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Nov 26

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

350.org Denialism KXL Symbolism Tarsands

The Climate Movement Needs to Stop ‘Winning’

"National climate groups celebrated Obama's decision to delay the northern segment of KXL, intentionally overlooking that this supposed "win" was paired with an endorsement to fast track the southern arm of KXL, connecting a preexisting tar sands pipeline that ended in Oklahoma to refining communities and shipping ports in Texas. There was no delay for us--pipe was being put in the ground. In search of a "win," the people of KXL south were written off as a loss."

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Nov 23

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Forest Ethics, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement CBFA First Nations ForestEthics Great Bear Rainforest Agreement Greenpeace KXL Sierra Club Tar Sands Coalition Tar Sands Solutions Network Tarsands

Are Green Groups Ready for Tarsands Deal?

“Pragmatism equals don’t take the position ‘Leave the oil in the ground’ but, rather, take the position ‘Stop expansion,’ ” said David Peerla, a community organizer and writer who closely follows the environmental sector. “‘Stop expansion’ means whatever place the industry got to whenever they cut the deal, that production can continue until the oil runs out, no matter the ongoing environmental costs.”

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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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Oct 28

2013

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

350.org Bill McKibben Buffett Gates KXL Rockefeller Tar Sands Solutions Network Tides Foundation Tzeporah Berman

Caravan of Doom

"A Cory Morningstar writes at Wrong Kind of Green, the evil empire Buffett, Gates and Rockefeller built in the private sector is mirrored in the evil networks of NGOs they -- along with Clinton -- have constructed to provide cover for widespread environmental devastation, ethnic cleansing and Indigenous genocide committed by their corporate investments."

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Oct 10

2013

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

Fracking Keystone XL KXL Northern Gateway

The Climate Movement’s Pipeline Preoccupation

"We must call for what we really need – the end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction. The pipeline placed yesterday in British Columbia, the most recent drag lines added in Wyoming, and the fracking wells built in Pennsylvania need to be the last ones ever built. And we should say that."

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Oct 10

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Consumption Culture Divestment KXL Pacifism as Pathology

When Divestment Isn’t Enough

"The consumer culture that plagues America today was no less apparent at the Keystone XL rally than it has been on any street corner. The true enemy of growth and the wealth that it has brought were both present in full force, mostly unbeknownst to the crowd. So will a whole lot of shouting, dancing and screaming effectively change oil companies into alternative energy companies? Is the mainstream environmental community truly willing to sacrifice what it would take to combat climate change? Can symbolic gestures such as protests overturn the market maxim of supply and demand?"

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Sep 12

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

350.org Bill McKibben Keystone XL KXL North American Tar Sands Coalition Syria Tides Foundation

The Problem With Bill McKibben and John Kerry

What will happen to those who carry signs denouncing John Kerry and US war crimes to the 350.org demonstrations? Will they be told “Kerry is our friend on climate, ignore the war crimes?” and then asked to remove them from visibility? The foundation money says yes. And now that the big NGO crowd are in bed with these war criminals and this US administration, where do we take real resistance in the little time there may be left? Can we set a peoples agenda, one that is not wedded to the Democratic Party in the US?

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Jun 09

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

Buffett Energy Gates KXL Non-profit Industrial Complex Rail Rockefeller Tarsands

Working for Warren: Corporate Greens

In Keystone XL: The Art of NGO Discourse–Part II, Cory Morningstar examines the political theatre of the non-profit industrial complex around the transport of oil, and how corporate greens — financed by oligarchs like Rockefeller, Gates and Buffett — are effectively destroying any meaningful activism in the US.

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Jun 04

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Ceres, Foundations, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club, TckTckTck

350.org Keystone KXL NRDC Sierra Club TckTckTck

Keystone XL: The Art of NGO Discourse – Part II

First and foremost, these self-appointed NGOs represent and protect the interests of their funders. 350.org and friends successfully take the issues away from the dinner table, where the issues need discussing, and instead, they make the issue about them. Then, after poisoning it, they’ll blame someone else for it. This is narcissism, which flourishes like a cancer within the complex. A complex built on a foundation of whiteness and aversive racism. It is ugly. Perhaps the late George Carlin summarizes the second half of this investigative report far better on stage than in typeface: “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

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