Deep Green Resistance

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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance</a>flaggdDeep Green Resistance (DGR) is a radical environmental movement that views mainstream <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">environmental activism</a> as being largely ineffective.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>"Deep Green Resistance / DGR" is also used by group members to refer to their particular political strategies. The group believes that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_civilization" title="Industrial civilization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">industrial civilization</a>, as they define it, is endangering all life on the planet, and that a broad range of tactics are needed to achieve <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_justice" title="Environmental justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">environmental</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice" title="Social justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">social justice</a>. They argue for a radical shift in societal structures and functions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>
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</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#Beliefs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Beliefs</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#Origins_and_advocates" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Origins and advocates</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#Tactics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Tactics</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#Advocating_for_militant_resistance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1Advocating for militant resistance</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#Literature_and_references" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Literature and references</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#Gender_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Gender issues</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#Criticism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Criticism</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Beliefs</h2>In the book Deep Green Resistance, the authors state that civilization, particularly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialisation" title="Industrialisation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">industrial civilization</a>, is fundamentally unsustainable and must be actively (and urgently) dismantled in order to secure a livable future for all species on the planet.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> Civilization can be defined as the development of agriculture and the growth of cities.Deep Green Resistance argues that agriculture is detrimental to land fertility and cities necessarily surpass the natural carrying capacity of land bases. Civilization relies heavily on industry, which operates largely on non-renewable and unclean fossil fuels.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]DGR's principles stem from the concept of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology" title="Deep ecology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">deep ecology</a> and state that all species are inherently equal, and thus humans are not superior to any other form of life. Deep ecology attributes the current environmental crisis to the anthropocentrism that is embedded in Western perspectives. The term, first used by the Norwegian philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_N%C3%A6ss" title="Arne Næss" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Arne Næss</a>, was quickly taken up by a variety of radical environmental groups, such as Earth First!.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> Deep ecology provides a foundation upon which to base the cross-cultural nature-based spirituality that is often associated with radical environmental movements.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a>The movement differentiates itself from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_green_environmentalism" title="Bright green environmentalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">bright green environmentalism</a>, which is characterized by a focus on personal, technological, or government and corporate solutions, in that it holds these solutions as inadequate. DGR believes that lifestyle changes, such as using travel mugs and reusable bags and taking shorter showers, are too small for the large-scale environmental problems the world faces. It also states that the recent surge in environmentalism has become commercial in nature, and thus in itself has been industrialized. The movement asserts that per capita industrial waste produced is orders of magnitude greater than personal waste produced; therefore, it is industrialism that must be ended, and with that, lifestyle changes will follow.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Origins and advocates</h2>The term was created for a conference entitled "Deep Green Resistance. Confronting Industrial Culture" in April, 2007 in Deerfield, Massachusetts. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lierre_Keith" title="Lierre Keith" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lierre Keith</a> was the main organizer.Deep Green theory draws on elements of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">anthropology</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology(philosophy)" title="Phenomenology (philosophy)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">phenomenology</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology" title="Deep ecology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">deep ecology</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofeminism" title="Ecofeminism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">ecofeminism</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen" title="Derrick Jensen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Derrick Jensen</a> is a prominent member of the Deep Green Resistance Advisory Board. In addition to being a radical activist, he is also a writer, philosopher and teacher. Lierre Keith, another board member, is a feminist activist, writer and small farmer. Stephanie McMillan, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_D.Forbes" title="Jack D. Forbes" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack D. Forbes</a> are also prominent influences on the movement. DGR draws on the philosophy and writings of many authors, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_N%C3%A6ss" title="Arne Næss" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Arne Næss</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Manning" title="Richard Manning" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Manning</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin" title="Andrea Dworkin" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Andrea Dworkin</a>, Peggy Reeves Sanday, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Abram" title="David Abram" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">David Abram</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chellis_Glendinning" title="Chellis Glendinning" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Chellis Glendinning</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges" title="Chris Hedges" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Chris Hedges</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter" title="Joseph Tainter" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Joseph Tainter</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Heinberg" title="Richard Heinberg" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Heinberg</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Quinn" title="Daniel Quinn" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Daniel Quinn</a>, Tracie Marie Park (a.k.a. Zoe Blunt) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Mander" title="Jerry Mander" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">J</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Mander" title="Jerry Mander" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">erry Mander</a>, among others.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Tactics</h2>The Deep Green perspective argues that the dominant culture, a term that encompasses all the cultures within globalized civilization, will not undergo a voluntary transformation to a sustainable way of living. This includes the dismissal of a possible success of a slow and soft shift to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability" title="Sustainability" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">sustainability</a>. Members of the Deep Green movement believe that industrial civilization will inevitably collapse. This notion is based on historical examples of the collapse of major civilizations such as Rome or the Mayan civilization, and statistics regarding the current system's unsustainability. DGR maintains that humans must act decisively before the collapse to ensure the Earth that remains is inhabitable for all organisms and that humans build a more sustainably structured society following the collapse.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>Deep Green Resistance supports an active resistance movement with the objective of accelerating the collapse of industrial civilization.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">citation needed</a>]Within the Deep Green theory, lifestyle or personal changes are not considered effective methods of creating meaningful change. The mainstream environmental movement is seen as being distracted by its emphasis on individual lifestyle changes and technological solutions instead of confronting systems of power and holding individuals, industries, and institutions accountable.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> The founders of the Deep Green movement view technological solutions, no matter how well-intentioned, as unsatisfactory and warn that they could even lead to accelerated ecological destruction and pollution.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h3 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Advocating for militant resistance</h3>Decisive Ecological Warfare:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-DGRDEW-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;">Well-organized underground militants would make coordinated attacks on energy infrastructure around the world … actions against pipelines, power lines, tankers, and refineries, perhaps using electromagnetic pulses. ….<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-C.26C-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></blockquote>Proponents of Deep Green Resistance encourage strategies for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_action" class="mw-redirect" title="Social action" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">social action</a> that range from violent to non-violent. DGR's support for militant action (described as a potentially necessary means by which to invoke drastic environmental change) is rejected by many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifist" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacifist" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">pacifists</a>. Some have called this a potential deterrent to environmentalists who believe in nonviolent activism.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> The strategy described by Jensen, McBay and Keith largely centers around hard-hitting infrastructural sabotage, such as forcible <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_removal" title="Dam removal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">dam removal</a>, rather than any kind of personal violence.Jensen predicts, regarding the movement, that acts of personal violence in the future will be almost completely offensive by those countering the resistance movement (i.e. those currently in power) and self-defensive by those enacting the resistance movement. When asked, "If we dismantle civilization, won't that kill millions of people in cities? What about them?," Jensen has responded that "No matter what you do, your hands will be blood red... because the global economy is [already] murdering humans and non-humans the planet over...." and "As this culture continues to collapse, those who are doing the exploiting will continue.... Don’t blame those who want to stop that exploitation. Instead, help to stop the exploitation that is killing people in the first place."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> Jensen has also clarified such ideas on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Now!" title="Democracy Now!" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democracy Now!</a>: "I get accused of being the 'violence guy'... but I don’t ever think that's really fair, because I really consider myself the 'everything guy', that I want to put everything on the table and talk about all forms of resistance.... We can certainly parse out cases where we think it's appropriate to have militant response or non-militant response."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-DN112610-10" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a>Keith has discussed in depth the "complexity of the issue of violence" in the organization's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponymous" class="mw-redirect" title="Eponymous" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">eponymous</a> book, and how it is "understandable that people who care about justice want to reject violence; many of us are survivors of it." However, she urges the following distinctions, favoring only the second in each dichotomy: "the violence of hierarchy vs. the violence of self-defense, violence against actual people vs. violence against property, and the [use of] violence as self-actualization vs. the violence of political resistance. It is difficult to find someone who is against all of these."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>While Deep Green Resistance maintains that it is a strictly aboveground movement, Keith and McBay have openly encouraged an additional element of underground action, and DGR provides the theoretical and aboveground framework to support such action.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> The organization's book points to historical examples of resistance movements that relied on an interdependence between aboveground and underground networks in order to accomplish mutual goals.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Literature and references[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deep_Green_Resistance&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Literature and references" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>A book titled Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet by Aric McBay, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lierre_Keith" title="Lierre Keith" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lierre Keith</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen" title="Derrick Jensen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Derrick Jensen</a>was released in May 2011, from Seven Stories Press.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> The book is divided into four sections: Resistance, Organization, Strategy and Tactics, and the Future. Each section contains several essays written by McBay or Keith and concludes with Jensen's answers to common questions about resistance. The book intends to provide a framework from which readers can build upon in order to begin fighting for environmental change.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Gender issues[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deep_Green_Resistance&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Gender issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The organization's official website states that "DGR strives to be a radical organization in every respect, including our approach to feminist struggles."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-radfem-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> DGR's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism" title="Radical feminism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">radical feminism</a> views <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_role" title="Gender role" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gender</a>, by definition, as a social system created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy" title="Patriarchy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">patriarchy</a> to coercively and violently control behavior of both males and females; however, within this system, men and masculinity are privileged, while women are trained into subordinated behavior and routinely targeted for institutionalized and socially sanctioned violence due to their sex and/or gender role.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]DGR's stance on gender has led some to interpret DGR as transphobic.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> The controversy especially swelled when a newly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitioning(transgender)" title="Transitioning (transgender)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">transitioning</a> member of DGR, self-identifying as a woman, requested to join a women-only communal sleeping and showering space and, later, a women-only caucus space; the women's caucus discussed the issue collectively and ultimately denied the applicant.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>] A year after this, Aric McBay claimed he "left the organization at the beginning of 2012 after a trans inclusive policy was cancelled by Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith. Many good people and good activists left the organization for that reason. I find these transphobic attitudes to be disgusting and deeply troubling...."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a> DGR released a note in response to McBay's statement, claiming that McBay actually departed the organization by mutual agreement, after unsuccessfully trying to force Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith from DGR. Keith and Jensen reiterated that the women of DGR made the decision to deny the applicant for themselves. In this statement, DGR also affirmed that "the right of women to define their own spaces" is central to how the organization operates.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a>The organization has denied these claims,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-deepgreenresistance.org-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> explaining that "DGR does not condone dehumanization or violence against anyone, including people who describe themselves as trans."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-deepgreenresistance.org-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> The website asserts that DGR holds "a difference of opinion about the definition of gender" with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderism" title="Genderism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">genderists</a>, and states that "genderists think gender is an identity, an internal set of feelings people might have. Radical feminists think gender is a caste system."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-deepgreenresistance.org-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> DGR's view of gender as a caste system implies that gender is an institution that cannot be improved or remedied, but, rather, requires complete dismantling so that egalitarian, spontaneous, and free behavior can emerge.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-radfem-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a>Because DGR inherently defines gender as "a brutal and corrupt arrangement of power," they want to dismantle the gender system, rather than reform it, celebrate it, or make it more inclusive. DGR, as self-described radical feminists, are "critical of gender itself. We are not gender reformists—we are gender abolitionists."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-radfem-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Criticism[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deep_Green_Resistance&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Criticism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology#Misconceptions" title="Deep ecology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Deep ecology § Misconceptions</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism#Criticism" title="Anarcho-primitivism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Anarcho-primitivism § Criticism</a></div>Critics of Deep Green Resistance have made claims similar to critics of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism" title="Anarcho-primitivism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">anarcho-primitivism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology" title="Deep ecology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">deep ecology</a>. DGR's ideas have been variously criticized by online publications as polarizing solutions to environmental reform, "elitist", "too radical", or "out of step."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-climateandcapitalism.com-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> Founder Derrick Jensen, for example, has concluded in his earlier work Endgame that "The mass of civilized people will never be on our side.”<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a> This has led to the criticism of organizing a strategy that is pessimistic about popular involvement, and therefore aims at forcing change without the majority's consensus. Some critics have, therefore, argued that "radical tactics tend to be counterproductive to the goal of increasing awareness and concern in the general public."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a>Opponents of Deep Green Resistance further claim that DGR, which predicts massive numbers of human deaths during the forthcoming "crash" of civilization, does not offer a feasible or desirable alternative human lifestyle in seeking to accelerate this crash.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a> Keith and Jensen have both acknowledged this unpleasant reality; however, they have repeatedly claimed that the crash is inevitable (and will only result in more suffering the longer it is delayed) and that they are merely warning of—and trying to prepare the world for—these forthcoming deaths and possible wide-scale violence. Jensen has stated that if activists do not wish to participate in the physical work of accelerating this crash, they, at the very least, should locally prepare and "set up committees to eliminate or, if appropriate, channel the (additional) violence that might break out."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a>Anarchists who believe that all hierarchically structured relations, whatever the purpose, are oppressive, disagree with DGR's promotion of the use of hierarchical organization within any underground.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-EF_Critique-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> McBay and Keith have both promoted the idea of underground networks organized along hierarchical lines. Keith has advocated for a disciplined "command structure" regarding frontline activists.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> McBay, in Deep Green Resistance, has argued that hierarchies are an efficient means of organizing underground resistance.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-sproutdistro1-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a>Anarchist writers—among them anarcho-primitivists like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zerzan" title="John Zerzan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Zerzan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Tucker(anarchist)" title="Kevin Tucker (anarchist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kevin Tucker</a>—have criticized DGR's Code of Conduct, their historical understanding of revolution and radical history, and the perceived "cult of personality" around Jensen and Keith.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-EF_Critique-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-sproutdistro1-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">See also[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deep_Green_Resistance&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism" title="Anarcho-primitivism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Anarcho-primitivism</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology" title="Deep ecology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Deep ecology</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_anarchism" title="Green anarchism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Green anarchism</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-exclusionary_radical_feminism" class="mw-redirect" title="Trans-exclusionary radical feminism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trans-exclusionary radical feminism</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_environmentalism" title="Radical environmentalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Radical environmentalism</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite" title="Luddite" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Luddite</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References</h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-McBay-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_ref-McBay_1-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jump up to:</a></li></ol></div>=https://dgrnewsservice.org/suncor/HOW TO WIN THE MEDIA WAR AGAINST GRASSROOTS ACTIVISTS: STRATFOR’S STRATEGIESAUGUST 2, 2013 DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE NEWS SERVICE LEAVE A COMMENTBy Steve Horn, for Mint Press News Rafael Pagan — who died in 1993 — was not invited to be a part of his former associate’s new firm, Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin. His tactic of conquering and dividing activist movements and isolating the “fanatic activist leaders” lived on, though, through his former business partner, Jack … Continue reading How To Win The Media War Against Grassroots Activists: Stratfor’s Strategies ?STRATFORSUNCOR
PROTESTS & SYMBOLIC ACTS, TOXIFICATIONCOMMUNITY MEMBERS, ACTIVISTS CONFRONT SUNCOR ENERGY AT OIL LEAK SITEMARCH 11, 2012 DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE COLORADO 4 COMMENTS  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2012 Community Members & Activists Confront Suncor Energy at Oil Leak Site Protestors demand an end to pollution in Colorado, Canada Commerce City, Colo – Members of the Stop Suncor and Tar Sands Coalition, including the American Indian Movement of Colorado (AIM), Deep Green Resistance Colorado (DGR), United Community … Continue reading Community Members, Activists Confront Suncor Energy at Oil Leak Site ?COLORADODGR ACTIVITY & STATEMENTSDEANNA MEYERDEEP GREEN RESISTANCEINDUSTRIAL "ACCIDENT"OILSUNCOR
PROTESTS & SYMBOLIC ACTS, TOXIFICATIONDGR COLORADO COLLABORATING WITH OTHER GROUPS TO DEMONSTRATE AGAINST SUNCOR REFINERYMARCH 6, 2012 DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE NEWS SERVICE LEAVE A COMMENTBy Earth First! Newswire In an open letter, several organizations including Colorado American Indian Movement, Deep Green Resistance Colorado, Front Range Rising Tide, 350.org, Occupy Denver and Boulder Food Rescue announce they coming together for a demonstration on Saturday, March 10th, with families from the local communities that are directly affected by the Commerce City … Continue reading DGR Colorado collaborating with other groups to demonstrate against Suncor refinery ?DGR ACTIVITY & STATEMENTSDEEP GREEN RESISTANCESUNCORPROTESTS & SYMBOLIC ACTS, TOXIFICATIONAIM & DGR COLORADO PROTEST SUNCORJANUARY 10, 2012 DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE COLORADO 2 COMMENTSThis past New Year’s Eve, activists from the American Indian Movement and Deep Green Resistance Colorado organized a protest in Denver to raise awareness about the chronic negligence, pollution and general evil of Suncor Energy and it’s oil refinery in Commerce City, Colorado. We hooked up with members of Occupy Denver and marched down the 16th...Stratfor Intelligence Leaked by Anonymous Reveals Spying on Occupy Movement and DGR<div class="headers" style="line-height: 1.7; border: 1px solid rgb(141, 163, 196); padding: 3px 6px; margin: 12px 0px;"><div class="author" style="line-height: 1.5;">by Deep Green Resistance 
Friday Jan 27th, 2012 10:47 AM</div></div><div class="summary" style="line-height: 1.7; margin: 20px 66.3594px 24px;">Stratfor, a private intelligence organization hacked by Anonymous in December, has been investigating the Occupy Movement and Deep Green Resistance (DGR). The emails released contain information gathered both through Stratfor's internal investigation and through a contact with the Texas Department of Public Safety.</div><div class="article" style="line-height: 1.7; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 28.4375px; position: relative;">View documents released by Anonymous here: http://pastebin.com/67P3vMJBInternet group Anonymous has leaked information from October and November 2011 suggesting that private intelligence firm STRATFOR has been working with Texas law enforcement to infiltrate the Occupy movement and spy on the Deep Green Resistance movement.In December 2011, Anonymous attacked the STRATFOR website, allegedly stealing 200 gigabytes of data and shutting the site down for weeks. This isn’t the first time Anonymous has gone after such corporations. In early 2011, Anonymous went after internet security firm HBGary, releasing private documents that included secret plans by HBGary and others to attack and discredit Wikileaks on behalf of big banks.The information released by Anonymous is a partial “teaser” of the information taken from STRATFOR. It consists of emails in which STRATFOR employees discuss Occupy Austin and Deep Green Resistance. STRATFOR “Watch Officer” Marc Lanthemann writes about receiving information on Occupy Austin and DGR from a “Texas DPS agent.” The Texas Department of Public Safety is a statewide law enforcement agency that includes the Texas Rangers, Highway Patrol, and an Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division.“Law enforcement sharing information about local activism with private intelligence firms should be a huge scandal,” writes Rachel Meeropol, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. “Privately funded surveillance and infiltration of activist groups is especially chilling, as time and again we see such corporations operate as if they are above the law and accountable to no one.”In the emails, the staff discuss how a STRATFOR agent went undercover and tried to gather information from an Occupy Austin General assembly. They discuss DGR Austin holding a public meeting on what radicalism means for Austin (wrongly describing the purpose as “indoctrination”), they write about the book Deep Green Resistance, and they speculate about the relationship between DGR Austin and other groups.If there is a silver lining here, it is that the emails we have do not paint a picture of a very competent organization. Between hasty generalizations, the STRATFOR staff get a number of important facts completely wrong. First of all, they confuse members of the DGR action group in Austin (which does exist) with another group they call the “Phoenix commune” (which may or may not exist).They also allege a conflict between members of the DGR Austin group with Occupy Austin that doesn’t seem to have happened. It’s not clear if this is part of the strategy counterintelligence groups have used in the past to try to provoke conflict between different social movements—the FBI used this very effectively against groups like the Black Panther Party—or whether STRATFOR is simply relying on unreliable or incompetent sources.Elsewhere STRATFOR displays a perception of radical environmentalism that falls somewhere between muddled and simply wrong. One agent suggests DGR is inspired by Nazism and philosopher Martin Heidegger, while another declares that DGR “is focused on creating a situation where violent confrontation will be the ultimate outcome.” Both of these assertions are just plain false.There is a long history of clandestine groups releasing secret information about the surveillance of social movements. In 1971, and underground group called the Citizen’s Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into an FBI field office and released thousands of pages of secret information, revealing that the FBI had attacked 1960s social movements with methods ranging from surveillance and infiltration to targeted assassinations. Though we have no contact with Anonymous, their leak of information about government and corporate tactics of repression is part of an important tradition.For more information about Deep Green Resistance, visit http://deepgreenresistance.org.More leaked information from STRATFOR is presumably forthcoming.Below is a photograph of STRATFOR employee Marc Lanthemann (from a social networking profile that is not longer online) so that activists can recognize him; we would suggest that you do not speak with him, allow him in to your home, give him access to meetings, or otherwise provide him or his organization with information.[pic]</div>==stratfor

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<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 20px 12px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Re: [alpha] INSIGHT-US-Occupy Austin and Deep Green Resistance-NO CODE</h2>Released on 2012-03-02 01:00 GMT<table width="100%" class="cable" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); max-width: 100%; width: 740px; margin-top: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); text-align: justify;"><tbody style="box-sizing: inherit;"><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">Email-ID</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">1984023</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">Date</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">2011-11-17 14:51:22</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">From</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">stewart@stratfor.com</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">To</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">alpha@stratfor.com</td></tr></tbody></table><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Re: [alpha] INSIGHT-US-Occupy Austin and Deep Green Resistance-NO CODE Read these pieces to understand the dynamic of the radical environmentalists becoming more isolated and therefore progressively more prone to violence as they pull away from the moderating influence of their less violent colleagues.  The second piece talks about funding, but remember that these jabronis do not need much funding to blow things up or burn them down or k ill people. http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/informants_bombs_and_lessons http://www.stratfor.com/direct_action_attacks_terrorism_another_name http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_sincendiary_activism_santa_cruz</div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">[wayback: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821im/http://www.stratfor.com/mmf/121081/thumbnail" alt="A new home construction site believed burned by the Earth Liberation Front in September 2003" title="Sandy Huffaker/Getty images" /></a></div><div id="main-content" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><div class="node-teaser"><div class="teaser teaser-general"><div class="teaser-title-wrapper"><div class="teaser-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz">U.S.: Incendiary Activism in Santa Cruz</a></div><div class="teaser-timestamp">August 5, 2008 2124 GMT</div></div><div class="teaser-text">Twin arson attacks Aug. 2 against animal researchers in Santa Cruz, Calif., represent the continuation of a trend toward attacking individuals rather than institutions.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more" /></div><div class="clear"><div id="content-bottom" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><div id="block-block-86" class="block block-block region-odd even region-count-1 count-4 collapsiblock-processed"><div class="block-inner"><div class="content"><div id="NewCTA_Copy1" align="center"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more">Get the Full Article]</a></div></div></div></div></div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more"></a><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more"> From: Fred Burton <burton stratfor.com="stratfor.com" /> Reply-To: Alpha List <alpha stratfor.com="stratfor.com" /> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:36:00 -0600 To: <alpha stratfor.com="stratfor.com" /> Subject: Re: [alpha] INSIGHT-US-Occupy Austin and Deep Green Resistance-NO CODE Are they capable of killing or violence (question from the Rangers?)  On 11/17/2011 7:01 AM, scott stewart wrote: It might sound strange, but some of the most radical deep ecology people actually believe that there are too many people on the earth and that radical steps must be taken to reduce the population and save the earth. This strain of deep ecology is a clear reflection of the way the movement was heavily influenced by people like Martin Heidegger who were also committed to Nazism. Yes, Nazis were radical environmentalists.....</a></div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> From: Marc Lanthemann </div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><marc.lanthemann stratfor.com="stratfor.com" /> Organization: STRATFOR Reply-To: Alpha List <alpha stratfor.com="stratfor.com" /> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:08:31 -0600 To: Alpha List <alpha stratfor.com="stratfor.com" /> Subject: Re: [alpha] INSIGHT-US-Occupy Austin and Deep Green Resistance-NO CODE</div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Jesus I spent a couple of hours researching these guys - weird is an understatement. Apparently they met yesterday a couple of blocks away from my house to consolidate their leadership, go through basic indoctrination and plan more events. As far as I can tell, the Austin chapter is not nearly as radical as the central Lierre Keith DGR whose website is a treasure trove of incitment to passive resistance, blowing up energy infra, basic counter intel and legal guidance. Their ideology seems to be a mix of hardcore environmentalism, anarchism, radical feminism and the general notion that we need to go back living sustainably like the american indians by blowing up every pipeline and cell tower on the planet. Unlike the central DGR, Austin DGR doesn't seem to have defined targets and goals (their meeting yesterday was a brainstorming session on what radical environmentalism means in Austin). just a few nice quotes from their central website: The task of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much personal integrity as possible; it is to dismantle those systems.[//bannon?] What would we do if Nazis had invaded, and they were vacuuming the oceans, scalping native forests, damming every river, changing the climate, and putting carcinogens into every mother's breast milk, and into the flesh of your children, your lover, your mother, into your own flesh? How much worse would the damage have to get? Would you resist? If there existed a resistance movement, would you join it? On 11/16/11 7:42 PM, Victoria Allen wrote: WHOA. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Korena Zucha <zucha stratfor.com="stratfor.com" /> Sender: alpha-bounces@stratfor.com Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:38:01 -0600 To: Alpha List<alpha stratfor.com="stratfor.com" /> ReplyTo: Alpha List <alpha stratfor.com="stratfor.com" /> Cc: Anya Alfano<anya.alfano stratfor.com="stratfor.com" /> Subject: [alpha] INSIGHT-US-Occupy Austin and Deep Green Resistance-NO CODE</div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> New source so don't yet have code or rankings. Source is a Texas DPS agent. There is a group you may be familiar with called Deep Green Resistance. They are led by (among a number of people) a eco-radical named Lierre Keith. She co-wrote the book, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet. Very enlightening if you haven't read it. The movement advocates the collapse of industrial civilization to reach their eco goals. In the book, they advocate the use of guerrilla tactics to defeat current institutions when it comes to the environment. Whether anyone in the Fed or elsewhere classifies this group as eco-terror or not, I don't know, but they are nothing but and should be watched. http://deepgreenresistance.org/ The local Austin chapter was part of the Occupy Austin crowd at city hall, however, things were not "radical" enough for them since they do not believe in working within the system. When I was working U/C on Nov. 5th, some of my contacts told me that at the General Assembly on  Nov. 4th, there was some conflict between regular Occupy people and Deep Green. </div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
</div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more">Deep Green picked up all their stuff and left during the night. As best as anyone knows, they left and went to a state park off 71. The only place I know is McKinney Falls out in that area. They have started a group called the "Phoenix Commune" and intend to make their base out there, living off the land, so to speak. My source says they told him that as long as they move 10' everyday, the park officials can't make them leave. These Deep Green people worry me. When my Occupy people refer to them as "stupid, crazy motherfuckers", that bothers me, because these Occupy people will tolerate just about anything. I passed the info on to locals and since the park is way outside the complex, I haven't done any follow up other than to keep an eye and ear open for anything they may plan for the complex. Early on in the Occupy movement, they got the group to support some document called, "Indigenous Struggle Solidarity Statement" calling Austin an occupied territory. It includes a picture of armed native Americans. http://deepgreenresistanceaustin.org/2011/10/09/occupy-austin%E2%80%99s-indigenous-struggle-solidarity-statement/ So, to make a long story short, I think the eco-terror group is focused on creating a situation where violent confrontation will be the ultimate outcome. -- Marc Lanthemann Watch Officer STRATFOR +1 609-865-5782 www.stratfor.com</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more"> </a></div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more" /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more" /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more" /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more" /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091210015821/http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s_incendiary_activism_santa_cruz" class="link-more">==</a>

http://insideclimatenews.org/todaysnews/09022015/anti-oil-sands-activists-us-are-getting-visits-fbi

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...A lawyer working with the protesters says he’s personally aware of a dozen people having been contacted in the northwestern U.S. and says the actual number is probably higher.

Larry Hildes says it’s been happening the last few months in Washington State, Oregon and Idaho. He says one person got a visit at work, after having already refused to answer questions.

“They appear to be interested in actions around the tarsands and the Keystone XL pipeline,” Hildes said in an interview.

“It’s always the same line: ‘We’re not doing criminal investigations, you’re not accused of any crime. But we’re trying to learn more about the movement.“’

He’s advised activists not to talk — and they mostly haven’t. That lack of communication has made it a little complicated to figure out what, exactly, the FBI is looking for.

The bureau hasn’t offered too many clues.

One agent left his name, number, and the following message in a voicemail for Helen Yost of the group Wild Idaho Rising Tide: “I work with the FBI. Could you give me a call back — I would appreciate it.”

Is anti-oilsands activity an actual focus of the FBI investigation, or is it merely incidental? The bureau won’t say.

What it will say is that it only investigates potential crimes, not political movements.

“The FBI has the authority to conduct an investigation when it has reasonable grounds to believe that an individual has engaged in criminal activity or is planning to do so,” said FBI spokeswoman Ayn Dietrich.

“This authority is based on the illegal activity, not on the individual’s political views.”

But activists say oil sands opposition appears to be the common thread among people being contacted. Police have been in touch with people from different groups, who in some cases don’t agree on much, but one thing they share is mutual participation in the so-called megaload protests.

Those are the intermittent highway blockades set up the last few years to complicate the enormous, football-field-sized shipments of processing equipment up to the oilsands.

Yost said only two people from her group participated in that anti-oil sands action — and those are the people who’ve been contacted by the FBI. She has refused to co-operate.

The other person, Herb Goodwin, was visited at home by an FBI agent and a veteran detective from the local police force in Bellingham, Wash. He said the federal agent told him: “We’re here to ask whether you’ll answer some questions for us about Deep Green Resistance.”

That group, DGR, calls itself a radical environmental movement that believes the biggest problem with the planet is human civilization itself. It proposes a shift back from agriculture to a hunter-gatherer horticultural lifestyle.

It also proposes a four-step program called decisive ecological warfare, a long-term plan calling for the sabotage and dismantling of planet-harming infrastructure.

The group has repeatedly stated that it wouldn’t participate itself in any such actions. But Lierre Keith, one of its founders, laid out the plan in a speech last year at an environmental conference at the University of Oregon.

“I would vastly prefer to wage this struggle non-violently,” Keith said. “But my blogging will not bring forth the necessary numbers. So given a realistic assessment of what we actually have, the only viable strategy left that I can see is direct attacks against infrastructure. In the plainest terms, we need to stop them.”

There was some controversy about inviting her to the conference. Other groups wanted her event cancelled because of her views on transgender people — Keith dismisses the notion that a sex change can undo someone’s gender perspective.

Hildes said the FBI tried asking people about that Oregon speech. Since Yost’s group was among those voicing opposition to DGR, she believes the FBI might be trying to sow division in the movement.

The Canadian government said it wasn’t involved in any U.S. law-enforcement effort. A spokesman said it was aware of the megaload protests, but hadn’t discussed them with any American agency....

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<div>Deep Green Resistance Group, Labeled ‘Eco-Terrorist,’ Speaks About Massive Nonviolent Campaign to Stop the 1%</div><div>
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<div>Deep Green Resistance Group, Labeled ‘Eco-Terrorist,’ Speaks About Massive Nonviolent Campaign to Stop the 1%</div>

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<div>Contact: Lierre Keith lierrekeith@yahoo.com  Aric McBay aric@aricmcbay.org  (847) 773-7478</div>

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<div>Saturday, February 11th at 1pm at 5604 Manor Road, Austin, TX, Deep Green Resistance (DGR) National Organizers will speak about a new campaign they are helping to organize called OCCUPY THE MACHINE (OTM). OTM is a coalition organizing nonviolent civil disobedience actions targeting fossil fuel based industries happening in the Spring and Summer the likes of which have not been seen since the Civil Rights movement. (DGR: OCCUPY THE MACHINE) They will also share DGR’s strategy to address planetary destruction drawn from the book, Deep Green Resistance, by Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay and Lierre Keith.</div>

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<div>During the past two weeks there has been much misinformation about the ideology and actions of Deep Green Resistance Austin from covert sources and some inaccurate reporting. Private intelligence agency Stratfor has labeled DGR’s anti-oppression work, solidarity with indigenous groups, and defense of natural communities, “eco-terrorism.” (Strange Bedfellows, The Austin Chronicle, 2/3/12) (Political analysis company faces hacking accusations, The Daily Texan, 2/3/12) This claim is flatly untrue, as the speakers will make clear.</div>

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<div>The event is hosted by DGR Austin. Attendees will also learn how to get involved with DGR Austin and attend local programs, including Edible Plant Walks and Monthly Discussion Groups.</div>

<div>Deep Green Resistance is the only radical movement of its kind working to stop the destruction of the planet. DGR’s vision for a sustainable future on a livable planet includes dismantling industrial civilization before it destroys all life. Industrial civilization will be replaced by thousands of cultures that will arise organically from and fully integrate themselves into their local ecosystems. Community-based, directly democratic communities are central to DGR’s vision of human society. Deep Green Resistance has a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet—and win.</div>

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