Anti-Immigration Hate Group Representative Pie’d at Dallas Earth Day

From Pies Against White Supremacy (PAWS)

[EF! Newswire Editor’s Note: Although this was an Earth Day expo, this just landed in our inbox! Better late than never? Also, at the end of this declaration are some links we were asked to include for further reading.]

A chocolate cream pie was used to drive one racist away from his greenwashed booth at Earth Day Texas (EDTx) at the Fair Park Convention Center on Saturday, April 25. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups. It was founded by a prominent white supremacist John Tanton and currently spends its energies lobbying and advocating for greater militarization of the US/Mexico border and an extreme crackdown on “illegal” workers. At Earth Day, FAIR was pushing the eco-angle hard, claiming that unrestrained immigration and population growth are destroying our ecosystems. They support fracking but argue that immigrants will drink all “our” water.

There is a dangerous myth about population growth – that the impending global ecological collapse is due to overpopulation. When white people start talking about population control, we wonder whose population they want to control! We don’t need population control, we need popular control; all of us billions could live sustainably if we respected the Earth, shared resources equitably, and abolished certain things like golf, rich people and the U.S. military.

But alas! There was simply not enough pie to go around. Prominent racist Dan Patrick (also Texas Lieutenant Governor) was a featured speaker, and there were several other hate groups (Center for Immigration Studies, Numbers USA, Progressives for Immigration Reform, Negative Population Growth) which received no pie-in-face negative reinforcement for their bullshit.

In order to avoid this unfortunate oversight in the future, Pies Against White Supremacy (PAWS) needs your help! Get some pie, put it on a white supremacist’s face, then run away. That’s all it takes to be a part of PAWS!

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2015/04/23/anti-immigrant-groups-flock-to-large-earth-day-event-in-texas-this-weekend/

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/federation-for-american-immigration-reform-fair

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/john-tanton

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