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- The powerful do not ever

give up without a struggle.

Those are the famous

words of Frederick Douglass

when he said, "Power concedes

nothing without a demand.

It never has, and it never will."

Figure V

If we use more efficient electricity,

appliances, we can save this much

off of the global warming pollution that

would otherwise be put

into the atmosphere.

If we use other end-use

efficiency this much,

if we have higher-mileage

cars, this much.

And all these begin to add up:

other transport efficiency,

renewable technology.

We have everything we need,

save, perhaps, political will.

But you know what, in

America, political will

is a renewable resource.

- When we see solutions,

all the so-called solutions

put forward to global

warming, the thing

they all have in common

is that they take

industrial civilization

as a given, and they take

the natural world as

the dependent variable.

It's all about saving civilization.

And that's entirely backwards.

What it should be is:

we need to do whatever

it takes to save

life on the planet.

- In the next 40 to 50 years,

we're going to see the

extinction of more species

than we've seen in the past

65 million years.

That, to me, is a red light,

and a siren going off

as a call to people

who will cut through the crap and

do what is necessary

to protect the Earth

for here and now, and

for future generations.

It is you that are going

to have to answer to your

children, 50-75 years from now

when they ask what you

did during the eco-wars.

And in that sense,

each one of us has to live the life

today, at this very moment, doing the things

that we would be proud to tell our ancestors about.

If we are serious about saving life on Earth

we've got to start fighting back

in the ways that people do

when they realize they need

to form a serious resistance movement.

- Most indigenous populations

who maintain any

sense of a traditional worldview

know that the way of life that

settlers society has imposed on this

land is unsustainable.

Yet, there has been a sense

that we really need to kind of

wait until it collapses,

or wait until they're done doing,

or they've reached their

limit and they can't

continue the way that

they've been going on,

and be patient.

F*** patience.

I think really the big problem is power,

and that's something liberals

have a lot of trouble kind of

thinking about or wrapping

their heads around.

And the problem is that

this culture has

clearly defined hierarchy.

There are people

who are clearly in power,

and who benefit

from power, and benefit

from destroying the planet,

and who benefit from

exploiting other people,

and they've been doing

that for a long time.

And their power is more important

to them than anything else.

- There is no personal

consumer choice that is

going to dismantle the systems of

power that are behind the

destruction of our planet.

What we need is organized

political resistance.

- You cannot just simply ask

the state for these reforms,

or for any kind of gains or concessions,

you have to force them to do it.

And that's the power of disruption.

It was a bloody day at the Mohawk Indian

community in Oka, Quebec, near Montreal.

"Provincial police in riot gear stormed

the barricades the Mohawks had set up.

There were clouds of tear

gas, a hail of bullets,

and in the midst of the battle, a policeman

was killed. All this because of

a dispute over a piece of

forest the Indians claim is theirs,

a forest town council wants to bulldoze

to expand the local golf course."

"Police retreated as

abruptly as they'd attacked,

leaving behind their cruisers.

They also left a heavy

front-end loader which the Mohawks

immediately put to their own use.

The police cruisers, crushed and useless,

became barricades themselves."

We treat these trees and

the land like our mother.

These people are raping our mother.

What would you do if

they raped your mother?

- These politicians are servants of the

system; it's their job to keep

it going, it's their job

to keep profit rolling

in for the ruling class.

And they will never, ever, act in the

people's interests or the interests of the planet.

It doesn't matter what we say,

the only thing that they

will respond to is

force, and the threat

of social disruption.

And if we allow them to stay in power,

they will always take back any gain

that we manage to get from them.

- It's really important

to recognize that

no struggle is done,

that there's not any possibility

of any lasting victory

as long as the state

still exists, but we can

definitely see in the histories

of struggle, small gains have been won,

and ways in which we've

empowered ourselves

by the use of all tactics, and I think

it's not even important to

really say if a particular tactic is

violent or not because this is just

kind of a moral category

meant to restrict action.

I think it's more important to look

at which tactics can be empowering,

and liberating, and useful.

- Purely above-ground

means are designed to

facilitate the expansion

of global capitalism.

- These are serious power structures

that are making vast sums of money.

They are backed up by

the power of the armed

state in every way imaginable.

They've got armies on

their side, they own

the mass media, the banks,

all the money is on their side.

- If there's any doubt

about the leadership that

our military is showing,

you just need to look at

this F-18 fighter

and the light-armored vehicle behind it.

The army and marine

corps have been testing

this vehicle on a mixture of biofuels,

and this navy fighter jet

appropriately called the "Green Hornet"

will be flown for the first time in just

a few days, on Earth Day.

- Crazy Horse one-eight,

request permission to engage.

- Picking up the wounded?

- Yeah, we're trying to

get permission to engage.

- Come on, let us shoot!

- Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight.

- They're taking him.

- Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight.

- This is Bushmaster seven, go ahead.

- Roger. We have a black SUV,

or Bongo truck picking

up the bodies. Request

permission to engage.

- Bushmaster seven, roger. This is

Bushmaster seven, roger. Engage.

- One-eight, engage. Clear.

- Come on!

- Clear.

So if the law will

not do the right thing,

other people will have

to do the right thing,

and they'll have to do the right thing by

breaking the law. And that

precedent has been set many times

throughout our history: the people

who saved the Jews

from the German Nazis

broke the law for

higher ethical purpose.

The people who liberated slaves in our

country through the

underground railroad system

to protect them from slave masters and a

very barbaric law in

the United States at that time.

They did the right thing.

They broke the law

for higher ethical purpose.

- We need to start and get out there

and go beyond hitting "Like" on

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