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GREENGREEN ANARCHYANARCHY POPO BOXBOX 1133111331 Eugene,Eugene, OROR 9744097440 [email protected]@greenanarchy.org AnAn Anti-CivilizationAnti-Civilization JournalJournal ofof TheoryTheory andand ActionAction GA #16-cover 1 4/14/04, 8:18 PM Getting Out... our love is subversive, the affection sprung from our comradely friendship, or spirit, is in the shadows of civilization, the passion of sex, sensation of direct action or an insurrection, the lust of a body, the tendencies of a riot, the impulses of our hearts, and desires of our imagination, curiosity, or personal nature; our love is subversive by the journeys it will provide, the ACTACT YOURYOUR RAGE!RAGE! adventures manifested through the potential of our strength, the commitments and dedications that are provided through the promises of the petals which create the flower we call relationships, the introspective experiences mutually aided through the moving and dancing of the walks, flees, and travels we take, or passions we satisfy, and pleasure or happiness we receive, I certainly hope this is consistent, this strong and amazing solidarity or spirit that stays in our hearts; words and symbolism have (( beforebefore youryour ragerage becomesbecomes anan act!act! )) no ability to describe this hope, yet it is “out of this world”, beyond the restrictions and fear-filled shame/misery of monogamy, outside of the repression of alienation and the apathetic society we blindly submit to, it communicates secretly beyond the superficial and restrictive institutions of domestication or this “industrial monolith”. North American Underground where do we go from here?, a foundation of our hearts, operating through no system but the same dynamics that push this Direct Action Totals for 2003 insurgency onward, our love is subversive, it is an art standing still as others rush to the submissive and tragic patterns one comes upon through the acceptance/blindness to routine, it is art moving, as others stand still in a trained silence, and tamed There were 75 claimed illegal direct stillness, this love is not trained, it is certainly not fucking tame, it’s rooted by a force that violently liberates a dancing and actions in North America in 2003, an wild spirit from the captivity of survival, from the indoctrination of fear, from the imprisonment of a passionless and lifeless increase of 8% over acknowledged soul, our love is subversive, hiding out but always attacking head-on, going underground but always rising through its contagious joy and insurgent desire, and the revolution that inevitably follows its beautiful tendencies, it’s fucking great to share this love, illegal direct actions taken in 2002. overwhelming to know one can feel the emotions so many have left and forgotten, the autonomy of our love is criminal, the Animal liberation actions comprised mother earth or personal nature of our love is smothered, the art of our love is indoctrinated, the journeys of our love are just under 50%, or 37 actions, while domesticated, the wilderness of our love is tamed, the actions of our love are incarcerated, the joy or pleasure of our love is 38 actions were committed for a feared, though the battle of our love is being fought, by us, by many, through action, through journal/diary, through resistance, through the watering of the flower we have created, let’s continue to water, never stop, never fear, only move onward combination of earth liberation, anti- – sincerely yours, with no pain-alex asch GMO, anti-SUV, anti-development, anti-war and other reasons. The Animal Liberation Front took action on 18 occasions in 2003, the same number as in 2002. The Earth Liberation Front took action on 13 occasions, mirroring the number of actions in 2002. Other groups claiming responsibility for actions in 2003 included the Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade, the Direct Action Front, and the Vegan Dumpster Militia. Multiple actions were similarly claimed in communiques by anonymous groups. What increased dramatically in 2003 were the overall damage totals as a result of direct action. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) alone caused upwards of $55 million in damages in a series of anti-development and SUV dealership attacks that captured headlines across North America. It’s likely that the damage totals for economic sabotage and clandestine direct action in 2003 were close to $60 million, though the exact figure is difficult to determine. (This report was compiled by the Earth Liberation Front Press Office, who can be contacted at [email protected]) For Earth Liberation Actions, check out: www.earthliberationfront.com www.greenanarchy.org For Animal Liberation Actions, check out: animalliberation.net GA #16-cover 2 4/14/04, 8:18 PM Direct Action Reports Earth Liberation Actions, pg 18 Indigenous and Campesino Resistance, pg 26 Prisoner Uprisings and Revolts, pg 47 Anarchist Resistance, pg 52 Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Government Resistance, pg 58 Symptoms of State Meltdown, pg 60 Sections CONTENTS ISSUE #16/Spring 2004 Welcome to Green Anarchy, pg 4 Nostalgia by Sky Hiatt, pg 2 The Garden of Peculiarities (fragment 8), pg 23 What I Wish I Had Said September 12, 2001 Political Prisoner Listings, pg 49 by an anonymous nihilist, pg 5 State Repression News, pg 50 Theses On Anarchism After Post-Modernism Reviews, pg 62 by Bob Black, pg 6 Letters, pg 68 Reclaiming the Tao Te Ching for Anarchy, pg 7 News from the Balcony with Waldorf and Statler, pg 72 Patriarchy, Civilization, and the Origins of Gender Report on the 2004 BASTARD Conference, pg 73 by John Zerzan, pg 8 The Nihilist Dictionary: Niceism, pg 73 The Witch and the Wildness by Kevin Tucker, pg 11 Ads and Announcements, pg 74 Biotechnology: Public and Private by Rene Riesel, pg 14 Feral Visions Gathering Info, pg 75 Lights, Camera, Action! by The Grievous Amalgam, pg 20 Subscriber and Distributor Info, pg 75 The Revolutionary Imperative of “Going Native” Green Anarchy Distribution Center, pg 76 by Rob Los Ricos pg 24 Insurrection in Australia, by Dave Antagonism pg 27 The Animal in the Dark Tower by Ran Prieur, pg 29 Everything that Plummets Must Converge by Dan Todd, pg 51 Let the Olympic Games Die in the Land They Were Born (by Greek Anarchists), pg 54 Summits, Counter-Summits, and Social War by Wolfi Landstreicher, pg 56 The Future Is Unwitten (let us keep it that way) by anonymous autonomist, pg 66 Back To Basics volume three: Rewilding Introduction, pg 31 The Journey from “Civilized” to “Primitive” Living by RedWolfReturns, pg 32 Earthskills by Wildroots, pg 34 Because we know ourselves to be made from this earth. Bioregionalism by Wildroots, pg 37 See this grass. The patches of silver and brown. Worn by the wind. The grass reflecting all that lives in the soil. Wild Foods in Your Bioregion, pg 38 The light. The grass needing the soil. With roots deep in The Question of Cultivation by Wildroots, pg 40 thethe earth.earth. AndAnd patchespatches ofof silver.silver. LikeLike patchespatches inin ourour hair.hair. Rewilding References, pg 41 Worn by time... allall thatthat II knowknow speaksspeaks toto meme throughthrough This Is Anarcha-Herbalism by Laura Luddite, pg 42 thisthis earthearth andand II longlong toto telltell you,you, youyou whowho areare earthearth too,too, The Feral Fury Unleashed by Gimili, pg 44 and listen as we speak to each other of what we know: the light is in us. Intuition as a Crucial Part of Rewilding by ardilla, pg 46 the light is in us. Page 1 –Susan Griffin, SPRINGWoman ‘and04 ISSUENature GA #16-main doc 1 4/14/04, 8:34 PM NostalgiaNostalgia by Sky Hiatt THEY SAY WE CAN’T GO BACK. They say we don’t Eventually, our instinctual knowing really know the past, we just imagine it. They alerts us that time is not on our side. We say we’ve changed it in our minds and made feel the past and the present collapsing it better than it was. They say we’ve altered it, in on each other. We feel the lack of romanticized it, sanitized it. They say it wasn’t continuity and control. And we know that way. They say everyone, even people who that much of what we once held dear is lived in the past wanted the old days back. gone. Still, not one person in ten, in a They say this longing for old times is a kind hundred, believes in constancy or under- of weakness. To people suffering from this stands how destructive change has been. weakness, the present seems to lack some- The present depends upon ongoing, thing. They say this nostalgia is a law of life, intensifying social transformation and constancy and protected the future is gone. that we all want our childhood back, and that upheaval. Because of this, the past and the Nostalgia is society’s central nervous system. all former times and former cultures felt this future have become disconnected. As the past Without it we could not feel social pain. And sad and hopeless yearning for yesterday. washes away, we lose the cultural plans we there would be no consciousness of longing But they are wrong. None of what they say once had to move toward.