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Deep Green Resistance Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Aric McBay The book that inspired this organization, this is crucial reading for anyone who has accepted that civilization is destroying the planet, but hasn't known how to respond. Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet – and win. Endgame Derrick Jensen A foundational two-volume work that gives readers a crash course in critique of civilization. This is an excellent and (relatively) succinct summary of what's wrong with this culture and why. The Myth of the Machine Lewis Mumford In writing as elegant as it is clear, Mumford makes plain the death urge that has always underlain civilization. This is a social structure organized not around any organic human needs, but around the “needs” of the machines that have come to characterize and control our lives. The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability Lierre Keith Thoroughly examines the destruction caused by agriculture, the basis of civilization. Explains why vegetarianism won't save us, and the need for perennial polycultures to heal landbases and the humans who live with them. Life and Death Andrea Dworkin A collection of the most incisive essays and unpublished speeches of this famed feminist author. This gathering of impassioned, compelling articles and speeches shows that the epidemic of rape, wife-beating, murder of females, pornography and prostitution is made possible by cultures that allow men to exercise destructive power over women. Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism Mary Daly Focuses on the practices that perpetuate the "religion" of patriarchy. "In this deeply original, provocative book, outrage, hilarity, grief, profanity, lyricism and moral daring join in bursting the accustomed bounds even of feminist discourse." —The New York Times Book Review Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism Jack Forbes This book is an extraordinary indictment of the dominant culture, an indigenous perspective on the violence and destruction carried out by the civilized. It explains the wetiko disease, a spiritual illness with a physical vector, as a frighteningly contagious urge for exploitation and consumption. For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook edited by Michael Yellow Bird and Waziyatawin This collection demystifies the language of colonization and decolonization and helps Indigenous communities identify useful concepts, terms, and intellectual frameworks in their struggles toward liberation and self-determination.

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"Beyond Hope" Derrick Jensen "The most common words I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, We're fucked."

"Forget Shorter Showers" Derrick Jensen Why personal change does not equal political change.

"Principles of War and Strategy" Alex Budd Explores nine considerations for resisting strategically: Objective; Offensive; Mass; Economy of Force; Manoeuvre; Unity of Command; Security; Surprise; and Simplicity. Part of the Time Is Short article series.

"The Tyranny of Structurelessness" Jo Freeman Debunks the idea of leaderless movements, explaining that in the absence of explicit structures, a group develops implicit power dynamics. Demonstrates the value of clearly defining an organization's structure, leadership, and criteria of participation.

"A Primer on Class Struggle" Michael Schwalbe Explains the basics of Marxist, economic class struggle and analysis.

"White Woman Feminist" Marilyn Frye Explores the intersection of feminism with white supremacy and with economic class.

Websites

Feminist Current Excellent articles and podcasts on a wide range of feminists issues.

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund CELDF uses radical tactics in the realm of law, working with communities to establish Community Rights – such that communities are empowered to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their residents and the natural environment, to and establish environmental and economic sustainability.

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Reports and news detailing systemic racism in the US, and organizing communities for self defense and undoing racism.

Survival International News of and ways to support indigenous peoples around the world, most of them at risk of extermination and on the front lines of environmental defense.

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Videos

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Endgame by Derrick Jensen Classic talk based on Jensen's Endgame book. Explores anti-civ theory and the need to resist. Neoliberalism and the Defanging of Feminism by Gail Dines Explores how mainstream feminism has lost its way by fighting for the individual rights of a small group of elite white women instead of the collective liberation of all women. Dines argues that much of what passes for feminism today is focused on the pseudo-empowerment offered to women who conform to the narrow standards of femininity set by the porn culture. Porn Culture by Gail Dines A presentation at the Nova Scotia Women's Summit on porn culture and it's effect on our society and on violence against women. Earth At Risk by Lierre Keith Presentation from 2011 Earth At Risk conference. You can purchase 4-DVD set of the entire conference. American Holocaust by Joanelle Romero A powerful and hard-hitting documentary revealing the link between the Nazi holocaust and the American Holocaust which claimed, according to conservative estimates, 19 million Indigenous People. Reveals how Hitler studied Americas Indian policy and used it as a model for what he termed the final solution. America's Native Prisoners of War by Aaron Huey Heartbreaking slideshow presentation of original photos documenting the poverty and oppression experienced by the Lakota, dwelling in the prisoner of war reservation of Pine Ridge. Clearly presents the string of broken treaties and massacres leading to enrichment of settler culture at the direct expense of the original inhabitants of the land. Crucial US history not taught in schools. Speech by Bobby Seale Inspiring speech by this former President of the Black Panther Party. Seale makes clear the relationship between the oppression of blacks and the oppression of the earth, and the need to resist against both. White Reparations to African People by Penny Hess The Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee explains the moral necessity of the first step in reparations: recognizing that white wealth and a prosperous way of life are built on the stolen labor of Africans.

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