Deep green resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. Pdf download deep green resistance free unquote books. Deep green resistance dgr takes an alternate view on. 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. Deep green resistance cofounder derrick jensen published a new essay, which we encourage liberals, progressives, radicals, and others interested in the free exchange of ideas to consider. Decisive ecological warfare dew is the strategy of a movement that has too long been on the defensive.
Deep green resistance colorado page 2 of 11 respect. Aric mcbay, lierre keith, and derrick jensen, deep green resistance. A handful of activists, many from deep green resistance, stopped a massive coal train for 12 hours. Deep green resistance download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Join deep green resistance 5 76 civilization, especially industrial civilization, is fundamentally destructive to life on earth. Dgr is an anticivilization community activist organization, working to save the planet. Deep green resistance dgr takes an alternate view on green energy. Frequently asked questions of deep green resistance. Deep green resistance great basin covering w utah, nevada. The deep green alternative debating strategies of transition. Aboveground activists must rebuild local, sustainable, democratic communities while underground activists disable the physical infrastructure destroying our planet. We talked about why dgr believes the murder of the biosphere is caused by civilisation. On saturday august 27th, activists for ecological defense blocked a northbound. And every year the journey gets longer as the wetlands are desiccated for human demands.
So also we breathe the fragrant violets, the rosiny. Videos related to radical feminism, many presented by deep green resistance members. To be clear, deep green resistance is an aboveground, nonviolent movement, but with a twist. Synopsis deep green resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off. Please check the story for a link to how you can contribute to this campaign. But show me an example of a company that is anything more than slightly greener than its close competitors. This should have been predictable as it merges perfectly into the demands of. Sep 20, 2017 september 20, 2017 deep green resistance eugene we learned recently that guy mcpherson, with whom dgr has collaborated in the past, has been accused by multiple women of sexually predatory behavior. The book describes itself as a manual on how to build a resistance. Pdf download deep green resistance free ebooks pdf. Continuing this scenario a bit further, historians asked. Deep green resistance colorado respect existence or expect. Unfortunately for adam herriot, however, the deep green resistance he advocates for fails at a very fundamental level when it comes to its aim of dismantling.
The film explains why technology wont save us and leads viewers to question the industrial paradigm. The unistoten camp is a landbased, indigenousled resistance community, strategically blocking construction of pipelines critical for extraction of tar sands and shale gas. Threatened by rising sea levels, island nation of kiribati. The group believes that industrial civilization, as they define it, is endangering the environment, and that must be destroyed using a broad range of tactics including militancy. Blog for the radical environmental and social justice group deep green resistance. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others.
Technology cant fix it, and shoppingno matter how green wont stop it. Statement on guy mcpherson deep green resistance eugene. See also our resistance profiles for broader information on the strategies, tactics, goals, and effectiveness of various historic and contemporary resistance groups. Deep green resistance preface by derrick jensen dgr book. A collective manualinprogress for outliving civilization. Deep green resistance lays out a plan with an actual chance of success, decisive ecological warfare. They see largescale operations relying on corporatesupplied chemical inputs as the only highproductivity farming model. Building alternatives archives deep green resistance. Deep green resistance simple english wikipedia, the free. Dgr ny is a chapter of the international radical environmental and social justice organization, deep green resistance.
Deep green resistance dgr is a strategy to save the planet, based on an analysis of civilisation that sees it as inherently destructive. The following material is excerpted from a publicly available field manual on terrain. Miriam dobson blog the ecologist today published an article captioned adam herriot argues the case for a deep green resistance that attacks the power structures that perpetrate environmental destruction. A mustread for anyone seeking effective strategies to address environmental and social crises. This entry was posted in uncategorized on august 14, 2019 by deep green resistance great basin. Deep green resistance dgr is an environmental movement. Underground action calendar deep green resistance news service. Our allegiance is first and foremost to the land around us.
A group of pinyon jays is a big partythe kind of party the neighbors would call the cops on. The gift of this book is the revelation that strategies used by successful insurgencies can be used just as successfully by nonviolent campaigns. Strategy to save the planet aric mcbay, lierre keith, and derrick jensen. Aric macbay i left the organization at the beginning of 2012 after a trans inclusive policy was cancelled by derrick jensen and lierre keith. Nevertheless, despite this diversity, there is, as implied above, a. Deep green resistance est une analyse, une strategie, et une organisation unique en son genre. Rape, battering, incest, prostitution, pornography, poverty, and gynocide are both the main weapons in this war and the conditions that create the sexclass women. Strategy to save the planet excerpt all content below is excerpted from the book deep green resistance. As an organization, deep green resistance is implementing that strategy. Trans articles on both sides attacks on deep green resistance.
September 20, 2017 deep green resistance eugene we learned recently that guy mcpherson, with whom dgr has collaborated in the past, has been accused by multiple women of sexually predatory behavior. We have spent too much time in thinking, supposing that if we weigh in advance the possibilities of any action, it will happen automatically. 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. Learn the analysis of the dgr environmental movement. Underground action calendar deep green resistance news. We recognize that the current ecological crisis and the oppression of vast groups of human beings are systemic. This article originally ran march 20, 20, in the deep green resistance news service. And surprisingly it looks as if the city of lake worth and the lake worth electric utility lweu are also taking an alternate view of green energy as well, specifically solar energy and the.
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. Civilization is a culturethat is, a complex of stories, institutions, and artifactsthat both leads to and emerges from the growth of cities civilization, see civil. The deep green movement channels that energy into actively bringing down the apparatus of civilization and creating communities based on the values and social structures of the original peoples. Dear friends, in march we facilitated a workshop at grow heathrow. Sisters in the resistance how women fought to free france 19401945. In fact, deep green resistance replicates the power structures of western civilisation which act to suppress the voices of women and queer people across the world. On may 19th, 2017, members of deep green resistance santa barbara attended the water is life. For a book that advertises itself as a shift in strategy and tactics, deep green resistance dgr has an overwhelmingly dispiriting tone, and is riddled with contradictions. Read the book throughout history all resistance movements have faced ruthless enemies that had unlimited resources. February 4, 2018 deep green resistance news service leave a comment by heidi hall deep green resistance great basin a group of jays is quite appropriately called a party. Deep green resistance dgr is an environmental movement that views mainstream environmental activism as being largely ineffective. Commonly asked questions deep green resistance new york. Keith is associated with the deep green resistance movement, and together with aric mcbay and derrick jensen, she cowrote deep green resistance. Deep green resistance is a radical feminist organization.
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. World war ii resistance in occupied france dgr book. They just do not dare express themselves as we did. July 11, 2019 deep green resistance news service leave a comment award winning author and veterinary epidemiologist david waltnertoews has published seven collections of poetry, one of which includes recipes, a collection of short stories, a murder mystery, six books of popular science, and several texts and manuals on ecosystem approaches to. Organized political resistance is the only hope for our planet. Just when you think it is dead, it comes back again. From counterpunch august 10, 2015 liberals and the new mccarthyism by derrick jensen its easy enough, some sixty years after the fact, for us to cluck our. Deep green resistance new york resistance against empire. As an analysis, it reveals civilization as the institution that is destroying life on earth. Deep green resistance uses derrick jensens definition of civilization that he laid out in endgame vol. Deep green resistance is a deep green environmentalist organisation, which also has its own specific charisteristics not found in the main dgem.
Recruitment is only one side of the membership equation. It was a lively and interesting debate focused on civilisation. Standing with standing rock conference hosted at uc santa barbara. We are battling those who are destroying the planet for their profit. We have seen screenshots of comments where he calls women vile names e. Deep green resistance colorado respect existence or. Deep green sees fear and anger as rational responses to the scale of the rape of the natural world and the destructive nature of society.
As a strategy, it offers a concrete plan for how to stop that destruction. January 12, 2018 deep green resistance news service leave a comment by frances moore lappe local futures people yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. Strategy to save the planet excerpt deep green resistance. Building alternatives archives deep green resistance news. Obviously there is some advantage to taking a green approach to business, since many people are willing to pay more for a green premium. The us guerilla warfare manual explicitly states that a guerrillas objec tive is to. Join deep green resistance in building a resistance movement. Deep green resistance dgr is a radical environmental movement that views mainstream environmental activism as being ineffective.
The dominant culturecivilizationis killing the planet, and. Historian julian jackson notes that, prior to wwii, there were few organized resistance movements to emulate. The wwii resistance in occupied france offers many lessons on how to create and organize resistance movements. Many things can keep activists going, like success, camaraderie, and a sense of momentum. It was started by derrick jensen, lierre keith, and aric mcbay in 2011. In terms of food production, the population spike is mostly the result of the use of synthetic fertilizers, especially the energyintensive haberbosch process for fixing nitrogen, and the. 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. See for example derrick jensens endgame or eric fromms the anatomy of human destructiveness 2. Deep green resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and a movement being born, the only movement of its kind. Deep green resistance 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.
Pdf deep green resistance download full pdf book download. This is the third derrick jensen book ive decided to inflict on myself, but probably not the last. Thats why all resistance movements count on loyalty and material support. Deep green resistance aims to motivate the formation of an underground army to carry out something they call decisive ecological warfare. Derrick jensen is a coauthor of deep green resistance, and the author of endgame, the culture of make believe, a language older than words, and many other books he was named one of utne readers 50 visionaries who are changing your world and won the eric hoffer award in 2008 he has written for orion, audubon, and the sun magazine, among many others. It is the war cry of a people who refuse to lose any more battles, the last resort of a movement isolated, coopted, and weary from neverending legal battles and blockades. Objective this strategy had a clear, welldefined, and attainable objective. Nov 30, 2017 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. By norris thomlinson deep green resistance hawaii to most of us with no military experience, the decisive ecological warfare strategy dew of deep green resistance can seem abstract.
Sep 21, 2017 posted on july 22, 2016 by deep green resistance sonoran were improving some technical things on our end for blog subscriptions. 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. 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. As an analysis, it reveals the last 10,000 years of human historythe rise and dominance of civilizationas the culture of death that is. It is somewhat misleading, of course, to talk of the deep green alternative, or the deep green school, when in fact there are really a multitude of deep green alternatives, each of which acknowledge the contextdependency of any form of life. Derrick jensen is the bestknown voice of the deep ecology movement. March 8, 2012 deep green resistance news service leave a comment by paul chapman the independent in what could be the worlds first climateinduced migration of modern times, anote tong, the kiribati president, said he was in talks with fijis military government to buy up to 5,000 acres of freehold land on which his countrymen could be. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action. Strategy to save the planet, published in may 2011.
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