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Via Stephanie McMillan " Tactics for what? There’s been a lot of heated debate about “diversity of tactics,” particularly since Occupy. How many blog inches have been devoted to arguing about whether it’s wrong or awesome (or varying degrees of okay in which particular circumstances) to break windows at a demonstration? How many conflicts among demonstrators have occurred between those who want to do it and those who want to prevent it from being done? ...

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DGR Great Basin supports and will continue to support the Unist’ot’en Camp through fundraisers, work details, media, and caravans to support the camp. Salute to these brave land defenders! Please contact us if you are interested in supporting the Unist’ot’en Camp or participating in our solidarity campaigns.

From the Deep Green Resistance Southwest Coalition, a report-back from the 2014 Sacred Water Tour: By Max Wilbert, Susan Hyatt, Katie Wilson, and Michael Carter, Deep Green Resistance Southwest Coalition In late May 2014, members of Deep Green Resistance (DGR), Great Basin Water Network, the Ely-Shoshone Indian tribe, and others toured the valleys of eastern Nevada and western Utah targeted by the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) for groundwater extraction. [1] ...

Members of the Great Basin chapter of Deep Green Resistance recently attended the annual DGR member conference, which was held this year near Syracuse, New York. This was the 3rd annual all-DGR member conference, and drew attendees from around the world. Gathering together is an opportunity to build relationships, get to know others who believe as you do, share strategies and creative ideas, and prepare for the next year of action. If you’re considering joining DGR, get in touch - and we hope you’ll be able to join us at the next member conference.

This article is by Deep Green Resistance member William Falk of San Diego. Leaving Unist’ot’en Camp was hard. As I stepped away from a group of new friends passing pens and notebooks around to share contact information, I found myself on the banks of the Morice River under the pines. Looking up to see their silver and green tops swaying with the sky, I wondered if the pines were discussing the worth of my actions at the Camp. For the first time in my life, I was being watched by trees that I was directly involved in protecting. I studied the splinters still stuck in my hand from the construction site. I rubbed the black bruise under my left thumbnail where I missed a nail with my hammer. My shoulders were sore from holding heavy roof rafters precisely in place so they could be installed properly. ...

The Modern COINTELPRO and How To Fight It Despite the seeming popularity of environmental and social justice work in the modern world, we’re not winning. We’re losing. In fact, we’re losing really badly. Why is that? One reason is because few popular strategies pose real threats to power. That’s not an accident: the rules of social change have been clearly defined by those in power. Either you play by the rules — rules which don’t allow you to win — or you break free of the rules, and face the consequences. ...

“A black tern weighs barely two ounces. On bodily reserves less than a bag of M&Ms and wings that stretch to cover twelve inches, she’ll fly thousands of miles, searching for the wetlands that will harbor her young. And every year the journey gets longer as the wetlands are desiccated for human demands.” Read the full excerpt from Chapter 1 of the book Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet. ...

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The Deep Green Resistance chapter in the UK has just published a new piece in the journal The Ecologist. The article goes over the basics of the DGR strategy, discusses why movements to save the planet have largely failed thus far, and offers an alternative vision - a way to win. Learn more and read the article on the Deep Green Resistance UK website.