Women’s Day of Peace 2012: The Life Givers of the Nations say no more alcohol in White Clay.

***On Thursday, July 19th DGR Colorado will host a screening of the documentary “Battle for Whiteclay” to raise awareness about the problem of Whiteclay and to raise money and support for a caravan that will drive from Colorado up to Pine Ridge to participate in the Aug. 26th Women’s Day of Peace. The screening will take place at Left Hand Books in Boulder, and will begin at 7pm. Contact DGR Colorado (deepgreenresistancecolorado@riseup.net) for more information.***

Women’s Day of Peace 2012: The Life Givers of the Nations say no more alcohol in White Clay.

Lifting our Hearts from Wounded Knees
August, 26th 2012 12:00 p.m. Billy Mills Hall Pine Ridge, SD
Action against White Clay Nebraska

Deep Green Resistance to Attend Unis’tot’en Action Camp

Deep Green Resistance will be participating in, and working to raise awareness and support for, the 3rd Annual Unis’tot’en Action Camp in Unis’tot’en territory in the north of Unceded Occupied so-called British Columbia. We seek to stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en and other First Nations in their fight against the exploitation and degradation brought on by the tar sands, including the Enbridge Northern Gateway and other pipelines, fuel terminals, and refineries. Members of Deep Green Resistance will participate in the Action Camp, as well as organize a series of events to raise support and collect donations for the Unis’tot’en Action Camp and the struggle.

2012 March for Justice Benefit June 3rd

On Sunday, June 3rd, Deep Green Resistance Colorado and JenLo Therapy Farm will host a benefit and fundraiser for the 2012 March for Justice in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. On June 9th, the Oglala Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Reservation will march for justice against the genocide of opportunist alcohol dealers in the border town of White Clay, Nebraska. A caravan will be leaving from Boulder/Denver June 8th, and allies willing to act and march in solidarity are needed, as well as material support.

Because of its damaging cultural, social and health effects, alcohol is prohibited on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The town of White Clay, Nebraska sits just 200 feet from the southern border of the reservation, and less than two miles from the town of Pine Ridge, the largest on the reservation. While the population of White Clay is only 14, there are 4 liquor stores in the town which make millions of dollars each year selling alcohol as a border town, feeding off of the continued destruction of the Oglala Lakota people.

We will be showing the documentary “Battle for White Clay”, which presents the problem of White Clay and the history of resistance to the alcohol town. The event will collect donations and material support–in the form of funds, canned foods, blankets, and fans/air conditioners–for the action, which will be taken up by a caravan of supporters from Colorado to participate and support the March for Justice. There will be a lunch served at 12, and the film will be shown at 2. There will also be a short tour & introduction to JenLo Therapy Farm, and the Earth Guardians may be performing. A $10 donation is requested, but no one will be turned away. JenLo Therapy Farms is located at 5125 Ute Highway in Lyons.

Please contact deepgreenresistancecolorado@riseup.net, or call 303-823-6336 with questions. For more information about the 2012 March for Justice, go here, or read this recent article in the Denver Post.

March for Justice – A Call for Solidarity and Support

March for Justice

In Memory of Wally Black Elk & Ron Hard Heart

June 9^th 10:00 am

On June 9^th, the Oglala Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Reservation will march for justice against the genocide of opportunist alcohol dealers in the border town of White Clay, Nebraska. A caravan will be leaving from Boulder/Denver June 8^th, and allies willing to act and march in solidarity are needed, as well as material support.

Because of its damaging cultural, social and health effects, alcohol is prohibited on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The town of White Clay, Nebraska sits just 200 feet from the southern border of the reservation, and less than two miles from the town of Pine Ridge, the largest on the reservation. While the population of White Clay is only 14, there are 4 liquor stores in the town which make millions of dollars each year selling alcohol as a border town.

The existence of White Clay, and the alcohol that is synonymous with its name, is responsible for violence, abuse and many deaths each year. These retailers routinely violate Nebraska liquor law by selling beer to minors and intoxicated persons, knowingly selling to bootleggers who resell the beer on the reservation, permitting on-premise consumption of beer in violation of restrictions placed on off-sale-only licenses, and exchanging beer for sexual favors .The vast majority of those who purchase beer in White Clay have in fact no legal place to consume it, since possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages on the Pine Ridge Reservation remain illegal under tribal law. Many people have died in the streets due to exposure, as the state of Nebraska fails to uphold state law or to police White Clay. As long as the liquor stores in White Clay remain in business, the genocide of the Oglala Lakota people will continue.

On June 9^th 1999 two Lakota men, Wally Black Elk and Ron Hard Heart, were brutally murdered in White Clay. It is in their memory that we will march for justice.

We will leave Colorado early on June 8^th, and rendezvous with other allies at the Wounded Knee Museum in Pine Ridge at 3 pm, and will camp out that night. The next morning, we will gather at Billy Mills Hall in the town of Pine Ridge at 11:00 am and begin the march to White Clay at noon.

Those interested in joining the caravan to Pine Ridge should contact Deep Green Resistance Colorado (deepgreenresistancecolorado@riseup.net). We are seeking material support, in the form of food and donations for the caravan. Additionally, we will be collecting donated fans and air conditioners to bring to elders on Pine Ridge.

Join us in demanding justice and an end to liquor in White Clay!

Sweet Crude Film Screening & Discussion – May 15

“Before the coming of oil, we had good fishing, rich estuaries, good costal land, good harvest, unpolluted…and then this thing called oil came.”

Deep Green Resistance Colorado will be hosting a screening and discussion of the film Sweet Crude, which documents the grassroots community resistance to oil extraction in the Niger Delta on Tuesday, May 15^th in the basement of the George Reynolds Library (3595 Table Mesa) at 6:00pm.

The Niger Delta is often considered the most polluted place on Earth. For half a century, oil extraction by transnational corporations has gone unregulated. Here, citizens of an oil-rich nation struggle to eat in a land that can no longer support them. The Delta’s water and soil have been fouled by the same oil production that accounts for more than 80 percent of the country’s revenue. Traditional fishing and farming livelihoods are all but gone. Potable drinking water is rare.. Families are broken up, as men die young or take off for the cities to find jobs.

Abusers, Colorado SB 12-088, and the Imperative of Production

ALL HANDS ON DECK!

A new law proposed by conservative State senators in the Colorado State Congress seeks to preempt local regulation of oil & gas drilling and prevent local cities and communities from having ANY control over oil and gas activities within their boundaries.

The bill–SB 12-088–comes on the heels of drilling moratorium in several Colorado counties, including Boulder, Longmont, and Colorado Springs, and is obviously a gift to the oil and gas industry. Now that the industry has begun to lose when it plays by the already biased and rigged rules, it has decided to change the rules altogether and forbid local control of oil and gas operations.

Deep Green Resistance Responds to Stratfor Intelligence Leaked by Anonymous that Reveals Spying on Occupy Movement and DGR

(View press release here.)

Internet group Anonymous has leaked information from October and November 2011 suggesting that private intelligence firm STRATFOR has been working with Texas law enforcement to infiltrate the Occupy movement and spy on the Deep Green Resistance movement.

In December 2011, Anonymous attacked the STRATFOR website, allegedly stealing 200 gigabytes of data and shutting the site down for weeks. This isn’t the first time Anonymous has gone after such corporations. In early 2011, Anonymous went after internet security firm HBGary, releasing private documents that included secret plans by HBGary and others to attack and discredit Wikileaks on behalf of big banks.

This Thursday: Tar Sands Pipeline Awareness Project

If you’re in or around the Denver area, clear your schedule for Thursday (January 26th) and get yourself to the Tar Sands Pipeline Awareness Project.

The event is being put on by UC Denver American Indian Student Educational Programs and Outreach to raise awareness and inform people about the tar sands. Warner Naziel and Freda Hudson will be guest speakers at the event, which will also have free food and a film. Naziel and Hudson hail from Westuwetan, and indigenous territory located in British Columbia. These two First Nation warriors have been fighting against the Tar Sands and a pipeline that would cross their homeland territory. Come and hear their first hand accounts of the tar sands destruction.

The event runs from 7-9 pm at St. Cajetan’s Church on the Auraria Campus. For more information, visit the American Indian Student Educational Programs and Outreach office in North Classroom 2013, or call 303-556-4721.

Belated Reflections on MLK Day

*Author’s note: This was written by a white person of privilege, living in a society of institutionalized racism and white supremacy. As a white member of this culture, I recieve material, emotional, and psycological benefits from this unjust arraignment of power, and have undoubtedly internalized this rascism. For me to speak on race is to speak from an undeserved postion of white privilege; despite my efforts, I do not believe that I can fully disentangle myself from that privilege when speakng about it.

The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. means many different things to many different people. We evoke his name when speaking about everything from civil disobedience and direct action to racial inequality and opression. He is rightly regarded and remembered as a hero for his dedication to justice and for his courage.

However, the celebration of MLK and his legacy is often twisted and subtly reformed by white members of this culture. Rather than remembering the opression (at the white, blood stained hands of this culture) against people of color and their strength in working to overcome it, the white-constructed narratives surrounding the Civil Rights movement and MLK often attempt to define our modern world as a “post-racial” one.

Earth at Risk: Stephanie McMillan on Capitalism

Our planet is under serious threat from industrial civilization; whether it’s the 200 species pushed to extinction everyday, catastrophic runaway climate change, the murder of the world’s topsoil, or the toxification of the air, water and our very bodies, this culture is incompatible with a living planet.

Yet most activists refuse to consider strategies that might actually prevent the looming biotic collapse the Earth is facing. We need to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. We need a serious resistance movement that includes all levels of direct action–action that can match the scale of the problem.