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Tea Parties, Right-Wing Populism, & Scapegoating Tea Parties, Town Hall Protests, Glenn Beck posing as the Rev. Martin Luther White Nationalism, Economic Fears, & Gender Anxiety: Using Social Movement Theory with a Race, Gender, & Class Lens Progressives need to understand the complex dynamics on the Political Right, from Palin Republicans, to Tea Parties and other right-wing populists, to armed citizens militias, to ultra-rightists and neonazis. It is up to progressive forces to engage in counter-recruitment that recognizes the real anger and fear of many middle-class and working-class White people, but redirects it toward constructive societal outcomes. This is not about attempting to recruit active leaders and activists already firmly involved in the Tea Party movement, but about challenging the Tea Partiers for the allegiance of millions of Americans angry at the status quo and justifiably fearful about their future. How did the Tea Party Movement Emerge? In 2009, the Tea Bag and Town Hall protestors, spawned as astroturf, morphed into a constellation of actual grassroots right-wing populist movements. Election 2010 Editorial from PRA Election 2010 Analysis from PRA Useful Articles Taking Tea Partiers Seriously. Background Chip's paper for the UC Berkeley Seminar on the Tea Parties
Tea Party Nationalism study by Burghart & Zeskind for NAACP Take Action: Handouts
Significant Recent Critical Essays
Chip Berlet's Series on the Tea Bag Movement & Right-Wing Populism
Video & Audio Resources
More Details About the Tea Parties More Resources
Take Action! The anxieties of the Tea Partiers are not just about the economy, but also anger at dark-skinned immigrants, Muslims, gay marriage, abortion, and a liberal Black man in the White House. Progressives need to stand up and push back.
Sectors of the Right The Patriot Movement
Other Right-Wing Backlash Movements Tactics, Strategies, & Coalitions
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