During that time period, Innis teamed up with or founded several groups to push for greater domestic energy production. He frequently characterized environmentalists as elitist or the remnants of the anarchists, socialists, communist types of the 1960s. A representative sample of Innis message can be seen in video taken by Right Wing Watch, a website that tracks conservatives, in 2008. Innis had convened a press conference with CORE and Americans for American Energy, a non-profit group financed by an energy lobbyist, to launch a campaign titled Stop the War on the Poor. In his remarks, Innis proclaims the fight to allow drilling in places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to be very much like the civil rights revolution in its diversity and in its moral passion. A representative of Americans for American Energy dinged green activists as environmental racists. Around that same time, Americans for American Energy circulated an email linking wilderness supporters with Osama bin Laden, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, and Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. At a 2005 National Press Club event marking Earth Day, Innis said: We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nations and worlds most powerless and impoverished people. If people of conscience join us, we will challenge and end this scourge of eco-imperialism, and ensure that Dr. Martin Luther Kings dream will become a reality for poor people throughout the United States and world. motherjones/politics/2014/01/niger-innis-core-congress-exxon-tea-party
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