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Books

Browse the Deep Green Resistance reading list for hundreds more book recommendations (start by clicking “Your library” and looking at “Core books” and at “Introductory books”).

Deep Green Resistance

Deep Green Resistance

Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Aric McBay
The book that inspired this organization, this is crucial reading for anyone who has accepted that civilization is destroying the planet, but hasn’t known how to respond. Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet – and win.
Endgame

Endgame

Derrick Jensen
A foundational two-volume work that gives readers a crash course in critique of civilization. This is an excellent and (relatively) succinct summary of what’s wrong with this culture and why.
The Vegetarian Myth

The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

Lierre Keith
Thoroughly examines the destruction caused by agriculture, the basis of civilization. Explains why vegetarianism won’t save us, and the need for perennial polycultures to heal landbases and the humans who live with them.
Bright Green Lies

Bright Green Lies

Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert
Bright Green Lies systematically debunks many of the lies and distortions that characterize the discourse of those who argue that ‘technology will stop global warming’ or that ‘technology will save the planet.
The Myth of the Machine

The Myth of the Machine

Lewis Mumford
In writing as elegant as it is clear, Mumford makes plain the death urge that has always underlain civilization. This is a social structure organized not around any organic human needs, but around the “needs” of the machines that have come to characterize and control our lives.
Life and Death

Life and Death

Andrea Dworkin
A collection of the most incisive essays and unpublished speeches of this famed feminist author. This gathering of impassioned, compelling articles and speeches shows that the epidemic of rape, wife-beating, murder of females, pornography and prostitution is made possible by cultures that allow men to exercise destructive power over women.
GynEcology

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism

Mary Daly
Focuses on the practices that perpetuate the “religion” of patriarchy. “In this deeply original, provocative book, outrage, hilarity, grief, profanity, lyricism and moral daring join in bursting the accustomed bounds even of feminist discourse.” —The New York Times Book Review
Columbus and Other Cannibals

Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

Jack Forbes
This book is an extraordinary indictment of the dominant culture, an indigenous perspective on the violence and destruction carried out by the civilized. It explains the wetiko disease, a spiritual illness with a physical vector, as a frighteningly contagious urge for exploitation and consumption.

Green Illusions

Ozzie Zehner

We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what’s wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem. Though we generally believe we can solve environmental problems with more energy—more solar cells, wind turbines, and biofuels—alternative technologies come with their own side effects and limitations. How, for instance, do solar cells cause harm? Why can’t engineers solve wind power’s biggest obstacle? Why won’t contraception solve the problem of overpopulation lying at the heart of our concerns about energy, and what will?

This practical, environmentally informed, and lucid book persuasively argues for a change of perspective. If consumption is the problem, as Ozzie Zehner suggests, then we need to shift our focus from suspect alternative energies to improving social and political fundamentals: walkable communities, improved consumption, enlightened governance, and, most notably, women’s rights.

Woman And Nature

Woman and Nature

Susan Griffin
Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Plato’s fateful division of the world into spirit and matter, her analysis of how patriarchal Western philosophy and religion have used language and science to bolster their power over both women and nature is brilliant and persuasive, coming alive in poetic prose.

Films

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Bright Green Lies Film

Bright Green Lies

From the award-winning director of Sea of Life, Bright Green Lies takes a critical look at so-called “green” technology and the movement that’s pushing to destroy the earth under the guise of environmental protection. View trailer online.
End:Civ

END:CIV

Offers a powerful visual introduction to some of Endgame’s premises and arguments, on which it is based. The movie simultaneously presents some of the worst atrocities of civilization and argues for the necessity of fighting back. View online.
The Coconut Revolution

The Coconut Revolution

Exciting and inspiring documentary of the land-based Bougainville Revolutionary Army, which fought off Rio Tinto mining company and the Papua New Guinea army. View trailer online.
What A Way To Go

What a Way To Go: Life At the End of Empire

A middle-class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle. This documentary provides an excellent analysis of the interlocking problems fostered by civilization while undermining its stability. 
The Price of Pleasure

The Price of Pleasure

An examination of pornography and its impacts on personal and cultural relationships and norms. The film paints both a nuanced and complex portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, and liberty and responsibility are intertwined in the most intimate aspects of human relations. View full preview online

Videos

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Endgame by Derrick Jensen

Classic talk based on Jensen’s Endgame book. Explores anti-civ theory and the need to resist.

Patriarchy vs. Planet Earth by Lierre Keith

Lierre Keith speaks at RadFem Reboot in Portland, Oregon in 2012.

Forget Shorter Showers by Jordan (Jore) Brown, Derrick Jensen

Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday; or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons; or that dancing around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”? Why are these “solutions” not sufficient? But most importantly, what can be done instead to actually stop the murder of the planet?

Planet of the Humans by Jeff Gibbs

Planet of the Humans is a documentary that dares to say what no one else will — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America. This film is the wake-up call to the reality we are afraid to face: that in the midst of a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement’s answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids. It’s too little, too late.

Neoliberalism and the Defanging of Feminism by Gail Dines

Explores how mainstream feminism has lost its way by fighting for the individual rights of a small group of elite white women instead of the collective liberation of all women. Dines argues that much of what passes for feminism today is focused on the pseudo-empowerment offered to women who conform to the narrow standards of femininity set by the porn culture.

Growing Up in a Pornified Culture by  Gail Dines

Popular culture bombards us with hypersexualized images of women and men, conveying powerful images that help shape our sexuality. Dr. Gail Dines, recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America, sociology and women’s studies professor, and porn industry researcher and writer, explores how masculinity and femininity are shaped by pornified images that spill over into our most private worlds. In Dr. Gail Dines’ compelling talk, she exposes the effects of porn culture on pop culture and the impact on children and young adults growing up in a pornified culture today, addressing how nonprofit organization Culture Reframed is “solving the public health crisis of the digital age”.

Articles

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“Beyond Hope”
Derrick Jensen
“The most common words I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, We’re fucked.”

“Forget Shorter Showers”
Derrick Jensen
Why personal change does not equal political change.

“The Tyranny of Structurelessness”
Jo Freeman
Debunks the idea of leaderless movements, explaining that in the absence of explicit structures, a group develops implicit power dynamics. Demonstrates the value of clearly defining an organization’s structure, leadership, and criteria of participation.

Websites

Feminist Current
Excellent articles and podcasts on a wide range of feminists issues.

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
CELDF uses radical tactics in the realm of law, working with communities to establish Community Rights – such that communities are empowered to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their residents and the natural environment, to and establish environmental and economic sustainability.

Audio

Resistance Radio

Derrick Jensen
Thoughtful and in-depth interviews with activists, authors, ecologists, and journalists. Jensen and his guests explore problems of civilization and effective solutions, in conversations centered around species and landbases, ecocide, indigenous struggles, patriarchy, and more.