{"id":15311,"date":"2025-01-31T01:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=15311"},"modified":"2025-02-06T01:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T01:00:21","slug":"2025-02-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-02-02\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of the ultra-right in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/humanists.org_2025_02_02_ultra_right_Reagan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15316\"\/><figcaption>8\/1\/1983 President Reagan talks with Newt Gingrich during a trip via Air Force One to Atlanta Georgia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., February 2, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us in person or online as we watch and discuss the documentary, <i>The rise of the ultra-right in the US<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The tightening of abortion laws, the 2021 storming of the Capitol, a flare-up in racist violence: The US far-right has never been more powerful and visible than it is today &#8211; and that\u2019s not just due to Donald Trump. The ultra-right has managed to gain a foothold at the very heart of US politics.<\/p>\n<p>The triumph of the radical right is the outcome of a well-thought-out strategy set in motion more than 40 years ago by a conservative minority thirsty for power. And this group has pushed through its agenda under the nose of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Alice Cohen and Gilles Biasette, this film was a coproduction of Arte France, Radio Television Suisse, CBC Radio Canada, Al Jazeera, and posted in English by DW, Deutsche Welle, a public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.<\/p>\n<p>You can preview this 51-minute video at:<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jrhREluLdBs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/jrhREluLdBs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Attend in Person:<br>On the first and third Sunday of the month, such as this Sunday, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at the <b>Mountain View Senior Center<\/b>, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View, CA 94040. Lunch will be served after the forum. We request a $10 donation for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>If you can join us in person, please email vp@humanists.org to help us make sure we have room for you. 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The tightening of abortion laws, the 2021 storming of the Capitol, a flare-up in racist violence: The US far-right has never been more powerful and visible than it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-02-02\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The rise of the ultra-right in the US&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15311"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15327,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions\/15327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}