Environmental Research Affected by Bernie Madoff's Alleged Crimes
Corrected 12/17/08: A previous version of this post stated that a JEHT grant covered the Center for Investigative Reporting's environmental research. It is a general operating grant.
Daily Kos today declared Bernie Madoff public enemy No. 1 for progressives not only because of his alleged Ponzi Scheme swindling, but also because he will instantly result in a loss of funding for hundreds of progressive organizations - some of which were doing environmental work. Madoff controlled the funds of the JEHT Foundation, a major source of grants for organizations like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the ACLU. According to a statement from President and CEO Robert Crane, the foundation will close its doors next month. Virtually all of its grants will be cancelled.
There were several organizations that were doing environmental work supported by the JEHT, and may be affected. They are:
- EarthRights International, which documents human rights and environmental abuses worldwide, and holds corporations accountable.
- Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, which provides ligitation to communities suffering adverse health affects from pollution.
- The Center for Investigative Reporting, is a source for investigative journalism in the public interest. The center's environmental projects include researchon the United States' declining role in setting environmental standards worldwide and the interests behind our dependence on carbon-based fuels. A 2006 general operating grantsupports the center's work.
The Center for International Environmental Law, which had a grant supporting the implementation of a framework for democratizing international environmental disputes. - Institute for Social and Environmental Justice Education, which aims to increase the effectiveness of social change groups, and promotes activism.
For a full list of grants from the JEHT, click here.
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Half a man!
"Can anything good come out of Galilee?"
As one of those people who really think in pictures and then formulate words to describe the pictures they see, I have a real problem dealing with people like Good Riddance. That's because the image I hold in my mind of people who think like the "Good Riddance" guy above is never complete. What I see in my mind is half a man, it's always been like that from childhood. Some people make lop-sided arguments occasionally, that's human error, but then there are the bigots who find it so painful to be even-handed or balanced.
To me these are the real perverts, because their very intellect has been made dysfunctional by their all or nothing thinking. To them nothing good can be happen to or come from people they call enemies, and nothing bad can be ascribed to people they call friends. Everything is seen throught the prism of their likes and dislikes.
If they are prejudiced against Blacks, then there's no compassion for black innocent children. If they are prejudiced against Whites, then there's no sadness when a young white teenager dies after crashing his dad's BMW into a tree. If they are rich there's no compassion for the poor. If they are poor a rich young woman is a "rich bitch." If they are Conservative, the thought of Liberals losing money that goes to alleviate the suffering of innocents is occasion for rejoicing.
In all my years I've seen a few bigots switch allegiances, but I have never seen a bigot lose his bigotry. I used to ask myself why on earth would someone choose to be half a person, seeing only half of the big picture. The answer, of course, is that nobody chooses to be that way, that's how they've been shaped. They can however choose to change. Some do, some don't! and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
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