Thank you for this important info and also, could you give us a better way to stand up for the planet then simply throwing out bodies at it? What are some effective action steps that you recommend?
There are many different directions a person could go in. But the political fight is rigged. Still some people will focus on lobbying, filing lawsuits, and those aren’t entirely without merit. They just won’t be enough. My call is to asymmetric resistance. That too can be a lot of different roles, not all involving direct conflict—but in supporting those who do, etc. So before you can assign concrete action steps, you need to generally know where you are going to operate. I for example do a lot of writing to dispel the myths and teach resistance.
My series on the book Total Resistance will be helpful. So far it has an intro article and 4 additional parts.
I feel like tactical and stealthy monkeywrenching may be the way to go at this point. Sabotage. Find the weak links in the machinery of empire. Protests are worthwhile in signaling resistance yet do not affect the mechanisms driving the death cult forward. Server farms for AI could be a target. Look to the methods used by animal rights activists, forest defenders, oil and natural gas pipeline resisters. We have to get creative. I live near the Murphy plywood headquarters (the corporation behind the Parched timber sale up in Washington) and think about this stuff a lot.
Thank you for this important info and also, could you give us a better way to stand up for the planet then simply throwing out bodies at it? What are some effective action steps that you recommend?
There are many different directions a person could go in. But the political fight is rigged. Still some people will focus on lobbying, filing lawsuits, and those aren’t entirely without merit. They just won’t be enough. My call is to asymmetric resistance. That too can be a lot of different roles, not all involving direct conflict—but in supporting those who do, etc. So before you can assign concrete action steps, you need to generally know where you are going to operate. I for example do a lot of writing to dispel the myths and teach resistance.
My series on the book Total Resistance will be helpful. So far it has an intro article and 4 additional parts.
https://open.substack.com/pub/collapsecurriculum/p/total-resistance-why-we-must-learn?r=8pc4d&utm_medium=ios
I have a new series on Vietnam coming soon as well where we’ll explore how the empire was defeated by peasants.
I feel like tactical and stealthy monkeywrenching may be the way to go at this point. Sabotage. Find the weak links in the machinery of empire. Protests are worthwhile in signaling resistance yet do not affect the mechanisms driving the death cult forward. Server farms for AI could be a target. Look to the methods used by animal rights activists, forest defenders, oil and natural gas pipeline resisters. We have to get creative. I live near the Murphy plywood headquarters (the corporation behind the Parched timber sale up in Washington) and think about this stuff a lot.