We are part of an international Human Rights Movement

But what does that mean during a time in the United States when the political right has a large network of social movements that have out-organized progressive human rights activists?

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What we can learn from how the Political Right took power

"Wrong About the Right"
by Jean Hardisty and Deepak Bhargava
From The Nation, November 7, 2005
http://www.publiceye.org/hardisty/wrong_about_right.html

How to Win the War of Ideas:
Lessons from the Gramscian Right
Susan George
http://www.tni.org/archives/george/dissent.htm

$1 Billion for Conservative Ideas
David Callahan
http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990426/callahan

The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations
Moving a Public Policy Agenda
From a 1997 report by the National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy
http://www.mediatransparency.org/conservativephilanthropy.php

Why Now?
by Jean Hardisty
http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v09n3-4/whynow.html

Drifting Right and Going Wrong
by Chip Berlet and Jean Hardisty
http://www.jeanhardisty.com/essay_driftingrightandgoingwrong.html

A progressive view of building a broad social movement

An infrastructure that includes thinks tanks, conferences, alternative media, art, theatre, music, etc.

What a successful social movement needs: A set of charts
http://www.publiceye.org/action/movement.html

Social Movements Need An Infrastructure To Succeed
by Chip Berlet
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Sep2005/berlet0905.html 

A Broad Vision

A Call To Defend Democracy And Pluralism
The Blue Mountain Statement
Blue Mountain Working Group
http://www.publiceye.org/eyes/calldef.html

Human Rights, Systems of Oppression, and Social Justice:
Confronting the Right-Wing Backlash in the New Millennium
by Chip Berlet
http://www.buildinghumanrights.org/berlet-essay.html

Skillful framing of rhetoric, but with resources and a mass movement base

Thinking about Elephants
Toward a Dialogue with George Lakoff
By William A. Gamson and Charlotte Ryan
http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v19n2/gamson_elephants.html

Understanding the structure and funding of the U.S. Political Right

Introductory Slide Show explaining the basics of how the U.S. Political Right work
http://www.publiceye.org/research/rw101/RW101.htm

Page of Resources For Studying Right-Wing Policy-Making
http://www.publiceye.org/research/policy.html

Specifically on Foundations & Funding
http://www.publiceye.org/research/policy.html#Funding

Web Links: Foundations, Funding, & Non-Profits
http://www.publiceye.org/research/sites.html#Funding

Books of interest

Allport, Gordon W. 1954. The Nature of Prejudice . Cambridge, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

Berlet, Chip and Matthew N. Lyons. 2000. Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press.

Diamond, Sara. 1995. Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States. New York: Guilford Press.

Felice, William F. 1996. Taking Suffering Seriously: The Importance of Collective Human Rights. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Guillaumin, Colette. 1995. Racism, Sexism, Power and Ideology. London: Routledge.

Hardisty, Jean V. 1999. Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers. Boston: Beacon Press.

Pharr, Suzanne. 1996. In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation . Berkeley, Calif.: Chardon Press.

More books
http://www.publiceye.org/research/biblio/intro_bib.html

A progressive human rights framework sees liberty, freedom, laws, and rights as an essential framework, but envisions justice as the goal.

Liberty – from government or autocratic restraints

Freedom – to do things: it is derived from liberty

Laws – establish the basic rules and procedures of a society

Rights – basic for human survival and “pursuit of happiness”

Justice – based on notions of equity, fairness, and a harmonious society

“In Tolerance there is no Respect”