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Arabica Robusta's List: social movements and globalization
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Discussing the refugee crisis, the activist was frank: “Global displacement is a direct result of foreign policy and more widely the far reaching implications that the post 9/11 war on terror has had and is still having. Drone strikes on people, sanctions and massive IMF loans with extortionate amounts of interests cripple economies and countries. What are people meant to do, starve?”
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A powerful keynote address from Samir Amin opened up space to reconsider unification across and between differences as we work to create the political and social imaginaries necessary for peace and wellbeing. These discussions indicated that by engaging with the products, effects and manifestations of neoliberalism from multiple angles, powerful stories emerge.
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Matt Watson, one of EDF’s policy analysts, said at the hearing, “We would like to commend the General Assembly and the governor for the thoughtful approach that has been put forward.”
The group’s support for the bill highlighted a growing divide in the environmental movement, especially when it comes to natural gas. As fracking has expanded to dozens of states across the country, environmentalists have essentially been split into two camps: those who believe the process must be stopped at all costs, and those who believe drilling is inevitable, and so it’s better to work with industry on making it safer for the environment. But a new report critical of that latter group suggests that at least in some cases, environmental organizations’ work with the industry may cross ethical lines, and at worst become tacit support of industry-backed positions.
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The march, because its demands are amorphous, can be joined by anyone. This is intentional. But as activist Anne Petermann has pointed out, this also means some of the groups backing the march are little more than corporate fronts. The Climate Group, for example, which endorses the march, includes among its members and sponsors BP, China Mobile, Dow Chemical Co., Duke Energy, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Greenstone. The Environmental Defense Fund, which says it “work[s] with companies rather than against them” and which is calling on its members to join the march, has funding from the oil and gas industry and supports fracking as a form of alternative energy. These faux environmental organizations are designed to neutralize resistance. And their presence exposes the march’s failure to adopt a meaningful agenda or pose a genuine threat to power.
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