Klee Benally in Rennes, France. Photo by Christine Prat who has translated his book into French.
Klee Benally 'Non-Profit Industrial Complex is Designed to Manage and Neutralize Radical Organizing'
Our readers asked us to republish this article written by Klee Benally, Dine'. Klee's book published before he passed in 2023 provides more details, No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.
Smash the Non-Profit Indigenous Complex! Smash Capitalism!
Indigenous non-profits are the problem.
The Non-profit Industrial Complex (NPIC) is a system of relationships designed by colonial and capitalist forces to manage and neutralize effective radical organizing.
By Indigenous Action, Oct. 8, 2021
Translation into French by Christine Prat
The NPIC is inherently extractive and colonial.
The NPIC was established to manage social and environmental groups with the same structure as corporations. Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) co-opt movement momentum into campaigns they manage to control and capitalize off of.
Based on the charity model, NPOs focus their resources on building organizational power and not community power thereby stripping essential resources from front-line radical liberatory organizing, while reproducing or prolonging inequality and social hierarchies.
