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=<div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Allegations of racism</h3><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning_Marable" title="Manning Marable" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Manning Marable</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Columbia University</a> wrote in 1998 that LaRouche tried in the mid-1980s to build bridges to the black community. Marable argued that most of the community was not fooled, and quoted the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Philip_Randolph_Institute" title="A. Philip Randolph Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">A. Philip Randolph Institute</a>, an organization for African-American trade unionists, declaring that "LaRouche appeals to fear, hatred and ignorance. He seeks to exploit and exacerbate the anxieties and frustrations of Americans by offering an array of scapegoats and enemies: Jews, Zionists, international bankers, blacks, labor unions—much the way Hitler did in Germany."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche#cite_note-Manning_1998-224" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[224]</a> During LaRouche's slander suit against NBC in 1984, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Innis" title="Roy Innis" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Roy Innis</a>, leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Congress of Racial Equality</a>, took the stand for LaRouche as a character witness, stating under oath that LaRouche's views on racism were "consistent with his own." Asked whether he had seen any indication of racism in LaRouche's associates, he replied that he had not.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche#cite_note-225" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[225]</a></div><div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">==</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/the-congress-of-racial-equality-this-black-power-organization-was-was-effectively-erased-from-the-history-books-heres-why-it-still-matters-today/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/the-congress-of-racial-equality-this-black-power-organization-was-was-effectively-erased-from-the-history-books-heres-why-it-still-matters-today/</a></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Marvin Rich of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) passed on December 29, 2019 in New York City (NYC). A month later, his death has gone unnoticed by any of the local NYC or major newspapers. This is despite the fact that as CORE’s second in command during the early to mid-1960’s, he was one of the most significant leaders of the Civil Rights movement. He helped lead CORE at its height when many of its members were imprisoned and even killed.<div class="p1_21" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The absence of coverage on Rich’s passing speaks to how CORE has often been left out  of the history of the Black freedom struggledespite its significant contributions. According to historian Robyn Spencer, CORE “has been the most understudied of the four nationwide civil rights organizations (CORE, SNCC, SCLC, NAACP) associated with the early Black Freedom movement.” There are far more books and academic essays on these groups than CORE andCORE’s history is frequently left out of academic conferences and public commemorations celebrating the Civil Rights movement.<div class="p2_21" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Even in the history ofits most well-known campaign, the 1961 Freedom Rides, CORE’s role is often diminished in popular accounts. <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomriders/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Stanley Nelson’s documentary Freedom Riders</a>, for example, depicts the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as the leaders and heroes of the story for stepping in and continuing the Rideswhen CORE’s national office stopped them following the violence in Birmingham, Alabama. <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?309423-1/freedom-riders-50-years-later" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Members of New Orleans CORE</a>, however, insist they never quit and were preparing to continue the rides, a side of the story barely heard.<div class="p3_21" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CORE’s history as a Black Power organization is even more neglected. While it may not have been the first Black Power group, it was definitely the second. CORE’s national director Floyd McKissick was alongside SNCC head Stokely Carmichael in Mississippi when he made his historic cry for Black Power in 1966. Like SNCC, CORE officially changed from a Civil Rights to a Black Power organization two weeks later at its national convention. It moved away from non-violent direct action and the goal of integration and instead encouraged self-determination and the use of violence in self-defense.<div class="p4_21" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Further, CORE had supported the ideology behind Black Power long before it had a specific name.According to Harlem CORE chairman Roy Innis, Carmichael just gave a name to what many in his and other CORE chapters had already been doing. CORE’s involvement in the movement, however, tends to be ignored. For example, the Schomburg Center’s recent <a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/black-power-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Black Power 50 book</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/hwIiQS8vVfQiLQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">digital exhibitions</a> neglected to discuss or even mention CORE.  This is ironic given that CORE’s headquarters were located right around the corner from the Schomburg on 135th street.<div class="p5_21" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CORE’s exclusion from history can be traced back to Roy Innis who succeeded McKissick as national director. Since the 1980s his politics and therefore those of CORE shifted 180 degrees to the extent that he supported the same forces that CORE once opposed such as Rudy Giuliani, Ronald Reagan, both George Bush Senior and Junior. Over time, Innis became known as that Black leader used by the right wing to counter progressive Black leaders. The fact he was successful at it for so long is the problem. In the eyes of former members and scholars, Innis not only ruined his own reputation, he took the entire organization to hell with him. His anti-movement activism and “shenanigans” dirtied the “brand” and made it unattractive. By 1988, Innis’ actions were so embarrassing (such as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPWQ4oVP-3Q" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">his fist fight on the “Morton Downey, Jr. Show” talk show</a>), it was damn near impossible to give him and by extension CORE any credit for the good he did....</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

=The Wise Use perspective has been strongly promoted in the UK by the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Living_Marxism&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Living Marxism (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Living Marxism</a> (LM) network, which like Lyndon Larouche back-flipped from extreme left to extreme right. Wise Users were significant contributors to the LM-connected Channel 4 TV series Against Nature , in which environmentalists were portrayed as Nazis and the bringers of death and suffering to the Third World.<a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a> was also among the contributors to LM magazine, penning an article in the March, 1998 issue. According to the article, 'the anti-technology Unabomber who terrorised the USA for two decades, killing 3 and injuring 29 others' took his cue from the anti-technology philosophy of environmentalism which was operating like a self-consuming sickness at the heart of American society. According to the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=LM&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LM (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">LM</a> archive: '<a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a>, author of "Ecoterror: The violent agenda to save Nature", suggests that society today suffers from a "Unabomber syndrome" - it "seems willing to entertain the notion of abolishing civilisation"...'. A picture caption for Arnold's article read, 'For Unabomber Ted Kaczynski environmentalism was the theory and assassination the practice'.Thanks to Wise Use, the PR tactic of mobilizing independent-seeming 'third parties' to advocate corporate causes gained a new momentum and a far more aggressive edge. The influence of Arnold and CDFE on the GM debate is all too apparent - from the aggressive use of PR tactics that include the use of fake citizens, fake organisations and fake public protest, to the designation of critics of GM as 'terrorists' and 'eco-imperialists'.The fake <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Center_for_Food_and_Agricultural_Research&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Food and Agricultural Research (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for Food and Agricultural Research</a> (CFFAR), for instance, sought to portray mainstream environmental organisations as engaging in, or linked to, violence and 'terrorism' - a message reinforced through the multiple internet postings of the e-mail fronts <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Andura_Smetacek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andura Smetacek (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Andura Smetacek</a> and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Mary_Murphy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary Murphy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mary Murphy</a>. Smetacek, Murphy and CFFAR have all been traced back to <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Monsanto" title="Monsanto" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Monsanto</a> and its Internet PR company <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Bivings_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bivings Group (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bivings Group</a>.CFFAR and Smetacek then used the concerns generated by their smears against organisations like Greenpeace to encourage scientists and others to lobby those organisations' funders to stop their financial backing. It is a tactic that comes straight out of the CDFE 'handbook'. To quote Arnold, 'We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members.' (New York Times, Dec 19, 1991, emphasis added)PR firm <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nichols-Dezenhall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a> set up a website called StopEcoViolence - very much along the lines of CFFAR's vandalwatch.org - which claimed to be the grassroots' initiative of a citizens' group. On its links page it lists CFFAR and Vandalwatch.org, as well as the Internet front sites of PR firm <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Berman%26_Co&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berman & Co (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Berman</a><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Berman%26_Co&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berman & Co (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> & Co</a>. <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=ActivistCash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ActivistCash (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ActivistCash</a> and the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Consumer Freedom (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for Consumer Freedom</a>. The page also has links to CDFE, which it describes as 'a non-partisan education and research organization', and to the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> (CEI). In March 2002 <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nichols-Dezenhall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a> linked up with CEI to sponsor a conference for journalists and corporate executives on 'eco-extremism'. (You too might be a terrorist. The war on the greens)Like <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nichols-Dezenhall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a>, many of those at the forefront of attacks on critics of GM make use of CDFE's rhetoric. <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Moore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patrick Moore (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Patrick Moore</a>, for instance, talks of environmentalists as 'ultraleftists and extremists' who 'use Gestapo tactics'. Moore claims issues like the GM debate are being influenced by 'pagan beliefs and junk science'. This directly echoes <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a>'s attacks on environmentalists as 'eco-fascists' and communists, as well as his call for a 'holy war against the new pagans who worship trees and sacrifice people'.Such claims have been picked up and repeated by GM sympathetic scientists. For instance, Prof <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Joe_Perry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joe Perry (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Joe Perry</a>, the chief statistician on the UK government's GM farm-scale evaluations, repeated Moore's claims about 'pagan beliefs' in a lecture on GM given as part of a series by and for Christians interested in science. He also quoted a claim of Moore's that the agendas of most environmentalists were principally about 'class warfare'. He also drew on Moore in a letter to The Guardian, in which he said Moore had 'pointed to the Trotskyists and anti-capitalists who ditched socialism for the environmentalist bandwagon when the iron curtain fell, and became influential within Greenpeace and similar pressure groups.' (see also responses to Perry)In May 2003, speaking at the Natural History Museum in London, the world renowned scientist <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Peter_Raven&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Raven (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Peter Raven</a> also attacked Greenpeace over its opposition to GMOs, telling his audience, 'Last month, the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Congress of Racial Equality (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Congress of Racial Equality</a> (CORE), one of America's most venerable and respected civil rights groups, confronted Greenpeace at a public event and accused it of "eco-manslaughter" through its support of international policies limiting development and the expansion of technology to the developing world's poor'. (for the truth about CORE)The British pro-GM lobby group <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Sense_About_Science&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sense About Science (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sense About Science</a>, whose director and assistant director are both part of the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=LM&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LM (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">LM</a> network, has also adopted the Wise Use tactic of portraying critics of GM as violent extremists. Its Chairman, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Dick_Taverne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dick Taverne (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Lord Taverne</a> claimed in an article in The Times that farmers and researchers were being intimidated by 'anti-GM campaigners' adopting 'the tactics of animal welfare terrorists'. The headline was, When crops burn, the truth goes up in smoke. Taverne admitted that environmental groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth 'may condemn violence', but concluded, none the less, 'The anti-GM campaign has become a crusade. Its champions... have become eco-fundamentalists, followers of a new kind of religion... when campaigns become crusades, crusaders are more likely to turn to violence.'

koch 2014

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">Also on Sunday, conservative columnist <b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Amity Shlaes was interviewed about her recent biography of Calvin Coolidge. Charles Murray, the libertarian political scientist and author of the controversial book The Bell Curve, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">gave dinner remarks. Other highlights included<b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> “Collectivism: Exploring Its Nature and Consequences” and “The Foundation for Progress,” which was broken down into several sessions, including “Part One: Drive the National Conversation,” “Part Two: Leverage Science and the Universities,” “Part Three: Advance in the States,”<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> concluding with the aforementioned McConnell talk. Part One featured <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Michael Lomax, the president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, which recently received a $25 million donation from the Kochs to create a special “Koch Scholars” program emphasizing entrepreneurialism and free markets. Lomax has faced a storm of criticism for taking the money, given the history of attacks [8] by Koch-funded organizations on voting rights,<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> which do the most harm to underprivileged minorities who typically vote Democratic.

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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was originally a leading civil rights organisation that has more recently aligned with conservative think tanks and anti-environmental campaigns (e.g. see <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Innis" title="Roy Innis" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Roy Innis</a>).

In 1993, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_Farmer" title="James Farmer" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">James Farmer</a> -- who founded the organization in 1942 -- said, "CORE has no functioning chapters; it holds no conventions, no elections, no meetings, sets no policies, has no social programs and does no fund-raising. In my opinion, CORE is fraudulent." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-VV-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#Against_climate_change_legislation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 Against climate change legislation</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#.22Don.27t_freeze_us_out.22_campaign_pushes_for_oil_and_gas_exploration" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 "Don't freeze us out" campaign pushes for oil and gas exploration</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#Other_stances_at_odds_with_environmental_groups" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 Other stances at odds with environmental groups</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#Defense_of_Marriage_Act_campaign" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">5 Defense of Marriage Act campaign</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#Against_gun_control" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">6 Against gun control</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#Articles_and_resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10 Articles and resources</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#External_resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.3 External resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#External_articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.4 External articles</a></li>

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In June 2009, CORE's Roy Innis sharply criticized the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Waxman-Markey_Climate_Bill" title="Waxman-Markey Climate Bill" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Waxman-Markey Climate Bill</a>, which would establish a "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Carbon_trading" title="Carbon trading" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">cap and trade</a>" system to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Innis said "it was an 'elitist view' that higher prices for fossil fuels would prompt conservation and that 'the poor and working families we represent cannot bear that luxury.'" Innis added, "Americans don't want 'energy welfare payments' from the government to help ease the sting of these government-driven cost increases." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>

Innis added, in a statement to Congress, "In my 40-plus years as the chairman of CORE, I have seen few federal bills that would do more harm to America’s working class and low-income citizens and families than the Waxman-Markey climate tax bill." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>

In a September 2009 luncheon talk at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Montana_Petroleum_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Montana Petroleum Association (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Montana Petroleum Association</a>'s annual meeting (which included a golf tournament), CORE's Niger Innis "called for the production of 'more of everything,' including renewable energy like solar and wind power and 'good old-fashioned fossil fuel,'" reported the Billings Gazette. Innis called Waxman-Markey a "cap and tax" bill, and accused "the green mafia" and the "elite media" of trying to stop energy production. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a>

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In December 2008, CORE and the conservative values group <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/High_Impact_Leadership_Coalition" title="High Impact Leadership Coalition" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">High Impact Leadership Coalition</a> (HILC) announced a a campaign called "don't freeze us out," which supports "a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration" title="Bush administration" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bush administration</a> auction in Utah of oil and gas leases, some near national parks." Environmentalists, including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robert Redford</a>, are urging President-elect <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Barack Obama</a> to overturn the already-completed auction. CORE's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Niger_Innis" title="Niger Innis" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Niger Innis</a> vowed, "We are not going to stand by as Robert Redford tries to slow the flow of home heating fuel from the Rockies and drive up home heating prices to millions of Americans in his lust for environmental headlines." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-UtahDec-5" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> [DECHRISTOPHER?

According to a CORE press release, the "don't freeze us out" campaign "will seek to organize churches, civil rights groups, consumer groups and others 'to fight Redford and self-styled environmental groups that are working to constrict supplies of natural gas and other energy resources.'" Innis "also recently appeared at a press conference in Washington ... in support of the Americans for American Energy Act sponsored by Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rob_Bishop" title="Rob Bishop" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rob Bishop</a>, R-Utah." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-UtahDec-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a>

CORE and HILC protested Redford outside the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, in January 2009. Protesters included CORE's Niger Innis, HILC's Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., Bishop <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Phillip_Porter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phillip Porter (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Phillip Porter</a> of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Colorado_Consumers_for_Affordable_Energy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Colorado Consumers for Affordable Energy (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Colorado Consumers for Affordable Energy</a>, Bishop <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bobbie_Allen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bobbie Allen (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Bobbie Allen</a> and former Cincinnati Councilman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sam_Malone&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sam Malone (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Sam Malone</a>. "Using federal studies and statistics, The Wilderness Society calculated the natural gas recoverable from the 77 contested parcels would be the equivalent of two days of national consumption. The oil recoverable from those parcels would last 1 hour and 40 minutes at today's consumption rate," the Salt Lake Tribune reported. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a>

In February 2009, new Interior Secretary <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ken_Salazar" title="Ken Salazar" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ken Salazar</a> announced that "he would void dozens of oil and gas leases on sensitive federal lands in southeastern Utah," and proceed cautiously with "oil shale development in the state." The department is expected to rule on "12 to 15 decisions made at the tail end of the Bush administration," deciding "whether to reverse them or let them stand" by March 2009. CORE's Niger Innis criticized the department's stand, saying, "The only winners in this decision are the Hollywood elites who use our western states for a personal playground, burn a lot of energy to keep their private jets aloft and their mansions warm, and don't notice if energy costs go up." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>

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In July 2008, CORE -- along with the pro-drilling <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_group" title="Front group" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">front group</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_American_Energy" title="Americans for American Energy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Americans for American Energy</a> and the conservative values group <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/High_Impact_Leadership_Coalition" title="High Impact Leadership Coalition" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">High Impact Leadership Coalition</a> -- launched a campaign to "Stop the War on the Poor." The goal of the campaign was to increase U.S. domestic oil and gas production. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-poorrally-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a>

The campaign was launched at a Washington DC rally on July 15, 2008. Rally speakers stressed "the need to expand domestic oil and gas production with the goal of reducing fuel costs for low-income households that feel a disproportionate pinch from rising energy prices," reported Greenwire. Signs at the rally included "My family needs affordable energy" and "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eco-Imperialism" title="Eco-Imperialism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Environmental groups don't feed my family</a>." CORE received $250,000 in funding from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ExxonMobil</a>from 2003-2005<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-FoundationCenter-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a>. CORE's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Niger_Innis" title="Niger Innis" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Niger Innis</a> said the group favors "government spending on oil shale, coal and drilling on the continental shelf and throughout Alaska," because "when these resources are developed ... that is going to have a direct impact on the price of fuel." While some rally attendees told Greenwire about their difficulties "budgeting around today's gasoline prices," others "backd away from a reporter with a notebook. ... One woman, who declined to give her name, said she was demonstrating at her boss's behest." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-poorrally-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a>

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At the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Conference_on_Climate_Change_(2009)" title="International Conference on Climate Change (2009)" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">International Conference on Climate Change (2009)</a>, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_warming_skeptics" title="Global warming skeptics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">global warming skeptics</a> conference organized by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Heartland Institute</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">think tank</a>, CORE's Niger Innis said that "a lot of people are searching for the right thing to believe in and [have been] captured by a corrupted ideology," a "green" religion. However, he claimed the "green" religion puts the interests of Western environmentalists over the basic needs of people in the developing world. He added, "Coal and natural gas are the new civil rights battleground, because without these sources, 'we' cannot enjoy this great society." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a>

In a March 2007 statement released by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="National Center for Public Policy Research" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>, Niger Innis was quoted as saying: "Environmentalists always claim to be stakeholders. But every day that they succeed in delaying the use of DDT and other insecticides, another 3,000 to 5,000 people die from malaria. Those victims and the half billion who get this disease every year, who lie in bed shaking with convulsions, who can't work or go to school, who end up with permanent brain damage from malaria--they are the real stakeholders. It's their views that count." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>

CORE took part in an April 2004 Earth Day event at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Press_Club" title="National Press Club" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Press Club</a> in Washington DC warning of "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eco-imperialism" title="Eco-imperialism" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">eco-imperialism</a>." The event was organized by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Driessen" title="Paul Driessen" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Paul Driessen</a>, the author of a book title, "Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death." Driessen has also been identified as a senior policy advisor to CORE. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a> CORE's Roy Innis was quoted in the press release announcing the event as saying: "Safeguarding environmental values is essential ... But we must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>

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In January 2009, CORE joined the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alliance_for_Marriage_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alliance for Marriage Foundation (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Alliance for Marriage Foundation</a>'s campaign in support of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Defense_of_Marriage_Act" title="Defense of Marriage Act" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Defense of Marriage Act</a>. The Act, which became law in 1996, which effectively bans <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">same-sex marriage</a> at the federal level. CORE's Niger Innis remarked, referring to California's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Proposition_8&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Proposition 8 (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Proposition 8</a> which halted same-sex marriage in the state, "In California, over 70% of the African-American community rejected the redefinition of marriage. That's because my community -- perhaps more than any other -- understands in very real terms the consequences of family breakdown. When marriage declines, children and society both suffer." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a>

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In February 2009, CORE joined the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independence_Institute" title="Independence Institute" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Independence Institute</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Justice" title="Institute for Justice" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Institute for Justice</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Constitutional_Accountability_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Constitutional Accountability Center (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Constitutional Accountability Center</a> and others, in submitting a "friend of the court" letter in favor of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Rifle Association</a>'s lawsuit against the City of Chicago's and the Village of Oak Park's handgun bans. The lawsuit, before the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, refers to the U.S. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Supreme_Court" title="Supreme Court" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Supreme Court</a>'s June 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which overturned Washington, DC's ban on handguns. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a>

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According to the organization's 2005 financial report, CORE raised $1,335,095 that year, including $55,022 in membership dues and $1,037,325 in unspecified contributions, grants or gifts. In 2005, CORE had $1,220,946 in total expenses, including $171,638 in officer / director compensation, $378,117 in other salaries and wages, $166,795 in rent, and $142,310 in travel. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a>

According to the Village Voice, with regard to fundraising, "Ethical or moral questions at CORE have been raised as far back as 1976, when the state received complaints that CORE was browbeating companies into donations. In 1981, the state accused CORE of illegal fundraising practices, questioning the way the group represented itself. Under a settlement agreement, Innis, CORE's chairman, admitted no wrongdoing, but had to pay $35,000 to CORE out of his own funds. Innis charged racism." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-VV-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ExxonMobil</a> has given CORE $275,000 from 2003 to 2006, including $15,000 for "Climate Change Outreach Efforts" in 2003, $75,000 for "Climate Change Regulation/Legislation" and $60,000 for "Global Climate Change Issues" in 2004, and $75,000 for "Global Climate change Environmental Outreach" in 2005. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-exxonsecrets-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a>

"At a 2004 ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting, [Paul] Driessen referred to CORE as 'one of America’s oldest and most respected civil rights organizations' and called for greater funding for the group," according to Chris Mooney.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Innis" title="Roy Innis" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Roy Innis</a> - Chairman</li>

</ul>

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As of November 2005: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_note-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alice_Collins&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alice Collins (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Alice Collins</a> - Education Director</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_Dunn" title="Robert Dunn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Robert Dunn</a> - Southern Regional Director</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Melverre_Beckwith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Melverre Beckwith (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Melverre Beckwith</a> - Member</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Holmes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Holmes (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">George Holmes</a> - Executive Director</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Solomon_Rooks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Solomon Rooks (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Solomon Rooks</a> - Midwest Regional Director</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joseph_Lovece,_Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph Lovece, Jr. (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Joseph Lovece, Jr.</a> - Business Affairs</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ernest_Farley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernest Farley (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Ernest Farley</a> - Western Regional Director</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joseph_Cooke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph Cooke (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Joseph Cooke</a> - International Affairs</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Niger_Innis" title="Niger Innis" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Niger Innis</a> - National Spokesperson</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clarence_Jackson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clarence Jackson (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Clarence Jackson</a> - Vice-Chairman</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Yvonne_Rivers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yvonne Rivers (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Yvonne Rivers</a> - Member</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rev. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eugene_Fowler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eugene Fowler (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Eugene Fowler</a> - Board Chaplain</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mel_A._Sachs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mel A. Sachs (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Mel A. Sachs</a>, Esq. - General Council</li>

</ul>

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Congress of Racial Equality

National Headquarters

817 Broadway 3rd Floor

New York, New York 10003

Phone: (212) 598-4000 or (800) 439-CORE (2673)

Fax: (212) 598-4141 or (212) 982-0184

Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.core-online.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">http://www.core-online.org/</a>

Email: core AT core-online.org

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<h3 style="color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_American_Energy" title="Americans for American Energy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Americans for American Energy</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eco-Imperialism" title="Eco-Imperialism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Eco-Imperialism</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/High_Impact_Leadership_Coalition" title="High Impact Leadership Coalition" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">High Impact Leadership Coalition</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Driessen" title="Paul Driessen" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Paul Driessen</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Innis" title="Roy Innis" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Roy Innis</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Waxman-Markey_Climate_Bill" title="Waxman-Markey Climate Bill" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Waxman-Markey Climate Bill</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_W._Gilmore" title="Robert W. Gilmore" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Robert W. Gilmore</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Homer_A._Jack" title="Homer A. Jack" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Homer A. Jack</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_M._Houser" title="George M. Houser" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George M. Houser</a></li>

</ul>

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<li id="cite_note-VV-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-VV_1-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:1.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-VV_1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.1</a> Nick Charles, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-04-22/news/equal-opportunity-scam/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Equal Opportunity Scam: CORE Hustles White Firms With Race</a>," Village Voice, April 22, 2003.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Renee Schoof, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/70652.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Climate bill will pass House on Friday, lawmaker predicts</a>," McClatchy Newspapers, June 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Mannix Porterfield, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_180212301.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Byrd remains 'bullish’' on coal’s future: Cap bill worries Sen. Rockefeller</a>," The Register-Herald (West Virginia), June 29, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Clair Johnson, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_f7d7e462-9816-11de-ae56-001cc4c002e0.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Civil rights spokesman speaks to Montana Petroleum Association</a>," The Billings Gazette (Montana), September 2, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-UtahDec-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-UtahDec_5-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:5.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-UtahDec_5-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">5.1</a> Lee Davidson, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705274231,00.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Group protests Redford's stand on drilling</a>," Deseret News (Utah), December 31, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Patty Henetz, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11455096" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Protesters label Redford an enemy of the poor: Clergymen link famed moviemaker's stance to racism</a>," Salt Lake Tribune (Utah), January 14, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Rebecca Walsh, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11454937" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">How to work the media</a>," Salt Lake Tribune (Utah), January 14, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> M.E. Sprengelmeyer, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/06/ken-salazar-us-keeping-options-open-on-roan/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Ken Salazar says U.S. keeping options open on Roan Plateau</a>," Rocky Mountain News (Colorado), February 6, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-poorrally-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-poorrally_9-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:9.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-poorrally_9-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9.1</a> Jenny Mandel, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2008/07/17/1/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Industry group uses civil-rights theme in bid for expanded drilling</a>," Greenwire (Environment & Energy Publishing, sub req'd), July 17, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-FoundationCenter-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-FoundationCenter_10-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Foundation Center, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fconline.fdncenter.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Foundation Directory Online (sub req'd)</a>, July 29, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Ed Hiserodt, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/919" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">CORE Leader Blasts Global-warming Alarmists</a>," The New American, March 24, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "Fighting Environmentalists to Use DDT to Fight Malaria in Africa," States News Service, March 23, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Paul K. Driessen and Niger Innis, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/article.php3?id=94" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">When visions collide: The Rainforest Action Network’s real target is the Third World’s poor</a>," Eco-Imperialism.com, January 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Press release, "Eco-Imperialism: Reflections on Earth Day," Paul Driessen via PR Newswire, April 22, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Dr. Richard Swier, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.redcounty.com/sarasota/2009/01/afm-and-core-announce-joint-pa/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">AFM and CORE Announce Joint Partnership to Protect DOMA</a>," "Red County" (Sarasota County, Florida), January 23, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/NewsReleases.aspx?ID=12099" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Several Diverse Coalitions File Amicus Briefs in Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Supporting NRA Lawsuit in Illinois</a>," National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action, February 6, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2006/133/608/2006-133608663-03963593-9.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">CORE 2006 form 990</a>," via GuideStar (sub req'd), accessed July 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-exxonsecrets-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-exxonsecrets_18-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=111" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Factsheet: Congress of Racial Equality</a>," ExxonSecrets.org, Greenpeace, accessed July 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Chris Mooney, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/blackgold.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Black Gold?</a>" Mother Jones, May/June 2005. <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/05/black-gold"> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/05/black-gold</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality#cite_ref-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=guidestar&npoId=108251" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">NY Chapter of CORE</a>," GuideStar profile, accessed July 2008.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Congress for Racial Equality</a>," Wikipedia.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">GM Watch, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=174" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Congress of Racial Equality - CORE</a>, accessed February 2004.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karen_Ferguson" title="Karen Ferguson" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Karen Ferguson</a>, “Organizing the Ghetto: The Ford Foundation, Core, and White Power in the Black Power Era, 1967-1969,” Journal of Urban History, 34, 1, (2007).</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Glen Ford and Peter Gamble, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/20_commentary_1_pr.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">The grotesque devolution of a Black News program</a>, Black Commentator, Issue Number 20 - December 12, 2002.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Nick Charles, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-04-22/news/equal-opportunity-scam/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Equal Opportunity Scam: CORE Hustles White Firms With Race</a>," Village Voice, April 22, 2003.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jonathan Matthews, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=337" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">The Uncle Tom Award</a>," Freezerbox, March 14, 2005.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lee Davidson (December 31, 2008). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705274231,00.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Group protests Redford's stand on drilling</a>", Deseret News. Retrieved on February 11, 2009. CORE organizes protests against actor Robert Redford, claiming that his opposition to oil and gas drilling in Utah hurts low-income families.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Hollenhorst, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=5246896&autostart=y" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Group plans to protest Redford's environmental views at film festival</a>," KSL-TV 5 (Salt Lake City, Utah), January 6, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Press release, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=157717" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Chairman to Ring the NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell</a>," CORE / NASDAQ OMX Group, January 14, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Hollenhorst, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=5316451&autostart=y" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Group in town to stage protest against Robert Redford</a>," KSL-TV 5 (Salt Lake City, Utah), January 14, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Patrick Parkinson, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.parkrecord.com/todaysheadlines/ci_11473044" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Redford defends gas stance: But group criticizes his opposition to more leases as hurtful to the poor</a>," The Park Record (Park City, Utah), January 16, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Harry R. Jackson, Jr., "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/HarryRJacksonJr/2009/01/26/energy_policy_reform_the_new_civil_rights_frontier" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Energy Policy Reform: The New Civil Rights Frontier</a>," Townhall.com, January 26, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15003" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Attacks on federal marriage protections could create ‘legal Armageddon’</a>," Catholic News Agency, February 5, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Peter Marcus, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thedenverdailynews.com/article.php?aID=3238" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Salazar going Hollywood? Interior secretary taking heat over halting Utah oil, gas leases</a>," Denver Daily News (Colorado), February 6, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Pete Chagnon, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=445940" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">The poor and the pocketbook - victims of global-warming alarmism</a>," OneNewsNow, March 10, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Israel Teitelbaum, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.5tjt.com/news/read.asp?Id=4552" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Groups Rally For School Choice</a>," Five Towns Jewish Times (Lawrence, New York), July 9, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Don Gwinn, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-17034-Chicago-Gun-Rights-Examiner_{y2009m7d16-Chicago-national-gun-rights-battleground}" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Chicago: national gun rights battleground</a>," Examiner.com, July 16, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Don Gwinn, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-17034-Chicago-Gun-Rights-Examiner_{y2009m7d30-Illinois-Carry-and-CORE-to-blast-stereotypes-at-Black-Womens-Expo-in-Chicago}" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Pro-gun activism at the Black Women's Expo</a>," Examiner.com (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), July 30, 2009.</li>

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