The Green Scare and White Supremacy
Last night I had an interesting conversation about the so-called Green Scare and the impact of The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Like so much recent legislation, AETA does an incredible job criminalizing those who work to defend the earth and its creatures. By criminalizing the defense of the earth, our land-base and its creatures, the Federal Government and AETA in particular aid in defending the death of millions of people and thousands of species. Furthermore, acts criminalizing the defense of the earth are complicit in structural white supremacy preventing people from dismantling the ecological weapons used to inflict environmental racism on communities of color.
Due to environmental racism, communities of color tend to be most affected by oppressive environmental policies. Places like Louisiana's Cancer Alley, the three super-fund sites near my residential Black and Latino neighborhood of Clayton, Navajo land brutally affected by uranium mining each exemplify ways Corporations informed by structural racism have created health hazards in communities of color and ultimately decreased the life-span of people of color. In 2007 The United Church of Christ put out a disturbing report called Toxic Waste and Race at Twenty: 1987-2007 that demonstrates the various ways communities of color are drastically impacted by toxic dumping.
As the Green Scare sweeps eco-activists, the racist criminal-industrial complex continues to target and detain Blacks and Latinos, ICE attacks immigrants, and the military attacks Arabs and Muslims, resistant forces against environmental destruction, imperialism, racism, and oppression should unite forces against the true criminals--the politicians and business people profiting from dozens of genocides executed through environmental, military, and economic aggression.
Prisoners rotting in Guantanamo Bay, victims of the Green Scare, people of color targeted and incarcerated because of their race should be uniting forces with each other and with academics, media, artists, and above ground activists who can demonstrate the connections between environmental destruction, white supremacy, and capitalism and prove once and for all if we want to survive as a species we must live sustainable lives and abolish racism and oppression.
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Let`s criminalize The Devil Bush!
Who is responsible for guantanamo,abu graib prison,haditha TORTURE and every disaster in the world?It is The Devil bush!.How I hate Bush!
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Ken Driessen
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I was born white and although from the barabrians on, members of my race have been amoung the most ruthless, I can't help being born white. Condoliza Rice has an oil tanker named after her but I don't go around saying it is all the black peoples fault. We must realize that there are people of all color who have love and respect for all members of our Homo sapiens species and all life on our planet. In my experience when I treat a person as a person they know it. Then after that I love to hear and learn about the differences of life experience and culture that my Native, African American, Chicano, Asian American and Arabian American friends share with me. I've met Amy Goodman and Kathy Kelly, they are white and my Native friends have spoken so much admiration and love for those two women that I know that they are recognised as good people by all good honest people of all race and nationality. To me white supremisists are more like white trash, trailer gang banger kind of people. Although their prejudice is mean and wrong, you should not hold these people responsibe for what damage the ruling ownership corporate ellitist war profiteering oil barron class is doing to our planet. It does not matter what color you are, the owners of the military industrial complex treat all people equally as bad.
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The problem is that if we don't care about other animals, ecosystems, etc..., we disrupt the very systems that support human life. A good example of this are the salmon of the Pacific North West that the Chinook people have depended on for food for years. As dams have gone up on the Kalamath River the salmon population has begun to die off and as a result has effected the livelihood of these First Nation's populations.
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It's funny how everything is interconnected. The environment is closely related to our behavior as is our social interactions. It's hard, however to care about some lead in my lawn (which there is and many lawns close by) when I got to worry about paying my bills. Decisions, decisions. Sometimes it feels like there's just too many problems to solve them all. Furthermore, as the superior beings of this earth, I think its more important to support human life over all animals. After all, we already eat tube chicken at KFC!