May 06
20162
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ceres, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, NoVo Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
#WeHaveAPlan 350 Annie Leonard Avaaz Ceres Earth Economics Indigenous Rights Natural Capital NoVo Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) privatization Purpose Tides UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) WBCSD
“The implementation of payment for ecosystem services,” Morningstar observes, “will create the most spectacular opportunities that the financial sector has ever witnessed.”
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."
Mar 13
20160
Carbon Markets | REDD, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Carbon Markets financialization of nature Monetization of Nature Natural Capital Objectification of Nature Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) privatization REDD
"But make-believe markets are highly likely to fail when people are otherwise relentlessly focused on nickel-and-dime realities. The market mentality also degrades nature by attempting to turn it into a commodity. "
Feb 07
20160
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]
Avaaz Ben & Jerry's Capitalism Consumerism New Economy privatization Purpose Inc. Social Media UN Unilever
"The cult of consumerism, through which 350, Avaaz and Purpose adherents identify with their brand, is similar to religion, in that becoming a follower is an act of faith."
Jan 25
20160
Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria
Coercive Engineered Migration Hero Norway Link ORS Services privatization Refugee Gold Rush Swarm UNHCR
"For 2015, Hero Norway expects revenue of $63 million, with profits of 3.5 percent... only one for-profit is larger than the Adolfsens’ operation, ORS Services, a Swiss company that in 2014 generated $99 million in profit caring for refugees in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany."
Jan 25
20165
350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering
Angel Gurría Chiapas EZLN Global Goals NAFTA Naomi Klein OECD privatization Wall Street Zapatistas
Wrong Kind of Green January 25, 2016 hock and awe (technically...
Jan 09
20160
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Ayn Rand commodity capitalism cultural displacement Feminism Gentrification neoliberalism privatization queer theory
"... some artists are now using elements of feminist and queer theory, using masks as a way of resisting this gaze and as a tool in the fight against surveillance and technology’s built in method of identifying and tracking consumers, a feature (often surreptitious) of how business has succeeded transferring control of the economy from the public to the private sector."
Dec 21
20151
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carbon Markets | REDD, Foundations, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation
350.org Avaaz Breakthrough Energy Coalition Climate Action Network COP21 Gates Greenpeace Havas privatization Social Engineering Wall Street WBCSD
The NGOs and PR firms behind the social engineering used to drum up support for Wall Street’s privatization plan -- Avaaz, Havas, Purpose and 350 -- are key to saving the planet for the financial elite.... Organizing for political power requires challenging these Wall Street-funded fronts. ‘Civil society’ does not equal NGO."
Dec 14
20150
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology
COP21 KPFA Bay Area community radio Popular Resistance privatization Wall Street
"With all the COP21 hype from politicians, professional ‘activists’ and the financial elite, I thought I’d see what the so-called radicals are thinking. Toward that end, I attempted to engage with two pertinent discussions. Here’s what I discovered...."