Showing posts with label NGOs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NGOs. Show all posts
Monday, June 28, 2010
Some Notes, From The Distance, On The the G20 'Summit' And The Concurrent "Toronto Troubles"
($1 Billion G20 Brutality - Canada's Shame @ The Livable Blog is)"Probably the best summation of the G8 I have read so far. A good cohesive write up. Needs to be read on the site where the materials and little clips are linked in."
This is what was achieved for that ONE BILLION DOLLARS in security:
The G20 Summit sets a 5 year withdrawal from Afghanistan as one of it's goals, and a number of other policies have been agreed on including deficit reductions. Guess WHY most of the industrialized nations HAVE deficits that need cutting?
Clue: It's due to persecuting a war...
Need another clue? The country we are persecuting that war on starts with the letter "A". [source]
It was interesting to read a Facebook entry from someone in the Toronto suburbs (Kitchner)on a friend's page in regard to the G20 conference and concurrent demonstrations:
"Wow.. watching channel 24, and now they are randomly arresting ppl the reporter seen a young couple five feet from him get tackled to the ground for no reason!! and taken in."
In another incident The Real News Network's Jesse Freeston, a member of the credentialed media was attacked after a deaf man was arrested for "Not Following Orders" and his equipment smashed when he asked the officer if his orders included attacking the press:
This after headlines like: G20/G8 Toronto arrest total tops 500 after night of riots...
CBC News - Toronto - G20 police raid activists' homes
Four people have been charged after G20 police raided two homes in Toronto, and there are reports activists from Montreal were arrested later at a third house...
Twits like this: _GirlsAction RT @q_e_d: RT @andrewbrett: Video Peaceful protesters sing O Canada, then police charge at them. http://bit.ly/c8YIkU #g20report #g20 #cdnpoli #cdnleft
and succinctly to the point... What to Expect at G20: Lots and Lots of Cops
Toronto, Canada - If you want to see more police officers than you’ve probably ever seen in your life, come to Toronto this weekend.
There were side issues such a the rape of large portions of Canada's land for Oil Sands, and the fact that The NGOs and E-NGOs 'have a seat' at the conference...
...after the E-NGOs sold out the Canadian Native's (First Nation) forests.
NGOs join Presidents behind the G20 Fence
Canada's non-profit industrial complex shows its face in the run up to the G20
Constantly updated reports were provided by the Toronto Media Coop HERE and at it's home page where there are links to still more information and images, such as g20.this.org, People-powered coverage of the June 2010 G8 & G20 summit.
Photo on the right from their site:
Yes, there are a number of reasons for rage against the Machine
But regarding the 'rioting'...
As much as I despise random violence... I believe absolutely in "No justice no peace"
I said the same thing about the WTO demos in Seattle, and I said it when New York and so many other cities in the U.S. had the Vietnam war come home to roost.
Here's a posting Da' Buffalo did a while back on the subject of world trade and economic organizations:
An excruciatingly detailed look at how these cretins-with-suits-and-government 'credentials' destroy economies.
The WTO, World Bank, and IMF - Destroying African (or insert your third world country's name here) AgricultureMultiply that pressure on the Third World and Agricultural nations by (G)20... Then feel the rage of the rest of the (Non-industrialized) world.
"U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block put it at the start of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1986, “the idea that developing countries should feed themselves is an anachronism from a bygone era. They could better ensure their food security by relying on U.S. agricultural products, which are available, in most cases at lower cost." [link above]
Not to mention how the E-NGOs sold out the Canadian "First Nations" and Canada's primordial forests?
They were at the G20 too.
The natives 'outside the wire', and the E-NGOs 'inside the wire'
Rage!
But it comes down to this...
There's a long standing rule among "those that's doin'" about property destruction.
It's message has to be INSTANTLY recognizable!
Reverend Billy recently "building mountains' in JP Morgan/Chase banks to protest mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia for example (It Worked! They 'divested'), or dumping soot in power company lobbies as some New Yorkers fed up with Con Edison's coal burning in the 60s did, are a couple of examples that come to mind.
If what's happening appears senseless, then MY senses say "Provocateurs at work", and indeed, it's quite easy to infiltrate so-called 'black blocs'.
Case in point from the streets of Toronto:
Groups of undercover police were repeatedly identified by protesters at marches occurring between Monday and Wednesday. Some were reportedly wearing black baseball caps, bandanas with marijuana leaf-designs on them, and patches with Che Guevara on them. When asked by journalists if they were police, none denied it. [Source]Black Blocs are too loosely affiliated to be secure or have reliable goals and leadership.
Some history... New York... Abbie Hoffman's hard core friends, UAW/MF-ESSO
Also known as Up Against The Wall Motherfuckers
The real deal...
They don't come along every day, and truth be told, someone who's angry enough to be taunted to commit an action that would run counter to a common goal with a larger community (and FWIW, this "Street Gang With Analysis", the UAW/MF, was fairy god mother to a community of so many spaced out hippies who needed help, with the ESSO (East Side Service Organization) free store, free meals, medical aid, and so much more available on a daily basis), or for that matter any discernible goal past just pure anger venting as observed by the general public, IS NOT IN ANY WAY AN ANARCHIST...
"Nihilist" would be the more appropriate term, and they simply do the work of "Useful Idiots" for whomever seeks to disrupt their community's safety and well being. In other words, they witlessly work for "The Man".
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Word To The E.N.G.O.s, Supposed Defenders Of The Environment... Derrick Jensen’s Second Premise From 'ENDGAME'
"Traditional communities do not often voluntarily give up or sell the resources on which their communities are based until their communities have been destroyed. They also do not willingly allow their landbases to be damaged so that other resources—gold, oil, and so on—can be extracted. It follows that those who want the resources will do what they can to destroy traditional communities."
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H/t: Stimulator @ SubMedia.tv:
Last week the supposed defenders of the environment, A.K.A. the Environmental Non Governmental Organizations or E.N.G.O.s, cut a “deal” with timber industries to protect a large chunk of the boreal forest.
On the surface this agreement looks good, but the entire deal was not published, only an abridged version was made available online. Some of the groups that took part of this deal are Greenpeace, the David Suzuki Foundation and Forest Ethics.
The one aspect of this “accomplishment” that they are not publicizing is that they struck it without consulting with the First Nations, the original human inhabitants of those lands.
As we face increasingly catastrophic environmental destruction, it is imperative that we seek guidance from those who “managed” the environment sustainably for over 10,000 years.
This short piece from “END:CIV” is a visual interpretation of Derrick Jensen’s Second Premise from (the book) ENDGAME:Traditional communities do not often voluntarily give up or sell the resources on which their communities are based until their communities have been destroyed. They also do not willingly allow their landbases to be damaged so that other resources—gold, oil, and so on—can be extracted. It follows that those who want the resources will do what they can to destroy traditional communities.Music by stig inge oy. and CJ Boyd
Sunday, May 23, 2010
'Grudge Post' Files: Greenpeace Sold Out Canada's Forests And "Nature Conservancy" Has A 'Posse' Of Corporate Names Too
About Greenpeace's sellout
(and they haven't floated a boat for years either, content with lobbying congress 'for the Whales'):
So a new management deal has been signed for Canada’s Boreal Forest. It’s being hailed as the largest forest deal in the history of the world. You can see the map above: orange will be ‘protected’, gray areas will not. The fragmentation seems to indicate a lack of wildlife migration corridors. Sounds pretty fishy already. Check out this article especially, and this one, and this from the NYT business blog.
21 timber and paper companies, the State and 9 NGOs are on board, including Greenpeace, which is publicly declaring this deal as a major victory. But many questions remain unanswered, like these from DTE.
And as usual, despite their having been here for at least thousands of years, no one consulted the Natives. Mad props to the VMC for breaking this.
“It’s a massive tomb, uh, tome that we’ve put together,” misspoke Richard Brooks from Greenpeace at the press conference on Tuesday morning. Only a twelve page abridged version of the agreement has been made public. The full agreement was leaked to the Vancouver Media Co-op on May 19. According to Brooks, it will now be presented to various levels of government.
“The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement is essentially another huge jump away from democracy, towards corporate control of the lands of Canada, as well as the corporatization of what is left of a once defiant environmental movement,” said Macdonald Stainsby, coordinator of OilSandsTruth.org.
“I hardly think that this in any way represents an end to the conflict between the true proponants of the war over the boreal forest, which of course are corporations and First Nations,” he said. “What this means is that First Nations no longer have the support of these mainstream environmental groups... [In Full, With Linkage]
But this is a story about The "Nature Conservancy" and THEIR friends, along with a list of "Environmental NGOs" that aren't... "Environmental" that is.
Nature Conservancy's Corporate Posse:
It is a disgrace to ecosystems everywhere and the next seven generations that they pimp nature dot org as their official website. A quick look-see into the world of TNC and comprehension dawns. Their corporate partners in environmental crime and shame:Also see this Washington Post article: Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BP
3M Company
Alliant Energy
Altria Group
American Electric Power
Bank of America
Barrick Gold Corporation
The Boeing Company
BP
Cargill
Caterpillar Inc.
Chevron
The Coca-Cola Company
Delta Air Lines
The Dow Chemical Company
Duke Energy Corporation
Eastman Kodak Company
Ecolab Inc.
ExxonMobil Corporation
MeadWestvaco Corporation
Monsanto Company
Nestlé Waters North America
PG&E Corporation
Plum Creek Timber Company
SC Johnson & Son, Inc.
Temple-Inland
Weyerhaeuser Company
Xerox Corporation
Scratching your temple?
Read "This. Is. Serious." Environmentalism is Dead
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