SOC 0352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Rainforest Action Network, Seal Hunting, Deep Ecology
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Political context: hostile climates are favorable for mobilization but not for policy outcomes. Divisions between national lobbies and grassroots groups: reliance of professional groups on direct mail, lack of ability to mobilize for direct action. Alar (chemical use on apples: used on apples to make them look shiny. Greenpeace (seal pelt boycott: powerful images of baby seals being clubbed, european ban on import of seal pelts devasted inuit (native seal hunters) economy despite greenpeace effort to focus on large commercial seal hunting. Tuna (dolphin safe tuna: greenpeace attempt to deal with complexities of issue, find a long-term solution so as not to harm economic and poor countries, conflict with other environmental groups, public relations problems for. Greenpeace: realization of need to organize north-south coalitions to deal with complex issues over long-term, question of whether media-based strategy is suited to dealing with global economic problems involving class issues. New constituents have different understanding than leaders.
