There is no better definition of oppression than marilyn fryes, from her book the politics of reality. Deep green resistance simple english wikipedia, the free. Join lierre kieth, writer, radical feminist, food activist and environmentalist as she speaks on civilizations violence to the earth, male violence against women, and the need for serious resistance to both this event will take place at lawrence university steitz hall room 102, located at 711 e. Quick links to info on deep green resistance chapters. Boldt way in appleton, wisconsin, on sunday, april 17 st starting at 1. Deep green resistance wisconsin wisconsins chapter of. Deep green resistance helps blur gender for new world order. Deep green resistance texas creating a culture of resistance during climate catastrophe. Deep green resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and a movement being born the only movement of its kind. Upwards of 500,000 participated in the march, over twice the anticipated 200,000 and three times the estimated 160,000 in attendance at the inauguration. There were approximately 25 attendees, traveling all the way from sacramento in the north to san diego in the south. Deep green resistance dgr can loosely be described as a radical environmental movement that believes. Deep green resistance colorado plateau deep green resistance main site.
Deep green resistance member will falk will speak and fund raise in chicago for the bc, canada unistoten camp. Imagine what we could do with a bit more support and participation. Patriarchy is often defined as a system of male dominance. Journal editorial collective has run pieces both online and in print either written by or about the deep green resistance movement. A handful of activists, many from deep green resistance, stopped a massive coal train for 12 hours. May 24, 20 what you may not have known is that the organization that acclaimed author derrick jensen cofounded and is the figurehead of, deep green resistance dgr, is one of the more vocal and prominent supporters of the radical feminist and antitrans agenda. The dominant culture civilization is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living thing. Lierre keith is the cofounder of the radical environmental group deep green resistance. Dgruk is part of a growing movement that sees the need for both a robust and visible culture of resistance and an.
Deep green resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and the only organization of its kind. This is why, despite having the most progressive city government of any big city in the country, seattle has been unable to address a crisis of homelessness or pass taxes on big corporations. Lierre keith, one of the founders of deep green resistance, identifies as a radical feminist, and its safe to assume her views are shared by the rest of the group. This includes the recent spread of hydraulic fracturing as a method of oil extraction, a particularly vicious expression of this cultures contempt for the living world. Dgr is a radical feminist organisation which believes that gender is a.
In the ongoing firestorm of controversy surrounding deep green resistance dgr and transphobia, a hateful series of emails sent by dgr frontman, derrick jensen, has been leaked exposing jensens own deepseeded animosity towards anarchists and trans people apparently jensen received several emails. Derrick jensen born december 19, 1960 is an american author, ecophilosopher, radical. Deep green resistance chicago chicago chapter of deep green. Rapists and abusers are soldiers on the front lines of a war against women and in a war, you dont win by asking the other side nicely to stop. As an organization, deep green resistance is implementing that strategy. Men possessing women, dworkin discusses the power of naming. This website was made in preparation for her keynote at the 2014 public interest environmental law conference, the largest law conference in the nation. Andrea dworkin 19462005 was a radical feminist theorist, writer, and campaigner. Radical feminism is a branch of feminism that emphasizes the historical and contemporary importance of patriarchy as a system of oppression, and works to dismantle it by advocating for reproductive. Violence is a broad category and we need to be clear what were talking about so that we can talk about it as a movement.
Deep green resistance colorado respect existence or expect. Kurdish feminism april 5, 2015 august 14, 2015 deep green resistance great basin this article out of kurdish territory in the northern regions of iraq struck our interest. As radical environmentalists and radical feminists, we in deep green resistance oppose any and all threats to the future of the planet. Deep green resistance bellingham bellingham chapter of. The womens march took place on january 21st, the day after donald trumps presidential inauguration, in washington, d. On saturday august 27th, activists for ecological defense blocked a northbound. To be clear, deep green resistance is an aboveground, nonviolent movement, but with a twist. Aug 25, 20 rapists and abusers are soldiers on the front lines of a war against women and in a war, you dont win by asking the other side nicely to stop. Deep green resistance advocates for ending industrialization and moving to a localized, lowenergy society. Technology cant fix it, and shoppingno matter how greenwont stop it. Its breaking my heart, reading how not that long ago psychologists thought destroying gender stereotypes was the best way to help girls survive adolescence. Please check the story for a link to how you can contribute to this campaign. Warrior sisters provides both lethal and nonlethal selfdefense training to women in need. We have spent too much time in thinking, supposing that if we weigh in advance the possibilities of any action, it will happen automatically.
Deep green resistance wakes up the book lipstick and war. Deep green resistance helps blur gender for new world. Please spread the word, and come out in support if you. At this moment, the liberal basis of most progressive movements is impeding our ability, individually and collectively, to take action. The organization deep green resistance dgr, of which jensen is a founding member, has been accused of transphobia in relation to its radical feminist advocacy.
The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism. May 16, 2017 everything natural is being dismantled, and deep green resistance supports this dismantling on humanitarian grounds in their radical feminist faq, which is the subject of this post. Jan 09, 2017 for resistance forces to have any chance at success in the fight against the ecocidal corporate state and forces aligned with white supremacy and misogyny, they must be skilled. As an analysis, it reveals civilization as the institution that is destroying life on earth. The book also delves into what a culture of resistance looks like an. Radical feminism takes aim at the root cause of the crisis facing women. Radical feminism is a branch of feminism that emphasizes the historical and contemporary importance of patriarchy as a system of oppression, and works to. Liberals and radicals distinguishing categories of violence its understandable that people who care about justice want to reject violence. Come and listen to one of the foremost radical environmentalists in the nation talk honestly about the dire state of affairs industrial civilization has left us in. Deep green resistance is a radical feminist organization. As an analysis, it reveals the last 10,000 years of human historythe rise and dominance of civilizationas the culture of death that is now threatening every living being on earth. Dgr ny is a chapter of the international radical environmental and social justice organization, deep green resistance. Deep green resistance chicago chicago chapter of deep. Dee graham addresses this in her book loving to survive page 243 whereas patriarchy imagines.
Feminism will have won not when a few women get an equal piece of the oppression pie, served up in our sisters sweat, but when all dominating hierarchiesincluding economic onesare dismantled. Dgr is a political movement for liberation and revolution. For a book that advertises itself as a shift in strategy and tactics, deep. We aim for nothing less than total liberation from extractive economics, white supremacy, patriarchy, colonialism, industrialism, and the culture of empire that we call civilization. The dgr organization is largely based on the book deep green resistance, which was written by lierre keith, aric mcbay, and derrick jensen and released in spring 2011. Jun 17, 20 dgr issued a response to aric mcbays deep green resistance and transphobia, a call to protect women, feminism, and free speech, and a number of faqs around radical feminism. Back then, it hadnt occurred to me that a book on environmental strategy was needed. Being a longtime environmental activist, derrick is a coauthor of deep green resistance, and the author of over 25 books.
Deep green resistance, thanks to its code of conduct and interview process, is an example of a radical feminist organization creating safety for women to work alongside male allies. Im rereading reviving ophelia and wish everyone else would do the same. Deep green resistance radical environmental movement. May 16, 2017 interestingly, i wrote this critique of the radical feminist faq page on the deep green resistance dgr website, without ever having visited the site before. The film explains why technology wont save us and leads viewers to question the industrial paradigm. Deep green resistance dgr is a radical environmental movement that views mainstream environmental activism as being ineffective. Do radical feminists want a world dominated by women. Sep 21, 2017 excerpt from pages 79 to 80 of the book deep green resistance, chapter 3, liberals and radicals. Rape, battering, incest, prostitution, pornography, poverty, and gynocide are both the main weapons in this war and the conditions that create the sexclass women. This definition does not illuminate, but rather obscures, the complex set of factors that function together in the patriarchal system.
Loved the book but it irritated me that radical ecologists downplay the role of. The third meeting of the dgr santa barbara book club was held on sunday, may 7th at the eastside library. As a strategy, it offers a concrete plan for how to stop that destruction. I first heard about deep green resistance in the middle of a grassroots fight to stop a huge vacationhome subdivision at a wilderness park on vancouver island. The goal of dgr is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful. Deep green resistance colorado respect existence or. For a website that loves nature, this contradiction is crippling. Welcome to the website of deep green resistance uk dgruk. This is the third derrick jensen book ive decided to inflict on myself, but probably not the last.
How derrick jensens deep green resistance supports. The gift of this book is the revelation that strategies used by successful insurgencies can be used just as successfully by nonviolent campaigns. Deep green resistance radical environmental group dgr. Radical feminism dgr strives to be a radical organization in every respect, including our approach to feminist struggles. The unistoten camp is a landbased, indigenousled resistance community, strategically blocking construction of pipelines critical for extraction of tar sands and shale gas. What you may not have known is that the organization that acclaimed author derrick jensen cofounded and is the figurehead of, deep green resistance dgr, is one of the more vocal and prominent supporters of the radical feminist and antitrans agenda. As with most books by this trio of authors, i disliked deep green resistance. The camp is blockading construction of multiple pipelines from tar sands and shale gas projects, an excellent example of strategic aboveground action towards the goals of dgrs decisive ecological warfare. Because of speaking out critically on the topic of gender and radical feminism, deep green female activists have been met with rape threats. Just when you think it is dead, it comes back again. Deep green resistance event nondgr local event agenda agenda month april.
Deep green resistance dgr is a radical environmental movement that views mainstream. As food shortages begin to sweep the world, the prospect of a deep green resistancea movement combining relocalization with organized political resistancegrows ever more relevant. This system of violence is called patriarchy, and over the past two thousand years it has come to rule most of the world. Dgr is an anticivilization community activist organization, working to save the planet. Dgr developments related to radical feminism deep green. Deep green resistance great basin covering w utah, nevada. Deep green resistance chapters quick links to info on. Feb 15, 2015 this pin was discovered by deep green resistance. As a collective, weve considered dgr to have some value to earth first.
Dec 11, 2016 radical feminists in deep green resistance are committed to overturning this brutal patriarchal culture in defense of the earth, the source of life. The group believes that industrial civilization, as they define it, is endangering the environment, and that must be destroyed using a broad range of tactics including militancy. The actual mechanics of revolution depend on a long process of building both nonviolent and violent capacity. This includes the recent spread of hydraulic fracturing as a method of oil extraction, a particularly vicious expression of. Interestingly, i wrote this critique of the radical feminist faq page on the deep green resistance website, without ever having visited the site before. It was started by derrick jensen, lierre keith, and aric mcbay in 2011. Deep green resistance aims to motivate the formation of an underground army to carry out something they call decisive ecological warfare. Gender archives deep green resistance news service. Kurdish feminism deep green resistance great basin. How derrick jensens deep green resistance supports transphobia.
Excerpted from chapter 6 of the book deep continue reading. The following questions were posed to inspire discussion. Interestingly, i wrote this critique of the radical feminist faq page on the deep green resistance dgr website, without ever having visited the site before. In 2010 we published a piece by lierre kieth and derrick jensen, and in 2012 we inserted a section from the book deep green resistance on militant approaches to the. Deep green resistance chapters quick links to info on deep. Commonly asked questions deep green resistance new york. The task of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much personal integrity as possible. I had read two of derrick jensens books and had been sending him environmental breaking news by email. The girls and the grasses august 25, 2015 deep green resistance news service 31 comments captured in a test tube, blood may look like a static liquid, but its alive, as animate and intelligent as the rest of you. I had read two of derrick jensens books and had been sending him environmental breaking news by. Deep green resistance bellingham bellingham chapter of deep.
The book identifies civilization, patriarchy, and capitalism as a few of the brutal arrangements of power that need to be dismantled for the earth to survive. But for what its worth, radical feminism is correct. Deep green resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off. For a book that advertises itself as a shift in strategy and tactics, deep green resistance dgr has an overwhelmingly dispiriting tone, and is riddled with contradictions. The conference had been convened by a group that wanted to defend two positions that have made radical feminism anathema to much of the left. Posted on march 27, 2019 by deep green resistance seattle seattle is the cutting edge of hypermodern industriallyoutsourced capitalism. To increase the books accessibility, especially to international audiences, were now making it available for free in two ways. According to dgrs radical feminism, gender refers to a patriarchal caste. If youre interested in deep green resistance chapters, you can find a deep green resistance chapter, learn how chapters fit into our structure, or read news of chapter activity at the deep green resistance blog. Because keith has consistently held transphobic views, the keynote has been denounced by basic rights oregon. Deep green resistance salish sea is happy to announce that guy mcpherson will be speaking in town next month. Strategy to save the planet as a browseable website. Dgruk is part of a growing movement that sees the need for both a robust and visible culture of resistance and an active underground that together restrict the ability of civilisation to further damage our.
Dgr uk and its members stand behind all of these statements and the goal of ending oppression of all people and living beings by this culture, industrial civilisation. Join deep green resistance in building a resistance movement. Deep green resistance dgr is an environmental movement. Deep green resistance goodreads meet your next favorite book. May 17, 2018 deep green resistance news service 2 comments for radical feminists, gender is understood as not merely a subjective internal sense of self. Audre lorde radical feminism, audre lorde, progressive politics. Deep green resistance dgr is an environmental and social justice organization based on the book, deep green resistance. We recognize that the current ecological crisis and the oppression of vast groups of human beings are systemic.
May 25, 2014 keith is a radical feminist with a group called deep green resistance which distributed literature from the taxpayer funded facility. The seattle chapter of deep green resistance is organizing ontheground to support various struggles for justice including antiracism, feminist issues, immigrant struggles, environmental justice issues, and more. Christ feminism and religion patriarchy is often defined as a system of male dominance. Adam h argues for a deep green resistance that attacks the power structures. Its understandable that people who care about justice want to reject violence. Lierre keith is a writer, small farmer, and radical feminist activist. Deep green resistance dgr is a strategy to save the planet, based on an analysis of civilisation that sees it as inherently destructive. Strategy to save the planet and millions of other books are.
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