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riversedge

(69,716 posts)
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 11:58 PM Aug 2017

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
43 comments




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 Obama’s 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 person’s mind “it might be worth it, if that one person had been Dylann Roof or the Oklahoma City bomber.”...........................
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Don't forget, just months ago Trump cut funding to groups combating Neo-Nazi terrorist organizations (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2017 OP
And refuses to restaff the post for combatting anti-Semitism. n/t Behind the Aegis Aug 2017 #1
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