Greenpeace’s Native lands transformation collapsed when late-1990s funding cuts hit.

Evidence

Unfortunately, funding problems in the late 1990s forced Greenpeace to abandon its Native Lands campaign (as well as to lay off 50 percent of its staff and to close all of its U.S. offices except the one in Washington, D.C.). … “It did have a big impact,” notes Warledo. “It’s historic, actually. We didn’t get as far as we wanted to, but Greenpeace moved farther than anyone else did.” She pauses for a moment. “But, you know,” she continues thoughtfully, noting the paucity of Native American staff at Greenpeace today, “I’m the one Native lands toxics campaigner, so, on the one hand, yes, we made great steps, but, on the other hand, it was never really fully accepted.” — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 706

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the impermanence of allied institutional change — useful counterweight to earlier chapters’ optimism and to the Eco-Justice thread on institutionalized EL movement goals. — connects to: Environmental justice pressure transformed Greenpeace until funding cuts reversed it