Deep Green and Red Resistance;-) Excellent article-I highly recommend everyone interested in protecting the Earth and making this a world that works for everyone, read and share this.
It becomes more and more apparent that we don’t need armies, we don’t need spaceships or guns-what we need is Solidarity, Community, and connection.
We need people willing and able to act, to speak out, to get the truth out into the public awareness and people and communities that can support those who are taking action-whether it consists of direct action, demonstrations, political actions, legal actions or things like boycotts and divestment and the promotion of all of the above.
It looks darkest just before dawn, and to me despite the massive amount of very real destruction, pollution and colonizer action to solidify and maintain their power-it looks like the Sun is going to rise no matter what they do to try and make it stay dark forever.
Thoughts on Idle No More and Critical Infrastructure
by Shiri Pasternak
News reports are ablaze with reports of looming Indigenous blockades and economic disruption. As the Idle No More movement explodes into a new territory of political action, it bears to amplify the incredible economic leverage of First Nations today, and how frightened the government and industry are of their capacity to wield it.
In recent years, Access to Information (ATI) records obtained by journalists reveal a massive state-wide surveillance and “hot spot monitoring” operation coordinated between the Department of Indian Affairs, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), local security forces, natural resource and transportation ministries, border agencies, and industry stakeholders. These efforts have been explicitly mobilized to protect “critical infrastructure” from Indigenous attack.
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