QUELLING DISSENT: How The Big Greens Contain & Dissolve Resistance by kat yang-stevens We are living in an age of unparalleled destruction. The prevailing colonialist capitalist order is forcing humanity to a state of near-total estrangement from the natural world. The earth can no longer sustain the parasitic extractive industry, which is fueled by the…
This short essay posits that larger structures and forces work together to reinforce institutionalized forms of oppression, which in turn ensures continued commodification and destruction of the earth as well as the continued oppression and subjugation of Native, Black, and other migrant/diasporic/settler peoples of color. Environmental organizing spaces are often dominated by white people but it is Indigenous*,…
Whitney Conti, an independent photojournalist, asked me for an impromptu interview after Power Shift 2013. Whitney Conti is an independent photojournalist from Washington D.C. Please visit Power Shift Climate Rally, October 21, 2013 Pittsburgh, PA. For a photoessay of the event which includes this interview. Website: http://www.whitneyconti.com Email : whitneyconti@gmail.com See Also: “Are Mainstream Environmental Groups Keeping…
