Environmental Racism: Silencing the voices of leaders of indigenous communities and communities of color while often simultaneously using their images and appropriating bits and pieces of their cultures is a deeply entrenched mode of operation for many Big Greens. They often mash together multiple Indigenous cultures as if they were one, a method that reels in their target consumers. Environmental and “climate justice” cannot be separated from the expansive intersectional and anti-colonial work and imperatives that true justice demands. Big Green organizations are a part of the NPIC and replicate and perpetuate systems of domination and white supremacy. Therefore Big Greens betray, contain, and dilute potential for the scale of collective action needed to achieve genuine environmental justice. (Important to emphasize that the majority of big green NGOs such as 350org, Sierra Club, RAN all invest millions into and/or are funded by hydraulic fracturing and big oil corporations - so, its hardly surprising they simply maintain and replicate racism-colonialist actions.)
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:27:30 +0000
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