...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.
“A political resistance goes on day and night, under cover and over ground, where people can see it and people can’t. It is taught. It is encouraged. It is celebrated. It is smart. It is committed. And someday it will win.”
Sun, May 16 2021
We have no answers; we have questions. Urgent ones
This article originally appeared on Roarmag. Editor’s note: Asking questions, questions that emerge from your empathy if you care for life on the planet, and questions that emerge from your confusion if you see that so many things are going so badly [...]
Sat, May 15 2021
Derrick Jensen on Aquifers
This is an edited transcript of this Deep Green episode. Featured image: “Watershed” by Nell Parker. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about aquifers. As we know, this culture is drawing down aquifers around the world. Aquifers are [...]
Fri, May 14 2021
Brazil: European colonial history exposed in landmark court case
Editor’s note: The American Holocaust (a term coined by David Stannard) is the largest genocide in human history. The atrocities are ongoing and being reinforced by fascists like Jair Bolsonaro, providing another example that capitalism and fascism are [...]
Thu, May 13 2021
Pollution Report: Oceans are ‘at the precipice of disaster’
The aquatic food web has been seriously compromised by chemical pollution and climate change. This article originally appeared on Climate and Capitalism A report released today by the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and the National [...]
Wed, May 12 2021
The Forest People: Life and Death under the Green Revolution
This article, originally published on Resilience.org, describes the dangers of the modern, western conception of “untouched wilderness” and its drastic consequences for the last human cultures still inhabiting dense forests. Calling the forests [...]
Tue, May 11 2021
“May the truth be your armor” [Excerpts from Bright Green Lies]
This prologue is the first of a series of excerpts we will publish from the new book Bright Green Lies. PROLOGUE By Lierre Keith We are in peril. Like all animals, we need a home: a blanket of air, a cradle of soil, and a vast assemblage of creatures who [...]
Mon, May 10 2021
Thailand’s Indigenous Peoples fight for ‘land of our heart’ (commentary)
In this article, originally published on Mongabay, Pirawan Wongnithisathaporn and Thomas Worsdell describe how the indigenous peoples of Thailand, like many across the world, find themselves navigating global climate agendas and national environmental laws [...]
Sun, May 09 2021
Sonora on Lithium – Part 2
By Straquez The Colonial Years Of course, Mexico has been in the front line of atrocities and destruction that come out of mining. Mexico is a land blessed with wide biodiversity that includes minerals that have caught the attention of foreign companies who [...]
Sat, May 08 2021
Sonora on Lithium – Part 1
By Straquez Mine is the Ignorance of the Many I was born in Mexico City surrounded by big buildings, a lot of cars and one of the most contaminated environments in the world. When I was 9 years old my family moved to Tijuana in North West Mexico and from [...]
Fri, May 07 2021
Friday, May 7th #Defund Line 3 Global Day of Action
Original Press Release Relatives, Together we are powerful. Since the #DefundLine3 campaign launched in February, bank executives have received more than 700,000 emails, 7,000 calendar invites and 3,000 phone calls, demanding that they stop funding Line 3. [...]
