Apr 05
20170
Humanitarian Agencies, TckTckTck, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
8 Miles Fund Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) Africa AIDS Band Aid Imperialism Band Aid/Live Aid Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Bob Geldof Bono CARE Catholic Relief Services Celebrity DATA (Debt David Jones (Havas & Facebook) Ethiopia J.P. Morgan Jeffrey Sachs Maurice Strong Mo Ibrahim Mo Ibrahim Foundation ONE One Young World Save the Children Soros Tck Tck Tck The Politics of Starvation Trade USAID
"Celebrity activists cannot be relied upon in searching for such solutions; as embedded within capitalist networks of power, they tend to be amongst those few individuals least likely to engage in such a rational approach to problem solving."
Jan 28
20162
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africa Agro Tech Bill Gates Bob Geldof Bono Buffett Cargill Celebrity Activism Coca-Cola ConAgra DuPont G8 summit Larry Summers Monsanto Nestlé New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition Syngenta The ONE campaign U2 Unilever
"If, as ONE does, an organisation keeps telling you that it’s a “grassroots campaign”, it’s a fair bet that it is nothing of the kind. This collaboration of multimillionaires and technocrats looks to me more like a projection of US and corporate power."
"Adding insult to injury, images of aid workers in Hazmat suits carrying away an unknown, unconscious and barely clothed African woman from a bed soaked in fluids are sharply contrasted with rich and healthy pop stars emerging from flashy vehicles, pushing past the lights of the paparazzi and moving toward a recording studio — a place where their love can save, and there's only compassion in every tear."