Brutkey

on waste reduction and recycling projects, organized with anti-poverty community groups, and marched (or sat in jail) at summit protests. I’ve helped start a community garden and organic farming operations. I’ve written four books, and given speeches to both academics and angry crowds. I’ve been a union organizer and a farm organizer. I’ve worked with militant conservation groups using direct confrontation and civil disobedience. I’ve developed a broad perspective on political action that comes from using many different tactics in many different campaigns. But the truth is that in almost every campaign I have worked on in my life, we have lost ground. In ecological campaigns like forest defense, that’s been literally true. In anti-poverty campaigns, it’s reflected in the ever-growing gap between rich and poor. This is not only my experience, but the experience of many activists working on many different issues. In areas where I do feel like progress has been made—say, queer rights—there is a constant threat of backlash and backsliding. The gains we have won rest on a temporary and unstable foundation; we cannot expect to win long-term human rights from a society that is based on flagrant ecological unsustainability.
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on waste reduction and recycling projects, organized with anti-poverty community groups, and marched (or sat in jail) at summit protests. I’ve helped start a community garden and organic farming operations. I’ve written four books, and given speeches to both academics and angry crowds. I’ve been a union organizer and a farm organizer. I’ve worked with militant conservation groups using direct confrontation and civil disobedience. I’ve developed a broad perspective on political action that comes from using many different tactics in many different campaigns. But the truth is that in almost every campaign I have worked on in my life, we have lost ground. In ecological campaigns like forest defense, that’s been literally true. In anti-poverty campaigns, it’s reflected in the ever-growing gap between rich and poor. This is not only my experience, but the experience of many activists working on many different issues. In areas where I do feel like progress has been made—say, queer rights—there is a constant threat of backlash and backsliding. The gains we have won rest on a temporary and unstable foundation; we cannot expect to win long-term human rights from a society that is based on flagrant ecological unsustainability.
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