Resistance Is More Than Just Disobedience

forms of activism, adapted from the book Deep Green Resistance The latest impassioned article from Patrick Lawrence, entitled We Must Learn to Disobey, asserts: The fate of democracy, whether it endures or disappears, is decided in the minds and hearts of its citizens before it is decided in legislatures, in elections, in courts, or in any of the other institutions on which a republic rests… [After the invasion of Iraq and the failure of protests against it,] Americans began to assume they were impotent in the face of a new kind of power—sequestered power, unanswerable power… Power is now exercised with indifference not only to the citizenry but to law itself. [Citing Georges Bernanos in 1946] “I have thought for a long time now that if, some day, the increasing efficiency for the technique of destruction finally causes our species to disappear from the earth, it will not be cruelty that will be responsible for our extinction, and still less, of course, the indignation that cruelty…