...So think "resistance" with all your aching heart, a word that must become our promise to what is left of this planet. Gather the others: you already know them. The brave, smart, militant, and, most of all, serious, and together take aim. Do it carefully, but do it.
Then fire for all you're worth.
“One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.”
Tue, Oct 18 2016
National Indigenous Congress of Mexico to Launch Presidential Campaign in 2018
by Emmy Keppler / Intercontinental Cry On October 13, the 500 delegates of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) reached complete consensus on the proposal presented by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) at the opening of the fifth [...]
Sun, Oct 16 2016
Should This Cruelty Be Normal?
Society must choose whether women count as human Lierre Keith / Deep Green Resistance Feminism has always been a contested area of politics. Fierce arguments centre on what it is, and why we need it. The best definition I know is from Andrea Dworkin: [...]
Tue, Oct 11 2016
Water Protectors Lock Down Inside Pipe to Stop Spectra Energy’s AIM Pipeline
by ResistAIM Early October 10, four water protectors crawled inside lengths of pipeline along the Hudson River to stop Spectra Energy from dragging its 42-inch diameter, high pressure, fracked-methane gas pipeline under the Hudson River alongside [...]
Tue, Oct 11 2016
The Unflattering Cultural Poaching Of “Moana”
by Anne Keala Kelly It’s a twofer. With a Thanksgiving holiday release of “Moana,” Disney’s Polynesian cartoon extravaganza can simultaneously expand its lucrative enterprise of exploiting marginalized, indigenous peoples (Pocahontas, Lilo [...]
Sun, Oct 09 2016
The Mapuche’s Cross-border Struggle for Freedom and Autonomy from Argentina and Chile
by Alejandra Gaitan Barrera and Fionuala Cregan / Intercontinental Cry Ever since the incursion of rampant neoliberalism in Chile and Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s, the Mapuche territory or Wallmapu, located south of the Bio Bio River, has [...]
Fri, Oct 07 2016
Lawsuit Filed to Protect Endangered Ocelots in Arizona, Texas From Government Killing
Featured image: Ocelot photo by Tom Smylie, USFWS. Fewer than 100 of these rare wildcats likely remain in the United States. by Center for Biological Diversity TUCSON, AZ— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Animal Welfare Institute [...]
Thu, Oct 06 2016
Peru: National park plan to open up uncontacted tribe’s land to Big Oil
Featured image: Many contacted Matsés have expressed opposition to any efforts to contact their uncontacted neighbors, or to explore for oil in their territory. © Survival International by Survival International Survival International has [...]
Wed, Oct 05 2016
Resisting Pipelines from Standing Rock to Bagua
Featured image: Support rally, Seattle, WA. Photo: John Duffy/flickr. Some Rights Reserved. by Manuela Picq / Intercontinental Cry Resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) at Standing Rock has gained unprecedented coverage. At the center [...]
Fri, Sep 30 2016
Silencing of the River: Environmental Racism and Afro-Descendent Displacement along Colombia’s Patia River
Featured image: Afro-Colombian communities along the Patia River plundered by corporate privatization of water sources. by Mary Louisa Cappelli Colombia’s infrastructure development projects have led to privatized water grabbing and the [...]
Fri, Sep 30 2016
Spokane Veterans for Peace Blockading Fossil Fuel Trains
by Direct Action Spokane A group of Spokane, Washington citizens are currently protesting on the BNSF railroad tracks off Trent, east of Napa. The action is being carried out to alert the region to the rapidly expanding impacts of climate change. The [...]
