"anti-trade" movement regroups

[Michael Pugliese]

Interestingly, the Ford Foundation is supporting several of these
groups. Ford seems to be doing what it does so well - finding the
more "moderate" voices in a social movement and seducing them with
grants. They did this with a lot of anti-poverty community orgs in
the late 1960s, and they're doing it again.

Doug

  One of my fave teachers at UCSC, John Borrego in the Community Studies
Program, was an organizer for in New Mexico in the early 70's for a group
that got a Ford Foundation grant. By the end of his time there he said he
was a Maoist.
   Mark Dowie, has a new book on Foundations from MIT Press...
Michael Pugliese

REVIEW - American Foundations: An Investigative History by ...
... Book Description In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that
organized philanthropy
is ... Gates have surpassed them. Foundation assets now total close ...
www.mapcruzin.com/rev_amer_found.htm
   (Attack on Mark Dowie here, mentions Ron Arnold, Doug!)
http://www.undueinfluence.com/dowie.htm
The accurate quote:
"For considerable sums of money, public opinion can be molded, constituents
mobilized, issues researched, and public officials button-holed, all in a
symphonic arrangement."

was never written or spoken by Mr. Joshua Reichert, Pew Charitable Trust's
Environment Program Director.

It was misattributed to Mr. Reichert by writer Mark Dowie in his book,
Losing Ground,  published in 1995 by MIT Press.

Mr. Dowie is the former editor-at-large of InterNation, a transnational
feature syndicate based in New York. He is a former publisher and editor of
Mother Jones magazine, the magazine of the Foundation for National Progress,
which is funded by large private foundations, including the Arca Foundation,
the Joyce Foundation, the Schumann Foundation, the Streisand Foundation and
others. Mr. Dowie has won fourteen major journalism awards, including an
unprecedented three National Magazine Awards.

In a congressional hearing in February, 2000, Undue Influence author Ron
Arnold cited the above quote as it appeared in Mr. Dowie's Losing Ground.
Mr. Reichert responded to the chairman of the congressional committee
denying that he ever wrote or said the quote, and requesting that the quote
be retracted. Mr. Arnold stood by his story, saying the quote had been known
to the public and to Mr. Reichert for five years without challenge. Mr.
Arnold held firm subject only to any actual evidence that Mr. Reichert's
denial was true.

In April, 2000, Mr. Dowie sent the Pew Charitable Trusts' chief attorney the
following correction and apology:


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Mark Dowie
12642 Sir Frances Drake
Point Reyes Station, CA 94956


April 11, 2000

Joy A. Horwitz, Esquire
Director, Legal Affairs and General Counsel
The Pew Charitable Trusts
One Commerce Square
2005 Market Street
Suite 1700
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7077

Dear Ms. Horwitz:

I am writing to acknowledge a misattribution on page 51 of my book, Losing
Ground, regarding the block quote attributed to Joshua Reichert, director of
The Pew Charitable Trusts' Environment program, in footnote 25. Although Mr.
Reichert has said to me in an interview that he strongly believes that
environmental groups need to respond more effectively to the tactics of
environmental opponents, to my knowledge, the quotation was not written or
spoken by him. Nor does it appear in the document entitled "Environmental
Strategies: Concept Statement" (December, 1993), which I inadvertently
listed as the source of the quotation.

The quoted language appeared in a report on environmental issue campaigns
prepared by four individuals, including Tom Wathen, then an Environment
program officer at Pew. Specifically, the quoted language was presented in a
list of the most frequently cited reasons given by members of the
environmental community, who had been interviewed by the report's authors,
explaining why the environmental movement had failed to employ its assets as
effectively as it might have.

I am sorry if this matter has caused you undue hardship.

Regards,

(Signature)

Mark Dowie


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Mr. Dowie is said to be at work on a book on foundations. The Foundation for
Deep Ecology gave Mr. Dowie an individual grant of $3,500 on February 16,
1996 for "travel expense to Rockefeller Foundation Archives."

Social Network Diagram for DOWIE MARK
... Powell,S. Covert Cadre. 1987 (156). ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION: New York
Times Magazine
2000-04-16 ... SCHWARZ MARK: Powell,S. Covert Cadre. 1987 (155). SHIELS ...
DOWIE MARK. ...
www.pir.org/cgi-bin/nbonlin6.cgi?DOWIE_MARK_