Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuclear-power program, such as the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists. The movement affected a wide coalition of national organizations: environmentalists like the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and Mobilization for Survival, antiwar groups like the War Resisters League, consumer groups like Ralph Nader's Public Interest Research Group, and economic activists like Tom Hayden's Campaign for Economic Democracy and William Winpisinger's Machinist's Union. Says Friends of the Earth mid-Atlantic Representative Lorna Salzman: "What we have here is a grass roots movement, one that includes students, farmers, engineers...
...what we were trying to achieve. I really don't think it's worked out as satisfactorily as it might have. We just have to find a way to resolve this issue of dealing with Congress in the future, because it's in everybody's interest for the members of Congress to understand what we're trying to do and what our problems are. It's hard for them to understand if we can't share everything with them...
Harvard's elite sources of support have no interest in cutting off the University, whatever concessions the Administration must make to disgruntled students and faculty in order to keep the place running smoothly. They know who the University really serves. They know that private universities and their funding mechanisms insure capitalist America the intellectual, technical and leadership resources it requires. As long as they get these things for their dollars the dollars will keep coming. William Swislow...
Such corporate actions only exacerbate the current tremendous imbalance between the political resources of business interests and those of consumer and citizen activists. According to Harvey Shulman, former executive director of Media Access Project, a public interest law firm in Washington...
...House Government Operations Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affaris held hearings on the subject of grassroots lobbying. Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal (D-N.Y.), chairman of the subcommittee, estimated that "substantially more than $1 billion is spent each year by all interest groups on grassroots lobbying." A very high percentage of this is spent by corporations and trade associations. It takes the form of print and electronic media advertisements as well as communications with employees and shareholders. Questions of public policy are discussed, a position is advocated and often letters to Congressmen are urged...