Jul 30
20120
Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club
Nature Conservancy Non-profit Industrial Complex Pew Charitable Trusts Rockefeller Sierra Club
"I have a background in successful grassroots environmentalism and have butted heads more than once with the ineffective Big Greens and their funders. I learned early on that protecting grant portfolios and career tracks are far more important to these folks than protecting ecosystems. Once a staffer from Pew told me, "We fund reform, not revolution." From my perspective, they fund neither."
Jul 16
20120
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Carnegie First Nations Ford Imperialism Non-profit Industrial Complex Rockefeller Social Engineering Vanderbilt
"As funders of think tanks and universities in order to create a managerial elite over the last century (through the design of social sciences for social control), the foundations, says Marshall, make the world safe for capitalism by channeling criticism away from fundamental change. In what he describes as recolonizing the world today through social genocide, Marshall notes that foundation funded NGOs function as capitalist missionaries, extending the imperial project worldwide, and thereby undermining Indigenous liberation."
"The Indian government, of course, isn't the only regime that uses mythology or puppets to manipulate public opinion in support of foreign aggression. While in the US those puppets have traditionally taken on the form of talking heads on corporate and public television, they are increasingly represented in the form of NGO PR puppets employed in the moral theatrics industry."
"With the militarization of humanitarian projects that has corrupted some big international NGOs of late, institutionalizing humanitarian efforts for the future requires that we rethink how we respond and reflect on how we might reform our humanitarian organizing."
Jul 12
20120
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Foundations Non-profit Industrial Complex Social Engineering
“Brilliant…Riveting…The amount of material the filmmaker covers and unifies is astounding…Human Resources diagnoses the 20th century.” - Stephen Soldz, Professor, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis; President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Jun 28
20122
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia
ALBA Bolivia Imperialism neoliberalism Non-profit Industrial Complex World Bank
"NGOs emphasize projects, not movements; they “mobilize” people to produce at the margins but not to struggle to control the basic means of production and wealth; they focus on technical financial assistance of projects, not on structural conditions that shape the everyday lives of people. The NGOs co-opt the language of the left: “popular power,” “empowerment,” “gender equality,” “sustainable development,” “bottom-up leadership.” The problem is that this language is linked to a framework of collaboration with donors and government agencies that subordinate practical activity to non-confrontational politics."
Jun 28
20120
Capitalism Green Climate Fund (GCF) La Via Campesina Non-profit Industrial Complex RIO+20
Published on March 28, 2012 Republished June 28, 2012 by Gregory Vickrey...
Jun 27
20120
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, USAID
ALBA Amnesty International Bolivia Destabilization Human Rights Watch Imperialism Morales Nicaragua Non-profit Industrial Complex TIPNIS USAID
Jorge Capelán, Lizzie Phelan and toni solo discuss the recent announcement by President Daniel Ortega on the future of USAID development cooperation in Nicaragua and the US government's politically motivated denial of the "transparency" waiver..
Jun 27
20120
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Canadian Red Cross Colonialism Disaster Capitalism Haiti Non-profit Industrial Complex Occupation
Paternalism, neocolonialism, a tool for domination of the world order, these are just some of the attributes and concepts juxtaposed with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at a symposium on the controversial role of NGOs in Haiti.
Jun 20
20120
Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Foundations Natural Resources Defense Council Non-profit Industrial Complex Pew
"Philanthropy and the organizations it funds are what they are. They are not in the revolution business. They are in risk management."