Today is the day John Brown was executed for his efforts to arm enslaved Africans and lead an uprising against white slavers. .. Remember his final words: “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. I had as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done.” … John Brown was right.
. Deep Green Resistance is not a desperate call to act on whatever targets are at hand. If this is a struggle against an opponent with a scorched earth policy, then our strategy has to aim a wee bit higher than the windows of your local corporate outpost. So put away your bricks and spray paint: those are not weapons for the serious. We aim to be effective. . And because our detractors will be determined to misunderstand: DGR is also not a call for an armed insurgency. The idea is absurd. A few radical environmentalists could not possibly take on the U.S. military (which consumes 80% of the governments petrochemical usage). DGR is a fight against a singular enemy: industrial civilization. This makes us different from every other struggle in history. It has some similarities with the original Luddites (news flash: they were right). It also has overlap with indigenous peoples trying to forestall displacement - extinction - due to dams and mining. But those indigenous are mostly having to fight while rooted in place, protecting their land and their survival. . Our actionists are not trying to change consciousness. They’re not after a seat at the political table. They are trying to stop the burning of fossil fuels and industrial-scale destruction of the life-support systems of their planet. That is the goal of DGR, and Defensive Ecological Warfare is their strategy, spelled out in the DGR book, and viewable online. . The infrastructure of industrial civilization is both vulnerable and accessible, but the environmental movement is not used to thinking in terms of infrastructure. To date, environmentalists have not suggested the level of engagement that we’re after. Ten minutes on the Internet will tell anyone where the oil comes from, where the tankers dock, where the telecommunications servers are, and where the refineries blister in clumps along the coasts. All of this information is easy, and public, and obvious. . Deep Green Resistance, pp 496-500
On this day, 136 years ago, the great Oglala Lakota warrior Tȟašúŋke Witkó (His-Horse-is-Crazy, or Crazy Horse) was murdered with a bayonet to the back. He was unarmed and bound. After having his land stolen, his family murdered, and his life taken, he was recently honored with a Great Americans postage stamp worth 13 cents. … Our genocide of indigenous people, combined with our targeted destruction of their culture and language, is the most shameful crime in the history of the world, and it continues today. Brave women and men in the Deep Green Resistance, the American Indian Movement, the Deep Roots Collective, and other organizations are fighting to maintain a future for indigenous children. Please consider aiding their struggle with material support or personal involvement.
by Jonah Mix Henry Ford is a shining example of two great American traditions: Amoral, hardheaded industrialism and unapologetic racial hatred. He hated Jews; his pamphlet The International Jew was singularly responsible for the anti-Semitism of Hitler Youth Leader and mass murderer Baldur von Schirach, while the Holocaust’s chief architect, Heinrich Himmler, praised Ford as a “great man” and “one of our most valuable, important, [and] clever fighters.” He hated the disabled; along with John Kellog, Andrew Carnegie, Woodrow Wilson, and dozens of other illustrious Americans, Ford openly advocated for the obligatory sterilization and involuntary imprisonment of the mentally ill and retarded, as well as unwed mothers and criminals with brown skin. I’ll let the reader guess how he felt about immigrants, homosexuals, and people of color; let’s just remember that Hitler proudly proclaimed in 1938, “I shall do my best to put [Ford’s] theories into practice in Germany.” This might be a good time to mention that I’ve now written two essays that mention Henry Ford – the first was in seventh grade, when I picked his name off a sheet of potential subjects in my history class. It was labeled “American Heroes.” ...
… Rapists and abusers are soldiers on the front lines of a war against women - and in a war, you don’t win by asking the other side nicely to stop. … Warrior Sisters provides both lethal and non-lethal self-defense training to women in need. Please consider making a donation. Your support will go towards purchasing weapons and training materials as well as other needs (insurance, promotion, etc). This is a great opportunity to aid the struggle against male violence and patriarchal domination. … Together, we can fight back, and together, we can win.
… Galvarino had his hands savagely ripped off as punishment for his struggle against the colonialist genocide; he returned to battle with knives mounted onto his mutilated wrists. What’s your excuse?
… In order to justify the last four hundred years of inhuman brutality, the dominant power structure has erased all history of resistance and attempted to cast enslaved Africans as stupid, docile, and complicit in their own domination. On the eve of the anniversary of Nat Turner’s rebellion, we must take the time to remind ourselves that thousands of men and women over many generations did indeed rise up and fight back against the genocidal institution of Southern (and Northern) slavery. The struggle continues today. White folks must become race traitors. We must become intimately, uncomfortably, painfully acquainted with the blood shed in our names, from Columbus on down to White Clay. We must open ourselves up to the hurt and fear and rage of those upon whom this civilization has clamped its jaws. And then we must help them kick its fucking teeth in.
… This power structure’s insatiable need for the extraction and importation of resources underlies every possible expression of its malignant force. Sexual violence, social stratification, and ecological devastation are all geared towards the same end - securing more blood for the vampire of civilization. Any time we witness violence, brutality, oppression, or exploitation, we must ask ourselves, what resource are the agents of the dominant culture attempting to harvest here, and how can we most effectively cripple their ability to do so?
… We have been taught that through the use of fewer paper towels, shorter showers, and eco-friendly soaps, we can stop the death of the planet. This is a lie. Only sustained, political action devoted to the dismantling of the industrial power structure can stop this death machine. The truly meaningful individual choices we can make in our lives are not choices between different cars or toilet papers but a choice between apathy and honesty, cowardice and strength, passivity or action.
“Nonviolence refuses to recognize that it can only work for privileged people, who have a status protected by violence, as the perpetrators and beneficiaries of a violent hierarchy.” .. - Peter Gelderloos