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Radio Against Global Ecocide
Coming to you from occupied Amiskwacîwâskahikan.
I am your Host Seymour Lyphe.

It is a newly formatted R.A.G.E. Radio Against Global Ecocide with a new logo designed by the super talented political activist, artist and syndicated cartoonist Stephanie McMillan. Over the weeks and months to come I hope to have both radio and  some video shows too!

Act of Giving Back

Act of Giving Back

This week show for the new RAGE is an interview a I did a number of months ago and likely one of the best one of the best , insightful and to the point interviews I have had the pleasure of doing.

I spoke with  Chaw-win-is  who is from both the Tla-o-qui-aht and Cheklesaht nations and Anthony about relationship with Earth and the beings  we share her with. Or more to the point the lack of relationship that exist in the dominant culture. They both shared their insights, their peoples insights and stories.  Their points about how people had taken responsibility for their relationship with Earth, Salmon, tree, bear ,wolf and rivers to name a few and now it is missing now in the dominant culture. The interview reminds all of us of the commitments  they make to us. In turn the the commitments we own to them. We need a resistance that will take up those responsibilities and commitments, those commitments that make us part of the living world again, that we may become human again.

(This interview was done over Skype which caused some issues with the audio and I to apologize everyone especially Chaw-win-is and Anthony  for that.)

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Can’t Buy Me Change

By Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen is the author of A Language Older than Words and Deep Green Resistance, among other books. He was named one of Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”

The fact that the question – can we promote ecological sustainability through buying better things? – is taken seriously points to the absurdity of so much environmental discourse. We need to be clear: An industrial economy, no matter how green it declares itself, is inherently unsustainable. It is based on the use of nonrenewable resources and the hyperexploitation of renewable resources. In short, it’s based on drawdown. It’s a bit late in the murder of the planet to have to be saying this to environmentalists.

There has never been a sustainable civilization, and industrial civilization has been especially disastrous. Industrial civilization is also inherently unjust, as it is based on the importation of resources – a less kind word is theft – from colonies to the center of empire. In order for these resources to be stolen, Indigenous People must be driven from the land and forced into the global cash economy. The fact that people of good heart can ignore this reveals the degree to which they have internalized the logic of capitalism.

Let me put this another way. Would “buying better things” have stopped the Nazis? Would it have stopped apartheid? Would it have stopped slavery in the US? Of course not. In the latter two cases it was tried and it failed. Why? Because it completely ignored the role of power in causing injustice.

Before you blanch at my comparison of capitalism to the Nazis, look at this from the perspective of the 200 species driven extinct today, the 200 species driven extinct tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that, in a holocaust of unimaginable proportions. Look at this from the perspective of the millions of children killed each year as a result of so-called debt repayment from the colonies to the center of empire. Look at this from the perspective of Indigenous humans forced off their lands. “Buying good stuff” does absolutely nothing to address these problems.

Read the rest here from Earth Island Journal

 

Stephanie McMillan – The system can not be permitted to kill the planet.

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Coming to you from occupied Amiskwacîwâskahikan.

I am your Host Seymour Lyphe.

And a special hello to all those organizing to stop the insanity of the dominant culture.

Today on the show Stephanie McMillan.  Stephanie is an award winning Cartoonist, Author and Organizer. She best known for her political cartoons Minimum Security and CodeGreen.  She is co-author and illustrator of As the World Burns – 50 Way to Stay in Denial and illustrator of Mischief in The Forest. She is also in the movie END:CIV

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Passengers by thefilthypoliticians

Dahlia Wasfi Speaks by thefilthypoliticians

From Overthrowing the Profit System to Not for Profit
The rise of NGOs and the decline of mass movements

The past forty years have seen an explosion in the growth of NGOs. The World Bank estimates that nearly 15% of all overseas development aid is now channeled through NGOs. At the same time, we have seen a precipitous decline in mass social movements.

One Stuggle South Florida is hosting a discussion on the rise of the NGO and the fall of mass movements. Our hope is to foster an inter-organizational dialogue to raise awareness of the NGO trap and how together we can rebuild mass movements for justice, social change, and popular power.

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF CONVERSATION

Oct. 20, 2010

Participants: Victoria Guinea Pig, Kranti and Javier

Kranti: I’m willing to do *anything* to save the planet. But nothing works. The system keeps winning.

Victoria Guinea Pig: Failure is not an option. The system can not be permitted to kill the planet. You must stop it.

Kranti: But everything we try to do is ineffective.

Victoria Guinea Pig: Well. To be effective, you start with a goal. You have that already: save the planet. What is your overall strategy?

(Kranti and Javier look at each other, blankly).

Victoria Guinea Pig: How do you think the planet can be saved?

Kranti: By smashing capitalism. Duh.

Victoria Guinea Pig: How do you think you can defeat a whole global economic system? A system with a monopoly on laws, police, armies, wealth, productive capacity, as well as cultural and political institutions?

Kranti: Um… we keep attacking it from all sides until it falls to its knees, cries like a baby and surrenders?

Javier: All by ourselves? We can’t do it alone, Kranti.

Kranti: Plenty of people all over the world are doing it. Look at MEND. They’re small but managed to force a 40% reduction in oil production in Nigeria. Look at the Greek anarchists. The revolution in Nepal. The Naxalites in India. Look at… um. There are a lot we don’t even know about.

Javier: But in the US there are too few. To attack from within the center of the Empire, we need some kind of movement here. Without at least some public support, we’re toast.

Kranti: Let someone else organize it. I hate working with people. Everyone’s stupid! They think politicians will listen to them. They think it makes a difference if they drive a hybrid car or use Sierra Club-endorsed bleach. They believe we’ll invent magical technology that will use no energy, sequester CO2 and bring everyone extinct back to life while still keeping all the air conditioners running. I don’t want to waste my time with the ideologically challenged.

Victoria Guinea Pig: People are not stupid. Propaganda has brainwashed them. After armed forces, culture and information are two of the system’s most effective weapons. People’s thinking is shaped by whatever system they live under.

Javier: We could start a study group…

Kranti: Please don’t ask me to embark on a long-term educational campaign. The planet doesn’t have time. Also: booor-ing!

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‘We Need to Stop This Culture Before It Kills the Planet’

A Conversation With Derrick Jensen

By Mickey Z.

Worst of all, there’s nothing unique about the past 24 hours. It’s business as usual, a daily reality—and no amount of CFL bulbs, recycled toilet paper, or Sierra Club donations will change it even a tiny bit.

As you do your best to convince yourself of the vast chasm between the two wings of America’s single corporate party, I suggest you listen carefully to hear if even one of the politicians mentions any of the following:

  • Every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic
  • Eighty-one tons of mercury is emitted into the atmosphere each year as a result of electric power generation
  • Every second, 10,000 gallons of gasoline are burned in the US
  • Each year, Americans use 2.2 billion pounds of pesticides
  • Ninety percent of the large fish in the ocean and 80 percent of the world’s forests are gone
  • Every two seconds, a human being starves to death

This is just a minute sampling, folks, and sorry, but your hybrid ain’t helping. That reusable shopping bag you bring to the market has zero impact. Your home composting kit is not gonna start a revolution.

As you begin reading this interview, take a look at the nearest clock. Now, dig this: Since yesterday at the same exact time, 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed, over 100 plant and animal species have gone extinct, 13 million tons of toxic chemicals were released across the globe, and 29,158 children under the age of five died from preventable causes. Read the rest here

Fertile Ground – A Community of Resistance part 2

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And a special hello to all those building Communities of Resistance.

This is a special Fertile Ground show. Some of the Fertile Ground people talk about community what is means to them and some ways it may look.

Cameron, Dillon and Max share their thoughts about community and its importance.

“…these are ways of life. If activism and social change are not part of the general space you live in and the air you breathe I don’t think you are going to make much change.” -  Cameron

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The End of Civilization

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a discussion with radical writer and environmentalist Derrick Jensen
interview by Andrea Hiott
Available languages: English

The United States of America was once “the Saudi Arabia of the world” when it came to oil production: in other words, the majority of the world once purchased its oil from the States. Now those vast resources have been depleted. Many other places around the world have also peaked. In Baku, Azerbaijan, miles of machine carcasses clutter the landscape – oil from here once powered the Allies (especially the Russians) towards defeating Germany in World War Two, and now the well is dry. Less than sixty years ago, the British found oil in the North Sea. According to Colin Campbell, an oil geologist and consultant to the world’s top oil companies, Britain will become a net importer of oil within the year, and its oil will be used up by 2020. Read the full article here

Fight Our Common Enemy: Global Industrial Capitalism

Global capitalism is the economic system that dominates the planet. It runs on the exploitation of human labor to turn the living world into dead commodities, for the profit of a few. The small, powerful minority who own the means of production enforce their dominance through their control over political and cultural institutions, and their monopoly on force. They create a situation of dependency – forcing us to work for them to obtain basic needs like food and shelter. They annihilate those who resist or refuse to assimilate.

This system values profit over life itself. It has been built on land theft and destruction, genocide, slavery, deforestation and imperialist wars. It commits numberless atrocities as a matter of routine daily functioning. It kills 2.4 million children worldwide under age 5 each year by withholding adequate nutrition. It kills 100,000 people annually in the US by denying decent health care. More than 54% of the US discretionary budget is spent on perpetrating imperialist aggression, and recent casualties include more than a million civilians in Iraq, and more than 46,000 American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Aside from outright murder, the economic and psychological violence wrought upon the world’s inhabitants is so extensive and comprehensive that it’s effectively all-encompassing.

The system is killing the entire planet, the basis for all life. It’s converted 98% of old growth forests into lumber. 80% of rivers worldwide no longer support life. 94% of the large fish in the oceans are gone. Phytoplankton, the tiny plants that produce half of the oxygen we breathe, have declined by 40% since 1950. 120 species per day become extinct.

Industries produce 400 million tons of hazardous waste every year. Recently, the water in 89% of US cities tested has been found to contain the carcinogen hexavalent chromium. To feed capitalism’s insatiable need for economic expansion, increasingly dangerous methods of energy extraction are being perpetrated: deep sea drilling, oil extraction from tar sands, fracking. No matter the consequences, no matter what the majority of people may want, those in power insist on (and enforce) their non-negotiable right to poison the land, water and air in pursuit of maximum profit. Read the full article here


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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

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almost-there - Stephanie McMillian

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

Welcome to R.A.G.E. – -Radio Against Global Ecocide!

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Coming to you from occupied Amiskwacîwâskahikan ( Beaver Mountain House).

I am your host, Seymour Lyphe.

This is the premiere show of R.A.G.E.  It is great that you are interested enough to come and check it out.

R.A.G.E. will be a series of ongoing podcasts, with people building and creating resistance in their own way.

My desire is to bring together ideas and practices from near and far to help build an effective resistance to the destruction that our planet, our only home, is suffering.

I will also be doing a rant or two from time to time.  My first will be why my name is Seymour Lyphe (seemorelife “at” rageedm.com).

This PODCAST features Stephanie McMillan of minimumsecurity.net, and some highlights from my interview with Aric McBay.

MUSIC is by The Filthy Politicians, Count_0, and the intro is by SirEx.

Also, feel free to check out a few of my favourite VIDEOS.

And a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped this podcast come into being!!

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