Tangled Up in Blue
"And Beyond the March, the RINGOs (Rockefeller-influenced NGOs) are sponsoring five days of spectacular activities, creating the illusion of power for the powerless."
Bill McKibben of 350.org Schooled by Amanda Lickers of Reclaim Turtle Island
Submedia Published on Sep 9, 2014 “Amanda Lickers is a queer, cis,...
Have a Question about the State of Play on the People’s Climate March? No Problem – Just ask Rockefellers Brothers Fund …
"Co-Sponsored by Environmental Grantmakers Association, Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, EDGE Funders Alliance, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation."
Truth About 350
"With Chris Hedges op-ed at Truthdig calling the People’s Climate March a “climate-themed street fair,” corporate-funded pied pipers like Avaaz and 350 — both major promoters of the march — will be going on the offensive against reporters who expose Big Green fraud. Indeed, the Labor Day puff piece on 350 at The Real News Network was an opportunity for readers to start discussing the reality of foundation-sponsored spectacle."
Moolah Boodle Lucre Simoleons
"Wall Street’s vertical integration of controlling consciousness is based on five components: ownership of media, fabrication of news, integration of advertising with state propaganda, financing of foundations and brokerages, and co-option of NGOs. While many well-meaning people are channeled into the latter by the concerted collaboration of all the former, the corporate agenda that determines the policies, practices and projects of these NGOs is anything but benign."
A Culture of Imbeciles [or, The People’s Climate March]
"Debord’s remarks on the early development of a culture of imbeciles illustrate that revolutions like the one led by 350.org become exercises in silliness. The fact that media brain-damaged Americans are incapable of withdrawing themselves from the spectacle’s spell, is cause for considerable worry."
On Bill McKibben’s ‘Call to Arms’ for the New York Climate Summit
"As a scientist friend calculated, to replace the amount of fossil fuels we are currently using with bioenergy will require six planet’s worth of land. We truly do have to change the system. Not what is fueling it. Business as usual has to go. Unfortunately power concedes nothing without a demand. In fact, power concedes nothing without being given no other options."