Phil - anthrophy
Nike / Phil Knight's sweatshop profits changed Eugene and corrupted the University of Oregon
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who pays for greenwash and why:
Thus, confronted by powerful corporate opposition, the environmental movement has split in two. The older national environmental organizations, in their Washington offices, have taken the soft path of negotiation, compromising with the corporations about how much pollution is acceptable ... The people living in the polluted communities have taken the hard path of confrontation ... The national organizations deal with the environmental disease by negotiating about the kind of 'Band-Aid' to apply to it; the community groups deal with the disease by trying to prevent it.
-- Barry Commoner, Making Peace With the Planet
wrongkindofgreen.org
greenwash and oil company funding of "climate" groups.
www.corporations.org/system/envirogrouptypes.pdf
a guide to environmental groups
by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network
www.mapcruzin.com/environment21/
corporate environmental groups
www.mapcruzin.com/review_losing_ground.htm
a review of "Losing Ground" by Mark Dowie, former editor of Mother Jones, about the decline of the environmental movement
www.mapcruzin.com/review_american_foundations.htm
American Foundations: An Investigative History by Mark Dowie
www.namebase.net:82/news03.html
Multiculturalism and the Ruling Elite
www.namebase.net:82/news15.html
Philanthropists at War
www.namebase.net:82/roelofs.html
The Third Sector as a Protective Layer for Capitalism
"Some may see a galaxy of organizations doing good works -- a million points of light -- but the nonprofit world is also a system of power which is exercised in the interest of the corporate world."
www.namebase.net:82/names/nn01.cgi/hV
Roelofs, Joan. Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism. Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. 269 pages.
Few American scholars dare admit that capitalism could not survive without the support of the nonprofit sector. It helps to first get tenure, and then approach the topic very cautiously. Joan Roelofs, a political science professor at Keene State College in New Hampshire, has broken through to the other side. While Karl Marx criticized the role of bourgeois philanthropy only in passing, due to a lack of evidence, Roelofs starts with the robber barons and continues through the twentieth century. That adds up to a hundred years of heavy evidence.
Beginning with the cold war, American philanthropy branched into foreign policy. The Ford Foundation (and to a lesser extent, Rockefeller and Carnegie) worked very closely with the CIA. Ford funded many leftist minority and special-interest groups during the 1960s, but it was all part of the same grand scheme to promote pluralism as an antidote to class consciousness. McGeorge Bundy, an architect of U.S. policy in Vietnam, became president of Ford Foundation in 1966. In his words, his role was "to make the world safe for capitalism." Now it is 2006, and Russia is finally realizing that they've been raped by capitalists using philanthropy as a cover, and are taking steps to stop it. They should re-read their Marx. While they're at it, they might want to pick up this book as well.
ISBN 0-7914-5642-0