The white nationalist movement has long tried to dress up opposition to immigration as a "progressive" effort to protect the environment from population stress. So it should come as no surprise that Roy Beck, Executive Director of NumbersUSA, a Tanton-network group, will speak at a conference that starts today entitled The New Green Economy. What is both surprising and disturbing is that the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) invited this anti-immigrant, white nationalist.

The environmental movement has been a target of aggressive tactics by anti-immigrant organizations for over 20 years. The strategy was first clearly articulated in 1986 by Beck's former employer, and the original fiscal sponsor of NumbersUSA, John Tanton - widely described as the architect of the American immigration-restriction movement.

Platforms such as this conference only serve to provide a veneer of mainstream credibility to Beck's disturbing agenda, which includes promoting white supremacists, racial disharmony and intolerance for even legal immigration and eliminating the 14th amendment. Let's insure that Roy Beck doesn't have the chance to further his hateful cause while distracting conference goers from real environmental concerns. Join us in calling or emailing the organizers of the event to ask them why they are supporting a controversial figure with ties to white nationalism at their conference.

After signing the letter directed to the NCSE below, make sure to place some calls to the following NCES contacts, urging them to distance themselves from the anti-immigrant, white nationalist agenda:

Peter Saundry, Executive Director
202-207-0002

Adapted with permission from Center for New Community, "The National Council for Science and the Environment Should Dump Roy Beck," Imagine 2050.