“Welcome to the struggle of all species yearning to be free. We are the burning rage of this dying planet.”

Deep Green Resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and a movement being born, the only movement of its kind.

As an analysis, it reveals the last 10,000 years of human history–the rise and dominance of civilization–as the culture of death that is now threatening every living being on Earth.

As a strategy, it critiques ineffective lifestyle actions and explains their inevitable failure to stop the destruction of people, species, and the planet. In contrast, DGR offers a concrete plan for how to stop that destruction.

As an aboveground movement, just now taking its first steps, Deep Green Resistance is based on this analysis and implementing this strategy. And we’re recruiting.

No more ineffective actions – piecemeal, reactive, and sad. No more feel-good, magical-thinking, navel-gazing, consumer-based, capitalist-approved denial and dead ends.

The goal of DGR is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. This will require defending and rebuilding just and sustainable human communities nestled inside repaired and restored landbases. This is a vast undertaking but it needs to be said: it can be done. Industrial civilization can be stopped.

Come learn about DGR, answer questions and discuss potential tactics and strategies. This time is meant to be informal and to give a brief introduction. We welcome you to the resistance.

https://www.facebook.com/events/231837133680919/

In love, rage, and resistance

“Not only are the lights about to go out on industrial civilization, but the lights are about to go out on our species. Marching in lockstep with the dark days faced by society and Homo sapiens is my own heart, heavy with the knowledge in my head and the failure of my personal efforts.”

-Guy R. McPherson, from the introduction to “Going Dark”

Dr. Guy McPherson is a conservation biologist by training, previously working as professor emeritus of Natural Resources and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He has since left the walls of empire and academia to sound out a beacon warning for the coming climate collapse. Author of many books, including “Walking Away From Empire: A Personal Journey” and the recently published “Going Dark In Order to See the Light”, he has become a prominent figure in the wake up call for our species.

Every day the news is filled with record heat waves, droughts, new diseases, and food insecurity. Here in New York City, memories of superstorms mix with the white noise of gentrified coffee shops. In the face of these real experiences, there is a consistent attempt to deny the reality of the situation: that climate change is real, it is happening right now, humans caused it, and if we continue on this path, we very well will destroy our planet and life as we know it. Not in some distant future, but in this generation. As Guy McPherson, among many others outside of mainstream academia, argue, the only real solution is to dismantle our industrial way of life, i.e. civilization as we know it. It is dire news, but only through a recognition of the truth, can we ever talk about solutions.

Come ready for a humbling assessment on the state of “Climate Chaos” as we discuss the reality of the climate chaos and what next steps there are. Learn what the facts are, what actions are being done, and help us create a culture of resistance to fight for our planet. We will also be hosting a discussion on developing a true culture of resistance here in NYC. Event will be free, donations greatly appreciated. We will be livestreaming as well!

In love, rage, and resistance

For more information:

Nature Bats Last (Guy McPherson Blog)

Thom Hartman Interview with Guy McPherson

Radio interview with Mike Nowak and Keri Lydersen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FymCCZKhcTo#t=288

Lectures in Illinois and Canada: http://guymcpherson.com/2014/04/events-from-illinois-and-canada/

Review of “Going Dark”

Youtube video of McPherson Lecture: Earth Extinction 2030

For more information on Deep Green Resistance and Deep Green Resistance New York, please check out our website (deepgreenresistancenewyork.org), our facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DGRnewyork), join our email list (send a request to newyork@deepgreenresistance.org), or join our Celly group (text “dgrnyc” to 23559)

Come join us as we follow the trajectory of an unprecedented movement, a grassroots mobilization of women who created rape crisis centers, battered women’s shelters, the right to birth control, safe and legal abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, access to credit, and equal pay to a currently named third wave feminism. We will evaluate this new, personal brand of feminism and examine the ways in which it has disabled the power of women to challenge the conditions in which we live.

https://www.facebook.com/events/676648292391738

Has slavery really been abolished?

Come join the Deep Green Resistance NY Prisoner Support Group at Project Reach and examine the ties between the modern prison industrial complex and slavery.

Writing to other activists who’ve been imprisoned, we seek to build a culture of resistance and support between those who have been at the front lines, and those continuing the fight against social injustice. Separated we are a few, but together, we are legion.

RSVP at facebook event here

“Understand: The task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible – it is to dismantle those systems of power” Lierre Keith

They say these are interesting times to live in. We are daily confronted with a new onslaught of destruction wrought by the industrial power system. 80% of the world’s population lives on less than $10/day, 1 in 3 children in the US go to bed hungry, 1 in 3 women worldwide face physical and/or sexual assault, and seemingly everyday the police state commits murder against the minority population. Inequality around the world is at an all time high as opulence excels, water scarcity is becoming a an oppressive reality for large portions of the world as we water golf courses in Arizona, and as peak oil develops, we find new and horrific ways to power our industrial economy. Worst of all, we idly stand by as industrial civilization decimates entire ecosystems, produces irreversible climate change, and pushes 200 species to extinction a day.

Yes, 200 species a day become extinct.

Is industrial civilization a war against the natural world? And if so, what is our threshold for fighting back?

We on the left cling to ineffective strategies, symbolism, and working to be the change we want to see. In doing so, we are left powerless to stop the destruction. What then needs to change? What other strategies do we need to be discussing? If we truly accept the reality of the world as it exists, and if we accept the reality that the tactics used by our “movement” have not worked, how does that change our methods of resistance? A look at successful resistance movements can offer us a path. Join us as we discuss the historical context for underground resistance, confront popular myths concerning violence, and work to build a true culture of resistance here in the Empire State. In love, rage, and resistance.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1377897649138020/

Our goal of a resistance movement does not come without those who have started a path for us. There are many who have fought and struggled against the systems of power we wish to dismantle, but not without consequences. Join us as we work to build a culture of resistance by working to support our comrades, those fighting for environmental and social justice, who have been imprisoned because of their work. Help us to brighten their day, keep alliances alive and the channels of information open.

Apart we are but a few, but together we are legion. Let’s not let prison walls stand between members of a culture of resistance that aims to win.

Come join us for our monthly support group as we learn about specific prisoners, help write letters, and build community.

https://www.facebook.com/events/616159581789308/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

In love, rage, and resistance!
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This event is free and open to the public. If you have any questions, need directions, or need any further information, please contact us at newyork@deepgreenresistance.org

What is Deep Green Resistance?

Deep Green Resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and a movement being born, the only movement of its kind.

As an analysis, it reveals the last 10,000 years of human history–the rise and dominance of civilization–as the culture of death that is now threatening every living being on Earth.

As a strategy, it critiques ineffective lifestyle actions and explains their inevitable failure to stop the destruction of people, species, and the planet. In contrast, DGR offers a concrete plan for how to stop that destruction.

As an aboveground movement, just now taking its first steps, Deep Green Resistance is based on this analysis and implementing this strategy. And we’re recruiting.

No more ineffective actions – piecemeal, reactive, and sad. No more feel-good, magical-thinking, navel-gazing, consumer-based, capitalist-approved denial and dead ends.

The goal of DGR is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. This will require defending and rebuilding just and sustainable human communities nestled inside repaired and restored landbases. This is a vast undertaking but it needs to be said: it can be done. Industrial civilization can be stopped.

Come learn about DGR, answer questions and discuss potential tactics and strategies. This time is meant to be informal and to give a brief introduction. For more information, please email newyork@deepgreenresistance.org. Also, check out our other upcoming events.

What Can Activists Learn from Native Manhattan?

“Manahatta” is a native Lenape word that means “Island of Many Hills.” The
native people of this place also referred to this place as “Welikia,”
which translates as “my good home.” Researchers have used modern
technology to analyze historic documents and piece together an ‘ecological
map’ of our home prior to contact with Europeans. The results show an
astonishing level of biodiversity – more than can be found in the Amazon
rainforest and Yellowstone park, for example. Humans lived within this
landscape consistently and sustainably for millennia, not as passive
inhabitants of a wilderness, but as active ‘landscape managers’ who used
fire and horticulture to significantly alter their environment in a
sustainable way. How can environmental and social activists learn from the
past and use this new knowledge to inform our work to build a brighter
future?

Come join us for our monthly open meeting as we use the knowledge of the
past to encourage the future resistance.

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For a preview: http://welikia.org/download/presentations/