July
26
2010

Question of Despair

I am interviewing Robert Jensen and the topic is Despair and collapse. Taking idea came from his article The Anguish of the Age: Emotional Reactions to Collapse and focus to be on the emotion of despair which I believe most if not all activist have to deal with one way or the other.

Derrick Jensen also has talked about despair and moving through it. As he has written and in his monologues, “we are not going to make it to any great new glorious tomorrow are we?” and the understanding that this is a normal feeling.

The premise is that as one goes down the rabbit hole, the awareness that there is something wrong with the way we are living our lives, one starts to realize where it is going, nowhere pleasant. At that point many people either start back peddling, as in they embrace The Call, zeitgeist movement or other right consciousness movements. Or they start looking for side doors, lifestyle choices or making deals, as many environmentalists have just done through agreements with Kimberly-Clark or Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, or that say things like ”if only we had a green economy with wind and solar power things will be fine.” Attempts are made to void despair, despairing and negative feelings.

As part of this interview I would like to share people’s feelings on Despair.

The question is this:
How do you deal with despair? Do you use it motivate your actions? Why or Why not?

If you are interested please send your response to – seymourlyphe@gmail.com

You can provide as much or little about yourself as you like, to provide context for the response.
Responses can be either written or as recordings (preferably in MP3 format and please keep recording under 3 minutes, recording may be edited for length ).
These will be shared with Robert and posted on the Website (names and address removed of course unless you want them shared.)

Thank you for your time and interest

Seymour Lyphe
R.A.G.E. (Radio Against Global Ecocide)
Coming to you from occupied Amiskwacîwâskahikan.
seymourlyphe@gmail.com

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July
24
2010

…1,2,3, what are we fighting for?

Hello and welcome to
RAGE!

Radio Against Global Ecocide

Coming to you from occupied Amiskwacîwâskahikan.

I am your Host Seymour Lyphe

And a special Hello to all those who battling Human Supremacists everyday!

Yes the immortal words of Country Joe and the Fish “And its 1,2,3, what are we fighting for?” but instead of a Vietnam protest song I thought it would be a great way to remind ourselves in the environmental community just what are we fighting for.

It is obvious to me that those who signed on to the Canadian Betrayed Forests Action (CBFA) forgot who they were fighting for; the Boreal Forest! Instead they sold it out to chipping and chopping blocks euphemistically called the Market.

It is ecosystems we are defending not industrial human systems, which destroy all they touch.

I think this picture says it best of all. It is those whose voice is not being heard that we must give our support. For their lives are as valuable if not more so to the planet than ours. In my interview with Derrick Jensen he asked what would the boreal forest that in and near the tar sands do if they had opposable thumbs and could move? It is the right of every sentient being to defend itself and it is the right other those love them to defend as well.

Last Valentines I went ot places I love and did most recording so I thought I would do it again.  So today’s show it just of those voices I am talking about. As I sat there into the sedge grass with the skullcap, mint, hemp nettle, stinging nettle, hyssop, saskatoons, poplar, cotton woods, red spruce white spruce willows, mosquitoes, bees, flies, deer flies, horse flies, chickadees, flycatchers, red winged blackbirds, crows, ducks and yellow warblers, I am thinking  who is going to defend these voices, these lives against industrial civilization?

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I was doing some digging around and found this on the Canadian Government website talking about Forest Products;

Technology Road Map for Forest Operations in Canada written over 10 years ago and if you check  the Fiber, Marketing and Sociopolitical sections a few things really stand out

  1. Much of it reads like the CBFA as far as the industry is concerned.
  2. “Log quality is declining, but higher prices for specialty products and increased competition for fibre are forcing the industry to maximize value recovery from each log.”
  3. “Volumes per unit area and tree sizes will be smaller, requiring equipment modifications to retain productivity.”
  4. “In light of declining timber availability, governments are encouraging value-added”
  5. “”Green labelling” represents a non-tariff trade barrier that may be of major importance to the Canadian forest industry. This essentially requires the certification that wood products are produced from trees harvested in sustainable managed forests.”

So what is the CBFA really; one big Value-Add. Backed  by the people that are suppose to be supporting the forest not selling it off the block. It is also interesting to note that the Government of Canada recognized 14 years ago, that forests were becoming smaller in height and size and that the health of the trees was become worst and worst; noting the loss of soil.

This is what industrial human systems do. This is what human “capital management” does. It destroys period.

I was looking through Andrew Nikiforuk’s book Tar Sands Dirty oil and the Future of a Continent and I saw the name J. Howard Pew. It caught my eye because one of the so called ENGOs is the Pew Environment Group International Boreal Conservation Campaign,  So I checked out this Pew and found out he started the Tar Sands industry with the first full scale mining and processnig of tar sands the company is now  know as Suncor.

Pew told his audience at opening ceremonies for the Great Canadian Oil Sands plant that “No nation can long be secure in this atomic age unless it be amply supplied with petroleum… ”

I did more research which led to

Then I found this Offsetting Resistance and it starting to make sense. It reminds me of the Art of War;

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

 

Filthy Politicians – What s going on

What’s Going On?


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July
13
2010

Follow-ups and Further Mores

This is a quick note on some great articles and interviews:

First on the CBFA – the Canadian Betrayed Forest Action

These are of couple of articles in The Dominion on the CBFA

The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Reconsidered

ENGOs sign over right to criticize, companies continue to log caribou habitat

Reactions to Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement

Officials, First Nations, activists offer praise, criticism

I have mixed feelings about what I said regarding those that signed the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA).  Though I feel it is a waste of time trying to humiliate them, I do think it is a mistake to just let them off the hook.  So perhaps it is appropriate to react in the manner these ENGOs are reacting to the murder of the planet:  a letter-writing campaign (this is both tongue-in-cheek and not).  I have written an open letter which you can send to any and/or all of the ENGO organizations that have signed the CBFA.  You can download the PDF here and let them know your disapproval.

Here are their contact pages:

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/About-us/Contact-us/

http://www.borealcanada.ca/about-contacts-e.php

http://www.cpaws.org/about/contact/

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/about/contact/

http://www.forestethics.org/contactus.php

http://canopyplanet.org/index.php?page=contact-us

http://www.nature.org/contactus/?src=f3

http://www.pewtrusts.org/about_us_contact.aspx

http://www.ivey.org/aboutus/index.html#contact

Derrick Jensen and Chris Hedges

discuss militant resistance July 5 2010

 

Stephanie McMillan  Minimum Security: Code Green

interview on Think TwiceRadio -Susan Marie: This is NOT the Apple

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Coastal BC First Nations public declaration to oppose Enbridge’s pipeline and tanker project.

First Nations in BC declare opposition against Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline

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July
11
2010

Sold Out? No, Worse…

Hello

This is RAGE  - Radio Against Global Ecocide

And you should be enraged.

Coming to you from occupied Amiskwacîwâskahikan

I am your host Seymour Lyphe.

And a special hello to all those still willing to fight and do the right thing.

This is the OMG they didn’t. It flew under my radar (I stopped watch George a while ago) until last Sunday I saw this story

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Boreal+efforts+draw+praise/3233847/story.html on the boreal forest. My hackle instantly rose.

Then yesterday I saw Green is the Colour of Money on Submedia TV and

I listened to lecture By Stoneleigh of  The Automation Earth night before which you listen to either here or here.

As a result I came to a very sad conclusion about the environment moment and its further fragmentation.

I will let my story/show do the talking.

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Also go and listen to my interviews with  Aric McBay as a number of the issues are highlighted in our talks

Aric McBay Part 1

Aric McBay part 2

“…the popularity of stupid an idea doesn’t make it any less stupid.

…the world is full of very bad ideas that are accepted as conventional wisdom, so watch out for them and come to your own conclusions.” – Dmitry Orlov

Now more than every the resistance needs you!! We have been Betrayed!!

Betrayed by these organizations; the Boreal forest has been betrayed by these organizations:

Canadian Boreal Initiative, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Canopy, David Suzuki Foundation, ForestEthics, Greenpeace, The Nature Conservancy, Pew Environment Group International Boreal Conservation Campaign, and Ivey Foundation

Green is the Color of Money

an other part of the END:CIV project ( and please support this project)

 

You can go to the Devil’s handshake website here:

The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement

It is interesting that of the 5 footnotes 4 and 5 are the same.

Here is a sample:

3 For areas proposed as potential protected areas under the CBFA, it is the intent of the signatories that protected areas are areas free of industrial activity.Circumstances may occur where management activity (e.g. timber harvesting) is mandated by government to address forest health considerations. It is recognizedthat ENGOs do not support any industrial activity in protected areas and, as a result, may publicly oppose such management activity mandated by a government. At the same time, it is also recognized that as a result of potential implications of forest health considerations to timber values outside protected areas, FPAC and FPAC Members may publicly support such management activity mandated by a government. Neither ENGO opposition nor FPAC/FPAC Member support for such management activity mandated by a government shall be considered contrary to the spirit and intent of the CBFA.

4 When it comes to dealing with government processes, any principles, criteria, methodologies specified in the CBFA or developed by FPAC, FPAC Members, and ENGOs under the CBFA are intended as input only, are not intended to be determinative, and are intended as a piece of information that can be taken into consideration.

Here is some sample text:

a) Minimizing the effects on the supply and cost of fibre, as measured by all applicable factors including worldwide competitiveness, quantity, cost of harvesting, and transportation and logistics costs;

b) Minimizing the effects on cost competitiveness, production and employment at individual facilities and the indirect impact on suppliers, contractors, service providers and local governments; and

c) The ability to mitigate the effects on fibre availability and cost through other readily available measures through an exploration of current and new public policy measures.

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(and acknowledge that a similar set of criteria need to be developed in relation to the interests of other stakeholders):

a) Minimizing the effects on the supply and cost of fibre, as measured by all applicable factors including worldwide competitiveness, quantity, cost of harvesting, and transportation and logistics costs;

b) Minimizing the effects on cost-competitiveness, production and employment at individual facilities and the indirect impact on suppliers, contractors, service providers, and local governments; and

c) The ability to mitigate the effects on fibre availability and cost through other readily available measures through an exploration of current and new public policy measures.

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f ) In their work in the marketplace in relation to the development and implementation of procurement policies (this includes both general communications on procurement policies as well as any direct communications or meetings with individual customers regarding the content of procurement policies), ENGOs will:

i) Encourage those developing procurement policies to construct their procurement policy in a manner that does not preclude forest products from the boreal operations of FPAC Members (timing: effective immediately and ongoing thereafter);

ii) When meeting with holders of existing procurement policies in relation to procurement issues, encourage them to modify wording in their procurement policy when policies are acting as a block to procurement of products from the boreal operations of FPAC Members (timing: effective immediately and ongoing thereafter);

iii) Recognize and support forest products from the boreal operations of FPAC Members as ecologically responsible sources of supply (timing:

iv) Where FPAC, an FPAC Member, or ENGO solicits assistance under Goal 6, Section 3, and in a manner consistent with Goal 6, Section 4, FPAC, FPAC Members, and/or ENGOs as appropriate will communicate to specified current and potential customers that progress under the CBFA should be a positive consideration in procurement decisions (timing: effective immediately and ongoing thereafter);

 

Thank the Makers for these guys!

Fertile Ground Presentation @ The Great Unleashing (1 of 2)

Fertile Ground Presentation @ The Great Unleashing (1 of 2) from Fertile Ground on Vimeo.

Fertile Ground Presentation @ The Great Unleashing (2 of 2)

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July
5
2010

RAGE-ing back, The Oh No Canada version

Welcome to another edition of Rage

Radio against Global Ecocide

Coming to you from occupied

Amiskwacîwâskahikan

The Oh No Canada version, Second largest Colonial institution (by Land Mass) in the World.

I am your host Seymour Lyphe.

 Okay I have been gone for a while and time for a new show.

Let’s talk about colonialism; two of the largest colonial institutions in the world celebrated their anniversaries this past week. Can you guess who they are?  As Waziyatawin said in her interview with me one cannot be decolonizing and still get teary eyed over the colonial national flag or anthem.

It is important to see this institutions for what they are; justification for genocide and continual destruction of the natural world.

There are atrocities committed each day under the name of national security, national economies and the people even when the atrocities are committed against the people themselves.

I will be doing a full show on colonialism and its effects on the environment.

So… let’s have a look at what been going on while I have been gone;

1)      Well first off is the BP’s disaster in the Gulf. (regarded as the biggest oil disaster  US history and with the most lack lustre response.)

  • It is incredible with all money and technology the US has they have yet stopped the flow of oil.
  • Also that there has not a more outrage form the general public. Sure everyone thinks it bad but very few understand this is really out right murder of the life in the Gulf. But then is not really not that surprising given how separated we are from that which truly keeps us alive.
  • I was horrified to learn that BP and refusing to allow the rescue of sea turtle and actually burning them alive.  http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1101844/pg1
  • Stephanie McMillian is raise money for a the emergency summit and hopefully they can http://minimumsecurity.net/blog/gulf-summit-fundraiser/
  • http://www.gulfemergencysummit.org/  go help out the summit any way you can. One thing of note much of the demands are human centric. I do not have issue  human concern, my concern is the fact humans are not the most important species on the planet. It is something we need to understand if we are going to make real strides  in real change for the environment.
  • If anyone needs proof that Joe Public real does not care it is a perfect example.
  • Check out the video on the website from Wimp.com.  Apparently this has happened before. http://www.wimp.com/oilspills

2)      The Tar Sands are nearly back to 2008 levels of production before the time of Bails out and avarice ( hold it! … those time have always been with us; for at least 6000 years).  Obviously my bumper stickers about the tar sand ain’t doing much. of course much of this is directed at investors so the rose story about the Tar Sands is design to get more of them specially with the reassurance that the grow will be mostly in-situ and thus less of an environmental impact (Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more…).

3)      The World People’s Conference on Climate Change- The Rights of Mother Earth.

  • I heartened that such a conference happens and that people would gather and put out such document. (http://pwccc.wordpress.com/prorgama/ )
  • Not answered: How do we deal those who do not recognize or willing ignore the rights of mother earth and all living beings? How do we deal with the Wetiko?
  • There is a good article on the Energy Bulletin Called  Why sociopaths win & why, no, you don’t want to be one of them by Kathy McMahon  http://www.energybulletin.net/node/53296 .

4)      Oh Yeah speaking of Sociopaths there was the G8- G20.

5)      And most importantly during this time – 3 months

  • 3.3 million hectares of forest were lost (1 hectares =2.47 acres)
  • 6,900 species went extinct
  • CO2 is at 390 ppm and rising not falling
  • And roughly 19.5 million people were added to the world population, more than half the population of Canada.

 At what point?

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Calling All Fanatics

Protecting nature should be more important than enjoying it
by Derrick Jensen

Published in the July/August 2010 issue of Orion magazine

I’VE ALWAYS kind of hated that quote by Edward Abbey about being a half-hearted fanatic (“Be as I am—a reluctant enthusiast . . . a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic”). Not so much because of the racism and misogyny that characterized some of his work. And not even because of the quote itself. But rather because of how that quote has been too often misused by people who put too much emphasis on the half-hearted, and not nearly enough emphasis on the fanatic.

The fundamental truth of our time is that this culture is killing the planet. We can quibble all we want—and quibble too many do—about whether it is killing the planet or merely causing one of the six or seven greatest mass extinctions in the past several billion years, but no reasonable person can argue that industrial civilization is not grievously injuring life on Earth.

The rest of the article can be found here http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/5622
 
 
Here’s an idea:

plug-the-well by Stephanie McMillan

 

 

Mass Organizing Meeting to Stop the Gulf Ecological Disaster

July 5th, 2010

Calling all people in South Florida, if you’re angry about the Gulf oil spill and all its associated crimes, please come to an organizing meeting for a new coalition to fight back against these atrocities and those responsible. I’ll be there — hope you will too!
Stephanie

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Here’s the Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=135485193148140&ref=mf

Mass Organizing Meeting to Stop the Gulf Ecological Disaster
Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010
Time: 10:30am – 12:30pm
Location: St. Maurice Catholic Church (Hospitality Room), 2851 Stirling Road, Dania Beach, Florida

Go or send what support you  can, it is important!! 

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March
15
2010

Waziyatawin – Indigenous People and the Revolution

Hello and welcome to the 16th edition

Of  R.A.G.E.  – Radio Against Global Ecocide

Coming to you from occupied  Amiskwacîwâskahikan

And special hello to all the true anti civ persons out there working to bring it down Roll on Roll on!!

Today’s guest is Waziyatawin, Dakato activist, author and feminist.

She also works as the Indigenous Peoples Research Chair and Associate Professor in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria

Her books include  - For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook; In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century; and, her most recent volume, What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland

Her website is here waziyatawin.net

Indigenous People and the Revolution

By Waziyatawin

Indigenous Peoples have been waiting for more than 500 years for the collapse of western civilization.  We knew the day would come when Indigenous ways of being would be vindicated, even by the invaders to our lands, and the hopelessly unsustainable ways of colonizing society would be proven foolish and destructive.  That day is rapidly approaching and many Indigenous Peoples are preparing for the reclamation of our homelands.

In strategizing about building sustainable communities, those who seek to inhabit North America must plan for the return of Indigenous Peoples to our homelands.  Long before invading forces colonized what is now the United States, Indigenous populations were a part of the land base rather than a destructive force upon it.  In fact, many Indigenous Peoples maintain stories about how our bodies were actually created from the earth. Thus, we are indigenous to the land, just as other plant beings and animal beings are also indigenous.

Further, we understood how to maintain spiritual relationships with these brothers and sisters.  To live as good relatives, we learned how to pray their survival and sing their well-being.  Our distinct societies survived for thousands of years precisely because balance and reciprocity in our relations are core values of our cultures.  Given our understanding about the interconnectedness of all beings, we knew if we wanted our future generations to endure, we had to strive for balance and sustainability.  Our ceremonies and spirituality connected us to the land and we existed as beloved children.  In the age of colonization, our mother has not forgotten us and she continues to call us home.  We are the ones who know how to restore those spiritual relationships.  Even if that knowledge has been temporarily lost because the colonizers have beaten it out of us, we have the means to recover it.

If you want to inhabit North America but choose not to develop future communities with Indigenous Peoples, or you ignore the primacy of our relationship to the land, you will make enemies of us.  In fact, you will become just the next wave of colonizers.  Though your desired communities might be more respectful to some indigenous plant and animal beings, when the revolution begins, so will the war with Indigenous Peoples.  If you want a future in which your children can potentially live peacefully, how you develop your notions of a future society with us is of fundamental importance.  As many Indigenous Peoples have done since invasion, we are training our children now for the reclamation of our inherent right to live freely in our homelands.  We will go to war with any population that attempts to prevent this.

On the other hand, if you choose to work as a non-Indigenous ally in support of Indigenous Peoples, you can assist us now in two primary ways.  First, you can help restore lands to us by working for the return of public or private lands, or by collaborating with Indigenous populations in the occupation and seizing of lands.  Second, you can help us by taking down civilization.  Every blow against American imperialism is an act for Indigenous liberation.  When the revolution begins, love the land as a beloved mother and respect our right to live freely.

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Cowardly Attack on Lierre Keith – March 13th

A terrible act of Cowardice and Abuse was committed against a friend of mine and guest on this show Lierre Keith.

Some over privileged, holier than thou, militant vegans attacked Lierre by pie-ing her with cayenne laced cream pies.

Three men (most likely all three attackers were men) attacked Lierre, who suffers from degenerative bone disease, from behind with cayenne laced pies specifically designed, in Nazi like fashion, to kill free speech.

Other vegans have had the gall to justify this and criticizing Lierre for calling the police.  A woman being attacked by three men with intent to maim is well within her rights to call for the police.

This is an assault on a woman by men and is unforgivable in it is cowardice and oppressive nature.

We in the community also need to be diligent in protecting each other of such act of cowardice.

It seem to me  some of the organizers may well have been aware this was going to happen!!

Lierre I want you to know that we at R.A.G.E. stand with you and support you in every way we can.

This is a reminder of why we need to support each other and stand with each other. It is also a reminder that the longer we wait to bring the system down the longer we have to put up with this shit.

It is time to return the land to the Indigenous peoples, time to return the prairie to the buffalo, time to stop the Wetikos and their disease.

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March
8
2010

H2OIL’s Director Shannon Walsh

Hello and welcome to a late edition

of R.A.G.E.

Radio Against Global Ecocide

Coming to you from occupied Amiskwacîwâskahikan

And a special hello to all the resister and supporters of resister out there, keep up the good work!!

Today’s guest is Shannon Walsh writer and director of the documentary H2Oil.   The trailer and animations can be seen here as well.  In our discussion we talk about some of the groups that are doing good work around the tar sands.  They are listed  here:
Indigenous Environmental Network
Friends of the Lubicon
Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands
Stop the Tar Sands
Greenpeace Edmonton, Stop the tar sands; end our addiction to oil
Mikisew Cree First Nation
The Dominion: news from the grassroots

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There is also a other new movie out called Dirty Oil check out Toxic Fuels website

And Petropolis

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February
27
2010

Must Attend Events

Water is Life as Long as the Rivers Flow

Community Forums on the Monitoring, Management and Protection of Our Watersheds, Surface Water and Groundwater

Sponsored by the Keepers of the Athabasca and Friends March 02-06, 2010

Athabasca Keepers Conference Announcment

Athabasca Keepers Forum Ad Feb 2010

Summary of Events:

Tuesday, March 02, 3:00 pm, Native Friendship Centre, Cold Lake Alberta

Keepers of the Water Citizens’ Forum on Groundwater Health

Contact: Simon 780-215-1145

Wednesday March 03, 9:00 am, Native Friendship Centre, Lac La Biche Alberta,

Keepers of the Water Citizens’ Forum on Groundwater Health

Contact: Jessie 780-689-0318

Wednesday March 03, 7:00 pm, Athabasca Multiplex, Athabasca Alberta

Keepers of the Water Citizens’ Forum on Groundwater Health

Dr Giles Wendling, Hydrologist, Caroline Campbell, Alberta Wilderness Society (AWA)

Contact: Harvey 780-675-4158

Thursday March 04, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Native Friendship Centre, Athabasca Alberta

Safe Drinking Water Foundation (SDWF)-Protecting Source Water and Providing Safe Drinking Water, SDWF Waterkeeper’s Bob Pratt and Tony Steinhauer

This workshop is of particular interest to community water treatment plant staff and community officials with water treatment responsibility. This is a SDWF introductory workshop.  Sessions include:

1.Drinking water as a human right: Problems with Aboriginal and rural community drinking water

2. Protecting source water

3. Water intake, water plant construction, problems with algae

4. Conventional (chemical) water treatment

5. Reverse Osmosis workshops (hands on)

6. Biological (IBROM) water treatment

The SDWF will do follow-up consultation in interested communities. There may be limited space for this session so register early.

Contact: Nicole 306-934-0389, e-mail info@safewater.org

Thursday March 04, 7:00 pm Athabasca University Council Chambers, Athabasca Alberta, Science Outreach Presentation, Dr Kevin Timoney, “Does the

Alberta Tar Sands Industry  Pollute: The Scientific Evidence”

Contact: Linda Lindballe 780-675-6653

Friday March 05, 9:00 am- 9:00 pm, Nancy Appleby Theatre, Athabasca Alberta

Crooked Creek Conservancy of Athabasca, “Athabasca River and Lake Basin Water Forum – An Inquiry into the State of Monitoring, Management and Protection of Waters and Watersheds”

9:00 am Carolyn Campbell, Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) “Athabasca River Water Use, Inflow Ecosystem needs and Multistakeholder Allocation Framework” Response Panel.

10:15 am Dr. David Schindler, “Pollution of the Athabasca River by the Oilsands Industry”

11:15 am “Water is Life” response panel

1:00 pm, Robert Holmberg, Pam Carleton, David Locky, “Athabasca University’s Athabasca River basin Research Institute, Science Bibliographic Data Base Project”

1:40 pm Dr Suzanne Bayley, “Role of Athabasca Basins Wetlands/Peatlands, Threats, Protection and Restoration Challenges”

3:00 pm Helene Walsh, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), “Athabasca Basin, Land Use Planning and Protection”

3:45 pm Response Panel, “Critical Assessment of the Athabasca Basin, Wetlands, Land Use, Land Use Framework (LUF), and the Need for a Comprehensive Protected Areas Policy”

7:00 pm Film Festival

Saturday, March 6 9:00am-5:00pm United Church Basement, Athabasca Alberta

9:00 am Elders Traditional Welcome

9:10 am Keepers Circle

10:30 am Community Stewardship, Projects Issues and Actions-Industrial Water Withdrawals, Stream Straightening, Landfills and Aquifers, Gravel Extraction, Stream cleanup and Restoration, Insitu/Tarsands

1:00 pm Building Athabasca River Basin Community Stewardship Capacity

3:00 pm Existing Monitoring Programs and Community Self Monitoring, Role of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge, Heritage River and River watch Programs

5:00pm Elders Traditional Closing

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MUST ATTEND CONFERENCE! Deep Green Resistance Training – March 26th – 28th!

This is just a friendly nudge to get you from thinking about it, to signing up and coming out to the Deep Green Resistance training!

We promise it will be a rewarding conference offering tangible paths forward for folks interested in really protecting our planet and creating a clean, just and healthy future for our communities.

A quick overview of what the conference will offer:

1. This conference is based off of 10 premises, which directly point out how destructive the status-quo economic, cultural and social systems are. (See here: http://www.endgamethebook.org/Excerpts/1-Premises.htm) Because of this the discourse in the conference will move instantly to how we can effectively confront the struggles we are dealing with. Thus I would say that people who attend this conference, will definitely be exposed to conversations and ideas about resistance that they don’t usually get to discuss at length.

2.  This conference is geared towards building a culture of resistance. This means looking at the diversity of roles needed to be effective as a resisting community. Thus I see this conference, as a space for folks to build on their confidence as participants in a resistance activities, building on the appreciation for all the roles done by folks, like cooking the food, and doing media as well as those who do legal challenges and lock down on property.

3. By being in Edmonton, this conference will be a space for prairie activists to come together and build on individual  connections and trust between communities. Meaning there are going to be some great folks coming together with passion and the idealism that we will make good change happen!

Again if you have been thinking about coming, but have not yet signed up – please do it now!!

MUST ATTEND CONFERENCE! Deep Green Resistance Training – March 26th – 28th!

Derrick Jensen’s Deep Green Resistance Training – Edmonton March 26-28th – REGISTER NOW and please forward on to others!

Hi Good People,

Derrick Jensen and rad co-facilitating friends are likely going be coming to Edmonton, Alberta on March 26-28th to do a 3 day intensive workshop called Deep Green Resistance. This 3-day workshop is particularly relevant to those of us who have been resisting the industrial developments of more tar sands, nuclear power and other environmental destructive projects. By bringing this conference to the prairies we will be building on the grassroots community that is already coming together, building on our network and strengthening our skills to bring about the changes we need to see.

The Deep Green Resistance training is a three-day workshop for activists, change-makers, and other concerned or inspired folks who are interested in delving into some critical reflection on the state of the world and our role in fixing it. We live in the most destructive culture to ever exist, yet does our activism reflect that? If we really accept the seriousness of the situation, what would that mean for our strategy and tactics? How do we build up a culture of resistance? These are some of the deep questions that will be explored over the weekend, while we build on our skills to continue doing good works.

The Deep Green Resistence is facilitated by Lierre Keith (http://www.lierrekeith.com/), Aric MacBay (http://www.inthewake.org/), and Derrick Jensen (www.derrickjensen.org) and promises to be an experience that you don’t want to miss!!

COST
The thing is, the total cost for the training will cost around $12 000 to bring to Edmonton. Currently, the idea is that if we can get 50 people registered, at a sliding scale of $200-$450 each for the weekend (with some APIRG subsidies available), by March 1st, the training will go ahead. – SO SIGN UP NOW!!

Billets are available, as well as carpools for folks coming from out of town to further cut down on your costs!! WE REALLY WANT YOU HERE!

REGISTER NOW! E-mail lierrekeith@yahoo.com and let her know your name, address and phone number. You can pay via paypal made out to derrick@derrickjensen.org or e-mail lierre to make other arrangements (lierrekeith@yahoo.com)

SPONSORSHIP/SUBSIDIZING?
Event organizers are still looking for people or organizations who can donate money free and clear of this however, so that we can either go ahead with less participants, or offer lowered fees. Right now $200 is the lowest we can afford as the workshop cannot take more than 50 participants. Can you or your organization provide some funding to support the training? Whether through direct donation or subsidized assistance for attendees? Check out the link here: http://www.rageedm.com/wordpress/

REGISTER AND SPREAD THE WORD

Pass this email on to all folks and lists you think would be interested in attending or supporting this rad training, building the grassroots for a clean, green and just planet future!!

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February
26
2010

Trees, Lives and Property

Hello and welcome to another edition

of R.A.G.E.

Radio Against Global Ecocide

Coming to you from occupied Amiskwacîwâskahikan

I am your host Seymour Lyphe

And a  special Hello!! to all living being out there whose lives are so much more valuable then property.

Check out Larry Hildes comments at the end of this post. This is a very good lesson for any resistance movement!!

All Out March 3rd – Tell RBC Shareholders: Stop bankrolling tar sands!

Support the RBC campaign coming up next week. Click on the picture to see where you can help out.

The Full Show

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We Don’t Belong – The Uprising

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Acts of Resistance:

Okanagan Band launches road block to protect their water supply!

All Out March 3rd – Tell RBC Shareholders: Stop bankrolling tar sands!

RBC - Stop bank rolling the Tar Sands

This man, Larry Hildes, understands resistance.

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February
19
2010

Call to Action: Support Tim DeChristopher

Climate Trial

People associated with Tim DeChristoper’s support group asked Derrick Jensen to write a call to action surrounding his trial.

When a government becomes destructive of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.
Do you believe that the United States government takes better care of corporations, or human beings?
I don’t know anyone who believes the United States government takes better care of human beings than it does corporations.
Do you believe that your vote counts as much as the votes of owners of transnational oil and gas corporations? Do you believe your vote counts as much as the money of owners of transnational oil and gas corporations?
The United States government is not a democracy. It is a plutocracy: government by, for, and of the wealthy.
It is a kleptocracy: government by, for, and of thieves. These thieves, these extremely wealthy thieves, these thieves who own corporations and the thieves who serve them in the U.S. government, steal communities, and they destroy the land. When they destroy the land, they steal not only the present but the future.
The purpose of a corporation is to amass wealth. That is its function. The function is not to protect communities, not to promote democracy, not to promote the health of the land. Corporations have no morals, and those who run them do not scruple at destroying life on this planet. Indeed, that is precisely what they are doing.
If aliens from outer space came to this planet and did the harm that oil and gas corporations are doing, we would stop them using any means necessary. If aliens from outer space were making it so there were carcinogens in every mother’s breast milk, we would stop them. If they were putting in oil and gas wells all over the planet, we would stop them. If they were changing the climate, we would stop them. If they were destroying landbase after landbase, we would stop them. And if they set up governments to “legalize” their sociopathological behavior, we would stop them.
When a government becomes destructive of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.
When a government and corporations work together to destroy life on earth, it is the responsibility of the people to stop this using any means necessary.
In a sane culture, Tim DeChristopher would not be facing trial. He would be seen as the hero that he is. And the corporate executives who destroy landbases as surely as they destroy democracy would be on trial. And the federal land managers who put out illegal oil and gas leases, leases which violate law after law after law, would be on trial. And the police who arrest those who protest against these illegal gas leases would be on trial (do these individual police officers realize they are lending their talents to the destruction of the land and of democracy? They are to protect and to serve, but do they realize they are protecting and serving not the people, not their communities, but instead sociopathological corporations and the politicians who serve those corporations?).
Never forget that the atrocities committed by the Nazis were under their own laws legal. The Nazi government passed laws allowing them to legally commit atrocities. And they arrested those who opposed those laws. Never forget that the atrocities committed in apartheid South Africa were under their own laws legal. The South African government passed laws allowing them to legally commit atrocities. And they arrested those who opposed those laws. Never forget that the atrocities committed in Stalinist Soviet Union were legal. The Soviets put on show trials for many of those condemned under these laws. And the police arrested those who opposed these laws.
In all of these cases, including the current one, the question becomes, whose side are you on?
In the current case, Tim DeChristopher is on the side of communities, on the side of the land, on the side of democratic decision-making processes. He is standing against atrocities, and against a sociopathological kleptocracy.
Whose side are you on?
I’m on Tim DeChristopher’s side.
Never forget, when a government becomes destructive of life, community, and democracy, it is the responsibility of the people to alter or abolish it. If you do not, that government will destroy life, community, and democracy. As we see.
It is time we fulfilled our responsibility. The corporations would like us to believe that we can’t fight them. Timothy DeChristopher has single-handedly proved them wrong. Whether he is successful now depends on the broader environmental movement. Will we let Timothy’s act stand alone, as a symbolic protest that got a moment of press and then faded? Or will we join him in protecting the last scraps of wilderness, the final, fragile shreds of our planet? Will we let corporate power turn mountains into rubble and deserts into sludge? Or will we do what it takes to stop them? We have weapons, from protests and lawsuits to the time-honored American tradition of civil disobedience to the serious tactics that resistance movements have always used. Whatever weapons you choose, use them wisely and use them well, but use them.

-By Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith

Tim DeChristopher Speaks at 350 SLC Event, Oct 24 2009

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