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A handful of activists, many from Deep Green Resistance, stopped a massive coal train for 12 hours. Imagine what we could do with a bit more support and participation. Please check the story for a link to how you can contribute to this campaign. On Saturday August 27th, activists for ecological defense blocked a northbound BNSF coal train for twelve hours at the Chuckanut Bay railroad bridge south of Bellingham, Wash. in an effort to directly halt the transportation of coal on-route for shipment overseas. ...

Dear Reader, do you believe women, including those who have been raped by men, have the right to not be forced to share their most intimate spaces with males? If you believe women have the right to say no, you will not be allowed to table at the Stop the Frack Attack National Convention. Why? Because evidently the right of males to colonize women’s most intimate and vulnerable spaces is more important to these organizers than the rights of women to say no. ...

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. ...

The DGR Southwest Coalition recently held their annual Southwest Gathering, sharing skills & good food, strengthening interpersonal bonds, and engaging in many valuable discussions & strategy sessions. As part of the gathering, Deanna Meyer of Deep Green Resistance Colorado joined Brian Ertz of Wildlands Defense to discuss the recent campaign against a Castle Rock mega-mall development. We’ve reported here a little bit on the struggle, and are excited to share this video of Meyer and Ertz describing the campaign in more detail. ...

Readers who have frequented this site no doubt have heard of the massacre of prairie dogs resulting from developers who want to build the Promenade Mall in Castle Rock. Deep Green Resistance is happy to publish a deeper background story on the massacre by freelance journalist Suzanne Grover. The Maul at Castle Rock by Suzanne Grover Empathy is not reserved for the odd few, it is a characteristic of the mighty, the wise, and the meek who shall inherit the Earth. ...

We in Deep Green Resistance have received reports from the Prairie Dog Liberation Front of Castle Rock that Alberta Development, perpetrators of the Promenade Mall in Castle Rock, are planning the next phase of their extermination of the giant prairie dog colony on the site of the construction. Previously, Alberta resorted to simply ignoring the existence of the prairie dogs, and either buried them under tons of rock and soil, crushed them under heavy machinery, and/or bulldozed them and their burrows out of existence. ...

Peter Cudlip and Alberta Development, along with the Town Council in their pockets, wish the activists would go away. That’s not happening, as the following story from the Castle Rock News-Press details. Activists continue fight for prairie dogs Group explores options to protect wildlife from future development Protesters line the streets at Founders Parkway and Factory Shops Blvd Feb.25. At the same time, trapping of the prairie dogs had begun behind them. ...

Land developers have reared their ugly heads recently in Castle Rock, Colorado, where they have begun constructions on a 900,00-square-foot abomination called the Promenade Mall. Unfortunately for the local ecosystem, this construction will wipe out the thousands of prairie dogs who live where the mall is being constructed, and will irreparably harm scores of other species which rely on the prairie dogs for maintaining their healthy habitat. To date, several hundred prairie dogs have been buried alive, crushed, trapped or poisoned. ...

Editor’s Note: The following is an adaptation of a letter written by a member of Deep Green Resistance and of Wildlands Defense. As a member of Deep Green Resistance and a Colorado resident myself, I reprint the letter here in the hope it can spark interest on the part of other residents and lovers of the wild. Fred Gibson Castle Rock Town Council, 100 North Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, CO 80104 ...

Nation’s Biggest Mall in Douglas County Slated to Destroy One of the Largest Prairie Dog Colonies on the Front Range By Deanna Meyer: February 13, 2015 Castle Rock, CO - Douglas County’s Town of Castle Rock recently approved construction of the ‘Nation’s Biggest Mall’ on top of one of the largest prairie dog colonies along Colorado’s Front Range. The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog population is currently at less than 1% of its original number – these animals are in imminent danger of becoming extinct. Unfortunately, laws do not protect prairie dogs because they have been incorrectly classified as “pests”, a result of myths portraying them as plague-carrying, prairie-destroying rodents. However, scientific evidence clearly shows that prairie dogs enhance the prairies in every sense and that not one case of the plague in humans has been directly linked to prairie dogs. ...