Dec 09
20163
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Greenpeace, Social Engineering
350.org Africa Agit-Pop Avaaz Backbone Beautiful Trouble Ben & Jerry's Burundi Greenpeace IEN Indigenous Co-optation MoveOn Naomi Klein New Economy NPDAPL Other98 Rainforest Action Network Standing Rock TckTckTck The Climate Ribbon The Other 98 The Ruckus Society Unilever
"The spread of activist fervor is being harvested as a potential source new "consumer-activsim." The consumer-activism is guided by best selling playbooks for nonviolent revolution and a global network of trainers with a common "indigenous led" pedagogy."
Dec 06
20161
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ceres, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz], Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org Avaaz Bolivia Council of Canadians Evo Morales Imperialsm Indigenous Rights Libya Naomi Klein New Democrat Party (NDP) NPDAPL Purpose Standing Rock Syria Tarsands The Leap Manifesto Tzeporah Berman World People's Conference on Climate Change
"Most vitally, this series contrasts the tiny amounts of money spent at the grassroots against the vast sums spent at the 'business' end of the non-profit industrial complex where personal data helps behavior-change B-corporation executives exercise the will of corporate philanthropists, corporations, and imperialist governments."
Nov 09
20160
MoveOn.org, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Occupy Wall Street, Otpor | Canvas, Pacifism as Pathology, USAID
99% Spring campaign Bill McKibben Birmingham Book Review Civil Disobedience Democracy Spring Department of Defense Euromaidan Ferguson Gene Sharp Martin Luther King MoveOn.org Naomi Klein NATO NVDA Otpor Re-branding Revolt Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) United States Institute of Peace (USIP) USAID “negotiated management”
"It is often said that without the guidance of an anti-authoritarian and non-ideological figure like Ella Baker, the Black Power militants of SNCC began to lose perspective. Yet it can equally be said that the pacifists lost their way as well."
Why are those on the frontlines ignored – while celebrities who model/foster the very lifestyles that contribute to our crisis are upheld as heroic icons?
Nov 08
20160
Avaaz, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]
Amy Goodman Avaaz Democracy Now Naomi Klein Netflix Purpose White Helmets
"On this thought-provoking program, these international thought leaders from France, Canada and the US discuss how the complex has become an “apparatus to escalate conflict” against challenges to US hegemony, while maintaining a humanitarian veneer."
"The very notion of “renewable” energy is a dangerous and reckless idea which far too many environmentalists give credence. Basic science tells us that every energy source requires inputs and it has emissions consequences."
Aug 31
20162
Forest Ethics, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pembina Institute
Alberta Oil Sands Advisory Group Capitalism Denialism Forest Ethics Leap Manifesto Naomi Klein Pembina STAND (Forest Ethics) Tar Sands Tzeporah Berman We Mean Business
A MUST WATCH INTERVIEW (02:57)
May 17
20160
"Sustainable Capitalism" 1Sky/350.org Avaaz Bill Gates Bill McKibben Buffett COP21 Divestment Indigenous Peoples Jeremy Heimans KXL Naomi Klein New Economy NoVo privatization Purpose Tides UN Wall Street
"The funders of 350 know all this, which is why they finance 350 campaigns that don’t address the consumerism or militarism that drive fossil fuel demand. Instead, they promote the idea that Americans can continue consuming vast quantities of minerals for electricity and electronics, car and jet travel at the expense of the rest of the world."
Apr 25
20165
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ford Foundation, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, NoVo Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"Clean Energy" "Sustainable Capitalism" 350.org Bolivia Consumerism as Activism COP15 Divestment G77 KXL Naomi Klein New Economy private equity privatization R2P Warren Buffett YouTopia
"Having hijacked the environmental movement on behalf of Wall Street, these false fronts are currently pressing for changes in international law that would give the finance sector carte blanche in privatizing all of nature."
Apr 21
20160
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz], Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Soros Network | OSI, United Nations
Advertising Bill McKibben Breakthrough Energy Coalition Naomi Klein New Economy Plague Religion Rockefeller Brothers Warren Buffett
"With the advent of social media and the reign of the Internet, controlling consciousness is now child’s play."