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Canoes, kayaks, and other vessels approach the rig. As many of you no doubt know, the Port of Seattle is currently hosting Shell Oil Company’s enormous arctic drilling rig. In several weeks, the rig will leave Elliot Bay and be towed to the Arctic Ocean, where Shell plans to begin oil drilling operations. The chances of an oil spill occurring due to rough weather conditions has been estimated at 75%. And, of course, even oil drilling without spills is ecocide (as this biting satire points out). ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Stealing Water From the Desert? We Say No! Photo from 2014 Sacred Water Tour Join us this Memorial Day weekend for a tour of sacred lands threatened by unsustainable “development”. We will spend three days visiting the communities to be affected by the water grab, learning about the project and the threatened sacred lands and waters, and camping in some of these beautiful places. RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/319801881551753 Date: Saturday, May 23rd - Monday, May 25th (Memorial Day weekend) ...

Unist’ot’en Camp, January 2015 Night sky over the Wedzin Kwah, unist’ot’en camp, in love with the land The storm enveloped us. Snow lashed the road. The darkness was total, our headlights casting weak yellow beams into the darkness. Most people had hunkered down in homes and motels, and the roads were near empty. Still, every few minutes a passing truck threw a blinding cloud of dry snow into the air, leaving us blind for seconds at a time as we hurtled onwards at the fastest speeds we could manage. ...

On December 9th, 2014, around 1pm, an FBI agent by the name of Tim Suttles (?) called Deep Green Resistance Seattle member Max Wilbert on his cell phone. Agent Suttles asked to speak to Mr. Wilbert, then identified himself as a member of the FBI. Mr. Wilbert followed proper security culture (a set of basic rules and guidelines used by activists to keep our communities as safe as possible from state repression and disruption of social movements) by clearly stating, “I’m not going to speak with you,” and promptly hung up the phone. ...

On December 7th, Deep Green Resistance Seattle held a solidarity event, fundraiser, and info session for the Unist’ot’en Camp. The Unist’ot’en Camp is a resistance community whose purpose is to protect sovereign Wet’suwet’en territory from several proposed pipelines from the Tar Sands Gigaproject and shale gas from Hydraulic Fracturing Projects in the Peace River Region. You can read more about the camp here: http://unistotencamp.com/ ...