Jul 11

2013

"Yes, the nonprofits are being encouraged to file claims for losses related to the BP oil disaster in workshops held by the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation. (24) I attended one of their workshops on June 10 in New Orleans, and actually heard Amy Smallwood, CEO of Louisiana Cultural Economy, say that is doesn't matter if your losses during those eight months after the beginning of the BP oil disaster on April 21, 2010, are directly connected to the disaster or not."

Jul 08

2013

newWKOGadnim

Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Oxfam, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Capitalism Climate COP COP17 Ecology Oxfam UN World Wildlife Fund

FLASHBACK | Communique from COP

"Hugo Chavez remarked that presidents go from summit to summit, while people go from abyss to abyss. The same can be said about most self-appointed leaders of civil society. Voyeurs to genocide, this purportedly dissident grouping was altogether well behaved in Durban. The small exceptions of symobolic resistance in the final hours were totally incommensurate with what was at stake for everyone who didn’t have the privilege to be there."

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Jan 16

2013

newWKOGadnim

Foundations, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Oxfam, The Occupation of Haiti, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Catholic Relief Haiti Oxfam Red Cross Save the Children Unicef USAID

It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words … | Haitians Want to Know: “Where’s the Money?”

Haitians have a question they would like answered.

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Mar 15

2012

newWKOGadnim

Human Rights Watch, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Oxfam, USAID

Africa Apartheid Christian Aid Colonialism Congo Neo-liberalism Oxfam Save the Children UN USAID World Bank

FLASHBACK: The Missionary Position – NGOs and Development in Africa

2002: "NGOs face a stark choice. If they stand in favour of the emancipation of humankind (whether at home or abroad), then the focus of their work has inevitably to be in the political domain, supporting those social movements that seek to challenge a social system that benefits a few and impoverishes the many. The closing years of apartheid in Africa were illustrative of the choice that NGOs face today: either they supported the emerging popular movements (in South Africa and internationally) that supported the overthrow of a brutal system of exploitation, or they stayed silent and continued their philanthropic work, and became thereby complicit in the crimes of the system of apartheid."

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Nov 29

2011

newWKOGadnim

Carbon Markets | REDD, Oxfam

Carbon Markets Imperialism Oxfam The New Forests Company Uganda United Nations