by DGR News Service | Dec 30, 2021 | Indirect Action, The Solution: Resistance, Toxification
Florence Nightingale, the English pioneer of modern nursing is quoted as saying, “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” Editors note: Never give up your agency. If your goal is to save life on the planet, sometimes you have to sink your own...
by DGR News Service | Nov 30, 2021 | Direct Action, Education, Human Supremacy, Indirect Action, Mining & Drilling, Obstruction & Occupation, Protests & Symbolic Acts, The Problem: Civilization, The Solution: Resistance
This story first appeared in Protect Thacker Pass. By Max Wilbert It’s been 10 months since I first arrived at Thacker Pass and began work to protect the land from a proposed open-pit lithium mine in earnest. Today I share this video reporting from the land and...
by DGR News Service | Nov 19, 2021 | Male Supremacy, Women & Radical Feminism
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 links...
by DGR News Service | Aug 21, 2021 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Direct Action, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land, Mining & Drilling, Movement Building & Support, Obstruction & Occupation, Toxification
This article originally appeared in Protect Thacker Pass. By Max Wilbert The great poet and playwright James Baldwin wrote in 1953 that “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.” Perhaps never has this been truer than in this era of...
by DGR News Service | Jun 29, 2021 | Education, Mining & Drilling, Toxification
We often hear from people who say that “lithium is better than oil & gas” and that “we’ll be able to recycle all the lithium we’ll need”. These are common misconceptions about both the realities of lithium mining and what it does to the Earth, and about recycling....