Jul 22
20130
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
indigenous populations Mexico Oaxaca participatory mapping U.S. Army Weaponizing Maps
"As it happens, this concern over betrayal by modern states, corporations and NGOs behind the participatory mapping phenomenon is well-founded. According to renowned cartographer and social scientist Denis Wood, his research in Oaxaca, Mexico reveals that participatory mapping gets turned into a method for making maps that support state and military interventions into Indigenous life."
Sep 25
20120
Foundations, Human Rights Watch, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The Soros Network | OSI, USAID
Algeria Burma China Cuba Democratic Republic of Congo Ford Foundation Haiti Human Rights Watch Iran Mexico Morocco NED | National Endowment for Democracy Open Society Institute Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Rockefeller Foundation Russia USAID ZIMBABWE
"Indeed, progressive activists’ seem to have become so fixated on critiquing their ideological opponents that they have neglected to watch the right-ward slide of their would-be-allies. This tactical lapse appears to have left democratic media organizations open to the insidious cooptive assaults waged by those intent on promoting a polyarchal public sphere."