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Nov 02

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Bill McKibben Climate Justice Colonialism Fracking Genocide Gulf Coast Indigenous KXL Mountaintop Removal Powershift Racism Tarsands

Reflections On Power Shift 2013: An Impromptu Interview

"This piece originally appeared as part of a series called, “Millenials Take On Climate Change” on the website, Policy Mic. The title I had wanted to go with for this piece was, “How Big Green NGOs Are Harming the Environmental Movement”. Only 800 words were allowed. Policy Mic asked me to become a regular contributor after this piece but I declined once they repeatedly told me that a piece featuring an interview with a frontline indigenous organizer fighting tar sands pipelines wasn’t relevant for their readers."

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Jul 11

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Oxfam, Sierra Club, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

BP EPA Gulf Coast Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council Oil Spill Oxfam Sierra Club

Democracy in Reverse | Non-Profit Disaster Capitalism on the Gulf Coast

"Yes, the nonprofits are being encouraged to file claims for losses related to the BP oil disaster in workshops held by the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation. (24) I attended one of their workshops on June 10 in New Orleans, and actually heard Amy Smallwood, CEO of Louisiana Cultural Economy, say that is doesn't matter if your losses during those eight months after the beginning of the BP oil disaster on April 21, 2010, are directly connected to the disaster or not."

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