Deanna Meyer of Deep Green Resistance Colorado and Brian Ertz of Wildlands Defense teamed up to organize a 2015 campaign to delay construction of a Castle Rock, Colorado, mega-mall to save threatened prairie dogs. They discuss the campaign and some broader lessons for activists. &feature=em-subs_digest
[vimeo 120753081 w=500 h=281] Editorâs Note: This video, PROTECT OAK FLAT: SAVING APACHE SACRED GROUNDS, was produced by Paper Rocket Productions on Vimeo. This is the accompanying text, also by Paper Rocket Productions: For nearly a decade, Resolution Copper Mining, a subsidiary of British-Australian mining conglomerate Rio Tinto, had unsuccessfully sought ownership of Oak Flat Campground. Yet, on December 19, 2014, with the help of Senator John McCain, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2013 resurfaced within the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and was successfully passed by the Senate and signed off by President Obama . The new legislation will open up Oak Flat for copper mining. ...
Donât 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. ...
Watch part two and part three. Video Transcript: Two of my favorite people from history. My dad gets upset because they donât really teach science anymore in the public schools, and this is mostly because the Right Wing canât bear the thought of evolution. My mom gets sad âcause they donât really teach history anymore and my sister fairly weeps because you donât get art anymore in the school system. But me, Iâm like, âthey just donât teach revolution anymore in those public schoolsâ.[audience laughs] Am I right? Right? ...
The Film Our Land, Our Life presents the struggle of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone elders, to address the threat mining development poses to the sacred and environmentally sensitive lands of Crescent Valley, Nevada. From film transcript: Now you may ask yourself why the US government would come in and raid a ranch that is owned and operated by two Western Shoshone grandmothers who have lived there on this land since time immemorial? Well, as it turns out, the ranch in Crescent Valley sits on top of one of the largest gold finds in the history of the United States. Just two or three months after the horse roundup in February of 2003, Cortez GoldâŠwas claiming that it had found one of the most significant deposit of gold. Where? Right there where those animals had been removed. If you want to look at degradation of the range, go look over the top of this mountain down into those roads that the mine has been putting in to do their exploration, or go look into one of these pits, or go look at all the water theyâve been pumping. And yet, that is not considered degradation of the range? Shoshone land right now is the second largest gold producing area in the world. This microscopic gold is underneath the water table, so they are having to pump the water out to get to the earth underneath. The mines are pumping anywhere from 20,000 gallons of water per minute to 70,000 gallons of water per minute, for one mine alone, every day, 365 days a year. âŠthey are killing the earth.