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Protesters label Redford an enemy of the poor - Salt Lake Tribune
Protesters label Redford an enemy of the poor - Salt Lake Tribune
In July, the Congress of Racial Equality joined with the High-Impact Leadership Coalition to advocate for increased U.S. domestic oil and gas production through the "Stop the War on the Poor" campaign. Last month, the two groups announced their "don't freeze us out" campaign to support the Bush ...
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ROBERT REDFORD: Enemy of the poor? “Clergymen link famed moviemaker’s stance to racism.”…
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RIGHTWINGSPARKLEBlack clergymen in Utah protest against Robert Redford and the Sundance Film Festival, basically saying that it's all well and good for rich limo liberals to be against drilling and the like when you can afford the more expensive alternate energy sources. When you are poor and heat can be cheap and affordable, all the policies of someone like Redford only drive the costs up. Not good for the poor. ...

envirowhackery = racism?
Daily PunditProtesters label Redford an enemy of the poor - Salt Lake Tribune So say some East Coast ministers and conservative activists, who took to the streets in front of a downtown Salt Lake City theater on the eve of Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival to accuse the actor of holding down low-income Americans with his opposition to oil and gas drilling near national parks in Utah. The protesters, led by the Congress of Racial Equality’s national spokesman Niger Innis, suggested Redford should “relinquish his wealth” and live like ...

Robert Redford Calls for Less Energy, More Government-Funded Artsy Degeneracy
Moonbattery — ... The new hyper–race-based politics that ushered in the Moonbat Messiah appears to cut both ways, as limousine leftist ecowarrior Robert Redford learned when activists gathered in front of a Salt Lake City theater on the eve of his Sundance Film Festival to protest the effects his environmentalist posturing have on the poor: ...

Elitist Redford Is Pissing-Off The Poor
Pat Dollard | Young AmericansThe Salt Lake Tribune: Protesters label Redford an enemy of the poor Oil and gas drilling » Clergymen link famed moviemaker’s stance to racism. Hollywood’s Sundance Kid is hurting poor people. So say some East Coast ministers and conservative activists, who took to the streets in front of a downtown Salt Lake City theater on the eve of Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival to accuse the actor of holding down low-income Americans with his opposition to oil and gas drilling near national parks in ...

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