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Fundación Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA Part VIII [Final Segment]

"Cultural imperialism can take various forms, so long as it reinforces cultural hegemony. Ecotourism easily fills the role of an opaque vellum that attempts to cover cultural imperialism."

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part VI of an Investigative Report]

"How Indigenous communities, now saddled with intense pressure to allure, seduce and satisfy White privilege, can continue to evolve naturally under such conditions appears to be of little interest to White saviours. Again, as throughout history, the Achuar are presented as the lucky beneficiaries of Western development and ideologies, thereby, yet again, assigned to their historic role as the passive novelties/objects of rapacious colonial ambition."

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part V of an Investigative Report]

"Today’s 21st century missionaries/NGOs have traded in the baggy hemp trousers and the long tunics of their predecessors for Bagir EcoGir all-organic suits. Espresso-coloured bamboo fibres avec buttons made from dried nuts of tagua palm ecologically harvested from the rainforest. Made exclusively for white male privilege – made possible by those exploited and paid next to nothing in the harvesting of the resources, by those exploited in sweatshops producing clothing they will never be able to afford in their lifetime. On the left, we have male, blond, blue-eyed Jesus. On the right, we have economic growth, and markets as sacrosanct."

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part IV of an Investigative Report]

The Art of Annihilation January 26, 2015 Part four of an investigative...

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part III of an Investigative Report]

"As resource accumulation necessitated the global transference of the principles of the Powell memo, NGOs are used as an integral soft power component of multinational corporate dominance that has now dwarfed any and all nation states in influence and control across the Earth."

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part II of an Investigative Report]

"Industrial capitalists, employing those in the non-profit industrial complex as their personal soft-power sycophants, have every intention of controlling what remain of Indigenous People's natural resources. Adding to centuries of colonialism, slavery, and genocide, native peoples now face a 21st century corporatocracy that seeks full privatization and commodification of the Earth's remaining commons."

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part I of an Investigative Report]

"Yes, the Fundación Pachamama is chained – with shackles that bind to it to imperial interests."

Communication to TckTckTck Partner: Pachamama Alliance – Feb. 10th, 2010

Update – Although Pachamama Alliance states in a communication dated Feb. 17th,...