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Apr 19

2013

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

Greenwashing KXL neoliberalism Revolving Doors Symbolism United Nations World Environment Day

Greenwashing from Coast to Coast

"If you live in Oregon, you are familiar with the spectacle of greenwashing at the highest levels of political theater. As Portland gears up to host the UN’s World Environment Day, the international attention almost obscures the plans for multiple freeway expansions, a Nestle water bottling plant, huge timber sales (whispers of biofuel replants), a dodgy LNG pipeline, and the terrible specter of coal exports. The ringleaders of the circus are the political elites."

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Apr 12

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Foundations, Greenpeace, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Pembina Institute, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

1Sky 350.org Barack Obama Bill Ackman Bill Gates BNSF Capitalism CN Rail CP Defend Our Coast Discourse Greenpeace Hillary Clinton Keystone KL KXL Sierra Club Tarsands Warren Buffett

Keystone XL: The Art of NGO Discourse | Part I

"Very few in the environmental movement wish to discuss, let alone acknowledge, the very ugly reality that the "Stop the KXL!" campaign has absolutely nothing to do with shutting down tar sands production. The actuality is that behind the protest signs (that conveniently blur lines and bear much semblance to the Obama branding campaign), we have an entire rail transport industry burgeoning to transport the oil formerly designated for the KXL pipeline. The show is over. It matters little whether Keystone is approved or not. If it is approved, we have a flourishing rail economy plus the KXL pipeline. Bread and circuses have never been so skillfully orchestrated." ...

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Apr 12

2013

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

350.org Beyond Coal Campaign Chesapeake Energy EPA KXL Pew Charitable Trusts Sierra Club

Designer Protests and Vanity Arrests in DC

"Between 2007 and 2010, Chesapeake Energy secretly funneled nearly $30 million to the Sierra Club to advocate the virtues of natural gas as a so-called “bridge” fuel. Bridge to where is yet to be determined. By the time this subornment was disclosed, the funders of the environmental movement had turned decisively against fracking for gas and the even more malicious methods used to extract shale oil."

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Mar 19

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance Idle No More KXL Oklahoma White Savior Complex Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Native Activists Withdraw Support from KXL Truthforce Concert Oklahoma

"Before long, we began to see a pattern that has played out repeatedly: Non-Indians armed with a savior complex, condescending tones and a penchant to show us a better way to do things, begin to plan strategy and events for us. We just show up and hand over the imaginary strings attached to our bodies, which they manipulate until the show’s over."

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Feb 26

2013

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

350.org Branding Denialism KXL McKibben Nader Naomi Klein

[No Logo?] Perils of the Keystone XL Pipeline Confront Obama by Ralph Nader

"Bill McKibben, a prolific writer and organizer on global warming and climate change, has had a busy year teaching environmentalists not to despair and will soon be learning some lessons himself."

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Feb 16

2013

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

350.org Civil Rights Movement KXL

Activist Malpractice: the Celebrity Catch-and-Release Movement

"A fellow activist notes, “That we’ve wasted time even talking about the pipeline is EXACTLY what the corporate masters who bought the environmental movement had hoped for. The pipeline has zero to do with what happens next, and they know it. They have to just wonder at the stupidity of so-called environmentalists — dumber than they even thought.”

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Apr 24

2012

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350.org / 1Sky, Occupy Wall Street, Sierra Club

350.org / 1Sky KXL Tar Sands Action

Inconvenient Truths About Tar Sands Action

"Quite the opposite, Tar Sands Action was a sophisticated, extremely well-funded model for creating the illusion of movement building, complete with mass civil disobedience, but the real goal, mirroring its cousin, “The 99 Spring,” was (and is) to hammer Republicans and fire up grassroots enthusiasm for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign."

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Jan 21

2012

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350.org / 1Sky, Climate Action Network | CAN, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

350.org / 1Sky CAN Conformity Imperialism Infiltration Keystone XL KXL MLK NRDC Obama Racism

Keystone XL | The Ivory Towers Crushing the Last Remnants of Climate Justice

When I start seeing articles posted on an international climate justice listserv from 350.org celebrating NRDC and friends, co-opting MLK (Martin Luther King, Jr.) for their own (branding) purposes and legitimising the Obama tagline "Yes We Can" (language that in turn gives "hope" that citizens may see "a certain young senator from Illinois" re-emerge), with no dissent to be found, it tells me that my good friend and legitimate activist Sandy was right. This Climate Justice Network has become CAN (Climate Action Network) in drag.

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