Healing Waters
The resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock is based on the conviction that peaceful, collective prayer can protect the water. But the camps and actions are also about healing.
Ecodefense
Thanksgiving Reflections on Standing Rock
What I observed at Standing Rock is symbolic in the sense that so many people—white, Native, young, poor—are disaffected, disenfranchised, alienated, and seek a sense of purpose. They seek empowerment through finding community in caring for each other and in direct action.
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Respect Our Water, Respect Our Very Bones
All of the threats on our water, our sacred sites, and on the land are connected. It gives us hope to know that people care about the future, the water, and our children.
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Fight or Flight
People’s lands are being ripped away from them and turned into palm oil plantations. Their rivers are dammed. Their forests have been plundered. International investment does tremendous harm both to the people and to Mother Earth, about which they care profoundly.
Building Paradise in Hell
“The sooner we confront our situation and realize that there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the difficult task of adapting with moral humility to our new reality.”
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Offener Brief an die Mutter von Rémi Fraisse
Jedes Mal wenn der Staat tötet, ist auch eine Gelegenheit, ihn zu stoppen, ihn zu zwingen, sich zu ändern, und allen anderen die verlorene Würde wiederzugeben.
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The Battle of the Story of Taku Wakan Tipi
It strikes me how little is known and appreciated about the Taku Wakan Tipi occupation, which after all resulted in the then-largest police action in Minnesota state history.
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Animal Liberation and Marxism
Marx’s description of capitalism constitutes a critique of that mode of production. So when he describes animals as cattle used as a means of production in Capital, then this is not to be read as affirmative.
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