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Back in the day, as the saying goes

In 1970 and 1971 a group of University of Southern California students started up the Center for New Corporate Priorities.

The modern environmental movement, one that had come into being with the revelations of Earthrise and the the Earth Science missions that brought us, as planet citizens, a first ever awareness of planet citizens, planet scientists. A whole earth vision was springing up and activists organizing was growing with a new found environmental, green diversity.

Soon our USC group that was in many ways at the center of the anti-Vietnam war movement and first Earth Day was looking to 'shift the priorities' of corporate 'business-as-usual'.

The Los Angeles-born Center for New Corporate Priorities had two initial campaigns:

Mobilize a network of peace groups to continue anti-war organizing and re-envision what a smart national defense strategy would look like...

and

Enable anti-redlining rules/regulations and corporate governance to move toward an economy that is not driven by war and oil/gas, as national/global economies have been driven for the past two hundred years...