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Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Justice Program: Surfing While Black, Etc. (SWAT Team)

The Online Policy Group tracks incidents of online bias, defamation, and discrimination against individuals and/or communities based on their race, ethnicity, or religion, as well as partnering with other organizations who track and respond to such incidents. Please help by reporting such incidents and responding to them, as well as reviewing media coverage and links to related organizations and publications.

Report Online Incidents of Racial, Ethnic, or Religious Bias

Please report any incidents of racial, ethnic, or religious bias, discrimination, or defamation, you discover online on the OPG incident report form.

Respond to Online Incidents of Racial, Ethnic, or Religious Bias

Please respond to the following action alerts regarding online incidents of racial, ethnic, or religious bias, defamation, and discrimination.

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*   Mr. Wong
Icebox.com, a popular online animated cartoon site has continued production of a defamatory cartoon called "Mr. Wong" despite protests from the Asian-American community. The cartoon depicts an elderly Asian man as a domestic servant for a young society woman who abuses him and ridicules his difficulties in pronouncing English and in driving cars, among other stereotypes. Find out how you can respond through a National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC) action alert, (October 16, 2000)

Recent Alerts

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Media Coverage

*   The Web Rewires the Movement
Although MoveOn does not track member demographics, anecdotal evidence suggests that its base is disproportionately white as Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun, for example, fared poorly in the group's recent "primary", The Nation (August 4, 2003)

*   Watch What You Surf, Net Police Are Here
In what appears to be its first serious attempt to monitor the Internet, the Government of India has outlined an official procedure for blocking websites, Times of India (August 1, 2003)

*   Bush Opposes Plan for Minority Grants
The Bush administration declared its opposition Tuesday to a bill pushed by Virginia lawmakers that would create a grant program for computer technology at historically black and other minority-serving colleges and universities, Daily Press (July 23, 2003)

*   The Ignoble Savage
Talk Radio Network Inc. (TRN), an Oregon-based company that syndicates Savage's hate-filled right-wing talk show, "The Michael Savage Show," to 305 radio stations around the country, is suing Julie Sigwart, co-founder of the Web site TakeBacktheMedia.com (TBTM); Thomas and Gunilla Leavitt and Leavitt Enterprises, who produce www.savagestupidity.com; and unknown individual "John Doe," who produces www.michaelsavagesucks.com, Alternet.org (June 9, 2003)

*   Monster.com's Resume Purge Draws Fire
In a move the company claims is designed to comply with federal regulations, Monster.com on Thursday will delete most references to certain countries from job postings and resumes, CNET News.com (April 23, 2003)

Recent Coverage

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Related Organizations and Publications

*   Australia Federal Court Shuts Down Holocaust Denial Site Under Racial Discrimination Law
In the first Australian court decision on race hate and the Internet, the Federal Court today found that a website that denied the Holocaust and vilified Jewish people was unlawful under Australia's Racial Discrimination Act 1975, Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (September 17, 2002)

*   Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism
The Database of the Stephen Roth Institute monitors contemporary manifestations of anti-Semitism and racism around the world and right-wing extremist groups, Tel Aviv University (September 2, 2002)

*   Appeals Court Says Doctors Threatened in Wild Wild West
A US federal appeals court has ruled that antiabortion activists who created Wild West-style posters and a website called the Nuremberg Files condemning abortion doctors can be held liable because their works amounted to illegal threats, not free speech, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals via FindLaw (Adobe pdf file) (May 17, 2002)

*   Sexual Racism SUX!
This web page is aimed at confronting racist behaviour and speech in gay men, particularly those of us who use online personal services like gaydar, Sexual Racism Sux (May 1, 2002)

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