I'm grateful to those who provided suggestions for statements by activists that reflect the more-than-political struggles we all go through. Most of the statements are exceptional. Below and attached is a list of suggestions.
Abbey, Edward "The Monkey Wrench Gang" Best, Steven & Nocella, Anthony (eds)-"Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth" -- a collection of essays from various deep ecologists and self-labeled eco-terrorists as to why they do what they do. Carson, Rachel & Lear, Linda (Introduction)-"Lost Woods: The Discovered Writings of Rachel Carson" Cone, Marla Silent Snow Francis, John. 2008. Planetwalker. Washington, DC: National Geographic Press. Hill, Julia Butterfly- memoir The Legacy of Luna (2000) Hayes, Tyrone- 2007 lecture from the department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley entitled 'from Silent Spring to Silent Night' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4lijvIjpRw Jones, Van Shirley Sherrod and Me http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25jones.html Kelly, Petra E. Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Nonviolence. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1994. Kingsnorth, Paul- Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist www.opendemocracy.net/paul-kingsnorth/confessions-of-recovering-environmentalist Maathai, Wangari- interview: http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/plantingthefuture/ Manes, Christopher- "Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization" -- an interesting look into some of the philosophical underpinnings of the ELF types, the arguments that persuaded them. Parkin, Sara. The Life and Death of Petra Kelly. London: Pandora, 1994. Rosebraugh, Craig-"Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front" (member of the ELF, though he claimed he wasn't) -- more first-hand experience, as the FBI raided his house several times. Rothenberg, D. & Ulvaeus, M- eds., The New Earth Reader (1999) Sanders, Scott Russell- A Conservationist Manifesto Shiva, Vandana ? interview: http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/shiva.html Singer, Peter- How Are We to Live? (1995) Steingraber, Sandra- Living Downstream (1997) Taylor, Bron Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future , Civil Earth Religion versus Religious Nationalism, the Social Science Research Council's Immanent Frame, 30 July 2010. http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/07/30/civil-earth-religion/ Toward a Natural Religion, St. Petersburg Times, 3 December 2009, War of the Worldviews: Why Avatar Lost, Religion Dispatches, 11 March 2010. Walker, Melissa, ed. 1994. Reading the environment. New York: W. W. Norton. Williams, Terry Tempest, Refuge Zakin,Susan- "Coyotes and Town Dogs"
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