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Groups that FAIR has created or funded include [["You Don't Speak for Me!"]] and [[Choose Black America]]<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Los Angeles Times |title=Activist gaining little ground among blacks  |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/31/local/me-hayes31 |accessdate=2010-01-15 |author=Teresa Watanabe |date=2007-12-31 |quote=Since last year, the 56-year-old lean and lanky activist has tried to rouse blacks against illegal immigration with fiery appearances on national TV, protest marches, civil disobedience and leadership of Choose Black America, an anti-illegal immigration organization launched and financially supported by the '''Federation for American Immigration Reform'''. }}</ref>
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Groups that FAIR has created or funded include [["You Don't Speak for Me!"]], [[Choose Black America]]<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Los Angeles Times |title=Activist gaining little ground among blacks  |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/31/local/me-hayes31 |accessdate=2010-01-15 |author=Teresa Watanabe |date=2007-12-31 |quote=Since last year, the 56-year-old lean and lanky activist has tried to rouse blacks against illegal immigration with fiery appearances on national TV, protest marches, civil disobedience and leadership of Choose Black America, an anti-illegal immigration organization launched and financially supported by the '''Federation for American Immigration Reform'''. }}</ref>, and [[Coalition for the Future of the American Worker]]<ref>{{cite web
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==Directors==
 
==Directors==

Revision as of 05:00, 29 January 2010

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) "is a national, nonprofit, public-interest, membership organization of concerned citizens who share a common belief that our nation's immigration policies must be reformed to serve the national interest." [1] See RightWeb Profile

Funding

Funders from 1986-2007 included: [2]

Front groups

Groups that FAIR has created or funded include "You Don't Speak for Me!", Choose Black America[3], and Coalition for the Future of the American Worker[4].

Directors

Accessed September 2008: [5]


Advisory Board

Accessed September 2008: [6]

Contact

Web: http://www.fairus.org

Articles and resources

Related SourceWatch articles

References

  1. About, Federation for American Immigration Reform, accessed September 14, 2008.
  2. Funding - all years (1986-2007) - Federation for American Immigration Reform. Media Matters Action Network. Retrieved on 2010-01-28. “Carthage Foundation $1,954,500 F.M. Kirby Foundation $645,000 John M. Olin Foundation $30,000 Sarah Scaife Foundation $1,075,000 Scaife Family Foundation $175,000 Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation $25,000 Smith Richardson Foundation $65,000 William H. Donner Foundation $60,000”
  3. Teresa Watanabe (2007-12-31). Activist gaining little ground among blacks. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2010-01-15. “Since last year, the 56-year-old lean and lanky activist has tried to rouse blacks against illegal immigration with fiery appearances on national TV, protest marches, civil disobedience and leadership of Choose Black America, an anti-illegal immigration organization launched and financially supported by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.”
  4. Duke Falconer (2007-02-05). Anti - Immigration Groups and the Masks of False Diversity. E Pluribus Media. Retrieved on 2010-01-28. “other FAIR sponsored groups such as the Coalition for the Future of the American Worker, which claims to be a coalition of blue-collar groups”
  5. Directors, Federation for American Immigration Reform, accessed September 14, 2008.
  6. Directors, Federation for American Immigration Reform, accessed September 14, 2008.

External resources

External articles