A few nights ago, as a part of Eastern Michigan University’s weeklong “Activism and Education” festivities, noted author and environmental activist Derrick Jensen addressed students and members of the Ypsilanti community at Pease Auditorium. What follow are my very rough notes. As I spent half my time mopping sweat from my red, wrinkled brow, I’m […]
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Derrick Jensen on the necessity of armed revolution, the futility of conservation, and the inherent violence of science
Posted in Civil Liberties, Environment, Uncategorized Also tagged 1942, activism, anti-science, Bhopal, BP, Capitalism, castration, Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, clean water, conservation, David Attenborough, decolonization, Deep Green Resistance, Derrick Jensen, domestic violence, Eastern Michigan University, eco justice, Education, education reform, EMU, energy conservation, fracking, France, Global Warming, global warming denial, Guantánamo Bay, Gulf of Mexico, higher education, Huron River, IRA, James Inhofe, Joseph Campbell, Nazi, Nazi Doctors, Obama, oil spills, permaculture, picket pin, potential for violence, racism, radio-contoled cigar cutters, rape, revolution, Robert Jay Lifton, tea party, teaching, Thomas Lindsay, trends in American education, Union Carbide, University of Munich, violence, violence vs non-violence, water quality, we need a revolution, White Rose Society 29 Comments
Turtles want their lives back too, you self-obsessed asshole
The quote, for those of you who don’t recognize it, is from Tony Hayward, the President of BP, who, I believe, said it in complete seriousness, as though he felt that people should feel sorry for his plight. With all the focus on dead dolphins and sea turtles, like the one pictured above, I think […]
Posted in Environment, Other Also tagged BP, Deepwater Horizon, dolphins, Gulf of Mexico, I want my life back, Leilani Munter, oil, oil spill, sea turtles, turtles 35 Comments
BP illustrates the need for a corporate death penalty
It’s now coming out that, when Obama was visiting the Louisiana coast a few days ago, surveying the extent of the damage wrought by the BP oil leak, many of the individuals that he, and the rest of us watching at home, thought were BP workers, were in fact temps hired by Tony Haward and […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Corporate Crime, energy Also tagged America Speaking Out, angry Republicans and their ideas, Any Rand, BP, chemical dispersants, child labor, corporate death penalty, Deepwater Horizon, deregulation, dolphins, fish, Lake Michigan, Louisiana, mammals, reptilian humanoids, Republican platform, tea party, Tea Partyfication, top kill, toxic waste, Wall Street, whales 25 Comments