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Headline	Author	Published	Section
There's Something About Terry Bryant Terry, food-justice activist, answers readers' questions		23 Jun 2006	InterActivist

Topics: environmental justice, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Ay, There's the Grub Bryant Terry, food-justice activist, answers Grist's questions		19 Jun 2006	InterActivist

Topics: environmental justice, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Wake Up and Smell the Carbon Al Gore launches new climate campaign		10 May 2006	Daily Grist
Wake Up and Smell the Carbon Al Gore launches new climate campaign Launched with profits from Al Gore's new movie and book, a new group called Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend big bucks on advertising and grassroots organizing in an attempt to impart the dangers of climate chaos to the American public. Focusing particularly on conservatives and labor gro ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, news, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Junket in the Trunk ESA foe Pombo took two trips paid for by anti-animal-welfare foundation		19 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Junket in the Trunk ESA foe Pombo took two trips paid for by anti-animal-welfare foundation The ever-widening net of Republican-corruption busting may have snared a green bęte noire: Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.). It seems Pombo took two trips, to New Zealand in 2000 and Japan in 2002, underwritten by a nonprofit foundation notable for opposition to environmental and animal-welfare protections. Problem is, tax ...
Topics: news, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Rank and Rile We must hit the streets to demand action on global warming	Ted Glick	30 Sep 2005	Soapbox
"Given the urgency and magnitude of the escalating pace of climate change, the only hope lies in a rapid and unprecedented mobilization of humanity around this issue ... that some spark might ignite a massive uprising of popular will around a unifying movement for social survival and the promise it holds for a more prosperous, more equitable, and more peaceful world." -- Ross Gelbspan, B ...
Topics: climate, non-government organizations, Washington DC (all these topics)

Forgive Us Our Debts Why aren't conservationists fighting poverty?	Jon Christensen	11 Aug 2005	Soapbox
It's a shame. Conservationists are sitting on the sidelines while the Big Game unfolds before our eyes. A major campaign is under way to change the terms of development, alleviate crushing debt, and help poor people around the world live better lives. Successes are being racked up. And conservation and environmental groups are nowhere to be seen. There are 39 groups listed as partners in the Camp ...
Topics: environmental justice, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Spies Like Us FBI terrorism unit investigating doings of peaceful green groups		18 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Spies Like Us FBI terrorism unit investigating doings of peaceful green groups FBI agents working on behalf of the bureau's counterterrorism unit have been gathering information on nonviolent environmental, civil-rights, and peace organizations for the past several years, according to Justice Department documents revealed in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. T ...
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Greenpeace, news, non-government organizations (all these topics)

Exx Marks the Boycott Activists kick off big boycott of ExxonMobil		13 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Exx Marks the Boycott Activists kick off big boycott of ExxonMobil Spelling-impaired activists at Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, MoveOn.org, and nine other enviro and progressive groups have launched a nationwide "Exxpose Exxon" consumer boycott campaign. While the coalition doesn't expect to have a big impact on ExxonMobil's bottom line, it hopes to change the public's perception of the ...
Topics: business, energy, news, non-government organizations, oil (all these topics)

Guerillas in the List Craigslist Foundation turns its energy to green networking	Erica Gies	01 Jun 2005	Main Dish
Today: the personals. Tomorrow: the world? Since its founding in 1995, Craigslist has gained a devoted following in cities around the world. As filmmaker Michael Ferris Gibson showed in his recent documentary "24 Hours on Craigslist," the online community board brings strangers together for all sorts of transactions and revelations. Now the website's namesake foundation -- whose r ...
Topics: non-government organizations (all these topics)

We All Go Down Together FBI calls 'eco-terrorists' top domestic threat; Inhofe licks his chops		19 May 2005	Daily Grist
We All Go Down Together FBI calls "eco-terrorists" top domestic threat; Inhofe licks his chops The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee convened a hearing on "eco-terrorism" yesterday, anxious to warn the nation of a rising danger that has already killed ... well, nobody. Despite the unimpressive body count, a growing number of property crimes make fring ...
Topics: Earth Liberation Front, James Inhofe, news, non-government organizations (all these topics)

Oil Really Is a Lubricant Diverse groups, unlikely allies join fight for energy independence		05 May 2005	Daily Grist
Oil Really Is a Lubricant Diverse groups, unlikely allies join fight for energy independence Military officials, environmental activists, and others from across the political spectrum are speaking up about the need for radical change in American energy policy. Over the last year, a number of labor groups and think tanks have joined the chorus, releasing detailed plans for reducing oil imports. Last month, the Ene ...
Topics: energy, news, non-government organizations (all these topics)

No Buses, No Peace! Ansje Miller sends a dispatch from a conference on transportation and justice		20 Feb 2005	Dispatches
Ansje Miller is a program director for Redefining Progress and staffs the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, a consortium of environmental-justice, religious, and policy groups. Sunday, 20 Feb 2005 LOS ANGELES, Calif. Driving down California's Interstate 5 from Oakland to Los Angeles, the need for a new vision for the future of transportation was clear. The pouring rain transform ...
Topics: California, Dispatches, environmental justice, non-government organizations, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Class Action Dismissed Enviros join chorus against class-action bill, but measure still likely to pass	Amanda Griscom Little	10 Feb 2005	Muckraker

Topics: Earthjustice, environmental justice, legislation, Muckraker, non-government organizations, NRDC, politics, Sierra Club, water pollution (all these topics)

Bryce Mathern, Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network An eco-film booster answers readers' questions		12 Mar 2004	InterActivist
Bryce Mathern, of Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network. What was your favorite film from last year's festival? What was it about? Do you have any idea what to expect this year? Any likely faves? -- Brenda Jenson, Milwaukee, Wis. Well, there were so many good ones last year. There was a documentary on pesticides that affected children down in Mexico called Playing with Poison -- I ...
Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations (all these topics)

Bryce Mathern, Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network An eco-film booster answers Grist's questions		08 Mar 2004	InterActivist
What organization are you affiliated with? What does it do? I work with the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network. I have been on the board for three years now. Every year this organization puts on a film festival in Leavenworth, Wash. This year it is March 18-21. We are showing more than 50 films from around the world. Over the span of four days, people from all over get to come togeth ...
Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations (all these topics)

Science Friction Top Scientists Accuse Bush Administration of Distorting Science		19 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Science Friction Top Scientists Accuse Bush Administration of Distorting Science The Bush administration, reeling from a series of unflattering stories and unfavorable poll numbers, took another kick in the pants yesterday when 60 of the world's most influential scientists -- including 20 Nobel laureates and 19 recipients of the National Medal of Science -- accused the administration in an open letter of systematicall ...
Topics: non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Schoolhouse Rocked		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Schoolhouse Rocked Graduate students holding teaching and research positions at Cornell University announced late last week that they would not join the United Auto Workers, bucking a growing trend toward grad student unionization. According to Allen MacKenzie, co-founder of At What Cost?, a student group opposed to unionizing, many students disliked the UAW's political views, especially regarding t ...
Topics: New York, non-government organizations, political groups (all these topics)

Everyone's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Task Force		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Everyone's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Task Force The Bush administration has 30 days to turn over more documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's National Energy Policy Development Group, a federal judge ordered late last week. A number of other federal agencies involved in the secretive energy task force have already turned over thousands of pages of related documents, ...
Topics: non-government organizations, politics, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Kweisi for You		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Kweisi for You The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said last week that it would sue companies that manufactured lead paint. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume described exposure to lead paint as a "civil rights issue." The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that low-income children are eight times more likely to live in hom ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, non-government organizations, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Lovey-Dovey Scientists	Suzy Becker	20 Sep 1999	Ha.

Topics: non-government organizations (all these topics)

Sprawl Brawl	Ben White	28 Apr 1999	Muckraker
The Sierra Club released poll numbers recently indicating that 47 percent of voters would be more likely to support a presidential candidate prepared to aggressively attack the problem of urban sprawl. Most people associate VP Al Gore with that issue, but Seattle Mayor Paul Schell has his own ideas. Schell jumped on Bill Bradley's presidential bandwagon last week and told this reporter a large part of the reason was the former New Jersey senator and hoop ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, non-government organizations, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, Seattle, Sierra Club, Texas, United States, Washington (all these topics)

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