"It seems that the oil companies are getting services from the Department of the Interior when the public is not," said Kelly Fuller, energy and mining campaign director at the Western Watershed Project, an advocacy group.
In an effort to ingratiate themselves — and perhaps prevent Colonel Miles Quaritch (Mr. Lang) and his fellow corporate mercenaries from mowing down the Na'vis while taking their land — scientists attached to the mining campaign have created Na'vi-like avatars, which are genetically matched to their human "drivers".
This under-the-radar data-mining campaign has been joined more visibly by Republican figures like Ralph Reed, the Southeastern chairman for the Bush-Cheney re-election effort, who in December publicly asked supporters to supply the party with their church membership rolls, hunting-club registries, college-fraternity directories and P.T.A. membership rosters.
He reported from Vietnam and Ethiopia, and on the Princess of Wales's Angola and Bosnia visits which focused on the anti-personnel mine campaign.
Victor Homola (NYT) SWITZERLAND: LAND MINE CAMPAIGN The global campaign to ban land mines is urging governments to take steps to pressure or isolate countries that have yet to sign the 1997 treaty banning the devices.
It found the party was morally and politically responsible for killings of civilians during military operations, for killings and maimings in its land-mine campaign and for the killing of suspected informers.
Above all, the Administration is determined to avoid a repeat of the land-mines campaign -- "the Madison Avenue approach," as American officials refer to it, meaning a public-relations blitz with images of victims.
And this time the United States is determined not to be left out, as in the land mines campaign, which produced a treaty that the Clinton Administration has refused to sign.
The I'll Show You Mine campaign, instigated by Bryony Kimmings, is a reminder that many of those theatre-makers who are admired by emerging artists are in fact only scraping a living themselves.
In 1998, Van Dormael participated in the project Spotlights on a Massacre: 10 Films Against 100 Million Antipersonnel Land Mines, a collection of short films that works as an anti-land mine campaign.
Second, some successful illicit crypto-mining campaigns used several pools at the same time, making them more resilient to takedown operations.
