Citizen Action
/Citizens Fund
Defunct national organizations.
Revived as U.S. Action.
Numerous former affiliates in various states remain intact.
Formerly at:
1401 W. 6th Street, Suite 200
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
Phone: (216) 861-5200
(Now Ohio Citizen Action, which split from the national.)
Once-important national organizations destroyed by scandal surrounding the group's involvement in a 1997 money laundering scandal with the Teamsters Union. Former EPA director Carol Browner and her husband Michael Podhorzer once worked for the Washington, D.C. office of Citizen Action / Citizen Fund.
Citizen Action pioneered environmentalist door-to-door canvassing, teamed with Greenpeace and the Nader-founded Public Interest Research Groups..
Citizen Action is profiled in Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb's book,Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America
Background:
Citizen Action was founded by.....To Read More....
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