Authors
David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and policy strategist. He is co-founder of the Commons Strategy Group, Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, and writes technology-related reports for the Aspen Institute. Bollier collaborated with television writer/producer Norman Lear on a variety of non-television, public affairs projects from 1985 to 2010. Bollier was founding editor of On the Commons, and now blogs at his own website. Bollier calls his work “focused on reclaiming the commons, understanding how digital technologies are changing democratic culture, fighting the excesses of intellectual property law, fortifying consumer rights and promoting citizen action.” Bollier co-founded the public interest group Public Knowledge and served as a board member until 2010.
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Raj Patel (born 1972) is a British-born American academic, journalist, activist and writer who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the United States for extended periods. He is best known for his 2008 book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. His most recent book is The Value of Nothing which was on The New York Times best-seller list during February 2010. He has been referred to as "the rock star of social justice writing."
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Dave Zirin is an American political sportswriter who is the sports editor for The Nation, a weekly published progressive magazine dedicated to politics and culture. Zirin was briefly the host of XM satellite’s weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. Zirin was once a contributor to The Nation, a columnist for SLAM Magazine, and The Progressive, as well as once being a guest on ESPN's Outside The Lines and Democracy Now. His first book, What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States (Haymarket Books) has entered its third printing. Zirin has also published Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports, and A People’s History of Sports in the United States, a sports-related volume in the manner of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States series for The New Press.
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Formerly Endorsed Authors
William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born 1960) is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the anti-carbon campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first (The End of Nature) in 1989 about climate change. In 2009, he led 350.org's organization of 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. In 2010, McKibben and 350.org conceived the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, which convened more than 7,000 events in 188 countries as he had told a large gathering at Warren Wilson College shortly before the event. In December 2010, 350.org coordinated a planet-scale art project, with many of the 20 works visible from satellites. In 2011 and 2012 he led the environmental campaign against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project and spent three days in jail in Washington D.C. It was one of the largest civil disobedience actions in America for decades. Two weeks later he was inducted into the literature section of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Why does EE no longer endorse Bill McKibben's work? Because it has been discovered that 350.org is largely funded by the Rockefeller family.
The Rockefeller family made their fortune off of the very industry Bill is opposed too... OIL!
In Bill's own words... "It's not that we have a philosophical difference with the fossil fuel industry - it's that their business model is destroying the planet."
Their business model is doing more than just destroying the planet... it is also controlling their opposition (like Bill).
ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND
Sustainable Markets Foundation
$75,000 for 1 year
For its project 350.org.
Program: Sustainable Development
Award Date: 11/07/2009
Sustainable Markets Foundation
$100,000 for 1 year
For its 350.org project.
Program: Sustainable Development
Award Date: 06/17/2010
350.org
$225,000 for 1 year
For general support.
Program: Sustainable Development
Award Date: 06/19/2012
350.org
$225,000 for 1 year
For general support.
Program: Sustainable Development
Award Date: 03/07/2013
350.org
$175,000 for 1 year
For general support.
Program: Sustainable Development
Award Date: 04/29/2014
350.org
$75,000 for 1 year
For its work on The People's Climate March.
Programs: Sustainable Development, Pivotal Place: New York City
Award Date: 08/21/2014
ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND
2012
350.org
To mobilize its grassroots network in support of bold federal action on climate change.
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Why does EE no longer endorse Bill McKibben's work? Because it has been discovered that 350.org is largely funded by the Rockefeller family.
The Rockefeller family made their fortune off of the very industry Bill is opposed too... OIL!
In Bill's own words... "It's not that we have a philosophical difference with the fossil fuel industry - it's that their business model is destroying the planet."
Their business model is doing more than just destroying the planet... it is also controlling their opposition (like Bill).
ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND
Sustainable Markets Foundation
$75,000 for 1 year
For its project 350.org.
Program: Sustainable Development
Award Date: 11/07/2009
Sustainable Markets Foundation
$100,000 for 1 year
For its 350.org project.
Program: Sustainable Development
Award Date: 06/17/2010
350.org
$225,000 for 1 year
For general support.
Program: Sustainable Development
Award Date: 06/19/2012
350.org
$225,000 for 1 year
For general support.
Program: Sustainable Development
Award Date: 03/07/2013
350.org
$175,000 for 1 year
For general support.
Program: Sustainable Development
Award Date: 04/29/2014
350.org
$75,000 for 1 year
For its work on The People's Climate March.
Programs: Sustainable Development, Pivotal Place: New York City
Award Date: 08/21/2014
ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND
2012
350.org
To mobilize its grassroots network in support of bold federal action on climate change.
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is an environment writer for The Guardian, where he tracks the geopolitics of environmental, energy and economic crises via his Guardian hosted blog, Earth Insight. He is also Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict in the context of global ecological, energy and economic crises. A bestselling author, scholar and investigative journalist on international security issues specialising in the systemic causes of mass violence, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, and has lectured at Brunel University’s Politics & History Unit at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, for courses in international relations theory, contemporary history, empire and globalization.
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