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Speaking Fees, Selfies, Sucking Up to Power: How BLM Lost its Mojo

"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."

The Work of Celebrity in the Age of Neoliberal Environmental Governance

"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..."

Bob Geldof and the Aid Industry: “Do They Know it’s Imperialism?”

"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."

See it Before it’s Gone: The Paradox of ‘Last Chance Tourism’ on the Great Barrier Reef

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?