...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.
“The big dividing line is not between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.”
Fri, Feb 28 2020
The Balance of Rage and Tenderness
By Aimee Georgeson I went to sleep thinking about righteous anger towards systems that are destroying Mother Earth. This anger is different from the toxic hatred that I have witnessed in recent years. I woke up from a dream with absolute clarity and a [...]
Wed, Feb 26 2020
Wildlife Slaughter: Public Tax Dollars At Work
This interview between Derrick Jensen and Christoper Ketcham examines the U.S. government’s taxpayer-funded wildlife slaughter program. Ketcham exposes Wildlife Service’s use of poisoned bait, aerial gunning, neck snares, leghold traps (banned in 80 [...]
Mon, Feb 24 2020
Reconciliation Is Dead: A Strategic Proposal
Editor’s note: this piece began circulating in the wake of the raids on Wet’suwet’en territory. We have covered these topics and discussed strategic approaches to escalation in recent weeks. This piece contributes to this ongoing [...]
Fri, Feb 21 2020
Decolonization and Resistance: A Conversation with Sakej Ward
In this episode of The Green Flame podcast, we speak with Sakej Ward. Sakej (James Ward) belongs to the wolf clan. He is Mi’kmaw (Mi’kmaq Nation) from the community of Esgenoopetitj (Burnt Church First Nation, New Brunswick). He is the father of nine [...]
Wed, Feb 19 2020
What is “Deep Green?”
By Fertile Ground Institute for Social and Environmental Justice / Featured image: Max Wilbert Although more and more people agree that we must undertake massive changes to address the environmental crises, there is disagreement as to what approach to take. [...]
Mon, Feb 17 2020
Black Abolitionists Believed in Taking Up Arms
Long before the Civil War, black abolitionists shared the consensus that violence would be necessary to end slavery. Unlike their white peers, their arguments were about when and how to use political violence, not if. By Randal Maurice Jelks / Boston [...]
Fri, Feb 14 2020
Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Actions #ShutDownCanada
By Max Wilbert Featured image: solidarity actions initiated by Deep Green Resistance in Eugene, Oregon shut down multiple Chase Bank locations in the area on February 13th. Photo: Max Wilbert. Solidarity actions in the wake of a Canadian government raid on [...]
Wed, Feb 12 2020
The War on Land Defenders: Assassinations and Kidnappings Beset Environmentalists
As the following stories illustrate, land defense is dangerous. When we speak about the war being waged on the planet, we do not speak of a metaphor. With guns and machetes, with chainsaws and poisons, with nuclear waste and bulldozers, the living world is [...]
Mon, Feb 10 2020
In The Event of My Demise
By Max Wilbert Anthropologist Stanley Diamond once wrote that “Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.” Empires and the elites that control them have, as Diamond notes, been repressing their opposition for thousands of years. [...]
Fri, Feb 07 2020
What Zoos Really Teach Our Children
From Zoos to Concentration Camps, A Culture of Cages From chattel slavery to modern immigrant concentration camps to zoos and aquariums to private prisons, we live in a culture of cages. Understanding this system, and the ideology behind it, is essential to [...]
