Jan 26
20171
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Essence January 23, 2017 By Aurielle Marie Lucier I realize somewhere...
Aug 18
20154
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, USAID
Chevron Classism CONAIE Correa Destabilization Ecuador Guillermo Lasso Pachakutik Partido Social Cristiano (PSC) Soft Coups USAID
Today the right wing opposition continues to receive funding from NGOs protecting US interests. According to the Bolivian and Ecuadorian heads of state, the “empire” is attacking Latin American nations with “soft coups”.
"In other words, we served people who are already resilient. If there’s one thing that people in poverty, children in foster care, and recent immigrants already have in abundance, it’s the knowledge of how to be tough."
"...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."
"When it comes to economics, whose side is the left on? Do you want to liberate the slaves, or do you just want their support to help overthrow the plantation owner? Is some inequality in a society a necessary or desirable thing? If you believe this, shouldn’t you be honest about your belief? If you’re not being honest about it, why not?"
Jan 21
20120
Capitalism Classism Co-optation Gentrification Imperialism Martin Luther King MLK Mumia Abu-Jamal Political Prisoners Racism Reparations
This is a presentation given by Dr. Tony Monteiro at the January...