We work to stand in solidarity with oppressed communities. Download and stutter books online, epub pdf online audible kindle is an easy way to appear, books for disparate. The article is adapted from training for dgr organizers in europe. If you love this planet as much as i do, i hope you read this book and take what it has to say to heart. This article originally ran august 8, 20, in the deep green resistance news service. As a strategy, it offers a concrete plan for how to stop that destruction. Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 3 of 7. We also have a plan to save life from the monster called industrial civilisation. The strategy of deep green resistance starts by acknowledging the dire circumstances that industrial civilization has created for life on this planet. Building a resistance movement to save the planet features environmental thinkers and activists who are willing to ask the hardest questions about the seriousness of the planets situation, and this book presents an impassioned critique of the dominant culture from every angle.
An open letter to fellow environmentalists deep green. January 28, 2019 august 7, 2019 deep green resistance great basin 1 comment culture of resistance it should be clear by now that the snwa water grab is a vampire project. In the 20th century the worlds population multiplied by four, economic output by 22 and fossil fuel consumption by 14 unep, 2011. Deep green resistance simple english wikipedia, the free. By lexy garza and rachel ivey deep green resistance. This entry was posted in uncategorized on august 14, 2019 by deep green resistance great. Dgr great basin covering southeast oregon, eastern slopes of california, nevada, and western utah. Humans are storytelling creatures, and our current strategy as a movement is a story, with a beginning, middle, and end.
About deep green resistance eugene deep green resistance. As an organization, deep green resistance is implementing that strategy. What does it mean to decolonize my heart and mind, and how do i go about doing that. Provide information on the content and structure of the book deep green resistance.
The us guerilla warfare manual explicitly states that a guerrillas objec tive is to. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring. Back then, it hadnt occurred to me that a book on environmental strategy was needed. The strategy of deep green resistance dgr starts by acknowledging the dire circumstances that industrial civilization has created for life on this planet. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Now, when i talk about a resistance, i am talking about an organized political resistance. This is an introduction to organizing for deep green resistance in your community. Deep green resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play. Deep green resistance lays out a plan with an actual chance of success, decisive ecological warfare.
It was started by derrick jensen, lierre keith, and aric mcbay in 2011. By sue breen and aimee wild as we write this, the world is in a precarious. Deep green resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planetand win. Im not just talking about something that comes and something that goes.
In manila, kathmandu, auckland, denver, parisall over the worldwe are. There, an environmental group called deep green resistance has filed suit in federal court attempting to force the colorado state government to protect and defend the colorado river ecosystem. Technology cant fix it, and shoppingno matter how green wont stop it. Strategy to save the planet as a browseable website.
The island has no grid tied electricity or reticulated water. As an analysis, it reveals civilization as the institution that is destroying life on earth. Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 6. Earth at risk is an annual conference featuring thinkers and activists who are willing to ask the hardest questions about the seriousness of our situation. Deep green resistance, formed in 2012, is open about its support of underground movements while its members simultaneously adhere to a code of conduct that includes a commitment to nonviolence and. I first heard about deep green resistance in the middle of a grassroots fight to stop a huge vacationhome subdivision at a wilderness park on vancouver island. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can. On sunday, february 22nd, deep green resistance eugene will participate and help to teach a direct action training taking place in siletz, oregon. With hakyun shin, yunshik baek, jungmin hwang, jaeyong lee. Pinyonjuniper forests are being wantonly killed as weeds while their inherent ecological value is summarily ignored. Join deep green resistance in building a resistance movement.
The goal of dgr is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. If youre interested in joining our collective, participating in our organizing work, or supporting in any other ways, get in touch. Synopsis deep green resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off. Aboveground activists must rebuild local, sustainable, democratic communities while underground activists disable the physical infrastructure destroying our planet. For years, derrick jensen has asked his audiences, do you th. Our allegiance is first and foremost to the land around us. For more on dgr organizing, read deep green resistance.
Strategy to save the planet excerpt deep green resistance. At the heart of the deep green alternative is the recognition that a just and sustainable way of life, on a finite planet, must be based on material. Deep green resistance archives deep green resistance. Deep green resistance eugene is about stopping the destruction of the planet. Strategy to save the planet pdf book author, online pdf book editor deep green resistance. As an analysis, it reveals the last 10,000 years of human historythe rise and dominance of civilizationas the culture of death that is now threatening every living being on earth. Deep green resistance radical environmental group dgr. Dgruk is part of a growing movement that sees the need for both a robust and visible culture of resistance and an active underground that together restrict the ability of civilisation to further damage our. Deep green resistance new york resistance against empire. Wed like to thank the authors and the publisher for preparing this excerpt for. If you are interested in attending, please contact us for more information. Just when you think it is dead, it comes back again. We are republishing the entire time is short series, and welcome your comments. So think resistance with all your aching heart, a word that must become our promise to what is left of this planet.
If you would like your book signed by derrick andor lierre, please indicate so with your order. Because in parts of the pacific, plastic outweighs plankton 48 to 1. Excerpted from chapter 6 of the book deep green resistance. Strategy to save the planet longer version available as pdf or at common dreams deep green resistance. Winner of numerous awards and honors including the eric hoffer book award, usa todays critics choice, and press actions person of the year, jensen is the author of over fifteen books, including endgame, a language older than words, what we leave behind with aric mcbay, and deep green. Deep green resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and the only organization of its kind. Winner of numerous awards and honors including the eric hoffer book award, usa todays critics choice, and press actions person of the year, jensen is the author of over fifteen books, including endgame and deep green resistance with aric mcbay and lierre keith. The plaintiff in the lawsuit is the colorado river itself, with the organization deep green resistance a national organization committed to protecting the planet through direction action filing as a next friend on behalf of the river. Right now, deep green resistance organizers are at work building a political resistance resistance movement to defend the living planet and rebuild just, sustainable human communities. This open letter was written by a member of deep green resistance colorado, and was influenced and informed by deep green resistance and the work of paul kingsnorth, derrick jensen, lierre keith, aric mcbay, and jack forbes, among many other sources and experiences.
Deep green resistance is a radical environmental movement, dedicated to shifting activists towards strategies that have a real chance to stop the murder of the planet. Deep green resistance dgr is a strategy to save the planet, based on an analysis of civilisation that sees it as inherently destructive. Learn the analysis of the dgr environmental movement. Strategy to save the planet jensen, derrick, mcbay. Deep green resistance and wildlands defense are advocating for a moratorium on all pinyonjuniper deforestation in the great basin and we need your help. Deep green resistance dgr is an environmental movement. Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 4 of 7 duration. Deep green resistance is a movement working to save the planet.
Continuing this scenario a bit further, historians asked. The goal of dgr is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the. We could think we belong to the earth, this is our home and we will do anything to protect it. Deep green resistance paperback strategy to save the planet. Dgr is an anticivilization community activist organization, working to save the planet. Deep green resistance preface by derrick jensen dgr book. Derrick jensen is the bestknown voice of the growing deep ecology movement. Strategy to save the planet aric mcbay, lierre keith, and derrick jensen. Technology cant fix it, and shoppingno matter how greenwont stop it.
The entire book is available online for free, as a website or as a downloadable ebook. Deep green resistance basin and range home facebook. Kevin hester is currently living on rakino island, a small island in the hauraki gulf near auckland, new zealand, monitoring the unravelling of the biosphere and volunteering at the rakino island nursery is currently developing a proposal to create a marine reserve near by. And that these circumstances should be met with solutions that match the scale of the problems. With the scale of ecological and social crises that are facing the planet, we evaluate all strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare. The deep green alternative debating strategies of transition. Event direct action training location siletz, or date sunday, february 22nd.
This essay is an excerpt from the book deep green resistance. Human supremacy archives deep green resistance texas. The dgr organization is largely based on the book deep green resistance, which was written by lierre keith, aric mcbay, and derrick jensen and released in spring 2011. In the 2011 book deep green resistance, the authors lierre keith, derrick jensen and aric mcbay state that civilization, particularly industrial civilization, is fundamentally unsustainable and must be actively and urgently dismantled in order to secure a future for all species on the planet. Deep green resistance the official derrick jensen site. Derrick jensen is the bestknown voice of the deep ecology movement. A collective manualinprogress for outliving civilization. Lawyer for environmental group interrogated repeatedly. Deep green resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and a movement being born, the only movement of its kind.
I dont just mean their deep ecology and genocidal stance when i. With derrick jensen, lierre keith, thomas linzey, aric mcbay. The fourth strategy based on deep green resistance could be called a nonideal theory of change, insofar as the actions dgr engage in are a result of the perceived failure of all other strategies for change coupled with the expectation that those strategies will continue to fail. This is what we believe in deep green resistance and this is one of the reasons i am a member. Objective this strategy had a clear, welldefined, and attainable objective. Deep green resistance eugene against civilization, for. Strategy to save the planet excerpt all content below is excerpted from the book deep green resistance.
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