Jan 26
20151
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Occupy Wall Street
Capitalism Naomi Klein Occupy Wall Street The Occupy Movement
“It is routinely described as anti-capitalist, but this label is highly misleading. As I found out when I gave a lecture at its Tent City University last weekend, many of its participants are not against capitalism. They just want it better regulated so that it benefits the greatest possible majority.”
Dec 18
20141
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ceres, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]
350.org 400 ppm Avaaz Behavioral Economics Behavioural Change Capitalism Ceres Climate CREDO Divestment KXL Purpose RAN The New Economy Tides
"The monetization of Earth's remaining natural resources (or "natural capital," the carefully applied term that acts as a patina masking the true intent) sounds as though it is far too vile of an idea to ever be accepted by society. Yet, the elite establishment – with the non-profit industrial complex as their pimps of pathological ideologies – have every intent of seeing the commodification of Earth's remaining natural resources transform into capital, for complete corporate capture in the not-so-distant future."
Gil Noble’s (1932-2012) legendary interview with Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) (1941-1998) on 'Like It Is.' (1996)
Nov 27
20140
Humanitarian Agencies, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Inc. (ISV) International Student Volunteers neoliberalism Volunteer Abroad Programs
"Overview: Tristan Biehn examines the new imperial ideologies present in narratives manufactured by the websites of youth-centred volunteer abroad organizations. These narratives serve to instil neoliberal, capitalist understandings of the issues of global inequality and poverty in prospective volunteers, resulting in the depoliticization and decontextualization of such issues."
"Martin said the high salaries are justified because the family has brought considerable economic development to the community, with assets that include a golf course and resort, a new supermarket, a Tim Hortons, a hardware store, and real estate development for non-Aboriginal residents."
"Environmentalism has suffered dearly at the hand of this disabled left. It is no longer about the protection of our wild places from the voracious appetite of industrial capitalism: It is instead about maintaining the comfort levels that Americans feel entitled to without completely devouring the resources needed (at least for now). Based on image, fakery and betrayal, it supports the profit system while allowing those in power to appear “green.” This myopic, empty endeavor may be profitable for a few, but its consequences for the planet as a whole are fatal."
Sep 04
20145
350.org / 1Sky, Carbon Markets | REDD, Ceres, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Berkshire Hathaway Calvert Capitalism Ceres Divestment Environmental Markets First Peoples Worldwide Forests Green Economy Institute for Sustainable Investing Investments KXL NoVo Foundation Pensions privatization REDD Tides Ukraine Warren Buffett
"And while a theatre performance worthy of the Palau de la Música Catalana was playing to a sold-out audience (quite literally), Ceres was expanding its tentacles throughout the globe."
"How can a movement be energized by off-the-rack hedonism, fanatical non-violence, spirited gestures, crippling consensus, the playful banging of pots and pans, and communication by means of Twitter? This kind of behavior is presented as the innovative practice of freedom, despite the fact that this kind of freedom is abundant in slave societies and is hardly of any use for assaulting the Winter Palace. But who wants, and worse yet, who is capable of assaulting a center of power today? The only thing these protests are asking for is dialogue and participation."
Aug 23
20140
AFL-CIO Alternatives Canadian Peoples’ Social Forum (PSF) Capitalism Desjardins Caisses populaires Ford Foundation identity politics Neo-liberalism New Democratic Party (NDP) Rockefeller Brothers Fund World Social Forum
"The Forum is a political fraud. It is aimed not at fighting for the independent political mobilization of the working class, but rather at its subordination to the ostensible “left” wing of the bourgeois political establishment."