Feb 12
20130
Pacifism as Pathology, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Colonialism Mohawk Pacifism as Pathology United Nations United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Listening to Mohawk activist Shawn Brant describe the apartheid design of indigenous poverty in Canada and elsewhere as a means of creating hopelessness and despair in order to continue colonial resource extraction, I was reminded that contrary to popular myths, there never were any good colonial intentions."
"So while some INM’ers believe they are leading a “peaceful” Indigenous Rights Revolution, they are actually benefiting from the militant grassroots resistance that preceded them, gained through blood, sweat, and tears, assaults, arrests, and in some cases death. Perhaps if they knew their history better, they would understand this."
"As I noted in my essay Power of Moral Sanction, the challenge of leadership is determining the mix, the timing and the emphasis of various tactics as a movement matures. When done effectively, they reinforce each other, and propel the movement forward. Part of any victorious movement, I should note, is a well-organized research, analysis and intelligence gathering network that constantly informs the movement’s organizers and educators. Without a built-in respect for this network, no movement can succeed."
Jan 13
20130
350.org / 1Sky, Amnesty International, Avaaz, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
AFN Assimilation Co-optation Colonialsm Estonia First Nations Guswentha IdleNoMore Indigenous Peoples Iran Kahnawake Kaianerekowa Mohawk Nation Mohawk Oka Netherlands Onowaregeh Pacifism as Pathology Panama Venezuela
"Traitors are worse than the enemy, the lowest of the low. Every culture loathes them. They help foreign governments overthrow, make war against and seriously injure their own people. They undermine us from within.'
Indeed, Gord Hill told the Georgia Straight the high-level meeting actually represents the co-optation of the grassroots indigenous-sovereignty movement by band chiefs and councils that owe their power to the paternalistic Indian Act. According to the 44-year-old Kwakwaka’wakw author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, the Canadian government has historically used these “elites” to suppress efforts by First Nations people to fight colonialism and oppression.
"States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant—when consent is withdrawn. This is the thesis of this thrilling book. Murray Rothbard writes a classic introduction to one of the great political essays in the history of ideas. In times when dictators the world over are falling from pressure from their own people, this book, written nearly 500 years ago, is truly the prophetic tract of our times."
Dec 04
20120
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Civil Disobedience Direct Action Pacifism as Pathology Speciesism
This is What Courage Looks Like… This is What Direct Action Looks...
Nov 22
20121
liberation militant direct action (MDA) Pacifism as Pathology Resistance sabotage vivisection-industrial complex
“ changing the kind of work people will do in the future. If students come to me interested in primate research, I would tell them to think about other things.”UCLA vivisector, Dario Ringach, who reluctantly abandoned nonhuman primate research in 2006 after relentless ALF attacks on his colleagues.
Nov 22
20120
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
ALF | Animal Liberation Front Biotechnology Capitalism Corporate Media Culture Ecological Crisis neoliberalism Pacifism Pacifism as Pathology Resistance Speciesism
Dr/Prof. Steve Best is a writer, speaker, public intellectual, and activist. Steven Best engages animal rights, species extinction, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass media and culture, globalization, and capitalist domination. He is Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso."The Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action and "Violence" for Animal Liberation" lecture by Prof. Steve Best was delivered in an ex slaughterhouse of Aprilia - Italy - 06 September 2012.
Oct 31
20120
350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club
350.org Alaska Climate Council of Canadians David Suzuki Doundation Defend Our Coast Denial Drilling Greenpeace James Hansen Pacifism as Pathology Symbolism Tar Sands
"The shock and surprise routine on the pandering to corporate interests by NGOs is getting stale. It is easy to publicly voice one's disdain of Obama, Romney, the Democrats and Republicans along with all of the different people (Euro-American's leading the charge) and corporations/industries that are destroying the Earth. Yet the liberal left continues to be silent on the NGOs at the forefront of a dead movement who lead the sheep to the slaughter."