The final piece from END:CIV is both a reality check and a call to arms. Can we really expect the power structures to change their destructive ways by asking nicely? Do we have unlimited time to stop the destruction of the planet? The answer to both questions is no. If we are serious about defending the biosphere and abolishing the institutions responsible for the hyper exploitation of the land, we have to become a resistance movement and go beyond “feel good” symbolic actions.
Some of the most celebrated social justice victories of the 20th century are attributed to the great pacifists of our time, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. This constitutes a historical whitewash, as these “victories” were achieved when the state weighed its options and chose the lesser of two evils: the pacifists. In this segment Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Aric Mcbay, Harjap Grewal, Gord Hill and Peter Gelderloos deconstruct the Gandhi myth and show us why militant action plays an important role in movements of resistance.
Last week the supposed defenders of the environment, A.K.A. the Environmental Non Governmental Organizations or E.N.G.O.s, cut a “deal” with timber industries to protect a large chunk of the boreal forest. On the surface this agreement looks good, but the entire deal was not published, only an abridged version was made available online. Some of the groups that took part of this deal are Greenpeace, the David Suzuki Foundation and Forest Ethics.
The one aspect of this “accomplishment” that they are not publicizing is that they struck it without consulting with the First Nations, the original human inhabitants of those lands.
As we face increasingly catastrophic environmental destruction, it is imperative that we seek guidance from those who “managed” the environment sustainably for over 10,000 years.
This short piece from “END:CIV” is a visual interpretation of Derrick Jensen’s Second Premise from ENDGAME:
Traditional communities do not often voluntarily give up or sell the resources on which their communities are based until their communities have been destroyed. They also do not willingly allow their landbases to be damaged so that other resources—gold, oil, and so on—can be extracted. It follows that those who want the resources will do what they can to destroy traditional communities.
“I don’t know if you know this, but the original draft of the movie star wars was not written by Lucas, the original draft was written by environmentalists. And it’s a little bit different”
Those were the first words I ever heard Derrick Jensen speak, and my world view has never been the same since. The year was 2006 and I had just moved to New York City to work for Democracy Now!. I was taping the Community Solutions conference, a peak oil convention held at Cooper Union. Unlike the other speakers, Derrick did not talk about about solar panels or wind turbines. He spoke of our culture’s systematic destruction of the planet and of the failure of the environmental movement. After hearing his talk, I immediately sought out his books and the first seeds of END:CIV were planted.
The “Star Wars” piece is one of Derrick’s best analogies, one that delivers a precise critique of mainstream environmental groups.
Directed by Franklin López, Motion Graphic support by pussykrew. Production assistance by Paul Clarke, Annette Fick, Rosalee Yagihara and Chris Bevacqua.
“I want to live among people who are conscious that we live in a war. A war against life, against the spirit. I want to live among people who don’t look down at their feet, or won’t look you in the eyes when you speak of struggle or insurrection, because In their heart they know they have surrendered, and because—maybe, just maybe—they never really hated the system. Among people who have not been bought, who did not take the pills they were offered, because they preferred to struggle with their feeling of pathologized anxiety than to live in the dead zone. People who don’t pretend to be struggling when it is obvious that what they are doing is turning a battlefield into a garden. I want to be in a place where the war is admissible.”
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[Noticias de la Guerra Social] In the early hours of Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at about 2am an anonymous shadow approached and left an incendiary device in the doorway of the Circle of retired prison officers located at José Toribio … Continue reading →
translation received anonymously: Translator’s note: This sabotage took place during the ongoing movement against the “loi Travail” (the work act). The university of Tolbiac is on the frontline of this struggle in Paris. This rampage was commented in the bourgeois … Continue reading →
(WOS note: Here are links to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd communiques of the new phase of ITS.) from Maldición Eco-extremista, translated by “Chahta-Ima”: “ITS is in Argentina” That was part of the message that we left along with an … Continue reading →
from Maldición Eco-extremista: Merely being an eco-extremist propagandist, I am forced to pay attention to reactions of anarchist and leftist readers to the actions of ITS and other eco-extremist groups. The first reaction I encounter is usually one of disgust. … Continue reading →
(WOS Note: Here are the first and second communiques of the new phase of Individualists Tending toward the Wild (ITS), both in Mexico. This translation by “Chahta-Ima” with some edits.) From maldicionecoextremista: We are curare arrows of the ancients against … Continue reading →
from contrainfo, translated wos: During the night between the 19th and 20th of November we placed an incendiary device on a lateral conductor on the tracks of the Turín-Milán line. Onward with the sabotage of the tentacles of the system! … Continue reading →
From Contrainfo, translation WOS: Communique received February 11, 2016 Below we leave some words from anarchist compañera Mónica Caballero in relation to the logic and functioning of the respect unit (m-R) in multiple prisons in the Spanish State. With the … Continue reading →
Text from Contrainfo, translation WOS; also see this report from the press: Santiago, Chile, February 11, 2016 On February 11, we headed for the intersection of Pedro Lagos and Arturo Prat, where the Chilean gendarmerie have their Center for Social … Continue reading →
we receive and publish an extract from an article about the attack, followed by a translation of the communique claiming the attack: In the fourth anti-GMO terrorist event in Latin America this year, the Mexico-based organization Alianza Pro Transgenicos (Alliance … Continue reading →
from contrainfo, transl. waronsociety: The reasons to act, motivations, and urgencies remain. Also in many the excuses to not do it remain. We will always consciously choose the first option. Saturday, July 4, minutes before the “copa américa” began, which … Continue reading →
from contrainfo, transl waronsociety: Chikomoztoc, July 3, 2015. “But how can we pretend that one dies in time who has never lived in time? It would be better if they had not been born. This is what Nature desires for … Continue reading →
from refractario, transl. waronsociety: Claudio Lavazza’s contribution to the “Days of Resistance and Solidarity” held March 26-28 in Athens organized by the Assembly of Solidarity with Political Prisoners and Imprisoned and Accused Fighters. The compañero remains imprisoned in the dungeons … Continue reading →
from contrainfo, transl waronsociety: Chikomoztok, July 8, 2015 The company ICA (Civil and Associated Engineers) is the giant of infrastructure in Mexico. The construction of freeways, urban complexes, hydroelectric plants, airports, refineries, metro stations and more, are the areas that … Continue reading →
translation we receive and publish (original is at contrainfo [pdf]): Pachuca, Hidalgo, November 13 2014. With this statement, some groupuscules of “Wild Reaction” (RS), will respond to the text “Some ideas about the present and the future” from “Ediciones Isumatag” … Continue reading →
from contrainfo, transl waronsociety: 1st Message: Declaration of Permanent War Everyone get out! “Bakunin said that revolutions are three quarters fantasy and a quarter reality. The important thing is realizing where the fantasy that leads to the explosion of generalized … Continue reading →
from contrainfo, translated by waronsociety: Don’t vote them in, kick them out! “As writers of an essay of political philosophy, the Invisible Committee affects a strong contempt for speculation and a marked penchant for practice. And this is good, above … Continue reading →
from contrainfo, translated by waronsociety: Several months ago, the communication media falsely attributed to us a series of attacks on various targets in different parts of the Mexican republic, for which reason we want to present the following: 1. The … Continue reading →
from contrainfo, transl waronsociety: At almost two months into the liquid hunger strike of compañerxs Juan Flores, Nataly Casanova, and Guillermo Durán, today [June 5th] one of the most important demands was achieved: compañero Enrique Gúzman was moved from prison … Continue reading →
from contrainfo, translated by waronsociety: In the morning of April 14 of this year, we left a book-bomb in the facilities of the University of Mexico Valley (UVM), on its Coacalco campus in Mexico State. The explosive was addressed to … Continue reading →
from contrainfo, translated by waronsociety: The morning of May 14 of this year, we prepared a fire extinguisher full of dynamite, black powder and phosphorous powder with a homemade slow-fuse detonator. We abandonded it on the outskirts of the Cuautitlán campus … Continue reading →
Author: CrimethInc.Title: Disasters of State: On the Earthquakes in Turkey and SyriaDate: 16.03.2023Notes: Kurdish: Felaketên Dewletê: Li ser Erdhejên Tirkiye û Sûriyê Turkish: Devletin Felaketleri: Türkiye ve Suriye'deki Depremler HakkındaSource: Retrieved on 19th March 2023 from crimethinc.com On February 6, 2023, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and […]
Author: Notes From BelowTitle: IllegalismDate: January 18, 2010Source: Retrieved on March 6, 2012 from web.archive.org The recent arrest of Alfredo Bonanno on suspicion of an alleged bank robbery in Greece has exposed the risks and reopened the controversy surrounding the tactic of political expropriation. Whilst criminality remains in the arsenal of the mov […]
Author: Matt StoneTitle: On the Steppes of Central AsiaDate: 1992Notes: Edited by Richard D. Fuerle.Source: Retrieved on 13th March 2023 from www.anarchism.net Chapter 1 At the time this all happened I was a journalism major in my junior year at Harvard. I was an editor of the Crimson, the student newspaper, and had ambitions to be an investigative reporter, […]
Author: Laurance LabadieTitle: In a Pickle!Date: January 29, 1965Source: Retrieved 03/17/2023 from unionofegoists.com I don’t know of any party, sect, or movement with whom I couldn’t be ascribed to, not by those in any particular group, but by their rivals. In the same sense, I could not be identified with any group === a non-labeling which fits me precisel […]
Author: David S. D’AmatoTitle: Language & the Construction of Economic PowerDate: 12/5/22Source: Retrieved on March 13, 2023 from https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/language-and-the-construction-of The language we use in large part creates our social reality. The character of our social institutions emerges from the things we say about them, and injustices […]
Author: Flower BombTitle: ADULTHOOD IS A TRAPSubtitle: Anti-Natalism, Youth Liberation, and a Refusal to SurrenderDate: 2023Source: https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/files/2022/07/Adulthood-Is-A-Trap_Anti-Natalism-Youth-Liberation-and-a-Refusal-to-Surrender.pdf If life is to be understood as the free-flowing heartbeat of adventure, emotions, and experiences, […]
Author: Gabriel KuhnTitle: Anarchism & sportsDate: 29 march 2022Source: www.youtube.com Anarchism and sports. Isn’t that a contradiction? Isn’t sports characterised by competition, commercialism, conservative body norms, nationalist frenzy? Isn’t it an opiate of the masses? Yes. But sports is also characterized by community, inclusivity, social learning, […]
Author: Carlo SalzaniTitle: Unauthorized FreedomSubtitle: Agamben’s Anarchism à l’Épreuve of the PandemicDate: March 28, 2022Source: https://parisinstitute.org/unauthorized-freedom-agambens-anarchism-a-lepreuve-of-the-pandemic/ I. Unauthorized Freedom HIJACKED by the varied and composite galaxy opposing state measures against COVID-19, the word “freedom” has […]
Author: Darren AllenTitle: Goodbye Mr. MarxSubtitle: An Anarchist Critique of MarxismDate: 5 Oct 2021Source: Retrieved on 21st October from www.expressiveegg.org The great mistake of the Marxists and of the whole of the nineteenth century was to think that by walking straight on one mounted upward into the air. Simone Weil Marx’s theories are well known enou […]
Author: Daniel ColsonTitle: Belief, anarchism and modernityDate: 2007Notes: Translated by Sharif Gemie, edited by Ruth Kinna with assistance from Paul Chambers and Patricia ClarkSource: Anarchist Studies Journal, Vol. 15 ABSTRACT This essay was originally published in the French-language journal Réfractions 14 (Spring 2005 pp43-52), which was a special issue […]
Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: The Thermidor of the ProgressivesSubtitle: Managerialist Liberalism’s Hostility to Decentralized OrganizationDate: 2010Notes: Center for a Stateless Society Paper No. 9 (Second Quarter 2010)Source: Retrieved 03/18/2023 from c4ss.org I. Background Twentieth century liberalism had its origins as the belief system of what C. Wright Mi […]
Author: Notes From BelowTitle: COP15: Notes From BelowDate: November 29, 2009Source: Retrieved on November 13, 2011 from web.archive.org This December (ten years since the alter-globalisation movements took to the streets of Seattle to oppose the world trade organization) activists from across the globe will be descending on Copenhagen to protest the COP15 r […]
Author: Giorgio AgambenTitle: On Anarchy TodayDate: February 26, 2023Notes: First published in Una Voce. Translated by Ill Will.Source: Retrieved on 2023-03-16 from If, among those who think about politics, anarchy has never ceased to be relevant, given that it constitutes its extreme focal or vanishing point, it is so additionally today given the unjust and […]
Author: Alfred B. WestrupTitle: The Practicability of the Mutual Bank and Absurdity of the Idea of a “Measure” or “Standard” of ValueDate: 1891Notes: Published in Egoism 1 no. 11 (March 1891), p.2–3.Source: Retrieved 02/19/2023 from catalog.hathitrust.org Let us suppose a community where there is only one bank and that each individual in that community secur […]
Author: Locusts and Wild HoneyTitle: Defending Das InstitutSubtitle: The Stakes of U.S. Anti-LGBT ViolenceDate: March 10th, 2023Source: Retrieved 3/12/2023 from https://c4ss.org/content/58154. All over the U.S. imperial core, the trumpets of war are being sounded against queer communities. More than that: reactionary forces are, to put it as bluntly as possi […]
Author: Barbarie MetodicaTitle: The Terror of VisibilitySubtitle: Demoni Danzanti No.3Date: 2023Notes: This text is the English version of zines in Italian that are distributed at free parties in Sicily. It is written in the context of the new 633bis law, pushed by the neo-fascist Italian government in 2023 and that makes possible sentences of up to 6 years […]
Author: Arnold RollerTitle: The Social General StrikeDate: 1905Notes: Preface by Max Baginski.Translated from the German by F. K.Published by the Debating Club No. IChicago, June 1905. Arnold Roller is the pseudonym for Stephen NaftSource: Retrieved 03/07/2023 from books.google.com PREFACE. THERE were two especial reasons that prompted the publication of thi […]
Author: Daniel ColsonTitle: Nietzsche and AnarchismDate: 2002Notes: In Lignes 2002/1 (n° 7), pages 170 to 185.Source: www.cairn.info Nietzsche’s work has been the object of a large number of interpretations: an extreme right-wing interpretation, for example, but also a Christian interpretation, or even, very early on, an anarchist interpretation and, more re […]
Author: Daniel ColsonTitle: Anarchist Readings of SpinozaDate: 1998Notes: Article published in Réfractions, No. 2 (Summer 1998) pp. 119–148.Source: 1libertaire.free.fr I. Bakunin and Proudhon As the number of publications attests, one can observe, for quite a few years now, a renewed interest in Spinoza. This rediscovery is not only academic and, to a large […]
Author: Daniel ColsonTitle: Daniel Colson : Anarchism is Extremely RealisticSubtitle: (An Interview with Ballast Review)Date: 02 Feburary 2015Notes: Posted on February 02, 2015 in Philosophy by Ballast.Source: https://www.revue-ballast.fr/daniel-colson-lanarchisme-est-extremement-realiste/ To open the ball, Daniel Colson, sociologist, essayist (one thinks of […]
If first wave anarchism can loosely be summarized as left-anarchism, and second wave anarchism then loosely identified as post-left anarchism, in what way do you see a new shift in anarchist thought, if at all? Are there any authors in particular who you think are especially challenging post-left ideas? Or perhaps you have your own ideas that you see as a ra […]
I've read & heard some people, like anarchists, commies, try to suggest that open source software & free software are examples of anarchism and/or communism/socialism in action and what not. I personally don't feel that way about it. The most permissive open source license, for example, is the Do Whatever The Fuck You Want With This license […]
Short answer: yes. Long answer: In order to answer the question "Can a man be a Lesbian?" One first has to answer the question "What is a Lesbian?" There are many ways to answers this question depending on what framework one uses. However if we examine these differing frameworks (using a meta framework) we can separate these frameworks in […]
I am positive about nothing being sacred. I am positive about the usefulness of words to provide descriptive meaning, but aware that meaning is determined by the receiver of words not the transmitter. The common "divide" in Anarchism is more often the divide of Negative or Positive theory. Egoism and descended theories perform anarchy via negation […]
i see the state as an abstraction. i see state actors as concrete individuals acting on behalf of that abstraction toward its aims of ever increasing power and control. probably not as deep an answer as the question warrants, but that was my gut response.
Edit: Forgot the part about morals. I aim to be against morals but obviously that is a lofty goal and thus a constant process. Thus I do not think pedophilia is wrong, immoral or undesirable. I think anyone of any age should be sexually free and beyond that, that distinction ls between children and adults abolished. My personal opinion is that identification […]
i guess the depth and scope of one's empathy could be impacted by an anti-authoritarian perspective. eg, maybe i have empathy for all living things (however i define "living"). as i develop my critiques of authority and its role in my life, i could become far less empathetic toward those i see as authoritarian. mutual aid clearly does not requ […]
In this episode of the brilliant Aragorn! discusses the relevance of the Russian Nihlists today. While what has come to be known as anarcho-nihlism is in a few ways disconnected from this history, nihlism has definitely had an effect and continues to offer lessons to anarchists. To the extent an anarcho-nihlism could exist it would be this rejection of a rev […]
Ive recently been going through a lot of Aragorn!'s old convos, listening to listening to first 100 Anews podcasts and a few episodes of The Brilliant. And a recurring idea seems to be the idea of a shift from "2nd wave" anarchism to "3rd wave". Aragorn! Never outlines any real specific trends he sees in this shift that I know of, be […]
It comes from a speech Emma Goldman was to give in Chicago on March 16, 1908, but she was arrested before she could speak and roughed up by the cops. The speech was titled "Anarchy and What It Really Stands For" and was printed in the Chicago Daily Journal on March 17, 1908. A few days after that, "Anarchy and What It Really Stands For," […]
The gist of it is that anarcho-transhumanism is anarcho-capitalism with cyborgs. Transhumanism promotes the idea of humans intervening in human evolution and attempting to make humans more effecient and superior via advances in science and technology. It's to overcome the limits of the evolution, that they claim is repressing us all, and using advances […]
What are your thoughts about cancel culture? I find it amusing that the people that are all about "concelling" someone for a mistake or wrong think slightly amusing. Mostly because the people that are all about it seem oblivious that it will be used against them. Overall, it seems pretty authoritarian to me.
It's highly unlikely the internet would still exist in an anarchist type society. One issue, of many, is the internet needs fuel to produce energy (electricity) for it to run and stay online. That would need to be done in areas all over to keep it online. How would anarchists be able to produce enough energy for the gazillion servers? The options are li […]
my 2c: voluntary association is a core anarchist principle. if that is what you are describing - all participate freely and without coercion - then i see no reason why such a relationship would not be consistent with anarchist relations. however, that is pretty general, and as with most situations, the devil is in the details. particularly around coercion, a […]
Apparently "anarchist" is an identity to some groups of people. I have noticed people refer to "anarchist" as being part of a "movement." For it to be a movement, I have deduced that it needs to be "a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals." Now I haven't been invi […]
of course i mean in the context of anarchistic relations. in the world of democrapitalism, trust is essentially reliant on legal (contracts) and political (elected representatives) institutions. and that trust, as well as the supposedly "earned" or assumed trust between individuals who know each other (eg, families), is breached frequently. in a wo […]
First of all I'm pretty sure Marx these days is getting too much credit for the term and theory. Yes he spent a lot of time in the library, and yes he made a lot of charts and bullshit about capitalism, but the fact is he was part of a milieu where lots of people, many of them anarchists, many of them older than him, were talking about the same thing. M […]
The Old Calendristspecies being and other storiesThe Impossible, Patience and How to Live Now or Never"Anarchism" by de CleyreLetters of InsurgentsA lot of my favorites are the ones that aren't generally considered anarchist like di Prima, Kafka (especially the aphorisms), Artaud, Benjamin, Bataille, Genet.
Athens, the Revolutionary Struggle trial: Statement of anarchist Jean Weir to the terror court of Korydallos wp.me/pIlyk-lN10 years ago
International Conspiracy for Revenge – FAI/IRF takes responsibility for arson of a school in Manado (Indonesia) wp.me/pIlyk-lL10 years ago
International Conspiracy for Revenge – FAI/IRF claim bombing and call for global actions in solidarity with prisoners of FAI-Indonesia Eat… 10 years ago
Mexico: Responsibility claim for armed attack on a municipal police patrol car in the municipality of Valle de Chalco in EdoMex… 10 years ago
‘Long-Live Luciano Tortuga Cell – International Conspiracy for Revenge – FAI / FRI’ attack electrical substation with incendiary device in… 10 years ago
October 5th, 2012: Call for Day of Action Against Mexican, US & Canadian Consulates & Embassies wp.me/pIlyk-lq10 years ago
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