Monsanto, Karl Rove and Roy Innis - rotten to the CORE

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GMW: Monsanto, Karl Rove and Roy Innis - rotten to the CORE

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Monsanto, Karl Rove and Roy Innis - rotten to the CORE

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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is using two events today as

part of their Dr Martin Luther King celebrations. One of these is a " UN

World Conference " promoting GM, which CORE has organised.

http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=4765

 

The other is CORE's reception at the New York Hilton Hotel where they

will be honouring Green Revolution scientist Norman Borlaug and

neo-conservative, Karl Rove. The Chairman for that event will be Hugh

Grant,

Chairman and CEO of Monsanto - the company at the centre of the

Indonesian bribes scandal. Karl Rove is, of course, Bush's election

strategist

and the man who oversaw black voter disenfranchisment in Florida and

Ohio.

http://www.core-online.org/events/current_mlk.htm

 

CORE's Chairman, Roy Innis, who will be the opening speaker at the " UN

World Conference " and the " host " of the event at the Hilton, is no

stranger to controversy. Past CORE invitees to their King Day

celebrations

have included Austrian politician and Nazi-sympathizer Jorg Haider, and

right-wing radio host Bob Grant, who once called Dr. King a " scumbag " .

http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=content & task=view & id=96 & Itemid\

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Innis himself is a curious champion of racial equality. He once called

the struggle against Apartheid " a vicarious, romantic adventure " with

" no honest base, " and when asked in 1973 why his organization supported

Idi Amin despite the Ugandan president's hatred of Jewish people and

praise of Hitler, he said, " we have no records to prove if Hitler was a

friend or an enemy of black people. " Amin's decision to expel 50,000

Asians from Uganda was hailed by Innis as " a bold step " .

http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=content & task=view & id=96 & Itemid\

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Innis took over CORE after it nearly collapsed, and he then moved the

civil rights organisation to the Republican right. James Farmer, the

renowned civil rights leader who originally led CORE, was so incensed

about what Innis was doing that he lent his name to a lawsuit that

attempted to unseat Innis. Farmer also confronted Innis on a TV

programme,

accusing him of turning CORE into a " shakedown " gang.

http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=174

 

Dr. Herschelle S. Challenor, Professor at Clark Atlanta University, in

an address on Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, given

at the United States Embassy in Kinshasa in January 2000, drew a sharp

contrast between the character of Farmer and that of Innis: " James

Farmer, the leader of CORE during the highpoint of the civil rights

movement, was a bright, dedicated activist of unimpeachable integrity.

His

immediate successor, Roy Innis was seen as a chameleon prepared to change

his political ideology as necessary. There were rumors that he worked in

later years as an FBI informant. "

http://www.africanamericans.com/martinlutherkingjr.htm

 

Just why Norman Borlaug and a host of other GM supporters, let alone

the UN, should want to associate themselves with Roy Innis and CORE is an

interesting question. CORE and Innis are widely regarded as an insult

to the memory of Dr King and the cause for which he died.

 

 

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