Caravan to Unist’ot’en Camp – Deep Green Resistance Seattle

Posted on October 5, 2014 by DGR News Service

Deep Green Resistance Seattle is organizing a work group of our members heading to the Unist’ot’en Camp this January.

www.UnistotenCamp.com

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It will be well below 0 degrees and we will support the camp with donations, supplies, and volunteer labor on the land.

If you would like us to bring donations up to the camp, please gather them. Quality camping and outdoor gear, cash or check donations, non-perishable and canned foods are especially welcome.

Contact us to drop your supplies or donations with our crew: seattle@deepgreenresistance.org

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Defend What You Love – Deep Green Resistance

Posted on October 1, 2014 by DGR News Service

“I don’t think it is violence to defend that which you love.” ~ Saba Malik, Permaculturalist and member of the Deep Green Resistance Advisory Board, POC Caucus, and Women’s Caucus

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When civilization ends, the living world will rejoice. We must be biophilic people in order to survive. Those of us who have forgotten how must learn again to live with the land and air and water and creatures around us in communities built on respect and thanksgiving. We welcome this future.

Image: Original poster by Arfan, age 13

www.deepgreenresistance.org

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No New Youth Jail in Seattle (Deep Green Resistance)

Posted on September 30, 2014 by DGR News Service

Deep Green Resistance (DGR) Seattle members have some friends involved in an effort to stop a new youth jail from being built in Seattle. Instead of expanding the Prison Industrial Complex, they are calling for community programs to keep youth on a good path. The message below explains how you can help in this effort.

 

We are at a critical point in opposing the construction of the proposed $210 million new youth jail and we need your help.

Join members of Ending The Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC), Youth Undoing Institutional Racism (YUIR), Washington Incarceration Stops Here (WISH), and Peoples Institute Northwest (PINW) to make this coming Monday the “Day of 10,000 Emails to Seattle City Council.”

On Tuesday, September 30th, the members of the Seattle City Council Planning, Land Use, and Sustainability (PLUS) committee will vote on whether or not to accept the zoning changes that King County has requested to build the proposed $210 Million new youth jail. If this project is allowed to move forward as currently planned, it will expand the prison industrial complex and racial disparities within King County’s criminal system.

When you send your e-mail this Monday, September 29th, please cc us at EndingThePIC@gmail.com so that we can keep count of how many emails are sent. After you have sent your emails to the council members, forward this email to your 4 family and friends who are most likely to participate.

Thanks in advance. Here are the email addresses of members on the PLUS committee to copy/paste:
mike.obrien@seattle.gov; tim.burgess@seattle.gov;nick.licata@seattle.gov; sally.clark@seattle.gov; EndingThePIC@gmail.com.

Sample e-mail:
Dear Council Members:

[introduce yourself, and let the council know if you are a resident or work in the Central District (where the New Youth Jail project is located), are a resident or work in Seattle, are affiliated with any organizations/religious groups, are a parent or youth, a believer that equity is possible, or just a true justice loving person]

I am writing to you today to ask you to vote NO on Council Bill 118202. I am opposed to the construction of the proposed Children and Family Justice Center. The youth of King County need a community led upstream approach and community led alternatives to detention.

The Planning, Land Use and Sustainability Committee should not make it easier for King County to build a facility that targets youth of color, destroys lives, and does not make us safer. Please vote no on CB118202!

Sincerely,

[your name]

**If you are available, please come to the City Council meeting in person. The vote will take place on Tuesday 9/30 at 2:00PM. We will meet at the city council chambers at 1:30 PM. Please wear black clothing and let the council no we will not back down! There will be a ten minute public comment period.

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Seattle Chapter of Deep Green Resistance is Growing Strong

Posted on September 28, 2014 by DGR News Service

The Seattle chapter of Deep Green Resistance, while only a month old, has doubled it’s membership in that time and we are in the process of planning several events and actions.

Contact us if you want to be involved.

Forward!

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Urban Greed and Rural Resistance in the Great Basin

Posted on September 26, 2014 by DGR News Service

Rural indigenous communities, ranchers, farmers, and environmentalists have all come together in Eastern Nevada to fight a water grab orchestrated by greedy developers in Las Vegas.

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Deep Green Resistance (including members of the Seattle chapter) are involved in the fight. Learn more about their efforts here:

http://dgrnewsservice.org/2014/09/21/report-back-from-the-sacred-water-tour/

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Report-back from the People’s Climate March – Seattle

Posted on September 22, 2014 by DGR News Service

We were honored to take part in the People’s Climate March yesterday in Seattle. It’s powerful to see many people speaking out about global warming, when a few short years ago this issue was not on many people’s radar. Here is a photo – our sign is dead center, and reads “Sabotage the Machine”.

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Our #1 problem with the climate movement is the focus on green technology. Nearly every single speaker went on and on about the promise of new technology and “green energy”.

DGR Seattle member Max Wilbert has spoken and written extensively on this topic. Here is the bottom line: green technology is a multi-billion industry that requires the extraction or recycling of huge quantities of metals, rare-earths, and other substances, and then the associated process of refining, production, install, maintenance, and disposal.

Here are some of the impacts of this process:

– Heavy metal contamination of air and  water
– Release of highly toxic chemicals into air and water
– Deforestation at site of extraction and install (w/ erosion and associated issues)
– Release of toxic substances at point of disposal
– Release of potent greenhouse gases during refining and production, plus from fossil-fuel equipment throughout extraction, refining, production, install, maintenance, and disposal.

In some cases, the impacts of “green technologies” are less than fossil fuels. **But that is a horrible place to start measuring from.**

Reducing harm by increasing efficiency has been shown by many economists (notably Stanley Jevon’s) to, in many cases, increase consumption and therefore increase overall impacts.

At Deep Green Resistance, we strive for harm elimination, not merely harm reduction. Earth needs protection, not continued attacks at a slightly slower pace. Others can embrace incrementalism, and we support reform in some cases. But “green technology” is a distraction.

Good to see people out blocking the train tracks. #NoneShallPass

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Historic Images of Seattle

Posted on September 20, 2014 by DGR News Service

Seattle has a long history of social struggle and revolutionary politics that spans many decades. The indigenous people resisted European colonization in several wars in the 1800’s, including the Puget Sound War. Labor struggles have been a huge part of the history of this city, as have been immigration issues, especially in Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian communities. In the 1960’s and 70’s, the second strongest chapter of the Black Panther Party — after Oakland — was built here.

Big respect to all the warriors that came before us! Check out these historical images of Seattle that have been juxtaposed with the modern cityscape for some background:
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“I love this waterfront shot from the 1890′s taken near the foot of present-day Broad Street. The shoreline was further inland before industry reshaped Seattle’s waterfront. Many Native Americans who remained in Seattle after white settlers arrived lived in shacks on the waterfront, including Chief Seattle’s daughter, Angeline (Kick-is-om-lo in Lushootseed). Renting a dugout canoe was a common way to get around the waterfront, or to West Seattle.”

 

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“A lot of cities across America had “Hoovervilles,” shanty towns that sprang up after the Great Depression hit. Seattle was no exception. The future home of Terminal 46 was put on hold as the economy worsened, and the land was used for makeshift shacks, mostly occupied by single men. Seattle’s Hooverville had about 1,000 residents at its peak, elected its own mayor and enforced hygiene codes. By the time WWII began, the makeshift town was burned and bulldozed, but the site was used for nearly a decade before then.”

 

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“A couple of Seattle’s iconic Duck tour bus-boat-things headed into a labor demonstration on 7th street in 1919.”

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We Need Warriors To Defend Earth!

Posted on September 13, 2014 by DGR News Service

Tuira Kayapo is an indigenous Elder Mama Warrior who showed the world what happens when Women take charge of their Power. She walked into the 1989 Altamira Gathering in Brasil against the construction of Dams in the Xingu, in her war paint, naked and carrying a large machete. She then walked up to the President of Brasil’s Light holding Company Petrobras and running the blade of her machete three times over his cheeks, proclaimed his act on her people and on the entire Amazon as an act of war. She then stated in Kayapo “You are a liar – We do not need electricity. Electricity is not going to give us our food. We need our rivers to flow freely: our future depends on it. We need our jungles for hunting and gathering. We do not need your dam.”


Everyone stood in absolute awe at her audacity, especially the President of Petrobras who looked quite afraid…

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Orca population in Puget Sound falling

Posted on September 10, 2014 by DGR News Service

Not only are Puget Sound’s resident killer whales continuing to decline in numbers, but their behavior is changing, too, according to scientists. The orcas seem to be splintering from their basic social groups and spending less time together.

FRIDAY HARBOR — With two new deaths this year and no new calves since 2012, the population of endangered killer whales in the Puget Sound continues to decline.

The number of whales in the J, K and L pods has dropped to 78, a level not seen since 1985, according to a census by the Center for Whale Research. Adding to the concerns, the whales appear to be “splintering” from their pods, which are their basic social groups.

Since 1976, Ken Balcomb of the research center has been observing the Puget Sound orcas, or Southern Residents as they’re known among scientists. Balcomb compiles an annual census of the population for submission to the federal government.

Historically, all three pods of orcas have come together in the San Juan Islands during summer months, often feeding and socializing in large groups, Balcomb noted. But for the past few years, the pods have divided themselves into small groups, sometimes staying together but often staying apart.

“What we’re seeing with this weird association pattern is two or three members of one pod with two or three from another pod,” Balcomb said. “It’s a fragmentation of the formal social structure, and you can see that fragmentation going further. They are often staying miles and miles apart and not interacting.

“If we were trying to name the pods now, we couldn’t do it,” he added. “They aren’t associating in those patterns anymore.”

Among killer whales, offspring tend to stay with their mothers for life, sustaining identifiable “matrilines” that typically contain youngsters, their mothers and their grandmothers. So far, the matrilines have stayed together, though many of these groups are now smaller.

Balcomb suggests the primary factor for the population decline is a lack of food for the killer whales, which generally prey on chinook salmon passing through the San Juan Islands on the way back to Canada’s Fraser River. The whales have a strong preference for chinook, typically larger and fatter fish, but they will eat other species of salmon and even other fish sometimes.

Read the full article: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024429124_orcadeclinexml.html

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the filthy politicians: 200 Species Every Day

Posted on September 8, 2014 by DGR News Service

The song “200 Species Every Day” by the filthy politicians is a fictional scene straight out of the Decisive Ecological Warfare strategy advocated by Deep Green Resistance: a pair of activists carrying out well-planned and strategic attacks on infrastructure, in this case combining arson of a power station with raids on corporate offices to trash their crucial data.

As the filthy politicians ask in the preamble, “Why the fuck hasn’t this happened yet?”

Listen to this track and read the lyrics below, and hear more songs at the filthy politicians on bandcamp and at the filthy politicians on soundcloud.

yeah she said look at it now it’s like
everything is always spinnin around
and what’s hard to believe with your feet on the ground
is that we’re flyin through space not makin a sound
yeah, let me tell you about a ride and a journey
a small town girl on a midnight train
goin anywhere with a city boy destroyin
everything so they can breath again
cuz life don’t fit in a cubicle
lookin out the window damn that’s beautiful
fuck that we ain’t goin back said sally
take my hand we’ll take the back alley
we’ll take it all back from the peak to the valley
i wanna burn it all down, shall we
but i don’t wanna knock off gas stations
no we’re goin for the corporations
there’a power station we could blow
nobody’s out there, no one’s gonna know
until we’re in the next town down the road
where i know a safe place that we can lay low
she said just two people could cut the power
to the whole city for 38 hours
then dress up like police officers
then we got access to every office
her smile was so bright and life was such a mess
that he couldn’t think of anything else
and the word that he heard himself say was yes

yeah, she knew him long enough to trust him
but didn’t wanna risk it if they got busted
so she kept the network to herself
cuz what he didn’t know, yo he couldn’t tell
so they planned it out, got it all together
to the decimal everything down to the weather
no cell phones, no booze, shaved heads
no DNA, no trace for the feds
wasn’t hard to cop a cop uniform
the gangs were on that one long before
they got timed charges for the transformers
with a little dynamite for the corners
all sourced out yo paid in cash
it’s not that hard to build a stash
in a land where everyone has a gun
america manufactured his own crash
so they stole a car from a rich family
that was on vacation
on a beach at a resort in some starving
so called third world nation
then they drove out to the hills
satellites the cloudy night killed
they rehearsed enough, didn’t have to think
they cut the fence, just plain chain link
it only took them half an hour
then they were on their way
back to the city where she put on a wig
and they slipped on the costumes of the pig
they strolled out of that parking garage
left one last charge in the trunk of the dodge
they watched the fire as it rose up in the hills
then came the darkness and they both got chills

she waited for the look in his eyes when
he saw another fire on the other horizon
he knew she hadn’t told him for the right reasons
about the others, but he couldn’t believe it
so he asked her how many?
she said just enough to stand a chance, if any
but lets get in there, get what we came for
hard drives smashed all over the floor
then back out, on to the next one
darkness had never been this fun
they came to call it the great resetting
in an effort to address the great forgetting
life was under attack for so long
they had to fight back before it was gone
status quo had to go
everybody knew it deep down in their bones
so you better get ready for shit to go down
they’re on their way they’re in the next town
ya you better get ready for shit to go down
they’re on their way, they’re in the next town

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