We are losing badly. The good news is the oppressed are fighting back. The Unist’ot’en Clan of the grassroots Wet’suwet’en maintain a camp physically in the path of proposed pipelines routes over their unceded traditional territories in so-called British Columbia. Lakota Sioux warriors vow they will be dead or in prison before they allow the Keystone XL pipeline to pass over their lands. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger River Delta (MEND) is engaged in armed militant resistance to genocide and ecocide in Nigeria warning the oil industry to “Leave our land or die in it.” The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) states enough is enough and declares war on the Mexican state. The common thread tying these resistance groups is an honest acceptance of the urgency facing us. Resistors have been begging us for urgency for centuries. Things keep getting worse because not enough of us are answering their calls.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:09:59 +0000
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