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The Public Eye, Winter 2014

Kathryn Joyce highlights the concerted effort to fight the Indian Child Welfare Reform Act and a new coalition emerging. Plus, associate fellow Spencer Sunshine reveals what is fact and what is fiction about right-wing involvement in Occupy Wall Street.

In this issue

The Right Hand of Occupy Wall Street

From Libertarians to Nazis, the Fact and Fiction of Right-Wing Involvement

The most successful mobilization on the Left in recent years—the Occupy movement—had ambiguously defined enemies and used an organizing model that was easily replicated. These strategies were key elements of its success, but they also enabled a…

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Small Town Cross Roads/Moving Up, Fighting Back

Creating a Path to LGBTQ Youth Liberation

In Small Town Cross Roads, Southerners On New Ground (SONG) explores the realities and dreams of queer people who live in small Southern towns like West Monroe. Echoing SONG’s findings, FIERCE also lifts up challenges faced by LGBTQ youth in rural…

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The Adoption Crunch, the Christian Right, and the Challenge to Indian Sovereignty

An empty playground.

While the demand for adoptable babies is increasing in the United States—driven in large part by evangelical Christians—the number of babies available for adoption is declining. Adoption agencies are now targeting tribal nations as a potential new…

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The Hammer of Justice

Pete Seeger, who was born in Manhattan in 1919 and died there in January, told Mother Earth News in a 1982 interview that “it’s impossible to have education without controversy.”

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The Gospel of James Baldwin

An Interview with Dr. E.L. Kornegay Jr.
A portrait of James Baldwin

Kornegay was drawn to study the work of the writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) through a comment made by the founder of Black liberation theology, James H. Cone, who once said that Baldwin taught him how to write. Kornegay was intrigued: “That took me…

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