Our Targeted Media
We've selected these items as foundational works of the Deep Green Resistance and strategic anti-civ movement. Many people first came to their awareness of the problems of civilization and the need to fight back thanks to these books.
 | In The Myth of Human Supremacy Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail--from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the creative use of tools by elephants and fish, to the acumen of caterpillars and fungi. The paralysis of the scientific establishment on moral and ethical issues is confronted and a radical new framework for assessing the intelligence and sentience of nonhuman life is put forth. Jensen attacks mainstream environmental journalism, which too often limits discussions to how ecological changes affect humans or the economy--with little or no regard for nonhuman life. With his signature compassionate logic, he argues that when we separate ourselves from the rest of nature, we in fact orient ourselves against nature, taking an unjust and, in the long run, impossible position. Jensen expresses profound disdain for the human industrial complex and its ecological excesses, contending that it is based on the systematic exploitation of the earth. Page by page, Jensen, who has been called the philosopher-poet of the environmental movement, demonstrates his deep appreciation of the natural world in all its intimacy, and sounds an urgent call for its liberation from human domination. Title: The Myth of Human Supremacy |
 | Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping -- no matter how green -- won't stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play. This book is crucial reading for anyone who has accepted that civilization is destroying the planet, but hasn't known how to respond. This is the single most useful book to grow our movement of strategically thinking resisters. Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet -- and win. Title: Deep Green Resistance |
  | Endgame gives readers a crash course in anti-civ critique, an excellent and (relatively) succinct summary of what's wrong with this culture and why. Many people already know this in their bones, but will benefit from Jensen's eloquence and analysis to help them piece together a coherent big picture. This book has awakened and radicalized many people, and has the potential to reach many more. In Volume I: The Problem of Civilization, Jensen lays out a series of provocative premises, including "Civilization is not and can never be sustainable" and "Love does not imply pacifism." This volume cuts through the green-washing and lies from corporations and mainstream NGOs alike, laying an insightful framework for envisioning a truly sustainable way of life. Volume II: Resistance catapults this discussion into a passionate call for action. Using his premises as guidelines for exploring real-world problems, Jensen guides us toward concrete solutions by focusing on our most primal human desire: to live on a healthy earth overflowing with uncut forests, clean rivers, and thriving oceans that are not under the constant threat of being destroyed. By challenging readers to seriously ask themselves what it will take to make them fight back, and what that might look like for them as individuals and as a movement, this volume builds an important foundation for Deep Green Resistance. Title: Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization |
Title: Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance | |
Other Resistance Media
We've started small, focusing on just three works, but of course hundreds of other books and movies present important facets of radical resistance to capitalism, colonialism, industrialism, patriarchy, racism and all the other manifestations of civilization. We hope to add more of these media to our project in the future, but there's no reason you can't suggest them to your own library right now!
You can browse through the official DGR reading list for a comprehensive library sorted into categories and tags. Or start from this short list:
Books
- Earth At Risk by Derrick Jensen & Lierre Keith
- As The World Burns: 50 Things You Can Do To Stay in Denial by Derrick Jensen & Stephanie McMillan
Movies
- The Corporation
- Earth at Risk - DVD set
- Just Do It
- What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire
Authors
- Jane Caputi
- Ward Churchill
- Vine Deloria Jr.
- Andrea Dworkin
- Chris Hedges
- Derrick Jensen
- Lierre Keith
- Stephanie McMillan
- Lewis Mumford
- Daniel Quinn
- Arundhati Roy
- Gene Sharp
- Vandana Shiva
- Waziyatawin