Will Sierra Club get anti-immigration agenda?

[54anickel]

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jan/01182004/nation_w/130252.asp

An unusual alliance of anti-immigration advocates and animal-rights activists is attempting to take over the leadership of the Sierra Club, America's oldest national environmental group, in what is emerging as a bitter fight over the future of the 112-year-old organization founded by Scottish immigrant John Muir.
Leaders of a faction that failed to force the club to take a stand against immigration in 1998 are seeking to win majority control of the group's 15-member governing board in a spring election -- this time, as part of a broader coalition that includes vegetarians, who want the club to denounce hunting, fishing and raising animals for human consumption.
In response, 11 former Sierra Club presidents have written a letter expressing what they call "extreme concern for the continuing viability of the club," protesting what they see as a concerted effort by outside organizations to hijack the mainstream conservationist group and its $95 million budget.

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[KoKo]

1. I don't know what to think of this as a Sierra Club Member. I will have

to read some more to see what's at stake here. I worry this controversy will play right into RW'ers hands to destroy Sierra. Considering they sued to get Cheney to release his "Energy Meeting Papers," I imagine that the Bushies would love to have Sierra portrayed in a bad light.

Hard to know on this one.

[Muddleoftheroad]

2. When you find out

Let us know. I too am curious about this.

[TheDalaiMama]

3. Same here....

dalai

[slackmaster]

4. Me four - I've been a member for about 20 years

n/t

[54anickel]

6. Thanks KoKo01. I would appreciate any light you may be able to shed on it

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[DBoon]

5. I'm a member

Didn't something like this happen maybe 2 years ago? As I recall it was defeated.

[Cato1]

8. The two groups...

...,population control advocates and fanatical animal-rights people, have one thing in common. They are fundamentally anti-human. And when you add an ethnic component to the misantrophy and deep ecology beliefs you get eco-fascism. If the Sierra Club is taken over by these folks the republicans will have field day in smearing the whole nature conservation movement. It adds nicely to their pro-life agenda.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Really bad news...

for Sierra.

The last time these assholes tried to hijack it, they were thrown out, but not by all that much. Now they have allies jumping in and trying to swing the vote.

They just might make it this time, and that's the end of the club.

I have no problem with the argument that excess population stresses the environment, but to take a mainstream organization that has worked through negotiation and compromise, along with a few well-placed lawsuits, and turn it into Buchanon's PETA will destroy it.

I doubt John Muir would approve.

[freethought23]

10. The Sierra Club is not what it seems to be

In mid-March the Sierra Club took the astonishing action of excommunicating its largest group, the 12,000 member New York City Group. The reason: the group was too radical for the conservative leadership of the Club. It pushed to end commercial logging on the national forests, fiercely backed a bill (the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act) that would designate 16 million acres of wildlands in Montana and Idaho as wilderness, and opposed measures backed by some Sierra Club board members to impose tight controls on immigration.


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