Empire Strikes Back (Bad news for A

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Subject: Empire Strikes Back (Bad news for Activists)

>From 75361.1143@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fri Apr 21 09:32:42 1995
Date: 21 Apr 95 12:28:45 EDT
To: "INTERNET:tun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re:  Pepsi Hires Hill & Knowlton

Hill and Knowlton is one of the three pr or communications firms usually
selected for their expertise on damage control. The others are Dorf & Stanton
("a Shandwick Company with offices worldwide"), currently having Hydro-Quebec as
a client, and Burson Marsteller (which handled the Union Carbide Bohpal
"incident"). You can bet your bottom dollars, activists, that your job will be a
lot harder. The big boys and girls are reading  the media tea leaves and
monitoring oppositional movement.... One thing to ask Burma activists in
Washington to do is to go to the public records department of the criminal
division of the US Department of Justice and make sure that H&K has registered
as an agent of a foreign principal if it turns out that they are doing damage
control regarding Burma (or any other law firm, lobbyist, etc.). They are
required by law to file a report of who they are meeting with, etc., every six
months. And if they are lobbying in states, local activists might check with the
appropriate state lobbying agencies, also. Sincerely yours, Ann Stewart
(registered lobbyist #4632 with the USDOJ for the Grand Council of the Crees).
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