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We Could Not Have Done it Without You!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the #WalkAgainstHate on Sunday! We greatly appreciate your dedication to fighting hate for good in your communities. Click below to find out how you can continue this important work.
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Thursday, November 4 I 7:00 PM | $12 | Bender JCC Kreeger Auditorium
“A Crime on the Bayou” is a poignant yet inspiring true story about allyship and justice, where Richard Sobol, a young Jewish attorney, defends an unjustly accused Black teen in this landmark Civil Rights-era case. At a time of national reckoning over racial inequality, Emmy-winning documentarian Nancy Buirski presents a potent argument for the power of individual action to promote social change.
Following the JCC screening, Meredith Weisel, Senior Associate Regional Director of ADL Washington, D.C., will moderate a distinguished panel featuring Rabbi Adam Raskin, of Congregation Har Shalom, and Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando. We hope you will join us for this timely discussion concerning racial injustice and the role the Jewish community plays.
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Join thousands of experts, members of the community, business leaders and students for Never Is Now, the world's largest annual summit on antisemitism and hate. Never Is Now is the best way to learn about and discuss contemporary drivers of antisemitism and hate and find out how you can take action in combating bias of all kinds. The Summit will be virtual for the second time, enabling communities from around the world to come together.
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More than ever in 2021, we could all use a little inspiration. On December 12 at 8pm ET, ADL will deliver just that with a lot of great music. We invite you to join us from a front-row seat in your living room.
ADL In Concert Against Hate is a night of music, community and celebration packed with spectacular, performances from acclaimed stars. Through storytelling and song, we’ll introduce you to real-life heroes and celebrate their extraordinary acts of courage and compassion in the face of bigotry and hate.
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The ADL Washington, D.C. Regional Office has opened its application for the 2022 Glass Leadership Institute (GLI)!
GLI is designed to educate a select group of dynamic young adults in their late twenties to early forties about the crucial work of the ADL. GLI is composed of a series of intensive, stimulating and informative interactive seminars, briefings and roundtable discussions. Topics include but are not limited to: Hate Crimes, Terrorism, Extremism, The Rise of Global of Antisemitism, Church/State Separation, Israel, Government Affairs, Anti-Bias Training and Holocaust Education.
GLI is the cornerstone leadership development program for ADL. Through GLI:
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ADL empowers its next generation of leaders and provides young professionals with the tools to fight hatred and bigotry in their own communities.
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ADL’s Regional Offices offer unique opportunities to explore ADL’s global mission from an insider’s perspective.
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Participants engage in six months of dynamic sessions, exposing them to the important work of ADL and the full range of issues on the ADL agenda.
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Participants have opportunities to grow their leadership and advocacy skills, socialize with peers, network with ADL’s senior leadership and attend the National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.
Our prestigious 2022 GLI Program will begin in January. If you or someone you know is interested in learning more and applying for a spot in this program, visit our website. | |
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The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) is a large anti-government extremist group whose primary purpose it is to spread anti-government propaganda to, and recruit from, law enforcement personnel, especially county sheriffs and sheriff’s deputies. The group was founded in 2011 by Richard Mack, a former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, who has used CSPOA as a vehicle to gain stature and influence within both the far right and the mainstream right. Although the
Oath Keepers, another anti-government extremist group that recruits from law enforcement, have garnered more media attention in recent years, the CSPOA has arguably had more success infiltrating law enforcement, including at the executive level.
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Photo by: Kiki Sorensen, Flickr, CC: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
We know that social media platforms play a large role in spreading hate speech, racism and misinformation. Transparency reports are supposed to track platforms’ enforcement of their content moderation rules. Ideally, such reporting forces platforms to be explicit about their policies on hate, harassment and misinformation, and apply their rules consistently.
Instead, platforms’ transparency reports have failed to provide meaningful information about the prevalence and impact of hateful content. These reports are confusing, uninformative and evasive. Platform transparency reports end up serving as a deflection away from the fact that we have very little insight into how platforms manage the ecosystem of hate online—and they have little to no legal or financial incentives to give us that access.
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On September 27, 2021, the non-profit journalist collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) uploaded a cache of data allegedly linked to the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia. This data included logs from the group’s private chatroom on Rocketchat, its emails from January 13 to September 19, 2021 and alleged membership information for more than 38,000 individuals. A review of these membership rolls found that 133 people provided emails with the “.mil” suffix, indicating a military association, while others alleged elsewhere in the document that they were currently serving in the
military.
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Since 2020, Twitter has taken steps to decrease hate and disinformation on its platform, officially banning some forms of Covid-19 misinformation or purging QAnon-related handles after the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. But while Twitter’s anti-extremist policies are more effective now than they were a year ago, the platform has not addressed the ease with which users are able to drive traffic to hate and misinformation hosted on outside sites.
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In the past eight months, at least nine Rise Above Movement (R.A.M.)-inspired “Active Clubs” have cropped up across the United States. This development signals a renewed effort from R.A.M. to rebrand and spread their influence with a focus on real-world white supremacist activism.
These Active Clubs embrace white supremacist ideology and members consider themselves vigilante soldiers standing guard against a perceived existential threat to their “white future.” Motivated by the white supremacist “great replacement” philosophy, these groups are physically preparing to fight against a “modern world” corrupted by the “destructive cultural influences” of liberals, Jews, Muslims and non-white immigrants.
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ADL Washington, D.C. offers timely information, statements and resources in response to regional and national trending topics via Twitter. Check out the links below to see what we are Tweeting about:
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Our collection of K-12 education resources promotes critical thinking and learning around historical and current events topics through the lens of diversity, bias and social justice. This week, we are featuring an article about the false idea that Critical Race Theory is “infiltrating” our K-12 schools and our book of the month. Check out the links below for more information:
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Students are back to school and it’s time to create a more inclusive classroom. Watch ADL and Amanda Gorman from October 6, 2021 for the No Place For Hate Back To School Kickoff!
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Is Your Synagogue Part of ADL’s Signature Synagogue Program?
ADL Washington, D.C.'s Regional Signature Synagogue Program is an important way to engage our community and ignite a congregation-wide commitment to raising awareness of and speaking out against antisemitism and hate. This program creates a unifying initiative for community education and engagement. Participants in the Signature Synagogue Program will have special direct access to ADL's programs, resources and learning opportunities. This is an ongoing year-long program where each synagogue will receive recognition of participation and granted a certificate of completion.
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