Posted in act local, anti-civ 101, fascism/corporatism, not 'hope', resistance, sane words on Mar 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Here’s a great article by Chris Hedges that reflects much of what we think here, it’s well worth a read:
We stand on the cusp of one of humanity’s most dangerous moments.
Aleksandr Herzen, speaking a century ago to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job [...] Read more »
Posted in act local, anti-civ 101, climate chaos, not 'hope', resistance on Dec 22nd, 2009 3 Comments »
The Copenhagen Climate Talks – the 15th conference of all the parties of the UNFCC – have now come to a close. The hope was that the gathered world leaders and politicians would have created a legally binding deal that would see global emissions of greenhouse gas fall drastically as the science demanded, limiting the [...] Read more »
Posted in anti-civ 101, not 'hope', resistance, sane words on Dec 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
If you’re in love with the world, fall in love with trying to save it
by Derrick Jensen, reprinted from Orion Magazine.
Years ago I was interviewed by a dogmatic pacifist (note to self: bad idea), who in his (grossly inaccurate) write-up said he thought I wanted all activists to think like assassins. That’s not true. What [...] Read more »
Posted in act local, cooperation, not 'hope', resistance, sane words on Sep 9th, 2009 No Comments »
While an awful lot of people are talking about Adam Sacks’ admittedly brilliant and Grist-breaking article, called “The Fallacy of Climate Activism“, quietly and without fanfare Dave Pollard has been undergoing his own seismic shift. Dave runs the grandly titled blog “How to Save the World“, and up till recently he has used his expertise [...] Read more »
Posted in cooperation, resistance on Aug 30th, 2009 3 Comments »
A short article, sent by one of our readers, Brant Evans.
I once told a friend that knowledge of our current situation without appropriate action is the same as complete denial, but now I’m not so sure. I’d been working on my friend over the past couple months trying to open his eyes to the [...] Read more »
Posted in resistance, sane words on Aug 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s the first of a series of 3 articles at Survival Acres blog (which now seems to be closing for compelling reasons as shown in the most recent post) on how to practically resist the system we find ourselves in.
The majority of points raised and the suggestions are excellent, although the occasional focus on individualist-style [...] Read more »
Posted in not 'hope', resistance, sane words on Jul 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Introductory comments by Dmitry Orlov: A small but already by no means negligible number of Americans is starting to realize what their future looks like: no retirement, no job, no savings, plus they are getting old. Their only possible means of support in old age is their children.
And so, in the meantime, let’s continue [...] Read more »
Posted in books, resistance, useful media on Jul 15th, 2009 No Comments »
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Posted in health, permaculture, resistance, rewilding, water on Jun 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Two recent treehugger articles, discussing 7 Low-Cost, Low-Emissions Foods and the water footprint of your food reinforce the myth that to simply change the actual items that we buy, without considering where they come from and how they are grown, is enough of a change to slow the human impact on the planet and other [...] Read more »
Posted in beyond organic, resistance, sustainability on Jun 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Chuck Burr, at culturechange.org writes about how we might begin to extricate ourselves from the empire.
Making a living in our modern culture usually requires that you participate in the destruction of the world. We can’t go back to Homo hunter-gatherer. Is there another way forward?
There is an another way to make a living that [...] Read more »
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