May 06
20160
BICEP Ceres CSR Dyson Greenwash LG microplastics Nike Oceans Patagonia Polartec Siemens
"He contacted leaders in the outdoor apparel industry - big purveyors of synthetic fabrics - including Patagonia, Nike and Polartec. But none of these companies agreed to lend support."
"Featured frequently at Indian Country Today, First Peoples Worldwide propaganda posing as news is meant to psychologically undermine the Indigenous Peoples Movement that Chief Manuel and Dr. Ryser helped create, and to introduce non-sequiturs like Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as though they are valid concepts. As Wrong Kind of Green reports in the evolution of CSR, corporations have never acted for the benefit of society, and it is the current threat to the legitimacy of the corporation that CSR seeks to counteract."
Aug 25
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Corporate Social Responsibility CSR Green Capitalism territorial defense trade unions “culture of refusal”
"For real protest, the institutionalized opposition is the problem, the enemy and the main threat."
Apr 18
20130
David Suzuki Foundation, Forest Ethics, Foundations, Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Boreal Canadian Boreal Initiative Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Canopy CSR David Suzuki Foundation ForestEthics FPAC Greenpeace International Boreal Conservation Campaign Ivey Foundation Pew Environment Group The Nature Conservancy
"This collaboration with the logging industry was supposed to be a game-changer for the protection of species and conservation in Canada's threatened Boreal forest," said Nicole Rycroft, Founder and Executive Director of Canopy. "The disappointing reality is that not one hectare of forest has been protected and species and ecosystems are still at risk."
Nov 19
20122
Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
CIA CSR First Nations First Peoples Worldwide Ford Foundation Gloria Steinem Indigenous Peoples neoliberalism Soros UN World Bank
First Peoples Worldwide, an NGO funded by foundations, corporations and multilaterals, uses all the heartwarming neoliberal nomenclature well. So well, I suspect, that many innocent indigenous peoples are led to believe it is the answer to their prayers. But, as with all things that seem too good to be true, the first thing to check on is where they get their money. Sweet talk is one thing; who they actually work for is another.
Jul 31
20121
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Aid Capitalism CSR Denialism Foundations Gramsci Non-profit Industrial Complex
"I would argue that the answer is ‘no’; corporate profit gained at the expense of humans can never be justified by such philanthropic gestures. No doubt such noblesse oblige is allocated by some elites with noble intentions; but if the price for such charity is for its recipients to ignore economic exploitation, then it is hardly distributed with altruistic intentions. Instead it is given with economic intent to profit more handsomely from a workforce, in a manner that assuages each individual capitalist’s desire to feel (and advertise) their own neglected humanity."