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    Citing Civil Liberties Concerns, the Brennan Center and Over 50 Groups Oppose Expanding Countering Violent Extremism Programs To White Supremacists

    Expanding Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs to white supremacists will do little to reduce terrorism and could undermine fundamental rights, the Brennan Center and others argued in a letter to Congressional leadership.

    Published: September 7, 2017

    The Brennan Center for Justice, along with over 50 other human rights, civil liberties, and community-based organizations sent a letter urging leadership in the House of Representatives and the Senate to reject proposals to expand existing Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs to focus on white supremacist extremism. This approach, the letter argues, will not be effective or make the country safer, but will undermine fundamental rights.

    Experience with CVE programs in the U.S. shows that they almost uniformly identify protected political and religious views as a basis for identifying people who might be terrorists, baselessly flagging innocuous activity as identifying individuals with a propensity for terrorism and suppressing religious observance and religious and political speech.
     
    Each of the undersigned groups vigorously opposes the hatred, bigotry, and xenophobia expressed by white supremacists, but extending CVE to target these groups risks diverting security resources to policing political viewpoints, instead of focusing on lawless conduct.
     
    Advocates for Youth
    American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
    American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
    American Friends Service Committee 
    Arab American Institute
    ARTICLE 19
    Asian Americans Advancing Justice- Asian Law Caucus
    Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta
    Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles
    Bend the Arc Jewish Action
    Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
    Campaign for Liberty
    Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
    Center for Media Justice
    Center for New Community
    Church World Service
    CLEAR (Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility) Project at CUNY Law
    Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
    Defending Rights & Dissent
    Fight for the Future
    Franciscan Action Network
    Free Press Action Fund
    Friends Committee on National Legislation
    Government Accountability Project
    Hip Hop Caucus
    Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center
    Just Foreign Policy
    Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Committee -Sisters of St. Francis
    The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
    Liberty Coalition
    MPower Change
    Muslim Advocates
    Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
    Muslim Justice League
    Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA)
    NAACP
    National Center for Lesbian Rights
    National Center for Transgender Equality
    National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA)
    National Network for Arab American Communities
    National Religious Campaign Against Torture
    NIAC (National Iranian American Council) Action
    Pesticide Action Network
    PolicyLink
    Project South
    Restore the Fourth
    RootsAction.org
    The Rutherford Institute
    South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)
    STAND: The Student-Led Movement to End Mass Atrocities
    Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
    X-Lab

     

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