Bulldozers Aimed at Wildlife Refuge, State Park, Historic Chapel, Family Farms. Featured image: by Kara Clauser, Center for Biological Diversity. by Center for Biological Diversity RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas— The Trump administration announced today that it will waive dozens of environmental laws to speed border-wall construction through protected Rio Grande Valley property, including a national wildlife refuge … Continue reading →

Protests & Symbolic Acts

Run for Sacred Water

October 10, 2018 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

by Max Wilbert / Deep Green Resistance Last week, I was invited to join a Sacred Water Run-Walk in Nevada by Chief Johnnie Bobb of the Western Shoshone National Council. Chief Bobb attended the Sacred Water, Sacred Forests gathering back in May, and we exchanged contact information. I decided to attend last minute … Continue reading →

Lobbying

Maasai Villagers Win a Major Victory in the East African Court of Justice in Case Against Tanzanian Government

October 7, 2018 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

Featured image: an eviction of Maasai in Loliondo. Photo: tourismobserver.com by Oakland Institute Oakland, CA—On September 25, 2018, the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) awarded a major victory to four Maasai villages fighting for their rights to their land in northern Tanzania. The case revolves around violent government-led evictions of Maasai villagers in Loliondo – … Continue reading →

Uncategorized

Resistance Newsletter – October 2018

October 6, 2018 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

October 6, 2018 by Max Wilbert Deep Green Resistance max@maxwilbert.org https://www.deepgreenresistance.org A free monthly newsletter providing analysis and commentary on ecology, global capitalism, empire, and revolution. For back issues, to read this issue online, or to subscribe via email or RSS, visit the Resistance News web page. These essays also appear on the DGR News … Continue reading →

Strategy & Analysis

Book Excerpt: Evaluating Strategy

October 4, 2018 Deep Green Resistance News Service 1 Comment

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 Resistance is not one-sided. For any strategy resisters can come up with, those in power will do whatever they can to disrupt … Continue reading →

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Resistance Strategy Success and Failure

September 30, 2018 Deep Green Resistance UK Leave a comment

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 the present. Their goals were often different … Continue reading →

Colonialism & Conquest

There are Hundreds of Thousands of Indigenous Children in Residential Schools Around the World Today

September 29, 2018 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

by Jo Woodman and Alicia Kroemer / Intercontinental Cry On September 30, communities across Canada will be commemorating ‘Orange Shirt Day’, an annual event that is helping Canadians remember the thousands of Indigenous children who died in Residential Schools, and to reflect on the intergenerational trauma that was caused by the Residential school system. Similar school systems … Continue reading →

Lobbying

Yellowstone Area Grizzlies Regain Endangered Species Protection

September 25, 2018 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

Featured image: A grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. Jim Peaco / National Park Service by Olivia Rosane / Ecowatch A federal judge restored endangered species protections for grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park on Monday, The Huffington Post reported, putting a permanent halt to plans by Wyoming and Idaho to launch the first Yellowstone-area grizzly hunt in four decades. U.S. District … Continue reading →

Strategy & Analysis

Book Excerpt: John Brown and the Harper’s Ferry Raid

September 23, 2018 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

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 This shift toward more militant defiance of slavery was all wonderful, of course. And it certainly increased the success of the Underground … Continue reading →

The Problem: Civilization

How Identity Became a Weapon Against the Left

September 20, 2018 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

Dissonance created by a certain conception of identity: if we believe that “women and people of color” are defined entirely by their identities, it becomes impossible to understand how anyone who shares the identity could reject a candidate who fits that identity. Once the distinction between perspective and identity is erased, voters of color become … Continue reading →

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Trump Administration Waives Environmental Laws to Build Texas Border Wall in Protected Nature Areas