"If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home." Derrick Jensen
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Kiss the Ground
March 18th, 2018This is a transcript of a Deep Green video. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. There are hundreds of ways to pray. You can walk through a forest. You can sit by a pond. You can watch the air turn into clouds and then slowly dissipate. You can lie on […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenSqueeze Every Drop of Slave’s Blood Out of Ourselves
February 26th, 2017This is an edited transcript of Derrick Jensen’s talk, which you can listen to here. What does it mean to decolonize my heart and mind, and how do I go about doing that? Many indigenous people have said to me that the first and most important thing we have to do is decolonize our hearts […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenIndirect Support For Action
October 30th, 2016This is a transcript of a Deep Green video. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Napoleon, or maybe it was Frederick the Great, famously commented that an army marches on its stomach. The quartermasters are just as important as the soldiers. In World War II battles, only about 10% of […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenHow activist Derrick Jensen makes it matter
October 6th, 2016Interview by Give It Mouth for their “Make It Matter” series, originally published there in two parts How do you give it mouth? I don’t want to discourage you, but this may not be my best interview ever. The reason is, normally when I give answers I seem a lot smarter than I am because […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenProlific author calls Crescent City home
March 4th, 2016Jessica Cejnar / The Triplicate Derrick Jensen was just a kid when he began pushing back against the status quo. His father had broken his sister’s arm and, like any youngster might, Jensen wondered why. In the second grade, when a subdivision was built on the meadow that was his playground, he asked where the […]
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