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Why R.A.G.E.– Radio Against Global Ecocide?
A lot of the inspiration came from Stephanie McMillan’s website minimumsecurity.net .
She held a contest to help name Bunnista ‘s organization, and the acronym that won was R.A.G.E. –Resistance Against Global Ecocide. I had been scratching my head for a name for a while, when it hit me–Random Axis Gnome… not.
It just made sense. And so I asked Stephanie if I could use the name, but instead of using “Resistance”, I would use “Radio”. She graciously agreed.
Rage- It can be defined as violent anger.
It can also be defined as:
2. Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
3. A burning desire; a passion
One thing is for sure–it requires that you feel something.
We should feel enraged by the constant violence of industrial capitalism, which is the dominant culture.
In a conversation with Derrick Jensen, Richard Drinnon said:
“If you cannot feel a thing, you’ll never guess its meaning. …Where can an attempted dominion over nature and over self lead, but to the eradication of feeling in any kind of human way? Where can it lead but to the mind-set that creates people who can say ‘500,000 Iraqi children is a price we can afford to pay?’ We can kill. Can we feel?
[Derrick]What is to be done?
“I think one response we see too often is that in attempting to comfort ourselves from despair, we constrain ourselves to ‘feel good’ messages, where the endings are always happy, the difficulties easily surmountable. But those messages go nowhere, they don’t even comfort us, and are almost impossible to maintain against the evidence of our own senses. Much better, I believe, and more honest, is to look our despair in the eye and be heartened by an ongoing resistance that is our last best hope, however forlorn that hope sometimes seems.” P 226-227 The Culture of Make Believe.
If by looking our despair in the eye, the wetiko ( cannibal), the culture that eats all without ceasing, that violently enslaves women and children to the sex trade and sweat shops, that murders 90% of the large fish in the oceans, 95% of the forests that will destroy us all for cars, TV and cell phones, we see reflected in our selves a burning desire.
If we feel love–for our land and our community, human and non-human–we will feel that burning grow. As the cold objective eyes of the wetiko bares down on us, the correct response is rage—a controlled purposeful rage that guides meaningful action full of passion, desire and love– just maybe the resistance will win.
This is R.A.G.E.
Building the resistance one podcast at a time.
Coming to you from occupied Amiskwacîwâskahikan