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Editor’s Note: This article originally ran August 8, 2013, in the Deep Green Resistance News Service. We are republishing the entire Time is Short series, and welcome your comments. By Lexy Garza and Rachel Ivey / Deep Green Resistance Humans are storytelling creatures, and our current strategy as a movement is a story, with a beginning, middle, and end. We need to ask whether that story matches up with reality, and with the way social change has happened throughout history. ...

Many thanks to San Diego Free Press, who first published this article. By Will Falk, Deep Green Resistance I recently attended another sustainability conference at a local university. The experts sat in a half-circle facing their audience in rank-and-file foldable chairs. I, like most of the audience, hoped to hear a brilliant solution to the ongoing destruction of the living world. The amount of experience and knowledge assembled in the experts’ panel was formidable. ...

Don’t miss Liberal vs Radical part one and part two. [youtube &w=640&h=390] (Video captions available in English, Russian, Portuguese. Contact us if you would like to translate this or other Deep Green Resistance videos to another language.) Video Transcript: Once people realize that bad things are happening most of us are called to action. I would say these are the four main categories of response. ...

Watch part one and part three. (Video captions available in English, Russian, Portuguese. Contact us if you would like to translate this or other Deep Green Resistance videos to another language.) Video Transcript: People withstand oppression using 3 psychological methods: denial, accommodation, and consent. So if they had but known they were slaves. ...

Excerpt: 1. Female people are a distinct social class with unique experiences, and members of that class experience specific forms of oppression under male supremacy based on the fact that we are female. 2. Gender is an inherently oppressive caste system that serves to facilitate and maintain the exploitation of female people under male supremacy. In the last year, my experiences have made it clear to me that these two ideas are tantamount to Orwellian thoughtcrime in our current political climate around gender. And my question – yet again – is why. What is it about these two ideas that justifies the level of threats, backlash, and silencing that we receive just for daring to speak them out loud? ...

Watch part two and part three. Video Transcript: Two of my favorite people from history. My dad gets upset because they don’t really teach science anymore in the public schools, and this is mostly because the Right Wing can’t bear the thought of evolution. My mom gets sad ‘cause they don’t really teach history anymore and my sister fairly weeps because you don’t get art anymore in the school system. But me, I’m like, ’they just don’t teach revolution anymore in those public schools’.[audience laughs] Am I right? Right? ...

By Kim / Stories of Creative Ecology Don’t talk to me about sustainability. You want to question my lifestyle, my impact, my ecological footprint? There is a monster standing over us, with a footprint so large it can trample a whole planet underfoot, without noticing or caring. This monster is Industrial Civilization. I refuse to sustain the monster. If the Earth is to live, the monster must die. This is a declaration of war. What is it we are trying to sustain? A living planet, or industrial civilization? Because we can’t have both. ...