Briarpatch Magazine » ecology http://briarpatchmagazine.com Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news & views. Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:05:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en “It’s tremendous fun to fight back”: An interview with Derrick Jensen http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/its-tremendous-fun-to-fight-back-an-interview-with-derrick-jensen/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/its-tremendous-fun-to-fight-back-an-interview-with-derrick-jensen/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:06:20 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/?p=674 Derrick Jensen

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. ]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/its-tremendous-fun-to-fight-back-an-interview-with-derrick-jensen/feed/ Jailed Algonquin Leader Begins Hunger Strike http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/05/16/jailed-algonquin-leader-begins-hunger-strike/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/05/16/jailed-algonquin-leader-begins-hunger-strike/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 16:31:31 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/?p=656 Ardoch Algonquin First Nation May 15, 2008 - For Immediate Release On February 15, 2008 Ardoch Algonquin First Nation (AAFN) Spokesperson Robert Lovelace was sentenced in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Kingston to 6 months in maximum security, plus crippling fines, for peacefully protesting uranium mining in the Ardoch homeland. Chief Paula Sherman was fined $15,000 and given until today to pay the fine, failing which she will be jailed. On March 17, a Superior Court judge in Thunder Bay sentenced six leaders of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) to six months after they were found in contempt of court in a dispute which is virtually identical to that of the Ardoch Algonquins. The jailing of respected, law-abiding community leaders has had a devastating impact on our communities, particularly on the families of those incarcerated. The indifference shown by the McGuinty government towards the rights of First Nation communities and the imposition of long jail terms and crippling fines in the name of "the rule of law" has further eroded respect for both the legal system and the government of Ontario in the eyes of First Nations people in this province.]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/05/16/jailed-algonquin-leader-begins-hunger-strike/feed/