...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.
“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I’ll be sending messages on a ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.”
Sun, Sep 26 2021
The IPCC Report: Key Findings and Radical Implications
This article originally appeared in Climate & Capitalism. Editor’s note: DGR has always argued that civilizations are inherently destructive and environmental destruction and degradation has been ongoing for millenia. Climate change is only another [...]
Sat, Sep 25 2021
How to give the land back
This article originally appeared in Shareable. Featured image: A Wiyot man tends a fire in preparation of a candlelight vigil remembrance ceremony. Credit: Nick Adams By Aaron Fernando It’s common to feel a deep sense of injustice for what happened in [...]
Fri, Sep 24 2021
2020 Was Deadliest-Ever Year for Environmental Defenders: Report
This article originally appeared in Common Dreams. Editor’s note: As it was last year and the year before that. The resistance grows stronger to late stage capitalism. The land destroyers are becoming more and more desperate as their power slips away. [...]
Thu, Sep 23 2021
Standing Rock is Everywhere: The Indigenous Heart of the Climate Change Fight
This article originally appeared in Resilience. Editor’s note: In order for the planet to survive, we must act in its defense. We can not rely on governments or corporations to do it. This is why Deep Green Resistance is organizing actions to confront [...]
Wed, Sep 22 2021
The Girls and the Grasses: A Celebration and Fundraiser for the Ecofeminist Movement
Global warming. Biodiversity collapse. Rampant inequality, war, and sexual abuse. The problems we face today are overwhelming and getting worse. Eco-feminism has answers. From the philosophy of domination to the practicalities of overpopulation, there are [...]
Tue, Sep 21 2021
What are reforms?
Editor’s note: “this quote of James Connolly who was an Irish Republican around the early 1900s, active around the 1900s in the independence movement in Ireland, and James Conolly said revolution is never practical until the hour the revolution [...]
Mon, Sep 20 2021
Totalitarianism of Today
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” – Aldous Huxley [...]
Sun, Sep 19 2021
Robbing the Soil, 2: ‘Systematic theft of communal property’
This article originally appeared in Climate & Capitalism. It is part 2 of a series, read part 1 here. Featured image: Tenants harvest the landlord’s grain “The expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil forms the basis of the capitalist [...]
Sat, Sep 18 2021
Robbing the Soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism
This article originally appeared in Climate & Capitalism. Featured image: Harvesting grain in the 1400s Editor’s note: We are no Marxists, but we find it important to look at history from the perspective of the usual people, the peasants, and the [...]
Fri, Sep 17 2021
Beavers are back: here’s what this might mean for the UK’s wild spaces
This article originally appeared in The Conversation. Editor’s note: “That repair should be the main goal of the environmental movement. Unlike the Neverland of the Tilters’ solutions, we have the technology for prairie and forest restoration, [...]
