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A former Sierra Club Foundation director sues over internal racism that he says hinders its mission
The Associated Press ^ | January 31, 2026 | BY JAMES POLLARD AND MATT BROWN

Posted on 01/31/2026 3:12:20 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

NEW YORK (AP) — It seemed like a high-profile opportunity to lead an influential environmental group’s ambitious new push for green energy financing.

And so, in May 2023, Pedro da Silva joined the Sierra Club Foundation, the charitable arm for the nonprofit started by naturalist John Muir. A former investment management professional, da Silva directed its “Shifting Trillions” program that aimed to move major banks’ investments away from the fossil fuel industry and towards climate solutions.

The effort emerged as George Floyd’s murder prompted the Sierra Club to place newfound emphasis on environmental justice. As institutions grappled with their perpetuation of white supremacy, the club apologized for its founder’s racist views and vowed to hire more diverse staff.

But da Silva says the foundation’s commitments to racial justice did not extend internally. In a wrongful termination suit filed Thursday in California state court, the 29-year-old former employee alleges that normal workplace interactions got twisted into an unfair harassment complaint that leaned on racist stereotypes about predatory Black men.

He took the firing as a form of retaliation to the dissatisfaction he repeatedly expressed with the organization’s discrimination and lack of diversity.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: club; dei; sierra; woke
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1 posted on 01/31/2026 3:12:20 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sierra Club=another elitist anti-human group.

ALL tax-exempt organizations should have that status revoked.


2 posted on 01/31/2026 3:15:48 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is no one more racist than a Leftist.


3 posted on 01/31/2026 3:17:17 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“””The effort emerged as George Floyd’s murder prompted the Sierra Club””””......

They spelled OVERDOSE wrong.


4 posted on 01/31/2026 3:17:24 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: T.B. Yoits

No one more racist than an anti-racist.

Just as there’s no one more fascist than an anti-fascist.


5 posted on 01/31/2026 3:17:59 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Damn those White Supremacists!


6 posted on 01/31/2026 3:20:52 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Wאני עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

da Silva directed its “Shifting Trillions” program that aimed to move major banks’ investments away from the fossil fuel industry and towards climate solutions.


Maybe he was incompetent in his job............ or the money stopped.

https://www.investedinclimate.com/podcast/sierra-club-foundations-shifting-trillions-initiative-to-transform-energy-finance-ep-82


7 posted on 01/31/2026 3:22:20 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: PeterPrinciple

If he would have worked harder and was better at his job then he would still be working there. But then that’s a ‘white’ thing.


8 posted on 01/31/2026 3:35:08 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“A former Sierra Club Foundation director sues over internal racism that he says hinders its mission”. I didn’t know polar bears were racist.


9 posted on 01/31/2026 4:10:47 PM PST by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthym + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“the organization’s discrimination and lack of diversity.”

A black person at probably the whitest organization ever made? A gross collection of elderly AWFULS and cucks in huge brim caps. Where do these caps come from?


10 posted on 01/31/2026 4:46:41 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: kawhill

Oh noes! Trouble at the Sierra Club?!?! Good. Elitist lefties in that org have always seen themselves as “above” common folk.


11 posted on 01/31/2026 4:46:54 PM PST by sgt_lau (Islamophobic? No. I reject a 7th century death-cult that demands non-believers like me, dead.)
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To: shelterguy

That whole article is riddled with bullshit. LOL

Sierra Club was a big proponent of nuclear power generation at one time, and decidedly against illegal/legal migration.

Millions and millions additional people place more demands for construction, energy extraction, pollution, roads, mining, all those things that they claim they want to protect. By an sane measure Sierra Club would be for strict border control.

Weird, huh?


12 posted on 01/31/2026 4:50:11 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The “internal racism” is centered in what passes for the heart of a Leftist.


13 posted on 01/31/2026 5:06:07 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III; Red Badger; SunkenCiv

The Sierra Club was promoting and supporting the races HE didn’t like. So THEY are accused of racism. Not he himself.


14 posted on 01/31/2026 5:49:00 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
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To: T.B. Yoits

True.


15 posted on 01/31/2026 6:11:28 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: dfwgator

Correct.


16 posted on 01/31/2026 6:11:39 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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