Thread: Did Environomentalists Back Arizona's SB1070?

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Did Environmentalist Back Arizona's SB1070?

New York-based community groups have taken up a national campaign to fight Arizona's controversial anti-illegal immigration law by targeting a local foundation supporting environmental causes.

By Kelly Virella, Chris Giblin
Monday, Aug 2, 2010

Marc Fader/City Limits

New York-based community groups have taken up a national campaign to fight Arizona's controversial anti-illegal immigration law by targeting a local foundation that they say backs groups supporting the law. About 40 protesters gathered in front of a midtown office building on 3rd Avenue last week to draw attention to ties between the Weeden Foundation, a major supporter of global land and wildlife conservation efforts, and the organizations, which the protesters consider racist, anti-immigrant hate groups. Protesters based their allegations on Apply the Brakes a report by the Chicago-based Center for New Community that explores the relationship between certain anti-immigration groups and environmentalists.

In 2010, Weeden made a grant to Californians for Population Stabilization, a group that supports Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law, SB1070—a law immigration activists said threatened, before a federal judge intervened last week, to subject people of color in Arizona to racial profiling.

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Protesters also accuse Weeden of financially supporting the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which helped craft SB1070. However, according to Weeden's website, Weeden hasn't given any grants to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), in the past ten years.

In 2010, Weeden also made grants to Center for Immigration Studies and NumbersUSA, groups opposed to increasing U.S. immigration.

Protesters said Weeden justifies its opposition to immigration by blaming immigrants for America's rising consumption and pollution levels. “It’s sad that companies like BP can have a huge oil spill, ruin the environment and the focus is still on immigrants,â€

(The only date which appears on this report is 2010.)

Apply the Brakes: A Report on Anti-immigrant Co-optation and the Environmental Movement

Apply the Brakes:
A Report on Anti-immigrant Co-optation and the Environmental Movement

By The Center for New Community

View the entire report in pdf format by clicking here.
http://www.newcomm.org/reports/ATB_FullReport.pdf

This report is intended to explore how anti-immigrant forces have corrupted the dialogue on population and the environment, and will examine the anti-immigrant environmentalist network that has influenced the environmental movement for the last 14 years. In 2009, an article in the Population Special Issue of the Earth Island Journal1 mentioned a new organization and website named Apply the Brakes (ATB hereafter). A few months later, the Center for Immigration Studies2 — an anti-immigrant organization known to trade in racism — cited ATB in a memorandum denouncing Sierra Club leadership for not addressing the issue of immigration. At a time when more people of color, labor and human rights organizations are engaging in environmental concerns such as climate change and “green jobs,â€

I am going to be bold and once again " inject bigotry" by asking if Mothers Against Drunk Drivers supported Arizona's SB1070???????

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"I am going to be bold and once again " inject bigotry" by asking if Mothers Against Drunk Drivers supported Arizona's SB1070???????"

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Out of curosity, what on earth does this question have to do with either environmental groups or 'bigotry' ???