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New Poll "Foreshadows Massive Consumer Rejection of Cap-and-Tax Plans," Civil Rights Leader Says

CORE

A new national poll confirms that a rapidly growing consumer tide is building against cap-and-tax plans that will raise electricity bills, according to civil rights champion Roy Innis, who says the poll "foreshadows a huge defeat for cap-and-tax activists and their supporters in the U.S. Senate"

CORE

An unnamed industry group is reportedly encouraging Congress to impose a “carbon cap-and-tax-and-tax” plan on its own customers, a plan that would dramatically raise energy prices in the midst of an economic recession, the Congress of Racial Equality charged in a national speech today. Read More...

CORE spurs newspaper editorial on energy

Colorado Springs Gazette

The lead editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazatte said: A group of black ministers and a leading black civil rights activist took to the streets of Salt Lake City the night before the opening of Redford's glamorous Sundance Film Festival in January to express their displeasure with his efforts to kill oil production. A group of mostly black protesters led by civil rights warrior Niger Innis, spokesman for the New York-based Congress of Racial Equality, suggested that Redford "relinquish his wealth" and live like a poor person concerned about fuel. Read More...

CORE's complaint against Ken Salazar in the Denver Daily News

Denver Daily Nes

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) says higher energy prices will result from the decision to scrap the leases of 77 parcels of land for oil and gas drilling in Utah’s Redrock country. The group believes low-income families feel the effects of higher energy prices more so than any other income class. Read More...

CORE MLK Dinner Emcee Pat Boone, unsung civil rights champion

NewsMax.com

CORE MLK Dinner Emcee Pat Boone was sensing unspoken questions among many of the attendees, who are so familiar with CORE, the third-oldest civil rights organization in America, junior to only the Urban League and the NAACP, and its long struggle on behalf of racial equality in this country: “What is Pat Boone doing here? Why has he been chosen to MC such an important — and sharply focused — event? Has he ever been involved in civil rights struggles?” Read More...

Ken Salazar Is Going Hollywood?

CORE

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar "is going Hollywood on us" by caving in to to actor Robert Redford's demands that American oil and gas leases in Utah be stopped. Read More...

Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr., head of High-Impact Leadership Coalition, blasts Robert Redford's huge energy-sucking mansion, contempt for the poor

The Park Record

"Robert Redford can afford to heat his 13,000-square-foot mansion in Utah no matter how high home heating prices get," said Harry R. Jackson Jr., chairman of the High-Impact Leadership Coalition, which worked with CORE in a Salt Lake City protest against the actor's anti-drilling views.
"But grandmothers on a fixed income and single mothers dependent upon public assistance count on energy production in states like Utah to continue so that their home-heating costs stay as low as possible." Read More...

CORE protest against Robert Redford creates media firestorm

The Salt Lake City protest against Robert Redford's effort to shut off Utah's natural gas supply to Eastern states generated a massive wave of media coverage across America. It was so huge even a sample is overwhelming. You have to follow the links to believe the power! Read More...

CORE leader Roy Innis honored by NASDAQ