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Indigenous-Led Resistance

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Water Is Life On May 19th, 2017, members of Deep Green Resistance Santa Barbara attended the Water Is Life: Standing With Standing Rock conference hosted at UC Santa Barbara.  This conference was presented by the Carsey-Wolf Center, the American Indian & Indigenous Collective, the American Indian Student Association, the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the … Continue reading Indigenous-Led Resistance →
Agriculture, Building Alternatives

Food Culture

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by Lierre Keith / Deep Green Resistance. The food culture across the environmental movement is ideologically attached to a plant-based diet. That attachment is seriously obstructing our ability to name the problem and start working on the obvious solutions. Transition Town originator Rob Hopkins writes, “Reducing the amount of livestock will also be inevitable, as … Continue reading Food Culture →
Building Alternatives, Strategy & Analysis

Trump Trauma

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     by Helena Norberg-Hodge / Local Futures While we mourn the tragedy that fear, prejudice and ignorance “trumped” in the US Presidential election, now is the time to go deeper and broader with our work. There is a growing recognition that the scary situation we find ourselves in today has deep roots. To better understand … Continue reading Trump Trauma →
Alienation & Mental Health, Building Alternatives

An Economy of Meaning – or Bust

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     by John Boik, PhD / Local Futures It’s not often that a scientist gets to use the words love, creativity, and wisdom in a paper, especially when writing about economics. Perhaps that’s because economics, the dismal science, is obsessed with dismal systems – make that abysmal systems, relative to need. To be clear, I’m not … Continue reading An Economy of Meaning – or Bust →
Building Alternatives

Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future

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     by David Fleming and Shaun Chamberlin This originally appeared in Local Futures What follows are some excerpts from the late David Fleming’s  Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016).  The excerpts have been chosen by the book’s editor, Shaun Chamberlin. Extensive references are given … Continue reading Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future →
Building Alternatives, Repression at Home

Encrypt text messages & voice calls with Signal

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Signal is a free, easy to use app, for Android or iPhones, that replaces the default texting app. When sending to other users with Signal installed, it’ll perform end to end encryption, meaning the cell carrier and anyone else can not read the message as it passes through the system. If sending to people without … Continue reading Encrypt text messages & voice calls with Signal →
Building Alternatives

Resistance Radio – Raven Gray – 12.27.15

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Today we feature an interview with Raven Gray, a member of Deep Green Resistance and a visionary writer, educator and activist. A permaculture designer for over 15 years, she is a pioneer of the Transition Towns Movement. In 2007, she founded Transition US, a nonprofit that inspires the emergence of resilient communities that can thrive … Continue reading Resistance Radio – Raven Gray – 12.27.15 →
Building Alternatives, Repression at Home, Toxification

Derrick Jensen: To Protect and Serve

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Originally published in the September/October 2012 issue of Orion. Now republished for the first time online. In an era of government-sanctioned polluters, communities must defend themselves Several years ago I spoke at a benefit for an organization working to prevent a toxic waste site from being built in their community. Yet another toxic waste site, … Continue reading Derrick Jensen: To Protect and Serve →
The Problem: Civilization, The Solution: Resistance, Direct Action, Obstruction & Occupation, Culture of Resistance, Building Alternatives, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling

Days of Revolt: The Revolution Will Be Local – YouTube

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In this episode of teleSUR’s Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges speaks with our friend, the attorney Thomas Linzey, and activist Mark Clatterbuck, about the grassroots movements rising up against the fracking industry, and the legislative and direct action necessary to resist corporate power in the absence of a true democratic system. To learn more about … Continue reading Days of Revolt: The Revolution Will Be Local – YouTube →
Building Alternatives, Indigenous Autonomy

Re-learning the Land: A Story of Red Crow College

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By Intercontinental Cry   RE-LEARNING THE LAND is the story of a Blackfoot community in southern Alberta, Canada, and how they have re-taken control of their education system within Red Crow Community College. The film traces the decolonization of their learning and the development of an innovative program, Kainai Studies, within Red Crow College, the … Continue reading Re-learning the Land: A Story of Red Crow College →