CREDO

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</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/ex-dhs-head-kirstjen-nielsen-leaves-atlantic-ideas-festival-stage-after-outrage-from-grassroots-movement/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/ex-dhs-head-kirstjen-nielsen-leaves-atlantic-ideas-festival-stage-after-outrage-from-grassroots-movement/</a></div><div></div><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; width: 1048.09px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="post-info" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2017-12-06T15:55:20+00:00" style="box-sizing: inherit;">December 6th, 2017</time> at <time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2017-12-06T15:55:20+00:00" style="box-sizing: inherit;">3:55 PM (CST)</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; width: 1048.09px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Credo Action delivered a petition to the United Parcel Service with 84,453 signatures earlier today asking the company to dump the American Legislative Exchange Council. </div>


Google -- one of California’s most influential companies that people like me and you use everyday -- still plans to sponsor a Trump-led Republican National Convention and help provide a platform for his brand of hate and violence.

Under pressure from activists, Coca-Cola recently took the bold step to cease its support of a Trump Convention.(1) And Courage Campaign has joined our allies at ColorOfChange, Ultraviolet, CREDO, Bend the Arc, and more to turn up the heat on Google and other corporate sponsors, urging them to follow Coke’s lead

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Tobacco TacticsTalk Fracking fears that “with Edelman behind the Task Force on Shale Gas, PR tactics developed in the sixties to dismiss smoking health concerns are now being used in relation to fracking.”The PR firm has a long history of working with the tobacco industry. In the 1970s, it proposed an “aggressive” public relations campaign to help tobacco company RJ Reynolds undermine perceptions of smoking’s health hazards.While Edelman now refuses to represent tobacco companies, it continues to work with fossil fuel companies and apply the same PR tactics.Broken PromisesIn August 2014, some of the world’s biggest PR firms issued a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/04/worlds-top-pr-companies-rule-out-working-with-climate-deniers" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">declaration</a> stating that they would not represent clients who deny manmade climate change or take campaigns seeking to block regulations limiting carbon pollution. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/07/edelman-pr-climate-change-denial-campaigns" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Edelman eventually responded, confirming</a> that “we do not accept client assignments that aim to deny climate change.”However, in November last year, Greenpeace Canada obtained details of an <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/leaked-edelman-transcanadas-pr-attack-plan/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">aggressive plan</a> to recruit 35,000 online ‘activists’ to sway public opinion in favour of the TransCanada tar sands pipeline.In February this year, it was thought that Edelman was making progress. It was unveiled in February that Edelman had<a href="http://www.holmesreport.com/latest/article/edelman%27s-american-petroleum-institute-assignment-set-to-end" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">gradually cut its ties</a> with America’s powerful oil lobbyist, the API, after it was reported that the subsidiary company (Blue Advertising) that handled the bulk of its advertising contracts with API – worth $327.4 million – is, eventually, to cut itself off from Edelman’s central operations.But, fresh doubts have been cast on the credibility of its supposed change in attitude after <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jul/07/pr-edelman-climate-change-lost-executives-clients" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">four high-level executives have resigned from Edelman</a> in the last two months because of the company’s refusal to stop working for the fossil fuel industry.In light of this news, campaigners have launched a separate <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/edelman/?utm_content=buffer7b282&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">petition</a> to tell Edelman to stop “promoting” climate change. The petition was launched on CREDO Action – a social change organisation funded by CREDO Mobile – which has over 27,000 signatories. It says: “The fact is, in the face of the overwhelming evidence on climate change, any attempt to continue promoting fossil fuels and fossil fuel expansion is outright denial.”
http://www.desmog.uk/2015/07/31/edelman-pr-s-ties-fracking-and-climate-denial-still-cause-concern-new-petitions-show==

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CREDO (formerly Working Assets) is a private for-profit U.S. corporation that makes it's money from <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Cause-related_marketing" title="Cause-related marketing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cause-related marketing</a> that offers mobile and long distance phone service, as well as a credit card service, to a politically liberal demographic. <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> It provides a small percentage of its annual profit to non-profit liberal and activist organizations. As <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Inger_Stole" title="Inger Stole" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Inger Stole</a> writes, "Sometimes a company deliberately ties its identity so closely with its CRM efforts that it, by design or pure coincidence, appears to be a non-profit outfit itself. Working Assets, a for-profit company headquartered in San Francisco, is one example." <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> CREDO is formally allied with <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/350.org" title="350.org" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">350.org</a>.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Business_mission" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Business mission</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Activism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Activism</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#CREDO_urges_switch_from_Republican_funding_AT.26T" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 CREDO urges switch from Republican funding AT&T</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Name_change" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Name change</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Organizations_funded_by_CREDO.2FWorking_Assets" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Organizations funded by CREDO/Working Assets</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Civil_rights" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.1 Civil rights</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Peace_.26_international_freedom" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.2 Peace & international freedom</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Economic_.26_social_justice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.3 Economic & social justice</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Environment" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.4 Environment</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Voting_rights_.26_civic_participation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.5 Voting rights & civic participation</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Personnel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Personnel</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Websites" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 Websites</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Resources_and_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 Resources and articles</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8.2 References</a></li>

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According to its website, CREDO/Working Assets was founded in 1985 to help people make a difference in the world by doing the things they do every day anyway. "Each time you use one of our services — CREDO Mobile, CREDO Long Distance or the Working Assets Credit Card — we automatically send a donation to nonprofit groups working for peace, equality, human rights and the environment. To date, we've raised over $65 million for progressive causes. But we're not just donating money, we're making change. Our CREDO Action Web site gives you the resources you need to stay up to date and speak out for the causes you support."<a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_note-about-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>

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CREDO/Working Assets is a citizen-action group. In every phone bill, they update you on "vital issues and provide easy ways to speak out – with a free call or a low-cost advocacy letter sent on our members' behalf. We explain what's at stake and encourage you to make your voice heard. Every month, our members generate over 80,000 calls, letters and e-mails to Congress, the White House and corporate leaders regarding decisions of critical public concern."

In the 2008 election, they registered 2.5 million people to vote and they organized an <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Election_protection" title="Election protection" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">election protection</a> program of volunteers who monitored polls across the country.<a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_note-about-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>

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In 2010, CREDO sent out emails encouraging people to switch from <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/AT%26T" title="AT&T" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">AT&T</a> phone service to the more liberal CREDO. The president of CREDO, Michael Kieschnick, pointed out the following:

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">AT&T was the top contributor — with a $351,500 contribution — to members of the House Tea Party Caucus, led by the extremist <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Michele_Bachmann" title="Michele Bachmann" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michele Bachmann</a> (R-MN).</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">AT&T contributed to the Senate Conservatives Fund, which raised money for <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Christine_O%27Donnell" title="Christine O'Donnell" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Christine O'Donnell</a>, Joe Miller, Ken Buck, Sharron Angle, and Rand Paul — all Republicans backed by the Tea Party.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">AT&T's <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">political action committee</a> was recently ranked by <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Opensecrets.org" title="Opensecrets.org" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Opensecrets.org</a> as one of the biggest political contributors in the 2009-2010 cycle.<a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></li>

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In November 2007, Working Assets changed its name to CREDO.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The names of its phone services are CREDO Mobile and CREDO Long Distance.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Its credit card, however, kept its original name, Working Assets Credit Card.<a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">See list on website at: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://workingassets.com/Recipients.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">http://workingassets.com/Recipients.aspx</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Alliance_for_Justice" title="Alliance for Justice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alliance for Justice</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=Brady_Center_to_Prevent_Gun_Violence&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Center_for_Constitutional_Rights" title="Center for Constitutional Rights" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for Constitutional Rights</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Center_for_National_Security_Studies" title="Center for National Security Studies" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for National Security Studies</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Equality_Now" title="Equality Now" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Equality Now</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=Family_Violence_Prevention_Fund&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Family Violence Prevention Fund (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Family Violence Prevention Fund</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=Gay_%26_Lesbian_Alliance_Against_Defamation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Lesbian_Rights&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Center for Lesbian Rights (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Center for Lesbian Rights</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/National_Coalition_to_Abolish_the_Death_Penalty" title="National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Planned_Parenthood" title="Planned Parenthood" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Planned Parenthood</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Acci%C3%B3n_International" title="Acción International" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Acción International</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Americans_for_Peace_Now" title="Americans for Peace Now" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Americans for Peace Now</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Amnesty International</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Center_for_Victims_of_Torture" title="Center for Victims of Torture" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for Victims of Torture</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Doctors_Without_Borders" title="Doctors Without Borders" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Doctors Without Borders</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Global_Fund_for_Children" title="Global Fund for Children" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Global Fund for Children</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Iraq_Veterans_Against_the_War" title="Iraq Veterans Against the War" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Iraq Veterans Against the War</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Oxfam_America" title="Oxfam America" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Oxfam America</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Pathfinder_International" title="Pathfinder International" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pathfinder International</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Urgent_Action_Fund" title="Urgent Action Fund" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Urgent Action Fund</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=America%E2%80%99s_Second_Harvest&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="America’s Second Harvest (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">America’s Second Harvest</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Campaign_for_America%27s_Future" title="Campaign for America's Future" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Campaign for America's Future</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Center_on_Budget_and_Policy_Priorities" title="Center on Budget and Policy Priorities" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center on Budget and Policy Priorities</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Corporate_Accountability_International" title="Corporate Accountability International" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Corporate Accountability International</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Media_Matters_for_America" title="Media Matters for America" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Media Matters for America</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=Mother_Jones_Investigative_Fund&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mother Jones Investigative Fund (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mother Jones Investigative Fund</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Ms._Foundation_for_Women" title="Ms. Foundation for Women" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ms. Foundation for Women</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Physicians_for_a_National_Health_Program" title="Physicians for a National Health Program" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Physicians for a National Health Program</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Project_On_Government_Oversight" title="Project On Government Oversight" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Project On Government Oversight</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/United_for_a_Fair_Economy" title="United for a Fair Economy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United for a Fair Economy</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Alliance_for_Climate_Protection" title="Alliance for Climate Protection" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alliance for Climate Protection</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=American_Rivers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Rivers (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Rivers</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Center_for_Biological_Diversity" title="Center for Biological Diversity" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for Biological Diversity</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Earthjustice" title="Earthjustice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Earthjustice</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Environmental_Working_Group" title="Environmental Working Group" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Environmental Working Group</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/ForestEthics" title="ForestEthics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ForestEthics</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Greenpeace" title="Greenpeace" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Greenpeace</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Ocean_Conservancy" title="Ocean Conservancy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ocean Conservancy</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Organic_Farming_Research_Foundation" title="Organic Farming Research Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Organic Farming Research Foundation</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Sierra_Club_Foundation" title="Sierra Club Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sierra Club Foundation</a></li>

</ul>

<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Voting rights & civic participation</h3>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/AlterNet" title="AlterNet" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">AlterNet</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Center_for_Independent_Media" title="Center for Independent Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for Independent Media</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=Democracia_U.S.A.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Democracia U.S.A. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democracia U.S.A.</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=League_of_Conservation_Voters_Education_Fund&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">League of Conservation Voters Education Fund</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/New_Organizing_Institute" title="New Organizing Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Organizing Institute</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=Project_Vote&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Project Vote (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Project Vote</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/USAction" title="USAction" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">USAction</a> Education Fund</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=Wellstone_Action&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wellstone Action (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wellstone Action</a></li>

</ul>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Michael_Kieschnick" title="Michael Kieschnick" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michael Kieschnick</a>, President and CoFounder<a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Laura_Scher" title="Laura Scher" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Laura Scher</a>, CoFounder and Executive Chair<a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Drummond_Pike" title="Drummond Pike" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Drummond Pike</a>, CoFounder</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Matt_Stoller" title="Matt Stoller" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Matt Stoller</a>, Consultant</li>

</ul>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.credomobile.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">http://www.credomobile.com</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://workingassets.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">http://workingassets.com</a></li>

</ul>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jeffrey St. Clair, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/12/designer-protests-and-vanity-arrests-in-dc/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">The Post-Modern Protest Blues, Designer Protests and Vanity Arrests in DC</a>, CounterPunch, April 12, 2013.</li>

</ul>

<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Americans_Against_Escalation_in_Iraq" title="Americans Against Escalation in Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Americans Against Escalation in Iraq</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Cause-related_marketing" title="Cause-related marketing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cause-related marketing</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Corporate_Social_Responsibility" title="Corporate Social Responsibility" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Corporate Social Responsibility</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Democracy_Alliance" title="Democracy Alliance" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democracy Alliance</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Becky_Bond" title="Becky Bond" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Becky Bond</a></li>

</ul>

<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; 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↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://workingassets.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Website</a>, Working Assets, accessed November 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; 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↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/4965" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Cause-Related Marketing: Why Social Change and Corporate Profits Don’t Mix</a> Inger Stole, PRWatch.org, July 14, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-about-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_ref-about_3-0" style="text-decoration: none; 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 to:3.0</a> <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_ref-about_3-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://workingassets.com/About.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">About page</a>, Working Assets, accessed November 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; 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↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-san-diego/at-t-contributes-money-to-tea-party" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">AT&T contributes money to Tea Party</a>", Examiner.com, November 9, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; 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↑</a> Ryan Kim, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=21557" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Working Assets Wireless becomes Credo Mobile</a>", San Fransisco Chronicle, October 31 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; 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↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newpolitics.net/node/185" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Michael Kieschnick Bio</a>, New Politics Institute</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/CREDO#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; 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↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.credomobile.com/Mission/CEO-Scher.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Laura Scher Bio</a>, Credo, accessed November 2010.</li>

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