Mr. Daniel Levitas

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  Dan Levitas, research director of Prairiefire Rural Action, monitored the NDPC's farm organizing in Illinois and other Midwest states for more than two years before the 1986 primaries."They'd bring crews out of Chicago.They'd do a drive-through of the LaRouche vans with bullhorns where they had people running for Congress."Levitas said he'd listened in on weekly LaRouchian radio hook-up conference calls with farmers."They'd take attendance," he said.

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  Danny Levitas, Founder, Georgia Rural Urban SummitRecognizes an individual who has distinguished him/ herself as both a community and civic leader in Atlanta and throughout the nation.Luncheon Remarks (pdf)
  
  CATALYST AWARD

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  Danny Levitas , Founder , Georgia Rural Urban SummitRecognizes an individual who has distinguished him/ herself as both a community and civic leader in Atlanta.and throughout the nation.Luncheon Remarks ( pdf ).
  
  CATALYST AWARD
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  DANIEL LEVITAS , Founder , Georgia Rural Urban Summit
  
  Prior to his arrival in Georgia in 1989 , Mr. Levitas served as research.director for Prairiefire Rural Action , a non-profit advocacy group based in.Des Moines , Iowa.His work there from 1982 - 1989 focused on community organizing in rural communities to develop public policies to aid financially distressed farmers.He also pioneered the development of community responses to right-wing hate groups that had targeted rural residents during the Midwestern farm crisis.
  
  He was the founder , in December 1994 , of the Georgia Rural Urban Summit ( GRUS ) , a statewide , multi-issue organization dedicated to advancing civil rights , social justice and progressive public policies in Georgia.He served as the executive director of the Summit from 1994 until 2001 , recruiting more than 30 groups as organizational members and raising more than $1 million to advance progressive causes.He recently left the Summit to complete work on a book manuscript for St. Martin's Press on the history of the militia movement and the rural paramilitary right in the United States.Among its key achievements , the Summit and its staff have :.
  
  * Developed a statewide electronic , print and fax legislative alert which has kept thousands of civic leaders , grassroots activists and elected officials regularly informed about critically important public policy issues and their progress in the legislature.
  
  * Developed the first progressive , multi-issue legislative scorecard documenting how state representatives and senators have voted on key policy issues in Georgia.Distributed first in 1997 , circulation of the GRUS legislative scorecard has expanded well beyond its 50 , 000 printed copies through the GRUS web site , which has recorded more than 125 , 000 hits in the past 12 months.
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  Since 1986 , Mr. Levitas has testified as an expert witness , or provided pre-trial consulting , in local , state and federal jurisdictions in nine states and in Canada.His expertise and prior testimony includes such areas as the Ku Klux Klan , the Skinhead movement , the Aryan Nations , white racist prison gangs , crossburning , hate-motivated violence and the rural Posse Comitatus.
  
  In addition to his work with the Summit , Mr. Levitas is a writer , researcher and expert on the subject of white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations.
  
  Mr. Levitas is the author of articles and publications on civil rights and the activities of white supremacist and neo-Nazi hate groups.The New York Times , the St. Louis Post Dispatch , the Chicago Tribune , the Wall Street Journal and other print media outlets have cited him as an expert in this field.He has appeared as an expert on national news programs broadcast by ABC , CBS , CNN , public television and National Public Radio.He is a contributing author to Anti-Semitism in America Today ( Birch Lane Press , 1995 ).From 1991 - 1992 he edited When Hate Groups Come to Town : A Handbook of Effective Community Responses , a 192-page handbook about constructive responses to hate group activity and bigoted violence.He is a contributing writer to Groliers Multimedia Encyclopedia on the subjects of the history of American anti-Semitism ; hate crimes and the U.S. militia movement.
  
  Mr. Levitas is a board member of the Kansas City-based Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights , Inc. , a non-profit , tax-exempt organization that monitors hate groups and provides consulting services to community organizations , public officials and others about strategies for responding.He also serves on the board of the Applied Research Center in Oakland , California.The Center publishes Colorlines magazine and conducts research and training to challenge institutional racism and promote social and economic justice.
  
  SELECTED ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
  
  Christian Common Law and the Posse Comitatus , Searchlight , No. 287 , May 1999

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  founder: Daniel Levitas (Levitas also is the former executive director of Atlanta's Center for Democratic Renewal)

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  "The ADL is regarded both inside the Jewish community and outside the Jewish community as the definitive source of information on anti-Semitism and extremist groups," says Daniel Levitas, the former executive director of the Center for Democratic Renewal, an Atlanta- based group that monitors anti-Semitism, racism, and hate groups. 'One of the things this scandal has done is that it has completely tainted the ADL's credibility and reputation with regard to its objectivity.

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  America's homegrown terrorists (Part I) - An interview with Daniel Levitas, author of The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right
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  America's homegrown terrorists (Part I) - An interview with Daniel Levitas, author of The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right
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  While the hunt for Osama bin Laden is being ratcheted up and President Bush's war against terrorism continues to be mainly focused on threats coming from outside the country, Atlanta-based author Daniel Levitas warns that the threat posed by homegrown terrorists should not be overlooked.
  
  Levitas is a writer, researcher and expert on the activities of racist, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi organizations and the author of The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right, (Thomas Dunne Books/St.Martin's Press, Nov. 2002, 520 pp. $16.95 paper, $27.95 cloth) recently released in paperback.
  
  According to Levitas, who has testified for nearly two decades as an expert witness in state, federal and Canadian courts, the Krar case is probably the most dramatic example of the threat posed by domestic terrorists.James Kopp, who was found guilty in 2003 for the 1998 shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian in Buffalo, New York, was affiliated with a shadowy underground anti-abortion network, the Army of God.Matthew Hale, leader of a white supremacist group, the World Church of the Creator, faced charges earlier this year of soliciting the murder of a federal judge.And Rafael Davila, a former Army National Guard intelligence officer from Washington State, is awaiting trial in Spokane, Washington, on espionage-related charges for allegedly stealing -- and then planning to distribute -- highly classified military documents to white supremacists in North Carolina, Texas and Georgia.
  
  "Americans should question whether the Justice Department is making America's far-right fanatics a serious priority," Levitas told me. "And with the FBI still struggling to get up to speed on the threat posed by Islamic extremists abroad, it is questionable whether the agency has the manpower to keep tabs on our distinctly American terror cells."
  
  Levitas' book traces the emergence of white supremacist paramilitary groups from their roots in the post-Civil War period, through the segregationist violence of the civil rights era, to the present.He also examines the early days of right-wing tax protest in the 1960s and 1970s, the farm crisis of the 1980s and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.In addition, Levitas outlines the contemporary movement's dangerous preoccupation with biological warfare such as Anthrax.
  
  Levitas recently spoke with me about the ideological roots of the white supremacist movement, the current state of far right and neo-Nazi organizing, the increase in anti-Semitism and anti-Arab bigotry in the wake of 9/11, and the likelihood that homegrown terrorists will strike again.Levitas' book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award in 2002.Bill Berkowitz: We heard a lot about the militia movement in the 1990s.How come we don't hear much about them today?
  
  Daniel Levitas: The events of 9/11 have really overshadowed everything on the subject of terrorism, so if the story is not about fanatically violent Islamicists or the discovery of weapons of mass destruction in the desert of Iraq it is harder to focus the attention of both the media and law enforcement.

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  Daniel Levitas doesn't think so.In his riveting and thoroughly-documented new book, "The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right" (Thomas Dunne Books/St.Martin's Press, 2002), Levitas traces the history of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in the U.S., arguing that America's racist and anti-Semitic paramilitary right represents a clear and present threat to democracy.
  
  That was then...
  
  In the late 1960s, when I was a student at the University of Kansas, we would occasionally receive an envelope containing a slip of paper with a crude crosshairs drawn on it.Sending a crosshairs in the mail was how a local paramilitary group called The Minutemen would let you know that you were in their sights.
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  In fact, as Levitas pointed out in The Nation, the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were welcomed as the advent of a period of chaos and race war by a core of neo-nazi and white supremacist groups.
  
  A recent Boston Globe story reported that a neo-Nazi ex-convict and his white supremacist girlfriend had been convicted, in federal court, "of hatching an elaborate plot to bomb Jewish and African-American targets in Boston and across the nation to spark 'a racial holy war."'
  
  Who were the actors that built these organizations?Why did many hate groups spring to life in the 1960s, seventies and eighties?What were they advocating?How successful were they?What is the relevance/connection of these groups to today's paramilitary right?Levitas tackles these critical questions.
  
  "The Terrorist Next Door" is history brought current: The passage of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 "hasten[ed] the restoration of white supremacy across the South by barring the use of army troops to protect blacks and their Republican political allies" during Reconstruction, Levitas writes.And the Posse Comitatus benefited those on the sparsely populated Western frontier.The discussion around the use of the Posse Comitatus since 1980 has centered on "employ[ing] the military in efforts to interdict the flow of drugs by land, sea, and air, or to provide specialized training to civilian law enforcement in areas where the military is believed to possess unique experience."
  
  Since 9/11, however, the US military has played a significant role in domestic security.According to the Cato Institute, a Washington, DC-based conservative think tank, the Bush administration "has directed lawyers in the departments of Justice and Defense to review the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and any other laws that restrict the military's role in domestic law enforcement."In October, Cato organized a forum to discuss several questions: "Is the Posse Comitatus Act out of date -- or is it more important than ever before?
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  And when you read the racist tracts that Levitas cites you understand their enmity towards the government.The great plains of our heartland birthed the Posse Comitatus, the Minutemen, and an assortment of tax protestors, anti-Semites, racists, itinerant preachers, economically devastated farmers, and so-called patriots.
  
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  Levitas is a friend and colleague who knows the terrain.He brings nearly twenty years of experience as an anti-racist organizer, researcher, and journalist to this work.In the 1980s he worked for the Prairiefire Rural Action Center in Des Moines, Iowa.Between 1989 and 1992, he was executive director of the Center for Democratic Renewal, an Atlanta-Ga.-based civil rights organization monitoring the activities of hate groups and the incidents of bigoted violence.
  
  During the past decade he has appeared as an expert on white supremacist groups on many national television and radio programs.And, he has provided expert testimony and pre-trial consulting for trials involving the Ku Klux Klan, the Skinhead movement, the Aryan Nations, and white prison gangs.
  
  For more on "The Terrorist Next Door," see http://www.terroristnextdoor.com.For more please see the Bill Berkowitz archive.
  
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  As Levitas pointed out in The Nation, the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were welcomed as the advent of a period of chaos and race war by a core of neo-nazi and white supremacist groups.
  
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  by Daniel Levitas
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  Written by Daniel Levitas, a national expert on the origins and activities of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, The Terrorist Next Door is carefully researched and includes rich detail from official documents (including the FBI), private archives and confidential sources never before disclosed.Among other things, Levitas explains how the racist and anti-Semitic campaigns of segregationists in the 1950s and ‘60s gained ground in the Cold War climate that polarized politics following World War II.
  
  The book also traces the history of the right wing tax protest movement and offers the first definitive account of how the radical right preyed on financially troubled farmers during the agricultural crisis of the 1970s and ‘80s.
  
  In detailing these and other developments, Levitas provides a compelling factual narrative while also arguing that the danger posed by the radical right as a social movement goes far beyond the criminality and violence common among its organizers and adherents.
  
  The greatest challenge, he points out, stems from the success that groups like the Posse have had in spreading their ideas from the margins into the political mainstream.
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  The New York Times editoral, "Our Enemies at Home" by Daniel Levitas is now available here at The Terrorist Next Door website.Click here to read.
  
  Read more about antisemitism and the radical right, including Levitas' writing in Reform Judaism magazine about the relationship between Jews and the Christian Right, in the Related Writings section.
  
  The Terrorist Next Door has been nominated for a National Book Award (July 2002) and the Pulitzer Prize (Nov. 2002).
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  Daniel Levitas
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  Daniel Levitas --June 15 / JCC/ Benderson Building
  
  Daniel Levitas is a writer, researcher and expert on anti-Semitism and the activities of white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations.His book, The Terrorist Next Door.The Militia Movement and the Radical Right (Thomas Dunne Books/St.Martin's Press, November 2002), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
  
  Levitas is also a contributing author to Anti-Semitism in America Today (Birch Lane Press, 1995) and a contributing writer to Groliers Multimedia Encyclopedia on the history of American anti-Semitism, hate crimes and the U.S. militia movement.He has written for the Nation, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Roll Call, Congress Monthly and other publications.
  
  Writing recently in Reform Judaism magazine, Levitas noted that fully 35 million adult Americans (17%) are classified as "strongly anti-Semitic, 65 million believe that Jews killed Christ, 58 million believe that Jews control Wall Street, and 48 million believe Jews control the media.According to Levitas, heightened Jewish visibility has now become a significant spur to anti-Semitism.
  
  "Victimization does not appear to elicit sympathy," he argues."In fact, the very opposite may be true--when Jews suffer, be it through war or terrorist attacks, anti-Semitism often rises."
  
  Since 1986, Levitas has testified as an expert witness, or provided pretrial consulting, for either the prosecution or the defense in more than ten states and in Canada.His expertise includes such areas as the history of American anti-Semitism, the Ku Klux Klan, the Skinhead movement, the tax protest movement, the Aryan nations, white racist prison gangs, and hate-motivated violence.
  
  Mr. Levitas has conducted training sessions and seminars for academics and students, public officials, community leaders and law enforcement officers throughout the United States.
  
  He has lectured widely at colleges and universities (the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; the JFK Memorial Library in Boston; Tulane University in New Orleans, etc.), and his speeches and public presentations have been sponsored by groups as diverse as the American Jewish Committee, the W.E.B. Dubois Center for Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Jewish Book Festivals in more than a dozen cities, and the Rural Sociological Society.
  
  His authoritative opinion has been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune, and he has appeared on news programs broadcast by CNN, ABC, CBS and National Public Radio, among numerous other media outlets.

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  by Daniel Levitas
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  Written by Daniel Levitas, a national expert on the origins and activities of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, The Terrorist Next Door is carefully researched and includes rich detail from official documents (including the FBI), private archives and confidential sources never before disclosed.Among other things, Levitas explains how the racist and anti-Semitic campaigns of segregationists in the 1950s and ‘60s gained ground in the Cold War climate that polarized politics following World War II.
  
  The book also traces the history of the right wing tax protest movement and offers the first definitive account of how the radical right preyed on financially troubled farmers during the agricultural crisis of the 1970s and ‘80s.
  
  In detailing these and other developments, Levitas provides a compelling factual narrative while also arguing that the danger posed by the radical right as a social movement goes far beyond the criminality and violence common among its organizers and adherents.
  
  The greatest challenge, he points out, stems from the success that groups like the Posse have had in spreading their ideas from the margins into the political mainstream.
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  The New York Times editoral, "Our Enemies at Home" by Daniel Levitas is now available here at The Terrorist Next Door website.Click here to read.
  
  Read more about antisemitism and the radical right, including Levitas' writing in Reform Judaism magazine about the relationship between Jews and the Christian Right, in the Related Writings section.
  
  The Terrorist Next Door has been nominated for a National Book Award (July 2002) and the Pulitzer Prize (Nov. 2002).
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  © Copyright 2003 by Daniel Levitas.All rights reserved.This website is powered by Mambo Open Source.

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