Nov 28
20140
350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Climate Change Consumption Denialism Green Economy Naomi Klein (350.org) New Economy
"All the major environmental groups know this, which is why they maintain, contrary to the requirements of a 2,000-watt society, that climate change can be tackled with minimal disruption to “the American way of life.” And Klein, you have to assume, knows it too. The irony of her book is that she ends up exactly where the “warmists” do, telling a fable she hopes will do some good."
"But it is clear that the helpless and/or metonymic white woman of imperial fantasy will no longer do. The historical victories of feminism have forced empire to interpolate (mostly white) women as its agents as well as its objects."
Nov 28
20140
501 c 3 organization 501c3 American Cancer Society charity donate end of year giving Move on Nonprofit Industrial Complex Red Cross Salvation Army SEIU (Avaaz) Text Red Cross United Way
"The purpose of this complex is to create an accommodation to capitalism, though they're known for tackling the effects of policies under the system that create the problems in the first place, attacking the symptoms of the disease rather than the disease itself."
Nov 27
20140
Humanitarian Agencies, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Inc. (ISV) International Student Volunteers neoliberalism Volunteer Abroad Programs
"Overview: Tristan Biehn examines the new imperial ideologies present in narratives manufactured by the websites of youth-centred volunteer abroad organizations. These narratives serve to instil neoliberal, capitalist understandings of the issues of global inequality and poverty in prospective volunteers, resulting in the depoliticization and decontextualization of such issues."
"Martin said the high salaries are justified because the family has brought considerable economic development to the community, with assets that include a golf course and resort, a new supermarket, a Tim Hortons, a hardware store, and real estate development for non-Aboriginal residents."
"It also illuminated their connection with the Tea Party and KGMI radio, both of which assisted CERA (“the Ku Klux Klan of Indian country”) in promoting inter-racial discord aimed at the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, which opposes fossil fuel export in their traditional territories."
"And this isn’t some sick, satirical joke. The man who was to a huge extent responsible for killing, injuring, displacing and immiserating several hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children (among his many other crimes and misdemeanours) has been recognised ‘for his humanitarian work’ by one the ‘Western’ world’s foremost child welfare NGOs."
"I was struck by how many prominent liberal and leftist pundits and journos took no position, at least none than I could find. (I’d argue that not speaking out against intervention — a euphemism for what was clearly a war of aggression from the outset — is a failing only slightly smaller than supporting it.)"
Nov 10
20140
National Congress of American Indians North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus (NAIPC) UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
Indian Country November 10, 2014 by Rudolph C. Ryser Reading the Glenn...