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DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID
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for years that would protect old growth
as historical and cultural landmarks.
We got it passed through the senate,
which was a very hard thing, and now
we're working to get it passed through
the assembly And if we do, that would
help a lot of tree sits, because a lot of the
trees we're sitting in are old growth,
they'd be protected, and we wouldn't
have to be there any more. I've contin
ued to work in various ways in being
supportive of tree sits, but now I pretty
much just sit in trees for myself, for my
own renewal.
Emerald: I low important is femi
nism in direct action?
JBH: I do my very best to steer clear
of any word that ends in "-ism"
(laughs). I think it was started as a way
of trying to help us connect, but over
time it has become very disconnecting.
I would rephrase that word and say
how important is it for women to be re
spected and uplifted in the movement.
1 think that we need balance, and I
don't look at it as we need more
women and less men. We need our
male allies to create a space for that bal
ance to help exist because currently it
doesn't.
To be a women in this world period,
to even get by, is a form of activism, be
cause there's such an ingrained oppres
sion for women, especially in this coun
try. It's about that bringing back of
balance, bringing back the voice of the
feminine. And the feminine exists in all
life. Male and female exist in all things.
It's about bringing back the voice of the
feminine. We need not only the rise of
the feminine voices in women, and
equality and justice for women, but we
need the rise of feminine voice in our
male allies as well.
Emerald: Do you think it's possible
to achieve a sustainable relationship
with the Earth within a capitalist
economy?
JBH: In capitalism, no. And I think
that it's important for people to realize
the difference between economics and
capitalism. We've been tricked in this
society in equating them together so we
strike out at economics and we're really
missing the point when we do that. I
think there's a huge difference between
economics and capitalism. The prob
lem with capitalism is that its whole
structure is based on perceived valuer so
it's not based in real value. And the re
sult is that the perceived value is de
stroying the real value And economics
can be based in real value and it's about
creating the means of exchanging ener
gy in a real way, in a way that acknowl
edges real value.
An example of that being capitalism,
the gross national product, it goes up
every time somebody gets cancer and
has to go get treatment, it goes up every
time there's war, it goes up every time
someone consumes another tank of
gas. And that's capitalism. That is a can
cer. It grows purely for the sake of grow
ing, consuming its host in the process.
That's a bad system.
We have to recognize that we are as
people, just a parasite. But parasites
aren't inherently bad. Good parasites
live in a symbiotic relationship with
their host, and capitalism is not that
way. An economics that can work that
way are real value. So that would be a
system that says when the water is clean
and the air is clean, the value goes up,
and when the air is polluted and the
water is polluted, the value goes down,
that solar solutions and wind solutions
and things like that for meeting our en
ergy needs versus nuclear and coal or
petroleum, that's where the real value
can be based in.
Sustainability and cancer can't work
together. But a system that recognizes
we live and interact with a host, and
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learning how to take care of that host
that takes care of us, that can be done
economically.
Emerald: Do you ever get exhausted
by people? It seems like a lot of people
want something from you, and that
would be hard to deal with all the time.
JBH: It can be really exhausting. The
biggest reason being because I'm more
well known, it has people projecting
things on me. And the reality is, I'm not
more special, more important, or more
bad or evil than anyone else — I'm just
maybe more well known. That's the
only difference. Because I'm more well
known sometimes people want things
from me, or they need things from me,
or they're angry at me, and they see me
like I'm a physical manifestation of
what makes them angry about our
world. But I don't mean it to say I'm
complaining, "Oh, poor me." 1 see that
this attention and energy is rare for our
movement. Those of us who care about
social justice, environmental justice and
justice across the board, it's not that of
ten that we have opportunities of really
bringing attention and energy to it. So
I felt a sense of responsibility when that
attention came my way. It's about try
ing to do the best I can with that atten
tion and energy and really use it for
change. I don't want people to just
come up to me and say I've inspired
them. I think, "Great. What have you
been inspired to do?" And if someone
doesn't like what I'm doing, fine —
what are you doing? That's what I ask.
When I get exhausted, my responsi
bility is to take time I need to fill myself
back up inside, so I am not relying on
other people for my happiness, and not
relying on others for my acceptance. I
go inward, check myself, and go, "Am I
continuing to speak and act in a way
that is in line with this vision?" That's
howl work with it.
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