May 16
20157
Amazon Watch, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Cultural Appropriation Cultural Assimilation Ecuador Fundación Pachamama Goldman Sachs. Pachamama Alliance REDD USAID World Bank WWF
"Industrial capitalists, employing those in the non-profit industrial complex as their personal soft-power sycophants, have every intention of controlling what remain of Indigenous People's natural resources. Adding to centuries of colonialism, slavery, and genocide, native peoples now face a 21st century corporatocracy that seeks full privatization and commodification of the Earth's remaining commons."
Sep 22
20141
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]
350.org Avaaz Divestment Purpose REDD Rockefeller UN Summit on Climate Change
The Divest-Invest shell game — like the COP meetings, REDD carbon market fiasco, and the Keystone XL charade — requires suspenion of disbelief (once again), and determined engagement in wishful thinking. When they begin swooning over oil tycoon heirs as their new heroes, the greens demonstrate their boundless capacity for self-delusion.
Sep 04
20145
350.org / 1Sky, Carbon Markets | REDD, Ceres, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Berkshire Hathaway Calvert Capitalism Ceres Divestment Environmental Markets First Peoples Worldwide Forests Green Economy Institute for Sustainable Investing Investments KXL NoVo Foundation Pensions privatization REDD Tides Ukraine Warren Buffett
"And while a theatre performance worthy of the Palau de la Música Catalana was playing to a sold-out audience (quite literally), Ceres was expanding its tentacles throughout the globe."
Jul 29
20140
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Ford People’s Climate Change March Psychological Warfare psywar REDD Rockefeller Seventh Generation Fund Society of the Spectacle United Nations World Bank World Conference on Indigenous Peoples World Summit on Indigenous Philanthropy
"When these conflicts cannot be ignored, mainstream media looks for compromised NGOs to speak for Indigenous Peoples, thereby marginalizing Indigenous intellectuals, diplomats, and governing authorities—a mass communications tactic examined under the concept of Netwar. While mainstream media informs, it does not make information comprehensible; what it leaves out is essential to knowledge that allows readers to form their own judgment, rather than consume corporate distortions and state propaganda."
Jul 22
201316
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Adivasi Agricultural Association AIMA Argentina Biofuels Borneo Branding Der Pakt mit dem Panda (The Pact with the Panda) Documentary Ecotourism Ethanol Exploitation Expropriation GE Global Harvest Initiative GMO Hector Laurance HSBC India Jose Martinez de Hoz Land Evictions Landgrabs monoculture Monsanto Morgan Seeds Palm Oil Papua Paraguay Pioneer Racism Rainforests REDD Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil South America Soy Speciesism WWF
"This film will dispel the green image of the WWF however. Behind the organisation’s eco-façade, the documentary maker uncovered explosive stories from all around the world. This documentary reveals the secrets of the WWF. It is a journey into the heart of the green empire that will hopefully shatter public faith in such so-called conservation groups forever."
Jul 18
20132
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Atmosphere Capitalism Colonialism Exploitation Forests Illusory Green Economy Imperialism Oceans privatization REDD UNGEP United Nations United Nations’ green economy programme
The Indigenous People’s Kari-Oca 2 Declaration describes the UN’s GEP as ‘a continuation of colonialism… a perverse attempt by corporations, extractive industries and governments to cash in on Creation by privatizing, commodifying and selling off the Sacred and all forms of life and the sky’ (2012, p.1-2). The programme of re-visioning of the commons as sets of commodities ripe for exploitation is diametrically contrary to the environmental rhetoric used to sell the project.
"The mechanism proposed by Bolivia, different and critical of REDD represents are real and consistent with the principles of the Convention, notably with the principles of equity, historical responsibility and climate debt. This proposal seeks to achieve real reductions and not speculation about trends, supplemented by actual reduction actions within industrialized countries, thus avoiding transfer their responsibilities to developing countries."
Dec 05
20120
Carbon Markets | REDD, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Bolivia Commodification of Nature Green Economy New Market Mechanisms (NMM) privatization REDD
The mechanism proposed by Bolivia, different and critical of REDD represents are real and consistent with the principles of the Convention, notably with the principles of equity, historical responsibility and climate debt. This proposal seeks to achieve real reductions and not speculation about trends, supplemented by actual reduction actions within industrialized countries, thus avoiding transfer their responsibilities to developing countries.
Dec 05
20120
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Carbon Markets COP18 Doha Green Capitalism Green Economy New Market Mechanisms (NMM) People's Agreement REDD
"... for the Annex 1 nations, the UK and for Manchester the choice is the same. To begin immediate and deep reductions in emissions at the same time as transitioning towards a steady-state economy ... Alternatively, we could continue with the eloquent rhetoric of green growth and win-win opportunities; reject integrity, placate our paymasters and embrace cognitive dissonance -- but ultimately renege on our responsibilities to both the current and future generations." Professor Kevin Anderson, November, 2012
Dec 05
20120
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Carbon Markets | REDD, CIDOB | Confederation of Indigenous People of Bolivia, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, TckTckTck
ALBA Avaaz Bolivia Carbon Markets COP18 Doha Evo Morales G77 Green Economy Non-profit Industrial Complex REDD TckTckTck
"In December 2009, the Morales government proved the most progressive of all states (in alliance with ALBA and the G77 nations) at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen. This union, led by Bolivia, aggressively pursued the scientific targets necessary in order for the world to avoid complete ecological collapse and a global genocide of unparalleled proportions. Ironically (and most revealing), these progressive states led leaps and bounds ahead of the environmental movement itself.""In December 2009, the Morales government proved the most progressive of all states (in alliance with ALBA and the G77 nations) at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen. This union, led by Bolivia, aggressively pursued the scientific targets necessary in order for the world to avoid complete ecological collapse and a global genocide of unparalleled proportions. Ironically (and most revealing), these progressive states led leaps and bounds ahead of the environmental movement itself.""In December 2009, the Morales government proved the most progressive of all states (in alliance with ALBA and the G77 nations) at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen. This union, led by Bolivia, aggressively pursued the scientific targets necessary in order for the world to avoid complete ecological collapse and a global genocide of unparalleled proportions. Ironically (and most revealing), these progressive states led leaps and bounds ahead of the environmental movement itself."