This past weekend, Deep Green Resistance Seattle held our first ever outdoor skills workshop. It was a great success. We had around 10-15 participants ranging from just a few years old to middle-aged who came out for the event. We discussed wild foods and medicines, finding clean water, bows and tools, friction fires, and a lot of other subjects. Of course, this was just an introduction. The skills we touched on take years to fully grasp, let alone master. That’s why we’re planning to hold more of these workshops in the future. If you want to stay posted for future events, sign up for the email updates or RSS feed from our website, or follow us on Twitter and Facebook. ...

Editors note: this interview with our dear friend and fellow DGR member Kourtney Mitchell was recently featured in Counterpunch. by VINCENT EMANUELE Kourtney Mitchell is a writer and activist currently living in northeast Georgia, United States. He sits on the steering committee for Deep Green Resistance and the national board of directors for Veterans for Peace. Co-author of The Enemy in Blue: The Renatta Frazier Story, he has been involved in social justice activism for eight years. Kourtney is currently AWOL from the Georgia Army National Guard. ...

In about two months, we’ll be helping to lead the Sacred Water Tour in eastern Nevada, on traditional lands of the Goshute and Shoshone nations. We’re in the thick of planning the trip and coordinating with activists in the area. The latest news, which we’re pleased to announce, is that our good friend and fellow DGR member William Falk will be offering a short poetry workshop as part of the tour.Will is a powerful writer who uses poetry to grapple with issues of environmental destruction, connection to the land, mental health, and more. Here is one example of his writing and poetry. ...

There is a state of emergency for our youth of color in the United States. Ending the Prison Industrial Complex [EPIC] is responding to this state of emergency by organizing a People’s Tribunal on the US Juvenile Justice System. A people’s tribunal is a people’s court. Folks most impacted by the Prison Industrial Complex and EPIC are planning to hold the King County juvenile justice system accountable for its crimes against youth and families of color, and for its crimes against humanity. ...

Learn WILDERNESS SURVIVAL. Heal yourself with HERBAL MEDICINE. Read the landscape as a NATURALIST. Join the Seattle chapter of Deep Green Resistance just outside the city on the flanks of Squak Mountain for a half-day informal workshop on outdoor skills. Each day’s activities will depend on the weather and group. DATES: Saturday, March 14 at 11:00am - 2:00pm ( facebook event link) Sunday, March 29 at 11:00am - 2:00pm ( Facebook event link) TOPICS: - Wild edible plants and fungi - Useful wild plants (for tools, fire-making, weapons, shelter, etc) - Friction fires (bowdrill) - Natural fibers for basketry and cordage - Finding clean water - Medicinal Plants and natural first aid - Maps and Navigation - Geology and watershed dynamics - Ecological basics - Regional history ...

At least 6 members of Deep Green Resistance will be speaking at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) in Eugene, Oregon this weekend, between March 7th and 8th. The PIELC Conference is widely known as an environmental conference that presents a wide range of radical views on environmental topics, and includes many grassroots activists in addition to lawyers. Deep Green Resistance (DGR) has been a presence at PIELC for a number of years. Co-founders Lierre Keith (2014) and Derrick Jensen (2009) have both keynoted the event in the past. This year, 6 members of Deep Green Resistance will be participating in 3 different panels. ...

Note: Thomas Linzey, the director of CELDF, is a great friend of Deep Green Resistance. CELDF’s work is a revolutionary lawmaking model that puts the power in the hands of the people, and represents a direct threat to corporate oligarchy. We highly recommend you check out this workshop if you can. Communities across the country and Washington trying to stop a wide range of threats—such as oil trains, GMOs, fracking, factory farming, and water privatization – all run into the same problem: they don’t have the legal authority to say “NO” to what is harming them. ...

Berry boycott: Farmworkers and families on the picket line in NW Washington (Photo: James Leder) via Boycott Sakuma Berries Berry Boycott in Effect as of January “Bellingham, WA – A local boycott committee led by WWU Students for Farmworker Justice has garnered several wins for Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Back in September the committee convinced the owner of a local grocery store, TERRA, to stop selling Driscoll’s label berries. Just over one year after authorization the boycott one of Sakuma Bros. most lucrative contracts, Driscoll’s, has come to feel the financial impact of the growing berry boycott.” ...

Crowdsourcing Repression Let’s Be Honest 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.1 ...

salmon issaquah creek Public comment to Local Press, Issaquah City Government Office of Sustainability, WDFW, and Friends of Issaquah Salmon Hatchery (FISH): February 5th, 2015 The Issaquah Fish Hatchery has two water intakes that extract water from Issaquah Creek. The first is located at the hatchery itself, and the second is about a mile upstream along the Squak Mountain access trail. Since at least August (when I moved to the area) the upper intake facility has operated via a diesel-powered generator that supplies electricity to the pump house. ...