Apr 06
20181
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Uncategorized, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Isn’t it time to stop aiming those guns—and our missiles, fighter jets, and drones—at the rest of the world? My mother was a member of Women Strike for Peace, founded in 1961 with the slogan “Stop the Arms Race, Not the Human Race,” and that has never been more true."
Mar 01
20171
Avaaz, MoveOn.org, Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering
Avaaz CANVAS Community Action Program (CAP) Democratic Party Goldman Sachs. J Street LIFT MoveOn.org Open Society Foundation Otpor Teach for America
"The development of an independent, working class-centered movement will require a mass rejection of non-profit funds and structures."
Gil Noble’s (1932-2012) legendary interview with Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) (1941-1998) on 'Like It Is.' (1996)
Sep 30
20140
Amnesty International, Avaaz, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, MoveOn.org, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]
Avaaz Clinton Clinton Global Initiative Democratic Party Ford Millenium Development Goals MoveOn NAFTA neoliberalism Pupose Rockefeller Social Media Soros Uzbekistan Wall Street WTO
"With laundered funding aplenty -- available through neoliberal foundations like Clinton, Gates, Soros, Ford and Rockefeller -- Wall Street (with help from Madison Avenue) has managed to consolidate its war-making portfolio of investments, while simultaneously acquiring a controlling interest in big international NGOs. As civil society institutions (living on pre-coup residual creds), the NGOs, in turn, legitimate the neoliberal incarnation of fascism."
Jul 19
20143
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
"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."
Aug 28
20131
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Afghanistan AFL-CIO Anna Hedgeman Black Panthers Black Workers Congress Combahee River Collective Congress on Racial Equality Democratic Party Dorothy Height Dorothy L. Robinson League of Revolutionary Black Workers March on Washington materialism Militarism NAACP National Action Network National Welfare Rights Organization Negro American Labor Council (NALC) Pakistan Pauli Murray Poor People’s Campaign Racism Somalia Southern Christian Leadership Conference Syria United Auto Workers Urban League Yemen Young Lords
" The moral and political arc of movements for social justice is also very, very long. And this is why it is important to think beyond the march, “the speech,” the spectacle. To understand August 28, 1963 is to understand the entire era. It requires following those movements that fall outside the spotlight, the movements organized and led by the very women who were excluded from the mic on that incredibly hot and humid Washington afternoon. The work of social movements is not always sexy, nor is it necessarily inspiring. But they are the engines for change and the incubators of new dreams."
Aug 27
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Civil Rights Movement Democratic Party March on Washington Martin Luther King NAACP New York City’s United Federation of Teachers Syria The International Socialist Organization (ISO) United Auto Workers
The statement stressed that it was not possible to defend democratic rights without a struggle against capitalism. “The Achilles’ heel of the civil rights movement, and even its most radical and sincere representatives such as King,” Mazelis wrote, “was its failure to break with the Democratic Party and recognize that the aims of social equality and democratic rights were realizable only in a struggle for socialism.”
Nov 14
20120
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, MoveOn.org
1Sky/350.org 99 Spring Democratic Party Do the Math Hegemony Imperialism Movement Strategy Center MoveOn Occupy Rebuild the Dream
"The tools of imperialism have come home to the core of the empire, as they always do. This time, like the many times before, it’s in the form of “consensual domination” on the part of citizens who partake in “activism” that’s nothing more than freshly installed astroturf for the Democratic Party disguised as “democracy promotion.'"