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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

The Public Eye Magazine
The Public Eye, Winter 2015

Issue
81

PRA researcher Cole Parke exposes the history of the Illinois-based World Congress of Families, a right-wing group responsible for promoting laws criminalizing An umbrella acronym standing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning. Learn more people & abortion around the world. PRA fellow Rachel Tabachnick writes about the lawmaker who passed the nation’s first school voucher law, only to later be demonized by the Right’s privatization juggernaut for warning against overreach. Author Robin Marty highlights the Right’s anti-choice playbook of the last 30 years, and asks whether pro-choice could learn some valuable lessons from the Right’s tactics.

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Public Eye

Natural Deception

Conned by the World Congress of Families
The World Congress of Families is pushing their limited definition of the “natural family” across the world, as a way to criminalize abortion, and demonize LGBTQ people.
Cole Parke
Article
People in a protest wearing rainbow wigs, holding signs that say "love is a human right"
Public Eye

Opening Pandora's Box

The Rise & Fall of the Right's School Voucher Pioneer
The neoliberal agenda behind school choice, a wide range of schools from charter schools to school voucher programs, has adverse effects on communities of color.
Rachel Tabachnick
Article
A young girl holding a sign that says Celebrate Teachers - Celebrate Choice! National School Choice Week
Public Eye

Meet Joe Scheidler, Patriarch of the Anti-Abortion Movement

Nearly 30 years later, anti-abortion activists still work from Joe Scheidler’s blueprint. Could Scheidler’s story provide any clues to where the faults might lie in their strategy?
Robin Marty
Article
A white man in the center of a circle, with other people bowing their heads and placing a hand on his shoulder and arms.
Public Eye

“Employers Feel Wildly Free to Pay People However They Want”: An Interview with Kim Bobo

Kim Bobo, the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ), is one of the Left’s luminaries when it comes to the intersection of faith and economic justice.
Theo Anderson
Q&A
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Public Eye

The Art of Activism: Meredith Stern

When Meredith Stern (whose artwork is also featured on the front cover) chooses where to live, she embraces the “act locally, think globally” ethos. That’s why, once she put down roots in Providence, Rhode Island, the printmaker and collage artist began naturally forming collaborations with fellow artists for social justice.
Political Research Associates
Art of Activism
From the cover of PE Winter 2015: the words "A Global Scam: Selling the 'Natural Family'"