Fanning the Flames of Resistance

 A benefit for those resisting the Green Scare
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>             ...featuring Derrick Jensen
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> Green is the new Red…the 1950s had their vast Communist conspiracy,
> Congressional hearings, blacklists, and red-baiting. Today, we have
> “Eco-Terrorists…” secret databases, Congressional hearings, indictments,
> grand juries, raids, surveillance, arrests, convictions, and potential life
> sentences.
>
> On December 7th, 2005 federal and local law enforcement began the largest
> roundup of alleged environmental and animal liberation activists in American
> history. Over the next several months, the number of arrests, indictments,
> and subpoenas would mount in what the government called “Operation Backfire”
> and what activists would eventually term THE GREEN
> <http://ecoprisoners.org/greenscare2.htm> SCARE.
>
> In the so-called "War Against Terrorism"…
>
> …the terrorists aren’t the ones behind bars.
>
> Join acclaimed activist and author, Derrick Jensen, for a night of dialogue,
> debate, controversy, and an exploration of the nature of injustice in a
> so-called civilized world.
>
> Cost:
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> $10 sliding scale donation at the door
>
> (generosity greatly appreciated)
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> No one turned away for lack of funds.
>
> All proceeds to benefit non-cooperating victims of the Green
> <http://ecoprisoners.org/greenscare2.htm> Scare
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> * Government agents subject to a $975 surcharge*
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> When:
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> Thursday, July 27th- Saturday, July 29th
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> Where:
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> Santa Barbara, San Diego, Los Angeles
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> For additional info:
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> www.EcoPrisoners.org/fundraiser.htm
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> Info [at] EcoPrisoners [dot] org
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> (323) 304-2211
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> www.DerrickJensen.org <http://www.derrickjensen.org/>
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> www.EcoPrisoners.org <http://www.ecoprisoners.org/>
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> Thursday, July 27th... Santa Barbara
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> 7:00pm- 9:00pm
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> Lowis Lowry Davis Center
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> 1232 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, Calif., 93101
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> (At the corner of De La Vina and W. Victoria Streets)
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> Directions:
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> 101-North… Exit Carrillo Street, turn right. Go 4 blocks NE to Chapala and
> turn left. Go 4 blocks until you see the Unity Shoppe on the left. The
> parking lot entrance is just before the Unity Shoppe building on the left.
> The Davis Center is at the far end of the lot.
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> 101-South… Exit Mission Street, turn left. Go NE to De La Vina Street and
> turn right. Go several blocks SE and turn left on Victoria St. Immediately
> look for the parking lot on the right hand side.
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> For map, please click here
> <http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohis
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> Friday, July 28th... San Diego
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> 7:00pm- 9:30pm
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> Che Café
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> At the UC San Diego campus, La Jolla, Calif., 92093.
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> (Building 161 on the UCSD campus
> <http://maps.ucsd.edu/Viewer.htm?Map=&View=&Campus=LaJolla&Zoom=5&R.x=0.4438
> 49&R.y=0.652333&Fill=184&LKey=5044> map)
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> Off I-5 / La Jolla Village Dr. / Gilman Dr.
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> Directions: http://checafe.ucsd.edu/directions.html
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> http://checafe.ucsd.edu/
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> Venue: (858) 534-2311
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> For map, please visit: http://checafe.ucsd.edu/map.html
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> Saturday, July 29th... Los Angeles
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> 7:00pm- 9:30pm
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> Sandpaper Books
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> 3706 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, Calif., 90065
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> (Near Figueroa St. & W. Avenue 37 off the 110 Freeway)
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> www.SandPaperBooks.com <http://www.sandpaperbooks.com/>
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> Venue:  (323) 223-8020
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> For map, please click here
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> de=90065>
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> For additional info:
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> www.EcoPrisoners.org/fundraiser.htm
>
> Info [at] EcoPrisoners [dot] org
>
> (323) 304-2211
>
> www.EcoPrisoners.org <http://www.ecoprisoners.org/>
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> What’s the Green Scare <http://ecoprisoners.org/greenscare2.htm> ?
>
> The term Green Scare, alluding to the so-called Communist Red Scare of the
> 1940s- 50s, is in reference to legal and extra-legal targeting of the
> environmental and animal rights movements and its sympathizers by the United
> States government. Often referred to as “eco-terrorists” by U.S. officials
> and in sensationalized media stories, environmentalists and animal rights
> activists have—in increasing frequency—been subjected to grand jury
> subpoenas and imprisonment; ongoing government surveillance; warrantless
> searches of their homes and vehicles; surreptitious tracking through global
> positioning devices; interception of their mail, phone calls, and emails by
> federal agencies; and indictments and arrests based solely on the testimony
> of undercover FBI informants.
>
> Additionally, several activists are facing up to a decade in prison for
> doing nothing more than giving a controversial speech or running a campaign
> website. And nearly a dozen individuals face a life sentence in prison after
> being charged with crimes relating to the destruction of property. Despite
> the absence of a single injury or death being attributed to any so-called
> “eco-terrorist,” the U.S. government considers environmental and animal
> activists to be the “Number One Domestic Terrorist Threat.”
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> About Derrick Jensen <http://www.derrickjensen.org/> :
>
> Derrick Jensen is an activist, author, small farmer, teacher, and
> philosopher whose speaking engagements in recent years have packed
> university auditoriums, bookstores, churches - you name the place. His
> acclaimed book, A Language Older Than Words, has been said to accomplish the
> rare feat of both breaking and mending the reader’s heart, as well as
> energizing the mind.
>
> A typical Jensen event is multidimensional and feels a bit like traveling
> beneath the earth among tree roots, as they twist their way into soil, rock,
> river beds and accompany fish, insects, discarded tires, cellophane
> wrappers, animal minds, history, and human instinct on strange and
> interlocking journey.
>
> Speaking in an almost improvisational style, Jensen explores the nature of
> injustice, of what civilizations do to the natural world and how, in the
> face of the resulting horror that is one of the all too apparent
> consequences of grave injustice, civilized human beings create intricate
> systems of denial, silence, abnegation, deception and self-hatred to keep it
> at bay.
>
> He also reaches back to our collective childhoods, to the reality of magic
> in life, to discuss how nature has spoken to us and to how we must remember
> all the conversations we’ve had with her and renew them. It’s his antidote
> to cynicism and apocalypse. That there is a language much older than the
> lying language we use daily, without being aware, to dispel the horrors of
> modern living and dying.
>
> If there is a connection between Tiger Woods, newspaper journalism, the bad
> moods of trees, child abuse, amnesia, school, language, and salmon, Jensen
> finds those connections in a most personal way and exploits them so that the
> listener can actually experience the intricacies of Jensen’s point of view.
>
> It is indeed a heart rending, mind expanding, and ultimately healing
> exercise to explore Jensen’s root system, with him not so much as a guide,
> but an experienced fellow traveler.
>
> Books:
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> Endgame, vol.1 & 2
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> Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control
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> Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
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> Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests
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> The Culture of Make Believe
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> A Language Older than Words
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> Listening to the Land
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> <http://www.derrickjensen.org/books01.html>
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>  My Five Most Influential Books
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> An interview with Derrick Jensen published in "The Ecologist" (March 2004)
>
> Question One: Which book first made you realize that something was wrong
> (with the planet/political system/economic system, etc)?
>
> My Answer: It wasn’t a book. It was the destruction of place after place
> that I loved. And it was the complete insanity of a culture where so many
> people work at jobs they hate: What does it mean when the vast majority of
> people spend the vast majority of their waking hours doing things they’d
> rather not do? The culture itself convinced me something was wrong, by being
> so extraordinarily destructive, of human happiness, and far more
> importantly, the world itself.
>
> That said, Neil Evernden’s The Natural Alien was the first book I read that
> let me know I was not insane: that the culture is insane. It was the first
> book I read that did not take the dominant culture’s utilitarian worldview
> as a given.
>
> Question Two: Which one book would you give to every politician?
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> Answer: One that explodes.
>
> Before you freak out, let’s change the question and see what you think:
>
> Which one book would you give to Hitler, Goering, Himmler, and Goebbels?
>
> Let’s ask this another way: Would a book have changed Hitler? I don’t think
> so. Unless it exploded.
>
> And before you freak out at the comparison of modern politicians to Hitler
> and his gang, try to look at it from the perspective of wild salmon, grizzly
> bears, bluefin tuna, or any of the (fiscally) poor or indigenous human
> beings. Those in power now are more destructive than anyone has ever been.
> And they are for the most part psychologically unreachable. And if someone
> does reach some politician, that politician will no longer be in power.
>
> I recently shared a stage with Ward Churchill. He said the primary
> difference between the U.S. and the Nazis is that the U.S. didn’t lose.
>
> I responded with one word: “Yet.”
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> Question Three: What book would you give to every CEO?
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> Answer: See above.
>
> Question Four: What book would you give to every child?
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> Answer: I wouldn’t give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this
> strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its
> flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would
> take children outside, and put them face to face with chipmunks,
> dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads.
>
> That said, if you’re going to force me to give them a book, it would be The
> Wind in the Willows, which would I hope remind them to go outside.
>
> Question Five: It’s 2050. The ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising.
> You’re only allowed one book on the Ark. What is it?
>
> Answer: I wouldn’t take a book, and I wouldn’t get on the ark. I would kill
> myself (and take a dam out with me). I do not want to live without a living
> landbase. Without a living landbase I would already be dead. No book would
> even remotely compensate. Not a million books. Not a million computers. Not
> a million people would compensate.