by DGR News Service | Apr 22, 2022 | Mining & Drilling, NEWS, Repression at Home
Editor’s note: Monday’s article covered the murder of environmentalists—at least 207 were killed last year. These killings are the extreme end of a spectrum of violence and repression used against environmentalists and land defenders. Another weapon on...
by DGR News Service | Apr 18, 2022 | NEWS, Repression at Home
Editor’s note: This article is a call for courage in the face of adversity, apathy, and violence. Two hundred and seven environmentalists were murdered last year—at least. Each fallen land defender is a hero. To save the planet, we must be willing to take risks...
by DGR News Service | Mar 4, 2022 | ACTION, Culture of Resistance, Education, Movement Building & Support, Repression at Home, Strategy & Analysis
Editor’s note: People who confront the destruction of the planet find a legal system that prioritizes corporations and not uncommonly become the targets of police surveillance. Unless we take precautions, police surveillance tools can uncover our plans and...
by DGR News Service | Jan 13, 2022 | Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, The Problem: Civilization
In this piece, Matej Kudláčik describes how a system that appears democratic, participatory, and free can actually conceal a profound totalitarianism. His argument has similarities to Sheldon Wolin’s conception of “inverted totalitarianism,” which...
by DGR News Service | Dec 25, 2021 | Climate Change, Colonialism & Conquest, Direct Action, Human Supremacy, Indirect Action, Mining & Drilling, Obstruction & Occupation, Repression at Home, Strategy & Analysis, The Problem: Civilization, The Solution: Resistance
This story was first published in Learning Earthways. By George R. Price The oral traditions and origin stories of many Indigenous peoples, worldwide, include some stories of the endings of previous worlds. In such stories, the end of one world usually coincides with...
by DGR News Service | Dec 24, 2021 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Colonialism & Conquest, Culture of Resistance, Defensive Violence, Direct Action, Human Supremacy, Indigenous Autonomy, Indirect Action, Repression at Home, The Problem: Civilization, The Solution: Resistance
This story first appeared in Mongabay. Editor’s note: This is what environmental justice looks like. Not NGOs dictating what lands will be set aside for 30×30, which is just greenwashing colonialism. It is the people whose land it is making those decisions...