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</b></font></div><div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Allegations_of_racism"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Allegations of racism</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning_Marable" title="Manning Marable" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Manning Marable</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Columbia University</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> wrote in 1998 that LaRouche tried in the mid-1980s to build bridges to the black community. Marable argued that most of the community was not fooled, and quoted the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Philip_Randolph_Institute" title="A. Philip Randolph Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">A. Philip Randolph Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, an organization for African-American trade unionists, declaring that "LaRouche appeals to fear, hatred and ignorance. He seeks to exploit and exacerbate the anxieties and frustrations of Americans by offering an array of scapegoats and enemies: Jews, Zionists, international bankers, blacks, labor unions—much the way Hitler did in Germany."</span><sup id="cite_ref-Manning_1998_224-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche#cite_note-Manning_1998-224" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[224]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> During LaRouche's slander suit against NBC in 1984,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Innis" title="Roy Innis" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Roy Innis</a>, leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Congress of Racial Equality</a>, took the stand for LaRouche as a character witness,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> stating under oath that LaRouche's views on racism were "consistent with his own." Asked whether he had seen any indication of racism in LaRouche's associates, he replied that he had not.</span><sup id="cite_ref-225" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche#cite_note-225" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[225]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>trot out all? BLM geo f </b></font></div><div><div>
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NIGER INNIS: I'm so pleased that President Trump, Attorney General Barr has labeled antifa a terrorist organization. <b>What they need to do is follow the money</b>. How is it that bricks and bats and two by fours end up in these communities from Kansas to Los Angeles to New York and given out to these violent anarchists?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Follow the money and I suspect you're going to find Open Society Foundation and <b>George Soros' fingerprints. That man should have been deported several decades ago. He is the destruction to our civilization and a clear and present danger to our country.</b></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><font face="Times New Roman">
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<h1 class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jackson and Innis Are Back With Another Energy Front Group</font></h1>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span>Submitted by</span> Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 4/19/<b>2010</b> 1:38 pm </font></div>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Back in the summer of 2008, we produced a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/07/astroturf_group.html">series</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dubious-%E2%80%98grassroots%E2%80%99-drilling-campaign">of</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hatch-joins-phony-stop-war-poor-effort">posts</a>about an effort called "Stop the War on the Poor" that was led by Harry
Jackson and Niger Innis, claiming to be a campaign to claim that
"extreme environmentalists" who oppose increased domestic oil drilling
are enemies of the poor.</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman">In essence, the group's message was that high energy prices
disproportionately impact the poor and that domestic oil drilling was
solution to keeping energy prices low. Not surprisingly, the effort was
heavily supported by pro-drilling and other energy business interests. </font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Now Jackson and Innis are back with a similar message, but with a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> new group called the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.affordablepoweralliance.org/AboutUs.aspx">Affordable Power Alliance</a>:</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The mission of the Alliance is heart a humanitarian one. Thousands
of Americans become sick and die each year because high energy costs
that prevent them from adequately heating or cooling their homes; buying
the medicines they need; and practicing better health prevention
measures. Millions more lose opportunities to better themselves and
their families because rising energy costs eat away at a large portion
of their disposable income.</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That is why we consider public policies that raise energy costs to be
<b>dangerous and immoral </b>-– especially given that higher energy prices hit
middle-income families the working poor the hardest.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">Last week, Jackson and Innis <a target="_blank" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/HarryRJacksonJr/2010/04/19/a_tea_party_diary">took their pro-drilling energy front-group message to a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tea Party in Colorado</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">:</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">Last Wednesday on “tax day,” I had the privilege of attending my
first Tea Party event. Standing on the steps of the Colorado State
Capitol building in Denver, I addressed several thousand people
concerning the impact of wrong-headed energy policies on all Americans –
especially the minority community ... Scores of people thanked Mr.
Innis and I for both the information we shared and our presence at the
rally.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They recognized that the findings of a new report on the economic and
employment impact of current CO2 restrictions endorsed by the EPA will
be detrimental to all Americans. The study I am referencing estimates
that the <b>US GDP will be reduced by at least $500 billion over the next
two decades </b>by this one factor alone. This translates into the loss
millions of jobs over the next 10 years. Third, there will also be a
significant reduction in the average household income but it will
regressively affect poor and lower middle class families the most.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">Jackson's "findings" come out of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.affordablepoweralliance.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=yXQwPRYFUF8%3d&tabid=40">this study</a>
prepared for his Affordable Energy Alliance by an organization called<b>
Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI</b>) which "provides economic,
financial, energy, and environmental research services and litigation
support to clients in private industry."</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">And who might some of those <a target="_blank" href="http://misi-net.com/private.html">private industry clients</a> be, you ask:</font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">American Electric Power Company
Bruce Power, LP
Chesapeake Energy
Commonwealth Edison
Energy Corporation of America
Energy Resources International, Inc.
ExxonMobil
Ontario Power Generation, Inc.
Peabody Energy
The Southern Company
Washington Gas Company
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<font face="Times New Roman"><b>World Oil Magazine</b></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">So MISI produced a report on behalf of the Affordable Energy Alliance
finding that carbon dioxide restrictions and other environmental
regulations would be detrimental to the nation's poor. </font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Presumably, the fact that MISI also just so happens to provide
research and litigation services to several energy companies is purely
coincidental.</font></p> </div>
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<div class="vocabulary-84"><h3><font face="Times New Roman">Organizations:</font></h3><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/affordable-energy-alliance">Affordable Energy Alliance</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/townhall">Townhall</a></font></div><div class="vocabulary-85"><h3><font face="Times New Roman">People:</font></h3><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/harry-jackson">Harry Jackson</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/niger-innis">Niger Innis</a></font></div><div class="vocabulary-2"><h3><font face="Times New Roman">Topics:</font></h3><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/jobs">jobs</a></font></div> </div></div>
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<font size="4">same addy as:</font>
<font size="4">Damore is a professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
</font></font><p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>DAVID DAMORE, University of Nevada, Las Vegas:</b> Immigration is
the top issue for Latino voters. It is sort of a gateway issue.
Certainly, they care about education, they care about health care, jobs,
those other things.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">But if you’re a Republican and the first word out of your mouth is
they want to deport you, what comes second, no one’s listening to.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><b>GWEN IFILL: </b>But this is not your typical red/blue divide.
Niger Innis, for instance, runs CORE, a civil rights group that offers
classes to help Las Vegas immigrants prepare for their citizenship exam.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><b>WOMAN:</b> What are two Cabinet-level positions?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><b>MAN:</b> Secretary of the commerce, secretary of defense, secretary of energy.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><b>GWEN IFILL: </b>But as a self-described Tea Party Republican, he says the president is abusing his power.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><b>NIGER INNIS, Executive Director, TheTeaParty.net:</b> This
president had a real opportunity to really engage the country in a
proper way on the question of immigration. You know, he had two years.
His first two years in office, he had overwhelming majorities in the
House and the Senate. He didn’t move immigration reform.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">These executive actions have largely poisoned the well, and I don’t
know that we’re going to have real substantive immigration reform
progress until there’s a new president, unfortunately. And I don’t say
that with joy. I say that with regret.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><b>GWEN IFILL: </b>About 11,000 people in Las Vegas qualify for the
2012 dreamer protection. But nearly 31,000 people would qualify for the
expanded program, which is expected to go into effect in May.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Workshops have sprung up around the state to help immigrants used to
living in the shadows learn how to manage the paperwork and to learn how
to manage expectations.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">same addy;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1942, a group of students at the University of Chicago founded the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to fight for the rights and
interests of minorities and the economically underprivileged. In recent
years, it has become a powerful force in helping immigrants achieve
American Citizenship. More than 70 years later, CORE continues to fight
for the rights of all people in America.</font></p><font size="4">
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</font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 118%; font-size: 10pt;" id="yiv6002028919yui_3_16_0_1_1427490298592_3935"><font size="4">Join
America was created to help immigrants on the journey to becoming
citizens and to fully assimilate into the American society. The
organization serves as a critical gateway for the Las Vegas area's
growing and increasingly diverse immigrant and refugee population.<span id="yiv6002028919yui_3_16_0_1_1427490298592_3939"> </span>Join
America provides an ideal venue by offering Civics and English language
instructions, immigration and social support services. <span id="yiv6002028919yui_3_16_0_1_1427490298592_3938">This
is crucial not only for the immigrants' personal success, but for the
economic and cultural vibrancy of Las Vegas communities and the country
as well.</span></font><p><font size="4">http://joinamericanow.com/join-america-in-the-news.html</font></p><p><font size="4">
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<h1 class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jackson and Innis Are Back With Another Energy Front Group</font></h1>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span>Submitted by</span> Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 4/19/<b>2010</b> 1:38 pm </font></div>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Back in the summer of 2008, we produced a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/07/astroturf_group.html">series</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dubious-%E2%80%98grassroots%E2%80%99-drilling-campaign">of</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hatch-joins-phony-stop-war-poor-effort">posts</a>about an effort called "Stop the War on the Poor" that was led by Harry
Jackson and Niger Innis, claiming to be a campaign to claim that
"extreme environmentalists" who oppose increased domestic oil drilling
are enemies of the poor.</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman">In essence, the group's message was that high energy prices
disproportionately impact the poor and that domestic oil drilling was
solution to keeping energy prices low. Not surprisingly, the effort was
heavily supported by pro-drilling and other energy business interests. </font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Now Jackson and Innis are back with a similar message, but with a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> new group called the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.affordablepoweralliance.org/AboutUs.aspx">Affordable Power Alliance</a>:</span></font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The mission of the Alliance is heart a humanitarian one. Thousands
of Americans become sick and die each year because high energy costs
that prevent them from adequately heating or cooling their homes; buying
the medicines they need; and practicing better health prevention
measures. Millions more lose opportunities to better themselves and
their families because rising energy costs eat away at a large portion
of their disposable income.</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That is why we consider public policies that raise energy costs to be
<b>dangerous and immoral </b>-– especially given that higher energy prices hit
middle-income families the working poor the hardest.</span></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">Last week, Jackson and Innis <a target="_blank" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/HarryRJacksonJr/2010/04/19/a_tea_party_diary">took their pro-drilling energy front-group message to a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tea Party in Colorado</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">:</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">Last Wednesday on “tax day,” I had the privilege of attending my
first Tea Party event. Standing on the steps of the Colorado State
Capitol building in Denver, I addressed several thousand people
concerning the impact of wrong-headed energy policies on all Americans –
especially the minority community ... Scores of people thanked Mr.
Innis and I for both the information we shared and our presence at the
rally.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They recognized that the findings of a new report on the economic and
employment impact of current CO2 restrictions endorsed by the EPA will
be detrimental to all Americans. The study I am referencing estimates
that the <b>US GDP will be reduced by at least $500 billion over the next
two decades </b>by this one factor alone. This translates into the loss
millions of jobs over the next 10 years. Third, there will also be a
significant reduction in the average household income but it will
regressively affect poor and lower middle class families the most.</span></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">Jackson's "findings" come out of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.affordablepoweralliance.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=yXQwPRYFUF8%3d&tabid=40">this study</a>
prepared for his Affordable Energy Alliance by an organization called<b>
Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI</b>) which "provides economic,
financial, energy, and environmental research services and litigation
support to clients in private industry."</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">And who might some of those <a target="_blank" href="http://misi-net.com/private.html">private industry clients</a> be, you ask:</font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">American Electric Power Company
Bruce Power, LP
Chesapeake Energy
Commonwealth Edison
Energy Corporation of America
Energy Resources International, Inc.
ExxonMobil
Ontario Power Generation, Inc.
Peabody Energy
The Southern Company
Washington Gas Company
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<font face="Times New Roman"><b>World Oil Magazine</b></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">So MISI produced a report on behalf of the Affordable Energy Alliance
finding that carbon dioxide restrictions and other environmental
regulations would be detrimental to the nation's poor. </font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Presumably, the fact that MISI also just so happens to provide
research and litigation services to several energy companies is purely
coincidental.</font></p> </div>
<h3><font face="Times New Roman">Filed Under</font></h3>
<div class="vocabulary-84"><h3><font face="Times New Roman">Organizations:</font></h3><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/affordable-energy-alliance">Affordable Energy Alliance</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/townhall">Townhall</a></font></div><div class="vocabulary-85"><h3><font face="Times New Roman">People:</font></h3><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/harry-jackson">Harry Jackson</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/niger-innis">Niger Innis</a></font></div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>==<br />https://theintercept.com/2015/08/17/core-went-leading-civil-rights-movement-protesting-support-police-exxonmobil/</b><br /></font><h1 class="Post-title" data-reactid=".ti.1.0.0.3.0.1.0.1.0"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="Post-title-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2015/08/17/core-went-leading-civil-rights-movement-protesting-support-police-exxonmobil/" data-reactid=".ti.1.0.0.3.0.1.0.1.0.0">The Long Sad Slide From Leading Civil Rights Organization to Anti-Black Lives Matter Group</a></font></h1><p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>The Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, </b>is best known for its pathbreaking role in organizing acts designed to confront and end
apartheid in America, from the Freedom Rides throughout the South to the
pivotal March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Now the group — or what’s left of it — protests against black protesters.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><b>Roy Innis,</b> who took control of CORE in 1968, dramatically transformed
the group’s mission from racial integration to black separatism — and
eventually to lobbying on behalf of corporate interests and the police
state.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>His son, Niger Innis,</b> now the group’s spokesperson, appears on Fox
News and other conservative media outlets throughout the country
denouncing Black Lives Matter and claiming to be a representative of the
civil rights movement.</span> Discussing the one-year anniversary of the
police killing of Michael Brown on a television program on August 11,
for instance, Niger Innis <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Niger-Innis-Bernie-Kerik-Ferguson-protests/2015/08/11/id/669644/">called</a>
Black Lives Matter protesters a “bunch of vultures coming in from
places like New York and California” who came to Ferguson only to cause
trouble.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Modern civil rights advocates, for their part, bristle at the media
platform given to CORE. “Mainstream media uses these groups in an
attempt to denounce the importance of police reform and accountability
in the wake of the shooting deaths of numerous unarmed black people
across this country,” Nekima Levy-Pounds, a Black Lives Matter activist
and law professor at the University of St. Thomas, told <em>The Intercept</em>.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">CORE, she said, now provides rhetoric that “reinforces a white
supremacist view” of Black Lives Matter. CORE did not respond to a
request for comment.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">During the August 11 program, Niger Innis derisively compared the
confrontational tactics of Black Lives Matter protesters to the Black
Panthers, claiming that such strategies were rejected by his father, who
Niger said sought reform only through proactive solutions. “The only
thing that my father was protesting in those days was that he wanted
more blacks on the police force,” Innis chuckled.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">But Niger Innis’ portrayal of his father obscures a history that is far more complex. <em>The Intercept</em> compiled a history using primary source documents and investigative reports largely from <em>Jet</em>, the <em>New York Times</em> and <em>New York</em> magazine.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Roy Emil Alfredo Ennis was born in the Virgin Islands and immigrated
to New York when he was in 13. Roy, who joined CORE after seeking to
date a member of the organization, slowly began working his way up the
leadership ranks. As the assistant to CORE leader Floyd McKissick, Roy
Innis traveled the country, helping CORE — which at the time was an
integrated, nonviolent civil rights group seeking an end to racial
discrimination — set up new chapters.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">In the years preceding Innis’ rise to leadership, CORE played an
instrumental role in some of the most storied events in civil rights
history. The group partnered with the NAACP to mobilize Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, as well as the Freedom Summer
campaign in Mississippi. Many members, both white and black, faced
police and vigilante violence. Three young CORE members were murdered by
Klan supporters in Philadelphia, Mississippi.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Indeed, CORE has been in the news in recent months because of the
interest in Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who was a
leader of CORE in Chicago in the early 1960s, and was arrested in
college for participating in a protest of segregation in Chicago public
schools.</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman">The year 1968 brought new challenges and tragedy. On April 15, a
postal worker shot and killed Innis’ son, Roy Jr., allegedly because he
was bothered by the noise the boy was making outside of his apartment.
The previous week, Dr. King had been assassinated in Memphis.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">The turmoil following the death of King turned the tide on simmering
divisions within CORE, with many claiming that they now distrusted the
so-called “<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CKFlirjb2EAC&pg=PA94&dq=accommodationist+CORE+black+nationalist&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OR2NU_7nI9CxoQSQlIGoAw&ved=0CGEQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=accommodationist%20CORE%20black%20nationalist&f=false">accommodationist</a>”
approach of nonviolence. The previous two years had seen a number of
CORE chapters breaking away from the vision of CORE founder James
Farmer, who sought an inclusive approach for ending racial segregation
and discrimination in society.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">In June 1968, a slate of Black Nationalist leaders won election to the leadership of CORE with Innis <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=JXx2MyQaagUC&pg=PT68&dq=%22roy+innis%22+elected+1968&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tuCQU5950PegBP2SgPgI&ved=0CFEQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22roy%20innis%22%20elected%201968&f=false">as the new</a>
CORE chairman. Declaring the traditional civil rights era over, Innis
changed the CORE constitution to ban white people from the organization,
and <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=vXHbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=%22roy+innis%22+elected+chairman+of+core+1968&source=bl&ots=fjYmI0E_tr&sig=rL0DDou7bYSXwVZO3fRmNGDxrkM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9RuNU96MCsf9oASu4oLgDQ&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22roy%20innis%22%20elected%20chairman%20of%20core%201968&f=false">explained</a> that the change reflected “an era of Black Nationalism.” Innis also called for separate schools for African American children.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">As Innis began to openly embrace Black Nationalism, he also began his
pivot to the right. Just before he became the national CORE chair,
Innis <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=_Ycb0K1owawC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=roy+innis+nixon+novak&source=bl&ots=ug5QkGzh0e&sig=4-q0tghCnICvR2Oh48iyGuppLks&hl=en&sa=X&ei=L-WQU4WFPNGxoQTQroHoBQ&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=roy%20innis%20nixon%20novak&f=false">met covertly</a>
with Richard Nixon. Innis, according to an account from conservative
journalist Robert Novak, worked to align community support for Nixon so
he could one day serve as the “President’s man in the ghetto.” Nixon
would go on to endorse a vision of “black capitalism.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Lawyers from Nixon’s law firm even helped CORE draft proposed <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=09oDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176&dq=core+self+determination+innis+bill+1968&source=bl&ots=8puB1blkWa&sig=6vUw1UL-WiWb2j3zF7CinOazjkI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rFOSU8aCF4iMyAT8pICgDg&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=core%20self%20determination%20innis%20bill%201968&f=false">legislation</a> providing economic support for African American-owned businesses.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Open support for the Republican ticket was difficult, but Innis’
comments in the press made his leanings clear. On “Meet the Press,”
Innis did not explicitly endorse a candidate for president, but said, “I
praise Nixon when he said that black nationalism is relevant.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">The Innis effort was part of a multifaceted attempt by the Nixon
campaign to peel off black support from the Democratic Party. The White
House tapes reveal conversations between Nixon and his aides about
efforts to recruit and fund black presidential candidates with a “fourth
party” during the 1972 election. His operatives privately referred to
one such plan as “Operation Coal.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">The Nixon election victory in 1968, which markedly increased the GOP
share of the black vote compared to the Barry Goldwater election in
1964, did not result in any appointments or official support for Innis.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Instead, the 1970s became a period of great drift for CORE, which continued down a path of militant Black Nationalism.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><b>In 1972, Innis became the American consigliere for Ugandan strongman Idi Amin</b>. As <i>Jet</i>
reported, Innis developed programs to bring skilled American workers to
help with Amin’s fledgling government. He also supported Amin’s brutal
crackdown on non-Africans, including the decision to expel 80,000 people
of Asian descent from Uganda. In a telegram, Innis <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FHQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=roy+innis+idi+amin+asians&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3WKSU8_pCI72oAS9rYDwCA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=roy%20innis%20idi%20amin%20asians&f=false">said</a>
he “supports in spirit and fact” the deportation decision, calling
Uganda “the ancestral homeland of African people [which] must operate
first and foremost for the development of African people.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Innis fought off a number of attempts
to oust him from the leadership of CORE. One lawsuit accused him of
mishandling CORE’s finances. Former CORE leaders James Farmer and Floyd
McKissick claimed that Innis had used CORE funds for “trips to Europe
and Africa, prize fight tickets, lavish furniture, living expenses for
themselves and estranged wives, and rent for personal living quarters.”
In <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=b0IDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&dq=roy+innis+1978&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z2SSU8iGMcfZoATIpoLYDQ&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=roy%20innis%201978&f=false">response</a>,
Innis charged that the lawsuit was a “racist … political cheap trick.”
In 1980, a group of dissident CORE leaders voted in a new leader,
Waverly Yates, head of CORE’s Washington affiliate, but Innis refused to
hand over the chairmanship.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">In 1986, the IRS fined Innis $56,000 in back taxes plus $28,000 in
civil fraud penalties because of $116,000 in unreported income from CORE
in the mid-1970s, which he allegedly spent on ”travel, apartment rent,
jewelry, furniture, entertainment, and other personal items.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman">As the years went on, Innis’ political agenda drifted to open support
for the Republican Party, and he played a major role in the debates on
crime and gun control. He openly campaigned for Ronald Reagan, and ran
against New York Mayor David Dinkins for the mayoral Democratic primary
in 1993. Also that year, CORE founder James Farmer declared, “CORE has
no functioning chapters; it holds no conventions, no elections, no
meetings, sets no policies, has no social programs and does no
fund-raising. In my opinion, CORE is fraudulent.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Niger Innis recounted on a 2013 appearance with AACONS, an African
American online radio program, his father’s support for police
organizations and Rudy Giuliani <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/aacons/2013/05/29/interview-with-niger-innis">paved the way</a>
for the stop-and-frisk programs that Niger Innis claimed have reduced
urban crime.</span> “Part of the partnership” between community groups and law
enforcement, Niger Innis said, “is criminal profiling, not racial
profiling.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Over the last 25 years, CORE has morphed almost completely into an
organization that lends African-American support to causes linked to its
corporate donors. As <em>Mother Jones </em><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/05/black-gold">reported</a> in
2005, CORE took money from <b>Monsanto</b> and mobilized opposition to
regulations on Monsanto products. After receiving $40,000 in
contributions from ExxonMobil, CORE organized protests in support of <b>
ExxonMobil </b>at its shareholder meeting. With funds from the<b> National
Rifle Association, of which Roy Innis is now a board member</b>, CORE has
filed amicus briefs claiming that gun control laws stem from racism in
society.</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Niger Innis now simultaneously works as a <a href="http://www.theteaparty.net/niger-innis-executive-director/">Tea Party leader</a>
and CORE’s chief spokesperson,</span> and is a frequent speaker at
conservative events.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> “My organization, the Congress of Racial Equality,
fought side by side with Dr. King and Americans of all colors,” Niger
Innis declared at an Americans for Prosperity-organized event in
Wisconsin. “For my well-paid brothers at the NAACP,” he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLtP8JTkSLg">intone</a>d, “if you’re looking for a racist at this crowd, he’s right here! … I am a racist and a racial partisan for the human race!”</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman">Last year, Niger Innis ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress as a <b>Republican in Nevada.</b></font>
<font face="Times New Roman">And these days, Roy and his son Niger are favorites of the
conservative movement.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Presenting a prize to Roy Innis at the CPAC
convention in 2010, NRA president Wayne LaPierre called him “a real
American hero, his story should be taught in every American school and
it should be admired by every patriot.”</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px ! important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Using Black Lives Matter to push Uber in New York City</strong></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px ! important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Back in July, the head of the <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117837/airbnb-uber-wage-war-regulators-army-customers" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">decidedly libertarian</a> Silicon Valley goliath Uber, <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/07/8572061/shifting-tactics-uber-hits-city-race-issues" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">trotted out several members of New York’s black clergy class</a>,
including a member of Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network,
to sell the anti-regulation car service as good for black communities.
The effort, headed up by Uber PR frontman and former Obama speechwriter
David Plouffe was a fairly crass exercise in libertarian piggybacking
off Black Lives Matter:</font></p><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">There’s
a lot of discussion in this city by some leaders about progressive
politics, economic equality and economic opportunity,” David Plouffe,
Uber’s chief adviser, said. “What they’re doing is killing over 10,000
jobs.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">The
press conference, which included one member of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s
National Action Network, came one day after Plouffe met with Sharpton,
reportedly to enlist Sharpton to oppose the growth cap. Sharpton, a
friend and occasional political ally of Mayor Bill de Blasio, "has
questions" about the bill’s impact on the city’s minorities, Crain’s
reports.</font></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px ! important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Things
took a turn for the worse when Brooklyn-based bishop Gerald Seabrooks,
presumably reading off of Uber’s PR script, made the rather vulgar claim
that police killings of black men were somehow a result of “lack of
jobs”, jobs that Uber could in theory provide. “<strong>If [Eric] Garner had a job, today he would be alive</strong>,” Seabrooks said. “We’re talking economics here. We’re talking jobs.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px ! important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">The
article reads like a perfect parody of what happens when
#BlackLivesMatter becomes #BlackLivesMatter™. The amount of cynicism it
takes to parlay Eric Garner’s death into a commercial for a car service
with a <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-18/uber-increases-fundraising-to-1-billion-amid-investor-appetite" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">$50 billion</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>market
cap is truly a masterclass in marketing pap. The reality is, job status
had nothing to do with Garner or any other African-Americans death at
the hands of cops.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman">===
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“That's not, of course, the kind of story detailed in CORE's ‘Voices from Africa,’ where GM crops are presented as the only hope of salvation for resource poor farmers. Nor is it the kind of story told by CORE's Paul Driessen in his syndicated op-ed pieces, which were timed to coincide with CORE's UN "World Conference". Driessen informed his readers that "these safe, delicious foods" were vital for Africa because they could "replace staples devastated by disease -- including Kenyan sweet potatoes". Interestingly, just a week or so before Driessen made that claim, the Kenyan journalist Gatonye Gathura, received a Kalam award for journalistic excellence for his article on the sweet potato project, "GM Technology fails local potatoes." Gathura's piece blew the whistle on the abject failure of Monsanto's showcase project in Africa -- a project that had garnered literally thousands of column inches of positive press.” - The Uncle Tom Award Jonathan Matthews, 16 March 2005 </a></font></font></div><div class="post" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 4em; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="114553956733891309"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php </span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Roy and Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality have been up to some seriously treacherous dealing in recent years. Ever since the US Supreme Court installed George W Bu$h in the presidency Innis has been maneuvering and attempting to position CORE as the preeminent House Negro organization in service to the NeoCon globalist agenda. After 9-11 Innis went to the Bu$h administration and warned them to watch out for the Nation Of Islam and other African-American Islamic organization as they might be a source of sympathy for Muslim terrorists and a possible fifth column. So here we have a so called black organization ( I intentionally used small case) promoting racial and religion profiling and surveillance just to get in good with what the group they consider Mighty Whitie.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In recent years CORE has sponsored a Martin Luther King Jr Dinner and to the angst of most Black folks they have invited key members of the Bu$h administration to speak or receive awards, in 2004 Tommy Thompson the secretary of Health and Human Services was the keynote speaker and in 2005 CORE invited Karl Rove the architect of Florida voting scandal that helped disenfranchise thousands of African-Americans.</span></a></font></font></div><div class="post" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 4em; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="114553956733891309" style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">Not only has Roy Innis and his tag along son Niger shifted CORE to the Right, they have jumped on the fascist corporatist bandwagon big time. As more and more black folks eschew the notions of self-determination and doing for self in favor of corporation hand outs, branding and prostituting themselves to corporate AmeriKKKa, Roy Innis has taken it to an even higher level. Innis has hooked his wagon to the Republican Party machine and now rivals Jesse Jackson and the Negroes on the Democratic Party dole as a serious money grubber. CORE has allowed itself to be used by companies like Monsanto the mad scientists who manufacture Frankenfoods who have virtually cornered the market on genetically modified (or altered) foods. In a 2005 article on the Website http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php Innis and CORE are castigated for their support of genetically modified (GM) seeds and foods. Multinational giants like Monsanto need Black and Brown faces to support Frankenfoods as they target First World people (Africans Asians Pacific Islanders, South and Central Americans) as consumers and captive markets for their diabolical products. They use PR and Spin to make folks think GM foods are the latest and greatest innovative boon to mankind when in fact they are unproven, untested and potentially dangerous mutations that the FDA has rubber stamped but the European Union will not even allow in their countries. </a></font></font></div><div class="post" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 4em; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="114553956733891309">“Of course, such attempts to position biotech's soap box behind a black man's face neither began nor ended in Johannesburg. In late 1999, for instance, a street protest against genetic engineering in Washington DC was disrupted by a group of African-Americans bearing placards such as 'Biotech saves children's lives.' A Baptist Church from a poor neighborhood had, the New York Times revealed, been paid by Monsanto's PR firm to bus in the counter-demonstrators. But Johannesburg does seem to have been a kind of watershed. Since then, Monsanto's fake parade has really begun to hit its stride. And from US administration platforms to UN headquarters, from Capitol Hill to the European Parliament, we've been treated to a veritable minstrelsy of lobbying. Let's pick up the trail amidst the Martin Luther King Day observances in New York City this January. That was when the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) invited some 700 diplomats, scientists, journalists, and Gotham high-school students to come and consider the ‘implications and reality’ of biotechnology at UN headquarters. CORE's 'World Conference' was presided over by His Excellency, Aminu Bashir Wali, the Ambassador of Nigeria, and after lunch came the premiere of the film 'Voices from Africa', showcasing the results of ‘CORE's fact-finding trip to Africa’. The film opened and closed with comments by CORE's National Chairman, Roy Innis, who explained that it was his concern about hunger in Africa that led him to go there to see for himself and to investigate the potential for biotechnology. The film concluded with Innis saying, ‘We have to do everything possible to ensure that the African farmer has access to this new technology which potentially can do so much to improve his quality of life.’<span style="font-style: italic;">”</span></a></font></font></div><div class="post" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 4em; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="114553956733891309"> http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=344 . </a></font></font></div><div class="post" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 4em; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="114553956733891309"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another sad case of Negroes selling us out for a few dollars more and allow Ol’ Massa to pat them on the back or rub their heads as they grin, shuffle and buck dance for our enemies.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Innis is being used as a front man and puppet in a strategic campaign to positively spin GM in Africa for Monsanto. The truth is many African nations are resisting GM foods and seeds and rightly so. “The scramble for Africa is getting hotter today than it may have been during the Berlin Conference at which she was partitioned. The partitioning of Africa sowed the seeds of discord and conflict that we are reaping today... We are talking about the onslaught by the biotech industry... The siege is on.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Many people imagine that the pressure on Africa to accept genetically modified grains or other crops as food aid ended with the widely known case with Zambia in 2002.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> That emblematic case rightly showed that every country has the sovereign right to determine what type of food to eat, irrespective of whether it is purchased in the market or is donated as aid. And it demonstrated to the world that the predicted catastrophe of Zambians starving never happened. Genetically engineered food has been presented as the ultimate weapon against hunger in Africa and the world. This is also seriously suggested in the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) meaning that this may be the direction efforts will be concentrated in the years to come. African leaders have largely been co-opted into thinking this way because they are warned that since the so-called Green Revolution train left Africa standing at the station they should not miss the gene train. It has been noted that the Green Revolution required extensive chemical and equipment inputs and although food production increased in some areas, small scale farmers were marginalized, the environment took a beating and on the aggregate hunger was boosted in the world.”</span></a></font></font></div><div class="post" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 4em; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="114553956733891309">http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=5174</a></font></font></div><div class="post" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 4em; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="114553956733891309">
This campaign by Monsanto is part of a global push to bum rush indigenous farmers, undermine their natural farming techniques, control the market and push their Frankenfoods on unsuspecting masses like they did in AmeriKKKa with the help of the FDA. Only in Africa people like Roy and Niger Innis are being used (paid) to be the piped pipers for Monsanto. The sad part of all of this is Innis knows what he is doing but chooses to sell our people out for a few dollars more.
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</a></font></font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" lang="en"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="114553956733891309" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Niger Innis</b> "currently serves as the National Spokesman for the </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Congress of Racial Equality</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He works closely with the National Chairman and represents CORE across the country. He is a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">MSNBC contributor </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">on the 24-hour news network providing insight and analysis on the day's news events.</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"In addition to his role with CORE, Innis is on the Advisory Committee member of the </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Center_for_Public_policy_Research_Project_21" title="National Center for Public policy Research Project 21" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Center for Public policy Research</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Center_for_Public_policy_Research_Project_21" title="National Center for Public policy Research Project 21" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> Project 21</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He is a Founding Member of </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=3rd.Millennium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="3rd. Millennium (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">3rd. Millennium</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, an organization to promote young leaders that will focus of the problems facing the next generation.</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"In August 1997, Innis served as a delegate for the 19th American-German Young Leaders Conference, sponsored by the American Council on Germany and Atlantik Brucke. He was selected along with 23 other Americans to travel to Hamburg, Germany to meet their German counterparts to discuss America's relationship with the European Union.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"In 1993, Niger served as campaign manager for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Innis" title="Roy Innis" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Roy Innis</a> for Mayor campaign in New York City's Democratic Party primary</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Although the candidate was outspent $3.5 million to $100,000 by the incumbent Mayor David Dinkins, the Innis campaign was able to garner more than 25% of the vote in the primary.</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Prior to his role as National Spokesman, Niger served in a variety of roles at CORE. In 1991, he was Special Assistant to the National Chairman and Director of Fundraising while acting as CORE's liaison to the Washington, D.C. chapter. In 1990, Innis was the Coordinator of Political Affairs while also serving as the Director of CORE's Washington, D.C. chapter. Innis’ involvement with CORE began in 1990 when he was appointed Deputy Director of the Washington, D.C. chapter.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Nigers' experience has lead to several appearances as a civil rights activist on CNN, Fox News, CNBC's "Equal Time", and Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect." His radio appearances include "The Jim Bohannan Show" and "The Gil Gross Show." He has guest-hosted on "The Bob Grant Show" & "Barry Farber Show".</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"In 1990, Innis graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> While attending the University, he became the Chief Executive Officer of the </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_for_the_Preservation_and_Development_of_the_Negro_Spiritual&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Association for the Preservation and Development of the Negro Spiritual (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Association for the Preservation and Development of the Negro Spiritual</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Innis, born and raised in Harlem, New York, currently live in Westchester, New York." </span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Niger_Innis#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a September 2009 luncheon talk at the </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Montana_Petroleum_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Montana Petroleum Association (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Montana Petroleum Association</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'s annual meeting (which included a golf tournament), Innis "called for the production of 'more of everything,' including renewable energy like solar and wind power and 'good old-fashioned fossil fuel,'" reported the </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Billings Gazette</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Innis called the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Waxman-Markey_Climate_Bill" title="Waxman-Markey Climate Bill" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Waxman-Markey Climate Bill</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a "cap and tax" bill, and accused "the green mafia" and the "elite media" of trying to stop energy production. </span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Niger_Innis#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></b></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">African American Environmentalist Association</a></font></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></font></h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Niger_Innis#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.core-online.org/Staff/niger.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Niger Innis</a>, Congress of Racial Equality, accessed November 1, 2008.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Niger_Innis#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Clair Johnson, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_f7d7e462-9816-11de-ae56-001cc4c002e0.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Civil rights spokesman speaks to Montana Petroleum Association</a>," <i>The Billings Gazette</i> (Montana), September 2, 2009.</span></font></li></ol><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_resources">External resources</span></font></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_articles">External articles</span></font></h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Niger Innis, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVInnisMarriage90109.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Obama Can Protect or Destroy Marriage</a>," <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Project_21&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Project 21 (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Project 21</a> / <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="National Center for Public Policy Research" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>, February 2009.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Bill Shireman, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-shireman/powershift-and-conservati_b_170929.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">PowerShift and Conservative PAC - The Journey to Truth from Hate</a>," Huffington Post, March 1, 2009.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Evelyn Pyburn, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bigskybusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=659:civil-rights-leader-says-cap-a-trade-hurts-poor&catid=4:usbusiness&Itemid=5" style="text-decoration: none; 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The campaign counts among its leaders a group called Americans for American Energy, which describes itself as “a non-profit, grassroots-based organization dedicated to educating the public about the importance of greater energy independence for America and promoting public policies that support that goal.” As we wrote last week,... <span class="more"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hatch-joins-phony-stop-war-poor-effort" style="color: rgb(102, 103, 102); text-decoration: none;">MORE ></a></span></span></font></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 142, 142); margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); line-height: 18.0160808563232px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="views-field-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="field-content" style="color: rgb(174, 39, 43); margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dubious-%E2%80%98grassroots%E2%80%99-drilling-campaign" style="color: rgb(174, 39, 43); text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Dubious ‘Grassroots’ of Drilling Campaign</a></span></font></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="field-content" style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">, Thursday 07/24/2008, 3:48pm</span></font></div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="field-content" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px;">Last week, we reported on a “War on the Poor” rally, led by Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality, Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, and Americans for American Energy, in which environmentalists who oppose increased domestic drilling were accused of being “environmental racists, environmental terrorists.” Together, Americans for American Energy, CORE, and Jackson produced the appearance of a “grassroots” campaign. From a new press release promising more name-calling: The national... <span class="more"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dubious-%E2%80%98grassroots%E2%80%99-drilling-campaign" style="color: rgb(102, 103, 102); text-decoration: none;">MORE ></a></span></span></font></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(202, 201, 200); margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); line-height: 18.0160808563232px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="views-field-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="field-content" style="color: rgb(174, 39, 43); margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/astroturf-groups-claim-environmentalist-%E2%80%9Cwar-poor%E2%80%9D" style="color: rgb(174, 39, 43); text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Astroturf Groups Claim Environmentalist “War on the Poor”</a></span></font></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="field-content" style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">, Wednesday 07/16/2008, 3:45pm</span></font></div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="field-content" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px;">A gathering led by Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality, Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, and the new group Americans for American Energy held a press conference yesterday demanding increased “American Energy” production. Their contentions were twofold: that high energy costs disproportionately harm low-income families, and that increased domestic oil drilling would solve the problem. Standing in the way: the “elitist Volvo-driving” environmentalists. Watch: Although CORE was once a prominent... <span class="more"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/astroturf-groups-claim-environmentalist-%E2%80%9Cwar-poor%E2%80%9D" style="color: rgb(102, 103, 102); text-decoration: none;">MORE</a></span></span></font></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 15.1999998092651px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><span style=" color: #ED1C24;">Niger Innis </span></b></span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(40, 39, 39);">currently serves as the National Spokesman for the </span><font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#ff0000">Congress of Racial Equality</font><font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#282727">. He works closely with the National Chairman and represents CORE across the country. He is a<b> MSNBC contributor</b> on the 24-hour news network providing insight and analysis on the day's news events. </font>
<font color="#282727"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In addition to his role with CORE, Innis is on the Advisory Committee member of the National Center for Public policy Research</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Project 21.</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He is a Founding Member of<b> 3rd. Millennium</b>, an organization to promote young leaders that will focus of the problems facing the next generation. </span></font>
<font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#282727">In August 1997, Innis served as a delegate for the 19th American-German Young Leaders Conference, sponsored by the American Council on Germany and Atlantik Brucke. He was selected along with 23 other Americans to travel to Hamburg, Germany to meet their German counterparts to discuss America's relationship with the European Union. </font>
<font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#282727">In 1993, Niger served as campaign manager for the</font><font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#ff0000"> Roy Innis </font><font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#282727">for Mayor campaign in New York City's Democratic Party primary. Although the candidate was outspent $3.5 million to $100,000 by the incumbent Mayor David Dinkins, the Innis campaign was able to garner more than 25% of the vote in the primary. </font>
<font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#282727">Prior to his role as National Spokesman, Niger served in a variety of roles at CORE. In 1991, he was Special Assistant to the National Chairman and Director of Fundraising while acting as CORE's liaison to the Washington, D.C. chapter. In 1990, Innis was the Coordinator of Political Affairs while also serving as the Director of CORE's Washington, D.C. chapter. Innis’ involvement with CORE began in 1990 when he was appointed Deputy Director of the Washington, D.C. chapter. </font>
<font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#282727">Nigers' experience has lead to several appearances as a civil rights activist on CNN, Fox News, CNBC's "Equal Time", and Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect." His radio appearances include "The Jim Bohannan Show" and "The Gil Gross Show." He has guest-hosted on "The Bob Grant Show" & "Barry Farber Show". </font>
<font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#282727">In 1990, Innis graduated from</font><font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" color="#282727"> Georgetown University </font><font style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#282727">with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science. While attending the University, he became the Chief Executive Officer of the Association for the Preservation and Development of the Negro Spiritual. Innis, born and raised in Harlem, N.Y., currently live in Westchester, N.Y.</font></font>
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<p style=" margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(86, 86, 86);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Growing tension over the Congress’ new debt super committee isn’t the only troubling trend in Washington right now. One has emerged that is equally vexing, but also downright shameful: the flow of hard-earned U.S. taxpayer dollars to environmental initiatives overseas that kill economic growth in developing countries.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Obama administration has been hell-bent on promoting “green” energy sources, climate change legislation and other radical environmental undertakings. These have all been, more or less, rejected here at home. Unfeasible, too expensive, lacking in political will; you name it, there are many reasons why they have failed.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But the president hasn’t given up just yet. Unfortunately, millions of people in Africa and Asia are now bearing the brunt of Obama’s climate crusade.</font></p>
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<p class="story_meta" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; line-height: 13.6px; background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By <b><a class="light" href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/user/Hunter" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Hunter</a> </b>
01/16/2006 04:07:36 PM EST</font></p>
<div class="introtext" style="line-height: 13.6px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"><i>The Murtha-Bashing Cybercast News Service Swarms with Pro-Exxon, Pro-Monsanto Reports, Quotes, and Commentary. Who's Paid to do What?</i></b></font>
<p style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[Crossposted from <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/15/131258/767" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Daily Kos</a>]</font>
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<p style=" margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> -- <i>Ron Arnold, Vice President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</i></font>
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"We're out to kill the fkers. We're simply trying to eliminate them. Our goal is to eliminate environmentalism once and for all."</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> -- <i>Arnold <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1441" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in a 1992 interview</a>. Arnold's "Wise Use" movement has been linked to right-wing militia groups.</i>
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<p style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The website Daily Kos <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/14/9371/64940" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">highlighted</a> this story from <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2006/nf20060113_2851_db035.htm" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BusinessWeek's Earnon Javers</a> on Saturday:</font>
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<blockquote style=" margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">Asked about the payments, Fumento says, "I'm just extremely pro-biotech." He says he solicited several agribusiness companies to finance his book, which was published by <b>Encounter Books.</b> "I went after everybody, I've got to be honest," Fumento says of his fund-raising effort. "I told them that if I tell the truth in this book, the biotech industry is going to look really good, and you should contribute." [...]</span></font>
<p style=" margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fumento insists that disclosure of financial transactions between op-ed columnists and the companies they cover wouldn't be practical.</span></font></p>
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<p style=" margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So here's a stunner. A senior fellow at the Hudson Institute -- one of those right-wing think tanks founded in order to provide haven for truthiness-based, business-friendly "science" that no <em>actual</em> scientific or knowledgeable policy institution would touch with a sterile, non-conductive ten foot science pole -- solicited money from a biotech company in the process of writing a book that would make them "look really good". <b>And sure enough, Monsanto "contributed" $60,000 to get the book written.</b></span>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">but wait:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/1/16/16736/0818">http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/1/16/16736/0818</a></font></p>
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<p class="story_meta" style=" margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By <b><a class="light" href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/user/Hunter" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Hunter</a> </b>
01/16/2006 04:07:36 PM EST</font></p>
<div class="introtext"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><i>The Murtha-Bashing Cybercast News Service Swarms with Pro-Exxon, Pro-Monsanto Reports, Quotes, and Commentary. Who's Paid to do What?</i></b></font>
<p style=" margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[Crossposted from <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/15/131258/767" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Daily Kos</a>]</font>
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<blockquote style=" margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Facts don't really matter. In politics, perception is reality."</font>
<p style=" margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> -- <i>Ron Arnold, Vice President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</i></font>
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"We're out to kill the fkers. We're simply trying to eliminate them. Our goal is to eliminate environmentalism once and for all."</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> -- <i>Arnold <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1441" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in a 1992 interview</a>. Arnold's "Wise Use" movement has been linked to right-wing militia groups.</i>
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<p style=" margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The website Daily Kos <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/14/9371/64940" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">highlighted</a> this story from <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2006/nf20060113_2851_db035.htm" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BusinessWeek's Earnon Javers</a> on Saturday:</font>
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<blockquote style=" margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Asked about the payments, Fumento says, "I'm just extremely pro-biotech." He says he solicited several agribusiness companies to finance his book, which was published by Encounter Books. "I went after everybody, I've got to be honest," Fumento says of his fund-raising effort. "I told them that if I tell the truth in this book, the biotech industry is going to look really good, and you should contribute." [...]</font>
<p style=" margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fumento insists that disclosure of financial transactions between op-ed columnists and the companies they cover wouldn't be practical.</font></p>
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<p style=" margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So here's a stunner. A senior fellow at the Hudson Institute -- one of those right-wing think tanks founded in order to provide haven for truthiness-based, business-friendly "science" that no <em>actual</em> scientific or knowledgeable policy institution would touch with a sterile, non-conductive ten foot science pole -- solicited money from a biotech company in the process of writing a book that would make them "look really good". <b>And sure enough, Monsanto "contributed" $60,000 to get the book written.</b>
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<div class="story_body" style="margin-bottom: 4em; line-height: 13.6px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style=" font-weight: bold;"><b><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">Now couple that for the moment with another big story of the day -- the CNSNews "story" by senior staff writer</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Marc Morano smearing Congressman and Vietnam war veteran Jack Murtha -- according to methods <em>nearly identical</em> to the "Swift Boat" claims against Kerry.</span></b></b></font>
<p style=" font-weight: bold; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Why is Morano's "breaking" coverage of the story especially interesting? Because, as <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2006/1/14/13952/5861/157#157" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">daria g</a> and <a href="http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/index.php?Week=200503#1407" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">The Gadflyer</a> point out, CNSNews was the first source of the Swift Boat Vet</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"> claims</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"> in the 2004 election. And who was the writer of those multiple stories, each sourced heavily from such figures as John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi?</span></b></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/SpecialReports/archive/200405/SPE20040503a.html" style=" text-decoration: none;"><font color="#ff0000">Marc Morano</font></a>. Exact same guy.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Imagine that. Anyone think maybe there's a connection between the background sources, in those two stories? Gee, I sure wonder what a perusal of Marc Morano's <a href="http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/sprint-joins-growing-list-of-wireless.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">cell phone records</a> would turn up, over the course of the last month or two.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">Aside from a particular interest in the Swift Boat Vet claims, Morano has a long and inventive list of story ideas, including <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200406%5CCUL20040618a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">an entire article</a> dedicated to the breathless report that right-wing uber-crackpot</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Lucianne Goldberg </span><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">found Bill Clinton's memoirs "boring".</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But among the stories Morano and others have returned to time and time again, for CNSNews, have been pro-biotech, pro-GMO, anti-environmental stories. And that's where, in light of yesterday's news on the Monsanto-paid Fumento and our particular interests in sniffing out links between stories, things get a bit interesting.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Because I mean a </b><i style=" font-weight: bold;">lot</i><b> of pro-biotech and anti-environmental stories. Including, as it turns out, one </b><i style=" font-weight: bold;">hell</i><span style=" font-weight: bold;"> of a lot of stories featuring quotes from <span style=" font-weight: normal;"><font color="#ff0000">Niger Innis</font></span></span><font color="#ff0000">,</font><b> spokesman for the </b><i style=" font-weight: bold;">Congress of Racial Equality</i><b>, and other figures which, one by one, can each be traced to either ExxonMobil and/or Monsanto-backed "nonprofits" and "think tanks".</b></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Earlier this year, Chris Mooney in <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/blackgold.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Mother Jones</a> provided a description of what the previously significant and longstanding CORE has become. And it isn't pretty:</font>
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<blockquote style=" font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So why, then, does the <font color="#ff0000">Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the nation's most storied civil rights groups, organizer of the Freedom Rides and the 1963 March on Washington, attack those who want to curb global warming? ExxonMobil, which in 2003 gave CORE $40,000 ($15,000 was earmarked for "global climate outreach")</font>, </font></blockquote><blockquote style="font-weight: bold; margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">would obviously like to avoid any appearance that its products and policies are a slow-moving assault on poor people of color. How better than to turn the accusation around? In that bit of public relations jujitsu, CORE has been most useful. To those familiar with CORE's recent history, its allegiance to ExxonMobil comes as no surprise</span><font style="background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);" color="#ff0000">. In 1968, Roy Innis seized control of CORE</font><span style="background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);"> and moved the group to the far right. Innis has been accused by founder James Farmer and other black leaders of renting out CORE's historic reputation to corporations like Monsanto and ExxonMobil. (CORE even mounted a counterprotest to environmentalists picketing an ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting.) [...]
</span></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font color="#ff0000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">Helping CORE form these talking points is its senior policy adviser, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Paul Driessen</b>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);"> the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, </span><b style="background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">who also works with several other ExxonMobil-funded groups</b><span style="background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">. At a 2004 ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting, Driessen referred to CORE as "one of America's oldest and most respected civil rights organizations" and called for greater funding for the group.</span></font></p>
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<p style=" font-weight: bold; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font color="#ff0000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">So out of curiosity, who covered that shareholders "counterprotest" for CNSNews? Hmm -- yep,</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=//Nation//archive//200205//NAT20020530a.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">Marc Morano</a></span><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">, in a story approvingly quoting both Innis and Ron Arnold of the </span><i style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</i><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">, another "nonprofit" group receiving funding from ExxonMobil, of which Paul Driessen is </span><i style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">also</i><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"> a senior advisor. Needless to say, neither group was identified by Morano as having an ExxonMobil connection to the "counterprotests".</span></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>A</b>s far as CORE itself, <a href="http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=344" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Matthews</a> detailed the new Monsanto and ExxonMobil connections to the group in an excellent article from last March that went down the list of recent CORE-based propaganda efforts:</font>
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<blockquote style=" font-weight: bold; margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">Of course, such attempts to position biotech's soap box behind a black man's face neither began nor ended in Johannesburg. In late 1999, for instance, a street protest against genetic engineering in Washington DC was disrupted by a group of African-Americans bearing placards such as </span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Biotech saves children's lives." A Baptist Church from a poor neighborhood had, the New York Times revealed, <b>been paid by Monsanto's PR firm to bus in the counter-demonstrators</b>. </span><span style=" background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">But Johannesburg does seem to have been a kind of watershed. Since then, Monsanto's fake parade has really begun to hit its stride. And from US administration platforms to UN headquarters, from Capitol Hill to the European Parliament, we've been treated to a veritable minstrelsy of lobbying.</span></font>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">Let's pick up the trail amidst the Martin Luther King Day observances in New York City this January. That was when the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) invited some 700 diplomats, scientists, journalists, and Gotham high-school students to come and consider the "implications and reality" of biotechnology </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">at UN headquarters.</span></font></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">OK -- so who </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">covered</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"> </span><em style="background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">that</em><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"> pro-biotechnology "World Conference" for<font color="#ff0000"> CNS</font>News? Well, in this case, none other than </span><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200501%5CCOM20050103d.html" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">CORE national spokesman</a><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200501%5CCOM20050103d.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"><font color="#ff0000"> <b>Niger Innis</b> </font></a><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200501%5CCOM20050103d.html" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">himself, along with CORE senior policy advisor <b>Paul Driessen</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">, in a "commentary" for the news service. Neo-conservative lobbyist and CORE senior advisor Driessen, in fact, has written at least six such pro-biotech, anti-environmental "commentaries" for CNSNews between November of this year:</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200411/COM20041101c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Country-Club Anxieties vs Malaria Victims</a> By Paul Driessen, November 01, 2004</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200412%5CCOM20041215e.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Prophets, False Prophets and Profiteers</a> By Paul Driessen, December 15, 2004</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200501%5CCOM20050103d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">When Visions Collide</a> By <b>Niger Innis</b> and Paul Driessen, January 03, 2005</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Commentary/Archive/200503/COM20050308d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Facts v. Fears on Biotechnology</a> by Paul Driessen and Cyril Boynes, Jr., March 08, 2005</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200503/COM20050321a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Sustainable Development = Sustained Poverty</a> By Paul Driessen, March 21, 2005
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i>Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality</i></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200504%5CCOM20050422d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Earth Day 2005</a> by Paul Driessen, April 22, 2005</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">As an aside, Driessen apparently started writing commentaries for CNSNews in 2004, not long after he and Innis were </span><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200404%5CNAT20040423b.html" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">interviewed by CNSNews'</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Marc Morano</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"> in an article heavily leaning on the 'Eco-Imperialism' theme of Driessen's anti-environmental book.</span></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>C</b>ontinuing on with Matthew's article:</font>
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<blockquote style="font-weight: bold; margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">In a talk on biotechnology at the Natural History Museum in London in May 2003, the world-renowned American botanist, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dr Peter Raven, noted CORE's strong concern </span><span style="background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">about the obstruction of technological advancement. "Last month, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of America's most venerable and respected civil rights groups, confronted Greenpeace at a public event and accused it of "eco-manslaughter" through its support of international policies limiting development and the expansion of technology to the developing world's poor."</span></font></blockquote>
<p style=" font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Who covered that 2003 counter-protest for CNSNews? <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200305%5CNAT20030509d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Marc Morano</a>, in a glowing article made up almost entirely of quotes from Innis and a CORE press release on the event.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Let's keep going:</font>
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<blockquote style=" font-weight: bold; margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">In September 2003, CORE's national spokesman presided over a mock awards ceremony at the World Trade Organization meeting in the Mexican resort of Cancun. The ceremony included participants carrying</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> "Save the Children" placards while the awards went to those Innis termed advocates of "lethal eco-imperialism."</span></font></blockquote>
<p style=" font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Who wrote about the pro-biotech CORE event for CNSNews? <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200309%5CFOR20030912c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Marc Morano</a>.</font>
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<blockquote style=" font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Four months later CORE organised a "Teach-In" in New York entitled, "Eco-Imperialism: The global green movement's war on the developing world's poor".</font></blockquote>
<p style=" font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oh, I can't bear to look. Did CNSNews cover this one too? Yes. But we're in a bit of luck, because CNSNews "Morning Editor" Susan Jones <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200401%5CNAT20040116a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">covered the event</a>, which was organized by the aforementioned frequent CNSNews contributor and CORE senior advisor <b>Paul Driessen</b>.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">The key speaker at the event, just to ensure that </span><i style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">no</i><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"> CNSNews story about pro-biotech CORE publicity stunts goes by without a reference to Morano, was</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Moore" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Patrick Moore</a>, a distantly ex-Greenpeace </span></font></p><p style=" font-weight: bold; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">figure with a consultancy business supporting mining, logging, biotech, and other corporate anti-environmental efforts --<font color="#ff0000"> who Morano made a quite a name for himself with as reporter in a 2000 documentary piece for American Investigator Television </font>(and available for purchase in the WorldNetDaily store, Joseph Farah would like to ever-so-whorishly </span><a href="http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:aiq84aO2D4MJ:wnd.com/news/article.asp%3FARTICLE_ID%3D14987+%22Patrick+Moore%22+%22Marc+Morano%22&hl=en&client=safari" style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">point out</a><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">) in which Moore asserted that the Amazon rainforest was over 90% intact, and unharmed by logging, mining and agriculture.</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Moore's own connections to Monsanto were touched upon by the Manila Times in <a href="http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:S90xI_Suy5sJ:ngin.tripod.com/131202d.htm+%22Patrick+Moore%22+Monsanto&hl=en&client=safari" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">a 2001 article</a>:</font>
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<blockquote style=" font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A flurry of such pro-GM/anti-Greenpeace publicity centering on Moore, was originally prompted by Moore's appearance at the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification in New Zealand, <b>after Moore was flown in by the biotech industry as one of its expert witnesses</b>.
</font><p style=" margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"There are so many real benefits from genetic modification...", Moore told the Commission, but he ran into some difficult questions as to what exactly had qualified him to appear as an expert on genetic modification. Moore proferred:</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"<b>I have.. recently had a full tour of the <font color="#ff0000">Monsanto labs in St Louis for example.</font></b><font color="#ff0000"> I have also been briefed thoroughly by the people in Novartis </font>in Basel Switzerland..."</font></p>
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<p style=" font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That hardly describes the relationship. Although Moore's consulting records are, obviously, unavailable, Moore has <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=+site:www.bio.org++%22Patrick+Moore%22+BIO+biotechnology" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">proved</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=%22Patrick+Moore%22+AgBioWorld&btnG=Search" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">prominent</a>in the Monsanto-linked lobbying groups <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=23&page=B" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">BIO</a> and <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=106" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">AgBioWorld</a>, supporting Monsanto's bioengineered "Golden Rice", as well as on the<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=+site:www.monsanto.co.uk+%22Patrick+Moore%22+Monsanto" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Monsanto news site</a>.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Yeah, yeah, circle of life. What a coincidence. Now, is it just me, or does it seem that CNSNews has gone to some lengths to write, worldwide, about every significant pro-biotech activity of the pro-biotech, Monsanto and ExxonMobil-backed CORE of the past few years? And by "CNSNews", I mean with a Marc Morano connection more often then not?</font>
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<b>L</b>est you think I'm picking on him unnecessarily, Marc Morano <i>has</i> done anti-environmental articles for CNSNews that do not rely explicitly on the ExxonMobil and Monsanto-backed, Innis-led CORE. <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200404\CUL20040422a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">This April 2004 article mocking dry toilets</a> quotes only a <i>Robert Bidinotto</i>, Senior Fellow at the <i><font color="#ff0000">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</font></i>. The same Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise in which CORE's senior policy advisor, Paul Driessen, is also a senior fellow, and the publisher of Driessen's book. So, is </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bidinotto another remarkably pro-biotech source?</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.cdfe.org/frankenfoods.htm" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">You had to ask?</a> He's also a writer of <a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/author.asp?ID=125" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">books</a> on the "Hollywood Left" and John Kerry, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">among other <a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=%22Robert+Bidinotto%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">voluminous</a> claims to fame. What an <i>odd</i> person to run across for a quote in an occasional series mocking dry toilets. (And how does that even work? Did Morano call Bidinotto up, and say "I'm working on a story about crap, and I thought of you?")</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">Other anti-dry-flush-toilet experts called upon by Morano included </span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/200306/CUL20030612b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Dennis Avery</a>, then the "director of global food issues" for the Hudson Institute</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"> -- the very same Hudson Institute in the news because of the $60,000 kickback by Monsanto to Hudson Institute figure</span><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/14/9371/64940" style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Michael Fumento</a><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">. Among other activities, GMWatch notes that the Morano-quoted </span><a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=30" style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Avery himself</a><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);"> had previously joined in an open letter criticizing Starbucks for the decision "to stop serving milk products from cows treated with </span><b style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">Monsanto</b><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">'s genetically-engineered bovine growth hormone." The Hudson Institute, site of the Fumento scandal, </span><a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=15" style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">is itself backed by Monsanto, Dow, and other biotech-related companies.</a></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dennis Avery, in addition to his Monsanto-backed Hudson Institute duties, <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/book_review.php3" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">penned a complementary review for Driessen's anti-environmental book</a> -- as did Patrick Moore (and an Alan Caruba, who himself has penned several CNSNews pro-biotech commentaries.) Niger Innis, of CORE, did one better -- he wrote the book's introduction.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Like a spiderweb, isn't it? All quotes leading back to pro-biotech, pro-GMO, Monsanto-linked figures?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">You get the feeling CNSNews reporter Marc Morano doesn't exactly have to get his ass off his chair to get leads on what stories to write?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">But let's momentarily give Morano a bit more credit. After all, his very first CNSNews article on the menace of the dry toilet was written way back in 2002. From Johannesburg, at the same summit that saw U.S. corporate interests such as the pro-biotech,</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=30" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Monsanto and Dow Chemicals funded</a> Competitive Enterprise Institute caught sponsoring <a href="http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=254" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">fake pro-biotech demonstrations involving fake local farmers</a>.</span></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/Archive/200208/FOR20020830c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">first person interviewed</a>, in that article?</font>
<font color="#ff0000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Competitive Enterprise Institute President Fred Smith.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Well, oops. Three rather odd anti-dry-toilet articles by Marc Morano, picked at random from Morano's other anti-environmental articles at CNSNews, yield three <i>more</i> thinly-veiled Exxon-funded and Monsanto-funded quotes.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Knock me over with a feather.</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>J</b>ust a series of rampant coincidences, I'm sure. I mean, please -- anyone who previously worked for Rush Limbaugh is, I'm certain, above such petty ideological considerations.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But I think maybe media critics like Howard Kurtz, who yesterday <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301736.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">pushed the Murtha-bashing story from CNSNews into the Washington Post</a>, might want to revisit the story and put a bit more meat behind the bones of who CNSNews is, and how they operate. Just a hunch.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Because it seems Marc Morano and CNSNews have some pretty interesting choices of which stories to go with. And they don't seem to have to go very far to get them.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Here, though, is the rub.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mother Jones also published this year, alongside a separate Chris Mooney story, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/some_like_it_hot.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Some Like It Hot</a>, describing ExxonMobil's connections to various right-wing groups and media outlets (including ample mention of Paul<font color="#ff0000"> Driessen </font>himself), <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/exxon_chart.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">this chart</a> of the over forty "think tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe" and which have received funding from ExxonMobil. Notable groups receiving the cash include the American Enterprise Institute, <b>Competitive Enterprise Institute</b>, <b>CORE</b>, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institute, <b>Hudson Institute</b>, <b>Tech Central Science Foundation</b>...</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">... and the <b>Media Research Center</b>, parent foundation of <b>CNSNews</b>.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I suppose that might be one reason why even Media Research Center head Brent Bozell went out of his way to <a href="http://conservativenews.org/bozellcolumn/archive/2002/col20020604.asp" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">praise and highlight Marc Morano's CNSNews report on the ExxonMobil "counterprotesters"</a> in Bozell's syndicated column, even including some of Morano's quotes from CORE's <b>Niger Innis</b> in his own column.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Welcome to your right-wing "news."</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Bought and paid for by the people funding the quotes.</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><i>Additional Notes:</i></b></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">(1) In addition to the ExxonMobil-linked Niger Innis of CORE, Morano's 2002 report on the pro-ExxonMobil counter protests cited one other pro-Exxon nonprofit figure: Ron Arnold, cited only as Vice President of the nonprofit <i>Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</i>, of which the aforementioned Exxon-linked <b>Paul Driessen</b> is a senior advisor. The CfDFE itself also receives funding from Exxon. According to <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=23" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">ExxonSecrets.org</a>, Arnold himself was formerly a consultant for Dow Chemical, among other things, and was briefly head of Washington State chapter of the American Freedom Coalition, the political arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise was itself founded by convicted tax felon and notable gun activist Alan Gottlieb.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">See <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=248&page=C" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">here</a> for detailed information about the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's Ron Arnold, including interviews in which Arnold stated his purpose against environmentalists was to "kill the bastards. [...] People in industry, I'm going to do my best for you. Environmentalists, I'm coming to get you." In addition, links between Arnold's "Wise Use" movement and right-wing militias have been reported.</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">(2) The odds are low, of course, that either ExxonMobil, Monsanto, or other corporate sponsors of right-wing "news" and "think-tanks" would have a direct corporate involvement in <i>Swift Boating</i> Congressman Jack Murtha. But there are other people who do; Newsweek's Howard Fineman stated on MSNBC's Countdown, on November 18th, that the attacks on Murtha were being orchestrated directly <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/19/33312/448" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">by Karl</a><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/19/33312/448" style=" text-decoration: none;"><font color="#ff0000"> Rove </font></a><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/19/33312/448" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">himself</a>, inside the White House.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So any links between this group, and that? You might say that. <a href="http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=344" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Matthews</a>, one last time.</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The night before CORE's UN biotech conference this January</b>, the organisation hosted a reception at the New York Hilton to honor, amongst others, <b>Karl Rove</b> - the Bush election strategist widely credited with having overseen black voter disenfranchisment in Florida and Ohio. This might seem a curious way of marking the MLK holiday, particularly for an organisation that features on its website images of murdered freedom riders killed during the drive for black voter registration in the Civil Rights Summer of 1964. Recently, however, those images were joined by Monsanto's logo. The organisation now styles Monsanto, which also sponsored its film "Voices from Africa", "<b>CORE's corporate partner</b>". [...]
</font><p style=" margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[W]hen it came to honoring Bush's election strategist at CORE's celebratory dinner at the New York Hilton, Monsanto was certainly no ghost at the feast. <b>Hugh Grant - not the actor but the CEO of Monsanto -- presided as chairman of the occasion.</b> [...] Only days before Grant's appearance, news had broken that his company was to pay $1.5 million in penalties under US anti-bribery laws, for passing $50,000 to a senior Indonesian environmental official in an unsuccessful bid to amend or repeal the requirement for an environmental impact statement on new crop varieties. The bribe in question was just the tip of the iceberg: Monsanto has admitted to paying over $700,000 in bribes to more than a hundred officials over a five year period. The Monsanto executive in charge of Indonesia at the time the bribery got underway was none other than Hugh Grant.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Grant and Rove were far from the only controversial invitees to CORE's King Day celebrations. Others have included the Austrian politician and Nazi-sympathizer Jorg Haider, and the right-wing radio host Bob Grant, who once called Martin Luther King a "scumbag". But CORE itself has become increasingly controversial--and in some ways downright strange--since Roy Innis took its helm. Innis once branded opponents of racial segregation in the US as "house niggers", and dismissed the struggle against Apartheid as "a vicarious, romantic adventure" with "no honest base". When asked in 1973 why CORE supported Idi Amin despite the Ugandan president's hatred of Jewish people and praise of Hitler, Innis is reported to have said, "we have no records to prove if Hitler was a friend or an enemy of black people."</font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">(3) In addition to anti-environmental quotes for Marc Morano, CORE spokesman Niger Innis features prominently in a great many CNSNews stories, typically showcasing instances of black-vs-black political attacks with Innis as the go-to attack source on each story. A partial list of CNSNews stories quoting Innis show an unmistakable pattern:</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/Archive/200210/NAT20021010a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Amid Race Flap, Lott Urged to Pull Out of Belafonte Award Dinner</a> By <b>Marc Morano</b>, October 10, 2002</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/Archive/200210/NAT20021011a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Trent Lott Retreats From Belafonte Awards Dinner</a> by <b>Marc Morano</b>, October 11, 2002</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200210%5CNAT20021024b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Belafonte's Racial Remarks Prompt Criticism, Anxiety</a> by <b>Marc Morano</b>, October 24, 2002</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200211%5CNAT20021122b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Bush Administration, GOP Slammed Over Bilingual Education</a>By Robert B. Bluey, November 22, 2002</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200212%5CPOL20021226a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Bush Urged To Oppose Race-Based College Admissions</a> by Robert B. Bluey, December 26, 2002</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Business/Archive/200301/BUS20030106a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Bush Administration 'Duped' by Jesse Jackson Event</a> By Marc Morano, January 06, 2003</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200301/CUL20030117c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Administration Officials Call Jackson's Conference 'Wonderful,' 'Marvelous'</a> By <b>Marc Morano</b>, January 17, 2003</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200305%5CNAT20030515d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Anniversary of Desegregation Case Sheds Light on New Challenges</a> By Robert B. Bluey, May 15, 2003</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200306%5CPOL20030623a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Dem Influence on 2004 GOP Convention Worries Conservatives</a> By <b>Marc Morano</b>, June 23, 2003</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200307%5CPOL20030717a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Enron-Linked Bush Official Named in Labor Dept Lawsuit</a> By Marc Morano, July 17, 2003</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200310%5CPOL20031030a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Enron-Linked Bush Official Gets Another Chance to Restore Funds</a> by <b>Marc Morano</b>, October 30, 2003</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200311%5CPOL20031105b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Black Conservatives Join Fight Over Stalled Judicial Nominees</a> By Robert B. Bluey, November 05, 2003</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5C%5CSpecialReports%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200404%5C%5CSPE20040415a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">NAACP Legal Group's Integrity Called Into Question</a> by Robert B. Bluey, April 15, 2004</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5CSpecialReports%5Carchive%5C200404%5CSPE20040421a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Latest 'Memogate' Developments Fail to Generate Media Buzz</a> By Robert B. Bluey, April 21, 2004</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5C%5CNation%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200404%5C%5CNAT20040429a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">President of NAACP Legal Group Won't Discuss Role in 'Memogate'</a> By Robert B. Bluey, April 29, 2004</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200405%5CCUL20040510b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Attendance Down for Anti-Gun Million Mom March</a> By Robert B. Bluey, May 10, 2004</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200502%5CNAT20050218a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Black Conservatives Demand Return of 'Principled Leadership'</a> by Susan Jones, February 18, 2005</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">(4) For reference, a <i>partial</i> list of stories by Marc Morano and other CNSNews figures heavily laden with quotes from Exxon or Monsanto-backed groups, along with the pro-biotech, anti-environmental series carried by CNSNews as "commentary" by Paul Driessen, senior advisor to CORE, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, and other groups that have taken money directly from ExxonMobil and/or Monsanto. (It should be noted, in passing, that Driessen is also omnipresent on the ExxonMobil-funded <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=+site:techcentralstation.com+%22Tech+Central+Station%22+%22Paul+Driessen%22" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Tech Central Station</a>, where he writes similar fare.)</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewBusiness.asp?Page=%5C%5CBusiness%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200205%5C%5CBUS20020529a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Oil Giant 'Guilty' of Crimes against Humanity, Protesters Say</a> by <b>Marc Morano</b>, May 29, 2002</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=//Nation//archive//200205//NAT20020530a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">ExxonMobil Protesters Seek to Inflict 'Death of a Thousand Cuts'</a> By Marc Morano, May 30, 2002 -- quotes Ron Arnold of the Exxon-funded Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, (publisher of Driessen book) and Innis.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200207%5CCUL20020709a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Study Claims Global Warming Helped US Avert Deeper Recession</a> By Marc Morano, July 09, 2002 -- featuring quote by Monsanto-backed Competitive Enterprise Institute figure Myron Ebell.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CBusiness%5Carchive%5C200211%5CBUS20021122a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Greens Praise ExxonMobil for Efforts to Save Tiger</a> By <b>Marc Morano</b>, November 22, 2002</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200305%5CNAT20030509d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Protest Planned Against Greenpeace's 'Eco-Manslaughter'</a> By <b>Marc Morano</b>, May 09, 2003</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200309%5CFOR20030912c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Free Market Advocates Fight Back at WTO</a> By Marc Morano, September 12, 2003</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200309/FOR20030915c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Mexican Village Plays Host to Fight Over Genetically Modified Food</a> By <b>Marc Morano</b>, September 15, 2003</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200311%5CCOM20031121b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Killing Millions to 'Save' the Earth</a> by Alan Caruba, November 21, 2003 -- self described "public relations counselor" Alan Caruba, an "Adjunct Scholar" at the ExxonMobil-funded Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, is one of those linked on Driessen's website with a glowing review of Driessen's anti-environmental book. This article is a glowing review of the book, quoting both Driessen and Innis, and is one of at least two very similar pro-Exxon, anti-environmental "commentaries" by Caruba carried by CNSNews. Caruba is also author of a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=+site:www.cnsnews.com+CNSNews+%22Alan+Caruba%22" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">large number</a> of other articles for the group, including... well, you'll really have to see for yourself.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200401%5CNAT20040116a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Civil Rights Group Blames Greens for Africans' Plight</a> By Susan Jones, January 16, 2004 -- At this point, you may be forgiven for thinking that CNSNews writes the same pro-Exxon, pro-Monsanto story, coupling it with the plight of the poor indigenous peoples who could benefit from Exxon and Monsanto products, on a clockwork basis. You'd be right.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200404%5CNAT20040423b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Environmentalists Accused of Promoting 'Eco-Imperialism'</a> By <b>Marc Morano</b>, April 23, 2004 -- Morano interviews Paul Driessen</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200411/COM20041101c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Country-Club Anxieties vs Malaria Victims</a> By Paul Driessen, November 01, 2004</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200412%5CCOM20041215e.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Prophets, False Prophets and Profiteers</a> By Paul Driessen, December 15, 2004</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200501%5CCOM20050103d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">When Visions Collide</a> By <b>Niger Innis</b> and Paul Driessen, January 03, 2005</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Commentary/Archive/200503/COM20050308d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Facts v. Fears on Biotechnology</a> by Paul Driessen and Cyril Boynes, Jr., March 08, 2005</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200503/COM20050321a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Sustainable Development = Sustained Poverty</a> By Paul Driessen, March 21, 2005
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i>Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality</i></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200504%5CCOM20050422d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Earth Day 2005</a> by Paul Driessen, April 22, 2005</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200504/COM20050422b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Killing People to 'Save' the Environment</a> By Alan Caruba, April 22, 2005 -- see above, re: 4/23/04. This article, like many of the others at CNSNews, coincides with a Monsanto/Dow effort to use fears of malaria as a reason for promoting both pesticide and GMO use in Africa.</font></p>
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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) exposed as a biotech industry front group.</font></div><div class="itemFullText" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A couple of years back I wrote a piece called <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background: transparent;"><a href="http://spinwatch.org/archive/article.asp?id=254" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.1s ease-in; transition: color 0.1s ease-in; background: transparent;">The Fake Parade</a></i>. It was about a march at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg that had been widely reported as a protest by poor Third World farmers in support of GMOs. A leading light of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation declared the march "a turning point" because "real, live, developing-world farmers" had begun "speaking for themselves". What they had to say seemed pretty unpalatable to the environmental and development NGOs that have raised concerns over GM crops. A commentary on the march in The (London) Times was headlined, "I do not need white NGOs to speak for me" while, during the march itself, a "Bullshit award" was presented to the Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva for being "a mouthpiece of western eco-imperialism".</font></div><div class="itemFullText" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font style="background-color: transparent;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background: transparent;">The Fake Parade</i> showed the march was a charade. For instance, the main "developing-world farmer" quoted by the man from BIO turned out never to have farmed in his life. Instead, Chengal Reddy headed a lobby for big commercial farmers in Andhra Pradesh that aspired to becoming the operational arm of the trade association for the agrochemical companies active in India. Similarly, the "media contact" for the march and for the "Bullshit award" was the daughter of a US lumber industrialist, who had worked out of various free market NGOs, such as the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. Her specialty was "counter protest".</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Of course, such attempts to position biotech's soap box behind a black man's face neither began nor ended in Johannesburg. In late 1999, for instance, a street protest against genetic engineering in Washington DC was disrupted by a group of African-Americans bearing placards such as "Biotech saves children's lives." A Baptist Church from a poor neighborhood had, the New York Times revealed, been paid by Monsanto's PR firm to bus in the counter-demonstrators. But Johannesburg does seem to have been a kind of watershed. Since then, Monsanto's fake parade has really begun to hit its stride. And from US administration platforms to UN headquarters, from Capitol Hill to the European Parliament, we've been treated to a <b>veritable minstrelsy of lobbying.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Let's pick up the trail amidst the Martin Luther King Day observances in New York City this January. That was when the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) invited some 700 diplomats, scientists, journalists, and Gotham high-school students to come and consider the "implications and reality" of biotechnology at UN headquarters. CORE'<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">s "World Conference" was presided over by His Excellency, Aminu Bashir Wali, the Ambassador of Nigeria, and after lunch came the premiere of the film "Voices from Africa", showcasing the results of "CORE's fact-finding trip to Africa"</span>. The film opened and closed with comments by CORE's National Chairman, Roy Innis, who explained that it was his concern about hunger in Africa that led him to go there to see for himself and to investigate the potential for biotechnology<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. The film concluded with Innis saying, "We have to do everything possible to ensure that the African farmer has access to this new technology which potentially can do so much to improve his quality of life."</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In a talk on biotechnology at the Natural History Museum in London in May 2003, the world-renowned American botanist, Dr Peter Raven, noted CORE's strong concern about the obstruction of technological advancement. "Last month, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of America's most venerable and respected civil rights groups, confronted Greenpeace at a public event and accused it of "eco-manslaughter" through its support of international policies limiting development and the expansion of technology to the developing world's poor."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CORE's national spokesman, Niger Innis, described that counter-protest as "just the first step in bringing justice to the Third World." And so it proved. In September 2003, CORE's national spokesman presided over a mock awards ceremony at the World Trade Organization meeting in the Mexican resort of Cancun. The ceremony included participants carrying "Save the Children" placards while the awards went to those Innis termed advocates of "lethal eco-imperialism." "Their opposition to genetically engineered foods, pesticides and energy development," Innis explained, "devastates families and communities and kills millions every year". Cyril Boynes Jr., the director of international affairs for CORE, said the ceremony was important "to draw attention to the destructive and murderous policies of these eco-terrorists". Four months later CORE organised a "Teach-In" in New York entitled, "Eco-Imperialism: The global green movement's war on the developing world's poor". In a press release CORE's Niger Innis said that after the teach-In "eco-imperialism'" would be a household word, adding, "We intend to stop this callous eco-manslaughter".</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>CORE'S rhetoric has been shaped by PR man Paul Driessen,</b> CORE's white Senior Policy Advisor, who moderated two of the panels at its "UN World Conference" on biotech. Driessen is the author of "Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death". The book, which has a foreword by Niger Innis, lays at the door of the environmental movement "the hunger and suffering of millions of the world's poor who are denied the benefits of genetically engineered food." Driessen and Innis are also listed as Directors of the Economic Human Rights Project - '"an initiative of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, in cooperation with the Congress of Racial Equality", which aims to "correct prevalent environmental myths and misguided policies that help perpetuate poverty, misery, disease and early death in developing countries."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Driessen's book is published by the Free Enterprise Press, the publishing arm of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, where Driessen is a Senior Fellow. According to a review of Driessen's book on CDFE's website, it helps the reader "understand why the environmental movement is engaged in the most appalling example of genocide the world has ever known!" <b>CDFE is led by Alan Merril Gottlieb and Ron Arnold, </b>who founded the anti-environmental Wise Use movement. Arnold was once a consultant for Dow Chemical, as well as Head of the Washington State chapter of the American Freedom Coalition, the political arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church (which has also shared offices with CDFE). In 1991 Arnold told the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background: transparent;">New York Times</i>, "We [CDFE] created a sector of public opinion that didn't used to exist. No one was aware that environmentalism was a problem until we came along." CDFE's previous main focus had been opposing gun controls. According to the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background: transparent;">Times</i>, Gottlieb shifted the organization's focus when he realized the fundraising potential of opposing environmentalism: "For us, the environmental movement has become the perfect bogeyman." Gottlieb, who describes himself as "the premiere anti-communist, free-enterprise, laissez-faire capitalist'" and who has spent time in jail for tax-evasion, also says, "Facts don't really matter. In politics, perception is reality."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: transparent;">The night before CORE's UN biotech conference this January, the organisation hosted a reception at the New York Hilton to honor, amongst others, Karl <font color="#ff0000">Rove </font>- the Bush election strategist widely credited with having overseen black voter disenfranchisment in Florida and Ohio. </b>This might seem a curious way of marking the MLK holiday, particularly for an organisation that features on its website images of murdered freedom riders killed during the drive for black voter registration in the Civil Rights Summer of 1964. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Recently, however, those images were joined by Monsanto's logo. The organisation now styles Monsanto, which also sponsored its film "Voices from Africa", "CORE's corporate partner".</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>CORE took its "first step in bringing justice to the Third World" on May 8 2003. Just under a fortnight later George W. Bush accused Europe of undercutting efforts to feed starving Africans by blocking genetically modified crops because of "unfounded, unscientific fears." Bush also called on European governments to "join - not hinder - the great cause of ending hunger in Africa". The following day, the Bush administration announced plans to sue the European Union at the World Trade Organisation unless it opened up its markets to American GM products.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: transparent;">The WTO case was filed by the US in the name of Africa, although Egypt - the only African country which could be persuaded to sign up in support - promptly disassociated itself from the US action</b>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Egypt's defection prompted American retaliation: the US withdrew from planned bilateral trade talks.</span> At the press conference at which the WTO case was announced, the<b> US Trade Representative, Robert B. Zoellick, introduced a number of people of color who expressed their support for the lawsuit. One was a South African farmer, TJ Buthelezi, who is exceptionally well travelled. In the last couple of years Buthelezi has been brought not just to Washington but to Brussels, Pretoria, St Louis, Philadelphia and London for GM promotionals. He was also at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, where he took part in the fake parade.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Unlike Chengal Reddy, Buthelezi is a real farmer -- just not the kind of farmer he is made out to be. Buthelezi is exhibited as a "small farmer" leading a "hand-to-mouth existence", or a "small farmer struggling just at the subsistence level," as the head of USAID put it when introducing him to US congressmen. In fact, with <b>two wives and more than 66 acres, Buthelezi is one of the largest and wealthiest farmers in his area, and Aaron deGrassi of the Institute of Development Studies suggests Buthelezi's accounts of his experiences with GM cotton might be embellished, since they are suspiciously similar to Monsanto press releases</b>. "These South African farmers," deGrassi says, "...are plucked from South Africa, wined and dined, and given scripted statements about the benefits of GM... Critics have coined the nickname Bt Buthelezi', to illustrate this farmer's unconditional support to Bt cotton: during a trip to Monsanto's headquarters in St. Louis, Buthelezi was quoted as saying, I wouldn't care if it were from the devil himself.'"</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: transparent;">The "principal orator" at Zoellick's press conference was CS Prakash, a biotech professor of Indian origin at Tuskegee University in Alabama.</b> Prakash travels the world promoting GM crops on behalf of the U.S. State Department. He also serves as the principal investigator of a USAID project "to promote biotechnology awareness in Africa". But he is best known for his AgBioWorld campaign, under whose banner he has sent a stream of petitions and press releases in support of GM crops to international bodies and meetings, as well as to science journals and the media. AgBioWorld presents itself as a mainstream science campaign "that has emerged from academic roots and values" but its co-founder and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> "<b>Deputy President" is Greg Conko</b> of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, whose multi-million dollar budget comes from corporations like Monsanto, Dow Chemical and Exxon/Mobil. CEI was among the organisers of the Cancun event where CORE's Niger Innis handed out awards to the advocates of "lethal eco-imperialism". Conko was also an invited guest at Zoellick's press conference.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Conspicuous in its absence from Zoellick's guest list was the corporation that stood to gain most from the WTO action. But when it came to honoring Bush's election strategist at CORE's celebratory dinner at the New York Hilton, Monsanto was certainly no ghost at the feast. Hugh Grant - not the actor but the CEO of Monsanto -- presided as chairman of the occasion.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> A little black-washing at an MLK event was a PR opportunity too good to pass up, particularly in light of other recent events. Only days before Grant's appearance, news had broken that his company was to pay $1.5 million in penalties under US anti-bribery laws, for passing $50,000 to a senior Indonesian environmental official in an unsuccessful bid to amend or repeal the requirement for an environmental impact statement on new crop varieties. The bribe in question was just the tip of the iceberg: Monsanto has admitted to paying over $700,000 in bribes to more than a hundred officials over a five year period. The Monsanto executive in charge of Indonesia at the time the bribery got underway was none other than Hugh Grant.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: transparent;">Grant and Rove were far from the only controversial invitees to CORE's King Day celebrations. Others have included the Austrian politician and Nazi-sympathizer Jorg Haider, and the right-wing radio host Bob Grant, who once called Martin Luther King a "scumbag".</b> But CORE itself has become increasingly controversial--and in some ways downright strange--<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">since Roy Innis took its helm. Innis once branded opponents of racial segregation in the US as "house niggers", and dismissed the struggle against Apartheid as "a vicarious, romantic adventure" with "no honest base". When asked in 1973 why CORE supported Idi Amin despite the Ugandan president's hatred of Jewish people and praise of Hitler, Innis is reported to have said, "we have no records to prove if Hitler was a friend or an enemy of black people."</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Innis has had no corresponding difficulty working out the enemy of black people when it comes to biotech. At Cancun his son Niger, a protégé of Armstrong Williams,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> handed out "lethal eco-imperialism" awards to the European Union and Greenpeace. But there was another award - an "Uncle Tom" award, presented in front of an audience of grinning corporate lobbyists and libertarians to the Malaysia-based Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific.</span> PANAP is an organisation that works with small-scale and family farmers, peasants' movements, indigenous people, landless laborers and women in countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Innis denounced PANAP for "selling out its own people". Their crime? Opposing pesticides and biotechnology in exchange, Innis claimed, for funding from wealthy foundations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CORE, by contrast, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">supports</i> pesticides and biotechnology in exchange for funding from its wealthy "corporate partner". As to "selling out" the people of the developing world, it's worth recalling <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Monsanto's history in Indonesia<b>. So strong was the popular opposition to genetically modified crops in Indonesia that Monsanto decided to bring its GM seed into the country under armed guard. </b>The farmers who bought into the company's promises and grew that seed did a lot less well from it than the officials who took the bribes. The GM cotton crop succumbed to drought and a pest population explosion that bypassed other cotton varieties. When the crop failed to produce the results Monsanto had boasted about, the farmers found that their poor yields had trapped them in a debt cycle, leading one farmer to comment, "The company didn't give the farmer any choice, they never intended to improve our well being, they just put us in a debt circle, took away our independence and made us their slave forever.</span>" This is not an unknown situation: sales of GM seeds, which are more expensive, are often supported in the developing world with special credit arrangements. In TJ Buthelezi's South Africa, for instance, farmer indebtedness has sharply escalated in the area where GM cotton has been introduced. In Indonesia, Monsanto's GM cotton proved so unsuccessful that within two years the Indonesian Minister of Agriculture was announcing that the company had pulled its GM seed out of the country. The company's legacy there is broken promises and systematic illegality.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That's not, of course, the kind of story detailed in CORE's "Voices from Africa," where GM crops are presented as the only hope of salvation for resource poor farmers. Nor is it the kind of story told by CORE's Paul Driessen in his syndicated op-ed pieces, which were timed to coincide with CORE's UN "World Conference".<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b>Driessen </b>informed his readers that "these safe, delicious foods" were vital for Africa because they could "replace staples devastated by disease -- including Kenyan sweet potatoes". Interestingly, just a week or so before Driessen made that claim, the Kenyan journalist Gatonye Gathura, received a Kalam award for journalistic excellence for his article on the sweet potato project, "<a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=2481" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">GM Technology fails local potatoes</a>." Gathura's piece blew the whistle on the abject failure of Monsanto's showcase project in Africa -- a project that had garnered literally thousands of column inches of positive press.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Aaron deGrassi, in a detailed analysis<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background: transparent;"></sup> of such projects, confirms that the benefits from GM crops are much lower than can be obtained "with either conventional breeding or agro-ecology-based techniques"--both of which require just a fraction of the investment in research that GM does. He notes, for instance, that conventional sweet potato breeding in Uganda was able--in a much shorter time and with a small budget--to develop a well-liked, virus-resistant variety that had yield gains of nearly 100 percent. Any excitement over GM crops in the developing world, deGrassi argues, stems largely from the biotech industry's PR campaign, which is designed to increase GM's public legitimacy, and to reduce trade restrictions, biosafety controls, and monopoly regulations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Near the end of "Voices from Africa" there's a telling moment. Over the image of a woman menacingly beating a club in the palm of her hand someone says, "We cannot just harshly or violently oppose this technology". The film presents no evidence of violent opposition to GMOs in Africa, and in truth there has been none, only courage and resilience. But then, as Paul Driessen's boss at CDFE reminds us, "Facts don't really matter. In politics, perception is reality."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.twnafrica.org/docs/GMCropsAfrica.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.1s ease-in; transition: color 0.1s ease-in; background: transparent;">Genetically Modified Crops and Sustainable Poverty Alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Assessment of Current Evidence</a> by Aaron deGrassi, published by Third World Network, Africa.</font></p></div></div><p style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">donner party been ucla phd</font></p><p style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Peter Hamilton Raven FMLS</b> (born June 13, 1936) is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanist" title="Botanist" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">botanist</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalist" title="Environmentalist" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">environmentalist</a>, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Botanical_Garden" title="Missouri Botanical Garden" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Missouri Botanical Garden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H.Raven#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Contents</font></h2><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 13px;"> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H.Raven#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </span></font></div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H.Raven#Early_life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Early life</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H.Raven#Career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Career</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H.Raven#Awards_and_honors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Awards and honors</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H.Raven#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H.Raven#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></font></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life">Early life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_H.Raven&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On June 13, 1936, Raven was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai,China" title="Shanghai, China" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Shanghai, China</a> to American parents. An uncle of his father's was, for a time, one of the wealthiest Americans in China, but was later jailed in a banking scandal. That incident and Japanese aggression in China led the Raven family to return to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,CA" title="San Francisco, CA" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">San Francisco, CA</a> in the late 1930s.</font></p><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: transparent;">After becoming a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Academy_of_Sciences" title="California Academy of Sciences" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">California Academy of Sciences</a> while still a youth, Raven went on to graduate with a BS in Biology from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of California, Berkeley</a> in 1957 and a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ph.D. in botany from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">University of California, Los Angeles</a> in 1960.</span></font></p><h2 style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_H.Raven&action=edit§ion=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">After teaching at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Stanford University</a>, Raven went on to become Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1971. In 2006, his position was renamed President and Director. Raven announced his plans to retire in 2011, to coincide with his 75th birthday and his 40th year at the Garden. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wyse_Jackson" title="Peter Wyse Jackson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Peter Wyse Jackson</a> was appointed as Raven's successor at the Missouri Botanical Garden in September 2010.</font></p><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Raven is possibly best known for his important work <i>Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution</i> published in the journal <i>Evolution</i> in 1964 which he coauthored with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R.Ehrlich" title="Paul R. Ehrlich" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Paul R. Ehrlich</a>. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Since then he has authored numerous scientific and popular papers, many on the evening primrose family, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onagraceae" title="Onagraceae" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Onagraceae</a>. Raven is also an author of the widely used textbook <i>Biology of Plants</i>, now in its seventh edition, coauthored with Ray F. Evert and Susan E. Eichhorn (both of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin,Madison" title="University of Wisconsin, Madison" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Wisconsin, Madison</a>).</span></font></p><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: transparent;">He is a f</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">requent speaker on the need for biodiversity and species conservation.</span></font></p><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Plant_Taxonomists" title="American Society of Plant Taxonomists" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Society of Plant Taxonomists</a> established in 2000 the <b>Peter Raven Award</b> in his honor to be conferred to authors with outstanding contributions to plant<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">taxonomy</a> and "for exceptional efforts at outreach to non-scientists".</font></p><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He serves on the advisory council of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRDF_Global" title="CRDF Global" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">CRDF Global</a>. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Science%26_the_Public" title="Society for Science & the Public" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Society for Science & the Public</a>, from 1993-1996.</font></p><h2 style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_H.Raven&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Awards and honors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Arthur Hoyt Scott Medal 2009, awarded by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Arboretum" title="Scott Arboretum" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Scott Arboretum</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College" title="Swarthmore College" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Swarthmore College</a><sup id="cite_ref-cv_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H.Raven#cite_note-cv-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">U.S. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Medal_of_Science" title="National Medal of Science" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Medal of Science</a> recipient, 2000<sup id="cite_ref-cv_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H.Raven#cite_note-cv-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Honorary Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Elected as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Australian_Academy_of_Science" title="Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Corresponding Fellow</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Academy_of_Science" title="Australian Academy of Science" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Australian Academy of Science</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Prize_for_Environmental_Achievement" title="Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellowship" title="MacArthur Fellowship" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Catharine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship</a>, 1985</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Member of President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Clinton</a>'s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Former Home Secretary of the U.S. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="United States National Academy of Sciences" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Academy of Sciences</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">International Prize for Biology winner</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Former President of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Xi" title="Sigma Xi" style="text-decoration: none; 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Delmer S. Fahrney Medal</a> in 1989</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">William L. Brown Award for Excellence in Genetic Resource Conservation (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H.Raven#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Honorary Doctor of Science Harvard University May 29, 2014</span></font></li></ul><div class="notice metadata" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 2px 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The standard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_botanists_by_author_abbreviation" title="List of botanists by author abbreviation" style="text-decoration: none; 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