Mark Pitcavage

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Mark Pitcavage is a historian and analyst of far-right wing groups. He works with the Anti-Defamation League and was the creator of the now-archived Militia Watchdog website. The site has been an archive since 2000 when Pitcavage took the position of Director of Fact Finding for the Anti-Defamation League. [1] [2] Pitcavage earned a PhD in American military and social history from Ohio State University in 1995. His PhD dissertation was entitled "An Equitable Burden: The Decline of State Militias 1783-1858". [3]

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Activism

Militia Watchdog

The Militia Watchdog website was founded by Pitcavage in 1995 following the Oklahoma City bombing and operated until 2000. The site's subscription list, which mainly included law enforcement officers and other "watchdog" groups, is still being used by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The site also worked in cooperation with other "watchdog" groups such as The Center for New Community, the Southern Poverty Law Center [4] and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. [5] (p34)

Pitcavage's Militia Watchdog profiles have been used as a source for writers on militias and their activities. [6] [7] With the success of the Militia Watchdog project, Pitcavage was made the Director of Investigative Research for the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program (SLATT). [5] (p34) The SLATT program is funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) of the U.S. Department of Justice. [8]

Anti-Defamation League

The ADL absorbed Pitcavage's Militia Watchdog group and now maintains the site as an archive of his work between 1995 and 2000. [9]

Commentator on terrorism, gangs, and extremism

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Pitcavage was cited as a terrorism and extremism expert by mainstream media. [10] [11] [12] [13]

In 2002, he was interviewed and quoted at length about prison gangs by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [4] Pitcavage has given interviews for radio stations such as KCBS (AM). [14] In 2006, a student radio station at St. Petersburg College interviewed Pitcavage for an episode titled "Militia Movement". [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Militia Watchdog archives". ADL. September 2000. Archived from the original on 10 January 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
  2. ↑ Ladika, Susan (May 5, 2004). "Expert: Domestic terrorism should be of greater concern". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
  3. ↑ Koschnik, Albrecht (2007). "Let a Common Interest Bind Us Together": Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775-1840. University of Virginia Press. p. 333. ISBN   9780813926483.
  4. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-13. Retrieved 2005-11-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. 1 2 George Michael (2003). Confronting Right Wing Extremism and Terrorism in the USA. Routledge. pp. 181, 34.
  6. ↑ Philip H. Melling (2001). Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 155, 157.
  7. ↑ Michael A. Bellesiles (2003). Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. Soft Skull Press. p. 582.
  8. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-08-27. Retrieved 2009-06-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ↑ "Watchdog Militia Archive". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
  10. ↑ "US extremists conflicted over war on terror". Christian Science Monitor. 2002-06-18. ISSN   0882-7729. Archived from the original on 2019-05-31. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  11. ↑ "Fighting fire on the right - U.S. News & World Report". Archived from the original on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
  12. ↑ "Anthrax: Linking al-Qaida: Terrorist cells, exposures overlapped". The Atlanta Journal. October 18, 2001. p. A19.
  13. ↑ John Higgins (July 18, 2004). "Parents' Custody Complaints Solicited". Akron Beacon Journal. p. B1.
  14. ↑ Jane McMillan (February 25, 2005). "California Prison Gang Trials". KCBS (AM). Archived from the original on November 27, 2007. Retrieved July 24, 2007.
  15. ↑ St. Petersburg College (April 21, 2006). "Militia Movement".
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