"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."
Jan 04
20171
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering
Co-optation Direct Action Resistance Squamish Five The Liberalization of the Left
"Direct Action, or the Squamish Five as dubbed by the media, was a group of self-proclaimed 'urban guerillas,' active in the 1980s. These activists were not motivated by any political ideology but rather had become frustrated with traditional methods of activism which they saw as inefficient and futile."
Dec 11
20162
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Greenpeace, Otpor | Canvas, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
21st Century Subjugation Aversive Racism Beautiful Trouble Co-optation colonization Greenpeace IEN Indigenous Peoples’ Power Project (IP3) NVDA Training Rainforest Action Network Ruckus Soft Assimilation Standing Rock
"They examine in detail how this work has been funded for decades and how the “big green” NGOs and non-violent trainers utilize the power of the people and the “youth-led” paradigm and photo ops to win our hearts… and our donations."
Aug 31
20160
Ford Foundation, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology
#BLM Black Lives Matter Branding Capitalism Co-optation Consumerism Deray McKesson Ford MLK New Economy Social Engineering
"Martin Luther King Jr. stood for revolutionary transformation; he is used today to support policies that he fought against." #BLM
Jan 14
20161
Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Assimilation Co-optation Indigenous Rights Kahnawake Mohawk Recognition Politics Reconciliation
"The essence of being part of a resurgence movement comes out of that kind of feeling; it's rooted, it's accountable, and it's transformative. Those are the three things that I think define the difference between resurgence and the other alternatives out there for what decolonization and colonization ; basically recognition politics, and, hate to say it, reconciliation...."
Feb 06
20151
350.org / 1Sky, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
"350’s shameless usurping of Civil Rights icons in their propaganda is ripe for ridicule. Comparing the Rockefeller-sponsored Blue Team to the Freedom Riders, or the police-escorted People’s Climate March to the marches from Selma to Montgomery, or college campus divestment to BDS in South Africa is a sacrilege."
Published on September 11, 2014
"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."
"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."
Jul 22
20140
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Assimilation Co-optation Ford Indigenous Peoples People's Climate March Rockefeller World Conference on Indigenous Peoples World Summit on Indigenous Philanthropy
"Wall Street’s vertical integration of controlling consciousness is based on five components: ownership of media, fabrication of news, integration of advertising with state propaganda, financing of foundations and brokerages, and co-option of NGOs. While many well-meaning people are channeled into the latter by the concerted collaboration of all the former, the corporate agenda that determines the policies, practices and projects of these NGOs is anything but benign."