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As the World Burns reviewed in the Broward/Palm Beach New Times

August 12, 2009

. . . Though it doesn’t overtly state it, As The World Burns, at its core, is a lesson in anarchist philosophy, implying that the Earth would be better off without a government beholden to an industrial economy. Initially, the graphic novel’s underlying message may seem heavy-handed and preachy, but the writing is so acutely entertaining that the message doesn’t feel force-fed. Despite all the dark humor and doom-and-gloom, the book actually ends on a hopeful note. Plus, the drawings are so darn cute. — Broward/Palm Beach New Times

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Derrick Jensen interviewed at Your Call

August 12, 2009

Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame and What We Leave Behind (with Aric McBay), talks to Your Call about magical thinking and the issue of personal change versus social change in the environmental movement.

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Derrick Jensen with Richard Metzger of Dangerous Minds

July 28, 2009

On July 20, Derrick Jensen sat down for a Skype conversation with Richard Metzger from Dangerous Minds to talk about the environment and the ideas in Endgame and What We Leave Behind. According to Metzger’s site: “Dangerous Minds is a compendium of the new and strange—new ideas, new art forms, new approaches to social issues and new finds from the outer reaches of pop culture.”

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Endgame reviewed in L Magazine

July 24, 2009

It’s a lot to ask of folks to suggest they tackle a two-volume work that uses as its cornerstone the idea that “civilization is not and can never be sustainable.” Tough: life’s too short, and too important, to read Danielle Steele. What I really want to say is that everyone should read at least one of Jensen’s works: He approaches the destruction of the environment with both more emotion, and more poetry, than anyone else I know of. End Game, his largest and most comprehensive work, approaches the problem of civilization and its possible remedies. Read it and weep, really, for the mess we’ve made of things.—L Magazine

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Check out Endgame Volume 1 and Volume 2 today.

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Derrick Jensen talks What We Leave Behind with Topical Currents

July 22, 2009

Derrick Jensen spent some time on the phone with Topical Currents on the subject of What We Leave Behind, on the problems with the mainstream environmental movement, and on what individuals can do to help fight back. To listen to the conversation, take a look at the Topical Currents site. Derrick’s is the July 20th broadcast.

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Forget Shorter Showers by Derrick Jensen

July 16, 2009

This piece by Derrick Jensen originally appeared in the July/August issue of Orion Magazine on July 7, and immediately sparked a debate among Orion readers about the nature and goals of the environmental movement—and about the “magical thinking” that leads to a reduced ability to meet those goals. To add your opinion, visit the discussion page here.

Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”? —Derrick Jensen, from Forget Shorter Showers

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Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, and Lierre Keith at Deep Green Resistance

June 26, 2009

June 26-28th, Cummington, MA. More information can be found on Derrick’s website. Registration deadline is June 12; cost ranges from $150-450.

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Derrick Jensen at Family Farm Day in Armbrust, PA

June 20, 2009

June 20, Maggie’s Organic Farm, 7686 State Route 819, Armbrust, PA 15616. For more information, please see the Maggie’s Organic Farm website.

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Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Nikki Craft’s Resist Do Not Comply

May 26, 2009

Derrick Jensen, author of What We Leave Behind and the revolutionary classic Endgame, in collaboration with The Vegetarian Myth author Lierre Keith and activist Nikki Craft, has produced this ten minute music video, Resist Do Not Comply, a musical call to action to environmentalists and activists around the world. Take a listen.

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Derrick Jensen: The end of hope is the beginning of action

May 19, 2009

A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope didn’t kill you. It didn’t even make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems—you ceased hoping your problems would somehow get solved through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself—and you just began doing whatever it takes to solve those problems yourself.

When you give up on hope, something even better happens than it not killing you, which is that in some sense it does kill you. You die. And there’s a wonderful thing about being dead, which is that they—those in power—cannot really touch you anymore. —Derrick Jensen

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Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, and Lierre Keith in Bellingham, WA

May 15, 2009

May 15-16, Western Washington University. More information from Derrick’s website:

Derrick will be speaking on Friday evening in Bellingham, WA,.as part of a Deep Green Resistance weekend with Aric McBay and Lierre Keith. Admission is $2 for students and $4 for general…

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What We Leave Behind reviewed at Powell’s

May 5, 2009

What We Leave Behind is an important contribution to the increasing body of literature devoted to effecting actual and lasting change. Loathe to offer mere rhetoric, a diluted portrait of how precarious things actually are, or unrealistic promises of technological salvation, the book is unabashedly vehement. It may unsettle the unwitting reader, but for those with even the faintest hint of the trouble we are facing, it will provide fertile ground from which to grow a greater understanding. Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay have crafted a remarkably well-written, crucial work. Like the peril they so ably convey therein, it is one to be ignored only at great expense. — Powell’s

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Derrick Jensen and Mickey Z at Earth 911

April 25, 2009

Saturday, April 25, 2009. Arlington Temple United Methodist Church, 1835 N Nash St., Arlington, VA 22209. The church is across the street from the Rosslyn Metro Station in Arlington, only one Metro stop from Washington, D.C. Doors open at 6 p.m.…

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Aric McBay on CBC News

April 16, 2009

Aric McBay, co-author of What We Leave Behind with Derrick Jensen, was recently featured in a story about peak oil on CBC News. The video, in Windows Media Player format, is available at the CBC website.

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Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, authors of What We Leave Behind, at the Rowe Camp and Conference Center

March 13, 2009

March 13-15 at the Rowe Camp and Conference Center, with Lierre Keith. For more information or to register, please look at the Rowe website here: http://www.rowecenter.org/schedule/current/20090313_DerrickJensen&Co.html.

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What We Leave Behind reviewed in E Magazine

March 11, 2009

“What We Leave Behind … is the kind of direct, unflinching, personal writing that you’d expect from a memoir about a harrowing childhood, not one about the state of the planet, or what happens to waste …

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