Sixth Sun Media Project Creates Mural in Support of “No Human Is Illegal!”

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by The Sixth Sun Media Project

In Watts, California, police simply have bigger problems to deal with than artist-activists, community leaders, and students from George Washington University joining together to change the world one wall, one community, and one city at a time. And so, a barren alley provides an open setting for a collection of human beings to express their art without fear of prosecution.

In this first day of a week-long public art project collectively organized by members of the Sixth Sun as part of an ongoing, multidimensional campaign against the forces behind the anti-immigrant movement in the United States, a tiny alley in between 112th and 113th is transformed into a… Read more

Carrying Capacity & Impending Doom: Cultural Soap Operas & Fertility Rates (Part 2)

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by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone

Michael Tobias, an advisory board member for Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) concluded his recent interview with Bill Ryerson, the president of the Population Media Center, (PMC) which is located in Shelburne Falls, Vermont, with a discussion of the family planning efforts undertaken by PMC and the Population Institute.

Ryerson says in his interview that “providing family planning services has helped reduce fertility rates, particularly in Asia and Latin America.  But meeting unmet demand for contraceptives is only part of the solution. The countries that have most successfully reduced population growth have emphasized changing attitudes of the people regarding the role of women, ideal family size, age of… Read more

Carrying Capacity & Impending Doom: Profiling William Ryerson (Part 1)

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by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone

Michael Tobias, an advisory board member for Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), recently interviewed Bill Ryerson, the president of the Population Media Center which is located in Shelburne Falls, Vermont.  Ryerson is also the CEO of the Population Institute in Washington DC.  Thus the stage is set for a self-congratulating conversation between two fearful white men, as they muse over the fate of humanity itself (I would say “mankind,” but these guys are all about the empowerment of women).

The article, “At the Crossroads of Sustainability: A Conversation with Bill Ryerson,” immediately frames the discussion of population as the only “rational” backbone to a conversation about the… Read more

Recent HB 56 Protests Connect Alabama’s Past & Future

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by Arianna Hermosillo

In 2011, communities in Alabama faced a direct attack. All of House Bill 56 threatened to criminalize hard workers, dedicated students and committed community members across that state based not on their serious felony convictions, moral depravity or proven detrimental behavior—but on a busted immigration system they don’t control.

The detrimental effects of the parts of HB 56 that were implemented are still being witnessed and quantified. What is clear is that HB 56 has done little to deter the economic hardship and lawlessness its backers claim it targets. It has not advanced the cause of comprehensive reform of immigration policy nor has it offered a real means to create paths… Read more

Another Lesson from #OWS: why we need to pay attention to our opponents

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by Christina Antonakos-Wallace

Over the last four and a half months, the Occupy Wall Street movement has grown from a small protest in New York’s Financial District to an international movement targeting systemic economic injustice across industries and institutions.

For the first time since the US Economy crashed in 2008, large groups of people came together to take a stand against the sector of society most responsible for the crisis. Of course, deregulatory government policies created the conditions rife for such a crisis. However, there has been incredible power in people coming together not just to rally for or against a politician, but also to name the systems, companies and… Read more

Where Are We with the GOP?

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by Domenic Powell

If I were going to vote for John Huntsman, it wouldn’t have been because he’s a moderate, but because he quoted Ben Folds in a speech. That spoke to me as a North Carolinian. It’s a huge disappointment that he’s gone. That being said, the second biggest disappointment in the race has been Rick Perry.

Big players within the GOP are beginning to wonder aloud about the consequences of their hard stance on immigration. The National Review published an essay by Daniel Griswold of the Cato Institute bemoaning the surrender of the platform to a “small minority” of activists. It almost doesn’t need to be said that the… Read more

YWC Leader Heimbach Endorses EDL, Aparthied, & ‘Hanging’ of Mandela

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by Domenic Powell

A Youth for Western Civilization blogger from Towson University posted a photo urging people to “Hang Nelson Mandela and all ANC terrorists” on Monday, in a post that was later edited to remove the photo.

Matthew Heimbach, the aforementioned blogger, is the president of the Towson University chapter of the group. His keen sense of irony drove him to wear a Confederate uniform and pose with an African American man for his author headshot for the blog. Aside from apartheid in South Africa, his interests include the Confederacy, the League of the South, and the wildly Islamophobic coalition of football hooligans and neo-nazis known in the UK as the English Defence… Read more

Population Numbers & the Scapegoating of Female Fertility

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by Courtney Hooks

Beyoncé and Jay Z just had the 7 billionth-or-so baby to ever be born. The only people on planet Earth who probably aren’t excited by that beautiful fact are population alarmists. But seriously, alarmist rhetoric about population numbers must stop. It is dangerous, divisive, and a gross distortion of reality.

Some journalists who cry wolf about ‘overpopulation’ claim to be “breaking the silence” on a taboo subject. In actuality, these ideas are part of a long-standing tradition rooted in white supremacist, eugenic thought. The latest spotlighted ‘issue’ may shift from hunger and poverty to political instability and war, or most recently, climate change, but the basic idea… Read more

NECSP: The “Problem is Driven Chiefly by Immigration”

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by Jesse Sanes

One group that has had some people in a panic after the announcement by the United Nations that the world’s population would reach 7 billion is the Vermont based New England Coalition for a Sustainable Population (NECSP).

Despite the fact that different people are responsible to different degrees for the wasteful, polluting systems that compromise the planet, groups like NECSP assign blame for social and environmental problems across the entire population evenly. They do not hold the parties most responsible for overconsumption and the hoarding of wealth, but rather they blame immigrants.

This is the inevitable consequence of a backwards logic that dictates that solving environmental, economic, and human rights problems… Read more

Looking Ahead to Arizona’s Day in Supreme Court

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by Lindsey George

Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the Arizona v. United States case, which presents the question of whether Arizona’s anti-immigrant SB 1070 statute is preempted by federal immigration law and thereby unenforceable.

Eight months earlier the Ninth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction that prohibited enforcement of the law until the parties litigated the law’s constitutionality. The Supreme Court’s decision will ultimately determine the extent to which states can pass their own immigration measures.

To be sure, the Supreme Court is not deciding whether the controversial measures in SB 1070 are constitutional; rather, it is determining the extent to which these measures conflict with federal law.… Read more