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Oct. 2, 2000 News media contact: Linda Bloom·(212) 870-3803·New York
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NOTE:  This information box accompanies UMNS stories #445 and #446.

By United Methodist News Service

Several organizations are monitoring Web sites that promote hate.

Besides maintaining a database, the Simon Wiesenthal Center
(www.wiesenthal.com) also releases a CD-ROM each year that updates
information on groups promoting bigotry and hate. Mark Weitzman, director of
the center's Task Force Against Hate, can be contacted by e-mail through the
Web site.

The Web site of the Anti-Defamation League (www.adl.org), which fights
anti-Semitism, offers news, teaching tips and resources for educators.

Hatewatch (www.hatewatch.org) is a Web-based organization monitoring hate
activity on the Internet.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (www.splcenter.org) has worked against white
supremacist groups for years and has developed a national tolerance
education program.

United Against Hate, an awareness campaign launched in July
(www.unitedagainsthate.org), is sponsored by the Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights and supported by 180 grass-roots organizations.

Other links can be found at the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries
Web page, http://gbgm-umc.org/advance/church-burnings/bcflinks.html. Go to
the bottom of the page for the appropriate link.
 
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