Thank you for joining Orange County Human Relations and Universal Heritage for a virtual screening of Healing From Hate!
Your access to watch Healing from Hate will become available on February 23rd and will be available until March 8th.
For now, you can watch the trailer below:
Content Warning: Mentions and images of violence, hate symbols, assault, profanity
The film screening and panel discussion took place on February 23rd. You can watch the recording here:
Universal Heritage’s mission is to foster cross-cultural understanding, celebrate richness in diversity, and advance intellectual discourse through education and research.
Universal Heritage works to enrich the lives of people in the local communities we serve.
We bring communities together through the pillars of:
● Education ● Religion ● Research ● Music ● Culture ● Arts
Through these pillars, we strive to preserve our diverse interwoven cultures, heritage, histories, and legacies. As a result of our work, we will build a richer, inclusive global community that celebrates common values, intellectual curiosity, innovative solutions, diversity, and promotes social change.
Community Resources:
OC Human Relations hate crime prevention
https://www.ochumanrelations.org/hatecrime/hate-crime-resources/
Hope Community Services
Hope Community Services is a non-profit organization based in Santa Ana, CA. Hope Community Services’ mission is to serve and support Vietnamese Americans and diverse communities in Orange County so they may grow and excel through our educational, cultural, social, and charitable activities. The non-profit responded to the pandemic by helping their community members get vaccinated, educated on COVID-19 related information, and answer their needs by providing a safe space. Learn more here: www.giveushope.org
Journey Out
Journey Out is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit leading the fight for the freedom and survival of all those whose lives have been destroyed by sex trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation.
Their mission is to help victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking leave a life of abuse and violence, overcome their fears, and empower them to reach their full potential and achieve their goals.
Journey Out Programs and Services include:
- law enforcement crisis response
- providing emergency housing, food, and clothing
- art therapy
- clinical counseling
- legal referrals
- job training
- Prostitution Diversion Program – court-approved diversion programming as an alternative to incarceration
- domestic minor sex trafficking prevention programming
- direct street outreach to those in the Life
- community/agency education and training
Social Media Links: Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @JourneyOutLA
DHS Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships
Community Relations Service
U.S. Department of Justice
The Community Relations Service (CRS), a component of the Department of Justice (DOJ), serves as “America’s Peacemaker” for communities in conflict by mediating disputes and enhancing community capacity to independently prevent and resolve future conflicts. CRS is the only federal agency dedicated to working with community groups to resolve community conflicts and prevent and respond to alleged hate crimes arising from differences of race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.
Attached is also an intro flyer, but it can also be accessed this way: https://www.justice.gov/
Speakers
Tony spent 15 years in the white supremacist and neo-nazi movements starting as a skinhead and evolving to leadership positions and was instrumental in ushering in the internet building one of the first white supremacist websites for Resistance Records in the mid 90’s.
Tony’s expertise is gleaned from receiving over a thousand hours of one on one and group counseling to understand his own process. Tony has spent countless hours coaching and mentoring change in others and is a certified Life Coach.
Tony has been involved in Life After Hate since its inception in 2011 and served as Executive Director from 2013-2017 while Life After Hate developed its online support groups and the EXIT USA program (based on EXIT Sweden’s model). In 2017 he became Board Chair until his departure in December 2019.
Tony has worked closely informing law enforcement and government from Attorney Generals to senior staff at the Department of Homeland Security. Tony testified before Congress in was recently at the Paris Summit for the Christchurch Call with the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and supporting Government and Law enforcement in Victoria, Australia helping them grapple with the rising problem of violent white supremacist groups.
Tony is the Author of the book “The Cure For Hate: A Former White Supremacists Journey From Violent Extremism To Radical Compassion For Hate: A Former White Supremacists Journey From Violent
Extremism To Radical Compassion”
Tony is featured in the full-length documentary Healing From Hate: Battle For The Soul Of A Nation.
Tony McAleer’s Documentary: Upcoming New Film – The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist Confronts the Legacy of the Holocaust. Watch the trailer here.
Pete Simi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Chapman University. For the past 25 years, he has been studying political violence, hate, and extremism. His fieldwork has taken him inside white supremacist groups across the United States where he has been embedded with racist skinheads, Klan members, neo-Nazis, and anti-government militias.
He is co-author of an award-winning book American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate and has published more than 60 articles and book chapters on issues related to extremist culture, street gangs, and juvenile delinquency.
He provides regular consultation on criminal cases involving hate crimes and domestic terrorism and volunteers as part of several efforts to help develop prevention and intervention strategies aimed at countering violent extremism including serving on Life After Hate’s Board of Directors.
He recently testified as one of the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses in the landmark civil case, Sines v. Kessler, aimed at holding the organizers of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally accountable for the violence they helped incite and even commit in Charlottesville, VA.
Michael Brown (moderator)
Serving as Associate Director for Field Operations for the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), Michael Brown forms partnerships between federal, tribal, state, local, and territorial governments and the whole-of-society, to build local prevention frameworks that prevent targeted violence and terrorism. He engages with community-based and government organizations to support capacity development efforts that align multi-disciplinary threat assessment and threat management teams with local prevention and intervention programs.
In nearly 15 years with DHS, Michael has held several collaborative roles building and strengthening relationships with industry, community, academic, international, interagency, intelligence, and law enforcement representatives. Prior to joining CP3, Michael was a Research Fellow at the RAND Corporation, and held various domestic and international roles at the Transportation Security Administration. Before joining the federal government, Michael worked in government consulting, as well as state and city government, and began his career as a financial management officer for a large bank.
Michael is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security Master’s Program, and also holds a master’s degree in public administration from Rutgers University-Newark and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from The George Washington University.