"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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Deep Green Resistance: An interview with Derrick Jensen and Rachel Ivey
June 7th, 2013Interview by, and originally published at, Systemic Capital SystemicCapital.com (SC): What is Deep Green Resistance (DGR)? DGR is a radical social justice organization. Our members share the conviction that all oppressive power – power over the Earth, over classes of humans, over nonhumans – springs from the same root, and it is only by attacking […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenThe Power of Place: A Discussion with Derrick Jensen
September 1st, 2012Interview by author Jan Smitowicz, originally published at The Rewild West JAN SMITOWICZ: The theme of this interview is a sort of tagline for my book: rewild the west, and all the rest. DERRICK JENSEN: I think it’s a hugely important work. About twenty years ago I decided to go up to the Northwest Territories. […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenInterview on Dreams
December 13th, 2011Interview conducted by Richard Capes for “More Thought” Also available as audio RC: Hello. My name is Richard Capes, and this is a moretht.blogspot.com interview with philosopher, teacher and radical activist Derrick Jensen about his book Dreams. Okay, Derrick, my first question is: What are dreams? DJ: Well, I don’t know. I have my ideas. […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenStaying Sane in Environmentalism
September 29th, 2011Interview by Cayte Bosler, originally published in Elephant Journal I lean against the railing atop a high rise, just enough to get butterflies, and settle my gaze on the Pacific Ocean. The city of Seattle is waking up. From above, the sputtering trucks look like slow moving flat birds circling their prey. Mechanical claws find […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenDo We Need a Militant Movement to Save the Planet (and Ourselves)?
August 5th, 2011Interview of Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Aric McBay by Tara Lohan / Alternet Tara Lohan: Deep Green Resistance focuses on achieving a culture of resistance. What do you mean by that? Lierre Keith: Right now on the Left what we have is an alternative culture, and I would say that is kind of a […]
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