Archive | June, 2015

Construction of Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea on Hold Again

25 Jun

Story reprinted from Hawaii News Now Deep Green Resistance notes with exhilaration that activists on Mauna Kea have stalled desecration of the mountain. Resistance damages the system of industrial civilization, and even small successes rightfully encourage others to take on the mantle of activist. Resist now. Resist always.   HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Construction of the […]

The Activist

25 Jun

 

Help Wildlands Defense Save Prairie Dogs

25 Jun

Please help us support the dedicated activists of Wildlands Defense. Without your support, we cannot continue our work to save short grass prairie habitat and the remaining prairie dogs on the Promenade site in Colorado. Wildlands Defense is a 501(c)(3) and all donations are tax deductible. Thank you for your continued support! Fund Wildlands Defense […]

Prairie Dog Action Alert! Channel 7 News Mis-reports on Plague

25 Jun

Action Alert! Please let Channel 7 news know that their coverage of this story lacked factual information and was unacceptable. With prairie dogs disappearing across the landscape with populations at less than 1% of their historic numbers, it is more important now than ever that the truth is told and that prairie dogs are not […]

Hickenlooper: Keeping Mine Open Has ‘Nothing To Do With Climate Change’

22 Jun

In a recent interview with Colorado Public Radio, Governor Hickenlooper clumsily tap-danced around the issue of how his supposedĀ concern with climate change might be consistent with his advocating for keeping open a coal mine in Colorado. Here’s something Deep Green Resistance saw once again about governance, in the aftermath of the Castle Rock Prairie Dog […]

Get to Know the Land You’re Destroying (or Saving)

13 Jun

It’s easy to disparage or destroy people, animals, plants or things when we know little about them. It’s a psychological thing. This phenomenon underlies lots of the more unpleasant activities in our world, like how we treat people who are ‘different’ than us, how we wage war on the living world in general, and the […]

Business and Government Continue Partnership to “Frack Over” Colorado

10 Jun

We don’t mean to be hyperbolic about the issue (in fact, that would be next to impossible), but the following editorial from the Boulder Daily Camera helps delineate how Colorado serves as another example of fascism. When government and industry work this closely together, there’s really no other way to describe the warm and cozy […]

Open Letter to Reclaim Environmentalism

4 Jun

Given the events of the past few months in Castle Rock (resisting the efforts of Alberta Development to slaughter prairie dogs in the name of a mall), it seems appropriate to re-post a letter by Derrick Jensen of Deep Green Resistance: Open Letter to Reclaim Environmentalism Once, the environmental movement was about protecting the natural […]