Neither Nix-it or Fix-it (RE: Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece onSeattle

Nathan Newman nathan.newman at yale.edu
Fri Dec 17 11:41:48 PST 1999



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of John Halle
> In terms of enviro groups, in fact, most mainstream "responsible" groups
> supported NAFTA: the NRDC, EDF, WWF, and others. Doesn't this shake your
> confidence in the moderate center just a little. And isn't it your
> business to know these things?

I specifically said GRASSROOTS enviro groups- each of the groups you list are Washington DC offices with a telemarketing firm attached (something I know first hand since I worked at their joint telemarketing firm many ages ago for a short time).

The enviro groups with some serious grassroots activist core- Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and even Sierra Club - all opposed NAFTA.

In many ways, the NAFTA fight had the nice side effect of fully identifying the more corporate-oriented enviro groups from those which had real grassroots perspectives and commitments.

-- Nathan Newman



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