Right-wing environmentalists tried to turn the Sierra Club against immigration

Evidence

Members of the Environmental Justice Movement and the immigrants’ rights movement formed a coalition to beat back an attempt by right-wing environmentalists to have the Sierra Club oppose immigration on environmental grounds. The United Farm Workers has fused the two issues of labor rights and environmental toxicity for the past three decades, calling attention to the effects of pesticides on workers. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 721

Categorization

• SHARE: The xeno-racist ‘immigration harms the environment’ episode and the multi-movement rebuttal is exactly the sort of inside-EJ fact a classmate working on movement coalitions would want.
• XREF: connects to: Right-wing environmentalists tried to link immigration to ecological harm; Anti-immigrant groups weaponize wilderness rhetoric to justify border exclusion. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1320

Broader Connections

• Anti-immigrant groups weaponize wilderness rhetoric to justify border exclusion. #expands (0.75) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1320