Dec 06

2016

350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ceres, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz], Whiteness & Aversive Racism

350.org Avaaz Bolivia Council of Canadians Evo Morales Imperialsm Indigenous Rights Libya Naomi Klein New Democrat Party (NDP) NPDAPL Purpose Standing Rock Syria Tarsands The Leap Manifesto Tzeporah Berman World People's Conference on Climate Change

Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 2]

"Most vitally, this series contrasts the tiny amounts of money spent at the grassroots against the vast sums spent at the 'business' end of the non-profit industrial complex where personal data helps behavior-change B-corporation executives exercise the will of corporate philanthropists, corporations, and imperialist governments."

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Dec 08

2015

newWKOGadnim

350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Environmental Defence Fund, Forest Ethics, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Pembina Institute, Sierra Club, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Cenovus CNRL ConocoPhilips David Suzuki Foundation Environmental Defence Canada Environmental Defense Equiterre ForestEthics Greenpeace Leap Manifesto Participants New Democratic Party (NDP) Pembina Institute Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Shell Statoil Suncor Tarsands Tides Canada Tzeporah Berman WWF

The Collaborative Model Takes Root in Alberta’s Tar Sands

"Merran Smith of ForestEthics was listed without affiliation, as was Tzeporah Berman, who worked to privatize BC’s rivers as director of PowerUp Canada, and who is slated to start work this month as Greenpeace International’s Climate Campaigner." Berman is one of many who contributed to the text of the "Leap Manifesto", an initiative founded by Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything" project. (see photo)

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Nov 09

2014

newWKOGadnim

350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Buffett KXL Tarsands

KXL Opponents Causing Disaster

"Duped liberals will undoubtedly plead innocent to the charge, but ignorance is no excuse, especially when the KXL charade was known from the outset as a Buffett/350 PR hoax."

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Nov 26

2013

newWKOGadnim

350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

350.org Denialism KXL Symbolism Tarsands

The Climate Movement Needs to Stop ‘Winning’

"National climate groups celebrated Obama's decision to delay the northern segment of KXL, intentionally overlooking that this supposed "win" was paired with an endorsement to fast track the southern arm of KXL, connecting a preexisting tar sands pipeline that ended in Oklahoma to refining communities and shipping ports in Texas. There was no delay for us--pipe was being put in the ground. In search of a "win," the people of KXL south were written off as a loss."

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Nov 23

2013

newWKOGadnim

350.org / 1Sky, Forest Ethics, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement CBFA First Nations ForestEthics Great Bear Rainforest Agreement Greenpeace KXL Sierra Club Tar Sands Coalition Tar Sands Solutions Network Tarsands

Are Green Groups Ready for Tarsands Deal?

“Pragmatism equals don’t take the position ‘Leave the oil in the ground’ but, rather, take the position ‘Stop expansion,’ ” said David Peerla, a community organizer and writer who closely follows the environmental sector. “‘Stop expansion’ means whatever place the industry got to whenever they cut the deal, that production can continue until the oil runs out, no matter the ongoing environmental costs.”

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Nov 02

2013

newWKOGadnim

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

Reflections On Power Shift 2013: An Impromptu Interview

"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."

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Sep 06

2013

newWKOGadnim

Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Direct Action Keystone XL Pipelines Resistance Tarsands Trans Mountain pipeline

Moving Beyond Keystone XL

"In confronting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure we also resist the devastating ecological transformation that occurs in service to markets and profit. In this sense this action, like those taking place across North America and the world, also represent people resisting the transformation of their communities by capitalism, which fundamentally drives the climate crisis with its need for exponential growth, its utilitarian view of the natural world as human-centered “resources” and its value of profit above all else."

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Jun 09

2013

newWKOGadnim

350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

Buffett Energy Gates KXL Non-profit Industrial Complex Rail Rockefeller Tarsands

Working for Warren: Corporate Greens

In Keystone XL: The Art of NGO Discourse–Part II, Cory Morningstar examines the political theatre of the non-profit industrial complex around the transport of oil, and how corporate greens — financed by oligarchs like Rockefeller, Gates and Buffett — are effectively destroying any meaningful activism in the US.

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Apr 12

2013

newWKOGadnim

350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Foundations, Greenpeace, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Pembina Institute, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

1Sky 350.org Barack Obama Bill Ackman Bill Gates BNSF Capitalism CN Rail CP Defend Our Coast Discourse Greenpeace Hillary Clinton Keystone KL KXL Sierra Club Tarsands Warren Buffett

Keystone XL: The Art of NGO Discourse | Part I

"Very few in the environmental movement wish to discuss, let alone acknowledge, the very ugly reality that the "Stop the KXL!" campaign has absolutely nothing to do with shutting down tar sands production. The actuality is that behind the protest signs (that conveniently blur lines and bear much semblance to the Obama branding campaign), we have an entire rail transport industry burgeoning to transport the oil formerly designated for the KXL pipeline. The show is over. It matters little whether Keystone is approved or not. If it is approved, we have a flourishing rail economy plus the KXL pipeline. Bread and circuses have never been so skillfully orchestrated." ...

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Apr 21

2011

newWKOGadnim

Indigenous Environmental Network, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

IEN RAN RBC Tarsands Tobago Trinidad