Essays , Thacker Pass She Would Never Rise From the Dead Again April 06, 2021 622 Views 0 Comment Sentinel Rock, a naturally-formed stone tower, stands at Thacker Pass’ eastern entrance. The day before Easter, Max Wilbert and I …
Essays , Thacker Pass The Potato Bug and the World We Used to Live In March 27, 2021 370 Views 0 Comment Thacker Pass remembers the world we used to live in. She murmurs these memories in the long strides and white …
Essays , Thacker Pass The Warmth Yet Remaining February 26, 2021 306 Views 0 Comment A war is being waged against life on Earth. Rivers, forests, oceans, whole species, and millions – if not billions …
Essays , Thacker Pass Far Harsher Than the Wind February 21, 2021 340 Views 0 Comment There is already an open pit in Thacker Pass. It was dug as part of Lithium Americas’ exploration of the …
Essays , Thacker Pass Chemical Screams February 09, 2021 700 Views 0 Comment If you look across Thacker Pass from the shoulders of the Montana mountains, the land looks like a quilt the …
Essays , Thacker Pass The Only Faith We Need February 04, 2021 410 Views 0 Comment The Montana mountains standing above Thacker Pass in the north taught me that faith does not move mountains, but gravity, …
Poetry , Thacker Pass Where is Brigid on Paiute Land? January 31, 2021 431 Views 0 Comment I went searching for Brigid in Thacker Pass on Imbolc. I almost saw her pale face on the lingering morning …
Essays , Thacker Pass Taproot January 29, 2021 384 Views 0 Comment Now that Max Wilbert and I have stayed at Thacker Pass beyond BLM’s 14-day camping limit, a background dread has …
Essays , Thacker Pass Sage Songs January 27, 2021 502 Views 0 Comment Rabbits taught me that each sagebrush has a unique voice. I often take long walks across the steppes in Thacker …
Analysis , Essays , Thacker Pass Thacker Pass Thoughts #2: First, Humans Hate. Then, They Control January 26, 2021 358 Views 0 Comment Human Supremacy: First, Humans Control. Then, Humans Hate. My article that I wrote for Prairie Protection Colorado about the connection between rodenticides …
Poetry Viral Poetry April 18, 2020 1701 Views 5 Comments Viral Poetry for the coronavirus and all those affected Sometimes Life speaks through poets. Sometimes Life speaks through dreams, through …
Essays , Pinyon-Juniper Forests Pinyon-Juniper Deforestation, Pine Nuts, and True Sustainability June 10, 2017 5856 Views 5 Comments A windmill blade knocks the head off a Cooper’s hawk interrupting the late afternoon peace in Spring Valley. The blade …
Analysis , Interviews “Creating a Life-Centered Resistance Movement” Radio Interview for KPFA, Berkeley March 06, 2018 6058 Views 5 Comments Jeffry Fawcett interviewed my good friend Max Wilbert and me about creating a life-centered resistance movement by any means necessary …
Essays Fight Back: An Ecopsychological Understanding of Depression July 13, 2017 6832 Views 4 Comments I am an environmental activist. I have depression. To be an activist with depression places me squarely in an irreconcilable …
Essays , Thacker Pass Why I Protect Thacker Pass January 18, 2021 1259 Views 4 Comments On Friday, January 15, 2021, the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) determined that Lithium Americas Corp.’s proposed Thacker …
Essays On Being Suicidal October 06, 2016 5661 Views 3 Comments “I am suicidal.” Three words only – but, the three most difficult words I’ve ever had to say. I did …
Analysis , Essays The Ecopscychological Imperative to Dismantle Civilization November 23, 2016 5637 Views 3 Comments The fading roar of an ATV engine leaves silence in its wake. Birds, offended by the intrusion, refuse to sing. …
Direct Action Journal , Essays Direct Action Journal: The Wound of Perpetual Guilt June 08, 2016 4433 Views 2 Comments If fear is the mind killer, guilt is the heart killer. Experiencing guilt creates a wound. The wound is healed …
Analysis , Essays Why Does the Colorado River Need to Sue For Rights? September 26, 2017 6967 Views 2 Comments Note: The first Rights of Nature lawsuit in the US was filed on September 25, 2017, in Denver, Colorado. The …
Colorado River , Essays Plastic Whales, Humpback Whales, and Babysitting in the Anthropocene March 01, 2018 3204 Views 2 Comments Special Thanks to Whole Terrain where this piece first appeared. I was broke for Christmas. In September, I helped to …
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