by DGR News Service | May 9, 2022 | ACTION, Movement Building & Support
Editor’s note: The following conceptual tool is designed to help community organizers to categorize community groups, businesses, government bodies, and individuals along a “spectrum of allies.” This exercise teaches a fundamental tenet of community...
by DGR News Service | May 6, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Listening to the Land, Male Supremacy
Editor’s note: Writing from the mountains of Kerala, rewilder and restorationist Suprabha Seshan explores the pandemic and the war of patriarchy vs. the planet. “It is my sworn mission to salvage the ones burned, maimed, poisoned or reconstituted from the...
by DGR News Service | Apr 25, 2022 | ACTION, Movement Building & Support, The Solution: Resistance
By Max Wilbert We are living in an ecological catastrophe. Our world is being killed before our eyes. This hurts. And so for many people, their response is either apathy, complete emotional shutdown, or a nihilistic embrace of powerlessness. There is another option....
by DGR News Service | Apr 1, 2022 | ACTION, Culture of Resistance, Worker Solidarity
Editor’s note: Luddism is often dismissed as “backwardness,” but it is actually a more advanced, considered, and wise position on technology. To be a Luddite is to stand with workers and the natural world against the death march of technology. This...
by DGR News Service | Mar 14, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Building Alternatives, Culture of Resistance, Mining & Drilling, The Problem: Civilization
Editor’s Note: Unquestioned beliefs are the real authorities of any culture, and one of the central authorities in the dominant, globalizing culture is that technological progress is an unmitigated good. We call this “the lie of the techno-fix.” The...
by DGR News Service | Mar 11, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Movement Building & Support
Editor’s Note: Jane Anne Morris’ 2005 essay “Help! I’ve Been Colonized and I Can’t Get Up” is considered a classic text within the community rights movement. It criticizes the regulatory regime of environmental and public health...
