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First-in-the-Nation Lawsuit Seeks Recognition of Rights for the Colorado River

“Contemporary public concern for protecting nature’s ecological equilibrium should lead to the conferral of standing upon environmental objects to sue for their own preservation.” Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Sierra Club v. Morton (1972) Denver, Colorado–In a first-in-the-nation lawsuit … Continue reading

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Arizona activists protest Israeli firms militarizing the border

On May 2, a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, just north of Nogales, on Tohono O’odham land, a group of activists unveiled a banner of protest in front of a new surveillance tower, manufactured and operated by the Israeli … Continue reading

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Book Review: This Changes Everything

Naomi Klein’s latest book, This Changes Everything, is based on the premise that capitalism is the cause of the climate crisis, and to avert catastrophe, capitalism must go. The proposed solution is a mass movement that will win with arguments … Continue reading

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Decisive Ecological Warfare (DEW)

Decisive Ecological Warfare (DEW) is the strategy of a movement that has too long been on the defensive. It is the war cry of a people who refuse to lose any more battles, the last resort of a movement isolated, … Continue reading

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On Violence

Excerpt from pages 79 to 80 of the book Deep Green Resistance, Chapter 3, Liberals and Radicals: “Violence” is a broad category and we need to be clear what we’re talking about so that we can talk about it as a … Continue reading

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Lierre Keith at 2014 PIELC

Here are some sketchnotes I took during the early part of Lierre Keith’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference talk on the current state of environmental activism: Watch her full talk here (start at 2:02:00), and be sure to check out sketchnotes from the … Continue reading

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State Board Sued for Upholding Rosemont Water Permit

Original article by Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star. Opponents of the proposed Rosemont Mine have filed suit, seeking to overturn a state decision awarding a groundwater protection permit to mine owners Rosemont Copper Co. The permit allows the company to … Continue reading

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Immigrant X Data Entry

A group called ‘Immigrant X’ infiltrated and sabotaged an immigration database, falsifying information about hundreds of undocumented immigrants:   IMMIGRANT X DATA ENTRY Original post by ImmigrantX on Friday, August 9, 2013, Immigrant In the last month we managed to get a … Continue reading

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