[Vision2020] Mark Potok is coming to town

[bill london]

>> Spring Speaker Announced for WSU Ethics Interest Group
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>> The WSU Ethics Interest Group would like to announce that Mark Potok 
>> from the Southern Poverty Law Center has agreed to be the group's 
>> spring speaker.  His talk will be Friday, Feb. 6 from 3:00-5:00 pm, 
>> location TBA.
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>> Mr. Potok is Director of Publications and Information for the 
>> Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch Project, and Editor and 
>> Supervisor of the SPLC's quarterly investigative magazine, 
>> Intelligence Report.  Before joining SPLC, Potok worked as Southwest 
>> correspondent of USA Today, where among other topics, he was the 
>> newspaper's primary reporter on the rise of the extreme right in 
>> recent years, as well as on racial conflict in the U.S.
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>> Born in Paris, France and raised in Vermont, Potok graduated with 
>> honors with a Political Science degree from the U. of Chicago.  Potok 
>> recently testified before the U.S. Senate on issues of hate on the 
>> internet, and before the United Nations on high commission refugees.
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>> Potok will speak at UI and WSU on his research on the League of the 
>> South and other neoconfederate organizations.  The timing coincides 
>> with the presence of Steve Wilkins, connected with such groups, at a 
>> Christ Church sponsored conference to be held at UI.
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>> For more information, contact:
>> Gail J. Stearns, Director
>> The Common Ministry at WSU
>> 509-332-2611
>> gstearnscm@pullman.com
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>> or Susan J. Kilgore, Associate Director
>> General Education Program
>> Washington State University
>> 335-1339
>> skilgore@wsu.edu
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