Apr 13
20151
350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Bill McKibben Capitalism EcoSystem Service Market Environmental Markets Imperialism John Bellamy Foster Naomi Klein Racism Renewable Energy
On the apocalyptic view, a fatally-unbalanced Nature is externalised into what Neil Smith called a “super-determinant of our social fate,” forcing a wholly separate Society to homogenise itself around elite managers and their technological and organisational fixes.
Feb 13
20150
Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"White liberals and their sympathizers take ideas and quotes from Martin Luther King out of context and use them to shame disruptive protesters as rioters and looters, dismiss more militant activists as spiteful and vengeful, blaming them all for their own conditions."
Jul 16
20142
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism
Amnesty International Branding Clinton FEMEN Feminism Guantanamo Bay Human Rights Watch Imperialism Libya Marketing misogyny Molly Crabapple MSNBC NATO neoliberalism Odessa Oppression OWS Patriarchy Pussy Riot Racism Russia Syria Ukraine VISE
"While women who stand against oppression and imperialism are often excluded from public platform, or labeled as “crazy” otherwise, when standing for imperialism, misogyny, racism, and capitalism, women are seen as strong and independent-minded. When their representations of the aforementioned are attacked, these otherwise “modern” women simply melt back into stereotypical gender roles, and are posited as victims. I will present three case studies for this phenomenon that will seek to make this connection between feminism, traditional gender roles, agency and imperial aggression."
Apr 30
20140
Foundations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africa Aid CJFE Eritrea EYSC Freedom House Human Rights Concern Eritrea (HRCE) NED | National Endowment for Democracy Racism UNHCR
"They are the manufacturers of the evidence and the disseminators of the lies about a nation a people they have chosen to betray for a few pieces of silver. Nothing worse than having racist and condescending self-serving western groups denigrating the people of Eritrea and their courageous stance on nation building, but is made worse by the few mentally enslaved Eritreans, who are repeating the insults against their own brethren."
Mar 13
20140
The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africa Africom Amnesty International Avaaz Genocide Human Rights Watch Libya NATO Racism UN “Responsibility to Protect”
"'That the slaughter in Sirte should have barely raised an eyebrow among the kinds of Western audiences and opinion leaders who just a few months before clamoured for 'humanitarian intervention,' is thus the more striking. Additionally, many humanitarian organizations, such as the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, including AVAAZ and the leftist groups in the West, including Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the UN, have acquiesced in raw aggression and even supported it."
Feb 06
20140
Amnesty International, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africom Amnesty International Gaddafi Genocide Human Rights Watch ICC Imperialism Libya Mandela NATO Psychological Warfare Racism Tawargha UN Human Rights Council
"Maximilian Forte’s book on the Libyan war, Slouching Towards Sirte, is another powerful (and hence marginalized) study of the imperial powers in violent action, and with painful results, but supported by the UN, media, NGOs and a significant body of liberals and leftists who had persuaded themselves that this was a humanitarian enterprise."
Feb 06
20140
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Colonialism Pacific Trails Pipeline Pacifism as Pathology Racism Whiteness
"Who are the real terrorists? Certainly not the people working to protect the land. In this video, Unis’tot’en Camp member Dini Ze Toghestiy talks about the mislabling of land defenders as terrorists, when the opposite is true. Indigenous land defenders are protecting their lands and communities from the terrorism of colonialism and industrial resource extraction."
Jan 04
20140
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africa African Wildlife Foundation Conservation Kenya Kisargei Racism Samburu The Conservation Initiative on Human Rights The Nature Conservancy
"The Samburu of Kisargei, in Kenya’s Laikipia district, were brutally evicted from the lands they call home in 2010 after the land was sold to the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF). AWF, using funds from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), says it bought the land on the understanding that no-one lived there. When the Samburu protested and took the matter to the courts the land was hurriedly ‘gifted’ to the government."
Nov 08
20133
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Colonialism Genocide privilege Racism White Supremacy
"Anger is an appropriate reaction to the rampant perpetuation of often invisibilized forms of racism and oppression. Anger is an appropriate reaction to the privileged gatekeepers of funding, resources, and power, when they fail to identify and challenge their understandings of our oppressions. Anger is appropriate when the earth is commodified for the capitalist agenda."
Nov 02
20130
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Bill McKibben Climate Justice Colonialism Fracking Genocide Gulf Coast Indigenous KXL Mountaintop Removal Powershift Racism Tarsands
"This piece originally appeared as part of a series called, “Millenials Take On Climate Change” on the website, Policy Mic. The title I had wanted to go with for this piece was, “How Big Green NGOs Are Harming the Environmental Movement”. Only 800 words were allowed. Policy Mic asked me to become a regular contributor after this piece but I declined once they repeatedly told me that a piece featuring an interview with a frontline indigenous organizer fighting tar sands pipelines wasn’t relevant for their readers."