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What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life—human and nonhuman—will not go on unless we do everything we can to facilitate the most basic process on earth, the root of sustainability: one being''s waste must always become another being’s food.

For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, "Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?" No one ever says yes.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.Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet—and win.

A thorough history of and guide to resistance movements for those who want REAL change and are tired of simply marching and calling their representatives.The more than fifty resistance movements and sub-movements featured here make this the radical''s guide to restoring our rights, saving our planet, and creating lasting change. From mid-nineteenth century Chinese rebellions against colonial exploitation and ecological disasters to the Grassy Narrows'' fight against mercury poisoning and colonialism to the Stonewall riots and parades for LGBT rights to Black Lives Matter, Full Spectrum Resistance''s two volumes are some of the only books on activism that actually cover RESISTANCE, not just passive, risk-averse modes of activism. Author, activist, and farmer Aric McBay provides in-depth histories and case studies of social justice and environmental movements, both radical and liberal, to explain why passive resistance alone cannot work, and why we must be prepared to do whatever it takes to truly create change.     In Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume 1: Building Movements and Fighting to Win, we learn why we need resistance movements, how movements--such as the Deacons of Defense of the American Civil Rights Movement--fight when they want to win, and what makes movements effective. We also learn how and why people join movements and how we can successfully encourage them--as the anti-colonial revolution in Guinea and Cape Verde did. How groups like Act-UP form and organize themselves, and rules and practices groups use to stay secure and protected from infiltration by destructive people.     "I wrote this book because we are losing," says McBay in chapter one, and he''s right. Here''s how we win.

A thorough history of and guide to resistance movements for those who want REAL change and are tired of simply marching and calling their representatives.The more than fifty resistance movements and sub-movements featured here make this the radical''s guide to restoring our rights, saving our planet, and creating lasting change. From mid-nineteenth century Chinese rebellions against colonial exploitation and ecological disasters to the Grassy Narrows'' fight against mercury poisoning and colonialism to the Stonewall riots and parades for LGBT rights to Black Lives Matter, Full Spectrum Resistance''s two volumes are some of the only books on activism that actually cover RESISTANCE, not just passive, risk-averse modes of activism. Author, activist, and farmer Aric McBay provides in-depth histories and case studies of social justice and environmental movements, both radical and liberal, to explain why passive resistance alone cannot work, and why we must be prepared to do whatever it takes to truly create change.     Volume 1 of Full Spectrum Resistance taught us how to build an effective movement. In Volume 2: Actions and Strategies for Change, we learn how groups like the Greek Resisters of the 2008 Greek Television Takeover communicated and stayed connected so they could spread their message, coordinate with allies, and navigate their relationship with mass media. How organizations gather the intelligence and information they need to make smart decisions and understand their adversary''s weak points. How movements hamper their opponent''s attempts to gather information about them, and how they cope with attacks on their movement through secret disruption or overt repression (COINTELPRO, 1971). How groups raise money, support themselves, and organize the fundamental logistics that underpin any long-term struggle. How movements--such as Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty--take effective action and choose tactics; and principles that guide successful strategy and allow movements to integrate the different capacities discussed throughout the two volumes.     We might be losing now, but with the right strategies and dedication there is still time and opportunity to win!

This sequel to Inversion forces a pacifist society in a pastoral, isolated universe to wrestle with the cost of self-defense.The people of Germinal live on atiny, verdant planet where evolution has traced aslightly different path. For centuries, they have peacefully coexisted amid an ecosystemwhere an advancing wall of fire consumes all in its path, a perpetual cycleof destruction and renewal. That is, until everything they knew of their historywas violently upended by the arrival of colonizers.Months after the events in Inversion, the people of Germinal are rebuilding, reckoning with thebrutality of the invasion, and striving to absorb newcomers. But young Char, earning a reputationamong her people as a capable new conciliator, wrestles with the trauma ofthose events and tries to rally her community to defend themselves againstfuture attack. Her friend Graft, formerly an aide-de-camp of the invading forces,is adrift. Though finally safe, he has nothing left but the stories of his losthome and grows increasingly haunted by visions of the pastincluding of the mysterious creation of Germinal. But calm in their changed world is short lived.A pair of warriors arrive from amilitant culture on the far side of the flamewall, violating a great taboo thatforbids one side from meeting another. They insist on being brought to the survivors, to deal with as they see fit. As the situation escalates, Charand Graft struggle to do what is right. To keep each other safe. And to readythemselves for what they both know is true: The invaders will try again.Aric McBay's Germinal trilogy is the spiritual successor to Ursula Le Guin and Kim Stanley Robinson, posing large moral questions of justice inside a lush, wholly unexpected world.