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“It’s tremendous fun to fight back”: An interview with Derrick Jensen

dave — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:06:20 +0000

**By Dave Oswald Mitchell Briarpatch Magazine August 2008**

"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? . . . what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us."

Franz Kafka

Derrick Jensen has been called the philosopher poet of the ecological movement. His books include The Culture of Make Believe, the two-volume Endgame, and most recently How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization. Common to all his work is a fierce commitment to expose the roots of the violence and destruction that underpin the comforts and privileges of civilization.

Media reform movement gaining steam

admin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:18:59 +0000

In the face of rampant media consolidation, Canadians are finally beginning to get organized and fight back under the banner of the recently formed Canadians for Democratic Media. This grassroots network recently organized a major initiative to lobby the CRTC against further media consolidation, and surely has more campaigns in the works to keep the [...]

Solidarity with the soldiers who lay down their arms

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:47:35 +0000

Image courtesy of the war resisters support campaign War Resisters Brandi and Josh Keys speak with Tyler McCreary about life and death in the US army, the war in Iraq, and the War Resisters Support Campaign Can history repeat itself? In 1969, when Canada opened its border to deserters and draft dodgers from the US war on [...]