Heidi Beirich
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Posts by Heidi Beirich
New SPLC Report: Nativists and the Environmental Movement
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
July 27, 2010 - 11:03 am
Posted in anti-immigrant | No comments
Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center has released a new report, “Greenwash: Nativists, Environmentalism and the Hypocrisy of Hate.” The report documents a sweeping, renewed attempt by anti-immigration activists to convince environmentalists that they, too, must oppose immigration if they are to save the environment from the ravages of a growing population.
Because such efforts typically [...]
The FAIR Files: Marielitos are ‘Criminals, Homosexuals, and Mentally Defective Persons’
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
July 23, 2010 - 6:40 am
Posted in Anti-Latino, anti-immigrant | No comments
Sometimes, pictures really are worth a thousand words.
In the 1980s, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) — a restrictionist group that insists it is not bigoted despite a small mountain of evidence to the contrary — put out an untitled, undated booklet of cartoons that featured on the cover what looks like Fidel Castro [...]
The FAIR Files: Attacks On Multiculturalism Will Help
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
July 14, 2010 - 11:57 am
Posted in White Nationalism, anti-immigrant | No comments
In 1991, Dan Stein of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) sent a report to his board of directors under the subject line: “The Defenders of American culture Rise to the Call to Arms.” In the memo, which is archived at George Washington University’s Gelman Library, Stein, who was then FAIR’s executive director and [...]
Hate Groups Donate to Arizona Law’s Defense
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
July 13, 2010 - 12:35 pm
Posted in White Nationalism, anti-immigrant | No comments
This morning, the white supremacist political party American Third Position (A3P) proudly announced its donation to the fund recently established by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to defend that state’s controversial new immigration law. “The American Third Position has just made a triple-digit donation to Arizona’s Border Security and Immigration Legal Defense Fund,” the group announced in [...]
The Recidivist: Mel Gibson Unleashes New Racist Rants
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
July 9, 2010 - 9:09 am
Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Gay, Anti-Latino, radical traditionalist Catholic | No comments
Mel Gibson just can’t keep his mouth shut. The director and actor’s latest reported epithet-spewing rants (here and here) have slammed “wetbacks” and “niggers,” adding Latinos and African Americans to his hit list of those he is known to slur. Gibson has also been accused of gay-bashing based on comments he once made to a [...]
Southern Heritage Group Offers Kids Unusual History Lessons
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
July 8, 2010 - 2:28 pm
Posted in Neo-Confederate | No comments
Each summer, a few lucky young folks, whose parents presumably have neo-Confederate sympathies, spend a week at a Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Sam Davis Youth Camp. The camps are inspired by the words of a Confederate officer warning that a Southern loss in the Civil War meant its history would be “written by the [...]
Conspiracists Accuse Bill Gates of Seeking Mass Sterilization
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
July 7, 2010 - 9:54 am
Posted in Conspiracies, Extremist Propaganda, Patriot Groups | No comments
When most people think about Bill Gates, what comes to mind is his great technological success and his resulting great wealth. Many also have warm feelings toward him because of the decision by Gates and his wife to donate the bulk of their multibillion-dollar estate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose slogan is [...]
Congressman’s Immigration Remarks Prompt Calls for Death, Torture
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
July 1, 2010 - 1:21 pm
Posted in Neo-Nazi, anti-immigrant | No comments
Posters on neo-Nazi forums are publicly calling for the torture and murder of Congressman Pete Stark (D-Calif.) over comments he made on June 26 during a Fremont, Calif., town hall meeting. The Youtube video of the event has gone viral among racist and anti-immigration groups.
During the meeting, Stark mocked a questioner who identified himself as [...]
The FAIR Files: Founder Proposed ‘European-American Defense’ Group
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
June 10, 2010 - 2:43 pm
Posted in Anti-Latino, Editor's Pick, anti-immigrant | No comments
Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has fiercely defended the group’s founder and current board member, John Tanton, despite his long history of racism. Just this past September, Stein told The Washington Post that Tanton is a “Renaissance man” of wide-ranging “intellect.” Stein’s comments were part of a general defense [...]
Minuteman Co-Founder Accused of Threatening Family
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
June 4, 2010 - 12:39 pm
Posted in anti-immigrant | No comments
Chris Simcox, co-founder of the Minuteman movement and a principal nativist leader, threatened to kill his wife and family last year, according to a petition filed in Maricopa County Court in mid-April by his estranged spouse, Alena Simcox.
According to Phoenix New Times’ Steve Lemons, who broke the story yesterday, a Maricopa County court commissioner granted [...]