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= Life After Hate = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Life After Hate is an American nonprofit organization co-founded in 2011 by Christian Picciolini, a former neo-Nazi. Its mission is to help people leave hate groups, particularly white supremacy groups. In January 2017, the Obama administration awarded the group $400,000 as part of a grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Violent Extremism Task Force. However, DHS advisor Katharine Gorka and other aides of President Donald Trump decided to discontinue the grant in June 2017. A crowdfunding campaign established after the Charlottesville attack has raised $429,500 to go towards the organization.

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http://www.adweek.com/agencies/how-one-agency-is-targeting-online-hate-speech-using-ai/

Oster examines the hate speech that is expressed on social media platforms. He and others are working to find a way to not only monitor but also find a way to diminish hate speech. He speaks with Sammy Rangel to compare ideas for the future of hate speech in social platforms like twitter. Together they figure that, someone ready to post on a platform must take a moment to be sure that they want to release that information to the public. http://infoweb.newsbank.com.proxy.cc.uic.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/1667C648A2686D08?p=AWNB Christian Picciolini a Chicago native has lived a life similar to a roller coaster. At a young age he was apart of a neo-Nazi hate group. As he grew older he decided to open up a music store. This is when he then realized that his clientele was made up mostly of the people that he hated. He believed that he didn’t deserve this type of support from Jews and Blacks. This is when he then decided to become apart of Life After Hate and lived the life he was longing for. He has no shame for his past life and believes that who he was in the past, shaped the hate that people express in today's world. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chicagoinc/ct-colin-kaepernick-chicago-inc-spt-0811-20170810-story.html Colin Kaepernick who recently lost his job in the NFL due to kneeling and not participating in the Pledge of Allegiance still remains without a job. His reasoning for kneeling was due to the inequality between police officers and African Americans. On another note, in his spare time, he has been donating money to non-for profit organizations in the Chicagoland area.

http://washingtonjewishweek.com/41062/this-racist-found-a-life-after-hate/featured-slider-post/

Picciolini’s overall identity has fluctuated throughout the years. As a young man he had strong white supremacy beliefs. It wasn’t until twenty-two when he was questioning whom he devotes his time to. Today he speaks upon three hundred people to discuss the importance of Love After Hate.

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www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/hatred/

Research regarding supremacist hate groups is explored, specifically white supremacist hate groups. Details about 2 ex-white supremacists who successfully transitioned their lives aver being involved in hate groups are shared. Previous research conducted surrounding several aspects of psychology of hate are explored, questioned and examined. The message of this article outlines the need for research regarding supremacists and to increase the support and resources available to ex-supremacists to make a successful transition from a life of hate.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/life-after-hate

The history and past efforts of exit programs across the world before the Exit Program was started in Chicago. Chicago's Life After Hate is based of previous models in Europe beginning in the 1990’s This article interviews 5 former white power activists order to better understand the significance of exit programs. In particular to examine the Exit Program USA. The study is an extension of an ongoing study funded by the National Institute of Justice.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-based-organization-helps-people-leave-hate-groups-20170221-story.html

This article follows a personal story of Shannon Martinez. She joined a white supremacist group at a young age stemming from not being able to meet parents expectations and a victim of sexual assault. After finding support she left the skinhead life behind. Today she in a volunteer with life after hate, sharing her story with others looking to leave extremist groups.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/right-wing-extremism-charlottesville.html

After Obama’s grant to the Life After Hate got repealed by the Trump administration without any explanation to the administrative severe backlash ensued. The addition of a violent clash in Charlottesville,Virginia added to the importance for groups like, LifeAfterHate. Organizations like Life After Hate who prevent and serve the community reduce the threat of violence and domestic terrorist attacks. The repeal of the grant made many feeling like the Trump Administration is looking to aim to make a federal program to combat extremism solely on Islamic radicals.

https://thestoryexchange.org/providing-a-way-forward-from-hate/

This article was about Life after hate member Angela King detailing her early life experiences as an extremist and how all of this hatred was taught to her by her upbringing as a child by experiencing her parents use of derogatory remarks and beliefs about other ethnicity. When Angela was 23 she was locked up for burglarizing a Jewish owned supermarket. While at jail she was approached by two Jamaican women who asked her to play a game despite seeing her visible tattoos which clearly duplicated hate. Once she felt the acceptance from individuals she use to hate, she later gained a different outlook on society and cultures altogether. After her positive and shocking experience in jail, it later led her to have a change of heart and devote her life works towards capturing as many hate group members and getting them to realize the truth behind the causes they’re supporting.

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/18/578745514/a-former-neo-nazi-explains-why-hate-drew-him-in-and-how-he-got-out

This article was actually a script that was from a radio show called Fresh Air. The interview that was conducted was between the radio host and founder of Life after hate group Christian Picciolini. He went on to summarize how be became a very influential leader in a well-known hate group at the early age of 14 when he ran into Clark Martell in an alley who made him feel like he belonged. He admitted that he mostly joined for the same reason Angela King joined which was feeling disconnected from the rest of the world and having no previous identity because his parents were busy working most of the time because they were immigrants from Italy. Later on in life after a brutal fight with an african american he realized the type of violence he was displaying was uncalled for and needed especially because he never knew these people personally. Since then Christian has dedicated his life to changing the hearts of members involved in various hate groups across the country.

https://efus.eu/files/2016/09/PS_Lifeafterhate_ExitUSA_ENG.pdf

This article is about ExitUSA which is an organization that specializes in disengagement of individuals who were previously involved in hate groups and placing them back into society as full functioning individuals that are capable of obtaining jobs and building healthy relationships within their communities. The program focuses on targeting current and past members of far extremist groups. The strategies behind the group are heavily relying on social media and creating different videos and materials that can be sent to the different individuals in the groups that in the long run cause them to question their original beliefs with hopes that in the end it will inspire them to exit the extremist groups they are apart of. A test try on this method was implemented and found to be successful mainly because of the content that the message which were presented to the individuals possessed.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/13/543259499/a-reformed-white-nationalist-speaks-out-on-charlottesville

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-christian-picciolini-hate-st-1222-20171228-story.html

Christian Piccioloni was recruited by Clark Martell a skinhead leader in high school. In order to “prevent the extinction of the white race”, Piccioloni recruited others and eventually became the leader of the Hammerskin Nation at 16. After almost losing his wife and kids, he changed his point of view and co-founded Life After Hate.

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