Dec 05
20166
350.org / 1Sky, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org Army Corps Of Engineers BNSF Bold Nebraska Dakota Access Pipeline Greenpeace KXL Laborers Union National Resources Defense Council NVDA Palermo Rail Terminal Paradigm North Dakota System Rail Sacagawea pipeline Sierra Club Standing Rock Warren Buffett
"While the world celebrates from the pause the Army Corps Of Engineers has forced in the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Cory Morningstar and Forrest Palmer string together an important and critical history of the environmental and climate change movement."
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."
Sep 16
20162
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org Assimilation Bakken Pipeline CREDO Dakota Access NODAPL NVDA RAN Rising Tides North America Ruckus Society Warrior Culture White Fragility White Paternalism
"I sat in on the first two non violent action trainings brought into the camp to help teach protestors how to "de-escalate" even to the point of pulling young men (warriors) aside and chastising them (gently of course) for their anger. They were also told not to wear bandanas over their faces but to proudly be identified. A chill went up and down me."
Feb 10
20150
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Council on Foreign Relations International Center on Nonviolent Conflict military-peace nonprofit complex Non-violent Direct Action Dogma NVDA
"Back in the real world it is perfectly understandable why elites should seek to manipulate progressive social movements. Now we just need to decide what actions we can take to protect our movements from such unwanted interventions."