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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"The Ruckus Society was formed in 1995, sparked by the intersection of the passage of a federal anti-environmental law, Greenpeace budget cuts, and two infamous nonviolence practitioners. The Timber Salvage Rider, an anti-environment, pro-logging bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in the spring of 1995,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the passage of this bill catalyzed a large, vocal, and well-organized response from activists. Leading environmental organizations called for an all-out effort to stop timber sales and shut down the agencies that permitted them and forest defenders took to the woods for blockades on the ground and in the air."&nbsp;</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/Ruckus_Society#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We are living in a time of extreme challenges: stopping the war in Iraq, thwarting climate change catastrophes, reclaiming the commons from corporations, conquering our addiction to oil, and protecting human rights. In order to effectively meet these challenges, now, more than ever, environmental and social justice organizers must develop winning strategies that are creative, nonviolent, and take their lead from impacted communities. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">By building on the traditions of leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., we, at The Ruckus Society, provide our partner organizations and activists with the tools, training, and support necessary to tackle these problems and achieve their goals."&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a></sup></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cofounder,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Roselle" title="Mike Roselle" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mike Roselle</a></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3000001907349px; display: table; zoom: 1; 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: 13.3000001907349px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>&nbsp;<span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 12.5020008087158px;">&nbsp;[<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#Staff" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Staff</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#Directors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Directors</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Contact</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#Resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Resources</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#External_Articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">External Articles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#Related_Sourcewatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Related Sourcewatch articles</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Staff">Staff</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Accessed July 2008:&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Adrienne_Maree_Brown" title="Adrienne Maree Brown" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Adrienne Maree Brown</a>&nbsp;- Executive Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hannah_Strange&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hannah Strange (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Hannah Strange</a>&nbsp;- Training Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marty_Aranaydo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marty Aranaydo (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Marty Aranaydo</a>&nbsp;- Indigenous Peoples' Power Project</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Megan_Swoboda" title="Megan Swoboda" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Megan Swoboda</a>&nbsp;- Operations</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sabba_Saleem_Syal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sabba Saleem Syal (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Sabba Saleem Syal</a>&nbsp;- Development Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sharon_Lungo" title="Sharon Lungo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sharon Lungo</a>&nbsp;- Project Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Celeste_Faison&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Celeste Faison (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Celeste Faison</a>&nbsp;- Outreach Director</li></ul><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Directors">Directors</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Accessed June 2011:&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Adrienne_Maree_Brown" title="Adrienne Maree Brown" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Adrienne Maree Brown</a>&nbsp;- The Ruckus Society, Oakland, CA</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Allen_Gunn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Allen Gunn (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Allen Gunn</a>&nbsp;- Aspiration Tech, San Francisco, CA</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gopal_Dayaneni" title="Gopal Dayaneni" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gopal Dayaneni</a>&nbsp;- Movement Generation, Oakland, CA</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Sellers" title="John Sellers" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Sellers</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Agit-Pop" title="Agit-Pop" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Agit-Pop</a>, Vashon, WA</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nancy_Dalwin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nancy Dalwin (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Nancy Dalwin</a>&nbsp;- Fusion Consultants, San Francisco, CA</li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former board members:</p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Malia_Lazu" title="Malia Lazu" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Malia Lazu</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Policy_Studies" title="Institute for Policy Studies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Institute for Policy Studies</a>, Washington, DC</li></ul><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact">Contact</span></h2><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Web:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.ruckus.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">http://www.ruckus.org</a></dd></dl><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources">Resources</span></h2><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_Articles">External Articles</span></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Stauber" title="John Stauber" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Stauber</a>,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/15/the-progressive-movement-is-a-pr-front-for-rich-democrats/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats</a>, March 15, 2013, CounterPunch.</li></ul><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3><ol class="references" style="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;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#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; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ruckus.org/article.php?list=type&type=24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Mission and History</a>, Ruckus Society, accessed July 24, 2008.</span></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; 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</div><div></div><div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Eco-terrorism_claims"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eco-terrorism claims</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; font-size: small; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In May 2002,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_Nichols" title="Nick Nichols" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">Nick Nichols</a>, described by the&nbsp;<i>Austin Review</i>&nbsp;as an "expert on combating eco-terrorism & environmental extremism," was guest speaker at a luncheon sponsored by the&nbsp;<i>Review</i>&nbsp;and the Republican Club of Austin.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.la.utexas.edu/chenry/aip/fall01/bibs01/msg00050.html" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[2]</a>&nbsp;Shortly after Nichols's visit to Austin, Levin - also a frequent contributor to the&nbsp;<i>Review</i>&nbsp;- published an opinion piece in the Dallas&nbsp;<i>Star Telegram</i>&nbsp;which<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;labelled anti-<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">Exxon Mobil</a>&nbsp;activists&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eco-terrorism" title="Eco-terrorism" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">eco-terrorists</a>&nbsp;and claimed - with no apparent evidence - that the nonviolent direct action training organisation the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ruckus_Society" title="Ruckus Society" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">Ruckus Society</a>&nbsp;had trained members of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Animal_Liberation_Front" title="Animal Liberation Front" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">Animal</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Earth_Liberation_Front" title="Earth Liberation Front" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">Earth Liberation Fronts</a>.</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/3349679.htm" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</span>3]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; font-size: small; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; font-size: small; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The origin of Levin's claims appear to be a February 2002 article published on the website of the food, alcohol and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">tobacco-industry funded&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom" title="Center for Consumer Freedom" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">Center for Consumer Freedom</a>, claiming the discovery that the Ruckus Society "has helped train eco-terrorists".<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/1309" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[4]</a>&nbsp;The same month, CFCF Executive Director&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Berman" title="Richard Berman" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">Richard Berman</a>&nbsp;claimed in<b>&nbsp;testimony</b>&nbsp;before a US House of Representatives committee that the Ruckus Society "trains young activists in the techniques of 'monkeywrenching' which, when applied, result in property crimes of enormous financial cost."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.cdfe.org/berman.htm" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[5]</a>. Berman, however, failed to provide any evidence for this claim.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; font-size: small; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 2003 article written by Levin, entitled "Terrorism in the Name of the Earth: Flush out eco-terrorism money" and published in the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><i>National Law Journal</i>,&nbsp;<i>Front Page Magazine</i>,&nbsp;<i>The American Enterprise</i>, the&nbsp;<i>Austin Review</i>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>,&nbsp;</span>asserted that "just as a small number of radical&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Muslim&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Muslim (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">Muslims</a>&nbsp;are sullying a great religion, a new breed of eco-terrorists is poisoning the environmental movement." The article indirectly asserts that property damage and vandalism attributed to the Earth and Animal Liberation Fronts is funded by donations to tax exempt environmental organisations. According to Levin:</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; font-size: small; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"<i>Environmental organizations designated by the IRS as 501(c)(3) groups are illegally transferring funds to non-exempt groups, which then use the money for eco-terror campaigns.</i>"</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; font-size: small; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; font-size: small; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Levin then refers to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_Interest_Watch" title="Public Interest Watch" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">Public Interest Watch</a>&nbsp;report&nbsp;<i>Green-Peace, Dirty Money: Tax Violations in the World of Non-Profits</i>&nbsp;before going on to allege that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Greenpeace" title="Greenpeace" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none;">Greenpeace</a>&nbsp;has committed "numerous acts of eco-terrorism".<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10304" style="text-decoration: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[6]</a></font></p></div><div>==</div>