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Sierra Club

Jun 04

2013

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

350.org Keystone KXL NRDC Sierra Club TckTckTck

Keystone XL: The Art of NGO Discourse – Part II

First and foremost, these self-appointed NGOs represent and protect the interests of their funders. 350.org and friends successfully take the issues away from the dinner table, where the issues need discussing, and instead, they make the issue about them. Then, after poisoning it, they’ll blame someone else for it. This is narcissism, which flourishes like a cancer within the complex. A complex built on a foundation of whiteness and aversive racism. It is ugly. Perhaps the late George Carlin summarizes the second half of this investigative report far better on stage than in typeface: “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

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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

2

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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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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Nov 29

2012

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350.org / 1Sky, Environmental Defence Fund, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club

1Sky/350.org Climate Reality Project Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) FoE National Wildlife Federation Powershift Sierra Club

Revealed: The Day Obama Instructed the Big Greens to Keep Silent on Climate Change

"My most vivid memory of that meeting is this idea that you can't talk about climate change," said Jessy Tolkan, who at the time was a leader of the climate youth movement, Power Shift.

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Nov 21

2012

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Environmental Defence Fund, Foundations, National Wildlife Federation, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

25 x 25 Biofuels Biomass Capitalism Climate Environmental Defence Fund False Solutions Greenwash National Wildlife Federation Sierra Club World Watch Institute

“25 x 25” is a Big Fat Bio-Massacre

"Some of my friends in the professional environmental movement have reacted as expected yesterday when I called them out for having allowed biomass burning to be a huge part of what Michigan is going to get under Proposal 3 or “25 x 25.” Accusations and anger."

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Oct 31

2012

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350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

350.org Alaska Climate Council of Canadians David Suzuki Doundation Defend Our Coast Denial Drilling Greenpeace James Hansen Pacifism as Pathology Symbolism Tar Sands

Sierra Club, NRDC & Big Greens Thank Obama for Granting Drilling Permits to Almost all the Oil Resources in Alaska’s Reserve

"The shock and surprise routine on the pandering to corporate interests by NGOs is getting stale. It is easy to publicly voice one's disdain of Obama, Romney, the Democrats and Republicans along with all of the different people (Euro-American's leading the charge) and corporations/industries that are destroying the Earth. Yet the liberal left continues to be silent on the NGOs at the forefront of a dead movement who lead the sheep to the slaughter."

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Jul 31

2012

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Environmental Defence Fund, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club, Wilderness Society

Biomass Environmental Defense Fund Forests Foundations Fracking Montana Wilderness Association Sierra Club The Wilderness Society

When Environmentalists Collaborate

"Just this week, The Wilderness Society (TWS) and the Montana Wilderness Association filed a brief in favor of a 2,038-acre Climate Camo logging plan on the Lolo National Forest. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, the WildWest Institute and two other real grassroots conservation groups had filed a lawsuit against the Colt Summit Timber Sale alleging that the logging would do grave harm to lynx, grizzly bears and bull trout."

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Jul 31

2012

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Center for Biological Diversity, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

Center for Biological Diversity ONRC Oregon Natural Resources Council Oregon Wild Sierra Club

FLASHBACK: Big Greens and Real Greens

"It may be too late for Spotted Owls, but if these new grassroots can somehow avoid being defanged by the Foundation/Big Greens and stay true to the cause and make the institutions that spring up around it work for a greater whole; polar bears and many other species, and yes homo sapiens, may just have a fighting chance."

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