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Via the Deep Green Resistance Women’s Caucus by Carol P. Christ/ Feminism and Religion Patriarchy is often defined as a system of male dominance. This definition does not illuminate, but rather obscures, the complex set of factors that function together in the patriarchal system. We need more complex definition if we are to understand and challenge the the patriarchal system in all of its aspects. Patriarchy is a system of male dominance, rooted in the ethos of war which legitimates violence, sanctified by religious symbols, in which men dominate women through the control of female sexuality, with the intent of passing property to male heirs, and in which men who are heroes of war are told to kill men, and are permitted to rape women, to seize land and treasures, to exploit resources, and to own or otherwise dominate conquered people. ...

“Contemporary public concern for protecting nature’s ecological equilibrium should lead to the conferral of standing upon environmental objects to sue for their own preservation.” Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Sierra Club v. Morton (1972) Denver, Colorado–In a first-in-the-nation lawsuit filed in federal court, the Colorado River is asking for judicial recognition of itself as a “person,” with rights of its own to exist and flourish. The lawsuit, filed against the Governor of Colorado, seeks a recognition that the State of Colorado can be held liable for violating those rights held by the River. ...

Over Earth Day weekend, Deep Green Resistance members in Oregon hosted an advanced direct action training in rural western Oregon. About 45 people attended from several surrounding states. The training began with several anti-oppression sessions to help foster an equitable and safe environment for facilitators and participants, especially for people of color, women, indigenous people, and members of other oppressed and marginalized groups. These sessions, which included an introduction to radical feminism and a group activity around understanding privilege, aimed to inform the interpersonal dynamic and content of the training. This is also to help facilitate a more inclusive and comfortable organizing experience in our communities. ...

This is just a small selection of events organized by other activists in the area that we’ve seen lately. We can’t speak for these groups, but there is some good stuff being done. Every Wednesday at 7pm, a Standing Rock solidarity group meets at the Grower’s Market, upstairs from Belly Taqueria on Willamette Street. Every weekday, M-F, at the old federal courthouse (211 E. 7th) from 5-6pm a group called “Rush Hour Resistance” is meeting to oppose Trump’s agenda. A group called “Disrupt Eugene” is holding their first general assembly to bring together activist groups in the area on February 11th at 4pm, also with a focus on resisting “Trumpism.” More info at facebook.com/groups/disrupteugene On Monday, February 13th, a No LNG pipeline rally will be held at the Douglas County Fairgrounds at noon. CALC and several other groups are hosting a meeting about nuclear policy in the Trump Administration on Sunday, February 26th at 4pm in Room 145 of Straub Hall on the U of O campus. 350 Eugene is hosting the “Valve Turners” on Friday February 24th from 6:30pm - 8:30pm at the Methodist Church at 1376 Olive St. $20 suggested donation to their legal fund.

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A Gathering for Celebration, Community, Movement Building, Ecology, and Land Defense Formerly Sacred Water Tour Join us on Memorial Day weekend for a campout and tour of basin and range country threatened by the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s proposed groundwater pipeline project. This year’s Sacred Water, Sacred Forests Camp will bring visitors to the lands affected by the water grab to learn about the project and the threatened sacred lands and waters. ...

Deep Green Resistance has been the target of an ongoing campaign of political repression and intimidation led by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The latest incident took place on January 22nd, when DGR member Max Wilbert was called by an FBI agent. On January 26th, Wilbert was interviewed on the radio about the FBI campaign. The Joe Show in Bellingham, Wash. invited Wilbert to share his story. Click below to listen to the interview. To learn more about this story, read the original news story released on January 22nd and sign the solidarity statement. ...

Counterpunch — Police Intimidation from Dalton Trumbo to Deep Green Resistance January 12th, 2015 Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security agents have contacted more than a dozen members of Deep Green Resistance (DGR), a radical environmental group, including one of its leaders, Lierre Keith, who said she has been the subject of two visits from the FBI at her home. The FBI’s most recent contact with a DGR member occurred Jan. 8 when two FBI agents visited Rachael “Renzy” Neffshade at her home in Pittsburgh, Pa. The FBI agents began the visit by asking her questions about a letter she had sent several months earlier to Marius Mason, an environmental activist who was sentenced in 2009 to almost 22 years in prison for arson and property damage. ...

Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistance co-founder, recently wrote one of the most powerful articles that we have read in a long, long time. Her piece, titled The Girls and the Grasses, is like poetry. We invite you to read it here: Link: http://dgrnewsservice.org/2015/08/25/lierre-keith-the-girls-and-the-grasses/ – Stephen Corry, the director of Survival International writes about the colonial and racist origins of the “conservation” movement. His organization helps push an alternate perspective. ...

Logging. Pesticides and herbicides. Development. Sexual assault. White supremacy. All these are pressing issues in the Eugene area. The local Deep Green Resistance chapter is actively organizing around these issues, and working with other DGR members and allies across the region and the world on other issues as well. On Saturday, members of Deep Green Resistance Eugene joined other DGR members from across the region for a protest against a proposed Nestlé bottled water plant at Cascade Locks, Oregon. Nestlé, with the help of local government and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, seeks to build a 118 million gallon per-year bottling plant. ...