updated Tue. October 1, 2024
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Eugene Weekly
March 15, 2018
I deeply encourage readers to look further into the facts of this current controversy involving Derrick Jensen and Deep Green Resistance. Essentially this controversy arose from a situation in which Jensen was in support of a women's only community, comprised of rape trauma victims autonomouslyÃâà...
Eugene Weekly
March 8, 2018
Once known as a “philosopher poet” among environmentalists, Derrick Jensen of the group Deep Green Resistance is better known these days for sparking protests against what his opponents call his and DGR's transphobic views. Jensen's March 4 appearance at the Eugene Public Library led to a protestÃâà...
The Heartland Institute
December 27, 2017
Colorado's Attorney General's office has asked a federal court to dismiss a “first-of-its-kind” claim filed by members of Deep Green Resistance (DGR), a self-described radical environmental group, requesting the court recognize the Colorado River ecosystem as a legal person with constitutional rights.
KJZZ
December 6, 2017
An environmental group in Colorado, Deep Green Resistance, had sued that state and its governor on behalf of the river. The idea was that the Colorado River, as a person, could sue over environmental damage and other threats to its health, especially if there wasn't a human being who was directlyÃâà...
Aspen Journalism
November 20, 2017
Five potential next friends were named in the original complaint — Deanna Meyer, Jennifer Murnan, Fred Gibson, Susan Hyatt and Will Falk — all members of the environmental group Deep Green Resistance, which states its goal is to “deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful ofÃâà...
Aspen Journalism
October 21, 2017
The complaint asks that members of Deep Green Resistance be allowed to “serve as guardians, or 'next friends,' for the Colorado River Ecosystem.” And it asks that they be able to file lawsuits to “force the state of Colorado to take certain actions, as violations of the rights of the Colorado River ecosystem.”.
Religion News Service
October 9, 2017
If successful, it would mean lawsuits can brought on behalf of the river for any harm done to it, as if it were a person. In the past, several environmental groups in India, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and New Zealand have successfully sought protection for rivers and landscapes based on this argument.
New York Times
September 26, 2017
Deep Green Resistance believes that the mainstream environmental movement has been ineffective, and that industrial civilization is fundamentally destructive to life on earth. The group's task, according to its website, is to create “a resistance movement that will dismantle industrial civilization by anyÃâà...
CounterPunch
August 11, 2015
For a book that advertises itself as a “shift in strategy and tactics,” Deep Green Resistance (DGR) has an overwhelmingly dispiriting tone, and is riddled with contradictions.[1] While DGR provocatively addresses many pressing social and ecological issues, its opportunistic, loose-cannon theoreticalÃâà...
