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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From California to British Columbia, the West is burning up. While fire experts are clear that climate change is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/14/wildfires-have-gotten-bigger-recent-years-trend-is-likely-continue/?utm_term=.c2949290e611" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">a major factor</a> in making wildfires more frequent and more intense, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke <a href="https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1030108898940919809" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">can’t seem to make up his mind</a> about its role. Instead, he has blamed an unusual boogeyman for the fires: environmental terrorists.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We have been held hostage by these environmental terrorist groups that have not allowed public access—that refuse to allow [the] harvest of timber,” he told <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/13/exclusive-zinke-environmental-terrorist-groups-western-us-wildfires/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">Breitbart</a> earlier this month. The underlying cause of catastrophic blazes, he said, is the “fuel load” of dead and dying timber in our forests. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/518152247/new-interior-secretary-rides-a-horse-to-first-day-on-the-job" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">Whoa there, Zinke</a>!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fire experts do say that there’s <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/10/17/558390511/how-fire-suppression-techniques-can-change-as-wildfires-get-bigger" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">more fuel in Western forests</a> than there used to be, thanks to decades of aggressive fire suppression—and, well, because the warmer weather has been drying everything up.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Understanding Zinke’s bizarre claim about environmental terrorists requires a short history lesson. The concept came from one of the environmental movement’s biggest foes: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/ron-arnold" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">libertarian activist Ron Arnold</a>, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/19/us/fund-raisers-tap-anti-environmentalism.html?pagewanted=2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">once told the<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times</em></a> that he wanted to “destroy environmentalists.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arnold coined the term “ecoterrorism” in 1983 article and later published the book <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Eco-terror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature</em>, which attempted to link the environmental movement with the<b> Unabomber</b>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Arnold used “ecoterrorism” to refer to groups like Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, and Earth First! that sometimes engaged in property crimes, like vandalism and </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/03/05/tree-spiking-an-eco-terrorist-tactic/a400944c-a3a0-4c03-ab99-afada6f44e7a/?utm_term=.e74ac6d411b7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">tree spiking</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, to combat environmental degradation and animal rights abuses.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Experts who have studied the phenomenon say “ecoterrorism” is not an appropriate term.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“In my research, I found that 90 to 95 percent of all direct actions, or crimes if you will, perpetrated by these groups do not fall anywhere close to the term ‘terrorism,'” says <b><a href="https://fayette.psu.edu/person/donald-liddick" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">Donald Liddick</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Eco-Terrorism-Radical-Environmental-Liberation-Movements/dp/0275985350/gristmagazine" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Eco-Terrorism: Radical Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements</em></a>.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275083075/download" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">2013 study</a> that surveyed the acceptance of “ecoterrorism” found that “there is no documented evidence of harm coming to humans as a result of actions by radical environmentalists.” The authors suggest that terms like “obstruction,” “vandalism,” and “sabotage” more accurately described actions labeled as “ecoterrorism.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tree spiking, the widely feared practice of boobytrapping trees with metal rods, resulted in only <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1987-05-16/news/mn-9417_1_tree-spiking" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">one serious injury</a>. Tree-spiking groups gave ample warning of their actions—they didn’t want the trees to be cut down, after all.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Liddick points out that Arnold had political motivations when he coined the phrase. Arnold is a policy advisor to the climate-denying think tank The Heartland Institute and the executive vice president of the <b>Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise,</b> which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from <a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/center-for-the-defense-of-free-enterprise/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">ExxonMobil</a> and the ultra-conservative <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/meet-anti-government-recluse-who-bankrolls-trump-507338" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">Mercer Family Foundation</a>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The term “ecoterrorism” picked up steam through the ’80s and ’90s, and began to appear in the prosecution of environmental and animal activists. Things took a turn for the weird in 2004: The FBI’s top official in charge of domestic terrorism, John Lewis, named ecoterrorism and the animal rights movement “the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat,” over far-right extremism, the KKK, and anti-abortion groups. (Arnold, it turns out, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170728202314/http://www.truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/48551:terrorist-tree-huggers" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">had asked the FBI</a> to take a closer look at “ecoterrorists” in 2002.) At the time of the FBI’s declaration, no one had been killed in any attacks by these groups, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/24/schuster.column/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">according to CNN</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While accusations of “ecoterrorism” have <a href="https://psmag.com/environment/whatever-happened-to-eco-terrorism" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">fallen in recent years</a>, the label has been used against <a href="https://grist.org/article/according-to-this-lawsuit-if-you-opposed-dapl-youre-a-terrorist/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">activists at Standing Rock</a>, the <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pipeline-environmentalist-terrorism_us_5a85c2ede4b0058d55672250" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">valve turners</a>, and <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pipeline-environmentalist-terrorism_us_5a85c2ede4b0058d55672250" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">other pipeline opponents</a>. Zinke’s use of the term didn’t surprise Seymour.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“To call something terrorism when it doesn’t actually entail a loss of human life is problematic, to say the least,” says </span><a href="http://english.fullerton.edu/faculty/profile/n_seymour.aspx" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">Nicole Seymour</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, assistant professor of English at California State University, Fullerton.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It’s kind of those boogeymen that the Trump administration and similar folks have been trying to implant in our imagination—these concepts made up to create public panic,” Seymour says.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Seymour sees Zinke’s use of “environmental terrorism” as a sound bite that casts blame off of climate change and onto environmentalists.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Liddick has a different perspective. “Knowing politics as I know politics, I think it’s about lumbering the Sierra,” he says. “Some of the corporate interests want to get the Sierra Nevada softwood and hardwood.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>On Thursday, the day after I spoke with Liddick, the Trump administration <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-16/zinke-blames-climate-change-lax-forest-management-for-wildfires" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">announced plans</a> to fight wildfires with more logging and controlled burns on federal land. The timber industry has <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-logging-wildfire-risk-20180807-story.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">long used fire prevention as an excuse to clear forests</a>.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So Zinke’s comments didn’t come out of nowhere. But how is all this connected to ecoterrorists? It all goes back to our old libertarian pal Ron Arnold. In addition to coining “ecoterrorism,” he was also the leading force behind the “Wise Use” movement—an anti-environmentalist approach to managing federal lands that emphasizes extraction. Its agenda, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1349160-cdfearnold00089.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">spelled out by Arnold in 1988</a>, includes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, opening all public lands to mining and oil exploration, and clear-cutting old growth in national forests — partly for wildfire prevention, of course. In other words, this tenuous link between ecoterrorism and logging is 20 years old.</p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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<p style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...is an award-winning writer, editor, and lecturer who reports on cultural and political issues from the philosophic perspective of principled individualism. During the past fifteen years he has established a reputation as one of the leading opponents and critics of environmentalism.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As of July 2005 Robert became editor of <i>The New Individualist</i>, the monthly magazine of <a href="http://www.atlassociety.org/">The Atlas Society</a>, a philosophic research and advocacy organization. In the previous year, he was editor of <i>Organization Trends</i> and <i><b>Foundation Watch</b></i><b>,</b> monthly publications of the <a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/">Capital Research Center</a> -- a private watchdog group that monitors the activities of nonprofit advocacy organizations and foundations. Robert also serves as a senior fellow of the <a href="http://www.cdfe.org/staff.htm">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A former Staff Writer for <i>Reader's Digest</i>, he authored high-profile investigative pieces on environmental issues, crime, and other public controversies. His many articles, essays, columns, book and film reviews also have appeared in <i>Success</i>, <em>Writer's Digest, The Boston Herald</em>, <i>The American Spectator</i>, <i>City Journal</i>, <em><a href="http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=2315">The Freeman</a></em>,<i>Reason</i> and other journals.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robert Bidinotto's writings on environmental issues include investigative articles for <i>Reader's Digest</i> on global warming and the 1989 Alar scare, as well as extensive research on the ozone depletion issue. His Alar article was singled out for editorial praise by <i>Barron's</i> business weekly, and by <i>Priorities</i>, the journal of the <a href="http://www.acsh.org/"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">American Council on Science and Health</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">.</span> He is also author of a widely praised monograph, <em><a href="http://www.objectivismstore.com/shopping/shopaff.asp?affid=12&ID=68">The Green Machine</a></em>, that critically examines the environmentalist philosophy and movement.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A nationally-recognized expert on crime, Robert is perhaps best known for his article "Getting Away With Murder" in the July 1988 <i>Reader's Digest</i>. That investigative piece stirred a national controversy about crime and prison furlough programs during the 1988 presidential election campaign, and is widely credited with having affected the outcome of the election. He is editor of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=econotcom-20&path=tg/stores/offering/list/-/1572460164/all">Criminal Justice? The Legal System Vs. Individual Responsibility</a></i>, which won enthusiastic acclaim from law enforcement professionals throughout the nation, and author of <em><a href="http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=bidinotto&title=Freed+to+kill&submit=Begin+Search&new_used=*&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr">Freed to Kill</a></em>, a compendium of horror stories illustrating the failings of the justice system.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As editor of <span style=" font-style: italic;">The New Individualist</span>, Robert is a Gold Winner of <span style=" font-style: italic;">Folio's</span> prestigious 2007 "Eddie" Award for editorial excellence, for an article he wrote for the magazine's March 2007 issue. He was has also been awarded the Free Press Association's Mencken Award for "Best Feature Story," was named a 1989 National Magazine Award finalist for "Best Magazine Article of the Year in the Public Interest Category" by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and has received awards and honors from the National Victim Center and other victim rights organizations for his outspoken public advocacy on behalf of crime victims.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A popular speaker, Robert Bidinotto has appeared as a guest on many major radio and television talk shows, including CBS radio's "Crosstalk," CNN's "Sonya Live," "Geraldo," "The Rush Limbaugh Show," "The Bob Grant Show," CNBC's "Rivera Live" and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">With his wife and their stridently individualistic cat, Luna, Robert makes his home on the Chesapeake Bay, where he avidly enjoys the sights and sounds of nature. "The natural world," he says, "is an inspiring setting and inexhaustible resource for the creative work of human beings."</font>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key Personnel - Alliance for America</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Vincent, Libby, MT, President</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harry McIntosh, Caroga Lake , NY, Administrative director,</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patricia A. Bradburn, Chairman, 1999 Fly-In</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Fulton Lewis, Reedville, VA, newsletter editor</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Vincent, President</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harry McIntosh, Administrative director</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Membership - Alliance for America</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Membership is comprised of individuals and member organizations from the wise use and property rights movement throughout the country.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finances - Alliance for America Foundation</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Income: $25,110 (1997)</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Assets: $46,915 (1997)</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coalition Involvements</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The timber industry </b>from the Northwest primarily organized the first “Fly-In-For-Freedom” in Washington, DC, in 1991.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nearly all of the national wise-use and private property rights organizations are participants in the Alliance for America, which is an umbrella organization. Industry has provided a significant part of the funding for the annual conventions, and affected the selection of agendas. There has been a constant tension between the wise use and industry groups, on the one hand, which have established lobbying systems which are willing to compromise against on endangered species and property rights in general, and the grassroots property rights organizations, primarily in the East, on the other hand.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adirondack property rights activists have participated from the first meeting in Washington, D.C., and the organizational meeting later the same year in St. Louis. David Howard, who at the time led the Adirondack Blue Line Confederation in Caroga Lake, was the first president, but is no longer active in the Alliance. Adirondack activists who were at the first two meetings were Dale and Jeris French, Judy Ford, Donald Gerdts, David Howard, Carol LaGrasse and Keith Van Buskirk.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale French, Adirondack Solidarity Alliance, is the current board member representing the Northeast, and an advocate for property rights issues. He gave a speech at the 1999 Fly-In about grassroots organizing against the Northern Forest Lands Council and Carol LaGrasse, Property Rights Foundation of America, spoke about the American Heritage Rivers program. Judy Ford and Jeris French of the Adirondack Solidarity Alliance are other active grassroots members from the Adirondacks.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Alliance for America, although not a local Adirondack organization, is important to Adirondack issues because of the involvement of Dale French and the Adirondack Solidarity Alliance, and Carol LaGrasse, and the access which this provides to the membership mailings, web page, etc., and policy-making.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Speakers at the 1999 Fly-In are the shortest list to display the emphasis and breadth of the Alliance’s coalitioning. These were:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale E. Anderson, Pennsylvania Forest Industry Association</font></div>

<div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ron Arnold, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</font></b></div>

<div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph L. Bast, Heartland Institute</font></b></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kathleen Benedetto, National Wilderness Institute</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matt Bennett, Emmet Vaughn Lumber Co., Knoxville, KY</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patricia Bradburn, property owner, Manassas Park, VA</font></div>

<div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Helen Chenoweth</font></b></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Laura Cleland, International Forest Products Association</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rose Comstock, Quincy Lumber Group, Quincy, CA</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doug Crandall, Chief of Staff House Resources Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chuck Cushman, American Land Rights Association;</font></div>

<div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Becky Norton Dunlop, Heritage Foundation;</font></b></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David D. Fredley, Minerals Management Consultants, Washington, DC;</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale French</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frank M. Gladies,</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">International Forest Products Association, Beaverton, OR</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Gordon, Jr., National Wilderness Institute, Georgetown, VA</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Hardiman, Policy and Communications Director to Congressman Richard Pombo</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeffrey P. Harris, People for the USA</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carol W. LaGrasse</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Lippke, College of Forest Resources, Seattle, WA</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Bill Moshofsky, Oregonians in Action (won Dolan v. Tigard), Tigard, OR</font></div>

<div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wm. Perry Pendley, Mountain States Legal Foundation</font></b></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Teresa Platt, Fur Commission USA</font></div>

<div><b><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Richard Pombo</font></span></b></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. George Radanovich</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brooke Roberts, Legislative Dir. And Counsel,<b> Senator Larry Craig</b></font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jerry Schill, North Carolina Fisheries Assn.</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steven D. Stinson, Cowlitz Ridge Tree Farm, Toleda, WA;</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Vincent</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harry V. Wiant, Jr. Ph.D., silviculture consultant; Morgantown, WV</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donn Zea, California Forest Products Association.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Organizational Goals</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The Alliance for America is a non-profit, grassroots organization of conservationists dedicated to bringing human concerns into environmental decision-making.”</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Annual Fly-In -for-Freedom features a weekend of speakers and training followed by three days of lobbying in Washington, DC. It is the only such event of consistency and importance. This year a group of dissatisfied participants in the Alliance and others organized another Washington gathering that they called the Property Rights Congress, but so far nothing of consequence has been reported.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to the Fly-In speakers on topics ranging from “Get a Grip on Earth Day” to “Tracking Congress’ Votes for Private Property Rights,” the Alliance published a program with issue statements on Animal Welfare, Endangered Species, Farming U.S. Domestic Fisheries, International Harvesting of the Oceans, Fur Farming, Hunting and Trapping, Mining and Society, Private Property (Dale French is the official contact), and Recreation.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arnold's resume also includes his job as the executive vice president of the Bellevue, Wash.-based<b> Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</b>, a pro-corporate group founded in 1976 by his longtime comrade, Alan Gottlieb. (Gottlieb is also credited with founding the anti-gun control Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.) According to the Center for Media and Democracy's Disinfopedia, CDFE claims to be "a non-partisan education and research organization which works on free enterprise studies, public policy research, book publishing, conferences, white papers and media outreach." CDFE's website asserts that it tracks "threats to free markets, property rights and limited government." </font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the years, CDFE, a tax-exempt educational organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Tax Code, has received support from a network of corporations, including <b>Georgia Pacific, Louisiana-Pacific, MacMillan Bloedel, Pacific Lumber, Exxon, DuPont and Boise Cascade. </b></font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From SourceWatch</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE) claims to be "a non-partisan education and research organization which works on free enterprise studies, public policy research, book publishing, conferences, white papers, and media outreach." According to their website, they track "threats to free markets, property rights and limited government." CDFE sponsors seminars, conferences and appears on radio programs focusing on the "threats" posed by environmentalism. It also sells training videos, books and distributes newsletters teaching supporters how to "fight back" against environmentalists.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Executive Vice-President Ron Arnold has frequently testified before Congress on topics such as the threats of eco-terrorism.</b> A term he claimed credit for coining in a 1982 Reason Magazine article. [1] He is considered the father of the Wise Use movement.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE maintains Undue Influence and its Green Tracking Library, an online database "to make the money, power, politics, and undue influence of the environmental movement transparent." [2]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 History</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 CDFE activities</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.1 CDFE & animal rights</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 Interviews & quotes</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 Beyond the 'Wise Use' movement</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 Funding & finances</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5.1 Partial funding history</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 Personnel</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6.1 Advisors</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 Contact</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.1 Sourcewatch articles</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.2 References</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.3 External articles</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.4 External resources</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since the late 1980's, CDFE has been at the center of the Wise Use movement. It was originally founded by Alan Gottlieb on July 4, 1976, "the bicentennial of the American Revolution" as CDFE points out in its statement of purpose:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's programs include research, publication, conferences, consulting, training and media awareness on threats to free enterprise. We operate a book publishing division, the Free Enterprise Press, to disseminate important investigative and analytical research, and have a variety of programs to help individuals and businesses face free enterprise-related crises.</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"CDFE has received national recognition for its programs and services, particularly in tracking the money of non-profit groups opposing free enterprise. Although we receive no government funding, we are dedicated to providing information and assistance to those struggling with government interference and civilian opposition to free enterprise." [3]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE activities</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At CDFE's website you can also read the:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"rave reviews of Paul Driessen's new book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death </b>that exposes the green racist agenda to withhold malaria control and life-saving GMO crop from Africa and other developing nations. A horrifying account of green genocide."</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They fail to mention that the supposed ban on DDT in some third world countries, used to control malaria, is a myth. [4] [5] They also don't mention the known and significant hazards presented by GMO foods and that most countries, including African countries, have banned them. See also Food and Drug Administration.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In February 2004, Mr. Driessen appeared before the House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, as a senior fellow representing three think tanks; the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and CDFE.</b> He also claimed that the Economic Human Rights Project, which he was a director of, "was an initiative of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, in cooperation with the Congress of Racial Equality. According to Mr. Driessan:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Reflecting its belief that 'Economic rights are human rights' the growing coalition is dedicated to correcting prevalent environmental myths and misguided policies that help perpetuate poverty, misery, disease and early death in developing countries. [6]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE & animal rights</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also Conservatives target the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to CDFE Executive VP, Ron Arnold in a December 1991 article in the New York Times by reporter Timothy Egan:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members." [7]</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"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."</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While CDFE's IRS return states that Mr. Arnold works 20 hours a week without any compensation, Mr. Egan reported that in 1991 he charged $3,000 a day as a speaker or organizer of anti-environmental groups. For conservative fundraisers like Mr. Gottlieb, the enemies were Senator Edward M. Kennedy and gun control. However, he realized the potential financial rewards of opposing environmentalism:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"For us" said Mr. Gottlieb... "the environmental movement has become the perfect bogeyman." [8]</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 1993, Mr. Arnold told Washington Times reporter Valerie Richardson that "since the Democrats got into power, our income has doubled." [9]</font></div>

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<div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE and Ron Arnold, are considered by many to be the founding and principle strategy-setting forces in the grassroots anti-environmental movement. In his essay <span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">"Overcoming Ideology"</span> he depicts environmentalists as "eco-ideologists" whose stand</font></b></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"against promoting economic growth, technological progress and a market economy" stands in sharp contrast to the wise use movement's actual stewardship of the land, the water and the air." Environmentalists are portrayed as "eco-fetishists" whose moral self-righteousness is "about the people, but not by or for them."</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CDFE headline declares this essay is "regarded by many as the seminal expression of the ideas that have evolved into the richly diverse wise use movement."[10]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Environmental Working Group, in a Wise Use group analysis, says it is ironic that the CDFE website purports to represent a credible, rational opposition to environmentalism, given Arnold's role:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"in developing the radical, polarized and extreme early version of 'wise use' that vilified environmentalism and environmental activists."</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a May 30, 1993 interview with CNN, he described the role of a wise user as akin to a warrior weilding a sword. "And that sword has two purposes: to carve out a niche for your agenda, to reshape the American law in your image; and, kill the bastards." [11]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then again, <b>Arnold has also been quoted as having said that "Facts don't matter. In politics, perception is reality." </b>[12], , [13]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 2004, the CDFE posted a commentary article from a Canadian newspaper objecting to environmental campaigns against the seal hunting to its website. The accompanying note summarized what CDFE thought of environmental groups.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Now it's time to turn the tables and outlaw or de-fund the anti-extraction groups that practice this barbaric brand of deliberate destruction of resource-extracting cultures." [14]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For all the hype about its plans, CDFE gives the impression of a floundering organisation. The conservative Capital Research Center, which has published several articles by Arnold since 2000 states in its Green Watch database that CDFE "publishes The Private Sector, a quarterly, Advise and Consent, a periodical, and the Wise Use Conservation Memo, a quarterly". However, there is no mention of these publications on the CDFE website.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In its 2002 IRS return CDFE lists only two achievements for the organisation in the preceding year. The first was the creation of "a publicly accessible computer database tracking activities and donations to anti-industry groups." It is a project that emulates what other conservative - and bigger budget -groups are doing. In a 2002 outline, CDFE had planned to:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Expand existing publicly accessible computer database to track activities and donations of animal rights groups."[15]</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Its other achievement for 2001 was the publishing of "an important new book by a widely respected crisis managment executive to aid businesses faced with organized opposition." CDFE also planned to take advantage of the focus on terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorists. As an objective for 2002, CDFE planned to:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Create an outreach program increasing public awareness of eco-terrorism and how the public can help law enforcement stop anti-business crime."</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CDFE website features categories such as PETA-probe, eco-imperialism, and the latest headlines from Fox News. CDFE also hosts two increasingly dated websites:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Undue Influence, "tracking the environmental movement's money, power, and harm."</font></div>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RANamuck, an anti-Rainforest Action Network site.</font>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While CDFE have made a name for themselves championing anti-environmentalism, their advocacy efforts occasionally take a bizarre twist. In July 2003 Arnold issued a media release calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to prevent a takeover bid of computer software company PeopleSoft by Oracle.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The month before Arnold had dispatched a media release to business editors stating that it had developed a list of major "scandals in the making" and was launching "Scandal-Scan because of recent corporate scandals". In what reads like a pitch seeking support from the business community, CDFE announced that it was "taking action before they can become 'corporate disasters.'" The problems identified weren't corporate accounting standards, but issues such as the activities of the Nature Conservancy and re-insurance contracts. Topping the list was "greenmail". According to the media release:</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Are corporations being coerced into paying off activist organizations in exchange for their no longer accusing them of 'social irresponsibility' or environmental damage? Are such non-profit activist groups subject to Federal Trade Commission rules on anti-competitive acts and collusions with for-profit firms to unfairly manipulate markets and damage competing businesses?" [16], [17], [18]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE is a tax-exempt, educational organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Tax Code. Employer Identification Number (EIN) is 91-0973976. CDFE states that it is a<b> "non-partisan" non-profit that "accepts no government grants"</b>. [19]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Capital Research Center, states in its Green Watch database that CDFE has a "membership" of 75,000. However, this seems overstated given the CDFE finances of recent years have been been modest.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coors Foundation</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Georgia Pacific</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Louisiana-Pacific</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MacMillan Bloedel</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pacific Lumber</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DuPont, Agricultural Products Division</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boise Cascade</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seneca Sawmills</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sun Studs</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burkland Lumber</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">F.M. Kirby Foundation</font></div>

<div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2003 ExxonMobil donated $40,000 to CDFE for "global climate change issues". [20]</font></b></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This contribution represents 47% of the reported "gifts, grants, and contributions received" by the CDFE.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ron Arnold, Executive Vice President</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alan Gottlieb, founder</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Samuel M. Slom, Vice President</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Merrill R. Jacobs, Secretary</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Julianne Versnel, Treasurer</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ted Stevens - (R-AK) Senator</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dick Cheney - Former VP & Secretary of Defense</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Ichord - American Freedom Coalition</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? The Birth of a Buzz-Word: Eco-Terrorism" (Ron Arnold response to article), Indymedia, September 2007</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Website Accessed April, 2010</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Jim Norton The DDT Ban Myth, Infopollution</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Jim Norton More DDT myths, Infopollution, accessed February 2010</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Paul Driessen Statement of Paul K. Driessen, APR, Esq. Director, Economic Human Rights Project to House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources", February 4, 2004</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Timothy Egan Fund Raisers Tap Anti- Environmentalism, New York Times, pg 2, December 19, 1991</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Timothy Egan Fund Raisers Tap Anti- Environmentalism, New York Times, pg 1, December 19, 1991</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Valerie Richardson, "'Wise Use' drive fights environmentalists: grass-roots groups spread across West to defend human, business interests", Washington Times, June 20, 1993</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Ron Arnold Overcoming Ideology,</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? David Helvarg The War Against the Greens: The Wise-Use Movement, The New Right, and the Browning of America, pg 7, May 2004, ISBN 978-1555663285</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Outside magazine, December, 1991</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? William Kevin Burke The Wise Use Movement: Right-Wing Anti-Environmentalism, The Public Eye, 1993</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Canadian seal hunt protests: Eco-colonialism or legitimate concern?", CDFE, June 8, 2004</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? 'Foundation Calls on Justice Department to Stop Oracle's Bid to Buy PeopleSoft, CDFE Media Release, U.S. Newswire, July 8, 2003</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Ron Arnold, "In Antitrust We Trust", Investor's Business Daily, July 15, 2003</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Ron Arnold, "Oracle's bluff", letter to the editor, Chicago Tribune, July 16, 2003</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Corporate Giving Report, ExxonMobil, 2003</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? IRS 990 Tax Return, CDFE, 2006</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Berkowitz, "Terrorist Tree Huggers: Ron Arnold, Father of the 'Wise Use' Movement, sets his Sights on 'Eco-Terrorists'", TomPaine, June 25, 2004.</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Special Alert: Post 9/11 Anti-Environmentalism Threatens Green Activism, Clear View, Volume 9 Number 1, January 23, 2002</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ron Arnold, Ron Arnold Testimony: U. S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health", 106th Congress, 2nd session, February 15, 2000</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Halpin, Paul de Armond Alan Gottlieb: The Merchant of Fear, Sweet Liberty, 1994, 1995</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brian Glick, Abbie Smith War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do about It, South End Press, July 1999, ISBN 978-0896083493</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Retrieved from "http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise"</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Montana, the report shows that the group Flathead Residents Earning Equality (FREE) surfaced in 1972 after the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes instated a $5 fee for tribal recreation permits. Charlo-area farmer Del Palmer, who is still a leader in statewide anti-Indian activities, served as the group’s first chairman. While FREE faded, a new group, Montanans Opposing Discrimination, or MOD, formed in its wake. The group’s leaders included Palmer, former Ronan City Attorney Lloyd Ingraham, and Kalispell radio broadcaster G. George Ostrom. The report states that Ostrom, a one-time executive director of MOD, later distanced himself from the organization because he considered some of its leaders to be too rabid.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACE, which is still closely aligned with some of the most conservative elected state and municipal officials on the Flathead Reservation, embroiled itself in a variety of new fights with the Salish and Kootenai Tribes, which at the time were exerting further control over non-Indian anglers and bird hunters, among other measures. While ACE and other Montana organizations kept the pressure on at home, the report shows that former Big Arm resident Bill Covey, CERA’s first president, and other organizers targeted national legislation that dealt with Indian sovereignty issues. The report contends Montana organizers also tied into the Wise Use movement through Libby activist Bruce Vincent, a key leader in Alliance for America, a nationally known anti-environmental coalition. Also in the mix, the report says, is the Denver-based Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative advocacy firm that claims former U.S. Department of Interior head James Watt as its co-founder and first president.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April 2004, the Capital Research Center published an article by Executive Director of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, Ron Arnold railing at the prospect that Teresa Heinz Kerry could become the 'first lady' of the United States and still control her philanthropic foundations.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In recent years Arnold, a Wise Use Movement leader and a declared Republican, has found a niche for himself in having articles published in CRC's monthly newsletter, Foundation Watch, published by the conservative (CRC).</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The United States has never had a wealthy spouse overshadow its President," Arnold melodramatically warned. "But Teresa Heinz Kerry leads and funds philanthropic foundations, and she is on the board of directors of highly political nonprofit groups that receive her foundation's support and that can advance or frustrate the policies of her husband, should he become president," he wrote. [[1]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heinz Kerry is the widow of the late Senator H. John Heinz III who was killed in a plane crash in 1991. While he was alive Heinz foundations - established with the inheritance the Heinz food company - funded a range of groups, including environmental projects.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following his death Teresa Heinz became chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment and she is now also Chairman of the board of the Heinz Family Foundations. The foundations give modest grants to a range of environmental groups, including the League of Conservation Voters, which ranks the envionmental voting record of members of Congress. Arnold told the Los Angeles Times"this is very Machiavellian".</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Perhaps you could chalk up the environmental movement's strong and early support for John Kerry's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination to the influence of his wife," he speculated. "Heinz foundation grants pay for groups sponsoring thinly disguised anti-business drives and partisan political campaigns," he complained.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chellenging the use by Heinz personally of two person Heinz Kerry trusts, Arnold argued that "exempt foundations have an obligation to be transparent and straightforward about their revenue and their grants".</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One project funded by Heinz foundation money - the Clean Air Task Force - particularly irritated Arnold. While the grant was to protect air quality in south-western Pennsylvania from power utilities emissions Arnold claimed this really mean it was "to turn public opinion against the Bush administration and shut down Midwest coal-and-oil fired utilities".</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arnold's article succeeded in gaining traction in the mainstream media. Most reported the Capital Research Center as a conservative non-profit group but none reported Arnold's role as a leader of the Wise Use Movement. Nor was it reported that Arnold's Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise received funding from ExxonMobil in 2003. Nor did CRC disclose that it has received funds from ExxonMobil in 2002 and 2003.[2][3]</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The President of the Capital Research Center, Terrence Scanlon told the New York Times that "when Hillary was doing health care it wasn't like she controlled nine health maintenance organizations that could lend their clout to her. Teresa has three endowed foundations at her disposal."</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While CRC and Arnold got a good run with their timely newsletter profile of Heinz Kerry, it wasn't all plain sailing. The New York Times noted that one of the biggest funders of the CRC was the Sarah Scaife Foundation - chaired by Richard Mellon Scaife- which contributed $700,000 to the center from 1998 to 2002.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scaife's cousin, the New York Times reported, is James M. Walton who is not only the chairman of the Vira I. Heinz Endowment but is also a member of the board of the Sarah Scaife Foundation which approved CRC's funding. While Scaife foundations did not respond to inquiries, Walton wrote in an email that he supported funding for CRC.</font></div>

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<font style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">16. <b>Alliance for America

and Alliance for America Foundation</b>

(Latest update 2001)</font></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">P. O. Box 449

Caroga Lake, NY 12032-0449</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">(518) 835-4103

E-mail: <a href="mailto:allianceam@aol.com">allianceam@aol.com</a>

<a href="http://www.allianceforamerica.org/">http://www.allianceforamerica.org</a></font>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Key Personnel - Alliance for America</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Bruce Vincent, Libby, MT, President

Harry McIntosh, Caroga Lake , NY, Administrative director,

Patricia A. Bradburn, Chairman, 1999 Fly-In

John Fulton Lewis, Reedville, VA, newsletter editor</font>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Staff- Alliance for America</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Bruce Vincent, President

Harry McIntosh, Administrative director</font>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Membership - Alliance for America</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Membership is comprised of individuals and member organizations from the wise use and property rights movement throughout the country.</font>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Finances - Alliance for America Foundation</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Income: $25,110 (1997)

Assets: $46,915 (1997)

Files an IRS 990 or 990EZ</font>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Coalition Involvements</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>timber industry</b> from the <b>Northwest</b> primarily organized the first “Fly-In-For-Freedom” in Washington, DC, in 1991.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nearly all of the <b>national wise-use </b>and private <b>property rights organizations</b> are participants in the Alliance for America, which is an umbrella organization. Industry has provided a significant part of the funding for the annual conventions, and affected the selection of agendas. There has been a constant tension between the wise use and industry groups, on the one hand, which have established lobbying systems which are willing to compromise against on endangered species and property rights in general, and the grassroots property rights organizations, primarily in the East, on the other hand.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Adirondack property rights activists</b> have participated from the first meeting in Washington, D.C., and the organizational meeting later the same year in St. Louis. <b>David Howard</b>, who at the time led the Adirondack Blue Line Confederation in Caroga Lake, was the first president, but is no longer active in the Alliance. Adirondack activists who were at the first two meetings were Dale and Jeris French, Judy Ford, Donald Gerdts, David Howard, Carol LaGrasse and Keith Van Buskirk.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Dale French, Adirondack Solidarity Alliance</b>, is the current board member representing the Northeast, and an advocate for property rights issues. He gave a speech at the 1999 Fly-In about grassroots organizing against the Northern Forest Lands Council and <b>Carol LaGrasse, Property Rights Foundation of America</b>, spoke about the American Heritage Rivers program. Judy Ford and Jeris French of the Adirondack Solidarity Alliance are other active grassroots members from the Adirondacks.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Alliance for America, although not a local Adirondack organization, is important to Adirondack issues because of the involvement of Dale French and the Adirondack Solidarity Alliance, and Carol LaGrasse, and the access which this provides to the membership mailings, web page, etc., and policy-making.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Speakers at the 1999 Fly-In are the shortest list to display the emphasis and breadth of the Alliance’s coalitioning. These were:</font></p>

<blockquote><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dale E. Anderson, Pennsylvania Forest Industry Association

<font color="#FF0000"><b>Ron Arnold, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

Joseph L. Bast, Heartland Institute</b></font>

Kathleen Benedetto, National Wilderness Institute

Matt Bennett, Emmet Vaughn Lumber Co., Knoxville, KY

Patricia Bradburn, property owner, Manassas Park, VA

Rep. Helen Chenoweth

Laura Cleland, International Forest Products Association

Rose Comstock, Quincy Lumber Group, Quincy, CA

Doug Crandall, Chief of Staff House Resources Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health

Chuck Cushman, American Land Rights Association;

Becky Norton Dunlop, Heritage Foundation;

David D. Fredley, Minerals Management Consultants, Washington, DC;

Dale French

Frank M. Gladies,

International Forest Products Association, Beaverton, OR

Robert Gordon, Jr., National Wilderness Institute, Georgetown, VA

Michael Hardiman, Policy and Communications Director to Congressman Richard Pombo

Jeffrey P. Harris, People for the USA

Carol W. LaGrasse

Bruce Lippke, College of Forest Resources, Seattle, WA

Dr. Bill Moshofsky, Oregonians in Action (won <i>Dolan v. Tigard</i>), Tigard, OR

Wm. Perry Pendley, Mountain States Legal Foundation

Teresa Platt, Fur Commission USA

<font color="#FF0000"><b>Rep. Richard Pombo

Rep. George Radanovich

Brooke Roberts, Legislative Dir. And Counsel, Senator Larry Craig</b></font>

Jerry Schill, North Carolina Fisheries Assn.

Steven D. Stinson, Cowlitz Ridge Tree Farm, Toleda, WA;

Bruce Vincent

Harry V. Wiant, Jr. Ph.D., silviculture consultant; Morgantown, WV

Donn Zea, California Forest Products Association.</font></blockquote>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The attendees at the annual fly-In seem to be concentrated in the Northeast and the Far West including Alaska.</font>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Organizational Goals</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The Alliance for America is a non-profit, grassroots organization of conservationists dedicated to bringing human concerns into environmental decision-making.”</font>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Comments</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Annual Fly-In -for-Freedom features a weekend of speakers and training followed by three days of lobbying in Washington, DC. It is the only such event of consistency and importance. This year a group of dissatisfied participants in the Alliance and others organized another Washington gathering that they called the Property Rights Congress, but so far nothing of consequence has been reported.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In addition to the Fly-In speakers on topics ranging from “Get a Grip on Earth Day” to “Tracking Congress’ Votes for Private Property Rights,” the Alliance published a program with issue statements on Animal Welfare, Endangered Species, Farming U.S. Domestic Fisheries, International Harvesting of the Oceans, Fur Farming, Hunting and Trapping, Mining and Society, Private Property (Dale French is the official contact), and Recreation.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Arnold's resume also includes his job as the executive vice president of the Bellevue, Wash.-based Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, a pro-corporate group founded in 1976 by his longtime comrade, Alan Gottlieb. (Gottlieb is also credited with founding the anti-gun control Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.) According to the Center for Media and Democracy's Disinfopedia, CDFE claims to be "a non-partisan education and research organization which works on free enterprise studies, public policy research, book publishing, conferences, white papers and media outreach." CDFE's website asserts that it tracks "threats to free markets, property rights and limited government." </font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Over the years, CDFE, a tax-exempt educational organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Tax Code, has received support from a network of corporations, including Georgia Pacific, Louisiana-Pacific, MacMillan Bloedel, Pacific Lumber, Exxon, DuPont and Boise Cascade. </font>

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<p><font style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</b> (CDFE) claims to be "a non-partisan education and research organization which works on free enterprise studies, public policy research, book publishing, conferences, white papers, and media outreach." According to their website, they track "threats to free markets, property rights and limited government." CDFE sponsors seminars, conferences and appears on radio programs focusing on the "threats" posed by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">environmentalism</a>. It also sells training videos, books and distributes newsletters teaching supporters how to "fight back" against environmentalists.</font></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Executive Vice-President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold" title="Ron Arnold">Ron Arnold</a> has frequently testified before Congress on topics such as the threats of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism" title="Eco-terrorism">eco-terrorism</a>. A term he claimed credit for coining in a 1982 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reason_Magazine" title="Reason Magazine">Reason Magazine</a> article. <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup> He is considered the father of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wise_Use" title="Wise Use" class="mw-redirect">Wise Use</a> movement.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CDFE maintains <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Undue_Influence" title="Undue Influence">Undue Influence</a> and its <a href="http://www.undueinfluence.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.undueinfluence.com/" rel="nofollow">Green Tracking Library</a>, an online database "to make the money, power, politics, and undue influence of the environmental movement transparent." <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup></font>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#CDFE_.26_animal_rights"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">CDFE & animal rights</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Beyond_the_.27Wise_Use.27_movement"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Beyond the 'Wise Use' movement</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Funding_.26_finances"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Funding & finances</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Personnel"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Personnel</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Advisors"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Advisors</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Contact"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Contact</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Articles_.26_sources"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Articles & sources</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Sourcewatch_articles"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">8.1</span> <span class="toctext">Sourcewatch articles</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#References"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">8.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#External_articles"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">8.3</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#External_resources"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">8.4</span> <span class="toctext">External resources</span></font></a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">History</font></span></h2>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Since the late 1980's, CDFE has been at the center of the Wise Use movement. It was originally founded by </b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Gottlieb" title="Alan Gottlieb"><b>Alan Gottlieb</b></a><b> on July 4, 1976, "the bicentennial of the American Revolution" as CDFE points out in its statement of purpose:</b></font></p>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>"The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's programs include research, publication, conferences, consulting, training and media awareness on threats to free enterprise. We operate a book publishing division, the </b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Free_Enterprise_Press" title="Free Enterprise Press"><b>Free Enterprise Press</b></a><b>, to disseminate important investigative and analytical research, and have a variety of programs to help individuals and businesses face free enterprise-related crises.</b></font></dd>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>"CDFE has received national recognition for its programs and services, particularly in tracking the money of non-profit groups opposing free enterprise. Although we receive no government funding, we are dedicated to providing information and assistance to those struggling with government interference and civilian opposition to free enterprise." </b><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-2" title=""><b>[3]</b></a></sup></font></dd>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CDFE activities</font></b></span></h2>

<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At CDFE's website you can also read the:</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>"rave reviews of </b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen" title="Paul Driessen"><b>Paul Driessen</b></a><b>'s new book </b><i><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-Imperialism" title="Eco-Imperialism"><b>Eco-Imperialism</b></a><b>: Green Power, Black Death</b></i><b> that exposes the green racist agenda to withhold malaria control and life-saving GMO crop from Africa and other developing nations. A horrifying account of green genocide."</b></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>They fail to mention that the supposed ban on DDT in some third world countries, used to control malaria, is a myth. </b><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-3" title=""><b>[4]</b></a></sup><b> </b><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-4" title=""><b>[5]</b></a></sup><b> They also don't mention the known and significant hazards presented by GMO foods and that most countries, including African countries, have banned them. See also </b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration" class="mw-redirect"><b>Food and Drug Administration</b></a><b>.</b></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In February 2004, Mr. <span style=" color: #ED1C24;">Driessen </span>appeared before the House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, as a senior fellow representing three </b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tanks" title="Think tanks"><b>think tanks</b></a><b>; the </b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Economic_Research_Foundation" title="Atlas Economic Research Foundation"><b>Atlas Economic Research Foundation</b></a><b>, </b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Committee_For_A_Constructive_Tomorrow" title="Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow" class="mw-redirect"><b>Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow</b></a><b> and CDFE. He also claimed that the </b><i><b>Economic Human Rights Project</b></i><b>, which he was a director of, "was an initiative of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, in cooperation with the </b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality"><b>Congress of Racial</b> Equality</a>. According to Mr. Driessan:</font></p>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Reflecting its belief that 'Economic rights are <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a>' the growing coalition is dedicated to correcting prevalent environmental myths and misguided policies that help perpetuate poverty, misery, disease and early death in developing countries. <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a></sup></font></dd>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CDFE & animal rights</font></span></h3>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">See also <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservatives_target_the_People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals" title="Conservatives target the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals">Conservatives target the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals</a>.</font>

<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Interviews & quotes</font></span></h2>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to CDFE Executive VP, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold" title="Ron Arnold">Ron Arnold</a> in a December 1991 article in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_York_Times" title="New York Times">New York Times</a> by reporter Timothy Egan:</font></p>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members." <sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a></sup></font></dd>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"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."</font></dd>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While CDFE's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=IRS" title="IRS" class="mw-redirect">IRS</a> return states that Mr. Arnold works 20 hours a week without any compensation, Mr. Egan reported that in 1991 he charged $3,000 a day as a speaker or organizer of anti-environmental groups. For conservative fundraisers like Mr. Gottlieb, the enemies were Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edward_M._Kennedy" title="Edward M. Kennedy">Edward M. Kennedy</a> and gun control. However, he realized the potential financial rewards of opposing environmentalism:</font></p>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"For us" said Mr. Gottlieb... "the environmental movement has become the perfect bogeyman." <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a></sup></font></dd>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June 1993, Mr. Arnold told <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Times" title="Washington Times">Washington Times</a> reporter Valerie Richardson that "since the Democrats got into power, our income has doubled." <sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CDFE and Ron Arnold, are considered by many to be the founding and principle strategy-setting forces in the grassroots anti-environmental movement. In his essay "Overcoming Ideology" he depicts environmentalists as "eco-ideologists" whose stand</font></p>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"against promoting economic growth, technological progress and a market economy" stands in sharp contrast to the wise use movement's actual stewardship of the land, the water and the air." Environmentalists are portrayed as "eco-fetishists" whose moral self-righteousness is "about the people, but not by or for them."</font></dd>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The CDFE headline declares this essay is "regarded by many as the seminal expression of the ideas that have evolved into the richly diverse wise use movement."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-9" title="">[10]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmental_Working_Group" title="Environmental Working Group">Environmental Working Group</a>, in a Wise Use group analysis, says it is ironic that the CDFE website purports to represent a credible, rational opposition to environmentalism, given Arnold's role:</font></p>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"in developing the radical, polarized and extreme early version of 'wise use' that vilified environmentalism and environmental activists."</font></dd>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In a May 30, 1993 interview with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CNN" title="CNN" class="mw-redirect">CNN</a>, he described the role of a wise user as akin to a warrior weilding a sword. "And that sword has two purposes: to carve out a niche for your agenda, to reshape the American law in your image; and, kill the bastards." <sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-10" title="">[11]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Then again, Arnold has also been quoted as having said that "Facts don't matter. In politics, perception is reality." <sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-11" title="">[12]</a></sup>, , <sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-12" title="">[13]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June 2004, the CDFE posted a commentary article from a Canadian newspaper objecting to environmental campaigns against the seal hunting to its website. The accompanying note summarized what CDFE thought of environmental groups.</font></p>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Now it's time to turn the tables and outlaw or de-fund the anti-extraction groups that practice this barbaric brand of deliberate destruction of resource-extracting cultures." <sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-13" title="">[14]</a></sup></font></dd>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Beyond the 'Wise Use' movement</font></span></h2>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For all the hype about its plans, CDFE gives the impression of a floundering organisation. The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative" title="Conservative">conservative</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center" title="Capital Research Center">Capital Research Center</a>, which has published several articles by Arnold since 2000 states in its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Green_Watch" title="Green Watch">Green Watch</a> database that CDFE "publishes <i>The Private Sector</i>, a quarterly, <i>Advise and Consent</i>, a periodical, and the <i>Wise Use Conservation Memo</i>, a quarterly". However, there is no mention of these publications on the CDFE website.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In its 2002 IRS return CDFE lists only two achievements for the organisation in the preceding year. The first was the creation of "a publicly accessible computer database tracking activities and donations to anti-industry groups." It is a project that emulates what other conservative - and bigger budget -groups are doing. In a 2002 outline, CDFE had planned to:</font></p>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Expand existing publicly accessible computer database to track activities and donations of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Animal_rights" title="Animal rights" class="mw-redirect">animal rights</a> groups."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-14" title="">[15]</a></sup></font></dd>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Its other achievement for 2001 was the publishing of "an important new book by a widely respected crisis managment executive to aid businesses faced with organized opposition." CDFE also planned to take advantage of the focus on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a> in the aftermath of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=September_11" title="September 11">September 11</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terrorist" title="Terrorist">terrorists</a>. As an objective for 2002, CDFE planned to:</font></p>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Create an outreach program increasing public awareness of eco-terrorism and how the public can help law enforcement stop anti-business crime."</font></dd>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The CDFE website features categories such as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=PETA" title="PETA" class="mw-redirect">PETA</a>-probe, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-imperialism" title="Eco-imperialism" class="mw-redirect">eco-imperialism</a>, and the latest headlines from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a>. CDFE also hosts two increasingly dated websites:</font></p>

<ul>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Undue_Influence" title="Undue Influence">Undue Influence</a>, "tracking the environmental movement's money, power, and harm."</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=RANamuck" title="RANamuck">RANamuck</a>, an anti-<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rainforest_Action_Network" title="Rainforest Action Network">Rainforest Action Network</a> site.</font></li>

</ul>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While CDFE have made a name for themselves championing anti-environmentalism, their advocacy efforts occasionally take a bizarre twist. In July 2003 Arnold issued a media release calling on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._Department_of_Justice" title="U.S. Department of Justice">U.S. Department of Justice</a> to prevent a takeover bid of computer software company PeopleSoft by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oracle" title="Oracle" class="mw-redirect">Oracle</a>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The month before Arnold had dispatched a media release to business editors stating that it had developed a list of major "scandals in the making" and was launching "Scandal-Scan because of recent corporate scandals". In what reads like a pitch seeking support from the business community, CDFE announced that it was "taking action before they can become 'corporate disasters.'" The problems identified weren't corporate accounting standards, but issues such as the activities of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nature_Conservancy" title="Nature Conservancy" class="mw-redirect">Nature Conservancy</a> and re-insurance contracts. Topping the list was "greenmail". According to the media release:</font></p>

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<dd><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Are corporations being coerced into paying off activist organizations in exchange for their no longer accusing them of 'social irresponsibility' or environmental damage? Are such non-profit activist groups subject to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federal_Trade_Commission" title="Federal Trade Commission">Federal Trade Commission</a> rules on anti-competitive acts and collusions with for-profit firms to unfairly manipulate markets and damage competing businesses?" <sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-15" title="">[16]</a></sup>, <sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-16" title="">[17]</a></sup>, <sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-17" title="">[18]</a></sup></font></dd>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Funding & finances</font></span></h2>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CDFE is a tax-exempt, educational organization under Section <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=501%28c%29%283%29" title="501(c)(3)">501(c)(3)</a> of the United States Tax Code. Employer Identification Number (EIN) is 91-0973976. CDFE states that it is a "non-partisan" non-profit that "accepts no government grants". <sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-18" title="">[19]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center" title="Capital Research Center">Capital Research Center</a>, states in its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Green_Watch" title="Green Watch">Green Watch</a> database that CDFE has a "membership" of 75,000. However, this seems overstated given the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CDFE_finances" title="CDFE finances" class="mw-redirect">CDFE finances</a> of recent years have been been modest.</font>

<h3><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Partial funding history</font></span></h3>

<ul>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Coors Foundation</font></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Georgia_Pacific&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Georgia Pacific (page does not exist)"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Georgia Pacific</font></a></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Louisiana-Pacific</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">MacMillan Bloedel</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pacific Lumber</font></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Exxon" title="Exxon" class="mw-redirect"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Exxon</font></a></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DuPont" title="DuPont">DuPont</a>, Agricultural Products Division</font></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Boise_Cascade" title="Boise Cascade"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Boise Cascade</font></a></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Seneca Sawmills</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sun Studs</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Burkland Lumber</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">F.M. Kirby Foundation</font></li>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2003 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect">ExxonMobil</a> donated $40,000 to CDFE for "global <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> issues". <sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-19" title="">[20]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This contribution represents 47% of the reported "gifts, grants, and contributions received" by the CDFE.</font></p>

<table border="1" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Month</font></b></td><td align="center"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Total revenue</font></b></td><td align="center"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Total expenses</font></b></td><td align="center"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Net assets</font></b></td></tr><tr><td align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1999</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">26,812</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">26,947</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">35,299</font></td></tr><tr><td align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2000</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">64,114</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">42,048</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">54,879</font></td></tr><tr><td align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2001</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">142,246</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">98,881</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">99,247</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></td></tr><tr><td align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2002</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">76,899</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">100,702</font></td><td align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">74,846</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Personnel</font></span></h2>

<ul>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold" title="Ron Arnold">Ron Arnold</a>, Executive Vice President</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Gottlieb" title="Alan Gottlieb">Alan Gottlieb</a>, founder</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Samuel_M._Slom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samuel M. Slom (page does not exist)">Samuel M. Slom</a>, Vice President</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Merrill_R._Jacobs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Merrill R. Jacobs (page does not exist)">Merrill R. Jacobs</a>, Secretary</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Julianne_Versnel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julianne Versnel (page does not exist)">Julianne Versnel</a>, Treasurer</font></li>

</ul>

<h3><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Advisors</font></span></h3>

<ul>

<li><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Stevens" title="Ted Stevens">Ted Stevens</a> - (R-AK) Senator</font></span></li>

<li><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Dick Cheney</a> - Former VP & Secretary of Defense</font></span></li>

<li><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Ichord&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Ichord (page does not exist)">Richard Ichord</a> - <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Freedom_Coalition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Freedom Coalition (page does not exist)">American Freedom Coalition</a></font></span></li>

<li><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barbara_Keating&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barbara Keating (page does not exist)">Barbara Keating</a> - <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert" title="Consumer Alert">Consumer Alert</a></font></span></li>

<li><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Simon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Simon (page does not exist)">William Simon</a> - <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a></font></span></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Contact</font></span></h2>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Articles & sources</font></span></h2>

<h3><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sourcewatch articles</font></span></h3>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Gottlieb" title="Alan Gottlieb"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Alan Gottlieb</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Astroturf" title="Astroturf"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Astroturf</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Biotechnology" title="Biotechnology"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Biotechnology</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservatives_target_the_People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals" title="Conservatives target the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Conservatives target the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Criminalising_civil_disobedience" title="Criminalising civil disobedience"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Criminalising civil disobedience</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Disinformation" title="Disinformation"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Disinformation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Intimidating_public_interest_groups" title="Intimidating public interest groups"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Intimidating public interest groups</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Intimidating_democracy" title="Intimidating democracy"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Intimidating democracy</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Intimidating_foundations" title="Intimidating foundations"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Intimidating foundations</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Earth_Liberation_Front" title="Earth Liberation Front"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Earth Liberation Front</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-Imperialism" title="Eco-Imperialism"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Eco-Imperialism</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism" title="Eco-terrorism"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Eco-terrorism</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism_hoaxes" title="Eco-terrorism hoaxes"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Eco-terrorism hoaxes</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ecoterrorism_Prevention_Act_of_2004" title="Ecoterrorism Prevention Act of 2004"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ecoterrorism Prevention Act of 2004</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Environmentalism</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmental_activists_who_have_been_injured_or_killed" title="Environmental activists who have been injured or killed" class="mw-redirect"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Environmental activists who have been injured or killed</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Earth_Liberation_Front" title="Earth Liberation Front"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Earth Liberation Front</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming" title="Global Warming" class="mw-redirect"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Global Warming</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold" title="Ron Arnold"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ron Arnold</font></a></li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">References</font></span></h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.indypendent.org/2007/09/15/the-birth-of-a-buzz-word-eco-terrorism/" class="external text" title="http://www.indypendent.org/2007/09/15/the-birth-of-a-buzz-word-eco-terrorism/" rel="nofollow">The Birth of a Buzz-Word: Eco-Terrorism" (Ron Arnold response to article)</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Indymedia" title="Indymedia">Indymedia</a>, September 2007</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.undueinfluence.com/about_us.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.undueinfluence.com/about_us.htm" rel="nofollow">Website Accessed April, 2010</a></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/91-0973976/center-defense-free-enterprise.aspx" class="external text" title="http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/91-0973976/center-defense-free-enterprise.aspx" rel="nofollow">Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise</a>, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> Jim Norton <a href="http://info-pollution.com/ddtban.htm" class="external text" title="http://info-pollution.com/ddtban.htm" rel="nofollow">The DDT Ban Myth</a>, Infopollution</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> Jim Norton <a href="http://info-pollution.com/moreddt.htm" class="external text" title="http://info-pollution.com/moreddt.htm" rel="nofollow">More DDT myths</a>, Infopollution, accessed February 2010</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> Paul Driessen <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/pdtestimony.php3" class="external text" title="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/pdtestimony.php3" rel="nofollow">Statement of Paul K. Driessen, APR, Esq. Director, Economic Human Rights Project to House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources</a>", February 4, 2004</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-6" title="">↑</a> Timothy Egan <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/19/us/fund-raisers-tap-anti-environmentalism.html?pagewanted=2" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/19/us/fund-raisers-tap-anti-environmentalism.html?pagewanted=2" rel="nofollow">Fund Raisers Tap Anti- Environmentalism</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_York_Times" title="New York Times">New York Times</a>, pg 2, December 19, 1991</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-7" title="">↑</a> Timothy Egan <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/19/us/fund-raisers-tap-anti-environmentalism.html" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/19/us/fund-raisers-tap-anti-environmentalism.html" rel="nofollow">Fund Raisers Tap Anti- Environmentalism</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_York_Times" title="New York Times">New York Times</a>, pg 1, December 19, 1991</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-8" title="">↑</a> Valerie Richardson, "'Wise Use' drive fights environmentalists: grass-roots groups spread across West to defend human, business interests", <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Times" title="Washington Times">Washington Times</a>, June 20, 1993</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-9" title="">↑</a> Ron Arnold <a href="http://www.cdfe.org/wiseuse.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.cdfe.org/wiseuse.htm" rel="nofollow">Overcoming Ideology</a>,</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-10" title="">↑</a> David Helvarg <i>The War Against the Greens: The Wise-Use Movement, The New Right, and the Browning of America</i>, pg 7, May 2004, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/9781555663285" class="internal">ISBN 978-1555663285</a></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-11" title="">↑</a> <i>Outside magazine</i>, December, 1991</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-12" title="">↑</a> William Kevin Burke <a href="http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v07n2/wiseuse.html" class="external text" title="http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v07n2/wiseuse.html" rel="nofollow">The Wise Use Movement: Right-Wing Anti-Environmentalism</a>, The Public Eye, 1993</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-13"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-13" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.cdfe.org/seal_hunt.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.cdfe.org/seal_hunt.htm" rel="nofollow">Canadian seal hunt protests: Eco-colonialism or legitimate concern?</a>", CDFE, June 8, 2004</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-14"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-14" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/91-0973976/center-defense-free-enterprise.aspx" class="external text" title="http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/91-0973976/center-defense-free-enterprise.aspx" rel="nofollow">Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise</a>, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-15"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-15" title="">↑</a> 'Foundation Calls on Justice Department to Stop Oracle's Bid to Buy PeopleSoft<i>, CDFE Media Release, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._Newswire" title="U.S. Newswire">U.S. Newswire</a>, July 8, 2003</i></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-16" title="">↑</a> Ron Arnold, "In Antitrust We Trust", <i>Investor's Business Daily</i>, July 15, 2003</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-17" title="">↑</a> Ron Arnold, "Oracle's bluff", letter to the editor, <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, July 16, 2003</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-18" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/91-0973976/center-defense-free-enterprise.aspx" class="external text" title="http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/91-0973976/center-defense-free-enterprise.aspx" rel="nofollow">Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise</a>, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-19"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-19" title="">↑</a> <i>Corporate Giving Report</i>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect">ExxonMobil</a>, 2003</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-20"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-20" title="">↑</a> IRS 990 Tax Return, CDFE, 2006</font></li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">External articles</font></span></h3>

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Berkowitz" title="Bill Berkowitz">Bill Berkowitz</a>, "<a href="http://www.tompaine.com/articles/terrorist_tree_huggers.php" class="external text" title="http://www.tompaine.com/articles/terrorist_tree_huggers.php" rel="nofollow">Terrorist Tree Huggers: Ron Arnold, Father of the 'Wise Use' Movement, sets his Sights on 'Eco-Terrorists'</a>", <i>TomPaine</i>, June 25, 2004.</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/documents/clear_v9n1.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/documents/clear_v9n1.html" rel="nofollow">Special Alert: Post 9/11 Anti-Environmentalism Threatens Green Activism</a>, Clear View, Volume 9 Number 1, January 23, 2002</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold" title="Ron Arnold">Ron Arnold</a>, <a href="http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/hearings/106h/67408.txt" class="external text" title="http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/hearings/106h/67408.txt" rel="nofollow">Ron Arnold Testimony: U. S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health</a>", 106th Congress, 2nd session, February 15, 2000</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jim Halpin, Paul de Armond <a href="http://www.sweetliberty.org/mof.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.sweetliberty.org/mof.htm" rel="nofollow">Alan Gottlieb: The Merchant of Fear</a>, Sweet Liberty, 1994, 1995</font></li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">External resources</font></span></h3>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brian Glick, Abbie Smith <a href="http://www.amazon.com/War-Home-against-activists-Pamphlet/dp/0896083497" class="external text" title="http://www.amazon.com/War-Home-against-activists-Pamphlet/dp/0896083497" rel="nofollow">War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do about It</a>, South End Press, July 1999, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/9780896083493" class="internal">ISBN 978-0896083493</a></font></p>

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<font style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The network’s study begins in the early 1970s, when federal policies indeed shifted more power to tribes, largely through initiatives from Republican President Richard M. Nixon. Not coincidentally, anti-Indian sentiments across the nation rose with that tide.</font></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In Montana, the report shows that the group Flathead Residents Earning Equality (FREE) surfaced in 1972 after the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes instated a $5 fee for tribal recreation permits. Charlo-area farmer Del Palmer, who is still a leader in statewide anti-Indian activities, served as the group’s first chairman. While FREE faded, a new group, Montanans Opposing Discrimination, or MOD, formed in its wake. The group’s leaders included Palmer, former Ronan City Attorney Lloyd Ingraham, and Kalispell radio broadcaster G. George Ostrom. The report states that Ostrom, a one-time executive director of MOD, later distanced himself from the organization because he considered some of its leaders to be too rabid.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“To some of them, the only good Indian was a dead Indian,” Ostrom is quoted as saying.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The network report also ties MOD, which later formed chapters in Missoula and Wolf Point, with the Interstate Congress for Equal Rights and Responsibilities, a Washington state group that’s been a primary player in national anti-sovereignty activities.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Faced with declining membership and a poor public persona in the early 1980s, MOD’s home chapter in Polson underwent another facelift and name change, this time emerging as ACE, or All Citizens Equal.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ACE, which is still closely aligned with some of the most conservative elected state and municipal officials on the Flathead Reservation, embroiled itself in a variety of new fights with the Salish and Kootenai Tribes, which at the time were exerting further control over non-Indian anglers and bird hunters, among other measures. While ACE and other Montana organizations kept the pressure on at home, the report shows that former Big Arm resident Bill Covey, CERA’s first president, and other organizers targeted national legislation that dealt with Indian sovereignty issues. The report contends Montana organizers also tied into the Wise Use movement through Libby activist Bruce Vincent, a key leader in Alliance for America, a nationally known anti-environmental coalition. Also in the mix, the report says, is the Denver-based<font color="#FF0000"> Mountain States Legal Foundation,</font> a conservative advocacy firm that claims former U.S. Department of Interior head <font color="#FF0000">James Watt</font> as its co-founder and first president.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Copies of the report can be obtained by contacting the network at (406) 442-5506, or by writing to: P.O. Box 1222, Helena, MT 59624.<a href="http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/going-non-native/Content?oid=1132470">http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/going-non-native/Content?oid=1132470</a></font>

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ron Arnold and Teresa Heinz Kerry</font></h1>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In April 2004, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center" title="Capital Research Center">Capital Research Center</a> published an article by Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise" title="Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold" title="Ron Arnold">Ron Arnold</a> railing at the prospect that Teresa Heinz Kerry could become the 'first lady' of the United States and still control her philanthropic foundations.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In recent years Arnold, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wise_Use_Movement" title="Wise Use Movement">Wise Use Movement</a> leader and a declared Republican, has found a niche for himself in having articles published in CRC's monthly newsletter, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_Watch" title="Foundation Watch">Foundation Watch</a>, published by the conservative (CRC).</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"The United States has never had a wealthy spouse overshadow its President," Arnold melodramatically warned. "But Teresa Heinz Kerry leads and funds philanthropic foundations, and she is on the board of directors of highly political nonprofit groups that receive her foundation's support and that can advance or frustrate the policies of her husband, should he become president," he wrote. [<a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pubs.asp?ID=174" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pubs.asp?ID=174" rel="nofollow">[1]</a></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Heinz Kerry is the widow of the late Senator H. John Heinz III who was killed in a plane crash in 1991. While he was alive Heinz foundations - established with the inheritance the Heinz food company - funded a range of groups, including environmental projects.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Following his death Teresa Heinz became chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment and she is now also Chairman of the board of the Heinz Family Foundations. The foundations give modest grants to a range of environmental groups, including the League of Conservation Voters, which ranks the envionmental voting record of members of Congress. Arnold told the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>"this is very Machiavellian".</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Perhaps you could chalk up the environmental movement's strong and early support for John Kerry's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination to the influence of his wife," he speculated. "Heinz foundation grants pay for groups sponsoring thinly disguised anti-business drives and partisan political campaigns," he complained.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chellenging the use by Heinz personally of two person Heinz Kerry trusts, Arnold argued that "exempt foundations have an obligation to be transparent and straightforward about their revenue and their grants".</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">One project funded by Heinz foundation money - the Clean Air Task Force - particularly irritated Arnold. While the grant was to protect air quality in south-western Pennsylvania from power utilities emissions Arnold claimed this really mean it was "to turn public opinion against the Bush administration and shut down Midwest coal-and-oil fired utilities".</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Arnold's article succeeded in gaining traction in the mainstream media. Most reported the Capital Research Center as a conservative non-profit group but none reported Arnold's role as a leader of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wise_Use_Movement" title="Wise Use Movement">Wise Use Movement</a>. Nor was it reported that Arnold's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise" title="Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a> received funding from ExxonMobil in 2003. Nor did CRC disclose that it has received funds from ExxonMobil in 2002 and 2003.<a href="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/corporate/giving_report.pdf" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/corporate/giving_report.pdf" rel="nofollow">[2]</a><a href="http://www2.exxonmobil.com/files/corporate/public_policy1.pdf" class="external autonumber" title="http://www2.exxonmobil.com/files/corporate/public_policy1.pdf" rel="nofollow">[3]</a></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The President of the<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center" title="Capital Research Center">Capital Research Center</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terrence_Scanlon" title="Terrence Scanlon">Terrence Scanlon</a> </span>told the <i>New York Times</i> that "when Hillary was doing health care it wasn't like she controlled nine health maintenance organizations that could lend their clout to her. Teresa has three endowed foundations at her disposal."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While CRC and Arnold got a good run with their timely newsletter profile of Heinz Kerry, it wasn't all plain sailing. The <i>New York Times</i> noted that one of the biggest funders of the CRC was the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" title="Sarah Scaife Foundation" class="mw-redirect">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a> - chaired by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Mellon_Scaife" title="Richard Mellon Scaife">Richard Mellon Scaife</a>- which contributed $700,000 to the center from 1998 to 2002.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Scaife's cousin, the <i>New York Times</i> reported, is <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_M._Walton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James M. Walton (page does not exist)">James M. Walton</a> who is not only the chairman of the Vira I. Heinz Endowment but is also a member of the board of the Sarah Scaife Foundation which approved CRC's funding. While Scaife foundations did not respond to inquiries, Walton wrote in an email that he supported funding for CRC.</font></p>

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