Jensen’s books are mandatory reading in the study of culture and social change. With over two dozen works in print, including A Language Older Than Words, Listening to the Land, Strangely Like War, and While the Planet Burns, his ideas are gaining ground around the world. The popularity of Endgame continues to grow, especially among young people growing up in an increasingly degraded environment. They find in Jensen’s analysis a sharp-edged realism, refreshingly free of self-serving justifications for the destruction of the natural world and enslavement of our fellow humans.
Jensen writes for the New York Times Magazine, Audubon, and The Sun, among many others, and his speaking engagements pack university auditoriums, conference halls, and bookstores across North America.
“Derrick Jensen is a force for the common good.” – Terry Tempest-Williams.
“Derrick Jensen is a public intellectual who both breaks and mends the reader’s heart.” – Publisher’s Weekly.
Franklin López – Director
Award-winning filmmaker Franklin López hails from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Selected as Atlanta’s Emerging Artist of the Year in 2003, his work has been featured on Canada’s City TV, GNN, Current, BET, and Democracy Now!
“Join the Resistance! Fall in Love,” López’s breakthough film, reached minor cult status with 30,000 views and screenings around the world. In 2005, López’s post-Katrina video remix “George Bush Don’t Like Black People” reached 1 million people and got a nod from the New York Times, Washington Post and BET. Wired Magazine picked subMedia.TV for its list of top ten online video sites in 2006. The same year, López was hired to produce Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!
In 2007, López unleashed “It’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine.” The online TV news series is watched by tens of thousands of loyal fanatics.
Waziyatawin Ph. D. is a Dakota writer, teacher, and activist committed to the development of liberation strategies that will support the recovery of Indigenous ways of being, the reclamation of Indigenous homelands, and the eradication of colonial institutions. Waziyatawin is also the founder and director of Oyate Nipi Kte, a non-profit organization dedicated to the recovery of Dakota traditional knowledge, sustainable ways of being, and Dakota liberation.
Dr. Steven Best
Award-winning writer, noted speaker, public intellectual, and seasoned activist, Steven Best engages the issues of the day such as animal rights, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass media, globalization, and capitalist domination. Best has published 10 books, over 100 articles and reviews, spoken in over a dozen countries.
Gord Hill is a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation on the Northwest Coast. Writer, artist, and militant, he has been involved in Indigenous resistance, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist movements for many years, often using the pseudonym Zig Zag. He is the author of two books: 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance and the 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book.
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John Zerzan (born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of prehistoric humans as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some of his criticism has extended as far as challenging domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time.
HARJAP GREWAL is an antiauthoritarian organizer/activist based in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories, working with the No One Is Illegal collective and various local campaigns. His work focuses primarily on migrant, trade, and environmental justice rooted in an anticapitalist and anticolonial analysis. He organizes within the local South Asian community, with communities of color, and in solidarity with indigenous sovereignty struggles.
Aric McBay
Writer, activist, and small-scale organic farmer ARIC MCBAY works to share information about community sufficiency and off-the-grid skills. He is the author of Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life after Gridcrash and creator of “In the Wake: A Collective Manual-in-progress for Outliving Civilization”
Lierre Keith is a writer, small farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the author of two novels and is currently co-writing a book with Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay about strategy for the environmental movement. She splits her time between Northampton, MA and Humboldt, CA.
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Capt. Paul Watson
Paul Watson is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – an organization dedicated to research, investigation and enforcement of laws, treaties, resolutions and regulations established to protect marine wildlife worldwide.
George Poitras is a member of Mikisew Cree indigenous First Nation, and served as the Chief from June 1999 to June 2002. He has been an active campaigner to bring attention to the negative effects that the Alberta tar-sands have had on his people.
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James Howard Kunstler
New urbanist, lecturer and author of “Home From Nowhere”, “The Geography of Nowhere and The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition.” His most well known book is “The Long Emergency” an exploration of the consequences of a world oil production peak, coinciding with the forces of climate change, resurgent diseases, water scarcity, global economic instability and warfare to cause chaos for future generations.
Shusli
Shusli Che Dutnah is a Karuk/Chetco/Euro woman working to keep the indigenous stories and ways alive through the end of civilization. Currently living in Portland, OR, and working along with her husband to get Native American voices heard by way of a community radio show.
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Peter Gelderloos
Peter Gelderloos is a radical community organizer. He is the author of Consensus: A New Handbook for Grassroots Political, Social, and Environmental Groups and a contributor to Letters From Young Activists. He is the co-facilitator of a workshop on the prison system, and is also involved in independent media, copwatching, anti-oppression work, and anarchist organizing.
Qwatsinas
Qwatsinas was a hereditary chief in the Nuxalk Nation. Qwatsinas and the House of Smayusta – Nuxalk traditionalists in Bella Coola – were the driving force behind the campaign to protect the Great Bear Rainforest in the 1990′s. Qwatsinas passed away in August 2010.
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Dru Oja Jay
Dru Oja Jay is co-author of the report Offsetting Resistance: The effects of foundation funding from the Great Bear Rainforest to the Athabasca River. He is a member of the editorial collective of the Dominion, and lives in Montreal.
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Zoe Blunt
Zoe Blunt began her career as a social and environmental justice advocate in a poisoned town where she was raised by alcoholics. Since then, she’s founded several non-profit groups, produced exposés on local corruption, and accumulated an impressive arrest record defending old-growth forests in British Columbia.
Michael Becker Ph. D.
MIchael Becker is lecturer in Political Science at California State University, Fresno. His current research concerns philosophical and tactical parallels between the Zapatistas and the Earth Liberation Front, drawing on Deleuze’s conception of the rhizome.
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Maya Rolbin-Ghanie
Maya Rolbin-Ghanie is a Montreal-based independent journalist, creative writer, and activist. Maya is one of the founders of Missing Justice (www.missingjustice.ca).
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Macdonald Stainsby
Macdonald Stainsby is a freelance writer, professional hitchhiker and social justice activist who has been involved in several Palestinian solidarity organizations, including The International Solidarity Movement and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. He currently resides in Edmonton, Canada where he is the coordinator of oilsandstruth.org.
Shannon Walsh
Shannon Walsh is a filmmaker and writer who splits her time between Canada and South Africa. Her first feature documentary “H2Oil” takes a critical view on the Alberta Tar Sands.
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Mike Mercredi
Born in Fort McMurray, Alberta and raised in Fort Chipweyan, Mike is a Dene native who spent his youth on the land hunting, fishing and trapping in the Summer and certain weeks in Winter. Mike worked in the oil sands for 10 years with various contractors and now does public speaking on the environmental impacts his people are presently facing with regards to health, land, water, air and wildlife.
Stephanie McMillan
Stephanie McMillan creates the comic strip Minimum Security five days a week for United Media’s comics.com, and her hard-hitting political cartoons have been published in dozens of publications internationally. She co-authored, with Derrick Jensen, the graphic novel As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial”, and her comics are collected in the book Attitude Presents: Minimum Security