Oct 28
20131
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Assembly of First Nations Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) Capitalism Forestry Products Association of Canada North American Tar Sands Coalition Pew Charitable Trusts PowerUp Tar Sands Solutions Network
"While Big Capital and Big Green are trying to propose they are building a bridge to a better, healthy planet– whatever you do, don’t look down. The bridge is faulty, and you’re already half way over the chasm. Just trust the bridge– and keep walking."
Mar 19
20130
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
AFN Assembly of First Nations Canada Idle No More Mohawk Warriors Oka Pacifism Resistance
"What happened with Idle No More is that as it progressed, they also revealed very, very reformist politics. They started out wanting to stop Bill C-45. They began imposing all kinds of codes of conduct on people people who were attending Idle No More rallies. They’re imposing a pacifist ideology on this grassroots movement and strict legalism."
Jan 06
20131
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
AFN AMC Assembly of First Nations Band Councils Canada Co-optation Colonialism First Nations Idle No More
"Band councils were imposed under the Indian Act not to unite our people, or to lead them in resistance, but to control them, to administer government policies, and to suppress any genuine grassroots resistance from emerging. This in itself was an act of division which created a special managerial class of Natives and led to the growth of an Aboriginal business elite whose interests are not in accord with those of real grassroots people."