Apr 14
20180
Avaaz, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Oxfam, Social Engineering, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"The NGO/media spectacle helps to unify and stabilize reality, disavowing anything that disturbs the humanitarian dream-fantasy, is discomforting to the public, or threatens the neoliberal global order."
Apr 10
20183
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Within the academe there is a flourishing body of criticism of the role of celebrity in recreating and reproducing hegemonic capitalist inequality. Kapoor adopts the most radical position, arguing that celebrity is part of the forces which create and produce inequality, and that celebrities might in fact be ‘sadists’ delighting in their position at the top of the pyramid."
"The Left’s job is to disentangle our people from the political clutches of the ruling class and to build independent people’s organizations. The Republicans are a white people’s problem, but Black activists cannot confront the police, the oligarchs or the warmongers without fighting the Democrats."
Apr 06
20181
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Uncategorized, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"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."
Apr 02
20180
Conservation International, Nature Conservancy, Uncategorized, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, Wilderness Society, Wildlife Conservation Society
"In this Samburu woman, I saw the embodiment of a community praised for its traditional conservation ethics that spared for the world vast populations of diverse wildlife, a community, however, shunned by the world, even as acres of paper and decades of airtime are expended by many a conservationist and organization to discuss their welfare. Upon this revelation, I refused to play along, and I made it my career to expose the rot."
"Revisionist linguistics is made to re-write history while simultaneously re-wiring our brains and preying upon our fears instilled by imperial, colonial and capitalist forces. This is carried out by those on the right side of spectrum as well as those on the faux left."
"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."
"Get Angry: Global Inequality Should Be Changed, and Charity Isn't the Way."
"This, first of its kind case, is setting a precedent that is so important to us Haitians. It is warning all who prey on the helpless outside of the United States, masking it with benevolence, that impunity no longer rules."
"Journalist Eva Bartlett speaks candidly on her experiences in North Korea and Syria at the Waterside Theatre in Derry, Northern Ireland on January 30, 2018."