Jul 18
20141
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Avaaz Capitalism Divestment False Solutions People's Climate March
"As a scientist friend calculated, to replace the amount of fossil fuels we are currently using with bioenergy will require six planet’s worth of land. We truly do have to change the system. Not what is fueling it. Business as usual has to go. Unfortunately power concedes nothing without a demand. In fact, power concedes nothing without being given no other options."
"They do not deny global warming; instead they skate over the top of it, insisting that whatever limits and tipping points the Earth system might throw up, human technology and ingenuity will transcend them."
Apr 04
20140
Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Immigration Imperialism NATO neoliberalism Ukraine Whitism
"Could it be that many white radicals have fallen prey to the subtle and not-so-subtle racial appeal to a form of cross-class white solidarity in defense of “Western values,” civilization and the prerogative to determine who has the right to national sovereignty that is at the base of the rationalization of the “responsibility to protect” asserted by the white West?"
Mar 13
20140
350.org / 1Sky, Carbon Markets | REDD, Ceres, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
"Thus perpetuating the commodity culture that is currently devastating the planet and indigenous peoples worldwide, the corporate-financed crusades co-opt the innocent and corrupt the opportunists. What Wall Street masterminds might call a win-win situation."
Mar 11
20140
350.org / 1Sky, Carbon Markets | REDD, Ceres, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org CalSTRS Capitalism Ceres Divestment Generation Investment Management Global Reporting Initiative Goldman Sachs. Green Economy Investor Network on Climate Risk neoliberalism New Economics Institute
"The SRI industry is not interested in reversing the anguish resulting from colonialism, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, oppression and decimation of environment, as all of this ugliness is inherently built into the system (which then externalizes these costs). The task at hand is the continuance of individualism and greed, normalized into a commodity culture, where all those with monetary means can acquiesce in our collective path to self-destruction."
Feb 05
20141
Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism
Capitalism Free Market Feminism Komen Foundation Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI)
Health Communication, 25: 286–289, 2010 An excerpt of the paper Pink Diplomacy:...
"Anything short of a radical, systemic, and comprehensive change, of a formidable revolutionary movement against global capitalism and hierarchical domination of all kinds will yield useless reforms, pseudo-solutions, false hopes, and protracted suffering. The time for partial visions, separate struggles, and fragmented resistance is over, and the hour of total liberation and revolutionary alliance politics has arrived."
"A short book of very simple, basic, accessible revolutionary theory with text, illustrations & comics: how capitalism works, why it's evil, how to crush it."
Nov 08
20133
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Colonialism Genocide privilege Racism White Supremacy
"Anger is an appropriate reaction to the rampant perpetuation of often invisibilized forms of racism and oppression. Anger is an appropriate reaction to the privileged gatekeepers of funding, resources, and power, when they fail to identify and challenge their understandings of our oppressions. Anger is appropriate when the earth is commodified for the capitalist agenda."
McPherson's latest chapter includes abandoning his tenured position as full professor at a major research university for ethical reasons. His story is described in his memoir, "Walking Away from Empire."