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Charity Status: | |||
*Monitor and control social justice movements. | |||
*Divert public money into private hands. | |||
*Manage and control dissent in order to make the world safe for capitalism. | |||
*Redirect activist energies into career-based organizing, instead of mass-based organizing capable of transforming society. | |||
*Allow corporations to mask their exploitative/colonial work via philanthropy. | |||
*Encourage social movements to model themselves after capitalist structures instead of challenging them. | |||
(Taken from Andrea Smith, the Revolution Will Not be Funded) | |||
NGOs: | |||
*Private sub-contractors instead of local governments, subsidized by corporate and private funders. | |||
*Not accountable to local people. | |||
*Divert funds from local people. | |||
*Programs are shaped around western ideals/values. | |||
*Subordinates local movement leadership to NGO leadership. | |||
(From James Petras in Imperialism and NGOs in Latin America). | |||
=Education:= | =Education:= | ||
*"...vision of progressive revolutionary change was based of the role of critical education in achieving mass political consciousness with democratic, grassroots base rather than an elite leadership"-(Margaret Ledwith in Community Development: A Critical Approach, talking of Antonio Gramsci). | *"...vision of progressive revolutionary change was based of the role of critical education in achieving mass political consciousness with democratic, grassroots base rather than an elite leadership"-(Margaret Ledwith in Community Development: A Critical Approach, talking of Antonio Gramsci). | ||