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The Problem: Civilization, Alienation & Mental Health, Featured, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Music & Art, Protests & Symbolic Acts

EXTRACTION: ARTISTS RAISE A RUCKUS

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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 offspring; and it eats the future. … Continue reading EXTRACTION: ARTISTS RAISE A RUCKUS →
The Problem: Civilization, Human Supremacy, Mining & Drilling, Repression at Home, The Solution: Resistance, Direct Action, Property & Material Destruction, Featured

Dakota Access Pipeline resister stands with integrity in face of long prison sentence

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Sentenced to eight years in prison for acts of sabotage, water protector Jessica Reznicek reflects on her faith-driven resistance. By Cristina Yurena Zerr This article was first published in the German newspaper taz, and has been translated and edited for Waging Nonviolence. On June 28, the federal court in Des Moines, Iowa was silent and … Continue reading Dakota Access Pipeline resister stands with integrity in face of long prison sentence →
The Problem: Civilization, Featured, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling

Electric Vehicles: Back to the Future? [Part 1/2]

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By Frédéric Moreau In memory of Stuart Scott Each year while winter is coming, my compatriots, whom have already been told to turn off the tap when brushing their teeth, receive a letter from their electricity supplier urging them to turn down the heat and turn off unnecessary lights in case of a cold snap … Continue reading Electric Vehicles: Back to the Future? [Part 1/2] →
The Problem: Civilization, Colonialism & Conquest, Culture of Resistance, Listening to the Land, Featured, Agriculture, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change

The Problem

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This is an excerpt from the book Bright Green Lies, P. 1-7 By LIERRE KEITH “Once our authoritarian technics consolidates its powers, with the aid of its new forms of mass control, its panoply of tranquilizers and sedatives and aphrodisiacs, could democracy in any form survive? That question is absurd: Life itself will not survive, … Continue reading The Problem →
Culture of Resistance, Indigenous Autonomy, Featured, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, Direct Action, Indirect Action, Noncooperation, Lobbying, Protests & Symbolic Acts, Obstruction & Occupation

“People vs. Fossil Fuels’’: Winona LaDuke & Mass Protests Call on Biden to Stop Line 3 Pipeline

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This piece was first published at Democracy Now!     By AMY GOODMAN In response to the completion of the contested Line 3 pipeline, which is now reportedly operational, thousands of Indigenous leaders and climate justice advocates are kicking off the “People vs. Fossil Fuels’’ mobilization, an Indigenous-led five-day action of civil disobedience at the … Continue reading “People vs. Fossil Fuels’’: Winona LaDuke & Mass Protests Call on Biden to Stop Line 3 Pipeline →
Featured, Climate Change, Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, Indigenous Autonomy, Obstruction & Occupation, Protests & Symbolic Acts

Settlers Have an Obligation to Defend Treaty Rights, Too

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This article originally appeared in YES! Magazine. BY ALEC CONNON & ERIKA LUNDAHL Shanai Matteson, a 39-year-old White settler, sat in the stuffy overflow room watching the packed Public Utility Commission meeting, along with more than a hundred others, in St. Paul, Minnesota, in June 2018. Over several hours, she listened as dozens of people—Native elders, local … Continue reading Settlers Have an Obligation to Defend Treaty Rights, Too →
The Solution: Resistance

Scientist’s Warning on Affluence and Growth

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Originally published on Nature Communications, this is an excerpt from an article describing scientists’ warning on affluence by Thomas Wiedmann, Manfred Lenzen, Lorenz T. Keyßer & Julia K. Steinberger. Super-affluent consumers and growth imperatives Growth imperatives are active at multiple levels, making the pursuit of economic growth (net investment, i.e. investment above depreciation) a necessity … Continue reading Scientist’s Warning on Affluence and Growth →
Obstruction & Occupation

Spokane Veterans for Peace Blockading Fossil Fuel Trains

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by Direct Action Spokane A group of Spokane, Washington citizens are currently protesting on the BNSF railroad tracks off Trent, east of Napa. The action is being carried out to alert the region to the rapidly expanding impacts of climate change. The undisputed leading cause of global climate change is the burning of fossil fuels … Continue reading Spokane Veterans for Peace Blockading Fossil Fuel Trains →
Protests & Symbolic Acts

Twenty Arrested at Utah Tar Sands Mine

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By Canyon Country Rising Tide SUNDAY JUNE 19, PR SPRINGS, UT: Thirty people walked onto the country’s first tar sands mine and sowed seeds to regrow land destroyed by tar sands – a fossil fuel more polluting than coal and oil. With butterfly puppets, songs, and banners, protesters trespassed onto the mine site and took … Continue reading Twenty Arrested at Utah Tar Sands Mine →
Protests & Symbolic Acts

33 Days on Twin #66: Walking the Enbridge Pipeline

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By Sacred Water Sacred Land Sacred Water Sacred Land is sponsoring a tar sands awareness walk through Wisconsin along Enbridge’s proposed Twin Line #66 starting with a kick-off event in Delevan or Walworth on June 8th. 33 Days on Twin #66, a Sacred Water Sacred Land sponsored walk, begins at the entry point of the … Continue reading 33 Days on Twin #66: Walking the Enbridge Pipeline →