Derrick Jenson, Q&A opening highlights UofA September 16, 2009

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Derrick Jensen (born December 19, 1960) is an American author and environmental activist living in Crescent City, California. Jensen has published several books questioning and critiquing contemporary society and its values, including A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, and Endgame. He holds a B.S. in Mineral Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. He has also taught creative writing at Pelican Bay State Prison and Eastern Washington University.

Jensen is often labeled an anarcho-primitivist, by which is meant he concludes that civilization is inherently unsustainable and based on violence. He argues that the modern industrial economy is fundamentally at odds with healthy relationships, the natural environment, and indigenous peoples. He concludes that the very pervasiveness of these behaviors indicates that they are diagnostic symptoms of the greater problem of civilization itself. Accordingly, he exhorts readers and audiences to help bring an end to industrial civilization. This has led to creation of resistance groups such as Fertile Ground.


Derrick Jenson, Q&A opening highlights UofA September 16, 2009
Video produced by Richard D. Brinkman,

Commitment leads to action.
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Media activist, Civil Information Acivism.
Web Site: http://civilinformationactivism.org/
Video Published September 19, 2009

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Derrick Jensen
• University of Alberta
• Edmonton Activism
• Tar Sands
• Violence End Game
• environmental activist
• violence towards women
• Creative Writing
• anarcho-primitivist
• Fertile Ground

[hawkeyicockburn]

I'm thinking civil information activism can play a roll in the fight to save our planet...by being the media to whats important to us and our planets It's combination to all types of activism is the icing on the cake for change...I hope those who resist will embrace it's usefullness

[hawkeyicockburn]

No use hoping for a miracle...

[wda013]

(imho) also highly recommendable: his latest book:

RESISTANCE AGAINST EMPIRE - Interviews by D.J. (2010)

[stett99]

we all wanna live in the forest.

[Christinecedar]

You are the best Derrick!

[CentrlFlagrl]

So what are you saying? Should we quit eating vegetables so we won't need so much water? That way we can save the smelt fish & salmon versus feeding & providing jobs for humans. Is it less violent to eat a fish instead of a vegetable? Is it less violent to save a fish instead of a human? We could close down the farming industry & replace that land w/solar energy grids. Could we get those grids hooked up to tent cities? Is this the thinking that is going to save our planet? I don't get it!