Time To Get Corporate Money Out Of The Environmental Community
Time To Get Back To Earth Day Activist Roots
Democracy Is Coming to The Green Mafia
Democracy is coming, to the USA. ~~~ Leonard Cohen (listen)
The time has come to say fair’s fair
To pay the rent, to pay our share
The time has come, a fact’s a fact
It belongs to them, let’s give it back. ~~~ Midnight Oil (listen)
I got my third (update: fourth!) (update fifth!) (sixth! . This one amazingly titled “It”s about giving back“) (seventh! “just hours left“) (eighth!” “last chance”) (ninth! “final hours“) “Giving Tuesday” fundraising solicitation in the last week from NJ Audubon Society (NJAS). These are some twisted values, when a fundraiser is described as an “incredibly powerful movement”. The Current CEO, a former Exxon Mobil biostitute, fits right into that culture!
As we’ve shown, NJAS is the worst of NJ’s “Filthy 14” and have done the most damage in aggressively pursuing corporate money and advancing Neoliberal policies and corporate interests through “Corporate Stewardship” slogans, “partnerships”, greenwashing, and corrupt political self dealing. Just take another look at what they’ve done – in case you missed the original posts:
Since then, we’ve learned that in addition to logging Highlands forests, NJAS also is involved in logging Pinelands forests (and taking government money for it).
As far as I know, NJAS still has not given back the dirty Trump money, see:
My goodness, the rot has gotten so bad that Carleton Montgomery of the Pinelands Preservation Alliance and Emile DeVito of NJ Conservation Foundation flat out lied to their members and fellow conservationists about the impacts of the DEP logging plan they support (i.e. they claimed there would be “no reduction in canopy cover”, et al.)
The Associated Press exposed that lie in a national story (but only attributed the lie to the DEP, not to PPA and NJCF who also made exactly the same false claim DEP did):
New Jersey says the cutting will center on the smallest snow-bent pitch pine trees, “and an intact canopy will be maintained across the site.”
The state’s application, however, envisions that canopy cover will be reduced from 68% to 43% on over 1,000 acres (405 hectares), with even larger decreases planned for smaller sections.
I fed AP reporter Wayne Parry those facts. It’s rare to see lies so effectively exposed by media.
It’s time to send NJAS and the rest of NJ’s Filthy 14 a message this Giving Tuesday:
- Give back the COVID money you did not deserve;
- No more fundraising driven issue campaigns;
- No more corporate money;
- No more “Corporate Stewardship Councils” and related corporate “partnerships”;
- Stop misleading the public; and
- Democratize your organizations and let members decide issue priorities, policy positions, and campaign strategies and tactics – not corporate money, elite Foundations, and incompetent and dishonest professional staff.
No more donations until you do all that.
No more donations until you formally pledge to stop taking corporate money.
No more donations until you get back to the politics of the original Earth Day grassroots activist roots.