-Caveat Lector- For an immigration time-out: http://www.projectusa.org/ Immig ads: Manhattan new launch site Issue 96: September 21, 2001 +== TIME OUT PROJECT ==+ A major advertising campaign linking immigration and population growth was launched this week in Manhattan. The "Campaign for a Responsible Population Policy" is backed by political and academic leaders, along with local and national environmental, preservationist, and immigration-reduction groups. Spearheaded by ProjectUSA, the campaign consists of posters on sidewalk telephone kiosks in 40 locations between 20th and 96th Sts in Manhattan, and on both the East and West Sides. The Campaign for a Responsible Population Policy has produced three different posters, each with a different message: 1) "U.S. population is now growing at a faster rate than China's" 2) "Immigration will double U.S. population in our lifetimes" (two children pictured) 3) "We are not faced with a single global population problem, but rather with about 187 separate national population problems" (agreed to by the United States at the 1994 UN Cairo conference) Each ad includes a list of twenty signatories and the tag line, "Immigration. Talk about it." __________ Campaign for a Responsible Population Policy (r-pop) http://r-pop.org/ Graph featured in r-pop ads http://r-pop.org/graph_large.html Bush likely to ask for stricter rules on immigration Congress may tighten veritable open-door policy http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/20/MN137611.DTL Let's not create fear in immigrants (Arizona Republic) http://www.arizonarepublic.com/opinions/articles/0920pimentel20.html ProjectUSA editor Brenda Walker has been tracking the dangers of fifth-column Islamic extremists living among us. See her article "Taliban USA?" written over a year ago. http://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/taliban-usa.html +== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+ While these ads were contracted for months ago, increasing concern over an anti-immigrant backlash because of the attack on the World Trade Center makes this a propitious time for these ads to be in Manhattan -- the site of the attack. Understandably, national security concerns have placed the immigration issue at the center of public debate. Our ads remind people that immigration debate should focus on policy itself, not on singling out individuals; this is a good time to remember there are many important reasons to advocate a reduction in immigration numbers -- unsustainable population growth simply cannot continue. There is a mayoral race coming up here in New York City (Mayor Giuliani is term limited out: Hail and farewell, Mayor). Some of the candidates might opportunistically and irresponsibly try to use these ads to begin to draw attention back to their campaigns. ProjectUSA billboards have twice been removed by New York authorities, and one of the mayoral candidates, City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, led a press conference in 1999 announcing that the New York City Council had voted to condemn ProjectUSA's billboards 43-2. (The press conference followed a politician-led demonstration in front of one of our billboards. The condemned billboard's message was simple and fact-based: "Over 80% of Americans want less or no more immigration. Is anyone listening to us?" [Source: Roper Poll]) Unfortunately, most New York press coverage has been less than even-handed in covering our efforts. One New York television station did a hit piece that they ran two nights in a row, so incensed were they by our open proclamation of statistics and poll results. And a large New York daily dubbed our billboards "Signs of Hate." Please take a minute to call the media outlet below and request that: if any politician tries to make political hay out of the new immigration kiosk posters, please focus on the message, and refrain from ad hominem attacks on the messengers. (One of the kiosks is located at Times Square on the southeast corner of 48th Street and Broadway). 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