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Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism

March for Eight Billion Lives: An Interview with Riva Enteen

"Isn’t it time to stop aiming those guns—and our missiles, fighter jets, and drones—at the rest of the world? My mother was a member of Women Strike for Peace, founded in 1961 with the slogan “Stop the Arms Race, Not the Human Race,” and that has never been more true."

LISTEN: Colonialism and Gender Today

"Colonialism and its legacies have also influenced how feminists in the Global South and their counterparts in the Global North view and treat each other."

Looking Down That Deep Hole: Parasitic Intersectionality and Toxic Afro-Pessimism, Part 2

"In the context of the real left, the community of those aiming to overthrow capital, patriarchy, white supremacy and empire – not two or three out of four but all four, the term intersectionality has become a kind of brood parasite."

SlutWalk Toronto & Vancouver Dyke March Announce Official Partnership with Sex Trade Lobby

"Both Maggie’s and SWUAV have shown themselves to be working in the interests of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy in their efforts to normalize and expand the sex trade. They have also demonstrated opposition to feminists and women’s rights."

This Reconciliation is for the Colonizer

"Instead of us living in times of reconciliation, we are living in times of recolonization."

HOW U2’S 2017 JOSHUA TREE TOUR ACCLIMATES AMERICAN THEOCRATIC FASCISM

HOW U2’S 2017 JOSHUA TREE TOUR ACCLIMATES AMERICAN THEOCRATIC FASCISM

"Why do you think these litmus tests are performed on the population? Their success, namely that they pass without incident, provides a green light to proceed further over the brink, because they show this level of theocratic fasicm is already tacitly embraced by a paying audience; -whether that's due to awareness or ignorance does not matter. "

STATEMENT

"It has come to our attention that a respected leader of our small online enclave has betrayed the trust many people have instilled in him over the past years. We are stunned at these revelations like everyone else. It was with much internal debate and emotional pain that we decided as a group that we had to release the information to the community. "

The Scent of a Wildflower

"See the bullshit, look at it, directly. Challenge them. The fake, superficial rubbish they’re peddling. The word drugs they’re slinging."

AVAAZ: The Globe’s Largest & Most Powerful Behavioural Change Network [Part I]

"Today, drowning within a post-modern spectacle, it is past time to revisit who and what institutions are behind today's manufactured movements. Thus, a fresh look at both Avaaz and Purpose, and their formidable ties to 350.org, is nothing less than imperative."

Conservation’s Friends in High Places: Neoliberalism, Networks, and the Transnational Conservation Elite

"The roles of NGOs, corporations, and the state are increasingly indistinguishable. Market mechanisms and logics are becoming seen as the only way to do effective conservation. In describing the elite and its links and connections, the article aims to inform and guide further research into conservation politics and its neoliberalization."