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Fast Forward Billy Joel Breaks Silence On Wearing Yellow Star At Concert
Billy Joel made headlines last August for wearing a yellow star to his sold-out Madison Square Garden concert, which came on the heels of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally. Joel didn’t make a public comment about the star at the time, but in a new interview with Vulture, he broke his silence regarding his…
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Fast Forward Kirstjen Nielsen Re-Ups Trump’s ‘Both Sides’ Charlottesville Rhetoric
Department of Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen echoed President Donald Trump’s comments about the white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, in which he claimed the violence was the fault of “both sides.” During the Aspen Security summit, Nielsen was asked about the president’s comment that there were “very fine people on both sides” of…
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Community Federal Law Can — And Should — Punish Hate Crimes
On July 5, James Alex Fields, Jr. pleaded not guilty to a 30-count federal indictment charging him with perpetrating the Charlottesville massacre. The first 17 counts charge Mr. Fields under section 1 of the federal hate crimes law, the Matthew Shepard and James Boyd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. The law punishes persons…
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News Anti-Fascist Groups Plan Counter-Protest At Charlottesville Anniversary Rally
Thousands of anti-fascist protesters will confront the white nationalists and neo-Nazis planning an August rally in Washington, D.C. on the anniversary of the “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, protest organizers told the Forward. Jason Kessler, who planned last year’s Charlottesville rally, has been given initial approval to hold an Aug. 12 “Unite the Right…
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Fast Forward Founder Of Charlottesville Rally Plans ‘Anniversary’ Outside White House
A rally honoring the one-year anniversary of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was approved for outside the White House on August 12, the Intercept reported. The National Park Service approved plans for an estimated 400 demonstrators in Washington’s Lafayette Park, who would be “protesting civil rights abuse in Charlottesville, Va / white…
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Fast Forward Northrup Investigating White Supremacist Employee With Security Clearance
The major defense contractor Northrup Grumman said Thursday that it is “taking immediate action” in response to a report claiming that one of its employees who possesses a security clearance from the Department of Defense is also a member of a violent white supremacist group. ProPublica and Frontline reported earlier Thursday that systems engineer Michael…
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Fast Forward Member Of Violent White Supremacist Group Holds Security Clearance
A doctoral student with government security clearance moonlights as a member of a violent white supremacist group, ProPublica and Frontline reported Thursday. While working to identify the white supremacists at the center of the violent demonstrations across the country, ProPublica and Frontline looked into a video shot at the Unite the Right rally last August…
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News Is Charlottesville’s Democratic Candidate Anti-Semitic — Or Just A Critic Of Israel?
Less than a year after hosting a massive rally of white nationalists chanting “Jews will not replace us,” Charlottesville, Virginia is again at the center of a controversy over politics, free speech and anti-Semitism. But this time, the moral lines are much murkier. Documentary filmmaker Leslie Cockburn won the Democratic nomination earlier this month for…
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