Apr 25
20165
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ford Foundation, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, NoVo Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"Clean Energy" "Sustainable Capitalism" 350.org Bolivia Consumerism as Activism COP15 Divestment G77 KXL Naomi Klein New Economy private equity privatization R2P Warren Buffett YouTopia
"Having hijacked the environmental movement on behalf of Wall Street, these false fronts are currently pressing for changes in international law that would give the finance sector carte blanche in privatizing all of nature."
Apr 23
20161
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
"...private equity raised close to $34 billion for oil and gas funds in 2015—a 94% rise from three years ago—as new transactions continue to be executed."
Apr 22
20162
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Clean Energy" Acid Mine Draining Avaaz Denialism Divestment Environmentalism as Anthropocentrism GCCA hedge funds Lithium People's Climate March private equity TckTckTck
"In a perfect world, in another time, perhaps renewable energies will be made of butterfly kisses and rare, precious Earth minerals will fall from the sky."
Nov 19
20151
academic institutions fascism homelessness NGos philanthropic foundations Poverty private equity
"As for civil society NGOs and academic institutions, they have mostly succumbed to the aristocratic paternalism of philanthropic foundations, now functioning for the large part as public relations agents for privatization."
May 02
20150
350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Divestment Fracking hedge funds Jeremy Grantham private equity Tom Steyer
"Grantham, meanwhile, donated millions to buy the support of Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund and Greenpeace. As usual, the 350 Climateers are clueless about how they are being used by fossil fuel investors to undermine democracy and the environmental movement."
Feb 10
20150
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Divestment hedge funds Jeremy Grantham private equity Tom Steyer
"The campaign endangers its legitimacy — and shows how toothless it is — by accepting funding from Steyer and Grantham. Both have a clear financial interest in routing pension fund and endowment investments further from publicly traded securities and into the private markets dominated by their firms."