Jan 09
20210
Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering
Amazon Apple California Teachers Association (CTA) Chan Zuckerberg Foundation Digital Austerity Education Fourth Industrial Revolution Global Education Coalition Google Great Reset HP Lenovo Michael Bloomberg Microsoft Silicon Valley T-Mobile Teachers Union
"Now that the damage has been done and soaring unemployment has disempowered all workers, the left may begin to roll back its discredited justifications for lockdown. No matter what challenges arise, social services and public institutions should be non-negotiable for any socialist, populist, or pro-worker politics."
Nov 28
20204
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering, United Nations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
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"Social license is being harvested to reset the capitalist system – under the guise of a climate emergency and saving the planet. This we know: the planet will not be saved by those that have destroyed it."
Jan 11
20170
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Amazon Colonialism Culture Eurocentrism Imperialism INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS NGos NPIC Peru
The film you are about to see was written by Indigenous and international artists in Peru who volunteered their time and talents because they had a story to be told. The main character, Brus, sums it up as: "Development, NGOs- another type of colonialism." With just $8,000 dollars they created the first ever cooperative film in the Amazon.
Aug 10
20160
Amazon Watch, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
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" includes a discussion of the gap between promises in the law and the reality on the ground, and ways in which conservation bureaucracies and NGOs are also violating the rights the Huaorani and posing new threats to Huaorani territory and self-determination."
"Capitalism, in contrast, reverses the reference coordinates of the environment with society. Nature is now a reservoir of material vehicles of exchange value, of profit. While in the other modes of production it is the great source of the means of life, of the use values that are sought after, under capitalism it is simply the material pretext for the exchange values (profits) that direct production. And destroying, protecting, pillaging, conserving are simply collateral, interchangeable components within a single social purpose: profit, the uninterrupted and infinite valorization of capital. And this logic is the founding objective that runs through everything: societies, persons and nature. Ultimately, with that objective capitalism is presented as a primary destructive force of human nature, and then of nature in general..... "
"4. The Amazonian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as a group, some of which have created over the last two decades a clientelistic network of indigenous leaders through which they express the corporate environmentalist discourse in the various communities. Possessing fine humanitarian intentions — and good salaries for such missions — they form a small army that is ideologically the disseminator of the right-wing environmentalist discourse, and economically the material expression of an environmental capitalist accumulation."
"The major enemy of the presence of the protector state in the Amazon region at present is the international imperial-corporate structure, which has converted environmental management in the world into the most lucrative deal in favour of the industrialized countries of the North and the biotechnology companies. Today not even the Latin American states have as great a presence in the Amazon as these companies, research institutes of European and North American universities, and NGOs funded by other governments and by those same foreign enterprises."
Dec 14
20120
CIDOB | Confederation of Indigenous People of Bolivia, Democracy Centre, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
But when it involves business, as in the purchase of timber, chestnuts, alligator skins or livestock, this bourgeoisie is capable of subordinating its racist prejudices to market logic and establishing mechanisms of market domination through which it has always considered the indigenous peoples as its vassals or inferiors. This mercantile “generosity” has meant that the relations of domination over the indigenous peoples have been reworked and formally subsumed under capitalist development.
Nov 23
20123
Carbon Markets | REDD, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
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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.
"I was in the city of Altamira, the Amazon area in the state of Para, preparing to leave the next day. It was with a knot in my throat when I promised the young chief of one of the three indigenous nations in this area that had signed REDD contracts, not to reveal their identity. For years I have tried to inform indigenous peoples about the lies and wrongs that one day soon they will be told in order to obtain their consent for REDD projects on their indigenous territory." ...