Don't forget, just months ago Trump cut funding to groups combating Neo-Nazi terrorist organizations
Donald Trump freezes funding to groups fighting right-wing terror and white supremacism
Grants had been approved by former President Barack Obama to target far-right hate groups and Islamist radicals at community level
Lucy Pasha-Robinson
@lucypasha
Wednesday 3 May 2017 12:12 BST
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Time to call your Senators and Reps to get this funding restored now.
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Elle? @ElleMN_ 7h7 hours ago
Don't forget, just months ago, Trump cut funding to groups combating Neo-Nazi terrorist organizations.
According to Southern Poverty Law Center, 1051 hate crimes were reported in the month following Donald Trump's election REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Donald Trump has reportedly frozen $10 million (£7.7m) of grants destined to counter violent extremism in the US.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-counter-violent-domestic-extremism-white-supremacism-cve-funding-freeze-10-million-a7715101.html
More than 30 organisations were pegged by former President Barack Obamas office to receive funding, although the White House has since put the grants on hold pending review.
Among those approved were local governments, city police departments, universities and non-profit organisations fighting all forms of violent extremism in the US.
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Former white supremacist Chuck Leek, who has since become a volunteer with Life After Hate - one of the organisations that was due to receive government funding - said the white supremacy movement was becoming more active.
The white supremacist movement is far more active in the last six months than I have seen it in 10 or 12 years," he told CBS.
He believes that if these organisations can help change even one persons mind it might be worth it, if that one person had been Dylann Roof or the Oklahoma City bomber............................