Have you read, or wanted to read, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet? For those grappling with the tough questions of how to win battles for social and environmental justice, it’s necessary reading that explores strategy, tactics, movement.
The DGR organization is largely based on the book Deep Green Resistance, which was written by Lierre Keith, Aric McBay, and Derrick Jensen and released in spring 2011.
Synopsis
Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won't stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action*. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play.
Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet—and win.
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Reviews
Read 'Deep Green Resistance: Words as tactical weapons' by Zoe Blunt of the Forest Action Network.
Read Beyond Protest: Saving our Planet with ‘Deep Green Resistance’ by Rady Ananda.
About the Authors
Aric McBay
A writer, activist, and small-scale organic farmer living in Ontario, Canada. His first book was Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Grid crash. His most recent book is What We Leave Behind, co-written with Derrick Jensen.
Lierre Keith
A writer, small-scale farmer, and radical feminist activist, Lierre Keith is the author of two novels, as well as The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability. She's been arrested six times. She lives in Humboldt County, California.
Derrick Jensen
Hailed as the philosopher poet of the environmental movement, Derrick Jensen is author of fifteen books, including Endgame Volumes 1 and 2, What We Leave Behind, and A Language Older Than Words.
Table of Contents
Preface by Derrick Jensen
Questions & Answers, at the end of each chapter
Part I: Resistance
The Problem by Lierre Keith
Civilization and Other Hazards by Aric McBay
Liberals and Radicals by Lierre Keith
Culture of Resistance by Lierre Keith
Other Plans by Lierre Keith
A Taxonomy of Action by Aric McBay
Part II: Organization
The Psychology of Resistance by Aric McBay
Organizational Structure by Aric McBay
Decision Making by Aric McBay
Recruitment by Aric McBay
Security by Aric McBay
Part III: Strategy and Tactics
Introduction to Strategy by Aric McBay
Tactics and Targets by Aric McBay
Decisive Ecological Warfare by Aric McBay
Part IV: The Future
Our Best Hope by Lierre Keith
Epilogue: Getting Started by Aric McBay
Further Readings
Bibliography
For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, “Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?” No one ever says yes.
Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can’t fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play.
Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet—and win.
Praise
“This book goes beyond the usual poetic eulogies for a dying planet to transform the anarchist slogan ‘direct action speaks louder than words’ into a concrete blueprint for a resistance movement now! If Deep Green Resistance does not inspire its reader to political action, then nothing will.” Ann Hansen, author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla
“With clear, sober analysis, and facts that include the reality of runaway global climate change and that of 200 species being made extinct every day, the severity and urgency of our collective crisis is laid bare. Deep Green Resistance then asks, ‘Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective?” Dahr Jamail
“Deep Green Resistance posits, I fear correctly, that resistance will have te become more militant and perhaps resort to physical acts of confrontation with the corporate leviathan.” Chris Hedges
“Deep Green Resistance offers a blueprint for an uprising which is long overdue.” Thomas Linzey, Esq., Executive Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Read the Book
The entire book is available online for free, as a website or as a downloadable ebook. Read the Deep Green Resistance book.
Deep Green Resistance Organization
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Contents and Excerpts
Authors’ Note
Preface by Derrick Jensen
Deep Green Resistance Preface (p 11)
Part I: Resistance
Chapter 1: The Problem by Lierre Keith
Chapter 2: Civilization and Other Hazards by Aric McBay
Chapter 3: Liberals and Radicals by Lierre Keith
Chapter 4: Culture of Resistance by Lierre Keith
Chapter 5: Other Plans by Lierre Keith
Chapter 6: A Taxonomy of Action by Aric McBay
Part II: Organization
Chapter 7: The Psychology of Resistance by Aric McBay
Chapter 8: Organizational Structure by Aric McBay
Chapter 9: Decision Making by Aric McBay
Chapter 10: Recruitment by Aric McBay
Chapter 11: Security by Aric McBay
Part III: Strategy and Tactics
Chapter 12: Introduction to Strategy by Aric McBay
Chapter 13: Tactics and Targets by Aric McBay
Chapter 14: Decisive Ecological Warfare by Aric McBay
Part IV: The Future
Chapter 15: Our Best Hope by Lierre Keith
Epilogue: Getting Started by Aric McBay
Derrick Jensen also answers common questions at the end of each chapter.
Reviews
Octobor 2014, at We Got the Numbers March 2012, by Zoe Blunt, titled Deep Green Resistance: Words as tactical weapons September 2011, by Rady Ananda, titled Beyond Protest: Saving our Planet with ‘Deep Green Resistance’ September 2011, short review by Steve Hart August 2011, short review at Public Intelligence Blog August 2011, review and interview at AlterNet