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IREHR in Greensboro IREHR
June 19, 2016

IREHR in Greensboro

IREHR’s Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart visited Greensboro, North Carolina for an important conference that brought together organizers in the fight for $15 from across the South to tackle questions of racial justice. The conference, “Organizing Poor and Working-Class Whites: The Challenge of Building a Multiracial Movement,” was held June…
IREHR with Kansas City Workers Organizing Committee IREHR
December 7, 2015

IREHR with Kansas City Workers Organizing Committee

On December 6, IREHR’s Leonard Zeskind conducted a three-hour workshop for members of the Kansas City Workers Organizing Committee, which mobilizes fast food and other low-wage workers.  The workshop included a discussion of the rapidly developing current situation, a critical discussion of fascism, and an analysis of the three-cornered battle…
IREHR Impact in Pennsylvania English-Only Debate IREHR
October 13, 2015

IREHR Impact in Pennsylvania English-Only Debate

When Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) invited the head of the English-only outfit, ProEnglish, to testify before the State Government Committee on September 24, it’s unlikely he anticipated the controversy to follow. Using evidence originally uncovered by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR), Rep. Leslie…
IREHR in Western Washington IREHR
October 13, 2015

IREHR in Western Washington

On September 28, IREHR’s Devin Burghart held a training on researching the far-right with members of the Whatcom Civil Rights Project at the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center in Bellingham, Washington. On October 7, Devin again travelled to Bellingham to deliver a talk on “The Threat of White Nationalism in…