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_refugee_  ·  2933 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 16, 2016

Just want to shout out Southern Poverty Law Center as another organization with a long established history of Actually Helping With Your Money.

    In 1979 it began to fight the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups with an innovative litigating strategy involving filing civil suits for monetary damages on behalf of the victims of hate group harassment, threats, and violence. Given the decline in such groups over the years, the SPLC has become involved in other civil rights causes, including cases concerned with institutional racial segregation and discrimination, discrimination based on sexual orientation...




b_b  ·  2933 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, I agree. SPLC has been a great org for a long time. I think they're about to get a lot busier, unfortunately, and perhaps back to their anti-Klan roots.