Oct. 25-27: Stop Enefit! No Oil Shale Campout | Utah Tar Sands Resistance. From UTSR: ” We with the Utah Tar Sands Resistance aren’t all about tar sands, you know. Eastern Utah has become a sacrifice zone for the Western United States in terms of destructive, toxic fuel extraction, and we’re standing up […]
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Online porn is the most pernicious threat facing children today
“When shown porn, the reward centre of normal volunteers barely reacted, but that of the compulsive porn users lit up like a Christmas tree. The compulsive porn users’ brains showed clear parallels with those with substance addictions. Everybody on the project was astounded, even Dr Voon, who admitted she had been ‘sceptical and ambivalent’ about […]
Groundwater Pipeline Threatens Great Basin Desert, Indigenous Groups
The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute, or CTGR (the name “Goshute” derives from the native word Ku’tsip or Gu’tsip, people of ashes, desert, or dry earth), [17] “reside in an isolated oasis in the foothills of the majestic Deep Creek Mountains on what is now the Utah/ Nevada state line,” according to their web page […]
Mental Health & Civilization: A Compilation | Deep Green Resistance News Service
This book is for those who feel, in their bones, the struggle of living in such a culture, and for those who love life and want to fight back. The numerous activists, artists, and writers who have contributed to this book also surely know this struggle. included here is a compilation of personal stories, essays, […]
Fight back against massive infrastructure and stand in solidarity with the Goshute, Shoshone, and Paiute Nations!
DGR Great Basin is participating in a coalition of groups and individuals opposed to the SNWA water grab – a massive infrastructure project in eastern Nevada. Please contact us at DGRGreatBasin@riseup.net to get involved in this project.
Beautiful Justice: No Heart Unbroken
By Ben Barker / Deep Green Resistance Wisconsin I wish this was just a nightmare. My friend is gone and I want her back. She was killed several weeks ago—violently, sadistically, suddenly—and for several weeks I’ve been crying. My head keeps shaking. I whisper to myself: “No. No. No.” Over and over. More than anything […]
Max Wilbert: Utah – The Next Energy Colony
By Max Wilbert / Deep Green Resistance Great Basin The first Tar Sands mine in the United States is an open wound on the landscape: a three acre pit, the bottom puddled with water and streaked with black tar. Berms of broken earth a hundred feet tall stand on all sides. To the north and […]
Jonah Mix: Why I Fight — A Personal Essay | Deep Green Resistance News Service
Jonah Mix: Why I Fight — A Personal Essay | Deep Green Resistance News Service. Excerpt: “My path to activism began when I learned that axolotls were dying, when I learned my mother had been raped. I’ve discovered a lot since then, thanks to Andrea Dworkin, Leonard Peltier, Lierre Keith, and others. I know […]