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Time is Short: War of the Flea: A Review
Posted by Deep Green Resistance: Alex Budd on April 4th, 2013
Deep Green Resistance: As radicals, we believe that another world--a world without patriarchy, white supremacism, capitalism, colonialism, or ecocide--is possible. But in the face of the reality in which we live our day to day lives, it can become difficult to remember not only the possibility of successful resistance to power, but also its rich and proud history, of which we are a part. This is all the more true when we recognize that a potent resistance movement will have to include militant, underground resistance....
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Time is Short: Questions Overdue
Posted by Deep Green Resistance: Alex Budd on March 6th, 2013
Deep Green Resistance: Environmentalists today have our work cut out for us. Caught between the urgency of the ecological crises and reactionary capitalist forces that continue to push (quite successfully) for ever more outrageous and egregious destruction, finding an effective and timely path forward is no easy task. There are a wide variety of strategies for change vying for our attention, broadcast to us by a diversity of folks with a diversity of motivations--some of which are mixed, others confused, and more that...
Time is Short: Every Day, All Around the World
Posted by Deep Green Resistance: Alex Budd on December 19th, 2012
Deep Green Resistance: Despite the narratives that are drilled and forced into our heads--narratives of the exceptionality and futility of resistance--the history of civilization is chalk full of individuals, groups, movements that stood in the face of subjugation and cruelty to fight for a better world.
This is as true now as it has ever been, whether we’re talking about underground and aboveground groups finding indirect ways to collaborate in defending Russian forests, Ogoni militants attacking pipelines in the Niger...
Time is Short: Principles of War and Strategy
Posted by Deep Green Resistance: Alex Budd on November 21st, 2012
Deep Green Resistance: Why are we losing?
Why, after 40 years of struggle, education, petitions, letters to the editor, reusable coffee mugs, marches, protests, direct action and even sabotage, are we still losing? Why do mountains, old growth and glaciers keep disappearing? Why are children born with 200 toxic compounds in their bodies? Why do the levels of carbon in the atmosphere continue to rise as the species count plummets? And why is the trend accelerating?
Is it because civilization functions by destroying...