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</div><div>Fox News host Tucker Carlson is facing an advertiser boycott in response to his racist attacks on immigrants. As of Tuesday afternoon, <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/advertisers-tucker-carlson-show-immigration" style="text-decoration-line: none;">11 companies</a> have pulled advertising from Carlson's program, including Pacific Life, Indeed, SmileDirectClub, Minted, IHOP, Ancestry.com, ScotteVest, Nerdwallet, Zenni, TD Ameritrade, and Nautilus.[many just switch show? kpfa]But the response from Fox News [lnx lost] is not to take any responsibility for his hateful rhetoric. Rather, they are attacking Sleeping Giants and Media Matters for America, two of the groups spearheading the boycott on social media: ... Fox News is referring to an incident in November in which protestors surrounded Carlson's house, called him a racist, and spray-painted his driveway. The event drew condemnation from both sides of the aisle, although some reports now suggest the unruliness of the demonstrators was <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/i-was-at-the-protest-outside-tucker-carlsons-house-heres-what-actually-happened-665c2dc0cb67/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">somewhat exaggerated</a>. Ironically, given they now claim they "do not advocate boycotts," Fox News responded to that incident by <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-twitter-boycott-tucker-carlson-second-week/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">boycotting Twitter</a>.<interaction data-token="5b96855f8198b4e625350260" data-context="true" data-tags="" data-fallback="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" />In recent months, Carlson has been engaging in increasingly racist bile on his show, with his rhetoric sometimes bordering on outright white nationalism to the point where neo-Nazi Richard Spencer and KKK grand wizard David Duke have <a href="https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/21/16008190/strikethrough-white-supremacists-love-tucker-carlson" style="text-decoration-line: none;">praised</a> him for mainstreaming their beliefs. Carlson has claimed that white people aren't "<a href="https://www.theroot.com/tucker-carlson-explains-why-white-people-arent-designed-1823973839" style="text-decoration-line: none;">designed</a>" to live around immigrants, that the original motto of the United States <a href="https://www.alternet.org/tucker-carlson-e-pluribus-unum-diversity" style="text-decoration-line: none;">proves diversity is bad</a>, and promoted a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-gets-basic-fact-wrong-about-south-africas-white-land" style="text-decoration-line: none;">white nationalist conspiracy theory</a> that South Africa is trying to push white farmers off their land and kill them (which President Donald Trump then tweeted about and <a href="https://www.alternet.org/south-africa-condemns-trumps-tweet-racist-farm-attack-conspiracy-theory" style="text-decoration-line: none;">caused an international incident</a>).But the remark that prompted the advertiser boycott was a <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/17/18144620/tucker-carlson-immigration-dirtier-advertiser-pacific-life" style="text-decoration-line: none;">segment</a> on Thursday in which Carlson openly disdained immigrants as unclean. "Our leaders demand that you shut up and accept this. We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor, they tell us, even if it makes our country poorer and dirtier and more divided," he said. On Monday, he <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/18/were-not-intimidated-tucker-carlson-doubles-down-claims-that-immigrants-make-us-dirtier/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">doubled down</a> on this attack.Fox News has reason to be jittery about advertiser boycotts. In April 2017, Bill O'Reilly, the longtime right-wing host who previously held Carlson's time slot, was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/business/media/bill-oreilly-fox-news-allegations.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">forced out</a> after revelations about his <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twenty-firstfox-oreilly-idUSKBN1733W8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">multimillion-dollar settlements</a> to female colleagues he sexually harassed prompted advertisers to flee. Another boycott this March <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/29/why-a-laura-ingraham-boycott-will-probably-fail/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">targeted</a> Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham after she <a href="https://www.bustle.com/p/fox-news-laura-ingraham-mocked-david-hogg-over-college-rejections-hes-having-none-of-it-8637997" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mocked</a> Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg for not getting into his top choice of college, although she managed to weather the firestorm.If Fox News wants to prevent advertiser boycotts, they should stop giving legitimacy on air to morally reprehensible people.</div><div></div>
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<h1 class="headline"><a class="post-title" href="http://grist.org/news/protests-against-tar-sands-pipelines-heat-up-in-u-s-and-canada/">Protests against tar-sands pipelines heat up in U.S. and Canada</a></h1>

By <a href="http://grist.org/author/susie-cagle/" title="Posts by Susie Cagle">Susie Cagle</a>

Anti-tar-sands protests <a href="http://grist.org/news/protesters-target-firms-angling-for-a-piece-of-pipeline-profits/">escalated last week</a>, aiming to block both the Keystone XL and the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines. In the U.S. and Canada, activists staged more than 50 actions -- raucous marches, <a href="http://forusa.org/blogs/mark-johnson/wristy-business-civil-disobedience-climate-change/11937">another sit-in outside the White House</a>, and <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/tar-sands-protesters-block-chevron-refinery-gates-salt-lake-city">a full-on blockade of a refinery</a>, altogether resulting in more than 50 arrests and at least one <a href="http://westborough.patch.com/articles/transcanada-protester-gets-stay-away-order">restraining order</a>. There was even <a href="http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2013/mar/20/pipeline-protest-sign-lights-up-i-4-before-dawn-ar-664664/">a light brigade in Tampa, Fla.</a>!

And, marking a new front in the war, activists broadened their scope beyond oil and pipeline companies to include firms investing in tar-sands projects, like <a href="http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/katuah-earth-first-shuts-down-td-bank-in-protest-against-kesytone-xl/">TD Bank</a>, a <a href="http://www.climateimc.org/en/breaking-news/2013/03/19/us-keystone-protesters-lock-td-bank-branch-washington-dc">major financier of Keystone</a>. “We will demonstrate to companies bankrolling KXL that their investments are as toxic as the tar sands they want to pump through the pipeline,” the <a href="http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/weekofaction-main/">Tar Sands Blockade group said in a statement.</a>

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===So far in the 2014 election cycle, “Americans for Prosperity,” the Koch brother’s political front group, has aired more than 17,000 broadcast TV commercials, compared with only 2,100 aired by Republican Party groups."Americans for Prosperity" has also been outspending top Democratic super PACs in nearly all of the Senate races Republicans are targeting this year. In seven of the nine races the difference in total spending is at least <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/25/how-the-koch-brothers-are-dominating-the-senate-ad-race-in-one-chart/?tid=hpModule_ba0d4c2a-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394" style="">two-to-one </a> [2]and Democratic super PACs have had virtually no air presence in five of the nine states.The Kochs have spawned several imitators. Through the end of February, four of the top five contributors to 2014 super-PACs are now giving money to political operations they themselves created, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.For example, billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts and his son, Todd, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, have their own $25 million political operation called “Ending Spending.” The group is now investing heavily in TV ads against Republican Representative Walter Jones in a North Carolina primary (they blame Jones for too often voting with Obama).Their ad attacking Democratic New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen for supporting Obama’s health-care law has become a template for similar ads funded by the Koch’s “Americans for Prosperity” in Senate races across the country.When billionaires supplant political parties, candidates are beholden directly to the billionaires. And if and when those candidates win election, the billionaires will be completely in charge. At this very moment, Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson (worth an estimated $37.9 billion) is busy interviewing potential Republican candidates whom he might fund, in what’s being called the “Sheldon Primary.”“Certainly the ‘Sheldon Primary’ is an important primary for any Republican running for president,” <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-25/ameritrade-s-ricketts-invites-wealthy-to-koch-style-group.html?alcmpid=" style="">says </a> [3]Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary under President George W. Bush. “It goes without saying that anybody running for the Republican nomination would want to have Sheldon at his side.”The new billionaire political bosses aren’t limited to Republicans. Democratic-leaning billionaires Tom Steyer, a former hedge-fund manager, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have also created their own political groups. But even if the two sides were equal, billionaires squaring off against each other isn’t remotely a democracy.In his much-talked-about new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” economist Thomas Piketty explains why the rich have become steadily richer while the share of national income going to wages continues to drop. He shows that when wealth is concentrated in relatively few hands, and the income generated by that wealth grows more rapidly than the overall economy – as has been the case in the United States and many other advanced economies for years – the richest receive almost all the income growth.Logically, this leads to greater and greater concentrations of income and wealth in the future – dynastic fortunes that are handed down from generation to generation, as they were prior to the twentieth century in much of the world.  The trend was reversed temporarily in the twentieth century by the Great Depression, two terrible wars, the development of the modern welfare state, and strong labor unions. But Piketty is justifiably concerned about the future.A new gilded age is starting to look a lot like the old one. The only way to stop this is through concerted political action. Yet the only large-scale political action we’re witnessing is that of Charles and David Koch, and their billionaire imitators.