The following is a true story about a Madison Activist who discovers that not all environmental organizations have the environment as their main agenda. While reading this journey about one persons Green Corps activist career, I am reminded that religious cults are also non-profit organizations. What Green Corps Brochures Won't Tell You By Nathaniel Miller.
“Green Corps sounded like the ideal program. I had been an activist in college and Green Corps claimed that it took college graduates, trained them, and paid them to work for a year on various campaigns with big-name environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and Greenpeace.”In the end Nathaniel Miller Gets Fired from his position working with Dane County Supervisor Brett Hulsey in Hulsey’s Sierra Club office. In Madison there is always work for youthful idealists and Nathaniel moves on to another position with the Student Environmental Action Coalition where activists work to achieve both social and environmental justice through national campaigns to Prohibit the Use of Tampons.
“After the August training was complete we were sent into the field to work on campaigns with various environmental organizations. Some people worked on Clean Energy issues with Greenpeace in Florida and California. I went to work with the Sierra Club in Madison, Wisconsin.”
“Naomi Roth stated, “maybe racism will be solved in a couple hundred years, but the environmental movement needs to recognize its base of power is with the white middle class, and that is where we should organize.” Central Staff constantly reiterated the statement that “Diversity is not part of Green Corps’ mission.”
