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Jun 04

2014

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David Suzuki Foundation, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), The Occupation of Haiti, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Canada CIDA Foundations Funding People's Social Forum

NGOization: Depoliticizing Activism in Canada

"The wide variety of NGOs serves to confuse things. Depending on how one counts, there are hundreds or thousands of grant-dependent mission-oriented organizations in Canada. Many who work in NGOs insist that it is futile to make generalizations. There exist an undeniable plethora of NGOs. All of them, however, depend on a comparatively small pool of funders."

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Dec 03

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Canada First Nations Fracking Mi’kmaq Mi’kmaq Warrior Society Pacifism as Pathology Resistance

Statement of Solidarity with the Mi’kmaq Warriors

"To base our resistance on only those methods approved by the state, on those which are “peaceful” and “lawful,” is little more than political theatre that ultimately serves to reaffirm the “legitimacy” of the colonial regime. It is a strategy for defeat.

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Oct 24

2013

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David Suzuki Foundation, Forest Ethics, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Canada Christy Clark Coastal First Nations David Suzuki Foundation Dogwood Initiative Elsipogtog Forest Ethics Fracking Living Oceans Mi’kmaq North American Tar Sands Coalition Pacific Trails Pipeline Resistance Sun News Tar Sands Solutions Network Tinka Dene Alliance Tzeporah Berman West Coast Environmental Law

Fracking Indigenous Country

"Mi’kmaq struggles against fracking have taken place completely outside of the framework of large environmental NGO’s; many have stated their belief this is a huge reason for the cohesive, community outlook of the struggles. Most of the larger ENGO’s have an internal policy against opposition to fracking. The reason? Big Capital control through foundations has determined that such a campaign is not a likely “win,” and Big Capital is also involved in labelling Natural Gas– including that from “fracking”– as a “transition fuel.”

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Mar 19

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

AFN Assembly of First Nations Canada Idle No More Mohawk Warriors Oka Pacifism Resistance

Never Idle: Gord Hill on Indigenous Resistance in Canada

"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."

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Feb 26

2013

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Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The Soros Network | OSI, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Afghanistan Canada Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) Gaddafi Humanitarianism Imperialism Iraq Laurent Loui Libya Mali NATO R2P Syria

Thoughtful, Respectful, and Progressive: Regarding the “Responsibility to Protect”

"One important theme, bridging counterinsurgency, development, foreign aid, and R2P, is that of humanitarianism and its ever more frequent appearance in military garb. Simply put, what we are dealing with is the justifications for empire, that are meant to buy our peaceful compliance with resources that are redirected toward foreign escapades, and to sell others on the legitimacy of our ruling them."

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Jan 14

2013

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CIDA | Canadian International Development Agency, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The Occupation of Haiti, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Canada CIDA Haiti Harper Imperialism Mining neoliberalism Occupation

WATCH: Canadian Aid to Haiti Tied to Mining Interests

"Strategic objectives of Canadian aid are to strengthen a pro-elite police and advance Canadian commercial interests."

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Jan 07

2013

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Pacifism as Pathology, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Canada First Nations Idle No More Resistance

Indigenous Masculinity and Warriorism

"As authentic leadership reemerges among Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, the role of the warrior in protecting them is perhaps the most essential calling of all time."

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Jan 07

2013

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Pacifism as Pathology, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Canada First Nations Idle No More Resistance

Indigenous Resistance in Canada

"While the non-violent direct action of First Nations currently has broad support across Canada, the history of indigenous resistance in Canada shows that the only time Ottawa has taken First Nations seriously is when faced with economic disruption, civil disobedience or armed self-defense."

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Jan 06

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

AFN AMC Assembly of First Nations Band Councils Canada Co-optation Colonialism First Nations Idle No More

War of the Words: Chiefs Issue Ultimatums as Grassroots Dance in Circles

"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."

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Nov 14

2012

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Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Canada Colonialism Ethnic Cleansing First Nations Harper Indigenous Oppression Racism

Stand Up and Say No | Harper Launches Major First Nations Termination Plan

"As Diabo notes, to contemplate Canada’s take it or leave it approach, by compromising their constitutional and international rights, indigenous lands and resources will be auctioned off in fire sales to China and other bidders looking for bargain basement deals, that over time will leave their peoples impoverished in body, mind and spirit. Given what’s at stake, he says, it’s time for First Nations to stand up and say no."

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