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</div><div>...The purpose of the DiscoverTheNetworks site is not to stifle free speech but to clarify it. We recognize that people are not always candid in what they say in public life, particularly in the arena of political discourse. “Truth in political advertising” would be a more accurate description of our intentions in assembling this data.</div>The problem of deceptive public presentation is common enough to all sides in the political debate but applies with special force to the left, which has a long and well-documented history of dissembling about its agendas. In the past, for example, the Communist Party operated through “front” groups that concealed the radical agendas of those who controlled them. In the 1948 elections, the Party created an entire electoral front — the Progressive Party — to run a candidate in Henry Wallace who opposed the Cold War against Stalin. During the congressional investigations into the covert activities of the Communist Party, its leaders appeared before government panels to proclaim their patriotism and to describe themselves as avid defenders of free speech, denying that they had any radical agendas at all. In fact the Communist Party was an organization dedicated to the overthrow of the American political system, the establishment of a proletarian dictatorship, and the elimination of free speech for those whom it regarded as the “class enemy.”The disingenuous tradition of the political left has continued into the present. In the 1960s, for instance, the radical organizers of the mass anti-war demonstrations pretended that their only interest was to “Bring the Troops Home,” when in fact their agendas embraced a radical menu that was anti-capitalist and welcomed a Communist victory. In the campaign against the war in Iraq, a similar pattern emerged, as the information provided in this database clearly demonstrates. In this realm and many others, DiscoverTheNetworks lays bare the connections that tie today’s left to the left of ages past.<div></div><div>featured eg 4/19</div><div>
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</div><div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; line-height: 1.25;">Introduction</h2>The <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/democratic-party-dp/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Democratic Party</a> has become increasingly radicalized over the past few decades, to the point where it can no longer be classified as a liberal party. Traditional liberalism was defined by its commitment to four principal values: individual rights (as opposed to group rights); the rule of law (as opposed to governance stemming from the whims of powerful men in positions of power; limited government; and free enterprise (the only economic system compatible with individual liberty).But the Democratic Party today is a hard-left – indeed, communist – party that flatly rejects the aforementioned liberal principles which it once embraced. Specifically, it is a stalwart champion of: <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">group rights and collective identity, rather than individual rights and responsibilities (e.g., the racial preference policies known as affirmative action, and the left’s immersion in identity politics generally);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">the massive expansion of government rather than its diminution (favoring ever-escalating taxes to fund a bloated welfare state and a government that regulates virtually every aspect of human life);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">the redistribution of wealth (through punitive taxes and a mushrooming welfare state), rather than the creation of wealth through free markets based on private property rights; and</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px;">the circumvention of law rather than the rule of law (as exemplified by the flouting of immigration laws, the denial of religious liberty rights in the name of “nondiscrimination,” and a disregard for the separation of governmental powers, such as when the Executive and Judicial branches usurp the legislative authority of Congress).</li></ul>The Democratic Party’s sojourn into communism is clearly documented, for all to see, in the policies and worldviews that constitute its official <a href="https://democrats.org/about/party-platform/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Party Platform</a>. Thus it is not at all surprising that every Democrat who thus far has announced his or her intent to seek the party’s presidential nomination in 2020 – <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/elizabeth-warren/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Elizabeth Warren</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bernie-sanders/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Bernie Sanders</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/cory-booker/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Cory Booker</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/kamala-harris/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Kamala Harris</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/kirsten-gillibrand/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Kirsten Gillibrand</a>, and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/julian-castro/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Julian Castro</a> – openly embraces a set of agendas that are classically communist. As such, the candidates themselves are interchangeable. While their various styles and personalities may differ somewhat, their core beliefs, priorities, values, and agendas do not. There are no truly liberal Democrats left in Congress; they are all creatures of the far left. The liberal Democrats of yesteryear – John F. Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Scoop Jackson, Joe Lieberman – would be, without exception, persona non grata in today’s Democratic Party.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; line-height: 1.25;">The “Cortez Communist Party”</h2>The term “Cortez Communist Party” is used here to emphasize the fact that everything which the Democratic Party currently stands for is reflected in the agendas of <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a>, the celebrated 29-year-old Bronx resident who in 2018 left her job as a bartender and won election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Ocasio-Cortez has received immense media publicity and is widely heralded as a rising star of the Democratic Party. The substance of her campaign and her political promises <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/27/who-is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-5-things-to-know-about-new-york-congressional-candidate.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">focused</a> heavily upon an environmental program known as a “Green New Deal”; wide-ranging access to tuition-free colleges as well as universal pre-school; a government-run universal healthcare system dubbed as “Medicare-for-All”; massive tax increases on high individual earners and corporations; and the enactment of living-wage laws that would place enormous financial burdens on entrepreneurs and business owners. Each of these agenda items are examined in this essay....</div><div>-----</div><div>
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</div><div>...The <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7511" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Communist Party USA</a> newspaper, Peoples World, supported Grijalva’s 2002 campaign and <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/Raul_Grijalva" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">praised</a> his “uncompromising support for working people, for better schools, against racism and as a lifelong environmentalist.” The activist group <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7613" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">21st Century Democrats</a> also strongly <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/Raul_Grijalva" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">endorsed</a> Grijalva’s candidacy.</div>Soon after his election to the House of Representatives, Grijalva became a member—and later a <a href="http://www.cis.org/grijalva" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">co-chairman</a>—of the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6497" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Congressional Progressive Caucus</a>. In one of his first speeches as a House member, he <a href="http://www.cis.org/grijalva" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">called</a> for the creation of a national holiday to honor Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers of America.In December 2004 Grijalva joined fellow lawmakers <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2084" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Barbara Boxer</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=630" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Dennis Kucinich</a>, and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2283" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Henry Waxman</a> in providing diplomatic courtesy <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/Raul_Grijalva" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">letters</a> to a contingent of anti-Iraq War activists (including <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=626" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Medea Benjamin</a> and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1628" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Jodie Evans</a>) who sought to bring $600,000 in cash and humanitarian aid to residents of Fallujah, Iraq, which at that time was a hotbed of terrorism and violence. The trip was sponsored by such groups as <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6149" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Code Pink</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6151" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Global Exchange</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6158" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Middle East Children’s Alliance</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6190" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Peace Action</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6895" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Physicians for Social Responsibility</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6166" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">United for Peace and Justice</a>, and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6341" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Voices in the Wilderness</a>.In 2005 Grijalva became a <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Raul_Grijalva_War+Peace.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">member</a> of the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7329" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Out-of-Iraq Congressional Caucus</a>. That same <a href="http://keywiki.org/Ra%C3%BAl_Grijalva" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">year</a>, he joined <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2696" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Xavier Becerra</a> and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1265" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Luis Gutierrez</a> in backing the efforts of <a href="http://peoplesworld.org/1970-chicano-moratorium-2005-latinos-for-peace/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Latinos for Peace</a>, an anti-Iraq War <a href="http://keywiki.org/Xavier_Becerra" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">front</a> <a href="http://www.trevorloudon.com/2011/10/communists-lead-occupy-los-angeles-movement-nationwide-takeover-planned/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">group</a> for the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7511" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Communist Party USA</a>.In August 2008 he was <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/Raul_Grijalva" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">named</a> to the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Barack Obama</a> presidential campaign’s National Latino Advisory Council, along with such notables as labor leader <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2447" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Eliseo Medina</a> and U.S. Representatives <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2696" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Xavier Becerra</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1265" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Luis Gutierrez</a>, Linda Sanchez, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1247" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Hilda Solis</a>, and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1350" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Nydia Velazquez</a>.Throughout his years in Congress, Grijalva has been best known for his positions on immigration. Describing America’s existing immigration laws as “cruel” and “unjust,” he seeks not only to increase future legal entry into the United States, but also to help pass “<a href="https://www.aaleadershipcouncil.org/RaulGrijalva.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">comprehensive</a>” reform that would legalize the status of those already residing in the country unlawfully.Moreover, Grijalva is a longtime <a href="http://grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=76" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">advocate</a> of the DREAM Act, legislation that would enable illegals who first came to the U.S. as minors to access federal and state financial aid for their post-secondary education; to attend college at the reduced tuition rates normally reserved for in-state legal residents; and to earn conditional permanent residency and a path to citizenship.Grijalva condemns, as “racist[s]” and “<a href="http://www.cis.org/grijalva" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">cockroaches</a>,” the members of armed civilian groups (like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuteman_Project" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Minuteman Project</a>) that monitor the Mexican border to detect illegal crossers and report them to the Border Patrol. By contrast, he characterizes illegal aliens as “<a href="http://www.cis.org/grijalva" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">economic refugees</a>” whose human dignity is violated by policies that restrict immigration in any way. “I don’t care how many fences you build, from one end of the border to the other,’’ Grijalva says. “The essential issue and pull that people...<div></div><div>http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7876</div><div>
</div><div>bs</div><div><ul style=""><li tstyle="margin-bottom: 0in;">Established in 2013, in response to the acquittal of the man who killed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin</li><li tstyle="margin-bottom: 0in;">Seeks to stoke black rage over the “virulent anti-Black racism” that “permeates our society”</li><li tstyle="margin-bottom: 0in;">Says America was originally “built on Indigenous genocide and chattel slavery” and “continues to thrive on the brutal exploitation of people of color”</li></ul><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2670">

</a>See also:  <a tclass="hot" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2670">Alicia Garza</a>   <a tclass="hot" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2671">Patrisse Cullors</a>   <a tclass="hot" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2672">Opal Tometi</a>                  <a tclass="hot" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7842">Freedom Road Socialist Organization</a>   <a tclass="hot" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2738">Assata Shakur</a>                <a tclass="hot" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7934">Assata's Daughters</a>

Founded by Marxist revolutionaries in 2013, Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a movement that depicts the United States as a nation awash in racism, sexism, and homophobia. Demonstrators at BLM events routinely: smear white police as trigger-happy bigots who are intent upon killing innocent, unarmed black males; <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/07/08/video-drunk-protesters-loot-convenience-store-taunt-officers-dallas-police-massacre/">taunt</a>, and direct obscenities at, uniformed police officers who are on duty; <a href="http://www.theamericanmirror.com/agitators-hurl-rocks-phoenix-police-chant-shoot/">throw</a> rocks at police and threaten to kill them; and celebrate in the streets when a police officer is killed. Some examples of BLM's racist and incendiary rhetoric:<ul style=""><li tstyle="margin-bottom: 0in;">At a December 2014 BLM rally in New York City, marchers <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Eric-Garner-Manhattan-Dead-Cops-Video-Millions-March-Protest-285805731.html">chanted</a> in unison: "What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now."</li><li tstyle="margin-bottom: 0in;">At a BLM march in August 2015, protesters <a href="http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/08/30/black-lives-matter-chant-called-disgusting-by-police-leader/">chanted</a> : “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.” (“Pigs” was a reference to police officers, and "blanket" was a reference to body bags.)</li><li tstyle="margin-bottom: 0in;">On a BLM-affiliated radio program the following month, the hosts <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/breaking-video-blacklivesmatter-radio-show-its-open-season-on-killing-whites-and-cops/">laughed</a> at the recent assassination of a white Texas deputy; boasted that blacks were like lions who could prevail in a “race war” against whites; happily predicted that "we will witness more executions and killing of white people and cops than we ever have before"; and declared that "It's open season on killing white people and crackas.”</li><li tstyle="margin-bottom: 0in;">In November 2015, a group of approximately 150 BLM <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/college-blacklivesmatter-protests-turning-aggressive-f-you-filthy-whites">protesters</a> shouting "Black Lives Matter," stormed Dartmouth University's library, screaming, “Fu you, you filthy white fus!," "Fu you and your comfort!," and "Fu you, you racist sh!” </li><li tstyle="margin-bottom: 0in;">In July 2016, a BLM activist speaking to a CNN reporter <a href="http://www.weaselzippers.us/284283-video-black-lives-matter-activist-shouts-kill-all-white-babies/">shouted</a>: "The less white babies on this planet, the less of you [white adults] we got! I hope they kill all the white babies! Kill 'em all right now! Kill 'em! Kill your grandkids! Kill yourself! Coffin, bitch! Go lay in a coffin! Kill yourself!" </li></ul><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNayoOysBLY">At all BLM events</a>, demonstrators <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/23/blacklivesmatter-pays-homage-to-marxist-cop-killer-at-every-event-it-holds/">invoke</a> the words that the Marxist <a href="http://www.assatashakur.org/message.htm">revolutionary</a>, former <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7375">Black Panther</a>, convicted cop-killer, and longtime fugitive Assata Shakur once wrote in a letter titled “<a href="http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/tmp.html" target="blank">To My People</a>”: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” (The fourth line was drawn from the Communist Manifesto of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2676">Karl Marx</a> and Friedrich Engels.) In Shakur's original letter, she <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/23/blacklivesmatter-pays-homage-to-marxist-cop-killer-at-every-event-it-holds/">described</a> herself as a “Black revolutionary” who had “declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heart-less robots [police] who protect them and their property.”  

Another figure greatly <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263766/black-lives-matters-support-killers-black-cops-daniel-greenfield">admired</a> by BLM is <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1308">Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin</a>, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, who in the 1960s was renowned for threatening that blacks would "burn America down," and for urging blacks to murder "honkies." In the spring of 2000, Al-Amin shot two black law-enforcement officers in downtown Atlanta, killing one of them. 

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</li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1681" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Left's War Against Minorities & the Poor</a>

</li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Cloward-Piven Strategy: Social Change Through Orchestrated Crisis</a>

</li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Saul Alinsky: Godfather of Community Organizing</a>

</li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977" style="text-decoration-line: none;">George Soros and The Shadow Party</a>

</li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7694" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn</a>

</li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Muslim Brotherhood's Agendas, Allies, and Front Groups </a>

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</div><div><div style="text-align: left;">This section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines the highly politicized atmosphere that has developed in recent decades at American institutions of higher learning; the leftist campus and professional associations that have been established there; and the key players -- professors, administrators, and organizational leaders -- who have shaped the ideological agendas of those institutions and associations. The political indoctrination that occurs in primary and secondary education is discussed as well.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">It is generally accepted that the politicization of American academia formally began in 1964 when student radicals involved in the University of California’s Free Speech Movement occupied the UC Berkeley administration building (800 were arrested) in the first “takeover” of a campus building on U.S. soil. But after a tumultuous decade in which they failed in their bid to ignite a socialist revolution, many of these radicals returned to school, earned graduate degrees, secured professorial positions, and set about giving the university an identity that was stridently political and at odds with much of American society. These “tenured radicals,” as writer Roger Kimball calls them, have made the contemporary university an institutional outpost of leftist thought by reshaping entire disciplines, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, and by using control of the hiring process to assemble faculties whose views are uniformly Left.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This section of the database also examines a number of key issues related to primary and secondary education.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The RESOURCES column located on the right side of this page contains links to articles, essays, books, and videos that explore such topics as:</div><ul style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the vastly disproportionate presence of leftist professors and administrators on university campuses across the United States;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">examples of the political and ideological indoctrination that takes place in university classrooms nationwide;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the vital need for academic freedom, where professors and students alike are permitted to think for themselves and to express their views openly in an atmosphere that encourages the exchange of ideas rather than forced conformity;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the prevalence of left-wing, anti-American bias in the teaching of American History;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">African American Studies (a.k.a. Black Studies), an increasingly popular discipline rooted in the premise that black people are victimized incessantly by a culture that is racist to its core;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Whiteness Studies, a discipline which advances the notion that white people historically have sought to oppress nonwhites in the U.S. and elsewhere;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Women's Studies (a.k.a. Feminist Studies), which holds that women, by and large, are the oppressed victims of Western culture's inequities -- which are tied most closely to capitalism;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Peace Studies, which views the United States and capitalism as the predominant sources of international strife;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Social Work education programs, which are dominated by leftists who have crafted curricula designed to indoctrinate their students ideologically and politically;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the left's iron-clad control of the field of sociology;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">university publishing houses, which invariably serve as platforms for the dissemination of far-left dogma;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the prevalence of anti-Semitism among university professors in the United States;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Jewish professors in the U.S. who exploit their birthright in an effort to advance the campaign of delegitimizing and demonizing Israel;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">campus organizations, guest speakers, and campus events that promote anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, and pro-jihad themes at American colleges and universities;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">university professors in Israel who who reframe Arab aggression and terror as self-defense, and Israeli self-defense as aggression and terror;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">why leftists are invited to speak at commencement exercises far more frequently than conservatives;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">how students in grades K-12 are indoctrinated in anti-Israel propaganda;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the origins and elements of the Common Core education standards;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">how the public education system -- particularly as a result of the unsavory practices of the teachers' unions -- has failed black and Hispanic students in elementary school and high school;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the incompetence and failure of Democrat-controlled public school systems in numerous U.S. cities;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the ineffectiveness of the Head Start early-education program;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the lack of return on America's massive expenditures on public education;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">how colleges and universities emphasize a commitment to "social justice" as part of their stated mission;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">how students in grades K-12 are indoctrinated in the tenets of “social justice,” anti-Americanism, and leftism;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the long history of generalized indoctrination in the K-12 classroom;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">the ideological indoctrination that takes place at America's teacher-training colleges;</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;">issues related to disciplinary measures used by classroom teachers and school administrators; and</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div></li><li style="text-align: left; list-style-position: inside; padding-left: 16px;">how religious extremists in Saudi Arabia use their wealth to influence what America’s K-12 schoolchildren learn about Islam and the Middle East.
</li></ul></div><div>
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 <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Department_of_Feminist" style="">Department of Feminist Studies</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Professor_Angela_Davis" style="">Professor Angela Davis</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Radical Critiques of Penality</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_1" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Women of Color: Genders and Sexualities</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Professor_Bettina_Aptheker" style="">Professor Bettina Aptheker</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Aptheker’s_Courses" style="">Aptheker’s Courses</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_2" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Introduction to Feminist Science Studies</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_3" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Feminist Perspectives in Counseling and Psychotherapy</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_4" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Feminist Theory</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_5" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Public Women: Private Choices</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_6" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Women and War</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_7" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Introduction to Feminism: Third World Feminisms</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Abbreviated_Syllabus_for_2" style="">Abbreviated Syllabus for the Course: The Travels and Translations of Feminist Theories</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Other_Courses_of" style="">Other Courses of Note</a>  <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Community_Studies_Department_1" style="">Community Studies Department</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Professor_Michael_Rotkin" style="">Professor Michael Rotkin</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_62" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Introduction to Marxism</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_87" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Community Organizing</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Professor_Nancy_Stoller" style="">Professor Nancy Stoller</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_95" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Feminist Organizing and Global Realities</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_96" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Theory and Practice of Health Activism</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_97" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Women’s Health Activism</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_8" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Lesbian and Gay Social Worlds</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_9" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Men and Feminisms</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_10" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Black Liberation in the African Diaspora</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_13" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Environmental Justice</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_14" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Theory and Practice of Immigration and Social Justice</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_76" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Theory and Practice of Resistance and Social Movements</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_84" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Theory and Practice: Asian Pacific American Activism</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_85" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Theory and Practice of Social Justice and Sustainability in Agro-Food Systems</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_92" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Theory and Practice: Gender, Race, Work, and Family</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_15" style="">Syllabus for the Course: African American/Latino Histories and Communities</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_82" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Globalization and Its Discontents</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_61" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Politics, Love, and Revolution: C.L.R. James</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_63" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Corporate Culture, Structure, and Race</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_74" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Sex, Race, and Globalization</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_89" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Theory and Practice of the Labor Movement</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_77" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Chicanos and Social Change</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Other_Courses_of_1" style="">Other Courses of Note</a>

<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Sociology_Department" style="">Sociology Department</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_16" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Introduction to Sociology</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_17" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Family and Society</a><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_18" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Development and Underdevelopment</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_68" style="">Syllabus for the Course: World Society: The Origins, Consequences, and Social Dimensions of Globalization</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_19" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Sociology of Learning and Achievement: Gender, Race, and Class Perspectives</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_20" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Contemporary American Society</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_21" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Race and Criminal Justice</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Another_Syllabus_for_2" style="">Another Syllabus for the Course: Race and Criminal Justice</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Abbreviated_Syllabus_for" style="">Abbreviated Syllabus for the Course: Culture/Knowledge/Power</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_64" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Environmental Inequalities</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_65" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Sexualities</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Other_Courses_of_2" style="">Other Courses of Note</a></h1>  <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#American_Studies_Program" style="">American Studies Program</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_22" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Race and Ethnicity in America</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Another_Syllabus_for_4" style="">Another Syllabus for the Course: Race and Ethnicity in America</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_23" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Seminar in Race and Ethnicity</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_24" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Sexual Identities and Communities</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_90" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Politics and American Culture</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_25" style="">Syllabus for the Course: From Center to Periphery: American Popular Culture 1920 to the Present</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Another_Syllabus_for" style="">Another Syllabus for the Course: American Popular Culture, 1920 to the Present</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_26" style="">Syllabus for the Course: African American Sexuality</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_27" style="">Syllabus for the Course: America and Americans</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Another_Syllabus_for_1" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Gender and U.S. Society</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Another_Syllabus_for_1" style="">Another Syllabus for the Course: Gender and U.S. Society</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Another_Syllabus_for_5" style="">Another Syllabus for the Course: Gender and U.S. Society</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_28" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Labor and the Working Class part 1</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_29" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Labor and the Working Class part 2</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_30" style="">Syllabus for the Course: America on Film</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_31" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Introduction to Chicana\o Cultures: a Multimedia Approach</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_32" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Topics in Chicana/o Studies</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_33" style="">Syllabus for the Course: African-American Life in the City</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_88" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Introduction to Native American Studies</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_91" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Native American Woman</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_34" style="">Syllabus for the Course: American Indian History in the Twentieth Century</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Political_Science_Department" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Whiteness in U.S. History</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Abbreviated_Syllabus_for_1" style="">Abbreviated Syllabus for the Course: Aspects of African American Culture: Black Women Writers and their Literary Re-imaginings of Race and Gender</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Other_Courses_of_6" style="">Other Courses of Note</a>  <h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Political_Science_Department_1" style="">Political Science Department</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_35" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Politics of the War On Terror</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Another_Syllabus_for_3" style="">Another Syllabus for the Course: Politics of the War on Terror</a></h1><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_36" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Women & Politics</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_37" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Introduction to Social Movement Theory</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_38" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Thinking Green: Politics, Ethics, Political Economy</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_39" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Early Socialist and Anarchist Thought</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Other_Courses_of_3" style="">Other Courses of Note</a>

 <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#History_of_Consciousness" style="">History of Consciousness Program</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Professor_Donna_Haraway" style="">Professor Donna Haraway</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_80" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Feminist Theory</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_40" style="">Another Syllabus for the Course: Feminist Theory</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_41" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Science as Culture and Practice</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_42" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Readings in Science Studies:  “Thinking Relationality”</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_43" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Animal Studies as Science Studies:  We Have Never Been Human</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_44" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Racism and Imperialism</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_45" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Introduction to Queer Theory</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_46" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Deconstructing Globalization</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_66" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Social Movements in the United States</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_81" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Social Movements and Theories of Social Movements</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_93" style="">Syllabus for the Course: The End of the World: Millenarianism, Identity, and Utopia</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Other_Courses_of_4" style="">Other Courses of Note</a>  <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Latin_American_and" style="">Latin American and Latino Studies Department</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Professor_Susanne_Jonas" style="">Professor Susanne Jonas</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_83" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_94" style="">Syllabus for the Course: U.S. Policy in Latin America</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_48" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Central America: Revolution, Intervention and Social Change</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_49" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Latin American Immigration to the U.S</a>.
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_75" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Power and Resistance in the Americas: Cross-Border Social Movements</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_86" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Las Izquierdas en América Latina: Ayer, Hoy y Mañana (The Left in Latin America: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow)</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_98" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Representations of Chicana Lesbians</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_51" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Sexualities and Genders in Latin American and Latina/o Studies</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_99" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Political Change in Mexico</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Other_Courses_of_5" style="">Other Courses of Note</a>

 <h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Other_Syllabi_of" style="">Other Syllabi of Note</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_79" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Democracy, Education, and the Radical Imagination</a></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-indent: -27pt; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_71" style="">Syllabus for the Legal Studies Course: Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism</a></h1><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_52" style="">Syllabus for the Course: Race, Class, and the Environment in the U.S.</a>
<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/University%20of%20California%20-%20Santa%20Cruz.html#Syllabus_for_the_72" style="">Syllabus for the Environmental Science Course: Political Economy and the Environment</a>
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Sociology 185 -- Environmental Inequalities  
Fall Quarter, 2006
Professor Andrew SzaszOffice Hours: Mondays, 12:30 - 2:00; Tuesdays, 1:00 - 2:30; and by appointmentOffice: 336 College EightPhone: 459-2653; email: <a href="mailto:szasz@cats.ucsc.edu" style="">szasz@cats.ucsc.edu</a>

COURSE DESCRIPTIONThe concepts of “environmental racism” and “environmental justice” arose from a specific struggle by a community of African-Americans resisting the siting of a hazardous waste landfill in their community. From its beginnings as an original fusion of environmental and black Civil Rights rhetorics, the concept of environmental racism has continued to grow, expand. It soon embraced the experience of other racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, Native Americans, latinos and others. Expanding the concept further, the “environmental inequalities” perspective came to encompass gender and class dimensions, as well. The concept can be expanded fruitfully in both space and time: Environmental inequalities exist not only in the United States; all over the world, social and environmental inequalities are inseparable facets of a single process. Environmental inequality pervades not only contemporary society; at its very origins, modern society was made possible by acts of combined social and environmental injustices. In this course, we study “environmental inequalities” in this deep, structural sense. REQUIREMENTS1) Consistent attendance.2) Read required readings in a timely manner. Many of the readings are posted on ERes (I will announce the password in class). Other readings are from Carolyn Merchant, Major Problems in American Environmetnal History, 2d Edition, available at Baytree Bookstore. A few readings that you will download directly from the internet.3) Research project. Each student will do a research paper on environmental inequalities in another nation. The research will include: history of the nation, economic, demographic and environmental; the current situation – income and race structure of the nation’s peoples; the economy today; use of natural resources; pollution; unequal impacts of ecological change. The research paper is due November 3. Students who have done the best work will present their findings to the class. (30% of grade)4) Midterm exam and final exam (35% of the grade, each).GENERAL SCHEDULE OF TOPICS; EXAMINATION DATES, PAPER DUE DATE9/22   Introduction; discovery of the environmental justice perspectiveWeek 1 (9/25-9/29)  Environmental justice – basic studiesWeek 2 (10/4-10/6)  Environmental inequality and the transition to modernity Weeks 3-5 (10/9-10/25)  Environmental inequality perspective on American history, California history10/27   Midterm ExamWeek 6 (10/30-11/3)  Special topics in environmental inequality11/3   Research papers dueWeeks 7-10 (11/ 6-11/29) Environmental inequality perspective and the American environmental movement; Selected student research presentations12/1   Course summary12/4   Final Exam (4-7 pm)NB: No class on Friday, November 10 (Veterans’ Day); no class on Friday, November 24 (Thanksgiving break)READINGSWeek 1 (9/25-9/29) —– Environmental justice; basic studies      Robert D. Bullard, "Solid Waste Sites and the Houston Black Community,"   Sociological Inquiry 53 (Spring): 273-288, 1983. On ERes.Cesar Chavez, "Farm Workers at Risk," chapter 16 in Hofrichter, Toxic Struggles. On ERes.Kathy Hall, “Impacts of the Energy Industry on the Navajo and Hopi,” pp. 130-154 in Robert D. Bullard, Confronting Environmental Racism. On ERes.Andrew Szasz and Michael Meuser, "Environmental Inequalities: Literature Review and Proposals for New Directions in Research and Theory," Current Sociology, 45(3):99-120, 1997. On ERes.      Laura Pulido, et al, "An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Los Angeles,"   Urban Geography 17(5): 419-439, 1996. On ERes.Andrew Szasz and Michael Meuser, “Unintended; Inexorable: The Production of Environmental Inequalities in Santa Clara County, CA,” American Behavioral Scientist 43(4):602-632, 2000. On ERes.Week 2 (10/4-10/6) —– Environmental inequality and the transition to modernity      Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: the Political and Economic Origins of      Our Time, Chapters 3-6, pp. 33-76. On ERes.      Marx, Capital, Volume 1, pp. 238-263. On ERes.Friedrich Engels, Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1944, "The Great Towns," pp. 68-110. On ERes.Alfred W. Crosby, “Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon,” pp. 103-117 in Worster, The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on modern environmental history. On ERes.Timothy C. Weiskel, “Toward an Archaeology of Colonialism: Elements in the Ecological Transformation of the Ivory Coast,” pp. 141-171 in Worster, The Ends of the Earth:  Perspectives on modern environmental history. On ERes.Weeks 3-5 (10/9-10/25) —– Environmental inequality perspective on American history, California history      Native Americans            Merchant, Chapters 2, 3      African-Americans and the Southern plantation economies            Merchant, Chapters 4, 7      The workplace and workers’ bodies as an environment            Davis, in Merchant Chapter 6            Sinclair, Hamilton and Gottlieb, in Merchant Chapter 12            Daniel M. Berman, Death on the Job: Occupational Health and Safety Struggles    in the United States, Chapter 2, "The Official Body Count," pp. 38-53. On ERes.Beverly Hendrix Wright, "The Effects of Occupational Injury, Illness, and Disease on the Health Status of Black Americans: A Review," Chapter 15 in Richard Hofrichter, Toxic Struggles. On ERes.Donna M. Randall and James F. Short, Jr., "Women in Toxic Work Environments: A case Study of Social Problem Development," Social Problems, 30(4):410-424, 1983. On ERes.      The urban environment            Latrobe, Melosi in Merchant Chapter 5            Merchant, Chapter 12      Resource extraction: Mining, fishing            Merchant, Chapter 8            Al Gedicks, The New Resource Wars, Chapter 2. On ERes.      Agriculture            Merchant, Chapter 9Marian Moses, "Farmworkers and Pesticides," Chapter 10 (pp. 161-178) in Robert  D. Bullard, Confronting Environmental Racism. On ERes.Week 6 (10/30-11/3) –— Special topics in environmental inequality      “Natural” disastersRobert Bolin and Lois Stanford, “Constructing Vulnerability in the First World: The Northridge Earthquake in Southern California, 1994,” pp. 89-112 in Oliver-Smith and Hoffman, The Angry Earth. On ERes.            Article on Hurricane Katrina – TBA            Interview with Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums,            <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_051006L.shtml" target="blank" style="">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_051006L.shtml</a> (Part 1)            <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206O.shtml" target="blank" style="">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206O.shtml</a> (Part 2)      Generational inequalities – Activities today; impacts in the futureIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “Summary for Policymakers; A Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” 2001, <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/spm22-01.pdf" target="blank" style="">www.ipcc.ch/pub/spm22-01.pdf</a>.Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “Summary for Policymakers; Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability,” 2001, <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/spm22-01.pdf" target="blank" style="">www.ipcc.ch/pub/spm22-01.pdf</a>.Schwartz, Peter and Doug Randall, “An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security,” October, 2003, <a href="http://www.ems.org/climate/pentagon_climatechange.pdf" target="blank" style="">www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/3566_AbruptClimateChange.pdf .</a>Weeks 7-10 (11/ 6-11/29) —– Environmental Inequality Perspective on the American                        Environmental Movement      Early environmentalism – wilderness, conservation, preservation            Merchant, Chapters 6, 10, 11      Environmental justice perspective on early environmentalismMarcy Darnovsky, "Stories Less Told: histories of US environmentalism," Socialist Review (92/4), v. 22, # 4, October/December, 1992, pp. 11-54. On ERes.Robert Gottlieb, “Reconstructing Environmentalism: Complex Movements, Diverse Roots,” Environmental History Review, Winter, 1993, pp. 1-19. On ERes.      Modern environmentalism             Merchant, Chapters 13, 14      The environmental justice movementCelene Krauss, "Women and Toxic Waste Protests: Race, Class and Gender as Resources of Resistance," Qualitative Sociology 16(3):247-262. On ERes.Citizens' Clearinghouse on Hazardous Waste, Empowering Ourselves, pp. 4-6, 25-34. On ERes.      Cynthia Hamilton, "Women, Home and Community...," Race, Poverty and the            Environment, 1(1):3, 10-13. On ERes.Cynthia Hamilton, "Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles," pp. 207-219 in Robert D. Bullard, ed., Unequal Protection. On ERes.Gabriel Gutierrez, "Mothers of East Los Angeles Strike Back," pp. 220-233 in Robert D. Bullard, ed., Unequal Protection. On ERes.Conner Bailey, et al, "Environmental Politics in Alabama's Blackbelt," pp. 107-122 in Robert D. Bullard, Confronting Environmental Racism. On ERes.Barbara Epstein, "Grassroots Environmentalism: the Politics of Race and Gender," manuscript. On ERes.</div><div></div><div>bs</div><div>Campus Watch Critiques, UC Santa Cruz Paper Cries "Censorship!" By Cinnamon Stillwell November 16, 2007 In the <a href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/index.php" style="text-decoration-line: none;">latest issue</a> of City on a Hill Press, the student newspaper for the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), reporter Marc Abizeid spins a bone-chilling tale of silenced professors and a Middle East studies field threatened by a shadowy network of "radical pro-Israel interest groups." At the helm of this nefarious conspiracy is of course <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Campus Watch</a>, which Abizeid paints as a ruthless organization bent on censoring anyone who strays from the straight and narrow.The problem is none of it's true.Much like the disaffected academics he profiles in the ominously titled, "<a href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=854" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Silencing Debate on the Middle East</a>," Abizeid suffers from the delusion, common on university campuses, that criticism is suppression.Abizeid at least took the time to solicit my views on Campus Watch, but the long, tendentious list of questions he e-mailed me played his hand from the get-go. And, despite my best efforts to set the record straight, the finished product confirmed my suspicion that Abizeid's mind was made up long before he began his research.Among Campus Watch's alleged victims, Abizeid highlights Columbia University associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1149" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Joseph Massad</a>, whose current bid for tenure has attracted its fair share of <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4250" style="text-decoration-line: none;">opposition</a>. Massad's propensity for anti-Western, anti-Zionist, and, by way of his book Desiring Arabs, <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4253" style="text-decoration-line: none;">anti-gay rhetoric</a>, is well-known and he remains a <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2432" style="text-decoration-line: none;">controversial</a> figure on both sides of the political spectrum. He has been accused of <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1601" style="text-decoration-line: none;">bias</a> and <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1345" style="text-decoration-line: none;">intimidation</a> by <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/63" style="text-decoration-line: none;">his students</a>, and described by critics as a <a href="http://www.jewcy.com/daily_shvitz/further_defense_islamofascism" style="text-decoration-line: none;">terrorism apologist</a>, a <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2531" style="text-decoration-line: none;">crackpot</a>, a <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4365" style="text-decoration-line: none;">bigoted nutcase</a>, and an <a href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/martyrs_get_tenure_at_columbia.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;">extremist</a>.But like many of <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/weblog/id/74" style="text-decoration-line: none;">his cohorts</a>, Massad prefers playing the victim card to addressing criticism, and vague, unsubstantiated <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/3613" style="text-decoration-line: none;">death threat claims</a> come in handy for this purpose. Abizeid repeats Massad's claim at his Columbia faculty <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mealac/faculty/massad/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">web page</a> that he received "death threats" "following the launch of Campus Watch" in September, 2002. Massad has never provided proof of these allegations, but, obviously, as Abizeid quotes me as saying, "Campus Watch has no role whatsoever [in] such actions and we condemn anyone who would behave in this way, which is clearly unacceptable." Yet, Abizeid then goes on to detail how "in 2004, Massad was again the target of these pro-Israeli interest groups," as if to render my statement suspect. So – once more for the record – Campus Watch is not in the business of threatening people's lives. Perhaps Abizeid should consult Tony Soprano on the matter instead.UCSC history professor <a href="http://history.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Edmund "Terry" Burke III</a> is another academic whose claims of victimhood Abizeid repeats uncritically. Burke is one of the founders of the <a href="http://defend.university.googlepages.com/home" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the University</a>, a group that, under the banner of academic freedom, insists upon freedom from criticism. To that end, Burke has been circulating a letter via e-mail soliciting donations to buy a full-page ad in the New York Times, an outcome that would certainly belie the group's claims that "scholars have been denied public platforms from which to share their viewpoints."Campus Watch director Winfield Myers lampooned Burke's letter, and his fellow thin-skinned Ad Hoc Committee members, in an October <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/weblog/id/111" style="text-decoration-line: none;">blog post</a> that apparently hit home. As Abizeid put it:<blockquote style="">After drafting the petition, Burke found himself targeted on the home page of the Campus Watch website, which posted his photograph supplemented with a ridiculing description of the petition's purpose.</blockquote>Apparently, neither Abizeid nor Burke is familiar with the blogosphere. It allows those pesky upstarts outside the university unfettered access to information, photographs, and satire. The humorless need not apply.Nonetheless, the brave signatories of the Ad Hoc Committee petition, according to Abizeid, "vow to speak out against those who attack colleagues and universities in order to achieve political goals." That's fine by me because, as I stated in the article, "Campus Watch holds no authority that would allow us to silence anyone — nor would we silence anyone even if we could."Got that, folks?</div><div></div><div><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Silencing Debate on the Middle East</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By City on a Hill Press -  November 15, 2007 </h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Marc Abizeid</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For the last several years, many U.S. scholars teaching in fields related to the Middle East believe that they have been targets of a systematic campaign to keep them silent.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The campaign is largely led by a handful of pro-Israeli groups such as Stand with Us, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the David Project, and Campus Watch.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claims that these pro-Israeli organizations engage in dirty tactics to threaten and harass scholars, who fear that their academic freedoms are being jeopardized in light of vigorous campaigns to censure them.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">";The tactics are straightforward: vilification, slander, defamation, lies, and there are people who are masters at this," Chomsky said.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2002, Joseph Massad, professor of Arab politics at Columbia University and supporter of the Palestinian cause, was targeted by Campus Watch, a Philadelphia-based pro-Israeli organization founded in 2002. Campus Watch posted a dossier of Massad on its website and urged students to monitor him after he allegedly made anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic remarks in one of his classes.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">";Following the launch of Campus Watch, my e-mail was spammed for months with over 4,000 e-mails daily, which I had to sift through until finally Columbia was able to install an anti-spamming program," Massad wrote on his Columbia webpage. ";I also received tons of racist e-mails and phone messages including death threats."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When asked to comment, Campus Watch denied any responsibility. Cinnamon Stillwell, a representative of Campus Watch in Northern California, wrote in an e-mail to City on a Hill Press (CHP), ";Campus Watch has no role whatsoever [in] such actions and we condemn anyone who would behave in this way, which is clearly unacceptable."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But in 2004, Massad was again the target of these pro-Israeli interest groups. A student claimed that Massad angrily shouted at her in class after she asked him if it was true that Israel gives prior warning before launching strikes in Palestinian Arab territories.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Massad denied the student’s claims as ";outright lies," but the incident quickly erupted after pro-Israeli group the David Project produced a documentary titled Columbia Unbecoming in an attempt to discredit Massad.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">";In the aftermath of [the film], I have received, and still receive, a barrage of hate mail and racist e-mails and voicemail messages," Massad wrote on his webpage. One such e-mail was from a medical school professor, telling Massad to ";Go back to Arab land where Jew hating is condoned."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Massad wrote on his web page that he was the victim of a ";coordinated campaign from inside and outside the university targeting me, my job, and my chances for tenure, based on my political views, my political writings, and my nationality."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As attacks on Massad mounted and the campaign to dismiss him grew, the administration offered little support. Massad wrote on his web page that ";the Columbia University administration acted as a collaborator with the witch-hunters instead of defending me and offering itself as a refuge from right-wing McCarthyism."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another highly controversial case unfolded in June 2007 when Norman Finkelstein, a well-known scholar, political scientist, and critic of Israel, was denied tenure at DePaul University in Chicago. Finkelstein spent six years teaching at DePaul and despite a 9-3 vote by his department supporting his tenure, the University Board on Promotion and Tenure (UBPT) voted 4-3 to deny him tenure.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">Finkelstein said to CHP that he believes a number of factors led to the decision to deny him tenure, including the influence of pro-Israeli groups and individuals. The most prominent among them was Alan Dershowitz, Harvard University professor of law.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dershowitz, an active supporter of Israel and favored scholar of many pro-Israeli groups, published an op/ed piece in the Wall Street Journal titled ";Finkelstein’s Bigotry," in which he labels Finkelstein an ";anti-Semite" and states that, ";Whether or not he receives tenure, Mr. Finkelstein will persist in his unscholarly ad hominems against supporters of Israel, Holocaust survivors and the U.S."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to Chomsky, who is familiar with the case, ";[Dershowitz] went as far as claiming that Finkelstein’s mother, who was a survivor of an extermination camp, was able to survive because she was a Nazi collaborator. This really is reminiscent of old-fashioned Stalinism."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a letter sent to Finkelstein affirming the decision by the UBPT, president of DePaul University Dennis Holtschneider cited reasons related to Finkelstein’s ";ad hominem attacks on scholars with whom [he disagrees]."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But Finkelstein doubts the reasons given by the UBPT and Holtschneider.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">";I’ve had annual evaluations for six years. None of these evaluations ever mention any problems with my scholarship, so to bring them up last-minute is not credible," he said in an interview with CHP.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Finkelstein believes that the campaign against him succeeded in destroying his career.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">";I’m 53 and now I’m pretty much unemployed for life," Finkelstein said. ";There’s no way I’ll get a job "No school would want to go through what DePaul went through."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">Although UC Santa Cruz does not have a Middle Eastern Studies department, academics on this campus are no more shielded from harassment by pro-Israeli groups than professors within that discipline. A conference held last March titled ";Alternative Histories Within and Beyond Zionism" generated hundreds of angry e-mails and a severe uproar from radical pro-Israeli groups. The event was organized by Lisa Rofel, UCSC anthropology professor, and co-sponsored by several campus departments.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">Rofel claimed that the aim of the event was to revive discussions about Zionism that had been lost in the ensuing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Five speakers were invited and each presented his or her interpretation of the situation in occupied Palestine.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The event prompted Los Angeles-based pro-Israeli group Stand with Us, which is heavily active in Santa Cruz, to write a concerned letter to UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal. They also issued a statement on their website stating, ";the conference speakers promoted anti-Israel, anti-Jewish prejudice by distorting facts and history."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">The UCSC chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) also contacted the administration with complaints encouraging an investigation. SPME demanded that the organizers of the event reimburse the university for the money used to fund the conference and warned them against punitive actions if they failed to do so.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">Ronnie Lipschutz "UCSC politics professor and co-director of the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies (CGIRS), which co-sponsored the conference "believes that SPME acted with hypocrisy. According to Lipschutz, SPME and other pro-Israeli groups have organized politicized events on campus featuring radical right-wing speakers.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">One such speaker was ultra-conservative British journalist Melanie Philips, who spoke on campus last January cautioning against the threat of radical Islam while contending that Israel is ";the litmus test for civilization."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">According to Ilan Benjamin, UCSC chemistry professor and the head of SPME’s UCSC chapter, the pivotal difference between events organized by SPME and campus departments lies in the funding. SPME collect their funds through private donors, while campus departments use university money.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">Benjamin justified targeting Rofel and other organizers because he believes that they violated Article IX of the state constitution forbidding the use of public funds to finance events with political agendas.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">";When [SPME] use[s] private funds and the name of our faculty organization to bring a speaker to campus, we are exercising our constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech," Benjamin wrote in an e-mail to CHP. ";However, when professors use university money "they have the obligation to the students and to their profession to be educational and not engage in political advocacy or indoctrination."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ambiguity for many then becomes what constitutes political advocacy.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">";If you stand in front of the classroom and you advocate for a particular political candidate, that violates certain state laws," Lipschutz said. ";My reading is that people like "[Ilan Benjamin] think of politics as standing in front of some forum and issuing critiques."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For many scholars who criticize Israeli policy, accusations of anti-Semitism soon follow.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">";I think the charges of anti-Semitism detract from the ability to have dialogue and debate. They are simplistic, meaningless, and ultimately a red herring," Rofel said. ";These charges are attempts at censorship."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Finkelstein believes that many pro-Israeli groups fail to distinguish charges of anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism, and argued that the term has lost its significance.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">";These [radical pro-Israeli groups] simply throw around the term anti-Semitism to anyone who disagrees with them," he said. ";For a time they were quite effective; now I don’t think they have much effectiveness. Once you start calling Jimmy Carter an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier, you can see that the term is losing all of its potency."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">Edmund Burke III, UCSC professor of history, recently helped organize the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the University, which drafted a petition ";condemning the recent attacks on academic freedom."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Among other things, the petition charges pro-Israeli groups with forming ";unfounded insinuations and allegations, in the media and on websites, of anti-Semitism."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The petition also states, ";In recent years, universities across the country have been targeted by outside groups seeking to influence what is taught and who can teach," and as a result, ";faculty have been denied jobs or tenure, and scholars have been denied public platforms from which to share their viewpoints."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Burke said that the idea for the petition arose because of ";something that has been emerging over the last several years as a number of scholars began to look around the country at the systematic effort to silence scholars who either teach about the Middle East in their courses, or who are in other ways linked to the study of the Middle East and Islam."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">";Over the 40 years that I’ve been teaching modern Middle Eastern history at UCSC, I have seen a gradual shift towards the shutting down of people’s ability to hear criticisms "or to hear historical facts that are at variance with what they have been raised with," Burke said. ";[The shift] was accelerated with 9/11."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He worries that the success of those who defamed Massad and Finkelstein ";creates a precedent such that other scholars will be targeted," and he fears that healthy discussions are being jeopardized through the efforts of ";groups portraying themselves as defenders of Israel."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Burke continued, ";Conversation, even painful conversations, are far more productive than just trying to silence people."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After drafting the petition, Burke found himself targeted on the home page of the Campus Watch website, which posted his photograph supplemented with a ridiculing description of the petition’s purpose.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Still, pro-Israeli groups strongly deny a role in attempting to silence scholars.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stillwell, representative of Campus Watch in Northern California, wrote in an e-mail to CHP that ";Campus Watch holds no authority that would allow us to silence anyone "nor would we silence anyone even if we could."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nonetheless, the petition’s signatories vow to speak out against those who attack colleagues and universities in order to achieve political goals.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">Finkelstein claimed that academics can be very cowardly because of the lengthy and grueling process it takes to establish oneself in a teaching position.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">";Most of the battles that come up have to do with tenure "and people are nervous because they devote an entire life to something which is financially very unrewarding," Finkelstein said. ";And once they get their position, they are so internalized of all the timidity of having gone through the process of becoming professors."</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">Lipschutz believes that most people are susceptible to intimidation, leading many scholars to remain quiet concerning the conflict in Palestine out of fear of repercussions.</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 42px;">";I don’t want to spend my life, or most of my time, fighting off these people who I think are making baseless or crazy accusations," Lipschutz said. ";Do you take up the shield and the sword and go out and do battle against windmills, or do you just simply say, "I’m just going to keep my nose clean and my head down’? For most people it’s easier to do the latter."</h1></div><div></div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="70%" align="center" border="0" style=""><tbody><tr><td valign="top" colspan="2">MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION誘NIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA CRUZ (MSA-UCSC)</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Kresge Seminar Room - Rm. 159 
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<ul><li>Has hosted some campus events featuring anti-Semitic themes and guest speakers</li></ul>

See also:  <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6175" tclass="hot">Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada</a>

The Muslim Students Association of the University of California at Santa Cruz (MSA-UCSC) <a href="http://ucscmsa.wordpress.com/about/">describes</a> itself as an organization “dedicated to spreading truth and awareness about the real, peaceable message of Islam, dissolving stereotypes, overcoming oppression, and strengthening the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims.”

Toward these ends, MSA-UCSC hosts numerous apparently innocuous social and educational <a href="http://ucscmsa.wordpress.com/event/">events</a> – open to Muslims and non-Muslims alike – during the course of each academic year. In 2010-11, for instance, these affairs <a href="http://ucscmsa.wordpress.com/event/">included</a> a pumpkin carving, a Ramadan dinner, a Martin Luther King Day social, a morning prayer service at the beach, a game night, a pizza-and-dessert social, a hike, an ice-cream social, an <a href="http://ucscmsa.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/interfaith.png">Interactive Interfaith Panel</a>, and an “<a href="http://ucscmsa.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/culture-fair.png">Islam Awareness Week</a>.”

But some MSA-UCSC gatherings are highly charged with political and anti-Semitic themes. In March 2006, for example, the organization collaborated with the campus chapter of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6379">Students for Justice in Palestine</a> (SJP) to organize “<a href="http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/sabiqun_anti-semitism.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_4">Palestine Awareness Week</a>” (PAW). The most noteworthy guest speaker during PAW was <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2102">Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali</a>, a notorious anti-Semite who <a href="http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/sabiqun_anti-semitism.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_4">derided</a> “bad Jews” and “Zionists” for harboring a “racist ideology … rooted in white supremacy, in imperialism and colonialism.” Moreover, Malik-Ali <a href="http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/sabiqun_anti-semitism.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_4">identified</a> Great Britain, the United States, and “the apartheid state of Israel” as members of an international “axis of evil.”

Two years later, MSA-UCSC's Palestine Awareness Week <a href="http://www.adl.org/NR/exeres/62237FC4-9F69-4B3B-8B18-CD89A6B1E625,DB7611A2-02CD-43AF-8147-649E26813571,frameless.htm">featured</a> speeches by California State University political science professor As'ad Abu Khalil (a self-identified <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jun/07/entertainment/et-arab7">anti-Zionist</a>) and cartoonist <a href="http://www.adl.org/Israel/anti_israel/KhalilBendib/">Khalil Bendib</a>, an anti-Semite <a href="http://www.adl.org/Israel/anti_israel/KhalilBendib/">known</a> for portraying Israelis as modern-day Nazis, promoting blood libel accusations and Jewish conspiracy theories, and trivializing the Holocaust).

Such presentations have helped create what many Jewish students at UCSC – which ranks among the top American campuses in terms of <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/137927/">Jewish student enrollment</a> – perceive to be an <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110315005746/en/Feds-Open-Anti-Semitism-Investigation-UC-Santa-Cruz">environment</a> that is hostile to them. To bring attention to this problem, UCSC lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin in June 2009 <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110315005746/en/Feds-Open-Anti-Semitism-Investigation-UC-Santa-Cruz">filed</a> a <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjewishresearch.org%2Fv2%2F2011%2Fpress-releases%2F03-15-11a.html&esheet=6647021&lan=en-US&anchor=a+June+2009+complaint&index=2&md5=e4ff4536d780b7d4b1362a766ac591e2">complaint</a>alleging that the university had taken inadequate measures to eliminate the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students on campus. According to the <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/137927/">complaint</a>, some campus events went “beyond legitimate criticism of Israel” and used rhetoric that “demonizes Israel, compares Israeli policy to that of the Nazis, calls for dismantling of the Jewish state and holds Israel to an impossible double standard.” <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110315005746/en/Feds-Open-Anti-Semitism-Investigation-UC-Santa-Cruz">After two years</a> of deliberation, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjewishresearch.org%2Fv2%2F2011%2Fpress-releases%2F03-15-11b.html&esheet=6647021&lan=en-US&anchor=opened+a+major+investigation&index=1&md5=9d3ec4ef713cd411fad6c70d2ba2ea2d">opened a major investigation</a> into Rossman-Benjamin's charges regarding anti-Semitism at UCSC.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div></div>off bs<div>
</div><div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.25em;">FRONTPAGE MAG IS A PROUD PROJECT OF THE DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER</h2>The DHFC is dedicated to the defense of free societies whose moral, cultural and economic foundations are under attack by enemies both secular and religious, at home and abroad.The David Horowitz Freedom Center combats the efforts of the radical left and its Islamist allies to destroy American values and disarm this country as it attempts to defend itself in a time of terror.  The leftist offensive is most obvious on our nation’s campuses, where the Freedom Center protects students from indoctrination and intimidation and works to give conservative students a place in the marketplace of ideas from which they are otherwise excluded.  Combining forceful analysis and bold activism, the Freedom Center provides strong insight into today’s most pressing issue on its family of websites and in the activist campaigns it wages on campus, in the news media, and in national politics throughout the year.<a href="http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/david_horowitz/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; font-weight: 700;">David Horowitz</a> began the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in 1988 to establish a conservative presence in Hollywood and show how popular culture had become a political battleground. Over the next 18 years, CSPC attracted 50,000 contributing supporters and established programs such as <a href="http://www.wednesdaymorningclub.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; font-weight: 700;">The Wednesday Morning Club</a>, the <a href="http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/individual_rights_foundation" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Individual Rights Foundation</a>, and <a href="http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Students for Academic Freedom</a>.<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; font-weight: 700;">FrontPage Magazine</a>, the Center’s online journal of news and political commentary has 1.5 million visitors and over 870,000 unique visitors a month (65 million hits) and is linked to over 2000 other websites.  The magazine’s coverage of and commentary about events has been greatly augmented over the last two years by the presence of four  Shillman Fellows in Journalism underwritten by board member Dr. Robert Shillman. FrontPage has recently added a blog called “The Point,” run by Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield, which has tripled web traffic.<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; font-weight: 700;">DiscoverTheNetworks.com</a>, launched in 2005, is the largest publicly accessible database defining the chief groups and individuals of the Left and their organizational interlocks.  It is a full service encyclopedia of the left providing an intellectual diagram of its institutional power in American culture and politics. DTN has had more than 8 million visitors so far this year and is a key resource for students, scholars and members of the media.Since 2003, the Center has promoted an Academic Bill of Rights to support students’ academic freedom, and free the American university from political indoctrination and renew its commitment to true intellectual diversity. This campaign has had a permanent impact on American higher education.In 2007, the Center undertook an unprecedented national campaign to create a national “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.”  Speeches, panels, and informational films were presented on 106 college campuses, along with “sit-ins” to protest the oppression of women in Islam.  It was the largest conservative college student demonstration in American history and was a topic of discussion on 700,000 websites, in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Pakistani Star Tribune, the Iran News Agency, in college papers across the country and on half a dozen national TV shows reaching an audience in the millions.The Center held four other Islamo-Fascism Awareness Weeks in 2008-2009 and has had at least one major campaign on campuses across the country since.  The subjects have included the Muslim Students Association’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood; “Wall of Lies” (a rejoinder to pro Palestinians groups’ slander of Israel); and a counter campaign against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.  <a href="http://www.freedomcenterstudents.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Freedom Center Students</a>, an online hub for conservative students to receive support in the way of intellectual ammunition, access to speakers, and connect with fellow students fighting the battle for freedom at other campuses.In 2006, the Center’s Board of Directors decided to change the name of the organization to the David Horowitz Freedom Center and should adopt the following formal mission statement:  “The Defense of Free Societies.”  The Center is currently supported by over 90,000 Americans.The Freedom Center now includes several other programs, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Jihad Watch</a>, The Israel Security Project, and TruthRevolt.  Jihad Watch, run by author Robert Spencer, is a watch dog site that traces the efforts of Islamic radicals in their terror campaign abroad and their efforts at home to infiltrate and subvert Western institutions and civic life and is the most popular website of its kind. </div>