One People's Project

One Peoples Project (OPP) is an organization founded in 2000 to monitor and publish information about alleged racist and far right groups and individuals. Its most prominent members are its founder Daryle Lamont Jenkins and Joshua Hoyt, who joined the group in 2002.^[1][2][3]

The precursor of One People's Project resulted from a counter-demonstration to a July 4, 2000 rally in Morristown, New Jersey, 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-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 Veterans of Foreign Wars 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. 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. The most notable of these groups was the Hillsboro, West Virginia-based National Alliance.

On July 28, 2007, blogger Robb Pearson sponsored a rally to support a plan by the mayor of Morristown, New Jersey, to deputize law enforcement officials to enforce immigration 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. During the rally, counter-demonstrators chanted, while rally participants sang the The Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States. 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."^[4]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.^[5]

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 book, The Breakthrough.

References

1. ^ Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld (2004). Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies. Sage Publications. p. 187. ISBN 0761928146. http://books.google.com/books?id=sJ7OkVzwVMEC&pg=PA187&dq=%22One+People%27s+Project%22&ei=V4vNRtKpK4b07gKA_9CCCw&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=XKHYxp6EdMOYLWfPgb9KOVEBW6A. 
2. ^ "Planned neo-Nazi march sparks violence". CNN International. October 15, 2005. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/10/15/nazi.march/. 
3. ^ "Interview with One People's Project". Infoshop News. December 27, 2005. http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20051227135937304. 
4. ^ One Peoples Project - Nazis, Nationalists, Know Nothings & Neo-Cons: It'S An Anti-Immigration Rally In New Jersey!
5. ^ One People's Project - All Dharges Dismissed from '07 Morristown Anti-Immigration Rally

External links

• One Peoples Project - Official website
• Daryle Jenkins: The One People’s Project Interview