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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (103116)5/4/2005 6:22:40 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I see that's put out by the Foundation for Deep Ecology.

This is what I come up about the Foundation for Deep Ecology:

Description: Established by Douglas Tompkins with his share of the Esprit clothing fortune. Intensely anti-capitalist and anti-corporate grantmaker who made his fortune as a hypercapitalist, making clothes in California and Third World sweatshops.

Primary funder of International Forum on Globalization and may of its its constituent groups.

FDE's portfolio holds stocks or bonds of Allstate, which insures fossil-fuel-using cars; Citicorp, and three foreign banks, which fund the globalization Tompkins tries to stop; Fannie Mae, funder of suburbanization; Grupo Televisa, the Mexican TV network, ironic since program director Jerry Mander wrote a book against TV; HCA-Hospital Corp. of America; Telefonos de Mexico, a NAFTA bonus-baby; and Wal-Mart, not-so-local presence across America.

FDE funds attack groups in the anti-Exxon Mobil campaign:


Another site has this to say about your source:

The Foundation for Deep Ecology was funded by Douglas Tompkins, founder of the "Esprit" and "The North Face" clothing companies. Tompkins and his wife live reclusive lives in a Chilean nature preserve, purchased by another of their tax-exempt foundations.

Looks like yet another leftie organization with an axe to grind.
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