Jun 10
20160
350.org / 1Sky, Indigenous Environmental Network
350.org Assimilation IEN Indigenous Environmental Network Tides
"So it is disappointing, but not surprising, when people like Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)–funded by TIDES–perpetuate the myth of 350 as a small organization responsive to indigenous interests."
Jun 09
20160
350.org / 1Sky, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation
350.org Break Free Campaign Buffett Conditioning Gates McKibben Rockefeller
"Now, all that remains is the sheep shearing by on-the-take politicians--the wool taking the form of U.S. Treasury funds for nuclear-powered electrical generating stations, along with large scale solar and wind turbine farms, using highly toxic chemicals from the oil industry in their manufacture."
Counterpunch March 15, 2016 by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn Anthony...
Jun 09
20161
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The Occupation of Haiti, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"The White savior industrial complex, according to Cole, plays an important role in the current system of global pillage. It provides a safety valve for unbearable conditions created by foreign imperialists in places like Haiti."
"Men’s rights activists around the world can rest easy knowing that organizations like Amnesty International have their penises interests first in mind."
Jun 08
20160
Biodiversity Biomass Canada Carbon Canopy Group Dogwood Alliance Drax E-ON Project False Solutions France Gardanne Marseille Mediterranean Forests monoculture Old Growth Forests Quebec Radio Zinzine UK United States
Keep in mind while watching this film that while Dogwood Alliance may publicly denounce Enviva's biomass (the burning of trees) practices, Dogwood Alliance has partnered with Coca-Cola along with other corporations and NGOs to create the Carbon Canopy Group - a coalition "that seeks to leverage markets for ecosystem services" and "offset" pollution via carbon credits.
Jun 08
20160
Climate Change Ecology Fort MacMurray Fort McMurray KXL Land Theft Mass Exodus Nature Bats Last Racism The Trail of Tears
"As our feet will be the thing to carry us to parts unknown as we will have to go to places we have no choice to go for survival in the not too distant future, I would think that poetic justice would include that we be relegated to the same existence that was imposed on the ones so long ago by such a self-designated exceptional civilization such as this."
Jun 08
20161
Amnesty International, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism
Adam Smith Institute Exploitation Framing Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) Jacobin Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) Linguistics Prostitution World Health Organization (WHO)
"Perhaps the single most effective strategy hit upon so far is to pump out the myth contained in the term “sex work”: the myth that it is possible to commodify consent."