[Peace] Morris Dees Lecture 12/9/2003

[Alfred Kagan]

Kent,

It was issued soon after the Seattle WTO meeting, a few years ago 
now. I got it because of my own donations.


At 8:24 AM -0600 12/9/03, Kent Yates wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Al Kagan wrote:
>
>>  This is the reference to the article I mentioned last night.  Thanks
>>  Carl.  I went to the SPLC website to look for it just now, but it
>>  does not seem to be there.
>>
>>  Recently Jim Reddin and Cletus Nelson sent CounterPunch, the newsletter I
>>  coedit with Jeffrey St. Clair, and interesting account of Dees' latest
>>  twist in moneygrubbing.  In its most recent Intelligence Report
>>  newsletter, the SPLC -- in a "Special Report" -- puts forth the
>>  preposterous theory that far from being a glorious renaissance of the
>>  radical spirit in American political life, the protest against the World
>>  Trade Organization, most in evidence in Seattle and in Washington, DC, at
>>  the start of last week, have been the nexus for a far-flung crypto-facist
>>  conspiracy comprised of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan
>>  members and other shock troops of the far right.
>
>I have been a contributor to SPLC for years and this information is a
>surprise to me. So I thought I would check out the latest "intelligence
>Report" and read this for myself. The latest issue is dated Sept 2003 and
>is not a "newsletter", but a 65-page news magazine. It contains no "Special
>Report" section that I can find, nor any of the information mentioned
>above. Could you please be more specific about the issue number and date
>and the page numbers where this can be seen?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kent Yates


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