[news] How Glo-Bono-Phonies and Trojan Horse NGOs Sabotage the Struggle Against Neo-Liberalism

[Resist!ca]

Are large NGO's fighting poverty in a serious way or are they part of the problem? An article from Counterpunch ties together a series of questionable actions taken by those organizations most in the "anti-poverty" spotlight. For instance, Oxfam -- who leads the "Make Poverty History" mega-campaign -- decided to tone (down) any message relating war to poverty for fear of embarrassing Tony Blair. The campaign also ironically purchased 500,000 wrist bands from a sweatshop in China. Such organizations have also watered down the message being sent to the G8 asking only that "unpayable" debt be relieved leaving lots of room for the creators of this poverty to continue their task, while looking like the good guy's for eliminating debt they would otherwise have never been able to collect.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/20/8318/97558