To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth—intellectually and emotionally—and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.
Chris Hedges
Methane is bubbling from lakes all over the warming Arctic. Here ecologist Katey Walter Anthony (at right) ignites a large bubble that was trapped by the fall freeze, then freed by an ice pick.
Over a 20 year time period, methane has global warming potential that is about 72 times stronger than carbon dioxide. As the Arctic sea ice and permafrost continue to melt at accelerating rates, we face the potential of releasing thousands of gigatons of this methane into the atmosphere, reaching a point of runaway climate change with catastrophic consequences that cannot be stopped.
Tuesday’s meeting will be mostly logistical, as we have lots of food on our plate, so this won’t be the best meeting for first-timers to attend, but you’re still more than welcome to come and see what we’re up to.
What: Deep Green Resistance NYC Meeting (open attendance)
When: Wednesday, March 6th, 2013, 7:15 p.m.
Where: Oxford Cafe. 375 5th Ave.( between 35th and 36th)
(Closest subway stations: 34th St – Herald Sq. [B, D,F, M] and 33rd st [6])
What is the Meeting About?: Introductions will be followed by a lively discussion on The Gandhi Myth (a critical analysis of various strategies and tactics of resistance). Report backs and logistics will conclude the meeting as we begin to plan our upcoming busy Spring/Summer.
We hope to see you there!
What: Deep Green Resistance NYC Meeting (open attendance)
When: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Where: The second floor of M2M. 2935 Broadway (between 114th and 115th)
(Closest Metro subway station: 116th St – Columbia University 1 train)
What is the Meeting About?: This is our first official DGR meeting, so we will spend a decent amount of time introducing ourselves and getting acquainted. Introduction will be followed by a lively discussion on a passage from the “Liberal vs. Radical” section of Deep Green Resistance.
We hope to see you there!
Yesterday, over 30,000 people convened on Washington, D.C. to demonstrate against construction of the Keystone pipeline. The event, organized primarily by 350.org and the Sierra Club, was aimed at pressuring Obama to reject construction of the pipeline.
While many that attended expressed faith in Obama rejecting the pipeline, there was a large portion of people raising numerous contradictions that Obama would need to, but most likely wouldn’t, overcome in order for the pipeline to be rejected. Among some of these contradictions are statements made by Secretary of State John Kerry less than two weeks ago after a meeting with Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird:
“Canada is our largest supplier and our shared networks of electrical grids keep energy flowing both ways across the border” and “As we move forward to meet the needs of a secure, clean energy future on this shared continent, we are going to continue to build on our foundation of cooperation.”
Another is the fact that TransCanada could sue the United States for lost profits, as Chapter 11 of the NAFTA allows them to do, if construction is rejected.
We recognize these contradictions and acknowledge that a strategy of pleading to the rich and powerful in hopes that their conscious will change and that they will act against their financial interests in order to prevent environmental destruction isn’t a viable option.
We base our strategy in the reality of the situation; we simply don’t have time to wait for the ruling class to revolutionize itself.
Any gathering of tens of thousands of people concerned about the health of the planet is a step in the right direction, but there is a need for escalation: escalation in organization, networking, and material, as opposed to symbolic, resistance.
We need more actions like those carried out by our comrades at the Tar Sands Blockade that halt production. If we want to avoid the destruction of our planet, we need to make a transition from organizing thousands of people to rally in D.C. with a few hundred people being arrested at the White House, to thousands of people rallying at the source of the problem, whether it be the Keystone pipeline, a Frack well, or the headquarters of Bank of America, and a few hundred people being arrested for halting business for as long as possible.
From Sierra Club
What: The largest climate rally in U.S. history.
When: February 17, 2013, Noon – 4:00 p.m. (please arrive by 11:30 a.m.)
Where: The National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Gather at the northeast corner of the Washington Monument
(Closest Metro subway stations: Federal Triangle and Smithsonian)
What is the goal of the rally?
We need to move President Obama to take immediate action on climate. One of the most important decisions he can make is to reject the toxic Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Another is to tell the EPA to set carbon standards for power plants. This rally will show the president how large the climate movement has grown, and how urgent this issue truly is.
For more information and to VOLUNTEER or find buses going to DC from your area, please go here…
Riverside Church
91 Claremont Avenue, New York, NY
(120-122 Streets)
Room 10T
Film “Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier”
Produced and Directed by Suzie Baer
The shocking true story of Leonard Peltier, American Indian leader locked
away for life, convicted of the alleged murder of two FBI agents during a
bloody shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Around the world,
his trial and conviction have been denounced as a sham. Amnesty
International, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Desmond Tutu, and many others
have appealed for a new trial for the man who has come to symbolize the
continued oppression of America’s indigenous peoples. To understand
Peltier’s story, *Warrior *takes us back to the violent confrontations at
Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee in the Seventies, and then to today’s Indian
reservations, where the government’s plans for uranium mining and waste
dumping are still being resisted by Native activists. The heart of the
film, though, is a detailed painstaking account of Peltier’s harrowing
odyssey through the American justice system.
The Wachamchick Warrior Society Drum Group
Light Refreshments
Donation at Door
Sponsored by The Riverside Church Prison Ministry
NYCLPDOC
NYC Jericho Movement
For more information:
nyclpdoc@gmail.com
nycjericho@gmail.com
646-429-2059
Nearest subway is the #1 Train to 116 St-Columbia University
(Claremont Avenue is one block west of Broadway)