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April 20, 2023

Working with Farmers to End Posse Influence

We continue our celebration of IREHR's forty years of fighting white nationalism by looking back at some important movement milestones. In this installment, one of IREHR's founders takes a look back at the monumental work during the farm crisis of the 1980s to stop efforts by the Posse Comitatus and…

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March 14, 2023

Remembering Our Engagement with the Posse Comitatus

Not too long after our Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights grouping got together, we started hearing about the KTTL radio station out of Dodge City, Kansas, broadcasting daily one-hour racist and anti-Semitic programs. We looked into it and then wrote about it in our February 1983 magazine—40…

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January 30, 2023

Looking Back at 1983

Editor's note: This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR). As part of our celebration of this milestone, each month we’ll look back at different chapters in the unique history of the organization, share personal stories, and dig…

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December 13, 2021

November 9 at Kansas City Auschwitz Memorial

A group of forty-eight trade union members, fast-food workers, homeless individuals, faith leaders, and farmer and rural advocates attended the “Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away” exhibition at the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. After spending more than two hours at the memorial, they went to St. Mark’s…

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March 11, 2021

IREHR in Kansas City

The day after the white riot in Washington D.C., Leonard Zeskind wrote an op-ed on the event using data collected by Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR) and submitted it to the Kansas City Star newspaper. They printed it the following week, on January 14, 2021 as…

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September 4, 2020

IREHR Speaks at SCLC March & Rally in Kansas City

IREHR’s Leonard Zeskind spoke briefly at a “March on Kansas City for Justice & Peace” on Friday, September 4, 2020. About 800 people march and rallied at the World War One Memorial. About 15 groups co-sponsored the event, which was led by the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership…

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August 15, 2020

Personal Remembrance of the Rev. C.T. Vivian

The New York Times did the best obit-bio after the Rev. C.T. Vivian died, and they mentioned—briefly—his work with the Center for Democratic Renewal. The Atlanta Journal Constitution also did a fine obit-bio on Rev. Vivian, emphasizing his civil rights leadership in the 1960s and his most recent activities in…

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May 26, 2020

Reopen Colorado and the “Groyper Mommy”

As IREHR continues to track the nature of the ongoing “reopen” mobilization, it becomes ever more clear that the phenomenon has a firm foot in far-right and nationalist politics. This is true of Reopen Colorado, boasting 24,772 members in its private Facebook group. The group has promoted multiple “reopen” events…

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March 27, 2020

Anti-Fascism in the Time of Coronavirus

In mid-14th century Europe a plague enveloped the continent. Named the Bubonic Plague or the Black Death, it was a bacterial infection, often carried by the fleas on rats. At least 30% of the European population died in this nasty plague. Other counts put the number of dead at 38 million.…

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December 17, 2019

KC Forum on Today’s White Nationalist Movement Meeting Summary

Over 200 members of Kansas City area faith and community justice groups gathered on November 7, 2019 to learn about the white nationalist movement and why it matters in the fight to advance democratic rights for all Americans. Workshop participants engaged to brainstorm what a better response to the white…

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Working with Farmers to End Posse Influence

Remembering Our Engagement with the Posse Comitatus

Looking Back at 1983

November 9 at Kansas City Auschwitz Memorial

IREHR in Kansas City

IREHR Speaks at SCLC March & Rally in Kansas City

Personal Remembrance of the Rev. C.T. Vivian

Reopen Colorado and the “Groyper Mommy”

Anti-Fascism in the Time of Coronavirus

KC Forum on Today’s White Nationalist Movement Meeting Summary

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