First, Is the history of the Branding Requirement ----in the status quo aid is required to be Branded by the USAID
Mark Ward, Foreign Service with USAID for 24 years. USAID Assistance in Pakistan, IMPACT blog. October 9, 2010 http://blog.usaid.gov/2010/10/usaid-assistance-in-pakistan/
Day in and day …. assistance is coming from.
And the branding of aid goes back many years, it started during the Marshal Plan, in the 1950s the branding policy changed to start using the clasped hands, all in order to pacify and ensure friendship from the aid recipients
Leslie Rose in 2011
Leslie, (Candidate for Senior Communication Officer at CIAT.org) Seminar entitled Branding USAID: Truth and Consequences” http://webapp.ciat.cgiar.org/training/pdf/2011_02_03_l_rose.pdf pg 2
Labeling of USG ….. around the world.
The branding is a rush to ensure credit for gifts provided—Hillary Clintons recent statements make this point clear
Leslie Rose in 2011
Leslie, (Candidate for Senior Communication Officer at CIAT.org) Seminar entitled Branding USAID: Truth and Consequences” http://webapp.ciat.cgiar.org/training/pdf/2011_02_03_l_rose.pdf pg 2
Remember now, ….. from us.” 88
The credit placed upon the United States is important for its quest to win over the hearts and minds of recipients
Thomas Carothers in 2009
Thomas, “Revitalizing U.S. Democracy Assistance The Challenge of USAI D” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/revitalizing_democracy_assistance.pdf
Adding a dispiriting ….. remains in place.
And that hasn’t changed today, September 11th provided an impetus to continue to use branding to win the hearts and minds of the recipients
Leslie Rose in 2011
Leslie, (Candidate for Senior Communication Officer at CIAT.org) Seminar entitled Branding USAID: Truth and Consequences” http://webapp.ciat.cgiar.org/training/pdf/2011_02_03_l_rose.pdf pg 2
“The 2004 Rebrand ……Muslim world.”
Second, Are the implications to this branding process--- The logic of gift giving ensures that the donor is acquiring social power as the recipient becomes indebted to the donor. This social power results in domination and a heirarchialization
Hattori 1 (Tomohisa, Assistant Professor of Political Science @ Lehman College, Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Winter, 2001), pp. 633-660)
Giving is an ….. hierarchy over time.
The continuous gift exchange ensures a normalization of racism
Speight 7 (Suzette L., Assistant Prof. of Psych @ U of Akron, “Internalized racism: One more piece of the puzzle”, The Counseling Psychologist 2007 35: 126, http://tcp.sagepub.com/content/35/1/126.full.pdf+html)
Carter (2007) …… themselves as members of that group” (Hardiman & Jackson, 1997, p. 21).
The Naturalization of the process connected with the gift ensures that oppression is a self-fulfilling and continuous cycle
Poupart 3 (Lisa M., Chair of First World Studies @ U of Wisconsin Green Bay, “The Familiar Face of Genocide: Internalized Oppression among American Indians”, Hypatia, Vol. 18, No. 2, Indigenous Women in the Americas (Spring, 2003), pp. 86-100, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3811013).
American Indians' knowledge ……our communities of Others.
The constant subjugation created by the gift giving prevents empathy
Pheterson 86 (Gail, PhD. Social Psychologist and Researcher @ U of Amsterdam, “Alliances between Women: Overcoming Internalized Oppression and Internalized Domination”, Signs, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 146-16, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174362)
Internalized oppression ……..become rigid and repressed
We must have a complete and total rejection of racism within US foreign policy. Racism is the worst form of violence and makes all other violence inevitable. Rejection of racism provides hope that we can live in a just and ethical environment.
Memmi 00 (Albert, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University of Paris, Racism, p. 163-5)
The struggle against racism ………but the stakes are irresistible.
Thus the Plan—United States Agency for International Development should provide waivers from the branding requirements for aid being used in the country of Egypt by Non Governmental Organizations.
Third, we’ll be able to stop this continuous cycle of oppression-- The Plan parallels the Jainist Renouncer’s collection of food alms. Individual donations are compiled and distributed by a third party external to the recipient and the donor. In doing so the identity of the donor is subsumed into an undifferentiated substance. The lack of transparency in the relationship between the donor and recipient prevents the obligation of reciprocity and feelings of self-gratitude.
Laidlaw 2k (James, Dir. Of Social Anthropology Studies @ King’s College, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Vol. 6, No. 4 (Dec., 2000), pp. 617-634)
Not only language separates …….recognize the gift as gift.
Removal of branding makes status quo democracy assistance more like anonymous donations to NGOs. These NGO’s can avoid the inauthentic gift– their structure ensures that the authenticity of the gift remains in tact as long as the donor remains anonymous.
Stirrat and Henkel 97(R.L and Heiko, Honorary Senior Research Fellow @ Sussex U and Associate prof of anthropology @ U of Copenhagen, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 554, The Role of NGOs: Charity and Empowerment Nov., 1997, pp. 66-80)
There are problems ……. giving to be asocial
Fourth, The demand towards empathy provided by the affirmative is crucial-- Empathy is soft wired into us, we need to act with empathy in every instance to ensure an empathetic civilization
Richard Restak is the author of 20 books on the human brain, former president of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, and clinical professor of Neurology at George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington DC. 'Empathic Civilization': Our Brains Were Built For Feeling Each Other's Pain, Huffington Post. February 15, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-restak/empathic-civilization-our_b_460845.html
In our culture ……. "Empathic Civilization".
And an empathetic orientation and decision calculus in the world is the only way to ensure democracy
Glenn W. Smith has spent the past 30 years in journalism and politics, where he’s made a name for himself as a writer, campaign manager, activist, think tank analyst and, as Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas says, a “legendary political consultant and all-around good guy.” “There’s no one like him,” says author George Lakoff. (And his picture has him in a cowboy hat. BOOM!....)Prairie Humanism and The Empathic Civilization, Huffington Post. February 7, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-w-smith/prairie-humanism-and-the_b_452696.html
Prairie humanists ……, democratic relations.
Even if they win their impact scenarios, those impacts are inevitable because of our current relationship to our emotional trauma. Because we are currently engulfed in a moment of emotional trauma, an empathetic relationship prevents destructive reactions to their impact scenarios
Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., Ph.D. is a Founding Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. 'Empathic Civilization' in an Age of Trauma, Huffington Post. February 23, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-d-stolorow/empathic-civilization-in_b_470095.html
In my work …… able to see the light.