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Tagged ‘Co-optation‘

Jul 19

2014

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Avaaz, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Occupy Wall Street

Adbusters Avaaz Boutique Activist Consultancy CANVAS Capitalism Co-optation Democratic Party GetUp! Google Corporation Micah White Occupy Opportunism Otpor OWS Purpose Slobodon Milosovic

Social Movements Need To Be Aware of Corporate Influence & Opportunists [#OWS]

"The situation reeks not only of opportunism, but of Google's long arm now attempting to embed a pro-corporate, pro-capitalist, and positive surveillance state narrative (with a first person point of view) into the Occupy movement - a narrative that suggests that multinational corporations like Google support peoples' struggles against injustice and that we can have real social change alongside the profit motive of the capitalist system."

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Nov 23

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Co-optation Duchin Stratfor

How To Win The Media War Against Grassroots Activists: Stratfor’s Strategies

The two easiest subtypes to join the corporate side of the fight are the “realists” and the “opportunists.” By definition, an “opportunist” takes the opportunity to side with the powerful for career gain, Duchin explained, and has skin in the game for “visibility, power followers.”

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Sep 12

2013

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Environmental Defence Fund, Foundations, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

Co-optation EDF Fracking National Wildlife Federation NRDC Sierra Club

Must-Read White Paper: The Politics of a New York State Fracking Moratorium

"We know that some of these groups have taken money directly from the gas industry or from the foundations of pro-fracking politicians. Others have worked against grassroots campaigns for a ban in other states and have misinformed the grassroots about key issues relevant to pursuing statewide ban strategies. At the same time, these organizations posture not only as environmental and grassroots organizations, but also pretend to be grassroots and “radically anti-fracking.”

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Sep 05

2013

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Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Co-optation Democrats Malcolm X March on Washington Racism

1963 March on Washington: The Mix of Struggle and Cooptation

"Today, our oppressors' media is doing unrestrained and shameless crowing about the 1963 March on Washington -- using it to repackage the peoples struggle as a Democratic Party sidecar, and using their coverage to cover over how much the U.S. remains a brutal prison house for African American people and other people of color."

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Jul 04

2013

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Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Co-optation Destabilizations Ecology Imperialism Interventions Media neoliberalism Propaganda R2P

Essential Summer Reading | Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent

The volume includes examinations of the inherent contradiction between genuine democracy and corporate capitalism, the use of corporate media, the entertainment industry, and celebrity activists as propaganda vehicles, the attempts to co-opt and neutralise NGOs and social movements, the demonisation and repression of unco-opted dissent, and the imperialist agendas behind so-called 'democracy promotion' interventions.

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May 14

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Co-optation Ford Rockefeller United Nations World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus Credibility Issue

"The co-optation of influential indigenous NGOs by philanthropic colonization complicates indigenous activism; indeed, the capture of the UNPFII leadership in the form of corporate brokers like Grand Chief Edward John — head of the British Columbia Treaty Extinguishment Process and chair of the UNPFII – is not surprising, but it is challenging, especially when indigenous governing authorities already face overwhelming odds just trying to organize their diplomatic missions to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples."

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Feb 15

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Co-optation Democracy Denialism Philanthropy

Defending Democracy Against The Philanthropists in Our Midst

"The established elite of a community rarely do their own dirty work. For that, they employ their dependants, which includes charitable and pseudo public-interest organizations that benefit from their philanthropy. In this way, authentic activists committed to democratic values—the white blood cells of a community-- frequently encounter overt opposition from their ideological opponents and covert opposition from ostensible allies in the pay of the power elite."

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Feb 15

2013

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Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Co-optation Ford Foundations OSI Rockefeller Soros

Foundation Funding: Tightening the Bonds of Our Own Oppression

"Elections, corporate-funded nonprofits, NGOs and CBOs, personal change, political pressure, culture-jamming, tinkering with the economy, green jobs, withdrawing our support, symbolic protests – all are offered up as options for dissent. None of them are sufficient; on the contrary, they serve to reinforce the system’s authority and the illusion of democracy."

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Jan 13

2013

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Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Assimilation Co-optation Colonialism Decolonization Feminism First Nations IdleNoMore Indigenous

Why Indigenous and Racialized Struggles Will Always be Appendixed by the Left

"Inspired by artists, academics and activist colleagues who have rolled their eyes at the spiritual beliefs of their Indigenous counterparts as well as protested the inclusion of prayer and ceremony into political, academic and artistic activities, I have decided to share my thinking on some fundamental differences in values and knowledge ways that impede relationship-making across our communities."

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Jan 13

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Amnesty International, Avaaz, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

AFN Assimilation Co-optation Colonialsm Estonia First Nations Guswentha IdleNoMore Indigenous Peoples Iran Kahnawake Kaianerekowa Mohawk Nation Mohawk Oka Netherlands Onowaregeh Pacifism as Pathology Panama Venezuela

Mohawk Nation: Traitors Among Us

"Traitors are worse than the enemy, the lowest of the low. Every culture loathes them. They help foreign governments overthrow, make war against and seriously injure their own people. They undermine us from within.'

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