while at the same time, developing and publicising other analyses and alternative visions, on the other. Given their limit- ed financial resources and human-power, however, action groups often have to decide between these two strategies. Yet greater exchange and new coalitions between industry critics from different movements - consumer, health, environmen- tal, democratic media, social justice and women's movements, for instance - may conserve institutional resources. Engineering of Consent is focusing on the ongoing babymilk campaign and the Counter-strategies developed by Nestlé since the seventies. The Cornerhouse briefing is dealing with: Corporate PR, The Art of Camouflage and Deception, Issues Management, Intelligence Gathering and Assessments, Image Management, Suppression of Public Issues, PR Laundering, Manipulating the Public Debate. The Engineering of Consent, Uncovering Corporate PR can be ordered at The Cornerhouse by email: cornerhouse@gn.apc.org THE GREEN PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR - ON THE WAR AGAINST THE GREENS. {19uu0g.o eNfays ynoqy Five foot seven and solidly built, with shoulder-length salt-and-pepper hair, broad cheeks, and wide (but not inno- cent) eyes, forty-nine-year old Sheila O'Donnell is not your typical private investigator. She's non-violent, progres- sive, and lacks a law enforcement background, but this granddaughter of Irish immigrants still has all the hallmarks of a good detective: tenacity, toughness of character, and unflinching willingness to engage difficult problems head on. To environmental activist under siege from Maine to south Texas, Sheila has become known as the Green P.l. "Right now I'd say about half my cases are environmental,’ she explains over cappuccino on a warm spring day near her home in Mill Valley, California. ‘I've got ten cases involving violent attacks on environmentalists. I've talked to activist in twenty-five or thirty similar cases. | turned copies of those cases over to the Center for Investigative Reporting [an award-winning journalism project based in San Francisco] and they've been able to develop another 120 examples and it's continuing to expand. I'm sure the real numbers are well into hundreds - thousands if you count vandalism, phone threats, and harassing letters. My worry is that there's really no place for people to go when they get a threatening call in the middle of the night or find their dog beheaded on their front steps. | mean they can call me but I'm only one person.’ On an ‘Eye on America’ news segment about the problem that aired March 3, 1993, CBS correspondent Eric Hayes re- ported, ‘Most of these [cases] are not high-profile environmentalists; they're not out sabotaging industry. They're more likely to work within the system to protect environment. They're finding, though, that the system can't protect them.’ ‘Right now the FBI won't touch this,’ says Linda Chase, a staff aide to Congressman George Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, who has looked into some of the incidents. ‘They think ecoterrorism, tree spiking, attacks on logging equipment, that sort of thing, is a national problem, but reports of environmentalists being physically attacked they just want to pass on to the local sheriff. With neither the FBI nor local low enforce- ment agencies showing much interest, the investigative effort has fallen to a small group of reporters and activists around the country along with private detective Sheila O'Donnell. The Green P.l. sees a well-thought strategy in the anti-environmentals’ constant promotion and use of the term