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350.org / 1Sky

Apr 25

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Environmental Defence Fund, Greenpeace, MoveOn.org, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, SumOfUs

Avaaz CREDO Environmental Defense Fund Greenpeace Mother Jones MoveOn Nation Natural Resources Defense Council SumOfUs

The John Stauber Interview

"It begins with a real movement, which is why it is so important to expose the phony foundation and millionaire funded movements that claim the mantle of social and political change. CREDO, MoveOn, SumofUs, Avaaz, all these “clicktivist” campaigns are not about radical empowering of citizen democracy, nor are they about organizing to make the changes we need. They are marketing organizations that funnel energy back into electing status quo politicians. People need to stop looking up, and start looking around. Remember the old adage, if the people lead, the leaders will follow."

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Apr 19

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Greenwashing KXL neoliberalism Revolving Doors Symbolism United Nations World Environment Day

Greenwashing from Coast to Coast

"If you live in Oregon, you are familiar with the spectacle of greenwashing at the highest levels of political theater. As Portland gears up to host the UN’s World Environment Day, the international attention almost obscures the plans for multiple freeway expansions, a Nestle water bottling plant, huge timber sales (whispers of biofuel replants), a dodgy LNG pipeline, and the terrible specter of coal exports. The ringleaders of the circus are the political elites."

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Apr 12

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Foundations, Greenpeace, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Pembina Institute, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

1Sky 350.org Barack Obama Bill Ackman Bill Gates BNSF Capitalism CN Rail CP Defend Our Coast Discourse Greenpeace Hillary Clinton Keystone KL KXL Sierra Club Tarsands Warren Buffett

Keystone XL: The Art of NGO Discourse | Part I

"Very few in the environmental movement wish to discuss, let alone acknowledge, the very ugly reality that the "Stop the KXL!" campaign has absolutely nothing to do with shutting down tar sands production. The actuality is that behind the protest signs (that conveniently blur lines and bear much semblance to the Obama branding campaign), we have an entire rail transport industry burgeoning to transport the oil formerly designated for the KXL pipeline. The show is over. It matters little whether Keystone is approved or not. If it is approved, we have a flourishing rail economy plus the KXL pipeline. Bread and circuses have never been so skillfully orchestrated." ...

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Apr 12

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

350.org Beyond Coal Campaign Chesapeake Energy EPA KXL Pew Charitable Trusts Sierra Club

Designer Protests and Vanity Arrests in DC

"Between 2007 and 2010, Chesapeake Energy secretly funneled nearly $30 million to the Sierra Club to advocate the virtues of natural gas as a so-called “bridge” fuel. Bridge to where is yet to be determined. By the time this subornment was disclosed, the funders of the environmental movement had turned decisively against fracking for gas and the even more malicious methods used to extract shale oil."

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Mar 21

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, TckTckTck, Uncategorized

Branding Campaigns Exploitation Marketing Movements Symbolism

EDITORIAL | The Nature of Campaigns

"Campaigns are by nature tactical. Without the strategic guidance of a movement’s goals, they are sometimes rudderless beyond the moment’s objective. This is why we often see professional progressives celebrating tactical achievements that actually undermine strategic goals. Goals are not part of their purview."

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Mar 16

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, MoveOn.org, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Occupy Wall Street, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), The Soros Network | OSI

350.org Al Gore Alternet Center For American Progress Democracy Alliance George Soros Mother Jones SEIU SmartMeme The Nation Tides

Paid to Lose | The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats

"Real movements are not the creation of and beholden to millionaires. The Progressive Movement is astroturf beholden to the rich elite, just as the Democratic millionaires and operatives of the Democracy Alliance intended. The “movement’s” funding is in the hands of a small number of super rich Democrats and union bureaucrats and advisors who run with them. Its talking points, strategies, tactics and PR campaigns are all at the service of the Democratic elite. There is no grassroots organized progressive movement with power in the United States, and none is being built."

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Feb 27

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

350.org. Sierra Club Keystone XL

The Reformist Approach Dead End – The Absolute Enemy

"No amount of symbolic action will stop them from extracting whatever fuels will make money for them at any given time. A million people could scream, chain themselves together, or set themselves and their children on fire in front of the White House, but this would not mitigate capital’s compulsion to expand. If an action is not going to be effective, it’s not worth taking. Fighting losing battles is simply depressing. When we do decide to engage in these struggles for strategic reasons, we need to understand their limitations to avoid being demoralized."

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Feb 26

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Sierra Club

350.org Branding Denialism KXL McKibben Nader Naomi Klein

[No Logo?] Perils of the Keystone XL Pipeline Confront Obama by Ralph Nader

"Bill McKibben, a prolific writer and organizer on global warming and climate change, has had a busy year teaching environmentalists not to despair and will soon be learning some lessons himself."

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Feb 20

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

1Sky 350.org McKibben

Pseudo-Protests and Serious Climate Crisis

"What if the celebrities generating the news with arrests at the White House were to speak the truth? What if they committed to nonviolently interfering with the operations of a government destroying the climate? What if they committed to opposing the Democratic and Republican parties as long as this is their agenda?"

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Feb 16

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology

350.org Civil Rights Movement KXL

Activist Malpractice: the Celebrity Catch-and-Release Movement

"A fellow activist notes, “That we’ve wasted time even talking about the pipeline is EXACTLY what the corporate masters who bought the environmental movement had hoped for. The pipeline has zero to do with what happens next, and they know it. They have to just wonder at the stupidity of so-called environmentalists — dumber than they even thought.”

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