Aug 30
20130
Amnesty International, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Carbon Markets Ecuador Rafael Correa Yasuní National Park
"Si queremos justicia social y ambiental, el debate tiene que ser entorno a como salimos del capitalismo, ya que al capitalismo no hay como regularlo o humanizarlo. Al capitalismo hay que erradicarlo!"
Aug 27
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Civil Rights Movement Democratic Party March on Washington Martin Luther King NAACP New York City’s United Federation of Teachers Syria The International Socialist Organization (ISO) United Auto Workers
The statement stressed that it was not possible to defend democratic rights without a struggle against capitalism. “The Achilles’ heel of the civil rights movement, and even its most radical and sincere representatives such as King,” Mazelis wrote, “was its failure to break with the Democratic Party and recognize that the aims of social equality and democratic rights were realizable only in a struggle for socialism.”
"In the society of the spectacle protest is a form of leisure and the tragic pathos of the class struggle must recede before hilarity, relaxation and festival, genuine forms of the neo-contestatory spirit which has found in pot and pan-banging, whistles, and costume parades its most suitable means of expression and in software, blogs and cell-phones its best weapons."
Aug 25
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Corporate Social Responsibility CSR Green Capitalism territorial defense trade unions “culture of refusal”
"For real protest, the institutionalized opposition is the problem, the enemy and the main threat."
Aug 14
20130
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Denialism Ecocide Infanticide Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Now, the future draw down has run smack dab into the present where we are actually looking into the faces of the ones whose days are being shortened by a given amount of time due to using these resources, be it days, weeks, months or years."
"...environmental politics has become something that valorizes the individual consumer and aggressively ignores questions of class, race, and gender in the production of environmental inequality. Acceptable expressions of environmentalism are only those that adhere to “ethical” consumption patterns: organics, local, fair-trade. It is a disciplinary logic that taps into a kind of eco-entertainment niche in green capitalism that redefines the leitmotif of existing bourgeois environmentalism: environmentalism as self-improvement via an urban lifestyle performed as an alternative expression of class distinction."
"These “movements” seem to do everything in their power to placate, pacify and render ineffective their target consumers: white, liberal Americans with a small sense of the hollowness of everyday life in capitalist America. By proposing simple and false solutions inside a framework of “peaceful resistance,” potential disruptors of the status quo are rendered ineffective while believing they are engaged in meaningful resistance."
Jul 18
20132
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Atmosphere Capitalism Colonialism Exploitation Forests Illusory Green Economy Imperialism Oceans privatization REDD UNGEP United Nations United Nations’ green economy programme
The Indigenous People’s Kari-Oca 2 Declaration describes the UN’s GEP as ‘a continuation of colonialism… a perverse attempt by corporations, extractive industries and governments to cash in on Creation by privatizing, commodifying and selling off the Sacred and all forms of life and the sky’ (2012, p.1-2). The programme of re-visioning of the commons as sets of commodities ripe for exploitation is diametrically contrary to the environmental rhetoric used to sell the project.
Jul 08
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Oxfam, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Capitalism Climate COP COP17 Ecology Oxfam UN World Wildlife Fund
"Hugo Chavez remarked that presidents go from summit to summit, while people go from abyss to abyss. The same can be said about most self-appointed leaders of civil society. Voyeurs to genocide, this purportedly dissident grouping was altogether well behaved in Durban. The small exceptions of symobolic resistance in the final hours were totally incommensurate with what was at stake for everyone who didn’t have the privilege to be there."
Jul 04
20130
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology
Capitalism Non-profit Industrial Complex Pacifism as Pathology Tools of Disconnection
"Underminers is the timely follow-up to Time’s Up! An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis. It takes up where that book left off, with a detailed, highly practical approach to the process of undermining in all its many hues. At once entertaining, shocking and inspiring, Underminers draws on the author’s own experience dealing at first hand with the lies of the industrial machine, and that of a wide range of other people who have their own unique take on the swath of topics covered in the book."