Fertile Ground - Fall '11 - Earth at Risk & West Coast Tour
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Subject: Fertile Ground - Fall '11 - Earth at Risk & West Coast Tour
From: Fertile Ground <deepgreenfe...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, October 31, 2011 12:34 pm
To: Ab Irato <dirty...@riseup.net>
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MONTH YEAR Fertile Ground newsletter - updates, events, and more.
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_Fall 2011 Newsletter - Vol. 2 No. 4_
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This fall is an exciting time for Fertile Ground. For one, our official
name
has changed. We are now the _Fertile Ground Environmental Institute_. We
think this name change reflects our goals and our mission more clearly,
and
helps us move forward with the organization.
Our own Dillon Thomson is currently in the midst of a west coast speaking
tour promoting Deep Green Resistance. He’s already spoken in Bellingham,
Seattle, and Portland. You can find upcoming locations on our website
here:
www.dgfg.org/national-tour.html.
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And coming up soon is the headline event of the year: the 2011 Earth At
Risk
conference in Berkeley, Cali. on November 13th. This event is a unique
chance to see renowned speaker and activist Arundhati Roy, along with
acerbic columnist Chris Hedges and poet-philosopher Derrick Jensen. We
have
lowered ticket prices in solidarity with the Occupy movement worldwide.
General admission tickets are now $10, and low-income/student tickets are
now $5. The full list of speakers, along with ticket info, can be
found at
[2]www.EarthAtRisk.net. We hope to see you there!
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_“Today corporate globalization needs an international confederation of
loyal, corrupt, and preferably authoritarian governments in poorer
countries
to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. It’s called
“creating a good investment climate.”’_
_- Arundhati Roy_
Please [3]make a contribution today to support our work! Fertile Ground
is a
501c3 federally recognized non-profit organization, so donations are
tax-deductible. You can donate on our website, [4]www.dgfg.org, or by
mailing a check to PO Box 1122 Bellingham, Wash., 98227. Please contact us
if you wish to volunteer or donate physical goods, such as computers, cell
phones, or printers. Thank you for your support!
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You can follow our work and get news updates on our [5]twitter feed or via
[6]facebook. And our [7]new reading list is online - check it out for
great
recommendations like _Columbus and Other Cannibals_, one of the
foundational
texts of the anti-civilization movement by indigenous educator and
activist
Jack D. Forbes.
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For the land,
The Board of Directors of Fertile Ground
_Climate change is leading to the breakup of sea ice in the polar
regions of
the world, with dire consequences for coastal communities and countless
non-human species._
_Mission Statement: _
Fertile Ground promotes worldwide oppositional cultures to challenge the
systems that oppress and dominate human populations and the natural world.
We build support for localized resistance against industrial
civilization by
providing educational materials and developing Deep Green leadership.
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_News:_
Dillon Thomson was interviewed on the Joe Show on KGMI radio in
Bellingham,
Wash. just before the beginning of his tour. Dillon comes on around 22
minutes into the show. You can listen to that interview here:
http://dgfg.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2903e4aa4d1bec9db22578f70&id=647ca46f53&e=1f64fc5a12.
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***
Our friends in the Deep Green Resistance movement have released an open
letter to the Occupy movement. Here are the first few sentences:
_We invite you to imagine, as many of you already probably have, if
thousands of people occupied local refineries, roads, ports, oil and
mining
extraction sites, etc. – in other words, imagine if people occupied the
locations where the 1% destroy the land and exploit humans, all for
profit.
Imagine their stock prices falling, their cash flow being interrupted,
their
ability to get loans and/or expand “production” – a euphemism for
converting
living beings into dead products – finished. Imagine if we were able to
stop
them, stop the 1%. Literally. Not symbolically.
We think it can be
done if
we all do it together. We think it can be done if we all figure out how to
do it and if we are willing to make the necessary sacrifices, together.
Here’s one way we could start..._
The full text of the letter can be found on the [9]Deep Green Resistance
website.
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_"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who
are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
- Malcolm X_
***
It’s been an amazing year for Fertile Ground. One of our projects has been
to develop a strong and user-friendly website for the organization. Our
original website, [10]fertileground1.ning.com, has been a great place to
meet people and continues to be a gathering space for many Deep Green
thinking individuals who want to share their enthusiasm. However, there
are
a couple of drawbacks to the Ning system: one is the fees they began
charging last year and the other is the inability to customize features.
These issues have driven us to develop the new site at [11]dgfg.org.
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Our new online home will have a forum for discussions and posts, FG blog,
video resources and pretty much everything else you're used to on our old
website, plus a few extras.
We're really looking forward to making the new site a streamlined hub for
Deep Green Resistance education and community resources. Please visit the
site and look around. Email your comments to
[12]deepgreenfe...@gmail.com and we'll do what we can to see your
suggestions are implemented.
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If you are interested in helping out with developing or maintaining the
website please let us know. There are many important long- and short-term
tasks that may need your talents. This is a community endeavor and has
thus
far been built by the wealth of skills contributed by our friends.
_Expect the Ning site to close at the end of 2011._
***
The latest feature on the Fertile Ground website is our blog – we are
posting writings by Fertile Ground organizers and friends. Please
contact us
with submissions of writings, photographs, or videos for the blog.
***
As always, we are looking for volunteers, interns, and organizers. Please
contact us if you can help!
_Chernobyl - now home to more than 300 wolves, as well as Europe's native
bison and horse species._
***
_We Believe:_
1. That human survival is dependent on healthy, diverse ecosystems.
2. That industrial civilization is undermining every living system on the
planet.
3. That the rights of life trump the perceived rights of commerce.
4. That most injustices are systematic and deliberate.
5. That the scale of planetary degradation is massive and should be met
with solutions that match the scale of the problems.
6. That the modern environmental movement will need to undergo a
fundamental transformation for it to be successful.
7. That technological innovation will not prevent the systematic
degradation of our planet.
8. That this culture will not make a voluntary change to a sustainable
lifestyle.
9. That protective use of force is justified in defending our landbase.
10. That our current civilization needs to be replaced by thousands of
cultures that are fully integrated into their local ecosystems.
_“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was
“legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was
“illegal".” - Martin Luther King Jr._
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