One People's Project
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Racism
Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...
and far right
Far right
Far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. Far-right politics may involve anti-immigration and anti-integration stances towards groups that are...
groups and individuals. Its most prominent members are its founder Daryle Lamont Jenkins and Joshua Hoyt, who joined the group in 2002.
The precursor of One People's Project resulted from a counter-demonstration to a July 4, 2000 rally in Morristown
Morristown, New Jersey
Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 18,411. It is the county seat of Morris County. Morristown became characterized as "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, that was billed as Independence from Affirmative-Action Day, which was held by the Nationalist Movement . Among them was activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins, at the time a member of the New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA. It is the county seat and the home of Rutgers University. The city is located on the Northeast Corridor rail line, southwest of Manhattan, on the southern bank of the Raritan River. At the 2010 United States Census, the population of...
-based group New Jersey Freedom Organization (NJFO). The counter-demonstration was called the One People's Rally. On the day of the rally, 300 persons turned out to face nine supporters of the Nationalist Movement. Afterwards, the One People's Project decided to monitor and track such groups. Originally named One People's Coalition, with Jenkins as its spokesperson, the group researched and published information about the Nationalist Movement's awards ceremony at the Manville
Manville, New Jersey
Manville is a Borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 10,344. Manville was named after the Johns-Manville Corporation, which maintained a large manufacturing facility in the borough for decades.Historically, many of...
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans of Foreign Wars
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is a congressionally chartered war veterans organization in the United States. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, VFW currently has 1.5 million members belonging to 7,644 posts, and is the largest American organization of combat...
hall. This led to the cancellation of the event.
Over the next year, the renamed One People's Project broadened their focus, to publish information on their website about American conservatives; ranging from the mainstream to the far right
Far right
Far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. Far-right politics may involve anti-immigration and anti-integration stances towards groups that are...
. One People's Project has published phone numbers, home addresses and workplace addresses of some individuals. In November 2001, One People's Project began focusing heavily on white supremacist groups that were attempting to take advantage of the September 11, 2001 attacks
September 11, 2001 attacks
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. The most notable of these groups was the Hillsboro, West Virginia
Hillsboro, West Virginia
Hillsboro is a town in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 243 at the 2000 census.- History :Hillsboro was named for pioneer John Hill, from North Carolina, who built a log cabin near what is now Lobelia...
-based National Alliance.
On July 28, 2007, blogger
Blog
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Robb Pearson sponsored a rally to support a plan by the mayor of Morristown, New Jersey, to deputize law enforcement officials to enforce immigration
Immigration
Immigration is the act of foreigners passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence...
laws. A notice on the One People's Project website called the event an "anti-immigrant rally", although Pearson described it as a rally against illegal immigration
Illegal immigration
Illegal immigration is the migration into a nation in violation of the immigration laws of that jurisdiction. Illegal immigration raises many political, economical and social issues and has become a source of major controversy in developed countries and the more successful developing countries.In...
. During the rally, counter-demonstrators chanted, while rally participants sang the The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships...
, the national anthem
National anthem
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of the United States
United States
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. At the end of the rally, two of Pearson's supporters were attacked by counter-demonstrators. After the rally, the One People's Project website included the following statement: "[w]e don't think anyone is going to lose any sleep over people chanting during the anti-immigrant side's salute to the flag, Nazis getting slapped around a bit or the pain Robb Pearson & Co. feel over being called racist all the time."According to the OPP website, all charges were dropped when one of those supporters was also charged for his role in the fight, and an agreement was reached.
One People's Project has been featured on numerous television programs such as the Montel Williams Show, A Current Affair and newspaper articles. It has also been mentioned in Gwen Ifill's
Gwen Ifill
Gwendolyn L. "Gwen" Ifill is an American journalist, television newscaster and author. She is the managing editor and moderator of Washington Week and a senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, both of which air on PBS. She is a political analyst, and moderated the 2004 and 2008 Vice...
book, The Breakthrough.
External links
- One Peoples Project - Official website
- Daryle Jenkins: The One People’s Project Interview