[lbo-talk] Interview with Derrick Jensen, author & eco-activist, on Steal This Radio

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 12 18:35:10 PST 2009


On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Mitchel Cohen wrote:


> These two weeks, an interview with ecology writer Derrick Jensen.

Hey Mitch. A friend reports that Derrick sez:


> We need people to take out dams and we need people to knock out
> electrical infrastructures. We need people to protest and to chain
> themselves to trees. We also need people working to ensure that as
> many people as possible are equipped to deal with the fallout when
> the collapse comes. We need people working to teach others what wild
> plants to eat, what plants are natural antibiotics. We need people
> teaching others how to purify water, how to build shelters. All of
> this can look like supporting traditional, local knowledge, it can
> look like starting rooftop gardens, it can look like planting local
> varieties of medicinal herbs, and it can look like teaching people
> how to sing.

You buy this? You want to blow up power grids and dams (which is a war crime, but leave that aside for now)?

Doug



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