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Tell the National Council of Science and the Environment to Dump Nativist Roy Beck
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      • Executive Director (Peter Saundry)
      • Director of Science Solutions (Director of Science Solutions)
  2. Created By
    Prerna Lal
    Washington, DC
About this Petition Petition Letter

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.

Recent Signatures

Please Dump Roy Beck and the White Nationalist Movement

Greetings,

I am a concerned environmentalist and appalled that the anti-immigrant, white nationalist NumbersUSA Director, Roy Beck, was invited to speak at "The New Green Economy" 2010 NCSE conference.

The environmental movement has been a target of aggressive tactics by anti-immigrant organizations for over 20 years and I clearly don't want to see the conference goers distracted from addressing real environmental concerns.

Roy Beck has long associated with white supremacists and their organizations. In 1996, Beck spoke at a conference put on by the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, which has described Black people as “a retrograde species of humanity” and opposes racial intermarriage, among other things.

NumbersUSA opposes automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S., as guaranteed by the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. They endorsed vitriolic anti-immigrant ballot initiative called the California Taxpayers Protection Act. “It is time,” it says on the initiatives website, “to stop the proliferation of the Third World in the United States.”

Beck, NumbersUSA and their allies, including organizations designated as hate groups by the SPLC and key figures in America’s white nationalist movement, have been a top concern of civil rights organizations for a number of years. Their tactics have led to a dangerous increase in racial disharmony and intolerance and have had a direct impact on the disturbing rise in hate groups and hate crimes in America.

Clearly Beck wears many hats, from spokesperson for a hate group to anti-immigrant activist, but one thing he is not is an environmental expert. The inclusion of Beck among a roster of otherwise highly respected experts stretches the bounds of a well-rounded dialogue.

So there really is no excuses for NCSE to give the white nationalist movement space to spread their hate. I hope you take my request under consideration and publicly distance NCSE from the anti-immigrant, white nationalist movement.

[Your name]

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