Beliefs and practices of the Christian Identity Movement
By Brenda Hammond
Reader Contributor
Back in the day — when Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations, Vincent Bertollini, the “11th Hour Remnant Messenger,” and others, were trying to spread …
By Brenda Hammond
Reader Contributor
Back in the day — when Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations, Vincent Bertollini, the “11th Hour Remnant Messenger,” and others, were trying to spread …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Brenda Hammond sat in the balcony of the then Sandpoint High School gym in May 1991. She was there to hear members of the …
THE GHOST OF RICHARD BUTLER IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
By Christian Rose
Reader Contributor
Recently, some Sandpoint residents woke up on a Sunday morning to find racist fliers had …
By Brenda Hammond
Reader Contributor
The 8th Annual Conference on Refugees, held at Boise State University on Feb. 8 and 9, was a gathering of approximately 425 people. I attended …
By Brenda Hammond
Reader Staff
Editor’s note:
This is the first of three articles written by members of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force that will publish in later …
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