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Strategy & Analysis

Book Excerpt: Abolitionist Strategy

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Featured image: Struggle for freedom in a Maryland barn. Engraving from William Still’s The Underground Rail Road Editor’s note: The following is from the chapter “Introduction to Strategy” of the book Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy to Save the  Planet. This book is now available for free online.      by Aric McBay The Weather Underground was far from … Continue reading Book Excerpt: Abolitionist Strategy →
Strategy & Analysis

Book Excerpt: Resistance Strategy Success and Failure

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Featured image: Weather Underground, 1969 Editor’s note: The following is from the chapter “Introduction to Strategy” of the book Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy to Save the  Planet. This book is now available for free online.      by Aric McBay The key problem with identifying successful strategies is that the context of historical resistance is different from … Continue reading Book Excerpt: Resistance Strategy Success and Failure →
Strategy & Analysis

Book Excerpt: Grand Strategy

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Editor’s note: The following is from the chapter “Introduction to Strategy” of the book Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy to Save the  Planet. This book is now available for free online.      by Aric McBay There’s one nagging thought that always returns to me when I’m studying WWII resistance strategy: resisters in Occupied Europe were brave, even … Continue reading Book Excerpt: Grand Strategy →
Strategy & Analysis

This War Has Two Side, Part 2

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Editor’s note: This is an edited transcript of a presentation given at the 2016 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference by DGR’s Dillon Thomson and Jonah Mix on the failure of the contemporary environmental movement to meaningfully stop the destruction of the planet. Using examples from past and current resistance movements, Mix and Thomson chart a … Continue reading This War Has Two Side, Part 2 →
Strategy & Analysis

This War Has Two Sides, Part 1

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Editor’s note: This is an edited transcript of a presentation given at the 2016 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference by DGR’s Dillon Thomson and Jonah Mix on the failure of the contemporary environmental movement to meaningfully stop the destruction of the planet. Using examples from past and current resistance movements, Mix and Thomson chart a … Continue reading This War Has Two Sides, Part 1 →
Strategy & Analysis

Book Excerpt: Learning from Nonviolent Strategy

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Editor’s note: The following is from the chapter “Introduction to Strategy” of the book Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy to Save the  Planet. This book is now available for free online.      by Aric McBay It’s also worth looking at the principles that guide strategic nonviolence. Effective nonviolent organizing is not a pacifist attempt to convince the … Continue reading Book Excerpt: Learning from Nonviolent Strategy →
Strategy & Analysis

Book Excerpt: Devising Strategy

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Editor’s note: The following is from the chapter “Introduction to Strategy” of the book Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy to Save the  Planet. This book is now available for free online.      by Aric McBay Despite the limitations created by their smaller numbers, resistance movements do have real strategic choices, from the loftiest overarching strategy to the … Continue reading Book Excerpt: Devising Strategy →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction

46% of Forests Have Been Destroyed by Civilization…and Counting

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     by Max Wilbert / Deep Green Resistance “Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.” – François-René de Chateaubriand New research in the prestigious journal Nature estimates that “the global number of trees has fallen by approximately 46% since the start of human civilization.” The study also suggests that about 15 billion trees are … Continue reading 46% of Forests Have Been Destroyed by Civilization…and Counting →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Movement Building & Support, Strategy & Analysis

A Manifesto for a World in Crisis

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THE SITUATION Our world is in crisis. Species extinction, topsoil loss, deforestation, rising seas, ocean acidification, global warming. It’s no exaggeration to say that the dominant culture is killing the planet. At the same time, societies around the world are staggeringly unjust. Neocolonialism builds up empires on the backs of indigenous peoples, sweatshop workers, unpaid … Continue reading A Manifesto for a World in Crisis →
Strategy & Analysis

Book Excerpt: Principles of War and Strategy

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Editor’s note: The following is from the chapter “Introduction to Strategy” of the book Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy to Save the  Planet. This book is now available for free online.      by Aric McBay I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be … Continue reading Book Excerpt: Principles of War and Strategy →