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Greenpeace Fund, Inc. (c3)
Greenpeace, Inc.
(c4)
Description:
Anti-corporate
activist organization hijacked from its original
mission by extremists who have turned it into a shakedown group,
according to
Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder. The rift in
Greenpeace may be seen in the 1985 split between the original
Greenpeace, now called
Greenpeace Foundation, and the entities it created and were
hijacked, consisting of Greenpeace, Inc., and Greenpeace Fund, Inc.,
comprising Greenpeace
USA and profiled here.
A lead attack group in the anti-Exxon Mobil campaign: Chris Doran, creator of PressurePoint, arrested in the 1999 Seattle WTO riots, headed up the Greenpeace 2002 Campaign Exxon Mobil initiative. Anatomy of Greenpeace shakedowns:
Greenpeace tactics are covered in depth in Nick Nichols' book, Rules for Corporate Warriors: How to Fight and Survive Attack Group Shakedowns. Greenpeace is profiled in Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb's book, Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America. Exempt since: Jan 1988Employer ID: 52-1541501
COMBINED GREENPEACE
REVENUES (2000): $23,084,167
Greenpeace is very open about destroying free enterprise. "I don’t believe in the market approach.... It results in treating toxics or pollution as a commodity... When companies have a bottom line of profit you won’t have them thinking about the environment." So said former Greenpeace USA Executive Director Peter Bahouth in the left-wing newspaper In These Times in April 1990. Anti-capitalist rhetoric shouldn’t come as much of a surprise from a group reconstituted from the 1969 Don’t Make a Wave Committee, a bunch of American Vietnam War draft dodgers who fled to Vancouver, British Columbia, and, with some Canadian supporters backed by American Quaker money, tried to stop U. S. nuclear tests on the Aleutian island of Amchitka with a halibut seiner renamed Greenpeace. Various West Coast Quaker groups gave money, including the Palo Alto Meeting of Friends and the Eugene Meeting of Friends. Canadians were worried about possible tidal waves and earthquakes from the underground atomic blast and American Quakers had tried to stop nuclear tests twice before by sending the boats Phoenix and Golden Rule into test zones but were quickly arrested and their boats seized. However, if a Canadian boat were to sail into a test zone and stayed outside the actual territorial limit, American authorities could do nothing about it. The Don’t Make a Wave Committee had talented planners and fundraisers, for all their radicalism—but the radicalism stuck in the public’s mind. As Robert Hunter wrote in his official history of the organization, one of the original patriarchs of Greenpeace was former Philadelphia lawyer Irving Stowe, "a Jew who had joined the Quaker religion" and rabid America-hater. Stowe’s reasons for leaving America were, of course, Vietnam, refusal to pay taxes that went into the war effort, anger over corruption of the political system, and "creeping fascism." He tended to let all his personal views spill out in his interviews. His public denunciations of American imperialism and atrocities were beginning to embarrass other members of the committee. There were fears that he was stirring up anti-Americanism for its own sake, not because of the specific issue of Amchitka. In fact, Irving Stowe’s attacks on America were to leave such a lasting impression in Vancouver that for years afterward, Greenpeace would be viewed as a tool of Peking or the Kremlin, a reputation that was not helped much a few years later when Stowe traveled to China and came back singing its praises. When early Greenpeace radical Rod Marining said, "I’m not a Red, I’m a Green," he was not expressing tender love toward free enterprise. The Quaker principle to "bear witness" was not enough for Greenpeace, which tries to make everybody bear witness—with the Greenpeace point of view, of course. Confrontation, civil disobedience, staged films of animal abuse, inflammatory lies and physical harassment are Greenpeace’s methods despite its avowed adherence to Quaker principles of non-violence. It was for many years entwined with the radical organization, Earth First!, quietly sharing staff, activists and offices. "The secret to [the late Greenpeace co-founder] David McTaggart’s success is the secret to Greenpeace’s success: It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true. You are what the media define you to be. Greenpeace became a myth, and a myth-generating machine." So said Paul Watson, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace. That squib from a long 1991 article in Forbes magazine gives us the aromatic top-note of what Greenpeace is all about—perception is reality and the facts don’t matter. Grants to Greenpeace Fund:
Foundation Name:
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
Foundation Name:
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Foundation Name:
The Trust for Mutual Understanding
Foundation Name: Rockefeller Brothers Fund,
Inc.
Foundation Name: Reiman Charitable
Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name:
The Scherman Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name:
The Overbrook Foundation
Foundation Name: Columbia Foundation
Foundation Name:
The Capital Group Companies Charitable
Foundation
Foundation Name:
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
Foundation Name:
The
New York Community Trust
Foundation Name:
HKH Foundation
Foundation Name:
The John Merck Fund
Foundation Name:
The Wilburforce Foundation
Foundation Name:
Turner Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name:
Turner Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name:
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
Foundation Name:
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Foundation Name:
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
Foundation Name: The Trust for Mutual
Understanding
Foundation Name:
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Foundation Name:
Wallace Global Fund
Foundation Name:
Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name:
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Foundation Name:
The Trust for Mutual Understanding
Foundation Name: Turner Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name: W. Alton Jones Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name:
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Foundation Name:
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Foundation Name:
Turner Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name: Lannan Foundation
Foundation Name: Turner Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name:
The Joyce Foundation
Foundation Name: The Rockefeller Foundation
Foundation Name: HKH Foundation
Foundation Name:
The Joyce Foundation
Foundation Name: Wallace Genetic Foundation,
Inc.
Foundation Name:
Lannan Foundation
Foundation Name:
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Foundation Name:
Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name:
Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name:
The Joyce Foundation
Foundation Name:
Foundation for Deep Ecology
Foundation Name:
The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation,
Inc.
Foundation Name:
Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
Foundation Name: Town Creek Foundation, Inc. |
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