WATCH: This is What Activism Looks Like
This is What Courage Looks Like… This is What Direct Action Looks...
The Truth About the Red Cross
Congress incorporated the Red Cross to act under "government supervision." Eight of the 50 members of its board of governors are appointed by the president of the United States, who also serves as honorary chairperson. Currently, the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security are members of the board of governors.
Non Profit Organizations & the Privatization of Public Housing
In this Against the Grain interview, about 50 minutes, Jay Arena outlines the process of destroying public housing in New Orleans and more broadly across the country, with particular attention to the roles played by not for profit organizations and black elites carrying out the neoliberal agenda of gentrification.
WATCH: Indigenous Peoples Aggressively Targeted by Manipulative NGOs Advancing REDD Agenda
In an exclusive interview (August, 2010) with documentary filmmaker Rebecca Sommer, Chief Aritana Yawalapiti explains how his people and his region is aggressively targeted (and lied to) by NGOs (ISA) demonstrating how disturbingly manipulative and deceptive NGOs can be when seeking compliance for REDD+ projects.
Why Militant Direct Action? Because IT WORKS!
“ changing the kind of work people will do in the future. If students come to me interested in primate research, I would tell them to think about other things.”UCLA vivisector, Dario Ringach, who reluctantly abandoned nonhuman primate research in 2006 after relentless ALF attacks on his colleagues.
MUST WATCH: Dr Steve Best – The Paralysis of Pacifism
Dr/Prof. Steve Best is a writer, speaker, public intellectual, and activist. Steven Best engages animal rights, species extinction, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass media and culture, globalization, and capitalist domination. He is Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso."The Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action and "Violence" for Animal Liberation" lecture by Prof. Steve Best was delivered in an ex slaughterhouse of Aprilia - Italy - 06 September 2012.
Nov 22
20120
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The Soros Network | OSI, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
International Tibet NGOs – Generous friends of Tibet or a Trojan Horse of Imperialism?
If NGOs can manage without donor funding – sadly, few of them do – then they have the freedom to do what they want. In addition, if Lobsang Sangay were less reliant on the support of internationally funded NGOs then he (and the CTA) could afford to be more radical and progressive in their politics on Tibet and less weary of offending their western, capitalist 'masters' riding the Trojan horse of charity.
Palestine | Letters of Note: When a Real and Final Catastrophe Should Befall Us…
"Dear Sir: When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations build up from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people. Sincerely yours, (Signed, 'A. Einstein')"
Nov 19
201210
Amnesty International, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Amnesty International and the Human Rights Industry
Of course, the ICC does not exist to prosecute those from the paler, Western countries. No, the ICC (which the U.S. is not even a signatory to and is therefore exempt from) is, in practice, for the darker races of the poorer countries; for those from Africa, Asia, and from time to time, the lesser Slavic nations. And, therein lies the problem inherent in the entire international human rights system of which Amnesty International is an integral part.
Too Good to be True | First Peoples Worldwide
First Peoples Worldwide, an NGO funded by foundations, corporations and multilaterals, uses all the heartwarming neoliberal nomenclature well. So well, I suspect, that many innocent indigenous peoples are led to believe it is the answer to their prayers. But, as with all things that seem too good to be true, the first thing to check on is where they get their money. Sweet talk is one thing; who they actually work for is another.