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The Sengwer People of the Embobut Forest in Kenya, one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer peoples in East Africa, are being forcibly evicted from their lands by guards from The Kenya Forest Service, with support from the Kenya police. Despite a court injunction forbidding the eviction, thousands of Sengwer People now face an all too familiar loss of homes, food stores and belongings. Rolling slopes in Kenya’s western highlands, the Sengwer have lived in and cared for the Cherangany Hills for centuries. However, since 2007, when the World Bank began disbursing funds to the Kenya Forest Service for a Natural Resource Management Project (NRMP) the Sengwer’s legacy has been threatened. ...

By Norris Thomlinson. Originally published at Farmer Scrub’s Blog. The situation in many third world countries could actually improve because of the global economic collapse. First world countries would no longer enforce crushing debt repayment and structural adjustment programs, nor would CIA goons be able to prop up “friendly” dictatorships. The decline of export-based economies would have serious consequences, yes, but it would also allow land now used for cash crops to return to subsistence farms. –from the Deep Green Resistance Decisive Ecological Warfare strategy ...

There’s a war going on against the living planet: mountaintop removal, rare earth mining (for metals used in solar panels, turbine, & hybrid cars), fracking devastation the world over, topsoil depletion due to industrial agriculture, aquifer depletions due to industry’s massive thirst, deforestation (for furniture as well as the so-called “biofuels”), nuclear armaments, nuclear energy, ocean acidification, the list is long - but it all relies on the infrastructure of the industrial economy. ...

Lierre Keith has been selected to give the keynote speech at this years Public Interest Environmental Law Conference. The annual meeting will be held February 27th – March 2nd in Eugene, Oregon and features over 125 panels, workshops and multimedia presentations addressing a broad spectrum of environmental law and advocacy. The keynote speech also highlights the increased participation of Deep Green Resistance members at this year’s event. In addition to Lierre’s speech, DGR members will host four more panel sessions throughout the conference on topics including the failure of “green” energy, the pitfalls of radical subcultures, and the connections between misogyny and ecocide. DGR members participated in PIELC last year as well, providing two workshops- recordings of which are available on DGR’s YouTube page . ...

The Sawhoyamaxa indigenous community in Paraguay have spent over 20 years fighting to get back their land, which they were pushed off by cattle ranchers. They started the new year by collecting signatures to press Congress to pass a bill that would expropriate their ancestral territory from ranchers, in order for the state to comply with a 2006 ruling by the Inter-American Court of Justice ordering the restitution of their land. ...

“It is almost impossible to talk about free will without talking about insanity. Most of us are by now, of course, almost completely insane. Force is an expensive and inefficient way to exploit. This is as true on the grand social level as it is on the familial. From the perspective of those in power, it’s more desirable to get those you exploit to participate in their own victimization. One way this can happen is through mystification, where an exploiter convinces victims that the violence is their fault. The abusive father, for example, might tell his children he would not have hit them had they sufficiently cleaned the dishes. This serves the function of causing the children to focus on cleaning the dishes instead of attending to the inexcusable violence of their father. Perhaps more importantly, it convinces them that if they can only be good enough at reading and responding to their abuser’s ever changing wants, they might not get beaten. The question as it relates to free will becomes: if they clean the dishes obsessively and perform every other obeisance, all without him beating them anymore, are they then doing these of their own free will?” ...

Saturday, January 11, 2014 Did you know that Las Vegas is planning a $15 billion project to extract water from the driest places in the country? And that ranchers, farmers, indigenous and rural communities, hunters, and environmentalists are coming together to fight it? \\\______ Watch community organizers speak about the so-called “Water Grab” - the project that is the epitome of unsustainable development and massive public subsidy to the rich. ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That the real, physical world is the source of our own lives, and the lives of others. A weakened planet is less capable of supporting life, human or otherwise. Thus the health of the real world is primary, more important than any social or economic system, because all social or economic systems are dependent upon a living planet. It is self-evident that to value a social system that harms the planet’s capacity to support life over life itself is to be out of touch with physical reality. ...

Check out this gallery of basic photographs about the Great Basin and the SNWA water grab: Greatbasinmap Barrel Cactus Creek Deep Creek Range Dry Colorado River Dust Hazard - Clean Air Facilities\_-\_Groundwater\_Development\_Project Foliage Great Basin National Park Hillside Elk Habitat Horned Desert Lizard Lake Mead - 3 intakes Mallow Flower Moonrise Nevada Desert Poster - Spring 2014 SNWA Tour Ranch 1 Ranch Well ??????????????????????????????? SNWA Water Grab Map SNWA website - Groundwater Development Project Sucks Natives Water Away Sunset Swamp Cedar Test Well Underneath Mountains Walk and Run for Sacred Water Well at Swamp Cedars

We are excited to share a new short film that introduces some of the voices and faces of Deep Green Resistance, the book and the movement. This is part of a series of several soon-to-be-released shorts that present the DGR analysis and strategy. If you enjoy it, please “Like” and share widely to encourage the community conversation. [iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tNSQABUZw2c" height=“315” width=“560” allowfullscreen="" frameborder=“0”] To see more like this, visit and subscribe to the Deep Green Resistance Youtube channel.