Oct 04
20160
Pacifism as Pathology, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Assimilation Bakken Pipeline Capitalism Colonialism Decolonization Genocide NODAPL Nuclear Resistance Standing Rock Sioux reservation
"As the pipeline is a mere conduit of the resource that flows through its vessels, the uproarious response by the First Nations community is the conduit of the centuries long anger which as has been internalized on these outposts of human despair. We can only hope that the rupture of First Nation emotions will make all of the previous pipeline fissures pale in comparison."
Sep 16
20162
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org Assimilation Bakken Pipeline CREDO Dakota Access NODAPL NVDA RAN Rising Tides North America Ruckus Society Warrior Culture White Fragility White Paternalism
"I sat in on the first two non violent action trainings brought into the camp to help teach protestors how to "de-escalate" even to the point of pulling young men (warriors) aside and chastising them (gently of course) for their anger. They were also told not to wear bandanas over their faces but to proudly be identified. A chill went up and down me."
Jun 10
20160
350.org / 1Sky, Indigenous Environmental Network
350.org Assimilation IEN Indigenous Environmental Network Tides
"So it is disappointing, but not surprising, when people like Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)–funded by TIDES–perpetuate the myth of 350 as a small organization responsive to indigenous interests."
Jan 14
20161
Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Assimilation Co-optation Indigenous Rights Kahnawake Mohawk Recognition Politics Reconciliation
"The essence of being part of a resurgence movement comes out of that kind of feeling; it's rooted, it's accountable, and it's transformative. Those are the three things that I think define the difference between resurgence and the other alternatives out there for what decolonization and colonization ; basically recognition politics, and, hate to say it, reconciliation...."
Jan 12
20160
Amazon Watch, Carbon Markets | REDD, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Amazon Watch Analytica Assimilation Cannibal Economics Cannibal Tours Capitalism eco-colonialism Ecuador FUNAI Fundación Pachamama Kapawi Zoë Tryon
"While on the surface, CBE (community-based ecotourism) projects support traditional knowledge and cooperation, in real-life, Indigenous communities are told they must be competitive as international tourism is pushed as imperative to survival along with other free-market prescriptions. Ultimately this amounts to cultural assimilation – or annihilation. As yesterday’s missionaries instilled the fear of God, today’s modern-day missionaries instill the fear of operating losses."
Jan 12
20160
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Achuar Assimilation eco-colonialism FINAE Fundación Pachamama Pachamama Alliance The Ocean Conservancy
"How Indigenous communities, now saddled with intense pressure to allure, seduce and satisfy White privilege, can continue to evolve naturally under such conditions appears to be of little interest to White saviours. Again, as throughout history, the Achuar are presented as the lucky beneficiaries of Western development and ideologies, thereby, yet again, assigned to their historic role as the passive novelties/objects of rapacious colonial ambition."
Jan 12
20160
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rockefeller Foundation, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Achuar Assimilation colonization Ecuador Kapawi MAF International Pachamama Alliance Rockefeller Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Waorni warriors
"Today’s 21st century missionaries/NGOs have traded in the baggy hemp trousers and the long tunics of their predecessors for Bagir EcoGir all-organic suits. Espresso-coloured bamboo fibres avec buttons made from dried nuts of tagua palm ecologically harvested from the rainforest. Made exclusively for white male privilege – made possible by those exploited and paid next to nothing in the harvesting of the resources, by those exploited in sweatshops producing clothing they will never be able to afford in their lifetime. On the left, we have male, blond, blue-eyed Jesus. On the right, we have economic growth, and markets as sacrosanct."
Feb 13
20150
Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"White liberals and their sympathizers take ideas and quotes from Martin Luther King out of context and use them to shame disruptive protesters as rioters and looters, dismiss more militant activists as spiteful and vengeful, blaming them all for their own conditions."
Jul 22
20140
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Assimilation Co-optation Ford Indigenous Peoples People's Climate March Rockefeller World Conference on Indigenous Peoples World Summit on Indigenous Philanthropy
"Wall Street’s vertical integration of controlling consciousness is based on five components: ownership of media, fabrication of news, integration of advertising with state propaganda, financing of foundations and brokerages, and co-option of NGOs. While many well-meaning people are channeled into the latter by the concerted collaboration of all the former, the corporate agenda that determines the policies, practices and projects of these NGOs is anything but benign."
"Featured frequently at Indian Country Today, First Peoples Worldwide propaganda posing as news is meant to psychologically undermine the Indigenous Peoples Movement that Chief Manuel and Dr. Ryser helped create, and to introduce non-sequiturs like Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as though they are valid concepts. As Wrong Kind of Green reports in the evolution of CSR, corporations have never acted for the benefit of society, and it is the current threat to the legitimacy of the corporation that CSR seeks to counteract."