EXTRACTION: ARTISTS RAISE A RUCKUS

EXTRACTION: ARTISTS RAISE A RUCKUS

by | Dec 12, 2021 | Alienation & Mental Health, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Music & Art, Protests & Symbolic Acts, The Problem: Civilization, Toxification

This article first appeared on the Association for the Tree of Live Website. By JEAN ARNOLD A ravenous, yet decrepit cyborg – part machine, part zombie – lurches onward as it is programmed to do. Its hunger is so insatiable that it eats its own flesh; it eats its...
Planet of the Humans & Bright Green Lies

Planet of the Humans & Bright Green Lies

by | May 6, 2021 | Alienation & Mental Health, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Education, Human Supremacy, Lobbying, Mining & Drilling, Music & Art, Strategy & Analysis, The Problem: Civilization, Toxification

Planet of the Humans, an outstanding documentary by Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore, drew a lot of attention when it was originally published on YouTube for free. But a coordinated censorship campaign lead to it being taken down from YouTube where it had been viewed 8.3...
On the Proposed Mining of “Thacker Pass, Nevada” [Dispatches from Thacker Pass]

On the Proposed Mining of “Thacker Pass, Nevada” [Dispatches from Thacker Pass]

by | Mar 22, 2021 | Alienation & Mental Health, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Colonialism & Conquest, Human Supremacy, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support, Music & Art, The Problem: Civilization

Upon the Proposed Mining of “Thacker Pass, Nevada”. A poem by Sarah Gar, a visitor to the land of the Paiute and Shoshone people and the sagebrush creatures. It’s quiet here. And I’m not talking about experimental silence, American guru silence, or any sleek human...
Green Flame: Poetry Celebration

Green Flame: Poetry Celebration

by | Jan 10, 2021 | Music & Art

In this final Green Flame episode of 2020, we listen to a discussion between Jennifer Murnan and Trinity La Fey about the love and support of women, resistance, writing, reminders of beauty, performance and people. We are blessed with Trinity’s performances of...
Silence and Darkness

Silence and Darkness

by | Oct 11, 2020 | Music & Art

I lay in my bed Waiting for the soft lull of sleep to embrace me To take me to the land where dreams come by I know it won’t come soon I know she faces the blockades Obstacles block her way I wake up to the low drum of the machine I sleep to the blaring of the...