Posted on 03/16/2022 4:45:26 AM PDT by gattaca
That’s good stuff right there, that’s a keeper.
Somebody with a computer (mine is in the repair shop) do a search of leaders/staff of the Natural Resources Defense Council in the 1980s and see if Damu Smith shows up.
If so, Smith, at that time, was a Communist Party USA supporter and friend of key covert Party organizer in the South, Jack O’Dell, a strongly suspected KGB agent.
I was walking behind them at an anti-defense major protest at the Washington Monument. O’Dell turned to Smith and smiled, saying, We’ve won. We’ve won”!
As I recall, this protest was about the MX train-carried missiles and the whole Nuclear Freeze campaign, which was a Soviet operation from the start. It may have been the Mobilization For Survival rally in 1983.
I can’t readily confirm Damu Smith working with the Natural Resources Defense Council in the 1980s, but he certainly was involved with the Nuclear FREEZE movement at that time and had gotten involved in environmentalist front groups by the 1990s. In 1999, Smith organized the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit (according to his obitutuary by Greenpeace, although there was a conference with the same name in 1991, tied to an environmentalist activist named Charles Lee, currently an advisor to the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice; possibly Greenpeace’s editor has the date wrong) and also in 1999, he cofounded the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN). This group operated until 2006 (the year of Smith’s death), then disbanded, to relaunch in 2020, piggybacking on the George Floyd protests. While involved with NBEJN, Smith worked with Greenpeace on their Greenpeace Toxic Campaign.
Some details on Smith’s early career here:
https://keywiki.org/Damu_Smith
His papers do indicate he was involved with environmentalism as early as 1991:
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https://library.gwu.edu/dcaap-fa/dcaap0067.xml
Environment undated
Box 11 Folder 1
Environment undated
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Environment 1996-2005
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Environment 1992-1994
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Environment 1994-1995
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Environment 1994-1995
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Environment 1996
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Environment 1994-1995 1994-1995
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Environment Circa 1990
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Environment 1993-1997
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Environment 1992-1993
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Environment 1995-2000
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Environment 1995-2000
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Environment Circa 1990
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Environment 1991-1992
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Environment Circa 2000
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Environment 1991
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Environment 1991-1994
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Environment 2002
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Environment Articles Circa 1990
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Environment Articles Circa 1990
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Environment Greenpeace Circa 1990
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Environment Greenpeace 1999-2001
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Environment Greenpeace 1989
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Environment Greenpeace Circa 1990
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Environment Greenpeace Circa 1990
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Environment Greenpeace 1997-2001
Box 2 Folder 12
Environment Greenpeace 2000
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Environment Greenpeace Circa 1990
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Environment NBEJN 2001-2002
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Environment NBEJN 2002-2003
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Environment NBEJN 2005
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Environmental Justice Pamphlet undated
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Environmental Justice Workshop 2002
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Environmental Justice Workshop 2003
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Greenpeace 1997
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Greenpeace 1996
Box 2 Folder 18
Greenpeace Events 2000
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Greenpeace: Incoming Correspondence 2000
Box 10 Folder 36
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National Black Enviornmental Justice Network Correspondence 2003
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National Black Enviornmental Justice Network Speaking Invitation 2004
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National Black Environment 2000
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National Enviornmental Justice Advisory Council ( 1 of 2) 2002
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National Enviornmental Justice Advisory Council ( 2 of 2) 2002
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“Sustainable America” 1996
Box 7 Folder 17
They aren’t duped... they travel to Moscow with their hands held out like they did with Saddam Hussein. It isn’t any secret that they have been hand in hand since at least the 1930s.
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