"In a stinging rebuke of Black Lives Matter, the organization’s local affiliate here last month announced that it was severing all ties to a movement it characterized as opportunistic, too invested in liberal, electoral politics and the Democratic party, and ultimately ineffective in fighting state-sanctioned violence against African-Americans."
Apr 08
20180
Capitalism Celebrity Corporate Social Responsibility neoliberalization Philanthrocapitalism
"In this analysis, celebrity endorsement of environmental causes serves to support this obfuscation, distracting audiences from such underlying problems and helping to legitimate by association the big environmental nongovernmental organizations (BINGOs) that increasingly function like corporations..."
Apr 05
20170
Humanitarian Agencies, TckTckTck, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
8 Miles Fund Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) Africa AIDS Band Aid Imperialism Band Aid/Live Aid Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Bob Geldof Bono CARE Catholic Relief Services Celebrity DATA (Debt David Jones (Havas & Facebook) Ethiopia J.P. Morgan Jeffrey Sachs Maurice Strong Mo Ibrahim Mo Ibrahim Foundation ONE One Young World Save the Children Soros Tck Tck Tck The Politics of Starvation Trade USAID
"Celebrity activists cannot be relied upon in searching for such solutions; as embedded within capitalist networks of power, they tend to be amongst those few individuals least likely to engage in such a rational approach to problem solving."
Why are those on the frontlines ignored – while celebrities who model/foster the very lifestyles that contribute to our crisis are upheld as heroic icons?