Seattle freelance journalist and blogger David Neiwert and Everett Daily Herald local news editor Scott North discuss the radical right and its toxic effects on communities in a free event.

Neiwert, author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, and North will discuss the radical right’s rise as they have observed it up close, locally as well as nationally, over the past several decades.

Each has covered this movement as reporters since the 1990s and often worked together, right up through the past few years. In addition to profiling the movement, they will focus on its toxic effects on communities, and on finding ways to break down the barriers that create the conditions in which these hate groups and other extremists flourish.

They will use lots of local examples as illustrations both of the nature of the problems we face, as well as directions we can take to solve them.