"Expose the Gulen Movement" report
On Saturday, August 31st, I was one of the speakers at the "Expose the Gulen Movement" protest rally held on a farm in the rural, rolling hills around Saylorsburg, PA. We assembled less than two miles from the compound where Fethullah Gulen lives.
Gulen is considered to be one of the two most powerful men in Turkey. Those who attended the protest have a common interest in shedding light on the Gulen Movement's activities. To many Turks and Turkish-Americans, Gulen is using his power to undermine modernity, secularism, democracy, and women's rights not only in Turkey, but throughout the world.
This is the video of my speech about the Gulen charter schools, starting at 00:45 min.
Earlier that day, Gulenist operatives had driven around to take down the signs that organizers had posted to help guide protesters to the rally.
I also spoke at yesterday's "Expose the Gulen Movement" conference in Piscataway, NJ, attended by 100 people, mostly Turkish Americans. My segment starts at 40:00 min. and lasts 20 min.
I understand the conference was simultaneously broadcast in Turkey.
In both talks I explain how the privatization of public education has allowed the Gulen movement to establish the largest charter school network in the US. Their 146 charter schools will enroll over 60,000 students this year. The schools' taxpayer-supplied revenue is up to approximately one-half billion dollars per year.
Preceding me in both videos is Mary Addi, a former Gulen charter school teacher. She was interviewed in the
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