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Do you want to support the efforts of Deep Green Resistance Chicago, but do not want to become a member of the movement? You can still lend your help as an Active Supporter. To do so, simply contact us with your name, contact information, and a list of the ways you would like to actively support our chapter of the DGR movement. We will begin communication and call upon you when a project comes up that matches with your offering. When asked for your help, it’s up to you to decide if you have the capacity to engage in the project suggested at that time. You can turn down the request and wait for the next one, or offer your help in a different way. ...

Join the growing Deep Green Resistance movement and help actualize a strategy to save the planet. Deep Green Resistance Chicago is always looking for committed members to join our action group. The steps to joining are as follows: Read the Stages of Membership document to learn about the process of being a member of DGR Chicago. Next, read about what potential members would be committing to as outlined in the Responsibilities of a Member document. You will be required to have read the Statement of Principles and Code of Conduct. After reading these two documents, fill out the Membership questionnaire, which you will then send in to deepgreenresistancechicago@riseup.net. We will review your answers and then get in touch with you about scheduling a phone conversation between yourself and either the Coordinator or Co-Coordinator of DGR Chicago. This time will be used to discuss your membership and is the final step you need to take to initiate your becoming a member of the action group. It should be noted that one does not need to be a member of Deep Green Resistance Chicago to volunteer, offer support, or be an ally. There are many ways that you can be involved and help the movement as a whole and our action group, so please get in touch if this describes you. ...

Deep Green Resistance Statement of Principles The soil, the air, the water, the climate, and the food we eat are created by complex communities of living creatures. The needs of those living communities are primary; individual and social morality must emerge from a humble relationship with the web of life. Civilization, especially industrial civilization, is fundamentally destructive to life on earth. Our task is to create a life-centered resistance movement that will dismantle industrial civilization by any means necessary. Organized political resistance is the only hope for our planet. The Deep Green Resistance movement works to end abuse at the personal, organizational, and cultural levels. The Deep Green Resistance movement aligns itself with feminists and others who seek to eradicate all social domination and to promote solidarity between oppressed peoples. When civilization ends, the living world will rejoice. We must be biophilic people in order to survive. Those of us who have forgotten how must learn again to live with the land and air and water and creatures around us in communities built on respect and thanksgiving. We welcome this future.

Some DGR Links: Deep Green Resistance National organization. Find out about what Deep Green Resistance is all about following this link deepgreenresistance. org/ Nearby DGR Neighbors deepgreenresistancewisconsin. org/ And a link to Derrick Jensen’s work. http://www.derrickjensen.org/ and Lierre Keith’s

Deep Green Resistance Chicago is an organization that understands that the Planet is primary and allies itself with those in the Chicago area and around the world that advance causes of environmental and social justice. Deep Green Resistance Chicago believes that our culture, industrial civilization, is inherently exploitive and can never be sustainable. Deep Green Resistance Chicago fosters a culture of resistance to this violent, greedy, and extremely short sighted culture.