the National Field Director of the Building Democracy Initiative of the Center for New Community. He joined the Center in 2003. He is the organizer of Which Way Forward, a national framework for policy and program decisions about relationships between native-born black people and immigrants with a goal of 400 participants.
Since 2006 he has compiled “The Nativism Watch”, a weekly email sharing research on nativism issues and leaders with more than 550 allies and organizations.
A former staff member with the non-profit organization Clergy and Laity Concerned, Eric founded and directed a community project designed to expose and counter hate groups and respond to bigoted violence.
Eric’s most recent writings have appeared in the Southern Poverty Law Center journal, “The Intelligence Report”, and the European monthly, “Searchlight Magazine”. Eric currently serves on the board of the Moenkopi Group, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that produces high quality film and video documentaries on subjects not usually addressed in mainstream media.
Please, Rev: NAME THEM!
I want to see how many I'm associated with.
Are Fall River Republicans or Republican Party of South Dakota included? NRA? NASCAR? National Arbor Day Fundation? Shepherd's Chapel? How about attending the 4-H youth fair? The local Humane Society?
Just damn! I get left out of everything.
The Reverend David L. Ostendorf, Executive Director, Center for New Community
Our work is growing across the nation these days. We are in the early stages of launching the Midwest Immigrant Health Project, a major new initiative to work with immigrants in Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri on a range of both community and plant health care issues in a dozen meatpacking and poultry processing communities.
Our commitments to counter anti-immigrant activity nationally are also growing, particularly with our emerging Campaign for a United America and our Which Way Forward initiative with African American leaders. The Campaign is a media and organizing effort to build a strong base to counter the growing impact of anti-immigrant groups, while the initiative is a groundbreaking effort to constitute a national African American leadership corps to address the impact of anti-immigrant activity on the Black community. We are deeply concerned about the expansion of anti-immigrant activity at local and state levels, the increasing level of hatred and the rising potential for violence associated with that activity, and its impact far beyond immigrant and immigrant-hosting communities and locales.
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
The Center’s Building Democracy Initiative has released a new report, Mapping the New Nativism: A Survey of State and Local Anti-Immigrant Groups. The report pinpoints the hundreds of state and local anti-immigrant groups that have popped up recently.
The growth of state and local groups has been dramatic, with a nearly 600% increase in the past year and a half. To find out more about these groups, and what you can do to help stop the new nativism, visit www.buildingdemocracy.org.
These are the ones I found in the ‘report’:
The Minutemen
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
Save Our State, Proposition 187
Tom Tancredo’s Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus
Everything else is a rant against Republican lawmakers, period.
the impending nationwide battle over immigrant rights was kicked off by Devin Burghart’s detailed report of right-wing organizing and fundraising now underway that implicated individuals with twenty-year track records of inciting bigotry and violence against minorities from coast to coast. Particularly disturbing was the level of coordination and sophistication by the GOP in mainstreaming former anti-government paramilitaries into pro-apartheid government supporters—the Minutemen.
Jay Taber reported on past collusion between industrial associations, media, the GOP and militias in carrying out racist-based political violence.
The continuity of the hate groups and paramilitaries that now have a voice in Congress as well as on right-wing media is now a vertically-integrated support system for organized hate. They have experience, funds, and to a large degree, public opinion on their side. And unless groups like the National Council of Churches and their allies mobilize their resources in opposition soon, the extreme positions of the racist organizations listed above will be the supreme law of the land. Civil rights as well as civil liberties will be a thing of the past.
As Marc Brenman remarked, “This Minuteman Project is a precursor to domestic terrorism.”
Devin Burghart is a LIAR...
“We would put the Minuteman movement as a potentially violent fringe of the nativist movement in this country,” said Devin Burghart, who tracks anti-immigrant groups as director of the Chicago-based Center for New Community’s Building Democracy Initiative.
Devin Burghart, a panelist and Director of the Building Democracy Initiative with The Center for New Community, said the racism fueled the anti-immigration debate, noting that between January 2005 and January 2007 there was a 600 percent increase in the number of anti-immigration groups; two-thirds of which have ties to white supremacist groups, or have leaders with a history of white supremacist support.
Burghart said that most citizens are unaware of the murky pasts of some of the anti-immigration groups and spokespersons with racist connections. As a result many of these organizations are funded by unsuspecting donors.
“It’s not a surprise that they’re ecstatic nowadays,” says Devin Burghart, executive director of the Chicago-based Center for New Community, which in 2000 issued a report that concluded white supremacists were gaining traction in mainstream politics, especially with the Republican Party.
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“Immigration has become the nexus of racism,” Burghart says.
Well I don’t appreciate ILLEGALS KILLING AND RAPING AMERICANS!
Thanks!
Minutemen & Tancredo qualify me! YIPEE!I made a hate groups ‘haters’ list.
(Bet they don’t like FReepers, either, come to think of it.)
the Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by Morris Dees and Joe Levin, two local lawyers who shared a commitment to racial equality. Its first president was civil rights activist Julian Bond.
Julian Bond:
At the 2001 convention, which was held before the September 11 attacks, Bond sharply criticized some of Bush’s political appointments, saying that he “selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.”
“We must guarantee the irregularities, suppression, nullification, and outright theft of black votes that happened on Election Day 2000 never, ever happen again,” Bond said.
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond called on members of the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights organization to boost voter turnout to help oust President Bush.
During his keynote speech at the group’s 95th annual convention Sunday night in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bond also assailed the Bush administration and the Republican Party, accusing the GOP of “playing the race card in election after election.”
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Mark Potek from the Southern Poverty Law Centre says race is an issue in who ends up in jail in the United States and for how long.
Mark Potek, editor, writes in his leading article about “undocumented immigrants.” This categorization of those who are breaking the sovereign and reasonable laws of the United States of America indicates that Mr. Potek has little use for the rule of law.
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“We weren’t surprised that leaders of the religious right finally got into the game,” Devin Burghart, the program director of the Building Democracy Initiative at the Chicago, Illinois-based Centre for New Community, told IPS. “The organisation is trying to stake out a more moderate position than the Minutemen and other extremist anti-immigration organisations, and it is using a religious frame to try and woo supporters.”
“While the language the group is using is more moderate sounding — touting a compromise solution to the problem — its anti-immigrant positions are quite radical,” Burghart added. “And although they claim to be in line with traditional religious teachings, they seem to be ignoring much of the Bible, particularly passages about welcoming strangers.”
“It’s a disingenuous attempt to appear to be not anti-Latino while at the same time pandering to their right-wing base,” Mark Potok, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Centre’s Intelligence Project, said in a recent interview. “These leaders are desperately trying to hold their coalition together that very likely cannot stay together.”
According to Burghart, an activist/researcher who has been tracking developments around immigration for several years, Families First on Immigration “is hungry for new members and hopes to tap into a new funding stream. They saw how successful the Minuteman Political Action Committee was in raising money and they hope to strike while the iron is hot.”
The organisation appears to be a “bridge group’ said Burghart, “aimed at bridging the gap between the hard core anti-immigration movement and the religious right.”
In terms of the issues that it is raising, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potek believes that it is unlikely that the group will have any “chance in a Democratic controlled congress.”
However, while the group may not have an immediate impact visa via legislation, it will no doubt try to “inject immigration issues into the heart of 2008 presidential campaign,” said Burghart. If it is able to accomplish that, it will be seen as a success.”
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The New York Times, with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center, has created a graphic map of noose incidents in the U.S. since the protest march at Jena, La. in September. This timely ABC package helps teachers address the subject of hate symbols.
SPLC in 1991 established Teaching Tolerance, an educational program to help K-12 teachers foster respect and understanding in the classroom. Teaching Tolerance is now one of the nation’s leading providers of anti-bias resources – both in print and online. Its award-winning magazine is distributed free twice a year to more than 500,000 educators, and its innovative multimedia kits are provided at no charge to thousands of schools and community groups.
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