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By Wildlands Defense In Colorado, a house bill has been introduced to the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee entitled " A bill for an act concerning the authorization process for the release of destructive rodent pests into a county." If passed, this bill will make it increasingly difficult to save prairie dogs and the land and wildlife they maintain. The purpose of this bill is to make relocations more difficult than they already are since more people are showing concern and love for this keystone species which is making developers and ranchers nervous. This bill will require the approval of county commissioners and at least two additional entities prior to ANY proposed relocation throughout the state within counties. These restrictions are already required between counties and have effectively limited the conservation of wildlife communities since commissioners rarely approve prairie dog relocations. ...

Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting over. —Mark Twain More than any other area of North America, the Southwest faces water shortages just as demands for water increase. These colliding forces are inevitable products of industrial civilization. Deep Green Resistance chapters across the Southwest recognize the imminent catastrophe. We view the protection of ground and surface water, and the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights to their water and landbase, as critically important. We declare water preservation and justice as our primary focus. ...

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! Help save them. Fund Wildlands Defense

Arizona Senator John McCain has slipped a controversial land bill into the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act that hands over 2400 acres of protected and sacred land to mining corporation Rio Tinto, completely dismissing the religious and cultural beliefs of the San Carlos Apache Nation who consider the area sacred. Although tens of thousands of citizens have voiced outrage over this selling-out of indigenous people and their land, so far money is trumping concerns for the people and the land. ...

By Max Wilbert, Deep Green Resistance Seattle A good friend recently reminded me that there is a big difference between activism and organizing. Activism is to be involved at some level in political struggle; organizing is to make that struggle effective by planning for success. Organizing requires attention to the smallest details and the broadest overview. It takes a great deal of strategic thinking, critical self-evaluation, people skills, and persistence. Organizing is hard. None of us are born with the skills needed for effective organizing; we have to pick them up as we go. All we have is us, and so many of us are tied up with families, jobs, and other responsibilities. But if we’re going to win struggles for social and environmental justice, we need more organizers. ...

One of the main problems with the broad culture of the left is a distancing from money. The roots of this distancing are honorable. In the culture of empire (anthropologically, “civilization”), behaviors that destroy the planet and exploit people are rewarded with money. Developers, slavers, agriculturalists, factory owners, CEO’s, feudal lords, and capitalists of all sorts thrive unjustly on the sweat and blood of the land and the people. It’s no wonder, then, that people on the left tend to shun high paying jobs and steady careers. Instead, the trend has been to drop out and live within small means. ...

Legal Fund Benefit in Boulder!. via Legal Fund Benefit in Boulder!. (From shutdownwhiteclay.wordpress.com) ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** Contact: Rachel Ivey, DGR (321-945-1276, rachelivey@riseup.net) DEEP GREEN RESISTANACE, ROCKY MOUNTAIN PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER TO HOLD BENEFIT FOR ARRESTED ACTIVISTS Deep Green Resistance and the Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center are hosting a benefit concert on Friday, September 21st at the Friends’ Meeting House (1825 Upland Ave) at 6pm. The Earth Guardians and Common Good will be contributing musical performances, and Oak Chezar will be doing a standup comedy act at the event to raise money for the legal defense of five activists who were arrested at a protest near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation last month. ...

Deep Green Resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and a movement for anyone who wants to fight for the planet — and win. 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. ...