Innis, Roy sr

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see core, innis, promoted to evil/crypto on EJ

=<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....long</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/americans-for-american-energy<div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first" style="margin-top: 14px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 142, 142); margin-bottom: 14px; line-height: 18.0160808563232px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hatch-joins-phony-stop-war-poor-effort" style="text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Hatch Joins Phony "Stop the War on the Poor" Effort</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">, Wednesday 07/30/2008, 3:46pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">For the past few weeks, we’ve been reporting on the “Stop the War on the Poor” campaign, an effort to label “extreme environmentalists” who oppose increased domestic oil drilling as enemies of the poor.  The campaign counts among its leaders a group called Americans for American Energy, which describes itself as “a non-profit, grassroots-based organization dedicated to educating the public about the importance of greater energy independence for America and promoting public policies that support that goal.”  As we wrote last week,... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hatch-joins-phony-stop-war-poor-effort" style="text-decoration: none;">MORE ></a></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 142, 142); margin-bottom: 14px; line-height: 18.0160808563232px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dubious-%E2%80%98grassroots%E2%80%99-drilling-campaign" style="text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Dubious ‘Grassroots’ of Drilling Campaign</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">, Thursday 07/24/2008, 3:48pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">Last week, we reported on a “War on the Poor” rally, led by Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality, Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, and Americans for American Energy, in which environmentalists who oppose increased domestic drilling were accused of being “environmental racists, environmental terrorists.”   Together, Americans for American Energy, CORE, and Jackson produced the appearance of a “grassroots” campaign. From a new press release promising more name-calling: The national... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dubious-%E2%80%98grassroots%E2%80%99-drilling-campaign" style="text-decoration: none;">MORE ></a></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(202, 201, 200); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 18.0160808563232px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/astroturf-groups-claim-environmentalist-%E2%80%9Cwar-poor%E2%80%9D" style="text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Astroturf Groups Claim Environmentalist “War on the Poor”</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">, Wednesday 07/16/2008, 3:45pm</div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">
</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">A gathering led by Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality, Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, and the new group Americans for American Energy held a press conference yesterday demanding increased “American Energy” production.  Their contentions were twofold: that high energy costs disproportionately harm low-income families, and that increased domestic oil drilling would solve the problem.  Standing in the way: the “elitist Volvo-driving” environmentalists. Watch: Although CORE was once a prominent... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/astroturf-groups-claim-environmentalist-%E2%80%9Cwar-poor%E2%80%9D" style="text-decoration: none;">MORE ></a></div></div>‘The greens want to do right, but they are so wrong’Meet the Sixties black civil rights activist who now thinks that environmentalism is one of the greatest threats to Africa.spiked25 MAY 2006 "We are fighting the same battle, for the liberation of black people. In the past that meant taking on old racists and colonialists – now it means challenging environmentalists too.’Roy Innis doesn’t mince words. As national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the New York-based black civil rights group founded in the Forties, he has caused a mighty stink with his attacks on greens. Innis thinks that environmentalist thinking is helping to ‘strangle Africa’. He argues that European Union restrictions on the use of the pesticide DDT to combat malaria are ‘killing black babies’; that Western liberals’ handwringing over genetically modified crops and food is ‘holding Africa back’; and that ideas of sustainable development are causing a ‘stagnation in African development’. As you can imagine, he hasn’t made himself especially popular in the process – he’s even earned the tag ‘Uncle Tom’, a stooge for Big (White) Business, from some of the more intemperate greens.‘Yeah, I’ve heard that one’, he says. ‘I’d like to know where these people were in the Fifties and Sixties when my organisation provided the shock troops on the civil rights battlefield. Look at my work on civil rights and you’ll see I’m the opposite of an Uncle Tom.’How has the chairman of an organisation whose members confronted the racist cops and KKK members of the American Deep South in the heady summer of ’64 ended up eye-balling greens, those usually well-meaning young trendies, in 2006? CORE was founded in 1942, as the Commission of Racial Equality, by a group of interracial students in Chicago. It grew through the Fifties and Sixties to become one of the main groups involved in the protests against segregation in the South in 1963 and 1964. It organised the ‘Freedom Rides’, when both black and white activists rode on public buses through Birmingham and Montgomery in Alabama in a naked challenge to that state’s segregation of public transport, and sponsored the 1963 March on Washington at which Martin Luther King delivered his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. CORE also opposed imperialism and colonialism in Africa and other parts of the Third World (1).Yet now Innis, chairman of CORE since 1968, speaks passionately about challenging greens. That’s one hell of a turnaround, isn’t it, from taking on the racist authorities to attacking people who care about nature? ‘We’re being consistent’, he says. ‘Our aim has always been to raise up black people, at home and in Africa. Some of the old barriers to doing that are still around but there are new ones as well.’ And one of the biggest new barriers, he reckons, is the politics of environmentalism. He’s particularly disturbed by the global restrictions on the use of DDT to fight malaria. His wife is a Ugandan, some of whose friends and family members have been killed by the disease. Innis has been on numerous fact-finding trips to African countries to uncover the impact of malaria on people’s lives and livelihoods. ‘What hits me every time – every time – is that this is a disease we can control’, he says. ‘We eradicated it in America and Europe with DDT, so why not in Africa?’<div>---</div><div>uganda ddt study, heavy use 1959?</div><div>
</div><div><div>Recommendations</div><div>l Government may safely use DDT in the control of </div><div>malaria using the Kihihi model</div><div>l Government should facilitate tracer studies to identify </div><div>undeclared sources of DDT in the country</div><div>l Government should effect awareness programmes</div><div>about the use of DDT and its benefits in malaria control</div><div>
</div><div>http://health.go.ug/mcp/Probing%20the%20persistence%20of%20DDT%20and%20its%20effects.pdf</div><div>
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</div><div>new vision paper</div><div>
</div><div>By Isaac Kalembe  A RESEARCH report on the use of dichloro-diphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) to control malaria has said the disease kills about 400 Ugandans daily.  Malaria remains the number one killer disease in Uganda and consumes 10% or $34m (sh62b) of the Ministry of Healthâ€™s annual budget for drugs and services. It kills 400 Ugandans daily, most of whom are children aged below five and pregnant women,â€ it said.  The report that examines the effects of DDT on humans and the environment, also recommends the controlled use of DDT in fighting malaria.  Dr. Gabriel Sebishimbo Bimenya, the chief researcher, presented the report at Makerere University Senate conference hall on Wednesday. It was conducted in Kihihi and Nyarusiza sub-counties in Kanungu and Kisoro districts respectively, between May and August 2005.  Whereas allegations have come up again and again and created DDT phobia, our results have shown no direct association between DDT and human defects like impotence, infertility, neurological deficits, congenial abnormalities or cancers. On the contrary, our results show a very fecund society in Kihihi, where DDT was applied 45 years ago and some literature points out a protective effect of DDT against cancer,  he said.  A clinical biochemist and head of Makerere Universityâ€™s Pathological Department, Bimenya recommended the Kihihi model-controlled use of the chemical.  In 1959/60 a World Health Organisation malaria control team sprayed Kihihi with 2g/m2 DDT in dwelling houses and kraals. Sprayed in amounts and styles as applied in Kihihi, DDT has no detrimental effect to man, plants, animals and the general environment. It may persist in man and in the environment but at harmlessly low levels.â€  The report calls on the Government to sensitise Ugandans on the use and benefits of DDT and to facilitate more research into the issue.  â€œLow levels of DDT were found in plasma and urine from the people in Kihihi as expected from the 1959/60 spray project. This is in line with established persistence and slow degradation of DDT in the environment and fatty issues,â€ Bimenya, who confessed his urine had traces of DDT, said.  He said the use of DDT was common in Western countries. â€œIn June 2004, some EU ministers were found to have DDT in their blood to the tune of 3,300ppb4, which is 100-1,000 times more than our samples, â€ he said.  Without mentioning names, Bimenya said chemical companies were using DDT secretly.</div><div>--</div><div>
</div><div>http://www.who.int/countries/uga/en/</div><div>
</div><div>http://www.who.int/malaria/publications/country-profiles/profile_uga_en.pdf?ua=1</div><div>
</div><div><a href="http://health.go.ug/mcp/itn.html">http://health.go.ug/mcp/itn.html</a></div><div>
</div><div>use pyrethroid nets</div></div>==http://www.nraontherecord.org/#/[Environment]On March 18, 2008, Innis spoke at a press conference held by the Wisconsin chapter of Americans for Prosperity prior to testifying before the Wisconsin state legislature on climate change. Innis said, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jhLSswbHA4" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">The economic crisis we are in now, can be solved with just letting people know the facts. Let them know that the right thing to do is not what they have been doing, which is going along with the environmentalist radicals … Ordinary people are good people, they want to do the right thing. Unfortunately we have sat idly by and have allowed them to think the right thing is to follow the radical environmentalists … It is crazy that we have environmental policies that prevent us from using some of the best resources we have. We have, on a per capita basis, more coal than anyone else in the world. We have a lot of gas. And we have a lot of petroleum too—up in ANWR [Artic National Wildlife Refuge] and the coastal areas. We are a rich country, rich in resources, rich in energy, potential energy, and we have laws that prevent us from maximizing it [1]</a>.” Americans for Prosperity is a corporate-backed “astroturf” organization that promotes Republican and corporate interests. President Obama has criticized the group by saying, “<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/08/09/remarks-president-a-dnc-finance-event-austin-texas" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads against Democratic candidates all across the country. And they don't have to say who exactly the Americans for Prosperity are. You don't know if it’s a foreign-controlled corporation. You don't know if it’s a big oil company, or a big bank [2]</a>.”Sources <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jhLSswbHA4" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a> In 2006 Innis—<a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/11/tea-partiers-next-target-climate-bill" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">whose CORE organization has taken money from original DDT manufacturer Monsanto[1]</a>—said, “<a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/319/" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">We are fighting the same battle, for the liberation of black people. In the past that meant taking on old racists and colonialists—now it means challenging environmentalists too [2]</a>.” Innis also claimed that European Union restrictions on the use of DDT are “<a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/319/" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">killing black babies [3]</a>.” Medical research has linked human exposure to DDT to <a href="http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1289/ehp.10258" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">diabetes [4]</a>, <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(00)04249-5/fulltext" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">Parkinson’s disease [5]</a> and reproductive problems, including <a href="http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/162/8/709" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">miscarriages [6]</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5145450.stm" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">developmental disabilities [7]</a>, and <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67182-6/fulltext" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">premature births [8]</a>. DDT is also a “<a href="http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp35.pdf" target="blank" style="line-height: 22px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">probable human carcinogen [9]</a>,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).Sources <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/11/tea-partiers-next-target-climate-bill" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a> <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/319/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">[2]</a> <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/319/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">[3]</a> <a href="http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1289/ehp.10258" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">[4]</a> <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(00)04249-5/fulltext" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">[5]</a> <a href="http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/162/8/709" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">[6]</a> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5145450.stm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">[7]</a> <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67182-6/fulltext" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">[8]</a> <a href="http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp35.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">[9]</a><div class="statement_entry clearfix" style="clear: both;"><div class="statement_entry clearfix" style="clear: both;"><div class="statement_entry clearfix" style="clear: both;"><div class="statement_entry clearfix" style="clear: both;">---

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/05/black-gold

<h1 class="print-title" style="margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Roy Innis: CORE of the Climate Problem?</h1>

By <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/authors/chris-mooney" rel="author">Chris Mooney</a> | Sun May. 1, 2005

HERE’S A SHORT LIST of people on the front lines of climate change: the residents of Tuvalu, the Maldives, and other island nations facing rising oceans; the Arctic Inuit, whose food supply and way of life is threatened by melting sea ice; Africans at risk from even more devastating droughts. What do they have in common? Answer: They’re all people of color. In the United States, too, “unemployment and economic hardship associated with climate change will fall most heavily on the African American community,” according to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

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So why, then, does the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the nation’s most storied civil rights groups, organizer of the Freedom Rides and the 1963 March on Washington, attack those who want to curb global warming? ExxonMobil, which in 2003 gave CORE $40,000 ($15,000 was earmarked for “global climate outreach”), would obviously like to avoid any appearance that its products and policies are a slow-moving assault on poor people of color. How better than to turn the accusation around? In that bit of public relations jujitsu, CORE has been most useful. To those familiar with CORE’s recent history, its allegiance to ExxonMobil comes as no surprise. In 1968, Roy Innis seized control of CORE and moved the group to the far right. Innis has been accused by founder James Farmer and other black leaders of renting out CORE’s historic reputation to corporations like Monsanto and ExxonMobil. (CORE even mounted a counterprotest to environmentalists picketing an ExxonMobil shareholders’ meeting.) “We all want to protect our planet,” says CORE spokesman (and Roy’s son) Niger Innis. “But we must stop trying to protect it from minor or illusory threats—and doing it on the backs, and the graves, of the world’s most powerless and impoverished people.” Niger Innis has also said that the terms “eco-imperialism” and “eco-slaughter” should be household words.[// John Graham]

Helping CORE form these talking points is its senior policy adviser, Paul Driessen, the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, who also works with several other ExxonMobil-funded groups. At a 2004 ExxonMobil shareholders’ meeting, Driessen referred to CORE as “one of America’s oldest and most respected civil rights organizations” and called for greater funding for the group.

I met Driessen at AEI’s Michael Crichton event. He looked like every other white, middle-aged wonk in the room. He promptly told me I had a homework assignment, reached into his briefcase, and pulled out a copy of Eco-Imperialism, which pictures a starving African child on the cover. Environmentalists, presumably, are responsible for such suffering. With a courtly flourish, Driessen inscribed the book, “To Chris, to get you started on your own search for truth, science, and human progress.” Tucked inside was his CORE business card.end?

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Roy Innis heads the the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Congress of Racial Equality</a>, is a board member of the right-wing, industry-funded <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">think tank</a> the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hudson_Institute" title="Hudson Institute" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hudson Institute</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>, a director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Individual_Rights_in_Education" title="Foundation for Individual Rights in Education" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a> FIRE? and on the advisory board of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation" title="Human Rights Foundation" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Human Rights Foundation</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_note-HRFBio-2" title="">[3]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#Background">1 Background</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#Global_warming_skeptic">2 Global warming skeptic</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#Articles_and_resources">3 Articles and resources</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#Related_SourceWatch_articles">3.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#References">3.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#External_resources">3.3 External resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#External_articles">3.4 External articles</a></li>

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<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Background</h2>

A biographical note states that "as national chairman and CEO of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Congress of Racial Equality</a> (CORE), one of the nation's most storied civil rights groups, Mr. Innis is credited with improving the lives of millions of Americans. CORE organized the Freedom Rides of the 1960s, and Mr. Innis personally drafted the Community Self-Determination Bill of 1968, the first bill introduced into Congress by a black organization. Recognized in the United States as a defender of victims’ rights, Mr. Innis has also dedicated himself to African liberation movements, establishing a CORE chapter in Kenya and becoming the first United States citizen to attend the Organization of African Unity in an official capacity. He has reported to the U.S. Congress on many African elections and on the state of human rights in Africa."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a> SEE

<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Global warming skeptic</h2>

Innis was listed as a speaker at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Conference_on_Climate_Change_%282009%29" title="International Conference on Climate Change (2009)" class="mw-redirect">International Conference on Climate Change (2009)</a> in a session title "Economics and Politics - The Morality of Energy Rationing".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a>

At the skeptics conference, 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=Roy_Innis#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a>

Innis co-authored a book titled, "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy_Keepers,Energy_Killers:The_New_Civil_Rights_Battle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Energy Keepers, Energy Killers: The New Civil Rights Battle (page does not exist)" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Energy Keepers, Energy Killers: The New Civil Rights Battle</a>," along with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Gottlieb" title="Alan Gottlieb">Alan Gottlieb</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sean_Hannity" title="Sean Hannity">Sean Hannity</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen" title="Paul Driessen">Paul Driessen</a>. It was published in February 2008 by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Merril_Press&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Merril Press (page does not exist)">Merril Press</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a>

<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Articles and resources</h2>

<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality">Congress of Racial Equality</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-Imperialism" title="Eco-Imperialism">Eco-Imperialism</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_warming_skeptics" title="Global warming skeptics">Global warming skeptics</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hudson_Institute" title="Hudson Institute">Hudson Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Conference_on_Climate_Change_%282009%29" title="International Conference on Climate Change (2009)" class="mw-redirect">International Conference on Climate Change (2009)</a></li>

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<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=Brd6" class="external text" title="http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=Brd6" rel="nofollow">"Roy Innis"</a>, Hudson Institute website, accessed March 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, <a href="http://www.thefire.org/index.php/advisors/" class="external text" title="http://www.thefire.org/index.php/advisors/" rel="nofollow">"Board of Advisors"</a>, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education website, accessed March 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-HRFBio-2" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_ref-HRFBio_2-0" title="">↑</a> Human Rights Foundation, <a href="http://www.humanrightsfoundation.org/board.html" class="external text" title="http://www.humanrightsfoundation.org/board.html" rel="nofollow">"Board of Directors"</a>, Human Rights Foundation website, accessed March 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> Human Rights Foundation, <a href="http://www.humanrightsfoundation.org/board.html" class="external text" title="http://www.humanrightsfoundation.org/board.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Board of Directors"</a>, Human Rights Foundation website, accessed March 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> Roy Innis, <a href="http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/proceedings.html" class="external text" title="http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/proceedings.html" rel="nofollow">"Untitled"</a>, Presentation to the Heartland Institute's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Conference_on_Climate_Change_%282009%29" title="International Conference on Climate Change (2009)" class="mw-redirect">International Conference on Climate Change (2009)</a>, March 10, 2009. (A copy of Innis's presentation is not available).</li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> Ed Hiserodt, "<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/919" class="external text" title="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/919" rel="nofollow">CORE Leader Blasts Global-warming Alarmists</a>," The New American, March 24, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis#cite_ref-6" title="">↑</a> "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Keepers-Killers-Rights-Battle/dp/0936783524" class="external text" title="http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Keepers-Killers-Rights-Battle/dp/0936783524" rel="nofollow">Energy Keepers</a>," Amazon.com, accessed March 2009.</li>

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<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">External resources</h3>

<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">External articles</h3>

<li>"<a href="http://www.humanrightsfoundation.org/board.html" class="external text" title="http://www.humanrightsfoundation.org/board.html" rel="nofollow">Biography</a>", Human Rights Foundation, Accessed December 2006.</li>

<li>Pete Chagnon, "<a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=445940" class="external text" title="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=445940" rel="nofollow">The poor and the pocketbook - victims of global-warming alarmism</a>," OneNewsNow, March 10, 2009.</li>

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<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

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<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Background

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The Congress of Racial Equality is headed by National Chairman and CEO, Roy Innis. Follow this link to see our <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836">research database entry on Roy Innis.</a> According to their website, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.core-online.org/Features/what-is-core.htm">CORE's mission</a> is to:

establish, in practice, the inalienable right for all people to determine their own destiny - to decide for themselves what social and political organizations can operate in their best interest and to do so without gratuitous and inhibiting influence from those whose interest is diametrically opposed to theirs.

According to a <a target="blank" href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/blackgold.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2005 Mother Jones</a> article by Chris Mooney, <a target="blank" href="http://www.core-online.org/Staff/niger.htm" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CORE spokesperson Niger Innis</a> (Roy's son) has stated in the past that "the terms 'eco-imperialism' and 'eco-slaughter' should be household words."

<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Innis accused of 'renting out CORE'</h3>

The same <a target="_blank" href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/blackgold.html">article</a> reports that the original founder of CORE, James Farmer, and other black leaders accused Roy Innis of "renting out CORE's historic reputation to corporations like Monsanto and ExxonMobil" (see below for details).

<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CORE and ExxonMobil</h3>

Since 2003, CORE has received a total of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=111#src2">$275,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil</a> for unspecified work as well as activities described as "climate change outreach" and "change regulation/legislation."

Here's the breakdown:

2003 funding

According to <a target="_blank" href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=4389">ExxonMobil's 2003 worldwide contributions report</a> (pdf), CORE received $25,000 for unspecified public policy work and another $15,000 was donated to CORE's New York Chapter for "climate change outreach efforts."

2004 funding

According to <a target="_blank" href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=4380">ExxonMobil's 2004 worlwide contributions report</a> (pdf), CORE received $75,000 for"climate change regulation/legislation" and $60,000 for "global climate change issues."

2005 funding

According to <a target="_blank" href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=4387">ExxonMobil's2005 worldwide contributions report</a> (pdf), CORE received $75,000 for unspecified public policy work.

2006 funding

According to <a target="_blank" href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=4381">ExxonMobil's 2006 worldwide contribution report</a> (pdf), CORE received $25,000 for unspecified public policy work.

At the 2004 ExxonMobil shareholder meeting, CORE mounted a counter-campaign against environmentalists staging a protest. At the meeting, CORE spokesperson Niger Innis stated that “we must stop trying to protect it [the planet] from minor or illusory threats—and doing it on the backs, and the graves, of the world’s most powerless and impoverished people.”

<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CORE and Monsanto</h3>

In 2005, CORE ran <a target="blank" href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/parade011905.cfm">a pro-genetically modified foods campaign.</a> According to <a target="blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050208040315/http://www.core-online.org/">an archived version of CORE's website</a> the pro-GM food campaign was sponsored by ag-food and pesticide giant Monsanto. You can click <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28573657@N05/2717795276/in/photostream/">here</a> to see a screen capture of the CORE site in 2005 where Monsanto is listed as "CORE's corporate partner in the quest for bio-tech information."

According to the Wikipedia entry, <a target="blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto">Monsanto</a> is by far the leading producer of <a target="blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering" title="Genetic engineering">genetically engineered</a> (GE) <a target="blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed" title="Seed">seed</a>, holding 70%–100% market share for various <a target="blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">crops</a>.

In January 2005, Monsanto's Chairman and CEO, Hugh Grant, chaired CORE's celebratory reception in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. A screen shot of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28573657@N05/2716995401/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Monsanto photo is archived here.</a>

Also, in January 2005, CORE organized what it called the "<a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050112105545/www.core-online.org/events/bio+brochure.htm">UN World Conference on Biotechnology</a>." The closing address for the conference was made by Gerald Steiner, Monsanto's Executive Vice President. wayback scrubbed?!  http://web.archive.org/web/20021111104250/http://www.core-online.org/events/60th

Roy Innis has penned articles <a target="blank" href="http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=19127" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">promoting the use of DDT</a> in Africa as a means of saving lives. CORE also opened an office in Uganda and <a target="blank" href="http://www.pan-uk.org/Info/DDT/comeback.html">organized pro-DDT rallies.</a>

In 2004, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=14027">CORE held an awards ceremony</a> at a World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, where they announced Greenpeace as a recipient of their "Green Power-Black Death" award. At the ceremony Niger Innis stated: “And the winner is--Greenpeace! For leading million-dollar campaigns against energy, pesticides, biotechnology, trade, and economic development that could improve or save millions of lives."

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1.The Fake Parade hits New York
by Jonathan Matthews

Just over 2 years ago I wrote an article called The Fake Parade which was all about how Monsanto and their associates were trying to hide the company's "soapbox behind a black man's face".

The article noted, amongst other things, how in late 1999 the New York Times reported that a street protest against genetic engineering outside an FDA public hearing in Washington DC was disrupted by a group of African-Americans carrying placards such as "Biotech saves children's lives" and "Biotech equals jobs." The Times learned that Monsanto's PR company, Burson-Marsteller, had paid a Baptist Church from a poor neighborhood to bus in these "demonstrators" as part of a wider campaign "to get groups of church members, union workers and the elderly to speak in favor of genetically engineered foods."

Now Monsanto has gone one better and has signed up its very own black advocacy group. If you don't believe me, visit the home page of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and beside images of freedom riders and civil rights activists murdered by the KKK, you'll see the Monsanto logo under the legend CORE's "corporate partner".
http://www.core-online.org

Tonight (17th) Monsanto's Chairman and CEO, Hugh Grant is chairing CORE's celebratory reception in honour of the Martin Luther King National Holiday.
http://www.core-online.org/events/current_mlk.htm

Tomorrow (18th) at CORE's "UN World Conference on Biotechnology" Monsanto's Executive Vice President will make the closing address.
http://www.core-online.org/events/biotech%20seminar.htm

The contributors to the conference, apart from Monsanto, are a mix of rabidly pro-GM scientists and rightwing lobbyists, like Paul Driessen CORE's Senior Policy Advisor, who is part of the Wise Use-founding Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. The aim of Wise Use was to counter the environmental movement with a broad-ranging coalition of interest groups, including industry-funded front groups and 'grassroots groups', often organised by PR consultants on behalf of corporations or trade associations.
http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=248

Julian Morris who is among the contributors to CORE's "UN World Conference on Biotechnology" also features in The Fake Parade. Originally billed as being present was Chengal Reddy who also played a key role in The Fake Parade (see below). His Indian Farmers Federation will be represented.

Someone else who is part of the "UN World Conference" is CORE's Niger Innis. Innis is a protege of black broadcaster Armstrong Williams. Innis stands in for Williams on the TV show America's Black Forum whenever Williams is otherwise engaged.

Williams was recently revealed as having pocketed $240,000 in federal taxpayer money for PR promotion of Bush's educational policy. The journalists who started America's Black Forum , and who now disown it, describe Williams as "the premiere Black political whore in America".
http://www.blackcommentator.com/20_commentary_1.html
http://www.suntimes.com/output/mitchell/cst-nws-mitch16.html

Tomorrow the stand-in and protege of America's "premiere Black political whore" will be standing alongside the Executive Vice President of CORE's "corporate partner" when he rounds up a day spent considering the remarkable contribution that GM can make to helping the world's poor and the evil people who selfishly try and obstruct its global adoption.
http://www.core-online.org/events/biotech%20seminar.htm
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THE FAKE PARADE
Under the banner of populist protest, multinational corporations manufacture the poor
By Jonathan Matthews
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=254
Environment, 3 December 2002

"Carrying his placard the man in front of me was clearly one of the poorest of the poor. His shoes were not only threadbare, they were tattered, merely rags barely being held together."

So begins a graphic description of a demonstration that took place at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg. The protesters were "mainly poor, virtually all black, and mostly women... street traders and farmers" with an unpalatable message. As an article in a South African periodical put it, "Surely this must have been the environmentalists”š worst nightmare. Real poor people marching in the streets and demanding development while opposing the eco-agenda of the Green Left."

And seldom can the views of the poor, in this case a few hundred demonstrators, have been paid so much attention. Articles highlighting the Johannesburg march popped up the world over, in Africa, North America, India, Australia and Israel. In Britain even The Times ran a commentary, under the heading, "I do not need white NGOs to speak for me".

With the summit's passing, the Johannesburg march, far from fading from view, has taken on a still deeper significance. In the November issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology, Val Giddings, the President of the Biotech Industry Organization (BIO), argues that the event marked "something new, something very big" that will make us "look back on Johannesburg as something of a watershed event - a turning point." What made the march so pivotal, he said, was that for the very first time, "real, live, developing-world farmers" were "speaking for themselves" and challenging the "empty arguments of the self-appointed individuals who have professed to speak on their behalf."

To help give them a voice, Giddings singles out the statement of one of the marchers, Chengal Reddy, leader of the Indian Farmers Federation. "Traditional organic farming...," Reddy says, "led to mass starvation in India for centuries... Indian farmers need access to new technologies and especially to biotechnologies."

Giddings also notes that the farmers expressed their contempt for the "empty arguments" of many of the Earth Summiteers by honoring them with a "Bullshit Award" made from two varnished piles of cow dung. The award was given, in particular, to the Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva, for her role in "advancing policies that perpetuate poverty and hunger"

A powerful rebuke, no doubt. But if anyone deserves the cow dung, it is the President of BIO, for almost every element of the spectacle he describes has been carefully contrived and orchestrated. Take, for instance, Chengal Reddy, the "farmer" that Giddings quotes. Reddy is not a poor farmer, nor even the representative of poor farmers. Indeed, there is precious little to suggest he is even well-disposed towards the poor. The "Indian Farmers Federation" that he leads is a lobby of big commercial farmers in Andhra Pradesh. On occasion Reddy has admitted to knowing very little about farming, having never farmed in his life. He is, in reality, a politician and businessman whose family are a prominent right-wing political force in Andhra Pradesh - his father having coined the saying, "There is only one thing Dalits (members of the untouchable caste) are good for, and that is being kicked".

If it seems open to doubt that Reddy was in Johannesburg to help the poor speak for themselves, the identity of the march's organizers is also not a source of confidence. Although the Times”š headline said "I do not need white NGOs to speak for me", the media contact on the organizers' press release was "Kendra Okonski", the daughter of a US lumber industrialist who has worked for various right wing anti-regulatory NGOs - all funded and directed, needless to say, by "whites". These include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based "think tank" whose multi-million dollar budget comes from major US corporations, among them BIO member Dow Chemicals. Okonski also runs the website Counterprotest.net, where her specialty is helping right wing lobbyists take to the streets in mimicry of popular protesters.

Given this, it hardly needs saying that Giddings' "Bullshit Award" was far from, as he suggests, the imaginative riposte of impoverished farmers to India's most celebrated environmentalist. It was, in fact, the creation of another right-wing pressure group "the Liberty Institute" based in New Delhi and well known for its fervent support of deregulation, GM crops and Big Tobacco.

The Liberty Institute is part of the same network that organized the rally: the deceptively-named "Sustainable Development Network." In London, the SDN shares offices, along with many of its key personnel including Okonski with the International Policy Network, a group whose Washington address just happens to be that of the CEI. The SDN is run by Julian Morris, its ubiquitous director, who also claims the title of Environment and Technology Programme Director for the Institute of Economic Affairs, a think tank that has advocated, amongst other interesting ideas, that African countries be sold off to multinational corporations in the interests of "good government".

The involvement of the likes of Morris, Okonski and Reddy doesn't mean, of course, that no "real poor people," were involved in the Johannesburg march. There were indeed poor people there. James MacKinnon, who reported on the summit for the North American magazine Adbusters, witnessed the march first hand and told of seeing many impoverished street traders, who seemed genuinely aggrieved with the authorities for denying them their usual trading places in the streets around the summit. The flier distributed by the march organizers to recruit these people played on this grievance, and presented the march as a chance to demand, "Freedom to trade". The flier made no mention of "biotechnology" or "development", nor any other issue on the "eco-agenda of the Green Left".

For all that, there were some real farmers present as well. Mackinnon says he spotted some wearing anti-environmentalist t-shirts, with slogans like "Stop Global Whining." This aroused his curiousity, since small-scale African farmers are not normally to be found among those jeering the "bogus science" of climate change. Yet here they were, with slogans on placards and T-shirts: "Save the Planet from Sustainable Development", "Say No To Eco-Imperialism", "Greens: Stop Hurting the Poor" and "Biotechnology for Africa". On approaching the protesters, however, Mackinnon discovered that all of the props had been made available to the marchers by the organizers. When he tried to converse with some of the farmers about their pro-GM T-shirts, "They smiled shyly; none of them could speak or read English."

Another irresistible question is how impoverished farmers - according to Giddings, there were farmers on the march from five different countries - afforded the journey to Johannesburg from lands as far away as the Philippines and India. Here, too, there is reason for suspicion. In late 1999 the New York Times reported that a street protest against genetic engineering outside an FDA public hearing in Washington DC was disrupted by a group of African-Americans carrying placards such as "Biotech saves children's lives" and "Biotech equals jobs." The Times learned that Monsanto's PR company, Burson-Marsteller, had paid a Baptist Church from a poor neighborhood to bus in these "demonstrators" as part of a wider campaign "to get groups of church members, union workers and the elderly to speak in favor of genetically engineered foods."

The industry”šs fingerprints are all over Johannesburg as well. Chengal Reddy, the "farmer" that the President of BIO singled out as an example of farmers from the poorer world "speaking for themselves", has for at least a decade featured prominently in Monsanto's promotional work in India. Other groups represented on the march, including AfricaBio, have also been closely aligned with Monsanto's lobbying for its products. Reddy is known to have been brought to Johannesburg by AfricaBio.

And here lies the real key to the President of BIO's account of the march, and specifically to the attack on Vandana Shiva. Monsanto and BIO want to project an image of GM crop acceptance with a Southern face. That's why Monsanto's Internet homepage used to be adorned with the faces of smiling Asian children. So when an Indian critic of the biotech industry gets featured, as Shiva was recently, on the cover of Time magazine as an environmental hero, the brand is under attack, and has to be protected.

The counterattack takes place via a contrarian lens, one that projects the attackers' vices onto their target. Thus the problem becomes not Monsanto using questionable tactics to push its products onto a wary South, but malevolent agents of the rich world obstructing Monsanto's acceptance in a welcoming Third World. For this reason the press release for the "Bullshit Award" accuses Shiva, amongst other things, of being "a mouthpiece of western eco-imperialism". The media contact for this symbolic rejection of neocolonialism? The American, Kendra Okonski. The mouthpiece denouncing an Indian environmentalist as an agent of the West is a Western mouthpiece.

The careful framing of the messages and the actors in the rally in Johannesburg provides but one particularly gaudy spectacle in a continuing fake parade. In particular, the Internet provides a perfect medium for such showcases, where the gap between the virtual and the real is easily erased.

Take the South-facing website Foodsecurity.net, which promotes itself as "the web's most complete source of news and information about global food security concerns and sustainable agricultural practices". Foodsecurity.net claims to be "an independent, non-profit coalition of people throughout the world". Despite its global reach, however, Foodsecurity.net's only named staff member is its "African Director", Dr. Michael Mbwille, a Tanzanian doctor who's forever penning articles defending Monsanto and attacking the likes of Greenpeace.

The news and information at Foodsecurity.net is largely pro-GM articles, often vituperative in content and boasting headlines like "The Villainous Vandana Shiva" or "Altered Crops Called Boon for Poor". When one penetrates beyond the news pages, the content is very limited. A single message graces the messageboard posted by an <a href="mailto:myoung@bivwood.com" style="text-decoration: none;">myoung@bivwood.com</a> - the domain name of The Bivings Group, an internet PR company that numbers Monsanto among its clients. There's also an event posting from an Andura Smetacek, recently identified in an article in The Guardian as an e-mail front used by Monsanto to run a campaign of character assassination against its scientific and environmental critics.

The site is registered to a Graydon Forrer, currently the managing director of Life Sciences Strategies, a company that specializes in "communications programmes" for the bio-science industries. A piece of information that is not usually disclosed in Graydon Forrer”šs self-presentation is that he was previously Monsanto”šs director of executive communications. Indeed, he seems to have been working for the company in 1999 - the same year the site of this "independent, non-profit coalition of people throughout the world" was first registered. Foodsecurity”šs "African Director", Dr. Mbwille, is not, incidentally, in Africa at the moment. He is enjoying a sabbatical observing medical practice in St. Louis, MissouriËœthe home town, as it happens, of the Monsanto Corporation.

Foodsecurity.net forms but one of a whole series of websites with undisclosed links to biotech industry lobbyists or PR companies, as our previous research has demonstrated. But despite the virtual circus oscillating about him, if the President of BIO were really interested in hearing poor "live, developing-world farmers... speaking for themselves", he need look no further than Chengal Reddy's home state of Andhra Pradesh. Here small-scale farmers and landless laborers were consulted as part of a meticulously conducted "citizens' jury" on World Bank-backed proposals to industrialize local agriculture and introduce GM crops. Having heard all sides of the argument, including as it happens the views of Chengal Reddy, the jury unanimously rejected these proposals, which are likely to force more than 100,000 people off the land. Similar citizens' juries on GM crops in Brazil and in the Indian state of Karnataka have come to similar conclusions - something that the President of BIO is almost certainly aware of.

But rainchecks on the real views of the poor count for little in a world where "something new, something very big" and "a turning point" in the global march towards our corporate future, turns out to be Monsanto's soapbox behind a black man's face.

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For further information about citizens”š juries on GM food and farming in the Global South see:
the report on Food and Farming Futures for Andhra Pradesh,
http://www.iied.org/pdf/Prajateerpu.pdf,
the press article, "The Locals Know What Aid They Need",
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=276687,
and the website of the development charity, ActionAid,
http://www.actionaid.org/ourpriorities/foodrights/gmtechnology/gmtechnology.shtml

For more information about Monsanto's cyberwar against its critics:
<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit_index.html" style="text-decoration: none;">http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit_index.html</a></div>==desmog<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Roy Innis claims that his experience of climate science comes from being “exposed to climate variation dynamics while a student in chemical engineering at the City College of New York.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Background</h2>Innis has been involved in human-rights activities for many years. <a href="http://www.core-online.org/Staff/roy.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">According to his bio at the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE),</a> Innis entered a four-year program in chemistry at City College of New York and held positions as a research chemist at Vick Chemical Company and Montefiore Hospital.Innis is the <a href="http://www.core-online.org/Staff/roy.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">National Chairman and CEO</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)</a>, a New York-based civil rights organization.<a href="http://www.core-online.org/Features/what-is-core.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">CORE's mission</a> is to “establish, in practice, the inalienable right for all people to determine their own destiny - to decide for themselves what social and political organizations can operate in their best interest and to do so without gratuitous and inhibiting influence from those whose interest is diametrically opposed to theirs.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> [2]</a>Since 2002, CORE has received <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=111" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">$325,000</a> from oil-giant ExxonMobi<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=111#src2" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">l</a> for work related to activities described as “climate change outreach” and “change regulation/legislation.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> [3]</a><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6D81E3AF931A1575AC0A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">In a 1996 New York Times</a> article, CORE is described as “… one of the leading voices of the small but growing number of black conservatives in the United States.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[4]</a>The original founder of CORE, James Farmer, <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-04-22/news/equal-opportunity-scam/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">said</a> in 1993 that “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.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[5]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stance on Climate Change</h2>“'A lot of people are searching for the right thing to believe in and [have been] captured by a corrupted ideology,' a 'green' religion.”   “'Coal and natural gas are the new civil rights battleground,' says Innis, 'because without these sources, “we” cannot enjoy this great society.'” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[6]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Key Quotes</h2>In a <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/article.php3?id=245" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">February 2008 article</a> Innis writes that:“Energy Killers justify these demands by pointing to computer models that conjure up disaster scenarios in which rising carbon dioxide causes icy habitats to melt 50-100 years from now, driving polar bears to extinction. However, hundreds of climate scientists emphasize that these models can’t forecast accurately even one year in advance, much less 50. They say there is no evidence that Earth’s moderate warming of the past century will turn into a disaster, or that CO2 is the primary cause of climate change.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> [7]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Key Deeds</h2>March 8 - 10, 2009Roy Innis presented at the<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> Heartland Institute'</a>s 2009 International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC2) the topic of “The Morality of Energy Rationing.”  <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a>DeSmogBlog found that the event's sponsors in 2009 had collectively received over <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institutes-2009-climate-conference-new-york-funding-history-sponsors" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">$47 million</a> from oil companies and right-wing foundations.December, 2008CORE co-organized a campaign in December, 2008, with the conservative value group High Impact Leadership Coalition (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=High_Impact_Leadership_Coalition" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">HILC</a>) titled “<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705274231/Group-protests-Redfords-stand-on-drilling.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Don't Freeze Us Out</a>.” The campaign was a response to Robert Redford's opposition of oil and gas rights auctions (some near national parks) in Utah. Redford had used his celebrity to oppose a sale which he described as “morally criminal” in intent.  CORE's campaign promised 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.'” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[8]</a>March, 2008CORE organized a pro-drilling campaign titled “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/is-core-fighting-for-the-poor-or-big-oil" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stop the War on the Poor</a>” in 2008, in conjunction with the HLC, as well as the front-group <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_American_Energy" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Americans For American Energy</a>. The goal of the campaign was to increase domestic oil and gas production, with the expectation of reducing the cost of fuel for low-income families.March 2 - 4, 2008<a href="http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork08/PDFs/ConferenceProgram.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Spoke</a> at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC1) on the topic of “Climate Change Economics.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a>January, 2005In 2005, CORE ran <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/parade011905.cfm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a pro-genetically modified foods campaign.</a> <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[9]</a>According to an archived version of CORE's website the pro-GM food campaign was sponsored by ag-food and pesticide giant Monsanto. Here is <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28573657@N05/2717795276/in/photostream/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a screen capture of the COREsite in 2005</a> where Monsanto is listed as “CORE's corporate partner in the quest for bio-tech information.”In January 2005, Monsanto's Chairman and CEO, Hugh Grant chaired<a href="http://www.core-online.org/Events/mlk_celebration/photos/mlk2005/hugh_grant.JPG" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> CORE's celebratory reception</a> in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. A screen shot of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28573657@N05/2716995401/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Monsanto photo is archived here.</a>At the same time, CORE organized what it called the “UN World Conference on Biotechnology.” The closing address for the conference was made by Gerald Steiner,<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050111220618/www.core-online.org/events/biotech+seminar.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Monsanto's Executive Vice President</a>.1981CORE has been <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-04-22/news/equal-opportunity-scam/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">accused</a> by the state of “browbeating companies into donations.” In 1981 they were accused of illegal fundraising practices, and questioned for the way they represented themselves.  As part of a settlement, Innis admitted to no wrongdoing, but paid $35,000 out of his own pocket to CORE.  He charged racism.An ex-CORE employee who worked in the call center described the fundraising process as “racial hustle.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> [5]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Affiliations</h2><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)</a> —<a href="http://www.core-online.org/Staff/roy.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> National Chairman and CEO</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Heartland Institute </a>— “<a href="http://heartland.org/roy-innis" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Expert</a>” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[10]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hudson_Institute" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hudson Institute</a> — Past Member, Board of Directors. (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090211020357/http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=Brd6" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last record in 2009</a>). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[11]</a>,<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[12]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Coalition for Fairness to Africa — Member, Board of Directors. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">American Alliance For Better Schools — Member, Board of Directors. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[1]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Landmark_Legal_Foundation" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Landmark Legal Foundation</a> — Member, Board of Directors. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Ethnic Coalition Of Organizations (NECO) — Member, Board of Directors. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Rifle_Association" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">National Rifle Association </a>— Member, Board of Directors. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/node/2836#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[1]</a></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Publications</h2>In 2004, CORE released a publication called <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/article.php3?id=60" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/article.php3?id=60" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Eco-Imperialism: Reflections on Earth Day</a>, arguing that:[s]afeguarding 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.”“Eco-imperialism” is seen by CORE as denying impoverished people the chance for better lives and the ability to rid their countries of diseases that were vanquished long ago in the United States and Europe.<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Resources</h2><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s1" id="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/roy-innis/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Roy Innis</a>,” International Conference on Climate Change (climateconference.heartland.org).</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s2" id="s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.core-online.org/Features/what-is-core.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">What is CORE</a>,” Congress for Racial Equality. Accessed January, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=111" name="s3" id="s3" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Congress for Racial Equality, CORE</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s4" id="s4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">James V. O'Connor. “</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/22/nyregion/roy-innis-defines-himself-and-politics.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Roy Innis Defines Himself and Politics</a>,” The New York Times, September 22, 1996.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s5" id="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nick Charles. “</a><a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-04-22/news/equal-opportunity-scam/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Equal Opportunity Scam</a>,” The Village Voice, April 22, 2003.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s6" id="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ed Hiserodt. “</a><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/919" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">CORE Leader Blasts Global-warming Alarmists</a>,” The New American, March 24, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s7" id="s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Roy Innis. “</a><a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/article.php3?id=245" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Poisoning the Economy,</a>” Eco-Imperialism, February, 2008.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s8" id="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lee Davidson. “</a><a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705274231/Group-protests-Redfords-stand-on-drilling.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Group protests Redford's stand on drilling</a>,” Deseret News, January 3, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s9" id="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jonathan Matthews. “</a><a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/parade011905.cfm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Monsanto Rolls Out Their 'Fake Parade' Once Again</a>,” Organic Consumers Association, January 19, 2005.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s10" id="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://heartland.org/roy-innis" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Heartland Experts: Roy Innis</a>,” The Heartland Institute. Accessed January, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s11" id="s11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2002 Hudson Institute Annual Report (</a><a href="http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/Hudson2002AnnualReportFinal.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>).</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s12" id="s12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090211020357/http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=Brd6" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Roy Innis: Board Member</a>,” The Hudson Institute. Archived February 11, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roy_Innis" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Roy Innis</a>,” SourceWatch profile.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Innis" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Roy Innis</a>,” Wikipedia entry.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1026" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Roy Innis</a>.</li></ol></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-label" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold;">Tags: </div><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/913" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">global warming</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/939" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate change</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2540" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">desmogblog</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2560" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">global warming blog</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2654" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">denial industry</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2667" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate skeptics conference</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2697" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">international climate change conference</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2742" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">roy innis</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2743" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">center for racial equality</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/3068" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate change denier</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4046" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">global warming research</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4047" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate misinformation</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5721" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">smogger</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/6886" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate change skeptic</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7705" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate denialism</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7706" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">denial database</a></div></div></div>  ===village voiceEqual Opportunity ScamCORE Hustles White Firms With RaceBy Nick Charles Tuesday, Apr 22 2003The help-wanted ad in a local paper said the job was working for a national fundraiser. It was right up Phil Cooper's alley. After several decades at a major corporation, he was given a severance package and a decent pension in 2000. But he still needed to work to make ends meet. So last April he went to the third floor at 817 Broadway and filled out an application. The ad didn't say so, and Cooper (not his real name) didn't realize he was applying for a job at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), run by Roy Innis, the controversial Republican who recently called for the Justice Department to investigate mosques attended by African Americans for potential terrorist recruitment."I didn't know CORE was in the fundraising business," says Cooper, who as a young man marched with Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in New York City. At a preliminary interview, he was told they were fundraising for Project Independence, "a welfare reform program."Cooper was offered a job on the spot. On his first day, he was handed a written pitch from which he was to work. "There was a coach, Reuben Rivers," recalls Cooper, "and a portable box in everyone's cubicle so that Rivers could pick up and listen to the call. It was very confusing at times, because we had to stop listening to the person on the phone and listen to him." Rivers, he says, was making sure each telemarketer in CORE's cramped "boiler room" was sticking to the script.
"This is (Name of Caller) with the Equal Opportunity Affairs Department of CORE. Who is the owner or president there now?"Once the person on the other end, usually a secretary, asked the subject of the call, the CORE operative replied, "The matter of which I am calling is of a very sensitive nature and I am not at liberty to go into detail with anyone but the owner or president. May I have his name so I may address him properly please.""Some people cut us off at the pass," says Cooper. "They ended the call. They didn't want to be bothered. But for those who stayed on the line, we were told to say this was a civic matter. A lot of people interpreted civic for civil and thought it was a legal matter." The script gave 10 solicitation avenues, called rebuttals.If someone said they had a committee or a board of directors that reviewed requests for money, rebuttal A was used: "We're asking you to make a decision not from your company policy but form[sic] your heart. Those in need don't know about boards, committees, or company policies. They depend upon people like you and me who are concerned enough about them to make decisions . . . So will you support CORE with the dollars? The procedure is, first we send you a pledge invoice and our letter of thanks, and of course, your beautiful patron membership certificate, OK ?"While some of the rebuttals seem more pathetic than coercive, the $495 "patron membership pitch" is much more cynical. "The reason for the call is, we're setting up CORE's annual patron membership drive, and I want to bring you up to date about your status with CORE . . . OK? I'll tell you what's happened here. Our people in the field receive recommendations, as well as complaints about the fair hiring practices and attitudes of companies in many areas across the country. I'm happy to report that we have received no complaints about you or your company. We hope this means that you're in full compliance in letter, but most importantly, in spirit.""I construed it as a racial hustle," says Cooper, who lasted five months. "I considered it a professional hustle." The firms called were from a list supplied by Dun & Bradstreet, which received a nominal fee for each telephone number. "They don't know and they don't care," says Cooper. And he's not alone. Alfred Mohammed's tenure was only two months, but he deemed the hiring-practices lines a ruse. "They were using the race card to hustle money from people."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.
While Innis professes that CORE maintains community projects, on closer scrutiny these often turn out to be nothing more than paper programs. He has never seemed to care much about public criticism. In 1977, in response to complaints from former CORE leaders, he told The Washington Post: "These guys are bitter. They will use whatever means are at their command to destroy us."
Still, James Farmer, who founded CORE in 1942, told New York Newsday 10 years ago, "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."
But Project Independence, a job-training program, does in fact exist. Some of its graduates have appeared with President George W. Bush at the White House. "We're very proud of it. We talk about our program a lot," said Angelique Beverly, listed as a contributing editor to Corelator, CORE's official organ. But Beverly wavered when pressed with questions concerning numbers of graduates, the program costs, and how CORE funds this and five other programs, including a legal-defense fund and an anti-drug task force."There are many people who you could talk to . . . anyway, I will pass on your information. The Village Voice is not our friend. But that doesn't mean he [Innis] won't talk to you." Innis never did return any calls.He straddles a contradiction, which allows him to operate with impunity. Opposed to affirmative action, busing, and gun control, and a critic of "race mongers" such as presidential candidate Reverend Al Sharpton, Innis is at the head of the post-race movement. "My brand of conservatism is the traditional, most decent and rational expression of the American personality," Innis told The New York Times in 1996. But when he or CORE is challenged, Innis is the first to howl racism.
Since taking the helm in 1968, Innis, once a registered Democrat, has steered CORE to the right, making occasional detours into ideological lunacy such as befriending Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. He ended the group's integrationist tradition, turning it into an operation that gives aid and comfort to those who want to see the civil rights gains of the last 40 years erased. Ironically, it was Innis's plan to get economic investment from Arab states in the late 1970s that might have brought scrutiny from governmental agencies, and a shout of "conspiracy" from Innis.In its glory days, CORE was part of the big three civil right organizations, along with the NAACP and the Urban League. But it is now a specter of its former self, run as a fiefdom by Innis. In the 1980s, he had a few televised physical dust-ups with white supremacist Tom Metzger and with Sharpton. Last December, Innis defended Senator Trent Lott, saying that Lott was not racist, even though his praise of the good old segregationist days cost him the Senate majority leadership.
For the most part, though, Innis keeps a low profile, allowing his son and apparent successor, Niger, to take the spotlight. Cooper said he rarely saw Innis, but the more he toiled for the organization, the more debased he felt. "My conscience didn't allow me to stay there," says Cooper. "I realized I was working for a guy who was working against the interest of African Americans."

BSNiger Innis currently serves as the National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality. He works closely with the National Chairman and represents CORE across the country. He is a MSNBC contributor on the 24-hour news network providing insight and analysis on the day's news events.

In addition to his role with CORE, Innis is on the Advisory Committee member of the National Center for Public policy Research Project 21. He is a Founding Member of 3rd. Millennium, an organization to promote young leaders that will focus of the problems facing the next generation.

In August 1997, Innis served as a delegate for the 19th American-German Young Leaders Conference, sponsored by the American Council on Germany and Atlantik Brucke. He was selected along with 23 other Americans to travel to Hamburg, Germany to meet their German counterparts to discuss America's relationship with the European Union.

In 1993, Niger served as campaign manager for the Roy Innis for Mayor campaign in New York City's Democratic Party primary. Although the candidate was outspent $3.5 million to $100,000 by the incumbent Mayor David Dinkins, the Innis campaign was able to garner more than 25% of the vote in the primary.

Prior to his role as National Spokesman, Niger served in a variety of roles at CORE. In 1991, he was Special Assistant to the National Chairman and Director of Fundraising while acting as CORE's liaison to the Washington, D.C. chapter. In 1990, Innis was the Coordinator of Political Affairs while also serving as the Director of CORE's Washington, D.C. chapter. Innis’ involvement with CORE began in 1990 when he was appointed Deputy Director of the Washington, D.C. chapter.

Nigers' experience has lead to several appearances as a civil rights activist on CNN, Fox News, CNBC's "Equal Time", and Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect." His radio appearances include "The Jim Bohannan Show" and "The Gil Gross Show." He has guest-hosted on "The Bob Grant Show" & "Barry Farber Show".

In 1990, Innis graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science. While attending the University, he became the Chief Executive Officer of the Association for the Preservation and Development of the Negro Spiritual. Innis, born and raised in Harlem, N.Y., currently live in Westchester, N.Y.

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Growing tension over the Congress’ new debt super committee isn’t the only troubling trend in Washington right now. One has emerged that is equally vexing, but also downright shameful: the flow of hard-earned U.S. taxpayer dollars to environmental initiatives overseas that kill economic growth in developing countries.

The Obama administration has been hell-bent on promoting “green” energy sources, climate change legislation and other radical environmental undertakings. These have all been, more or less, rejected here at home. Unfeasible, too expensive, lacking in political will; you name it, there are many reasons why they have failed.

But the president hasn’t given up just yet. Unfortunately, millions of people in Africa and Asia are now bearing the brunt of Obama’s climate crusade.

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<a class="gray" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Congress of Racial Equality</a><span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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;"> <strong style=" font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">(CORE)<span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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;"> was founded in 1942 to champion civil rights. Its chairman and CEO is <a class="gray" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-innis" target="blank" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Roy Innis</a><span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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 the board of the conservative <a class="gray" href="http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Hudson_Institute" target="blank" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Hudson Institute</a><span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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 receives funding from <a class="gray" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/koch-industries-inc" target="blank" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Koch Industries</a><span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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;">. Between 2003 and 2006, <a class="gray" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=111" target="blank" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">ExxonMobil</a><span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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;">donated more than $275,000 to <strong style=" font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">CORE<span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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;">, including for projects described as "Global Climate Change Environmental Outreach."<strong style=" font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">CORE<span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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;"> has focused on opposing clean energy and climate legislation by claiming it would <a class="gray" href="http://www.eenews.net/tv/transcript/838" target="blank" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">raise energy prices disproportionately for minorities</a><span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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;">. <strong style=" font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">CORE's<span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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;"> original founders have <a class="gray" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/congress-on-racial-equality-core" target="blank" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">criticized the organization for "renting out" its reputation</a><span style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; 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;"> to companies like ExxonMobil.

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<div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hatch-joins-phony-stop-war-poor-effort" style=" text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Hatch Joins Phony "Stop the War on the Poor" Effort</a></div>

<div class="views-field-path" style=" margin-bottom: 2px;">, Wednesday 07/30/2008, 3:46pm</div>

<div class="views-field-view-node" style=" width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">For the past few weeks, we’ve been reporting on the “Stop the War on the Poor” campaign, an effort to label “extreme environmentalists” who oppose increased domestic oil drilling as enemies of the poor.  The campaign counts among its leaders a group called Americans for American Energy, which describes itself as “a non-profit, grassroots-based organization dedicated to educating the public about the importance of greater energy independence for America and promoting public policies that support that goal.”  As we wrote last week,... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hatch-joins-phony-stop-war-poor-effort" style=" text-decoration: none;">MORE ></a></div>

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<div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dubious-%E2%80%98grassroots%E2%80%99-drilling-campaign" style=" text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Dubious ‘Grassroots’ of Drilling Campaign</a></div>

<div class="views-field-path" style=" margin-bottom: 2px;">, Thursday 07/24/2008, 3:48pm</div>

<div class="views-field-view-node" style=" width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">Last week, we reported on a “War on the Poor” rally, led by Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality, Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, and Americans for American Energy, in which environmentalists who oppose increased domestic drilling were accused of being “environmental racists, environmental terrorists.”   Together, Americans for American Energy, CORE, and Jackson produced the appearance of a “grassroots” campaign. From a new press release promising more name-calling: The national... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dubious-%E2%80%98grassroots%E2%80%99-drilling-campaign" style=" text-decoration: none;">MORE ></a></div>

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<div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/astroturf-groups-claim-environmentalist-%E2%80%9Cwar-poor%E2%80%9D" style=" text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Astroturf Groups Claim Environmentalist “War on the Poor”</a></div>

<div class="views-field-path" style=" margin-bottom: 2px;">, Wednesday 07/16/2008, 3:45pm</div>

<div class="views-field-view-node" style=" width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">A gathering led by Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality, Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, and the new group Americans for American Energy held a press conference yesterday demanding increased “American Energy” production.  Their contentions were twofold: that high energy costs disproportionately harm low-income families, and that increased domestic oil drilling would solve the problem.  Standing in the way: the “elitist Volvo-driving” environmentalists. Watch: Although CORE was once a prominent... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/astroturf-groups-claim-environmentalist-%E2%80%9Cwar-poor%E2%80%9D" style=" text-decoration: none;">MORE</a></div>

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The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization whose stated mission "is to ensure that freedom is both preserved and promoted" in the Americas.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thor_Halvorssen_Mendoza" title="Thor Halvorssen Mendoza" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thor Halvorssen</a>.

HRF adheres to the definition of human rights as put forth in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Covenant_on_Civil_and_Political_Rights&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights</a> (1976), believing that all individuals are entitled to the right to speak freely, the right to worship in the manner of their choice, the right to freely associate with those of like mind, the right to acquire and dispose of property, the right to leave and enter their country, the right to equal treatment and due process under law, the right to be able to participate in the government of their country, freedom from arbitrary detainment or exile, freedom from slavery and torture, and freedom from interference and coercion in matters of conscience.

HRF (USA) has a branch in Bolivia: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=HRF-Bolivia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HRF-Bolivia (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">HRF-Bolivia</a>. The two organizations have no overlapping board members and are loosely affiliated.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</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=Human_Rights_Foundation#Activities" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Activities</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#Staff_and_Principals" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Staff and Principals</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#Board_of_Directors" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1 Board of Directors</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#Board_of_Advisors" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.2 Board of Advisors</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#International_Council" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.3 International Council</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#Funding" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Funding</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#Criticism" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Criticism</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#Contact" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Contact</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#Other_SourceWatch_Resources" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Other SourceWatch Resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#References" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 References</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Provide election observers<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advocate "humanitarian intervention" or its analogue: "Responsibility to Protect" doctrines.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Fund documentary films<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Fund books <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Issue press releases on human rights abuses</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Declaring select persons to be "political prisoners" or "prisoners of conscience"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Organizing the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Oslo_Freedom_Forum" title="Oslo Freedom Forum" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Oslo Freedom Forum</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Organizing humanitarian appeal campaigns<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Issue press releases criticizing human rights conferences or initiatives by other organizations, e.g., the United Nations Durban III conference.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></li>

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From HRF's press releases<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a> it is evident that the bulk of its activities deal with condemning or issuing statements critical of the governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Cuba. HRF tends to focus on the "human rights" abuses against opposition politicians, journalists, bloggers, and the like, in these countries.

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thor_Halvorssen" title="Thor Halvorssen" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thor Halvorssen</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Armando_Valladares" title="Armando Valladares" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Armando Valladares</a> – former Chairman, resigned on July 2009<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/V%C3%A1clav_Havel" title="Václav Havel" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Václav Havel</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[13]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Jacobs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Jacobs (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ron Jacobs</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-14" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_L.Pfaltzgraff,Jr." title="Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr." style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-15" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_A._Sirico" title="Robert A. Sirico" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Robert A. Sirico</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-16" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Javier_El-Hage&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Javier El-Hage (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Javier El-Hage</a> – General Counsel<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-17" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eduardo_Mendoza-Goiticoa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eduardo Mendoza-Goiticoa (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Eduardo Mendoza-Goiticoa</a> – founding director (RIP)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-18" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a></li>

</ul>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_Hoeflich" title="Charles Hoeflich" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charles Hoeflich</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-19" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_J._Horowitz" title="Michael J. Horowitz" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michael J. Horowitz</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-20" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</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; background: none;">Roy Innis</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-21" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tom_G._Palmer" title="Tom G. Palmer" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tom G. Palmer</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-22" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a></li>

</ul>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kenneth_Anderson" title="Kenneth Anderson" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kenneth Anderson</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-23" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Vladimir_Bukovsky" title="Vladimir Bukovsky" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Vladimir Bukovsky</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-25" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mutabar_Tadjibaeva&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mutabar Tadjibaeva (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mutabar Tadjibaeva</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-26" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Palden_Gyatso" title="Palden Gyatso" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Palden Gyatso</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-27" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alvaro_Vargas_Llosa" title="Alvaro Vargas Llosa" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alvaro Vargas Llosa</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-28" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/V%C3%A1clav_Havel" title="Václav Havel" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Václav Havel</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-29" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[29]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ram%C3%B3n_J._Vel%C3%A1squez&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ramón J. Velásquez (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ramón J. Velásquez</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-30" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[30]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Garry_Kasparov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Garry Kasparov (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Garry Kasparov</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[31]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Elie_Wiesel" title="Elie Wiesel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Elie Wiesel</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-32" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[32]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_Q._Wilson" title="James Q. Wilson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">James Q. Wilson</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-34" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jacqueline_Moudeina&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jacqueline Moudeina (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jacqueline Moudeina</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-35" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harry_Wu" title="Harry Wu" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Harry Wu</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-36" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Abdel_Nasser_Ould_Ethmane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-37" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a></li>

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In 2009 HRF received a $35,000 grant from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bradley_Foundation" title="Bradley Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bradley Foundation</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-38" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a> as it had in 2007.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-39" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a> In 2007, HRF received a grant from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Templeton_Foundation" title="John Templeton Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">John Templeton Foundation</a> for $171,600<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-40" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a> toward a program called "The Nobility of the Human Spirit and the Power of Freedom", a grant from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" title="Sarah Scaife Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a> for $100,000<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-41" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[41]</a> toward general operations and $20,000 from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shelby_Cullom_Davis_Foundation" title="Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation" style="text-decoration: 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;">Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-42" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[42]</a> In 2009 HRF organised a human rights event in Oslo, Norway, under the name <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Oslo_Freedom_Forum" title="Oslo Freedom Forum" style="text-decoration: 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;">Oslo Freedom Forum</a>. The event was supported by a grant for $34,000 from the government of Norway.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Foundation#cite_note-ocha.unog.ch-43" style=" text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[43]</a>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Joakim Mollersen, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/17569-using-human-rights-for-right-wing-politics#" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Using Human Rights for Right-Wing Politics</a>", Truthout, 15 July 2013. Althought this article does not mention it the Human Rights Foundation joined with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch" style="text-decoration: 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;">Human Rights Watch</a> in 2013 to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324436104578581072692469716.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">propagandize</a> against the U.S. celebrity singer <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jennifer_Lopez&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jennifer Lopez (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: 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;">Jennifer Lopez</a> recently, charging her with "serenading crooks and dictators," all of whom, it turns out, are on the U.S. Government's Official Enemies list.</li>

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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Human Rights Foundation</dd>

<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thehrf.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">www.thehrf.org</a> or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.humanrightsfoundation.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">www.humanrightsfoundation.org</a></dd>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">HRF Bolivia Blog: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hrfbolivia.blogspot.com/" style=" text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">hrfbolivia.blogspot.com/</a></li>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Oslo_Freedom_Forum" title="Oslo Freedom Forum" style="text-decoration: 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;">Oslo Freedom Forum</a></li>

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<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.15em; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 2px; font-weight: normal;">[Orin] Hatch Joins Phony "Stop the War on the Poor" Effort</h1>

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<div class="submitted" style="font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 9px;">SUBMITTED BY Anonymous on Wednesday, 7/30/2008 3:46 pm</div>

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For the past few weeks, we’ve been <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/07/astroturf_group.html" title="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/07/astroturf_group.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">reporting</a> on the “Stop the War on the Poor” campaign, an effort to label “extreme environmentalists” who oppose increased domestic oil drilling as enemies of the poor.  The campaign counts among its leaders a group called Americans for American Energy, which <a href="http://www.americansforamericanenergy.org/about+us.aspx" title="http://www.americansforamericanenergy.org/about+us.aspx" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none;">describes</a> itself as “a non-profit, grassroots-based organization dedicated to educating the public about the importance of greater energy independence for America and promoting public policies that support that goal.”

As we <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/07/dubious_grassro.html" title="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/07/dubious_grassro.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">wrote</a> last week, Americans for American Energy was created by Pac/West Communications, a firm with <a href="http://dwb.adn.com/front/v-front_section/story/8928963p-8829174c.html" title="http://dwb.adn.com/front/v-front_section/story/8928963p-8829174c.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">considerable Republican ties</a>, and shares a location with the consulting firm of Jim Sims, communications director for Vice President Cheney’s energy task force.  In 2007, fresh off <a href="http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/story/8928968p-8829176c.html" title="http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/story/8928968p-8829176c.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">helping to defeat</a> attempts “to ban bear baiting in Alaska and impose new taxes on cruise ships,” Pac/West received a $3 million grant from the state of Alaska to “educate” the American public about ANWR drilling, that was later stopped by Gov. Sarah Palin because the PAC/West-Americans for American Energy efforts were “not part of an open and transparent process.”  But that was not the end for Americans for American Energy.

Although its profile has risen along with the “Stop the War on the Poor” campaign, Americans for American Energy has been engaging in suspicious activities in western states for the last several years.  In Colorado, it <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7207754" title="http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7207754" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none;">released</a> a report claiming $1.2 billion in first-year profits for natural gas drilling on the Roan Plateau, an estimate that critics, such as the Wilderness Society, claimed were based on “junk science”

<blockquote style=" margin: 13px 35px 13px 8px; border-left-color: rgb(140, 151, 171); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 7px; padding-left: 20px;">Credible economic studies need to stand up to independent review, list data sources and methods, and at the very least include the names of economists who authored the report. Unbelievably, this industry-backed study does none of this.</blockquote>

In Wyoming, its leaders falsely <a href="http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070913/NEWS/109130087" title="http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070913/NEWS/109130087" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">claimed</a> that Gov. Dave Freudenthal was a supporter of their “powerful new oil and gas campaign,” leading the governor to write a letter disavowing the group.  In Utah, they launched an email attack on Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) that <a href="http://www.eenews.net/eed/2008/01/16/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">compared him</a> to Hugo Chavez and Osama Bin Laden:

Last week, over 160,000 Utah residents received an e-mail letter indirectly comparing a New York congressman to some of the most infamous men in the world.

Along with mug shots of Osama bin Laden, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared a photo of Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.).

Hinchey's crime? Sponsoring the Red Rock Wilderness Act, a bill that would set aside 9.4 million acres of public land in Utah as wilderness.

The letter was attributed to Utah state GOP Reps. Aaron Tilton and Mike Noel, but it was the brainchild of Americans for American Energy, a Colorado-based industry group that has accepted money from, among others, the state of Alaska.

The Red Rock Wilderness Act will "WEAKEN America," the letter states. "How? Because it will hamstring our ability to produce American energy right here in Utah. That leads America to become more dependent on energy from hostile foreign nations -- some of whom fund terrorist organizations that are right now targeting our American men and women in uniform."

An online version of the letter and corresponding Web site go further, for instance with a picture of bin Laden, Chavez and Ahmadinejad. "These terror leaders also want America to continue its foreign oil dependence," reads the caption underneath the graphic.

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Now, Americans for American Energy has turned from accusing its opponents of being in league with terrorists to accusing them of fighting a “war on the poor,” and this message seems to have resonated with Republicans on Capitol Hill.  A number of rank and file Congressional Republicans showed up on-message at the kick-off press conference, including Rep. Bill Sali of Idaho, <a href="http://sali.house.gov/apps/list/press/id01_sali/poor7152008.shtml" title="http://sali.house.gov/apps/list/press/id01_sali/poor7152008.shtml" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">co-sponsor</a> of a bill suspiciously entitled the “Americans for American Energy Act,” which “would open ANWR and the OCS to increase production of American crude oil and give the right incentives to boost conservation, improved efficiency and bring alternative energy online sooner.”

But they’ve gained a much higher-profile ally in Senator Orrin Hatch, who mentioned the campaign, quoted one of its leaders, Bishop Harry Jackson, and plugged its website, <a href="http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Print&PressRelease_id=60875c1b-1b78-be3e-e0a6-f2c2488eb60f&suppresslayouts=true" title="http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Print&PressRelease_id=60875c1b-1b78-be3e-e0a6-f2c2488eb60f&suppresslayouts=true" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">all on the Senate floor</a>:

Unfortunately for the Democrat party, the poor are beginning to wake up that the liberals they have always looked to are behind the War on the Poor. By War on the Poor, I refer to the movement by the anti-oil extremists to close off every good domestic oil resource, which is a direct cause of the high energy prices Americans face.

Democrats in Congress have been forced to choose between the very well funded extreme anti-oil interests and the poor, because on energy prices there is no compromise between the two. The Democrats have begun to recognize the position they are in, and are trying to have it both ways with today’s vote.

Earlier this month, a group of protesters came to Capitol Hill calling on Congress to Stop the War on the Poor by groups and congressmen who are closing off America's energy resources.

Included in the group were pastors and civil rights leaders calling on this body to unlock America's oil resources for the benefit of Americans, and especially for the benefit of lower income Americans.

One of the Participants was Bishop Harry Jackson. I would like to quote some of his remarks for the record. These are his words:

"I am a registered Democrat, but this has nothing to do with partisan politics. Unless the public understands that there are specific people and organizations that are fueling this war against the poor, nothing will change and the poor will continue to suffer. We will unmask those behind this war regardless of their political party or ideology. Party labels and partisan ideologies are meaningless when it comes to protecting the lives of America's most vulnerable citizens,"

By the way, Mr. President, you can see more about the stop the war on the poor movement on the web at <a href="http://www.stopwaronpoor.org/" title="www.stopwaronpoor.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">www.stopwaronpoor.org</a>.

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Ironically, Niger Innis, co-chair of the Stop the War on the Poor effort, <a href="http://www.financialpost.com/trading_desk/energy/story.html?id=687887" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none;">says</a> that U. S. politicians are "being cowered by a very powerful, well-funded environmental extremist lobby that has a great deal of influence over them, and a great deal of influence over policy” and that their primary mission is "’outing’ the extremist groups and the politicians it says are doing their bidding.”

Bold words for a man heading an effort that is itself a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/07/dubious_grassro.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">phony Astroturf campaign</a> on behalf of energy interests.

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<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/americans-for-american-energy" style="text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; font-weight: normal;">Americans for American Energy</a></div>

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<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/sarah-palin" style="text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; font-weight: normal;">Sarah Palin</a></div>

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