Authors Uncovered: Betsy Gaines Quammen

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Wilkinson Public Library
Lower Terrace

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As we approach the upcoming election, with tensions ever-increasing, a great deal of attention is being paid to the Proud Boys, a white supremacist militia movement, and QAnon, the most famously febrile of right-wing conspiracy theories. But there is another combination of force and belief, less recognized, that is driving recruitment and preparedness for post-election upheaval: a group called People’s Rights, and a version of Mormon theology, at its most literalistic and extreme. The group was created by Ammon Bundy.

On Thursday, October 22nd at 12:30 pm Betsy Gaines Quammen, the author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West, will talk about Ammon’s most recent efforts and the religious beliefs that inform them. Launched in July, initially to fight COVID-related mandates, People’s Rights already has over 26,000 followers, with 340 new members joining every day. A change in leadership, or not, is around the corner.  What can we expect from groups like People’s Rights and other militia groups agitating to fight what they see is an illegitimate government, regardless of who is in power?

Event Type(s): WPL Programs
Age Group(s): Adult

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