-- JohnGilbert - 12 Oct 2005

Collaborator Watch

NGOs collaborating with the oppressors and funded by private interests or governed from the top down, carry "strings" -- limits in struggles, program, tactics and strategy. To think otherwise is self-delusive. To truly become an independent force, progressive NGO's must go to their roots, and win the allegiance of their people in order to become self-financing and live and work on voluntary donations from the people they purport to service. -- (exerpt from rebelion.org

WEBMASTERbators? - Influence pedlars? - Poverty-pimps? - Grantsmanship-gurus?

.... MORE POSTINGS coming soon -- about some government funded NGO's where the administrator sabotages the completion of his own NGO goals to keep himself in a job. (the cancer industry comes to mind)

Are these models -- the groups in the list below likely to become the revolutionary vanguard, or are they just blue or red front groups posing as green? If the motives of some of these NGOs are unclear, maybe enterprising students in Kim Philby mode will begin penetrating these groups, moling all the way up into power and force the group into attacking our corrupt system. A little of her/his counter-intelligence tweaking could make the NGO socially relevant.

Come to the edge," He said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew. ... Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) French novelist, critic.

• Toronto Animal Rights Society: TARS potlucks occur at 175 St. Clair Avenue West at 5:45 p.m. on the first and third Sundays of every month (rain or shine) through to usually 8:30 p.m., which includes an after dinner speaker or documentary. The TARS website is under heavy construction. Most features and sections are not yet operational, but will be soon. Chief Executive Adam Wilson: http://www.adamwilson.com/
• (FMTA) Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations: Tim Roarke says that the major NGO culprit in Toronto is the FMTA -- read more: http://www.qaz.ca/fmta.html. -- by definition, an NGO can't be funded by the city government. More TorontoTenants

One of the most effective actions seen against a bad landlord is loud picketing during key rental hours when the landlord is showing apartments to prospective tenants.

See http://www.ontariotenants.ca/ for Ontario's only tenant web site for information on housing and tenants, since the Federation is only Toronto-wide.