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Line 39: The ''Breakthrough Institute''<ref>http://www.thebreakthrough.org/index.shtml</ref> is a think tank that works on energy and climate change, health care, social inequality, and human rights. == ~~Lumina~~Consulting ~~Strategies~~Work == Shellenberger founded Communication Works, a progressive media campaigns organization, with Tony Newman in 1996, and merged it with Fenton Communications in 2001. Communication Works worked on a wide range of campaigns, from challenging Nike for its sweatshops in Asia,[http://www.http://www.cleanclothes.org/codes/AIP-3.htm] and saving the latest redwood forest in private hands, [http://www.http://forests.org/archived_site/today/recent/1996/largprot.htm]. In 2002 Shellenberger founded the Lumina Strategies whose clients included the Venezuelan government.<ref name="collier">{{cite news\|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/21/MNGTS8C4C21.DTL\|title=Venezuelan politics suit Bay Area activists' talents\|last=Collier\|first=Robert\|date=2004-08-21\|publisher=''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' In 2005 Shellenberger co-founded American Environics,[http://www.americanenvironics.com] whose clients include AARP, Earthjustice, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and others. Shellenberger founded the lobbying firm Lumina Strategies in 2002 with Erik Curren.<ref name="prweek">{{cite news\|title=New firm founded\|date=2002-09-02\|publisher=''[[PR Week]]''\|accessdate=2009-02-09}}</ref> In May 2004, Lumina disclosed under the [[Foreign Agents Registration Act]] that it had been contracted by the [[Venezuela Information Office]] to lobby for the [[Venezuela]] government and improve [[Hugo Chavez]]'s image in the United States.<ref name="collier">{{cite news\|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/21/MNGTS8C4C21.DTL\|title=Venezuelan politics suit Bay Area activists' talents\|last=Collier\|first=Robert\|date=2004-08-21\|publisher=''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''\|accessdate=2009-02-09}}</ref><ref name="Shellenberger's filing to US DoJ Foreign Agent Registration Unit">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.fara.gov/docs/5624-Exhibit-AB-20040520-HYN72M04.pdf\|title=Schellenberger's filing to US DoJ Foreign Agent Registration Unit\|accessdate=2009-02-07}}</ref> Shellenberger would speak on behalf of the Venezuelan government in that role.<ref name="lat81604">{{cite news\|title=Venezuelans Flock to the Polls to Vote on a Divisive President\|last=Williams\|first=Carol J.\|date=2004-08-16\|publisher=''[[Los Angeles Times]]''\|pages=A-4\|accessdate=2009-02-09}}</ref> Lumina's other clients included [[Global Exchange]], [[Americans United for Affirmative Action]], the [[Ford Foundation]], and the [[Sierra Club]].<ref name="miller">{{cite news\|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_24_56/ai_n27801637/pg_1\|title=Friends of Hugo: Venezuela's Castroite boss has all the usual U.S. supporters\|last=Miller\|first=John J.\|date=2004-12-27\|publisher=''[[National Review]]''\|accessdate=2009-02-09}}</ref> == See also ==