Sep 11
20201
Celebrity [Capitalism | Humanitarianism | Neoliberalism], Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
n informal response written by Cory Morningstar (WKOG Collective) to the recent Max Blumenthal piece "'Green' billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of 'Planet of the Humans' documentary".
![WATCH: The Afterlife of Slavery: Markets, Property & Race [Cheryl Harris]](https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/hUMAN-cAPITAL.jpg)
"Racial hierarchy is continually replenished through the market, while the market encodes property in accord with racial regimes."
"It takes the willingness to stand by and do what has to be done, when it has to be done. A nice gathering like today is not enough."
![WATCH: Justin Leroy: Race, Finance, and the Afterlife of Slavery [Social Impact Bonds]](https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Justin-Leroy-494x200.jpg)
"Because their proponents frame social impact bonds as philanthropic endeavours, the violence required to financialize human life becomes obfuscated. We aim to historicize the violence of financialization by drawing out links between financial capitalism as it developed during the height of the Atlantic slave trade and the more subtle violence of philanthropic financial capitalism."
The "corporate culture of the "non-profit industrial complex serves hegemony as a sophisticated fine-tuned symbiotic mechanism in a continuous state of flux and refinement."
"Worst of all, those who promulgate this lie are now planning on getting billions more dollars through their terrible “new deal for nature,” which is warming up to be the biggest land grab in history."
"The reason this discussion is happening is not because of the numbers of people who are dying - but because who is dying. Because it is something that can also possibly affect white people..."
"It is imperative that we recognize the predicaments of the people who are most oppressed within our society, while we firmly recognize the dynamics within the capitalist hierarchy, and stay away from being a part of the mechanism which safely turns our predicaments into driving forces of capitalism."
Apr 22
20200
350.org / 1Sky, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Rockefeller Foundation, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
![WATCH: Planet of the Humans [Full Film]](https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/20200423_Planet_of_the_Humans_01-1-494x200.jpg)
Jeff Gibbs, the writer/producer/director of Planet of the Humans, has dared to say what few would. Gibbs & Ozzie Zehner lay bare the green illusions of "clean energy" while exposing, once & for all, the corporate "environmentalism" that has led us to the precipice of ecological collapse. Years in the making, this film will blow your mind.
"Nicaragua's success in addressing the COIVD-19 pandemic is irrefutable. But Western liberals and progressives cannot admit that, because doing so would contradict the lies and fabrications of the right wing and allied forces they support."