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Thread ID: 12005 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2004-01-23
2004-01-23 05:29 | User Profile
[I]The Sierra Club went through this once before in 1998, I doubt it will happen but it is nice to know that some people in the Sierra Club realize their entire work will be flushed down the toilet if rampant immigration is allowed. Of course the media is acting like this some kind of hostile takeover of the club.
This article was from the LA times but you have to register for their site, so I found it somewhere else. [/I]
[url]http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jan/01182004/nation_w/130252.asp[/url]
Will Sierra Club get anti-immigration agenda?
The Salt Lake Tribune.
January 18, 2004
An unusual alliance of anti-immigration advocates and animal-rights activists is attempting to take over the leadership of the Sierra Club, America's oldest national environmental group, in what is emerging as a bitter fight over the future of the 112-year-old organization founded by Scottish immigrant John Muir. Leaders of a faction that failed to force the club to take a stand against immigration in 1998 are seeking to win majority control of the group's 15-member governing board in a spring election -- this time, as part of a broader coalition that includes vegetarians, who want the club to denounce hunting, fishing and raising animals for human consumption. In response, 11 former Sierra Club presidents have written a letter expressing what they call "extreme concern for the continuing viability of the club," protesting what they see as a concerted effort by outside organizations to hijack the mainstream conservationist group and its $95 million budget. Some of the insurgent candidates vying for the five available seats on the governing board only recently joined the Sierra Club. Members will vote in the board elections in March, with the results tallied in April. The election has attracted the interest of extremist groups, which are encouraging their members to join the club to help elect the anti-immigration candidates. "What has outraged Sierra Club leaders is that external organizations would attempt to interfere and manipulate our election to advance their own agendas," said Robert Cox, a past Sierra Club president. Advertisement
Moreover, club officials contend that members of the two insurgent groups share fundamentally anti-human views, in their opposition to immigration and in their belief that people should take a backseat to other species.
The Sierra Club's "dominant perspective has been to protect nature for people," said Executive Director Carl Pope. "But by pulling up the gangplank on immigration, they are tapping into a strand of misanthropy that says human beings are a problem."
Pope noted that 18 percent of Sierra Club members like to fish or hunt, and he worried they could be driven out by the new agenda from animal-rights advocates. "It's important to have hunters and fishermen in the Sierra Club," Pope said. "We are a big-tent organization. We want the Sierra Club to be a comfortable place for Americans who want clean air, clean water and to protect America's open spaces."
The list of insurgent candidates features some high-profile names, including former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm, Cornell University entomology professor David Pimentel, and Frank Morris, the former director of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
All three have been outspoken advocates of controlling population growth or restricting immigration. Lamm is the co-author of The Immigration Time Bomb: The Fragmenting of America.
Club officials say the campaign got under way quietly with the recent election of several activists, including University of California, Los Angeles astronomy professor Benjamin Zuckerman, a longtime champion of curbs on immigration, and so-called "Captain" Paul Watson, the head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a marine environmental group known for ramming whaling ships....
2004-01-30 18:38 | User Profile
Earlier OD discussion here: [URL=http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=4306&highlight=werbach]http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=4306&highlight=werbach[/URL]
2004-01-31 01:44 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Recluse]Earlier OD discussion here: [URL=http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=4306&highlight=werbach]http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=4306&highlight=werbach[/URL][/QUOTE]
Whoops! Rookie Mistake, but thanks for the link, I did want to see other's thoughts on this.
2004-01-31 13:25 | User Profile
[QUOTE=LlenLleawc]Whoops! Rookie Mistake, but thanks for the link, I did want to see other's thoughts on this.[/QUOTE]
Oh no, yours isn't a duplicate post, I just wanted to add something that might help explain why a so-called environmental organization is pro population explosion. I see that Mad Dog Dees is in the running as well: [URL=http://www.vdare.com/walker/long_march.htm]http://www.vdare.com/walker/long_march.htm[/URL]