What to do?

Apply the Golden Rule and see if it sticks.   
Fuck, fight, hold the light. (Thanks to Ken B.)

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Here's a start for Y'all.   Ask yourself:                                                                       Who's gonna stand up?    Other versions: orchestral, With Crazy Horse, and solo.       A-and: Fork in the Road.

 

This is what's really happening: ... all the rest is strictly hypothetical.

But seriously ... three possibly useful & effective examples have seeped and soaked into the squash over the last few years:                 Crowbird & Occupation Apple Tree;                 Zoe & the Forest Action Network; and,                 The entire East End Against Line 9 committee. More on this below.

What to do betwixt & between? Infinite possibilities! ... Blame the Arabs: Or ... don't blame the Arabs: Find morally ambiguous people (at home & abroad) to blame: Dress up the lies & dissembling, put lipstick on 'em: Give up, stop thinking, say "Fuck it!" & resign yourself: Become a perfectly realized being or ... get sentimental: Take the time for a serious course of reality therapy: Pray to the Great Cloud Dragon; hope a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake comes along: Tarot reading, astrology, star-gazing, tea leaves: Indulge in positive thinking: ... or one-word aphorisms: ... or the heroes of your youth: (Show 'em off, brag on 'em, go ahead - be pretentious.)

Some people say to take examples from the abolitionst movement of the 17th & 18th (& 19th & 20th & 21st) centuries (which has yet to eliminate slavery in its many forms) - I think we might be better off taking examples from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. Adam Czerniaków, Neville Chamberlain - are those the kind of leaders you're looking for? Is that why the palliative & appeasement dimensions of 'mitigation' have such widespread appeal? The three examples I gave at the top can be found:                 Occupation Apple Tree,.                 Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network.                 East End Against Line 9. All well worthy of praise and whatever support they may ask for.

We can quibble if you like. A quick round of intellectual table tennis over whether it's Earth (mother or father), or Humanity (sapiens or graedum or agapiens), or Nature, or Ecology, or simply life itself. Regardless of the outcome I like this phrase 'Earth First!' with a gen-u-ine exclamation point and all. [I myself can probably not be found. Weak and worn out; smoking, sipping & savouring death (while avoiding the main draught). Holding the light perhaps or ... consumed by self-pity, or both - no way of telling - but either way, demonstrably supernumerary, superfluous and ... not required, unworthy of any engagement. The danger is not the loss of faith & hope, the danger is not despair; the danger is that no one will notice and take interest. There is a calculus of spirit though it is not mathematical and so is not suitable for engineering.]

 
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