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Dec 05

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Capitalism Carbon Markets COP18 Doha Green Capitalism Green Economy New Market Mechanisms (NMM) People's Agreement REDD

WATCH: Capitalism as Pathology: The Guise of the Illusory “Green Economy”

"... for the Annex 1 nations, the UK and for Manchester the choice is the same. To begin immediate and deep reductions in emissions at the same time as transitioning towards a steady-state economy ... Alternatively, we could continue with the eloquent rhetoric of green growth and win-win opportunities; reject integrity, placate our paymasters and embrace cognitive dissonance -- but ultimately renege on our responsibilities to both the current and future generations." Professor Kevin Anderson, November, 2012

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Nov 22

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

ALF | Animal Liberation Front Biotechnology Capitalism Corporate Media Culture Ecological Crisis neoliberalism Pacifism Pacifism as Pathology Resistance Speciesism

MUST WATCH: Dr Steve Best – The Paralysis of Pacifism

Dr/Prof. Steve Best is a writer, speaker, public intellectual, and activist. Steven Best engages animal rights, species extinction, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass media and culture, globalization, and capitalist domination. He is Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso."The Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action and "Violence" for Animal Liberation" lecture by Prof. Steve Best was delivered in an ex slaughterhouse of Aprilia - Italy - 06 September 2012.

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Nov 21

2012

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Environmental Defence Fund, Foundations, National Wildlife Federation, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

25 x 25 Biofuels Biomass Capitalism Climate Environmental Defence Fund False Solutions Greenwash National Wildlife Federation Sierra Club World Watch Institute

“25 x 25” is a Big Fat Bio-Massacre

"Some of my friends in the professional environmental movement have reacted as expected yesterday when I called them out for having allowed biomass burning to be a huge part of what Michigan is going to get under Proposal 3 or “25 x 25.” Accusations and anger."

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Nov 21

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism India Non-profit Industrial Complex

Minting Money in an NGO Way

This situation is not only prevalent in Bihar, Jharkhand, or Odisha, the state of Uttar Pradesh also has the culture of giving dowry in the form of NGO. There are NGO owners who want to employ professionals to run their NGOs and earn money for them. These new professionals think that they are helping underdeveloped community but soon they realize that they have become the part of the “system”.

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Nov 14

2012

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Uncategorized

Association of Charitable Foundations Capitalism McKinsey & Company privatization “Big Society”

Return to Philanthropy?

"Given the insidious way in which elite philanthropy works to defang and delimit the processes of beneficial social change, it is vital that progressives begin seriously to tackle the vexing questions surrounding the mostly unmentioned power of philanthropy, most especially that of liberal elites. "

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Nov 14

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Ethics Psychology

The Pathological Psychology of Western Capitalism

"The sicknesses that pervade contemporary Western society cry out for the radically virtuous alternative of normative humanism offered by Erich Fromm. Examination of the concrete conditions of life under capitalist institutions reveals a complex of psychological pathologies, the sum of which engenders an absolutely alienated existence. Community becomes a hollow term denoting a mere aggregation of self-interested individuals, free of mutual responsibility and obligation."

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Nov 13

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Paul Hawken Religion as Pathology

Paul Hawken’s Spiritual Business

"By outlining the overlapping nature of some of the groups that Paul presently works with that inevitably help mystify the true extent of capitalism's inherent destructiveness, it is hoped that more concerned individuals will begin to explore the necessity of adopting truly radical solutions that address the root causes of our societies problems. The primary problem being capitalism..."

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Nov 05

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Feminism Neo-liberalism

WATCH: Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism

"From the Personal Is Political to the Personal is Personal: Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism." Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College, and author of Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, explores how mainstream feminism has lost its way by fighting for the individual rights of a small group of elite white women instead of the collective liberation of all women. Dines argues that much of what passes for feminism today is focused on the pseudo-empowerment offered to women who conform to the narrow standards of femininity set by the porn culture. She calls for a feminism that is unapologetically fierce in its commitment to radical social change.

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Oct 28

2012

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Arundhati Roy Capitalism

WATCH: Arundhati Roy Discussing Funding, Capitalism and NGOs

In this lecture excerpt, Arundhati Roy describes the intersection between foundation and corporate funding, capitalism and the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

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Oct 06

2012

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Foundations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Capitalism Education Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Miseducation and the New Slavery

Ruling class philanthropists have maintained a long history of subsuming educational needs to capitalist growth prerogatives. Learning from this toxic history is imperative, which is why Donald Spivey’s contribution, Schooling for the New Slavery: Black Industrial Education, 1868-1915 (Greenwood Press, 1978), is so important.

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