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Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 6 | Conclusion]

This is sought occupation, not physical, but of hearts and minds. Which will undoubtedly prove far more powerful than physical occupation of lands and citizens via force. Obedience as and subservience as the pathway to a "new economy". This series has attempted to give readers a glimpse into how this is to be achieved and for what purpose.

Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 5]

"Celebrity-driven campaigns can also be seen to work to responsibilize consumers and audiences as agents of change, through their targeting of audiences, publics, and private individuals; this often elides or willfully ignores, the offending structures, corporations, and/or other actors involved."

The Beautiful People

"Instead of taking on the formidable tasks of stopping fracking of the Bakken Shale formation in North Dakota, or ending the laying waste to the Athabaskan watershed at the Alberta Tar Sands, ‘the beautiful people’ merely travel from one photo-op to the next?—?between pit-stops where they replenish their coffers with ill-gotten gains from the financial elite."

Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 4]

"They examine in detail how this work has been funded for decades and how the “big green” NGOs and non-violent trainers utilize the power of the people and the “youth-led” paradigm and photo ops to win our hearts… and our donations."

A Clear Agenda

"For corporations like Unilever–owner of Ben & Jerry’s, as well as the “Fair and Lovely” line of products for people of color to whiten their skin–funding foundations run by sellout NGO elites in service to Wall Street is just part of doing business."

Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 3]

"The spread of activist fervor is being harvested as a potential source new "consumer-activsim." The consumer-activism is guided by best selling playbooks for nonviolent revolution and a global network of trainers with a common "indigenous led" pedagogy."

Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 2]

"Most vitally, this series contrasts the tiny amounts of money spent at the grassroots against the vast sums spent at the 'business' end of the non-profit industrial complex where personal data helps behavior-change B-corporation executives exercise the will of corporate philanthropists, corporations, and imperialist governments."

Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 1]

"While the world celebrates from the pause the Army Corps Of Engineers has forced in the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Cory Morningstar and Forrest Palmer string together an important and critical history of the environmental and climate change movement."

The Limits of the Political Vision of the Authors of the Leap Manifesto

"The very notion of “renewable” energy is a dangerous and reckless idea which far too many environmentalists give credence. Basic science tells us that every energy source requires inputs and it has emissions consequences."

All Eyes On Dakota Access – All Eyes Off Bakken Genocide

For media sensation and photographs that will travel the globe, those at the helm of the non-profit industrial complex ensure that publicly, Indigenous Peoples most always appear in the forefront – all while strategizing behind closed doors to take leadership. When they cannot do so, they vacate the movement, work to marginalize and if possible bury, the legitimate work they were unable to take over. The 2010 People's Agreement (Cochabamba, Bolivia), led by Indigenous peoples, is an excellent example of just this. The white man has proven incapable of involvement if he is not soon in charge. He has proven himself incapable of following, learning, listening… standing behind. Keeping his mouth closed. The ugly reality is that these are racist, fascist organizations, only there to protect current power structures and count bodies. Social media metrics are far more important than disposable people.