Aug 30
20170
Africa Colonialism International Union for the Conservation of Nature Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) White Paternalism Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
"It has also created space for white “saviors” (and the “saviors” are always white), such as George Adamson, Jane Goodall, and Iain Douglas-Hamilton, to step in and be seen to make the decisive difference. There’s no place for Africans in the picture."
Aug 06
20170
Colonialism Industrialization Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Standard Gauge Railway Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Dr.Ogada was frank when I asked him about his motivation for writing the book: "I think it is when I realized that because of the colour of my skin, I was not likely to ever be acknowledged as a significant contributor to our conservation discourse in Kenya".
"Through a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation, Kent Monkman explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience — the complexities of historic and contemporary Native American experience."
Jan 11
20170
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Amazon Colonialism Culture Eurocentrism Imperialism INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS NGos NPIC Peru
The film you are about to see was written by Indigenous and international artists in Peru who volunteered their time and talents because they had a story to be told. The main character, Brus, sums it up as: "Development, NGOs- another type of colonialism." With just $8,000 dollars they created the first ever cooperative film in the Amazon.
Oct 04
20160
Pacifism as Pathology, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Assimilation Bakken Pipeline Capitalism Colonialism Decolonization Genocide NODAPL Nuclear Resistance Standing Rock Sioux reservation
"As the pipeline is a mere conduit of the resource that flows through its vessels, the uproarious response by the First Nations community is the conduit of the centuries long anger which as has been internalized on these outposts of human despair. We can only hope that the rupture of First Nation emotions will make all of the previous pipeline fissures pale in comparison."
Jan 09
20164
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Oxfam, Uncategorized, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africa Colonialism Destabilizations Humanitarian Wars Imperialism Lifestyle Wars Live Aid LiveAid Oxfam Red Cross Resource Wars Sierra Leone Unicef
"Well done Oxfam, UNICEF, Red Cross, Live Aid, and all the other organizations that continuously run multi-million-dollar advertisement campaigns depicting charity porn to sustain that image of Africa globally... While one hand gives under the flashing lights of cameras, the other takes in the shadows."
"Millions of signatures later, the organisation publishes a congratulatory message on its website to maintain its community and Avaaz remains at the helm, retaining its duplicitous role as alleged activist and collaborator in imperialist oppression."
Feb 13
20150
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africa Capitalism Colonialism Côte d’Ivoire Doctors Without Borders Fanon Imperialism Jeffrey Sachs Libya paternalism R2P The Virgin Fallacy
"The cover story in The Economist (June 1997) was “Emerging Africa.” It was a classic display of the arrogant paternalism that has come to be the hallmark of the new humanitarianism."
Submedia Published on Sep 9, 2014 “Amanda Lickers is a queer, cis,...
Feb 06
20140
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Colonialism Pacific Trails Pipeline Pacifism as Pathology Racism Whiteness
"Who are the real terrorists? Certainly not the people working to protect the land. In this video, Unis’tot’en Camp member Dini Ze Toghestiy talks about the mislabling of land defenders as terrorists, when the opposite is true. Indigenous land defenders are protecting their lands and communities from the terrorism of colonialism and industrial resource extraction."