by Peter Dauvergne and Genevieve LeBaron
Excerpted on Salon.com from their new book, “Protest Inc.: The Corporatization of Activism,” Dauvergne and LeBaron quote Steingraber in the opening to this piece on the acceptance of big oil and gas and other corporate funding by Sierra Club and other large environmental organizations. “Author Sandra Steingraber raged after the news broke of the Chesapeake Energy donations: ‘It was as if, on the eve of D-day, the anti-Fascist partisans had discovered that Churchill was actually in cahoots with the Axis forces.’” Read the article