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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. Without the hopes, to warn us of chaos. We know valuable things is true. The people who say these things are dreams and idealisms of the past, the future are being left behind. It is not imaginary. Much weak in their own way. They are blinded by looms ahead unknown. Living without a is being lost every day. All kinds of things are the present and accept it unquestioningly. They certain future disturbs us. We are living in an disappearing that once were common and are tolerant of it. But they do not understand amputated, rootless moment in time. We know customary. So the longings and the great the present or the past, and they do not under- this is not enough. This knowing is nostalgia. cultural sadness increase. stand our longing for it. Experts say it is not productive, not So they demean and universalize our practical. It is not possible to reclaim nostalgic notions. But, nostalgia for the those things that have been compromised past is not the normal thing. All former by time. The present is upon us. We can’t cultures did not share this yearning. go back, even to rescue the things we Before Columbus landed, Native people know were good. Not even if we wanted did not long for something lost. Why to. They say time marches on. would they? They lived close to the Earth In exchange for this advancing social in its primal state in a balance with nature loss, as a kind of acquiescent delusion, and in a condition of cultural wholeness. many have come to believe now to be the Because of this they were free. They best time. So we are taught to tolerate the didn’t want something different. They intolerable, accept change and the loss it wanted what they had. In their time, the generates, to accept work we dislike past and the future resembled each other. unquestioningly, to accept ugliness, to live This organic continuum of living gave cut off from a natural life, and to forget them a command over time and destiny. the wild primal flare of living. But rather They were in control of their lives. They “They“They saysay wewe than doubt our times, we doubt ourselves were not nostalgic. They were hopeful. and doubt our senses and doubt every- It wasn’t accidental. It was a social can’tcan’t gogo back”back” thing. If the present is not perfect, surely promise that worked for thousands of the past was worse. Because if the past years until they were forced to change. truly were ideal, the present would take Today, of course, we believe in change. on the aura of an Oz-like charade. We crave it. Styles must change. Fashion Culture is the dynamic, interactive must change. Car models must be upgraded relationship of people to place and and modernized. New medicines syn- will naturally evolve when a society thesized. New machines designed, new lives long enough in a place to learn technologies developed, new toys in time for all about it. Healthy cultures acquire Christmas. New solutions to the problems this information after hundreds or our other solutions have generated. thousands of years of patient experience. Because we are indebted to change, we find The lack of a certain future generates social There is no hurry at all. After a time, this it hard to remain settled or content. Modern life apathy, anomie, alienation, and fear. Change learning weathers into its fossil form. And is tinged with urgency. Out of this urgency our has destroyed our tribes, our clans, our families, from this fossil knowledge comes the nostalgias are born. Our sad yearnings are an our hometowns, our communities, our idiosyncratic social definition of culture as indicator that social change has exceeded our sanctuaries, our fellow species. The fracture a reflection of place. Art, music, fashion, ability to endure it. As the pace of change of once sound social and biological systems tradition, language, architecture, religion, escalates, customs and traditions die out. Those has undermined our ability to unite in response myth, all develop organically from this that remain mutate obsessively to fill the void. to crisis. The social collective that secured indelible bond.

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GA #16-main doc 2 4/14/04, 8:35 PM Because we were shaped and designed by It’s not polite. We are ashamed and embarrassed the Earth, our nostalgias cannot lead us wrong. by ourselves and hesitant to admit to our secret WeWe areare navigatingnavigating nownow They are millions of years of coded revelations social longings and our private pain. absolutelyabsolutely remoteremote fromfrom thethe held by every human being like a longing or a The self-absorbed, self-adulatory time in pastpast andand terrifiedterrified ofof it.it. dream. We know our hearts are breaking. We which we live does not enjoy being compared know we are afraid. We are a sad and uprooted to other times. We are navigating now population. We are an itinerant, ever-shifting, absolutely remote from the past and terrified mobile, culturally disinherited people sur- of it. The ambition of our time is to isolate rounded by deteriorating ritual, lapse of and destroy all alternate futures. The present ceremony and loss of social meaning. We have allows no substitutes. allowed cultural memory to escape us. We are The past now labors under intense temporal helpless, tame and not free. prejudice. Time rights are being compromised. Surviving Native societies are far more Human destiny is at stake. One hundred enculturated than we are. That’s what attracts thousand years of evolutionary experience has us to them. They have something we have lost. etched in our minds an instinct for survival We feel a residual social jealousy manifesting and in our hearts a capacity to feel. If we lose in protectiveness. We will speak for them, or that, or if we are ashamed to feel, if we are fight for them. It seems they have all kinds of corrupted by the present, the future will erase tantalizing rights. They have visionary ideals even the memory of these yearnings. Our nestled somewhere in the ancestral parts of the species’ obligation is to never let that happen. brain. We understand they have a right to their preferred expression of social being. We stand up for the Tribes but we do not stand up for Water Knows No Obstacles and ourselves because we have forgotten that these rights are universal. Because of this, we may Overtakes All Opponents As It Flows see problems and set forth solutions, but none of them will work. After all, how can the lions Towards Its Destination safe in their cage save other lions from the zoo? When a landed culture dies out, the fossil It is remarkable how widely critiques of civilization itself are being knowledge laid down one memory at a time expressed, and how few in the anti-authoritarian milieu come out dies out too. We are using up the Earth’s against such perspectives. Even two or three years ago this was not so fossil knowledge faster than we are replacing much the case. An awful reality is unfolding for all to experience, and it. We don’t think much about it. We don’t feel our visions deepen in order to imagine a truly different world. any different. No one on the evening news is In fact, it has become almost mandatory—even for some on the left—to alarmed. No ratios are displayed — how much add “civilization” to the list of things we oppose. This is rather like the is lost, how much remains. No panels gather post-Seattle ’99 tide of activists who began identifying as anarchists. to consider how much knowledge it takes to Overall, it’s a positive movement, not something to complain about. successfully inhabit our planet. No wondering And sometimes one wonders what the words actually mean to that someday we may not have enough people, whether in every case outlooks really have deepened. For knowledge left to keep on. No concern we may example, a recent article included the phrase “as long as there have been already have passed that point. classes and states––that is, since the beginning of civilization.” This could When fossil knowledge disappears, the certainly be (mis)read as classes and states equal civilization, and in social fabric is perforated and the things we will that sense all traditional, leftist anarchists oppose it. Which they do not, eventually become nostalgic for begin to in fact, because civilization more fundamentally means domestication vanish. These vital, precious data bits are not and domination of nature, for example. The various anarcho-communists, immediately retrievable. Reclaiming them “anti-state” communists, syndicalists, situationists, etc. do not question requires whole cultures, whole generations, these institutions, because without them modernity, globalism, technology– encoding for centuries. It requires a firsthand, to name a few others they don’t question––wouldn’t exist. interactive relationship with the Earth. This type Similar references to civilization include using the word to refer to of learning is ceaseless. It does not stop or start. present reality in general, or in a qualified sense, as in “capitalist It has no beginning and it does not end. civilization,” which probably just means capitalism. Modern learning, fragmented and temporal, But if more precision would be nice, we must definitely be alert to an now stands in for the real thing. This pseudo- opposing problem as well. One that’s our responsibility; namely, not knowledge, like a kind of guessing, is simply becoming sectarian, rigid, dogmatic in our resistance to civilization. the modern method of forgetting. As a result, The left is capable of some of the same ‘flexibility’ that capitalism has all major advertised gains of the present are so often displayed. To throw the C-word in once in a while might give a illusory or transitory. false impression as to what the left is, how far it can go. And that’s If we are locked into this time, we are the worth taking note of. ones holding the key. It is not a game of words, But for us, new zines, more get-togethers, a growing resonance (e.g. articles, it is a force of thought and a battle of ideas. Our books, films), and resistance are visible in 2004. A deeply grounded personal nostalgic dreams are all that’s left of popular movement is possible, if not likely. Let’s go forward strongly, but the past and they are the hope for the future. also openly and non-defensively, always looking for new questions. The only thing wrong with them is they are Starting with some for ourselves in fighting civilization/patriarchy. not strong enough. We do not promote them. Page 3 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

GA #16-main doc 3 4/14/04, 8:35 PM Welcome to Green Anarchy Issue # 16/Spring 2004 Springtime has finally arrived! It’s time to start sprouting and magazine. And although we have gone through most of the 9,000 copies budding after the necessary dark and inward period of theorizing, of the Winter issue, we did a print run of only 8,000 on this issue so we reflection, and debate. It’s time to get moving again and prepare for could print more of the “Rewilding” primers, and because we will have to action! In our last issue of Green Anarchy (#15) we spent a lot of time get our Summer issue out a little sooner to better prepare for the “Feral focused on tactics and strategy, including articles on summits, sabotage, Visions Against Civilization” gathering in August (see page 75 for details). and armed resistance. It was also a special Feedback on the content of the last theme on the Left, including Part Two of issue was mostly very favorable, although our “Back to Basics” series, entitled “The we should say that it was probably our Problem of the Left”. As anti-civilization most controversial issue to date. To be anarchists, we feel that the Left is not only honest though, we could have written a a failed political orientation and a bankrupt very specific list before-hand of all the position which has never questioned basic individuals who would get defensive and assumptions of the current arrangement pissed off by issue #15 (including many (technology, division of labor, economy, anarcho-leftists, the more defensive folks progress, and organization), but in fact, it is in the punk scene, and certain “identity antithetical to liberation and needs to be politics”-oriented people), and we would abandoned. While understanding what we have been about 95% accurate. We are not are against and why is important in our here to be “agreeable” and “nice”, but to project of de-civilizing, in this issue there is raise questions we feel are important, to more focus on what we are for, the report on and offer analysis to the various reconnection to wildness. So, while we have resistance movements, and add our critique our usual elements of resistance to the mega- to the ongoing anarchist, anti-civilization, machine and our anti-civ/post-left analysis, anti-authoritarian, and anti-colonial we also focus on something we are doing in our struggles. You will never get disingenuous lives, but which sometimes gets overlooked and smiley-faces and candy-coated positions even downplayed in these pages: rewilding. from us. In a time of growing disparity, we feel blunt and open honesty is not only In this issue, we have volume three of needed, but essential. “Back to Basics”, which focuses on our observations and visions for an emotional, A word on the editorial collective. spiritual, and physical return to the wild. We are made up of different individuals We would like to thank the Wildroots with different opinions, so we obviously Collective in North Carolina for contributing don’t all agree on (or write) everything in the bulk of this primer. (Note: We intend each issue, but we consent to publish the next “Back to Basics” to be either a articles and opinions that we feel offer revised “What is Green Anarchy” special introduction, or “Class and the important ideas and directions to an ongoing anti-civilization perspective. Anti-Civilization Perspective”.) This issue also features a look at video We receive contributions from around the world, from a range of people surveillance cameras and the rewilding act of destroying them, John Zerzan’s with various points-of-view, but we want to get away from making “Patriarchy, Civilization, and the Origins of Gender”, an essay by former excessive disclaimers with each article, only adding points we feel are member of the Situationist International turned anti-GE militant, Rene absolutely necessary. Hopefully you won’t agree with it all…we don’t! Riesel, Bob Black’s “Theses On Anarchism After Post-Modernism”, an We try to give our readers enough credit to draw from the issues what intriguing look at the origins question by Ran Prier, a reclamation of Lao they desire, and what they wish to prioritize in their own perspectives Tzu’s “Tao Te Ching”, a number of other articles and perspectives, and the and lives. We assume an intelligent reader, not one who needs endless usual sections on direct action and state repression, plus reviews, letters, qualifiers and disclaimers to direct them. poems and opinions. Unfortunately, because of the limits of time and space there is no interview in this issue, but we are working on a couple of them as you read We need your help! This project cannot flourish without your this. We were also unable to include a substantial look at anarchist visions active participation. We are always looking for contributions of articles, rants, feedback, poetry, images, action reports, prisoner updates, and beyond the utopian model, which will appear in our Summer issue (#17). ideas for future issues. We are always in need of local distributors (at any Our new format has been well received! We are delighted to level), subscribers, and financial supporters. We give over half of our say that we have been given an abundance of positive feedback on our print run away for free, so if you would like to see this project continue, switch from newsprint tabloid to magazine. As we stated in the last issue, consider throwing a benefit in your area, sending in a donation, or helping our content will not change, no sections will be cut, and the size and us in some way monetarily. We thank those who have contributed to consistency will remain the same. We made this change with the hope of this project, in any form. Enjoy the issue, and good luck this Spring! providing a more durable and long-lasting piece of propaganda, and in For the Destruction of Civilization, an attempt to get the magazine into larger circulation through distributors. And the Reconnection to Life Just so you know, the glossy cover of our last issue was a mistake by the The Green Anarchy Collective printer, and although it looks sharp and “professional”, for financial and April 15th, 2004 ecological reasons, we will probably stick to a matte finish for the ( Our Deadline for our Summer issue is June 1st ) GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 4

GA #16-main doc 4 4/14/04, 8:35 PM WhatWhat II wishwish II HadHad saidsaid SeptemberSeptember 12,12, 20012001

TODAY, MARCH 11, 2004, there was about this one crime, what possible chance points of history, philosophy, and values – to another major bombing in Madrid, Spain. The could I have to ever stop crying? This is the what end? I am not convinced that lashing out ‘facts’ in the case are still coming out (12 hours world I live in. If I am not going to burn against the State in media savvy public displays later) but it appears that the eye of accusation myself to ash I have to deal with yet another of violence has much connection at all to is envisioning the event as an Al Quaeda plot. headline about consequences as exactly what dismantling it. If I knew that it did, I would The first 24 hours of mainstream news they are – people died in the course of a total use this opportunity to beg your action along coverage after the September 11 attacks was war where one side has very few options at its this line, or at the very least to ask you to tape an interesting glance behind the curtain. Not disposal with which to attack domination. me up for my run at the prize. Moreover, I am only were there reports (that I never heard My question is, to what extent will there ever suspicious that what is being presented to me followed up on) of there being additional be resolution to the Wars of Terror? Just as we as reality isn’t the half of it. attacks on government buildings in DC, but know the pattern of behavior of the non- I may not be a believer, and will not be a the blame for the attacks was all over the map: participant analysts of this latest action, we beneficiary either way, but I also do not think kind of a who’s who of America’s shit list. also know the behavior of the system itself. that the conclusion to this ‘total war’ is going The coverage then from the anarchist and Of course there will be increased repression. to be anything like what we suspect it is going left press was typically one-dimensional, as Of course the ETA (the Basque separatists who to be. Revolutionaries of every stripe have the initial response to the new Spain attack were initially accused of the crime but may been remarkably, consistently, wrong about the also appears to be. An example is in order. The end up being off the hook for this action) will consequences of their behavior. What I do report begins with a round or two of humanist be crushed. More allies will join on to the believe is that the radical action taken by a hand-wringing, all about the children, the American-led War against Terror. More money very few individuals today strikes more awe terror and how targeting ‘innocent’ people is will be spent that will result in a higher degree in me than terror. The cognitive, spiritual, and no way to change the world. Then come the of examination into our personal lives and a-humanist leap taken on a train in Madrid, limp accusations about state terror. “How greater amount of militarization of our society. much like the one taken by 15 hijackers in come we are forced to write this lament against This cycle will repeat until either the entire 2001, has more value to add to an understand- the civilian population by a group without a social apparatus collapses under the weight of ing about what a revolutionary practice is state when the State does really bad things, its own repressive infrastructure OR there is going to look like in the 21st century than a too. The State is even worse than the topic of total conformity under our compassionate 1,000 black blocs or a million demonstrations my moralistic diatribe!” Then there is a point overlords. I am betting on the former. against the state and for the cameras. or two about bad policies and how, if there To defend acts of ‘terror’ would be to choose 1. These thoughts courtesy of the ‘anarchist’ writer anarcho at http:// were anarchy, or justice, or whatever-in-the-fuck, to spend an endless period of time debating anarchism.ws/writers/anarcho.html this would never have happened. The report * This essay is from Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st Century, a great new pamphlet intended to expose is wrapped up with the sober analysis about anarchists to the breadth of the nihilist contribution to anarchy, now available for $2 from Green Anarchy. how we should change the world by changing the fundamental problem and not ‘play the same game’ as those with missile technology and a standing army.1 It is as if there were a Central Committee writing these things, press release style, making sure that no one is off script. There is no possible way that anyone could believe that there are people fighting a war against the system, people whom I may not wish to win, but who am I to judge? Until the day that I take up arms against the state, resisting the enemy on the only field that it understands, I am going to keep my mouth fucking shut about the –by–by anan correct or incorrect ways to fight the totality… I am not going to tell you about how my eyes are running with tears because of all the anonymousanonymous children who will not be coming home to parents tonight. My eyes are dry. They are not dry because of the greater crimes of the United nihilist States, or Spanish governments. Sure, their nihilist crimes are legend, but if I were to cry today Page 5 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

GA #16-main doc 5 4/14/04, 8:35 PM Theses on Anarchism After Post-Modernism (1) Anarchism, n. 1. The doctrine that a state- For her, nothing is necessarily necessary, and less society is possible and desirable. everything is possibly possible. He thinks Obsolete. 2. Rule by anarchists. immediatism takes too long. “She flies on strange wings” (Shocking Blue). Winston (2) Anarchism, properly understood, has Churchill’s wife once complained about his by Bob Black nothing to do with standards and values in a drinking. Churchill replied that he had taken moral sense. Morality is to the mind what the more out of alcohol than alcohol had taken state is to society: an alien and alienating out of him. The Type 3 anarchist takes more limitation on liberty, and an inversion of ends out of anarchism that anarchism takes out of and means. For anarchists, standards and values her. And he tries to get more out of life than are best understood – that is, they are most useful life gets out of him. A loving, thoughtful, self- (7) Anarchism is in transition, and many – as approximations, shortcuts, conveniences. affirming, predatory orientation has as many anarchists are experiencing anxiety. It is very They may summarize a certain practical wisdom practical applications as the ingenuity and easy to advocate changing the world. Talk is won by social experience. Then again, they imagination of the Type 3 suggests to her. cheap. It is not easy to change your own may be the self-serving dictates of authority, small corner of it. The differences among or once-useful formulations which, in changed (6) In principle, the rejection of principles the traditional anarchist tendencies are circumstances, no longer serve any anarchist of universal application has universal irrelevant because the traditional anarchist purpose, or any good purpose. application. In practice, every individual tendencies are themselves irrelevant. (For has his limitations, and the force of circum- present purposes let’s disregard the Type 2, (3) To speak of anarchist standards and stances varies. There’s no formula for success, free-market anarchists who seem to have no values, then, is not necessarily nonsensical not even the recognition that there’s no formula noticeable presence except in the United – but it does involve risks, often avoidable risks. for success. But reason and experience States, and even there they have little dialog In a society still saturated with Christianity and identify certain areas of foreseeable futility. with, and less influence over the rest of us.) its secular surrogates, the risk is that the tradi- It is easy and advisable, for instance, for The worldwide, irreversible, and long- tionally absolutist use of these moralistic overdue decline of the left precipitated words will carry over to the way the the current crisis among anarchists. anarchists use them. Do you have standards and values or do they have you? It is (8) Anarchists are having an identity usually better (but, of course, not neces- crisis. Are they still, or are they only, sarily or absolutely better) for anarchists the left wing of the left wing? Or are to avoid the treacherous vocabulary they something more or even something of moralism and just say directly what else? Anarchists have always done they want, why they want it, and why much more for the rest of the left than they want everybody to want it. In other the rest of the left has ever done for words, to put our cards on the table. them. Any anarchist debt to the left has long since been paid in full, and then (4) Like standards and values, the some. Now, finally, the anarchists are anarchist “isms,” old and new, are best free to be themselves. But freedom is a regarded as resources, not restraints. frightening, uncertain prospect, whereas They exist for us, not us for them. It the old ways, the leftist cliches and doesn’t matter if I, for instance, may rituals, are as comfortable as a pair of have gotten more out of situationism old shoes (including wooden shoes). than syndicalism, whereas another Anarchists are having What’s more, since the left is no longer anarchist has gotten more out of feminism an identity crisis. any kind of threat, anarcho-leftists are or Marxism or Islam. Where we have in no danger of state repression when visited and even where we come from are anarchists to abstain from electoral politics. they remember and reenact their ancient, less important than where we are and where, It is preferable but often not possible to abstain mythic glories. That’s about as revolutionary if anywhere, we’re going – or if we are from work, although it is usually possible to as smoking hash, and the state tolerates both going to the same place. engage in some workplace resistance without for the same reason. undue risk. Crime, the black market, and tax (5) Let “Type 1” refer to anarcho-leftism. Let evasion are sometimes realistic alternatives or (9) Just how “anarchistic” is the world anyway? “Type 2” refer to anarcho-capitalism. Let adjuncts to involvement in the state-sanctioned In one way, very anarchistic; in another, not at “Type 3” refer to the meta-typical (“names system. Everyone has to evaluate his own all. It is very anarchistic in the sense that, as name me not”). The Type 3 anarchist cat- circumstances with an open mind. Do the best Kropotkin argued, human society, human life egorically rejects categorization. His you can and try not to get caught. Anarchists itself, always depends far more on voluntary “existence precedes his essence” (Sartre). have enough martyrs already. cooperative action than on anything the state GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 6

GA #16-main doc 6 4/14/04, 8:35 PM orders. Under severely statist regimes – the former Soviet Union or present-day New York City – the regime itself depends on widespread violations of its laws to stay in power and keep Reclaiming the life going. In another way, the world is not an- archist at all, because no human population exists anywhere any more which is not subject to some degree of control by some state. Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu: born white-haired in 604 War is too important to be left to the generals, B.C., immaculately conceived to a and anarchy is too important to be left to the shooting star in the Chinese province for Anarchy anarchists. Every tactic is worth trying by of Honan. Does anarchy apply to the anyone inclined to try it, although proven mistakes – such as voting, banning books writings of Lao Tzu? Does Lao Tzu (compiled by a (especially mine), random violence, and apply to anarchy? To define, terms may non-intellectual peasant) allying with the authoritarian left – are best be used but none of them “absolute”… avoided. If anarchists haven’t learned how to 46 69 revolutionize the world, hopefully they have In a land where the way of life is understood There is a saying among soldiers: learned a few ways how not to. That’s not Race-horses are led back to serve the field; I dare not make the first move but would enough, but it is something. In a land where the way of life is not understood rather War-horses are bred on the autumn yield. play the guest; (10) To speak of priorities is an improvement Owning is the entanglement, I dare not advance an inch but would rather on speaking of standards and values, as the Wanting is the bewilderment, withdraw a foot. word is less burdened with moralistic Taking is the presentiment: This is called marching without appearing to overtones. But again, do you have priorities, Only he who contains content Remains content. move, or do priorities have you? Rolling up your sleeves without showing your 57 arm, (11) Self-sacrifice is counter-revolutionary. A realm is governed by ordinary acts, Capturing the enemy without attacking, Anyone capable of sacrificing himself for a A battle is governed by extraordinary acts; Being armed without weapons. cause is capable of sacrificing someone else The world is governed by no acts at all. There is no greater catastrophe than under- for it too. Therefore, solidarity among the self- And how do I know? estimating sacrificial is impossible. You just can’t trust This is how I know. the enemy. an altruist. You never know when he might Act after act prohibits By underestimating the enemy, I almost lose commit some disastrous act of benevolence. Everything but poverty, what I value. Weapon after weapon conquers Everything but chaos, Therefore when the battle is joined, “The struggle against oppression” – what (12) Business after business provides The underdog will win. a fine phrase! A circus-tent commodious A craze of waste, enough to cover every leftist cause, however Law after law breeds 76 clownish, and the less relevant it is to the A multitude of thieves. Man, born tender and yielding, revolution of everyday life, the better. Free Therefore a sensible man says: Stiffens and hardens in death. Mumia! Independence for East Timor! If I keep from meddling with people, they take All living growth is pliant, Medicines for Cuba! Ban land mines! Ban care of Until death transfixes it. dirty books! Viva Chiapas! Legalize pot! Save themselves, Thus men who have hardened are ‘kin of death’ the whales! Free Nelson Mandela! – no wait, If I keep from commanding people, they behave And men who stay gentle are ‘kin of life.’ they already did that, now he is a head of state, themselves, If I keep from preaching at people, they improve Thus a hard-hearted army is doomed to lose. and will any anarchist’s life ever be the same? themselves, A tree hard-fleshed is cut down: Everybody is welcome under the big top, on If I keep from imposing on people, they become Down goes the tough and big, one condition: that he refrain from any and all themselves. Up comes the tender sprig. critique of any and all of the others. You sign my petition and I’ll sign yours… 75 Why are the people starving? By maintaining the public image of a common Because the rulers eat up the money in taxes. struggle against oppression, leftists conceal, Therefore the people are starving. not only their actual fragmentation, incoher- Why are the people rebellious? ence and weakness, but – paradoxically – Because the rulers interfere too much. what they really do share: acquiescence in Therefore they are rebellious. the essential elements of state/class society. Why do the people think so little of death? Those who are content with the illusion of Because the rulers demand too much of life. community are reluctant to risk losing its Therefore the people take death lightly. modest satisfactions, and maybe more, by going for the real thing. All the advanced Having little to live on, one knows better than to value life too much. industrialized democracies tolerate a leftist loyal opposition, which is only fair, since it * Next issue, “Reclaiming Chuang Tzu for Anarchy” tolerates them. 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GA #16-main doc 7 4/14/04, 8:35 PM PATRIARCHY, CIVILIZATION, AND THE ORIGINS OF GENDER

Civilization, very fundamentally, is the history men, before male-defined culture became fixed of the domination of nature and of women. or universal. Since the 1970s anthropologists by John Zerzan Patriarchy means rule over women and nature. such as Adrienne Zihlman, Nancy Tanner and Overall, males and females in band society Are the two institutions at base synonymous? Frances Dahlberg4 have corrected the earlier move freely and peacefully from one band to Philosophy has mainly ignored the vast focus or stereotype of prehistoric “Man the another as well as into or out of relation- realm of suffering that has unfolded since it Hunter” to that of “Woman the Gatherer.” Key ships.8 According to Rosalind Miles, the men began, in division of labor, its long course. here is the datum that as a general average, not only do not command or exploit women’s Hélène Cixous calls the history of philosophy pre-agricultural band societies received about labor, “they exert little or no control over a “chain of fathers.” Women are as absent from it 80 percent of their sustenance from gathering women’s bodies or those of their children, as suffering, and are certainly the closest of kin. and 20 percent from hunting. It is possible to making no fetish of virginity or chastity, Camille Paglia, anti-feminist literary theorist, overstate the hunting/gathering distinction and to and making no demands of women’s sexual meditates thusly on civilization and women: overlook those groups in which, to significant exclusivity.”9 Zubeeda Banu Quraishy pro- degrees, women have hunted and men have When I see a giant crane passing on a vides an African example: “Mbuti gender associations were characterized by flatbed truck, I pause in awe and 10 reverence, as one would for a harmony and cooperation.” church procession. What power of And yet, one wonders, was the conception: what grandiosity: these situation really ever quite this rosy? cranes tie us to ancient Egypt, Given an apparently universal de- where monumental architecture valuation of women, which varies in its was first imagined and achieved. forms but not in its essence, the question If civilization had been left in of when and how it was basically other- wise persists. There is a fundamental female hands, we would still be division of social existence according to living in grass huts.1 gender, and an obvious hierarchy to this The “glories” of civilization and divide. For philosopher Jane Flax, the most women’s disinterest in them. To some deep-seated dualisms, even including of us the “grass huts” represent not those of subject-object and mind-body, taking the wrong path, that of oppres- are a reflection of gender disunity.11 sion and destructiveness. In light of the Gender is not the same as the natural/ globally metastasizing death-drive of physiological distinction between the technological civilization, if only we sexes. It is a cultural categorization and still lived in grass huts! ranking grounded in a sexual division Women and nature are universally of labor that may be the single cultural devalued by the dominant paradigm and who gathered.5 But women’s autonomy in foraging form of greatest significance. If gender introduces cannot see what this has wrought? Ursula Le societies is rooted in the fact that material and legitimates inequality and domination, Guin gives us a healthy corrective to Paglia’s resources for subsistence are equally available what could be more important to put into dismissal of both: to women and men in their respective spheres question? So in terms of origins—and in terms Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, of activity. of our future—the question of human society all the rest is other—outside, below, In the context of the generally egalitarian without gender presents itself. underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I ethos of hunter-gatherer or foraging societies, We know that division of labor led to explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is anthropologists like Eleanor Leacock, Patricia domestication and civilization and drives the what matters. What I want is what matter Draper and Mina Caulfield have described a globalized system of domination today. It also is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women generally equal relationship between men and appears that artificially imposed sexual 6 and wilderness, to be used as I see fit.2 women. In such settings where the person division of labor was its earliest form and was who procures something also distributes it and also, in effect, the formation of gender. There are certainly many who believe that where women procure about 80 percent of the Sharing food has long been recognized as a early civilizations existed that were matriarchal. sustenance, it is largely women who determine hallmark of the foraging life-way. Sharing the But no anthropologists or archaeologists, band society movements and camp locations. responsibility for the care of offspring, too, feminists included, have found evidence of Similarly, evidence indicates that both women which can still be seen among the few remaining such societies. “The search for a genuinely and men made the stone tools used by pre- hunter-gatherer societies, in contrast to egalitarian, let along matriarchal, culture has agricultural peoples.7 privatized, isolated family life in civilization. proved fruitless,” concludes Sherry Ortner.3 With the matrilocal Pueblo, Iroquois, Crow, What we think of as the family is not an eternal There was, however, a long span of time and other American Indian groups, women could institution, any more than exclusively female when women were generally less subject to terminate a marital relationship at any time. mothering was inevitable in human evolution.12

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GA #16-main doc 8 4/14/04, 8:35 PM Society is integrated via the division of shed some light. The Bimin-Kushusmin of Meillasoux reminds us of its beginnings: labor and the family is integrated via the sexual Papua New Guinea, for example, experience Nothing in nature explains the sexual division of labor. The need for integration the masculine-feminine split as fundamental division of labor, nor such institutions as bespeaks a tension, a split that calls for a basis and defining. The masculine “essence,” called marriage, conjugality or paternal filiation. for cohesion or solidarity. In this sense Testart finiik, not only signifies powerful, warlike All are imposed on women by constraint, all is right: “Inherent in kinship is hierarchy.”13 qualities but also those of ritual and control. are therefore facts of civilization which must And with their basis in division of labor, the The feminine “essence,” or khaapkhabuurien, be explained, not used as explanations.23 relations of kinship become relations of pro- is wild, impulsive, sensuous, and ignorant duction. “Gender is inherent in the very nature of ritual.19 Similarly, the Mansi of north- Kelkar and Nathan, for example, did not find of kinship,” as Cucchiari points out, “which western Siberia place severe restrictions on very much gender specialization among could not exist without it.”14 It is in this area that women’s involvement in their ritual practices.20 hunter-gatherers in western India, compared the root of the domination of nature as to agriculturalists there.24 The transition well as of women may be explored. from foraging to food production brought As combined group foraging in band similar radical changes in societies every- societies gave way to specialized roles, where. It is instructive, to cite another kinship structures formed the infra- example closer to the present, that the structure of relationships that developed Muskogee people of the American in the direction of inequality and Southeast upheld the intrinsic value of power differentials. Women typically the untamed, undomesticated forest; became immobilized by a privatizing child colonial civilizers attacked this stance care role; this pattern deepened later by trying to replace Muskogee matri- on, beyond the supposed requirements lineal tradition with patrilineal relations.25 of that gender role. This gender-based The locus of the transformation of the separation and division of labor began wild to the cultural is the domicile, as to occur around the transition from the women become progressively limited to Middle to Upper Paleolithic eras.15 its horizons. Domestication is grounded Gender and the kinship system are here (etymologically as well, from the cultural constructs set over and against Latin domus, or household): drudge the biological subjects involved, “above all a With band societies, it is no exaggeration to work, less robusticity than with foraging, many symbolic organization of behavior,” according say that the presence or absence of ritual is more children, and a lower life expectancy than to Juliet Mitchell.16 It may be more telling to crucial to the question of the subordination of males are among the features of agricultural look at symbolic culture itself as required by women.21 Gayle Rubin concludes that the existence for women.26 Here another dichotomy gendered society, by “the need to mediate sym- “world-historical defeat of women occurred with appears, the distinction between work and bolically a severely dichotomized cosmos.”17 the origins of culture non-work, which for so The which-came-first question introduces itself and is a prerequisite many, many generations and is difficult to resolve. It is clear, however, of culture.”22 did not exist. From the that there is no evidence of symbolic activity The simultaneous gendered production (e.g. cave paintings) until the gender system, rise of symbolic culture site and its constant based on sexual division of labor, was apparently and gendered life is extension come further under way.18 not a coincidence. foundations of our By the Upper Paleolithic, that epoch Each of them involves culture and mentality. immediately prior to the Neolithic Revolution a basic shift from Confined, if not fully of domestication and civilization, the gender non-separated, non- pacified, women are revolution had won the day. Masculine and hierarchized life. The defined as passive. Like feminine signs are present in the first cave art, logic of their develop- nature, of value as about 35,000 years ago. Gender consciousness ment and extension is something to be made arises as an all-encompassing ensemble of a response to tensions to produce; awaiting dualities, a specter of divided society. In the and inequalities that fertilization, activation new polarization activity becomes gender- they incarnate; both from outside herself/ related, gender-defined. The role of hunter, for are dialectically inter- itself. Women experience example, develops into association with males, connected to earliest, the move from autonomy its requirements attributed to the male gender artificial division of and relative equality in as desired traits. labor. small, mobile anarchic That which had been far more unitary or On the heels, rela- groups to controlled generalized, such as group foraging or tively speaking, of status in large, complex communal responsibility for child tending, the gender/symbolic governed settlements. had now become the separated spheres in alteration came another Mythology and religion, which sexual jealousy and possessiveness Great Leap Forward, compensations of divided appear. At the same time, the symbolic into agriculture and civilization. This is the society, testify to the reduced position of emerges as a separate sphere or reality. This is definitive “rising above nature,” overriding the women. In Homer’s Greece, fallow land (not revealing in terms of the content of art, as well previous two million years of non-dominating domesticated by grain culture) was considered as ritual and its practice. It is hazardous to intelligence and intimacy with nature. This feminine, the abode of Calypso, of Circe, of extrapolate from the present to the remote past, change was decisive as a consolidation and the Sirens who tempted Odysseus to abandon yet surviving non-industrialized cultures may intensification of the division of labor. (continued on next page) Page 9 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

GA #16-main doc 9 4/14/04, 8:35 PM its gendered history of subjugation. Carla Freeman poses a pertinent question But this flight is illusory, a forgetting with her essay titled, “Is Local: Global as of the whole train and logic of Feminine: Masculine? Rethinking the Gender oppressive institutions that make up of Globalization”.30 patriarchy. The dis-embodied high- The general crisis of modernity has its roots tech future can only be more of the in the imposition of gender. Separation and same destructive course. inequality begin here at the period when Freud considered taking one’s place symbolic culture itself emerges, soon becoming as a gendered subject to be foundational, definitive as domestication and civilization: both culturally and psychologically. But patriarchy. The hierarchy of gender can no his theories assume an already present more be reformed than the class system or gendered subjectivity, and thus beg globalization. Without a deeply radical many questions. Various considerations women’s liberation we are consigned to the remain unaddressed, such as gender as deadly swindle and mutilation now dealing out an expression of power relations, and a fearful toll everywhere. The wholeness of the fact that we enter this world as original genderlessness may be a prescription bisexual creatures. for our redemption. civilization’s labors. Both land and women are again subjects of domination. But this inequality in forager societies are widespread, according to Stephan Shennan, Social Inequality and the Transmission of Cultural Traditions imperialism betrays traces of guilty conscience, Notes: in Forager Societies, in Steele and Shennan, op.cit., p. 369. as in the punishments for those associated with 1 Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to 22 Gayle Rubin, The Traffic in Women, Toward an Anthropology of Emily Dickinson (Yale University Press: New Haven, 1990), p. 38. Women (Monthly Review Press: New York, 1979), p. 176. domestication and technology, in the tales 2 Ursula Le Guin, Women/Wildness, in Judith Plant, ed., Healing the 23 Meillasoux, op.cit., pp 20-21. Wounds (New Society: Philadelphia, 1989), p. 45. 24 Cited by Indra Munshi, Women and Forest: A Study of the Warlis of of Prometheus and Sisyphus. The project of 3 Sherry B. Ortner, Making Gender: the Politics and Erotics of Culture Western India, in Govind Kelkar , Dev Nathan and Pierre Walter, eds., agriculture was felt, in some areas more than (Beacon Press: Boston, 1996), p. 24. See also Cynthia Eller, The Myth of Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds (Sage: Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won t Give Women a New Delhi, 2003), p. 268. others, as a violation; hence, the incidence of Future (Beacon Press: Boston, 2000). 25 Joel W. Martin, Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees Struggle for a New rape in the stories of Demeter. Over time as 4 For example, Adrienne L. Zihlman and Nancy Tanner, Gathering and World (Beacon Press: Boston, 1991), pp 99, 143. Hominid Adaptation, in Lionel Tiger and Heather Fowler, eds., Female 26 The production of maize, one of North America s contributions to the losses mount, the great mother-daughter Hierarchies (Beresford: Chicago, 1978); Adrienne L. Zihlman, Women domestication, had a tremendous ef fect on women s work and women s relationships of Greek myth––Demeter-Kore, in Evolution, Signs 4 (1978); Frances Dahlberg, Woman the Gatherer health. Women s status was definitely subordinate to that of males in (Yale University Press: New Haven, 1981); Elizabeth Fisher, Woman s most of the horticultural societies of [what is now] the eastern United Clytemnestra-Iphigenia, Jocasta-Antigone, for Creation: Sexual Evolution and the Shaping of Society (Anchor/ States by the time of first European contact. The reference is from Karen Doubleday: Garden City NY, 1979). Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert, Women in Ancient America example––disappear. 5 James Steele and Stephan Shennan, eds., The Archaeology of Human (University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 1999), p. 88. Also, for example, In Genesis, the Bible’s first book, woman is Ancestry (Routledge: New York, 1995), p. 349. Also, M. Kay Martin and Gilda A. Morelli, Growing Up Female in a Farmer Community and a Barbara Voorhies, Female of the Species (Columbia University Press: Forager Community, in Mary Ellen Mabeck, Alison Galloway and born from the body of man. The Fall from New York, 1975), pp 210-211, for example. Adrienne Zihlman, eds., The Evolving Female (Princeton University Eden represents the demise of hunter-gatherer 6 Leacock is among the most insistent, claiming that whatever male Press: Princeton, 1997): Young Efe [Zaire] forager children are growing domination exists in surviving societies of this kind is due to the effects up in a community where the relationship between men and women is life, the expulsion into agriculture and hard of colonial domination. See Eleanor Burke Leacock, Women s Status far more egalitarian than is the relationship between farmer men and labor. It is blamed on Eve, of course, who bears in Egalitarian Society, Current Anthropology 19 (1978); and her Myths women (p. 219). See also Catherine Panter - Brick and Tessa M. Pollard, of Male Dominance (Monthly Review Press: New York, 1981). See also Work and Hormonal Variation in Subsistence and Industrial Contexts, 27 the stigma of the Fall. Quite an irony, in that S. and G. Cafferty, Powerful Women and the Myth of Male Dominance in C. Panter-Brick and C.M. Worthman, eds., Hormones, Health, and in Aztec Society, Archaeology from Cambridge 7 (1988). Behavior (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1999), in terms of domestication is the fear and refusal of nature 7 Joan Gero and Margaret W. Conkey, eds., Engendering Archaeology how much more work is done, compared to men, by women who farm and woman, while the Garden myth blames (Blackwell: Cambridge MA, 1991); C.F.M. Bird, Woman the Tool- vs. those who forage. maker, in Women in Archaeology (Research School of Pacific and Asian 27 The Etoro people of Papua New Guinea have a very similar myth in the chief victim of its scenario, in reality. Studies: Canberra, 1993). which Nowali, known for her hunting prowess, bears responsibility for Agriculture is a conquest that fulfills what 8 Claude Meillasoux, Maidens, Meal and Money (Cambridge University the Etoros fall from a state of well-being. Raymond C. Kelly, Constructing Press: Cambridge, 1981), p. 16. Inequality (University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 1993), p. 524. began with gender formation and develop- 9 Rosalind Miles, The Women s History of the World (Michael Joseph: 28 Jacques Cauvin, The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Nature ment. Despite the presence of goddess figures, London, 1986), p. 16. (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2000), p. 133. 10 Zubeeda Banu Quraishy, Gender Politics in the Socio-Economic 29 Carol A. Stabile, Feminism and the Technological Fix (Manchester wedded to the touchstone of fertility, in Organization of Contemporary Foragers, in Ian Keen and Takako University Press: Manchester, 1994), p. 5. Yamada, eds., Identity and Gender in Hunting and Gathering Societies 30 Carla Freeman, Is Local:Global as Feminine:Masculine? Rethinking general Neolithic culture is very concerned (National Museum of Ethnology: Osaka, 2000), p. 196. the Gender of Globalization, Signs 26 (2001). with virility. From the emotional dimensions 11 Jane Flax, Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Uncon- scious, in Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka, eds., of this masculinism, as Cauvin sees it, animal Discovering Reality (Reidel: Dortrecht, 1983), pp 269-270. domestication must have been principally a 12 See Patricia Elliott, From Mastery to Analysis: Theories of 28 Gender in Psychoanalytic Feminism (Cornell University Press: male initiative. The distancing and power Ithaca, 1991), e.g. p. 105. emphasis have been with us ever since; 13 Alain Testart, Aboriginal Social Inequality and Recipro city, Oceania 60 (1989), p. 5. frontier expansion, for instance, as male 14 Salvatore Cucchiari, The Gender Revolution and the Transition from Bisexual Horde to Patrilocal Band, in Sherry B. Ortner energy subduing female nature, one frontier and Harriet Whitehead, eds., Sexual Meanings: The Cultural after another. Construction of Gender and Sexuality (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge UK, 1984), p. 36. This essay is of great This trajectory has reached overwhelming importance. proportions, and we are told on all sides that 15 Olga Soffer, Social Transformations at the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition, in G nter Brauer and Fred H. Smith, we cannot avoid our engagement with eds., Replacement: Controversies in Homo Sapiens Evolution ubiquitous technology. But patriarchy, too, (A.A. Balkema: Rotterdam 1992), p. 254. 16 Juliet Mitchell, Women: The Longest Revolution (Virago Press: is everywhere, and once again the inferiority London, 1984), p. 83. 17 Cucchiari, op.cit., p. 62. of nature is presumed. Fortunately, “many 18 Robert Briffault, The Mothers: the Matriarchal Theory of feminists,” says Carol Stabile, hold that “a Social Origins (Macmillan: New York, 1931), p. 159. 19 Theodore Lidz and Ruth Williams Lidz, Oedipus in the Stone rejection of technology is fundamentally Age (International Universities Press: Madison CT, 1988), p. 123. identical to a rejection of patriarchy.”29 20 Elena G. Fedorova, The Role of Women in Mansi Society, in Peter P. Schweitzer, Megan Biesele and Robert K. Hitchhock, There are other feminists who claim a part eds., Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World (Berghahn of the technological enterprise, which posits a Books: New York, 2000), p. 396. 21 Steven Harrall, Human Families (Westview Press: Boulder virtual, cyborg “escape from the body” and CO, 1997), p. 89. Examples of the link between ritual and GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 10

GA #16-main doc 10 4/14/04, 8:35 PM THETHE WITCHWITCH ANDAND THETHE WILDNESSWILDNESS byby KevinKevin TuckerTucker The antagonistic split between the self and The fruits of labor are pooled together and the Other lies at the heart of domestication. positions emerge for people to distribute food. To defend territory or to turn a wild plant or This is where positions of power emerge: in animal into your property requires that you not small steps, access to life is removed from only see it as different, but inferior (Duerr our hands (something so engrained in our 1985, Tucker 2002). This isn’t to say that true own lives that the thought of being truly primitives don’t recognize that they aren’t self-sufficient can be shocking). plants or animals, but the relationship with Sedentism, or settled societies, not only the Other isn’t antagonistic or necessarily counter the anti-power tendencies of mobility important: that comes with domestication. and flexibility (Barnard and Woodburn 1988: James Woodburn made the important observa- 28, Brain 2001: 211-2), but also challenge the tion that societies can be split into two primary ecological relationship formed over millions groups: based either on immediate or delayed of years. The contraceptive on the hip has been return/gratification (Woodburn 1982). Put simply, a powerful way of keeping populations within there are egalitarian (meaning all people have the carrying capacity. But when people settle equal access to necessities) and non-egalitarian down, it becomes easier to raise multiple societies (where there is a ranked system of children at one time. This settling further access) respectively. In “Immediate Return” allows for more elaborate domestic situations. (IR) societies, there are no barriers to getting Domestication in its literal sense (accustomed what you need when you need it. There is no to the household), becomes an issue. The mediating system and all people have the skills erosion of egalitarian relations begins to be necessary to meet their needs. This is more than seen in village life and its architecture (Wilson economics; it is about a way of living that is a 1988). Furthermore, domestication of plants THE MAINSTAY OF OUR GLOBAL CIVILIZATION constant reminder of the community of life. and animals solidifies the superiority of the is the energy that flows through outlets into The separation with the other is contextual: self/Other split, not only between humans and our walls. The fact that our global civilization humans are a part of life, not aside from it. non-humans, but between tribes and kin. exists is primarily because we keep plugging There are neither barbarians nor gates; wildness The picture here is the emergence of power in. So why do it? When we turn on a light switch is not feared, but relished. That these societies and the degradation of egalitarianism. This is the do we think about leaks in nuclear power plants, lack a belief in witchcraft should hardly be context where witches, werewolves, sorcerers, mountains stripped of their peaks with nothing surprising, but is widely noted (Brain 2001: and things that go bump in the night emerge. but steel tracks and dead canaries left inside; 211-2, Lee and DeVore 1968: 91-2, 341). As do we think about 6 million birds who die yearly Colin Turnbull noticed among the BaMbuti: in the U.S. alone because they flew into micro- [they] roam the forest at will, in small isolated wave towers high above the tree lines; do we bands or hunting groups. They have no fear, think about the wildness that constantly tries to because for them there is no danger. For them seep through cracks in the concrete? Do we there is little hardship, so they have no need for think about the wildness within us that turns belief in evil spirits. (Turnbull 1962: 14) But the into boiling rage because we compromise life absence of witches is not only lack of imagina- for survival? Of course not, because if we did, tion. It is not uncommon for IR gatherer-hunters we would be out there bashing everything that to acknowledge witchcraft among sedentary stands in the way of autonomy. Spiritually neighbors, but they take no interest in it for speaking, we are dead. their own uses (Woodburn 1988: 40). Domestication is the destruction of the soul. “Delayed Return” societies are a different It takes a wild being and turns it into a piece story. The loss of egalitarianism is directly of the global machinery; we become a part of linked to three primary factors; surplus, the machine, mentally and physically. It is no sedentism, and domestication. Some societies easy process, but it is one we are all familiar have one of these, while others may have all with. A process we all feel with deep agony three. These can be gatherer-hunters, but in the when we say thanks for being handed a case of all three being present they are typically paycheck. But in the eyes of the civilizers, it horticultural societies. However insignificant is a necessary process. It’s necessary because any of these things may seem to be, they are we aren’t born thinking that power is necessary all very important. When a society becomes or justified any more now than we did ten dependent on surplus, it is no longer an thousand or a million years ago. We have to option for people to just take freely, because be tricked into believing in it. for the first time something is produced. (continued on next page) Page 11 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

GA #16-main doc 11 4/14/04, 8:35 PM Just as misery loves company, power-mongers threaten to carry us beyond the barriers between anti-authoritarian social organization as well). need a common enemy. The role of a chief civilization and savagery and destroy us (turn As a society becomes more dependent upon is more fragile than the role of a king or us loose or kill us, the former seemingly the division of labor and predictable circum- president. While strict taboos can arise in their more frightening to most). stances, it is vital that the health of the state is benefit, they are still accessible. When kings Despite this, witches are not always used seen as the health of the individual. Even in or presidents lose credibility, they still have only to justify or strengthen power. The role microform, nationalism is the lifeblood of access to power (also, in our case, ludicrously of witchcraft is typically relative to the amount forced societies. Keeping social stratification high-paid public relations experts). When of egalitarianism that remains within a society. to a minimum is an important task, one where chiefs lose their credibility, they are witch accusations can come in handy. often killed or exiled. So a scapegoat In these societies, witch accusations is needed. We have terrorists; many can be a means of social leveling. others have witches. When people become more and more Domestication is dependency. A bad powerful at the expense of others, growing season, drought or blight social unrest shoots up. As Kluckhohn means starvation to agriculturalists, noticed among the Navaho, the threat whereas gatherer-hunter mobility of an accusation of witchcraft acts as means they carry on and look for food a brake upon the power and influence elsewhere. For many agricultural of ceremonial practitioners. To keep states, droughts and floods have meant their capacity for influencing the collapse (Fagan 1999); in others, it has course of events, supernatural tech- meant that witches and sorcerers are to niques must be used only to accomplish blame. Not only are bad harvests and socially desirable ends (Ibid:111). In hunts at stake, but personal failures, ill keeping with the anarchistic tendencies health, and most often, death, are all of Navaho society (Ibid: 113), the rise caused by witches. to power is extinguished early. This For agricultural societies, witchcraft usage can be further seen among is a common plight. Among the Shawnee nativists, who, during their Azande, it’s recognized that the witches revolt against Christianity and coloni- are always active, but they only become zation in the 1750-70s, would accuse a problem when a person falls victim the rich and powerful of being witches to witching. That doesn’t mean people (Dowd 1992: 136). aren’t always cautious, especially because Although we can clearly draw a witch may not know they have bewitched However, increased stress can always make it similarities between witches among the Navaho you. As we stock up on canned foods and seal more dominant. European influence meant a and the Azande and terrorists in the age of our windows with plastic and tape, we bear surge in witchcraft accusations for the globalization, it is important to look at witches many similarities to witch fearers’ burial and Yanomami (Ferguson 1995: 58) and the in our own his-story. It has often been easy securing of possessions, excrement, nail clip- Navaho (Kluckhohn 1944), as it likely has for for social Darwinist and apologists for pings, hair, and so on, so they don’t become others. But among stateless societies, witchcraft Progress to point towards fear of witches as tools of the witch’s trade. accusations are used against further central- reasons why primitives were less evolved or Witch accusations are a regular occurrence. ization of power. Most often, the witch in childish and in need of civilizing (in the form Most often, guilty witches can repay the damage stateless, non-chiefdom societies takes the role of a rain of bullets or reign of colonization). of their malign substances without being of the Trickster. It passes on justification for But a look into our own closet shows the killed, but this isn’t always the case. Needless taboo and lays out etiquette by exemplifying European Witchcraze taking place within the to say, members of the princely class are very what is socially destructive behavior. Witches birth of our beloved scientific rationality from rarely accused of being witches, at least publicly break taboo and take on the character of a poor the early 14th century to the late 17th century. (Evans-Pritchard 1976: 9). So are witches a neighbor embodying such qualities as In America, the Salem witch trials stand catch-all category for disorder? In many ways, unsociability, isolation, stinginess, unfriend- strong in historical memory, but the 25 lives apparently so, but it’s easy to see why. When liness, and moroseness (Lehmann and Myers burned at the stake are little compared to other things start to fall apart, it’s always more 2001: 205). Among the Navaho, witches cases: in the Italian Diocese of Como, 1,000 beneficial for those with power to keep people primarily take part in all secret and malevolent witches were burnt in 1523; 1585 left two looking everywhere but at the social system. Of activities against the all people, we should be rather familiar with this. health, property and The witch, then, is the threat of decay and lives of fellow tribesmen opposition to the social order. Among the Lele, (Kluckhohn: 110), while sorcerers turn their back on their own kind and at the same time offering run with the hunted, fight against the hunters, a means of expressing and work against diviners to achieve death these thoughts/behaviors instead of healing. (Douglas 2002: 207) Again, (Ibid: 85). this should sound familiar. Werewolves, The witch or trickster vampires, and wild men have long haunted character then is an civilized societies, lurking in the forests outside important aspect of of the empire and creeping in at night (Duerr social cohesion (some- 1985, Anonymous 2003, Kennedy 2004). thing to keep in mind They steal or eat our children and souls, they when thinking about GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 12

GA #16-main doc 12 4/14/04, 8:35 PM villages reduced to one female inhabitant each; When the patriarchs of Puritanism began to the internalized system: the cop, missionary, 1581-1591 saw 900 witches burnt in Lorraine preach of the evils of the lurking wildness of politician, economist, and worker in our heads. (Griffin 1978: 15). The list goes on and on. Burnt witches and beings that stride the fence When we look within and outside, the target remains are the legacy of fear. The witch as between civilization and savagery, the dis- before us becomes most apparent. It becomes disorder and wildness was never so feared. Only possessed sought this out. In searching for a possible to see that the plug can be pulled on now the disorder became a more obvious target. way out, they identified with the antithesis of this technological civilization, and it will all As patriarchy became even more enmeshed state power. This is what we have to learn. In come crashing down before us. in civilization, enemies became more obvious. seeking to eliminate the threats of the state, The witch is wildness. The witch is very For the first time, the witch became gendered those in power show their weaknesses. They much alive, for the witch is life itself. It smashes and classed. The social deviants were the unwittingly show what has always lay before machines at work. It burns construction dispossessed, those whose very existence us; underneath the veneer of absolute power equipment under the cover of night. It stirs served as a constant reminder of the frailty of lies a frail and fragile corpse maintained by the within us, and it seeks to overtake us if only power. During this period, those being burnt were sweat and blood of those who are trained to see we would let it. most likely women, the poor, homosexuals and through its eyes, the vision of domestication. The civilizers fear this wildness. They radicals (Evans 1978, Griffin 1978, Merchant lock it up. They paint it as a brutish beast 1990). As women were further subjugated that would go on a violent rampage if and increasingly seen as relics of nature, they released. They push it in our heads. They would rise to 82% of supposed witches stand strong with an iron fist, but they are between 1562 and 1684 (Harris 1989: 238). weak. They know they are weak. They This period was a time of increasing unrest. know, in time, the wildness will eat their As social stratification soared to new levels, monuments and swallow their pride. The totalistic disempowerment was hardly an witch runs rampant. And when the lights go abstract concept. The established order was out, beyond the reach of the state, beyond being threatened by the very backs it was the dependency, beyond the imposed built upon. Marvin Harris writes: The system, we will be free to let the witching principle result of the witch-hunt system substance, the wildness, become us. (aside from charred bodies) was that the poor came to believe that they were being Bibliography: victimized by witches and devils instead of Anonymous. 2003. “The Perennial Wild Men.” Green Anarchist. princes and popes. (Ibid: 237) Burnt bodies 70: 10-11. Barnard, Alan and Woodburn, James. 1988. gave validity to the state. Social ills had a Property, power, and ideology in hunter-gathering societies in Hunters and Gatherers: Volume 2, Property, Power and source and, most importantly, the state was Ideology. Ingold, Riches, and Woodburn (eds). Oxford: Berg, doing something about it. Today whites fear 4-31. Brain, James. 2001. An Anthropological Perspective on the Witchcraze in Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion. In non-whites because they are a tangible Lehmann and Myers (eds). Mountain View: threat. 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INTRODUCTION: Born in 1950, Rene Riesel is a veteran of the May 1968 general strike/insurrection in France and a former member of the Situationist International. At the age of 17 he by Rene Riesel belonged to the Nanterre-based “Enragés”, a group of dissident students who helped spark off the cataclysmic events of May ’68, and also participated in the Occupation Committee at the Odeon during that uprising. The Situationists would recognize him as one of their own, the youngest and also the most promising of them according to Guy Debord (who eventually expelled Riesel from the S.I. along with almost all the other members!) Since 1973, Riesel has lived in the French country- side, and for a dozen or so years he has been a sheepfarmer. In 1991, Riesel joined the Confederation Paysanne (Farmers Confederation) and helped plan and carry out the sabotage of transgenic maize in Nerac in 1998, for which he received a suspended eight-month jail sentence. But in December of 2001, Riesel and codefendants Jose Bove and Dominique Soullier were charged with destroying experimental transgenic rice plants in Montpellier, and he is now serving a seven-month jail sentence. It may seem odd at first that the campaign came to an end without Riesel’s radicalism these days is located within a tenuous but ever destroying harvests, but this is easy to explain. In Nérac a very lively network centered on the Encyclopedie des Nuisances group small number of farmers found themselves at the forefront of one of (which publishes his writings) and the Society Against Scientific the rare practical rejections in this country of the innovation of plant Obscurantism and Industrial Terrorism. The influence of these necro-technology (which at that time the genetico-industrial complex groups is marginal, but they incisively expose the soft under- expected to impose easily, banking on ready acceptance by farmers). belly of leftism and anti-globalism: the incapacity to criticize The aim was unambiguous from the start: to “denature” State-authorized the technological system and debunk the myth of Progress. transgenic seeds inside a factory, and so prevent their sale. At Montpellier Riesel is the author of “Declarations on Transgenic Agriculture” matters were even more clear-cut: the Inter-Continental Caravan of Indian and “On Those Who Claim to Oppose It”. A number of texts by Farmers purely and simply destroyed experimental rice plants being grown Rene Riesel concerning the first direct action campaign in in a facility belonging to CIRAD, a government research organization France against organically modified seeds, have now been specializing in “co-operation” with countries considered developmentally published in an English translation in the anthology backward. A fact unknown at the time of the operation is that the European “RESTRUCTURING AND RESISTANCE” (London: resresrev, 2001), Union wholly or partly funded the wrecked research. and are also available at: directaction.piranho.com/riesel.html During this period we envisaged not attacks on French silos containing harvested grain, but rather the monitoring of consignments of imported SOME MONTHS AGO a team of French psychiatrists was asked to transgenic seeds. This was not out of some sort of protectionism, but evaluate the motivation of the opponents of genetic engineering. because – as a positive result of the Nérac action – harvests had been Curiously, this reassuring news was not widely reported. Nor does restricted to a twenty-fifth of their planned size; at the same time crops anyone seem to have noticed the remarkable self-imposed discretion were even harder to trace in that their locations, for which Novartis of the devotees of transgenetics with respect to the doings of their became responsible in 1998, were just as secret as the experimental enemies. Only on the rarest of occasions do they let slip some faint parcels of the CGB. This also explains why there was no destruction of condemnation of the over-sensitivity, the old-fogeyism or the obscu- “commercial” transgenic crops. rantism of the anti-GMO crew, or mutter under their breath that the We were not there yet. Given the balance of forces, two priorities dissenters’ virulent hatred of progress is really a matter for the imposed themselves: first, reducing our extreme isolation by trying to psychiatrists. True enough, the most exemplary aspect of the first precipitate a snowball effect that would multiply acts of sabotage (success campaign waged in France against genetic engineering – a campaign in this regard was extremely limited, as we have seen); secondly, taking that began with the Nérac sabotage of January 1998 and ended with what had been started to its logical conclusion by moving from guerilla the Montpellier action of June 1999, and included ten or so destructions actions against private companies to the first, inevitably frontal of experimental crops and brief occupations of premises of Novartis, of offensives against government research. Not the intangible sort of CIRAD (Centre for International Co-operation in Agronomic Research government research that some unique virtue sanctifies and absolves for Development) and of INRA (National Institute of Agronomic Research) of all responsibility in the world as it is, but real government research – lay in its renewal of the Luddite tradition. Considering that some caught with its hand in the cookie jar of what it actually produces. This participants are eager to downplay this aspect, no doubt because they had got off to a very good start in the CIRAD action, and in a distinctly need to forget the implications of what they have got caught up in, it is more confused way in Ariège two days earlier, with the destruction of probably worth recalling the bases of this modern-day Luddite madness. CETIOM-INRA rapeseed(colza) at Gaudiès. At last the question of the GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 14

GA #16-main doc 14 4/14/04, 8:35 PM status and function of research relative to the development of this related, obviously, to society was beginning to be posed directly - and not just biological what used to be called y research either, although the biotechnologies of death are, it is true, vulgarization, but particularly illuminating in this respect. even more closely Up until now we had done no more, at best, than denounce the tied up with social e mercenary character of government research, pointing the finger at a acceptance in the few ways in which this research works hand in glove with the mercantilism Telethon sense; con- of the private-sphere poisoners. The method chosen, namely direct sider the encores action, perturbed some. At bottom, though, the most vulgar boosters that greeted the of the Nanny State, of fair-play capitalism, or of the permanence of the sole known French industrial system could still feign not to understand or affect to believe and State-sponsored that our uncivil behavior somehow lent support to their arguments. In demonstration of the a word, no tenet of progressivist dogma was so much as scratched - “immense promise least of all infallible science still defying eternity from its dusty tomb. held out by gene All the “citizens” were still free to trot out their old saw according to therapies”, as per- which it is only the use to which some technical application is put that formed on two “causes the problem”, whether that application happens to be DDT, bubble-children by a high-speed trains, river-polluting polychlorinated biphenyls, agent medical team at orange, asbestos, cloning, Monsanto’s Round-Up herbicide, the Internet, Necker Hospital (Paris). cell-phones, nuclear power, or you-name-it. Once the alarm has been As a modern raised, all that is required is to take more security precautions in the echo of the Luddite future; to reinforce the institutions of modern democracy – stepsister cry “Enoch made to techno-science; to help governments make decisions; to assert one’s them, Enoch shall break them!”, the profanatory CIRAD operation, independence; and so on and so forth – with everything becoming more no less than the Nérac action, took aim at a Centre of production of participatory by virtue of opinion polls, referendums and “consensus genetic chimeras. This time, however, the intervention took place conferences”. In this way an end will be put to the “aberrations” of upstream – at the intellectual stage of production, so to speak, if the neoliberalism. Last but not least, “good” genetically modified organisms word can be said to apply to the nature and conditions of the work of will thus become acceptable, however little they may be “public” in any CHS’s and other menials of technoscience, be they specialists in sense of the word. agro-toxicology or not. Forcing the door of the laboratory strictly Apart from sporadic wrappings-up of the Pont-Neuf by Greenpeace amounted to provisionally entrusting meal moths and leaf-rollers with commandos, tele-activism courtesy of Ecoropa, petitions from myriad sole responsibility for resisting that intentional genetic pollution which pressure groups, and a few investigations, lawsuits and trials, nothing the necro-technological onslaught has already turned into a fact of life – no actual movement – followed in the wake of the aforesaid acts of in the larger laboratory that our environment has been turned into, a sabotage. Two years went by before a few militants summoned the laboratory which – to borrow the dreadful words inspired in Günther courage to dress up as vegetables and go and negotiate with supermarket Anders by the nuclear industry – is “coextensive with the globe.” managers for permission to inform consumers by actually distributing We deliberately chose a target that was a Centre of both material and leaflets among the shopping carts! ideological production. We were banking on the possibility that the Nothing, meantime, had intruded upon the corporatist cackle of resulting turbulence in the “research community” might prompt the public-sector researchers, so safely ensconced behind their govern- odd defector to declare him or herself, and at least initiate a critique of ment seal of approval and forever bemoaning the Stalino-Gaullist golden the institutionalized confusion between research and development that age (whose return, would clarify the role of techno-scientific research in the lockstep as has of course forward march of hyper-industrialization and artificial over-social- been scientifically ization. In this hope we were disappointed. But direct action has in proven, depends common with classic scientific methods that it too seeks the practical solely on increased verification of preformed hypotheses; and we had another, less naive government fund- ambition, one deriving from more basic principles: to test the ing for research). They hypotheses that one cannot help formulating on the rising rate of realize, of course, illiteracy and false consciousness among research staff. In view of the that in accordance apparatus that has been set up for the teaching of ignorance, which has with the wishes of given rise among other wonders to the researchers of the genome the most modern industry, such testing of the situation was clearly in order. voices, they must As many as five hundred ranking researchers signed a collective “Open accept a broadening Letter to Citizens” whose drafters stated: “On the one hand we are asked of their role. This will to furnish data for the assessment of agro-environmental risks; on the naturally include other, our research in process is destroyed!!!” A short time later a consultation services hundred and forty-two of the signatories’ colleagues, “without to the decision presuming as citizens to impose their views on civil society,” claimed makers, but above that they were nevertheless justified in saying that “it is certainly society all it will involve that needs the findings of this kind of research if it is to frame the rules the new functions that it means to impose on the cultivation of transgenic plants”. A of valorization and Confederation Générale du Travail-INRA statement darkly predicted communication – (continued on next page) Page 15 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

GA #16-main doc 15 4/14/04, 8:35 PM “stormy weather ahead”, the time being now over when, as in the last secrets, never so well kept as when they are made blindingly obvious. several years, “public agronomic research fulfilled its role by pursuing But for this very reason its revelation has to be counted one of the most basic research on the possibility of using transgenic plants for agronomic eloquent experimental findings of the Luddite executions and operations and agro-alimentary purposes.” Lastly, a CFDT-INRA communiqué issued described above - those “commando actions” and “other combats” in connection with a promotional remake in April 2000 of the rapeseed conducted by “a few Manichaean manipulators” who make no bones destruction at Gaudiès, complete with schizophrenic Greens and State- about their inability to oppose genetically modified foods without decorated representatives of Attac, declined “absolutely to condemn the use opposing the world that produces them. of GMOs” and added its voice to the chorus of denouncers of the “obstruction We live in a time when the triumphant industrialization of the world of the progress of a kind of knowledge sought in direct response to a has largely persuaded our contemporaries that the entire future of the social demand ... despised by those who destroy these experiments...” human race resides in the uninterrupted continuation of this process. Our mummified government researchers are devalued in their own There are those here or there who are busily convincing themselves eyes, poorly remunerated for their expertise, and disqualified by their that transformations of wage-labor, the filtration and recycling of decisive contribution to the “silent revolution” – to the export of the industrial pollutants, the biologists’ revenge upon the physicists, green counter-revolution and to the results thereof, censured not only considered together with the swamping of the masses under information by their paymaster but also by their paymaster’s public opinion; and if technology and any other conceivable means of making life artificial, are they get hot under the collar about being seen to change masters, with just so many harbingers of a post-industrial era. Carried to its inevitable the advent of public-private consortia of the Génoplante variety, it is logical conclusion, this attitude implies that humanity can be deprived of all only because they have largely resigned themselves to the fact that real support, and stultified to the point where of its own accord it abolishes their function, society itself, their boss, and the very last traces of any other conceptions of even their illusions on all of these have already life. Careful scrutiny reveals that this is precisely had to change. the agenda of interactive submission concealed They needn’t worry: it is plain enough that by the veils of the economistic critique of the researchers are model citizens par excellence. economy as propagated, on a “precautionary” It is not merely that, like all good consumer- basis of course, by the boosters of anti-globalist actors, they take their citizenship for a walk at speed-thinking. In reality there is no possible every possible legitimate opportunity, voting common ground between these mental con- according to their convictions, informing tortionists jabbering about “commodification” themselves with that aim in mind, consuming while at the same time claiming to have dis- in perfect lucidity, not to mention joining civic, covered the economy’s universal ambitions, cultural and athletic associations, entrusting and those who firmly intend to revive reasons the State with the education of their offspring for overthrowing that economy. as early as possible, and so on. They do better These last can do no less than renew the still, going so far, in their laboratories, colloquia connection with “the anti-industrial subversion and publications, as to eschew all discussion of that unknown revolution which since the of their mission, which by its very nature serves Luddites and the canuts runs like a secret scientific and human progress, as well as the thread through the history of social struggles.” dissemination of the national scientific culture; Nor, by extension, can they avoid saying why for it should be borne in mind that this mission they see the sabotage of necro-technologies is assigned to them by a hierarchy all the more as a resurgence of the shearing-frame break- empowered to do so for having been appointed ers, and why such action “finally provides by a political class which – short of contesting canuts [and Luddites] with the justification the superiority of the democratic system itself that they in their time were not quite able to - must be deemed a pure emanation of the conceive of.” sovereignty of the people. Furthermore, whenever In the crepuscular dawn of industrial society, perplexity assails this parliamentary representation or its executive arm in the Luddites could hope in a material sense to halt the invasion of the connection with some technological innovation or other, does it not fall as a machines that denied their craft and replaced it with the “shoddy work” matter of course to a researcher (or at least to a research director) to offer of mass production: they could break those or threaten to do so. For society a suitably multidisciplinary account of the benefits that may be our part, though we may enjoy the dubious advantage of two centuries expected to flow from it? And incidentally, in the controversy over genetically of hindsight and clear knowledge of the industrial extremes to which modified organisms, was this not the goal of consensus conferences? workers were subjected for long years in the twentieth century, we cannot Notice that nothing at all in the pleadings of these experts – low as nourish any comparable hopes with respect to genetically modified they are on the totem pole, and hardly steeled to the need not to let the plants. Those who claim that it might be possible to “survive” genetic cat out of the bag – nothing so much as hints at the notion, the indeed modification (in what condition? one might ask) are lying, or fooling them- perfectly absurd notion, that one day the recommendation might be selves, or don’t know what they are talking about, or all of the above. We made, by experts, that the fertile field of research and specialization shall not survive genetic modification even in the way in which some opened up by genetic engineering be closed, or that a single decision- people still dream of surviving the ravages of nuclear power: by cohabiting maker could ever conceivably accept such a fanciful suggestion. That for a few millennia with radioactive dumps, crumbling sarcophaguses, this should be so is itself information of capital importance, for it marine dead zones in the Baltic, and so forth. We had better get ready to encapsulates everything needing saying about all those technical, keep an accounting – beginning forthwith and continuing until the end of economic, ecological or ethical debates where social questions are time – of the mutagenic effects, direct and infinitely recombinable (and purportedly allegedly being addressed. And, being of capital importance, not confined to the plant world), of a genetic pollution of plants whose it has of course gone unnoticed, just like most of the spectacle’s public irreversibility is about the only thing certain that may be said about it. GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 16

GA #16-main doc 16 4/14/04, 8:35 PM Even as the credulous are being entertained with precautionary “decisions” of the European Parliament, or of the Cartagena Conference on biosafety and international trade, and assailed by government and corporate propaganda about the use of genetically modified foods in the home, the happy-go-lucky meddling with every living thing accelerates – and it speeds up all the more where knowledge of the spheres concerned is virtually nil: plants strictly for industrial use, strategic viruses, animals with human organs – the mind boggles. And medical research, all shame long forgotten at never admitting that its sole aim is to contrive our adaptation to a pathogenic society, now envisages the deployment of gene therapies to produce, on the model of the improved animals of industrialized husbandry, new human beings who will demand to be continually treated as sick because they will have been persuaded never to despair of being repaired throughout their lengthy survival. The Luddites and we are separated by an epoch, at times exhilarating for our side, during which the poor, gravitating en masse from the fields to the factories and the struggle against wage-labor, came to believe – like many a millenarian movement before them – that the only problem was to burn down the castle, to expropriate the expropriators, that the world would promptly change its foundation if the economy were set right side up, if the means of production and their technical supports, which “belonged to all”, were simply reappropriated: selection and TheThe JunkyardsJunkyards ofof HistoryHistory reassessment of their use could safely be left until later. Aside from the fact that it is happily no longer possible to bask in the A grey utilitarian dust smothers the landscape; it messianic illusion of an ineluctable shift from the reign of necessity to the reign squeezes all life drop by drop from those who have not of freedom, we have also had to come to terms with the liberation in human yet had the time to live it, in order to lubricate the beings of extremist tendencies towards submission as soon as totalitarian machinery of economic necessity. systems, well enough equipped ideologically and technically, could neutralize the old conditions of exploitation and domination, which still allowed for They slither from the boxes they call homes, trash bin humanizing tendencies. All the same, human communities antedating modern cubicles cluttered with pastiches of pop culture with totalitarianism, or surviving on its fringes, cannot be said either to have fully which these dispirited cogs invent identity, an individuality realized themselves or to have ended up in an industrial universalism. They as unique as the grey malaise their passive existence have been obliged, simply, to renounce the exploration of alternative avenues builds. once open to them. The last historical opportunities to take such avenues get Yet from the midst of this dusty fog, this discolored, fewer when, the better to erase their memory, the superlatively well-equipped passionless horror, suddenly strange laughter springs totalitarianism of the democracy of commodities prepares to colonize, not forth to haunt the sleep of utility’s reason; for in the just the body and the mind, but the most intimate reaches of all life. cracks and crevasses, there are vagabond jesters, fools It must be made clear that there can be no “getting through” either who serve no courts, no kings, no gods, not even genetic modification or any of the other biocidal technologies propagated conscience; by an unshackled economy until we have overcome our need to submit Wanderers at the fringes — meandering through the to the blandishments of technology and industry and believe in scientistic nights in mad adventures. promises of uninterrupted progress. This is the only conceivable escape Though often we may choke up on the grey, our route. And it leads out of this society. Not that reform is impossible, far laughing colors smothered in the dinginess, drawn down from it: it goes on every day as a way of staving off the catastrophe with into the maw of passionless despair, which the society continually threatens us. The point is that the catastrophe Yet through us whirls a mad cacophony refusing to be is real. It is the normal modus operandi of an industrial world for which it channeled or suppressed... has become profitable to announce that each of its advances precipitates And so a rowdy, dancing, howling band — strangely permanent dislocation and collapse; and to stress that there is even worse to come, that we should fear unprecedented disasters, and be ready to invisible except as colors flowing through grey dreams — cope with them. Be ready, above all, to keep taking it in the neck. This is flies through the night on razor’s edge, sifting through why it would be especially illogical to reject the intra-economic crisis-theory the detritus utility has left behind to find the weapons of the mechanistic Marxists, with its boom-bust cycles so propitious for and the toys which will invent the sounds and colors of the final proletarian onslaught, only to embrace a socio-ecological desire without constraint. messianism predicated on a general outbreak of peace and love on every This greyness is the stench of social rot, of civilized decay. level (technological, climatic, nuclear, financial, viral, etc.), which would Utility has filled the world with useless junk to feed our suddenly ruin the prospects of the dominant system by launching the crazed cacophony, a resource for the ruins in which we rag-tag remnants of humanity upon the reconquest of who knows what dream our crazy colors. paradise lost. Since we know that the catastrophe lies within the realm of For from the junkyards of history, we shall create ruins the possible, we have no choice but to refuse in practice to take it into from which bricolage symphonies of chaos will burst forth. account. Striving to put it off, even speculating on the tactical opportunity it might offer – these are merely ways of collaborating with the effort by Wolfi Landstreicher already in hand to reach a final solution to the human question. Page 17 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

GA #16-main doc 17 4/14/04, 8:35 PM The Destruction of Toytown! EarthEarth LiberationLiberation ActionsActions FromFrom AllAll OverOver OurOur BatteredBattered andand BesiegedBesieged PlanetPlanet “If a thing is deprived of Fire, then there is no motion in it. The holes service to issues like affordable the above-ground ELF Press Office and cracks in the Earth require incineration by Fire in order for the housing and urban sprawl. José has not posted any official claim of ancient renewals to be received. Such a work requires a heat Ponce, whose construction company responsibility, these actions now powerful enough to soften and melt those parts of the Earth that was working at one of the sites, said appear on their website. At the he had seen signs of discontent a few present time, Fayetteville police have have become free from darkness and blessed with light instead. The weeks before the bomb threats, made no arrests related to these Fire causes earthly things to be penetrated by a Spiritual Force and mentioning that someone had incidents, but in Virginia three makes Volatile that which was Fixed. The Heat of Fire cleanses that written “pas des condos” on the members of ELF were recently which is unclean. It throws off the bad odors and nourishes the ceiling of a garage at the site. convicted of multiple attacks on Elixir of Life. What was Fixed becomes Illumined, and is changed into SUVs and face up to five years in a beautiful transparent substance. The Heat of Fire warms the cold January 22, Fayetteville, Arkansas: prison when they get sentenced in earth, that while cold was half dead. In this Fire also takes place More Hummers Targeted by ELF April (see this issue’s “State Re- The Earth Liberation Front is believed pression” news section on page 50 the true Ablution, or cleansing of darkness and stench, and the to be responsible for the vandalism of for more details). Remember, if Dead will be made to live again. The Heat of Fire works elevatingly, five Hummers in northwest Arkansas you’re out there engaged in nocturnal for by its force the spirits hidden in the Earth are raised up to dance over a period of several weeks. subterfuge, actions like this carry in the air.” According to a story reported by local with them felony charges. Be careful, —Solomon Trismossins, The Means By Which Nature Attains Her Ends ABC affiliate KHBS-KHOG, each of be methodical, and make sure to the SUVs suffered similar damage: vanish “without a trace.” October 20-21, 2003 A similar autonomous action slashed tires, broken windows, dents Cleveland Heights, Ohio: occurred around Christmas in New and the letters ELF spray-painted on January 23, Adams, Wisconsin: 15 SUV’s Vandalized York City, but was much smaller in the vehicle. One angry owner of a Man Who Defended Oak Tree Multiple sports utility vehicles scale — a couple of stores, 1 vandalized Hummer, Richard Coger Shot Deputy in Self-Defense (SUVs) in the wealthy (or at least, Starbucks and 3 SUVs all got the of Fayetteville, complained to the The West Coasters sit in trees and upper middle class) community of “remodeling” treatment. press that perpetrators had also play with spikes (sometimes even Cleveland Heights, Ohio, were targeted stuffed a Bologna sandwich into his “winning”), but prairie folk don’t fuck by angry earth-lovers over the course December 23, gas tank! Coger said that he would around. The trial of Thomas Kramer, of two days. Local police say that Port St. Lucie, Florida: take actions to protect his Hummer, 55, of Strongs Prairie, WI, who is more than 15 vehicles were targeted ELF Sends 2nd Warning once it is fixed. “It’s going in the being charged with the shooting by someone “trying to make a point.” to Developers garage from now on,” he said. In death of a sheriff’s deputy, got under- The SUVs all had the words “SUVs A city sign in the area of a large recent months, Hummers and other way in late January in the Adams Kill the Planet” written on them in planned development was tagged SUVs have become frequent targets County Courthouse and has brought yellow spray paint. with the letters “E.L.F.” in black spray of the ELF’s rage because of their to light a largely unknown, but paint. The spray-painted sign is on garish, gluttonous design and their particularly committed, incident of November 24, New York City: 386 acres of land slated for Kenco extremely poor fuel efficiency (SUVs eco-defense. The incident evidently Autonomous, D.I.Y. Destruction of Communities, which is expected to are known to pollute three times as occurred on March 7, 2003, when Our Era’s Most Hated Symbols! include 875 homes and condos and much as other vehicles, and consume Adams County sheriff’s deputy A trail of silver and black followed as much as 290,000 square feet of three times as much oil). Last year, Michael Shannon was shot and every SUV and Hum-V in plain sight commercial and office space. The the ELF took responsibility for setting killed by Thomas Kramer. Kramer’s from the upper West Side of city planner who discovered the a fire at a Hummer dealership in defense lawyer says Kramer acted in Manhattan, through midtown to the vandalism stated that this was the California, which destroyed some 40 self-defense, as he felt his life was East and West village. Approximately second such incident. vehicles. The direct actions taken in threatened by the cop and the road 30 banks were spraypainted and all and around Fayetteville are believed crews he feared would cut 100-year- ATM slots filled with green and black January 5, 2004, Quebec, Canada: to be the first of their kind for the old oak trees. In her opening statement, acrylic paint, several Starbucks, Bomb Threats Made Against northwest Arkansas area, and while defense attorney Sheila Kessler said Gaps and an Eddie Bauer store, and Condominium Construction 20 SUVs and Hum-Vs (including A previously unknown group planted one police vehicle) were spray- fake bombs at construction sites in painted with the word “consume” an alleged bid to protect low-cost across the entire body of the vehicles. neighborhoods against swarms of Other tags read “Fuck the US condo-seeking yuppies, and wound Government” and “Your TV Lies,” up getting blanket media coverage in while still more targets were tagged Quebec and across most of Canada. with “ELF” and the circle-A symbol. The action — claimed by a group Approximate $ damage is difficult calling itself the Comité d’Action Anti- to determine; one corporate media Gentrification — was a successful source said $100,000, but that attention-getting strategy, and forced seems a bit steep? the government to start paying lip

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GA #16-main doc 18 4/14/04, 8:35 PM set out to defend were most likely estimated at $30,000. ELF claimed February 28, Bloomington, Indiana: Bur Oaks, a tree species renowned actions total $55 million in damages Eco-Vandals Attack SUVs! for its mighty root systems and in North America during 2003, and Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) were known to live for two or three $100 million in damages since 1997. targeted as part of a growing under- centuries when domesticated humans ground campaign to halt the use of maintain a respectful distance. February 10, The Bahamas: this heinous technology. At least nine Though this is the first we’ve heard Four Electrical Power Lines SUVs were claimed to have been of Kramer’s situation, we can say Sabotaged! splashed with an acid that destroyed without reservation Police have launched an investi- windshields and caused thousands that as a cop-killer gation into the apparent sabotage of of dollars in damage, according to a and defender of North Bahamas Electricity Corporation report issued by the Bloomington America’s native sylva, he has (BEC) equipment, following an Police Department. In early March, our unconditional support and hours-long island-wide electrical this communiqué was released: we’ll provide him with whatever help blackout. New Providence and “25 personal SUVs windows and we can should he be convicted of Paradise Island both experienced paint damaged with hydroflouric these “crimes.” At the moment, blackouts after four electrical poles acid. The cost of arrogant gas- the only address that we have for that supported high tension wires in guzzling just went up.” Kramer is: the South Ocean area were cut down Thomas Kramer with what appeared to be a chainsaw. Adams County Jail In a televised news conference, P.O. Box 279 attended by BEC executives, Works Remember Friendship, WI 53934 and Utilities Minister Bradley Roberts Remember held up four fingers to emphasize the Claw away the wreckage Keep in mind that Kramer is number of damaged poles cut down the rubbish of now likely to be moved as soon as the trial with what appears to be a chainsaw. and go back is over (if he’s convicted, that is). “This triggered a reaction and caused Claw through it We’ll do our best to update our readers both power plants to go down.” In Til the long plain passes that the cop Shannon’s death was on Kramer’s situation in future issues Minister Roberts’ eyes, the person(s) Stride by stride due to a series of miscommunications of Green Anarchy. responsible for the damaged lines Beneath your feet that began when landowners, includ- have no regard for the nation’s Take off your shoes Grasses stroke the spaces ing Kramer, began protesting the February 7, Charlottesville, Virginia: number one industry — tourism — Between your toes removal of 100-year-old oak trees. ELF Damages Construction on which the public treasury spends Your clothes fade weather Kessler said highway commissioners Equipment some $70 million each year to bring Fall and surveyors harassed Kramer The Earth Liberation Front has taken visitors to the Bahamas. It is expected Sun and wind warm prior to and on the day of his encoun- credit for its second known action of that repairs to the BEC poles will and cool you now ter with pig Shannon. “In spite of 2004 with an attack on equipment at result in “substantive” costs to the Run! his protests, he knew they would cut a building site. The 30-acre clearcut, government. The Bahamas Electrical Run hard hard hard the trees and there was nothing he slated for the development of 300 Workers Union, who are engaged Your breath and blood could do about it,” Kessler said. “He duplex-apartment units, a bank, a in an ongoing industrial dispute with Will bring you thought of how to stop (the main- Target store and some restaurants, BEC, denied any involvement in the Throbbing tenance crew) the night before, and was apparently targeted as part of the poles being downed. Like you’ve been said to himself that he’d make a ELF’s ongoing actions against large- here citizen’s arrest. He took the gun to scale developments going up at the February 17, All the make the arrest. He took it only to expense of what little green space is North Lima, Ohio: time. protect the trees and himself in the left in North America. According to Construction Site process. There were three of them an anonymous email received by the Vandalised and only one of him.” Prosecutors ELF Press Office: members of the Police are investi- said that Deputy Shannon responded ELF visited the site, torching two gating whether to a report from a roadside brush- trucks and one bulldozer and causing vandalism at a cutting crew in the town of Strongs minor structural damage (broken construction site may Prairie that a man armed with a rifle windows and gauges, and cut wires) be linked to the Earth (a .300 “Savage,” incidentally) was to all the other trucks and bulldozers Liberation Front. The threatening them. The criminal on the construction site. A banner construction site is complaint alleges that when pig reading “YOUR CONSTRUCTION = related to a new Shannon arrived, Kramer shouldered LONG TERM DESTRUCTION — ELF” showroom being built for fireworks his rifle, shot him, took the dead was left at the scene. Developer company B.J. Alan. The damage pig’s gun and radio and fled. Wendell Wood says he knew there was mostly done to construction Kramer then retreated to a trailer was opposition to his Hollymead equipment belonging to A.P. home, resulting in a standoff that Town Center project, but never O’Horo Construction. Saboteurs ended hours later when he came thought that the ELF would get broke windows in a construction outside to pick up a cell phone involved in the controversy (Woods’ trailer, sprayed a fire extinguisher provided by police, and tactical company, United Land, was recently around the construction teams captured him. Kramer, who fined by the Department of Environ- site, and scratched the faces a life sentence if convicted of mental Quality for clearing an extra initials “E.L.F.” into the first degree murder, is also charged 17 feet along a stream on the site side of a piece of heavy with attempted murder and theft beyond the “authorized” 2,500 feet). machinery. from a corpse. 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GA #16-main doc 19 4/14/04, 8:35 PM Lights,Lights, Camera,Camera, Action!Action! DestroyingDestroying VideoVideo SurveillanceSurveillance CamerasCameras asas anan ActAct ofof RewildingRewilding by The Grievous Amalgam

IN RECENT YEARS, the use of video surveillance Surveillance is developing in more and more domains and at an extremely rapid pace. cameras (also called Closed Circuit Television, Surveillance cameras are obviously involved, as are miniaturized cards, portable or CCTV) to monitor public and private spaces telephones, the growing number of recording devices of all kinds, the Internet and throughout the world has branched out to electronic “cookies.” This is the era of Big Brother! Today, when cameras equipped with unprecedented levels, dramatizing the rise of face recognition software add their specters to the pantheon of the failed illusions of a global, centralized One World State that security, the government is trying to pass liberty-killing laws under the fallacious pretext meticulously controls all aspects of political of the “fight against terrorism.” and social life through the use of state power Here, we are made to live in the psychosis of continual control: filmed, surveilled and and its perfected technological systems of filed all day, as if we are all criminal suspects, and asked to accept the “fact” that — in suppression. The leader in this trend is the the name of our security — men, women and children will have to be killed. We U.K., where it’s estimated that between 150 denounce those truly responsible for this masquerade, those thirsty for political power and 300 million pounds per year are spent who do not hesitate to use demagoguery and opportunism to inflame the fears of “the building a surveillance grid involving Other” and who, even before September 11, were playing the “Total Security” card in an 200,000 cameras furnished with full pan, attempt to get votes. We demand the rejection, from now on, of politics in the service of tilt, zoom and infrared capacity. The more the maintenance of the market — economy and social inequities, of politics that have as colossal camera web covering Britain is their guiding principle the enslavement of the general population and the restriction of appraised at 1,500,000 cameras and counting, human possibilities. radiating invisible lines of influence on the We hope to live in a different world, one in which we don’t have to submit ourselves to thoughts and actions of those living under its the government-subsidized industrial companies that pollute our air, land and water, predatory, voyeuristic Eye. Enveloping all, a that rapaciously enrich themselves by riding the backs of workers, those in precarious frightening electronic Retina is emerging as socio-economic situations, and that set up the market in the surveillance of human an absolute and uncontested regulatory beings. The images of money-traffickers and fiscal paradises, political operatives who mechanism, from which no concealment, let can act with total impunity, and deal-makers working in the rich soils of the powerful will alone escape, is possible. The clarity of the not be captured by surveillance cameras, despite the facts that they are the ones who are pictures collected by these cameras is usually responsible for the world in which we are forced to live, and who should be held excellent (for the State!), with many systems accountable for it. being able to read a cigarette package at a The supermarket is surveilled, as are the streets, offices and factories. What a plethora hundred meters. of images! And why are they captured? In the supermarket, each movement and gesture These cameras are intimations of the future, of the apathetic consumer is filmed and analyzed so as to discover the unknown factor as Britain is in many ways being used as a that will facilitate the sale of mad-cow-infected meats, spoiled cheeses, and aseptic “social laboratory” for the development of chickens. At the office and at the factory, we are surveilled in the name of profits; in the technologies that extend the pervasive street, we are surveilled so that we never lose the sense of being watched! For what homogeneity of the unilateral political order; purpose? To force behavior to become normalized; all movements other than normal methodologies of enslavement are being become suspicious. formulated and installed, with the aim of When will we address ourselves to the real problems, the ones that erode our capacity increasing obedient uniformity and snuffing for life? When will we have the intelligence — which is lacking in this society, which out wildness on an international scale. The turns in the wrong direction — to refuse to accept these conditions, neither for us nor for U.K. Home Office estimates that 95 percent (!) the generations to come? The progress of digitalization and computerized information of towns and cities in Britain are moving profits the type of social control that we fear will exist in the future. Aren’t people already to CCTV surveillance of public areas, housing enmeshed in the gears of the market, which without hesitation supports every political estates, car parks and public facilities. The manipulation so as to have servile consumers? We say “no” to the liberty-killing laws System, compulsively preoccupied with order, that would legalize this fuckery. precision, utility, and rationality, can now We reclaim the right to possess “disguises.” We reclaim the right to a private life. We zoom in on the lives of its “citizens” and reclaim individual freedom, not simply the freedom to exist, but all freedoms. effect the complete elimination of anonymity. Architects and urban planners in Britain are We Are Being Surveilled - Camouflage Yourself! already factoring cameras into the core design — Collective for Individual Freedom in the Age of Information Technologies of new towns and buildings, and our lives are all tarred with the same leveling brush of what “civil engineers” are now describing as GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 20

GA #16-main doc 20 4/14/04, 8:36 PM the “fifth utility.” Cameras the size of a matchbox whitewashed world in which spontaneity segregated into cells around a central tower are commonplace and are being integrated into disappears, our behavior is fully law-abiding which allowed guards to watch prisoners urban architecture in much the same way that and humanity eventually sleeps itself to death. without being seen and where the prisoners electricity and telephones were in the early sense that they’re under ceaseless observation. 20th century. Some of the “cameras” being In the Land of the Blind the Bentham, an English Utilitarian philosopher, installed are “scarecrows,” empty shells meant unveiled in 1791 his prototype for the “all- to look like cameras, but with their surface One-Eyed Lens is King seeing place” or panopticon, the ultimate aesthetics reinforcing the same sense of The proliferation of video surveillance cameras prison with the central goal of using the estrangement and extracting the same obedience and other technologies of domination evokes mental uncertainty and paranoia of implied from their ghettoized human subordinates. all kinds of nightmarish, dystopian images and and constant surveillance as an instrument of Appearances are maintained — and monotony scenarios, the most clichéd of which is the discipline, wherein prisoners constrain their imposed — by the invasion of this reifying overused (and thoroughly recuperated) term own behavior. Bentham found this Utilitarian technical progress that governs the details of “Orwellian.” As important a book as Orwell’s ideal of oppressive self-regulation to be appeal- urban construction and social scheduling/ 1984 is, we feel we would only be doing our ing in many other social settings, including social dislocation. readers a disservice by drawing such an schools, hospitals, and poorhouses, although The global system is striving to eclipse all obvious analogy, especially when far more he achieved only limited success in realizing contestable sites of physical space and shape all potent and accurate political models exist to his twisted vision (at least in his lifetime). interpersonal relations through the establishment describe the cage-like conditions of techno- Michel Foucault seized upon this metaphor of a totalizing spatial enclosure. This is the industrial civilization. Any serious attempt to of the Panopticon as the perfect governing process whereby the explicit duplication of a analyze and break down the locked doors that design for any institution in which discipline characteristically capitalist mode of production enclose our lives in the modern world will is required. By encouraging self-surveillance reprograms and utterly restructures the behaviors, inevitably lead to the observation that society on behalf of the prisoner, the Panopticon life rhythms, cultural habits and temporal sense itself has become a vast prison, a monu- assures the automatic functioning of power. of its subjects. Nanotechnology, genetic mental gulag of the body, mind and senses. Control no longer requires physical domi- engineering, and CCTV are all integral to the Thus it’s hardly surprising that many social nation over the body in modern society, project of taming wildness and pounding it down theorists since Orwell have discussed the Foucault noticed, where our spaces are into the coin of mercantile civilization. character of modern Western civilization using organized “like so many cages, so many small The very presence of CCTV negotiates prison imagery. theaters, in which each actor is alone, perfectly conflict between exploiters and individualized and constantly exploited, engendering human visible.” In the Panopticon all relationships that are stilted, power resides with the State and artificial and lacking in intensity. government control becomes Public becomes pseudo-public internalized. The gaze of someone and an “apartheid” of inner-city in an authoritative position is a spatial relations the norm, in a power/knowledge mechanism, liaison between architecture which contains and imprisons and the police state that inverts those subjects who come under interior and exterior reality. These its scrutiny, its guardianship. surveillance technologies are It follows that these examples converging with sophisticated of the “Panopticon Principle” software programs that are equip anarchists with a beneficial capable of automated recognition critical tool to comprehend the of faces, crowd behavior analysis, ubiquitous spread of video and in certain environments, surveillance cameras and the intimate scanning of the area State’s scheme to control the between skin surface and clothes. “psychic selves” of the populace The U.S. government is now and turn the mind itself into a funding the development of space of imprisonment. The “passive millimeter wave tech- “surveillance effect” of globally nology” that allows police to peer pervasive “image catchers” creates under clothing to see if a person is mental chains as crippling as literal carrying contraband or weapons. chains. Believing ourselves to be Through the implementation under the microscope of the State of CCTV, the political order at all times, we are conditioned accommodates into its own to act in accordance with the will structures a safety valve for sedition. When Max Weber depicted it as an iron cage; Gary of the watchers. The urban and suburban disenfranchised factions within society rebel T. Marx defined it as a “maximum security zoos the System has herded us into become against the disempowerment of a super- society,” while others have represented it increasingly claustrophobic as the techniques organized, vise-like system, CCTV isolates, using terms like “disciplinary society.” But of social control metastasize internally and enlarges and creates permanent photographic Michel Foucault offers a more sinister and externally, creating the impression of police evidence of the rebels’ transgressions, arguably more precise concept to outline the omnipresence and omnipotence. If they “know recuperating them into bounds where they will facelessness of high-tech political repression: what’s good for them,” people will conform have no consequences for the authoritarian that of Jeremy Bentham’s blueprints for the to the whims of the electronic eye. state apparatus. 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GA #16-main doc 21 4/14/04, 8:36 PM The machine has (once purpose there are always innumerable tactics again) replaced the pres- which can spontaneously be deployed to ence of a human being; counteract them. instead of “breathing Put simply, “strategy is the science of down one’s neck”, man- military movements beyond the field of agement now fixes a vision of the enemy; tactics, that of movements seemingly continuous within his field of vision.” For every new strategy and unyielding gaze on of social control on the part of the State, there one’s productivity from is a novel and surprising tactic of negation, the colder and more un- and for every video surveillance camera certain distance of the installed, there is a complimentary form of hidden recorder. Scientific resistance, of subversion. For Big Brother’s control techniques reach telescreen has blind spots just like the human a new peak of intensity eye that rests on the other side of the lens. and the shadow of the Panopticon extends Hitting Your Mark: further over our lives, From Digitized Subject to immobilizing revolt and endangering the Insurgent Negative traditional “weapons of In a Panoptic, conformist society of the weak” (sabotage, mediocrity and standardization — where theft, wildcat strikes). vanquishment, collaboration and/or capitulation In the past, the ex- (all unacceptable) — seem to be the only ploited always knew that responses an overwhelmingly technological, monitoring was episodic capitalist civilization permits, it’s uplifting to — the supervisor could see rebels around the world roused to revolu- not be everywhere all of tionary action against the CCTV dragnet. In the time. In contrast, August 2002, a militant aggregation known Wide-Angle Enclosure: camera and recorder can be omnipresent and as Motorists Against Detection (MAD) started allow our masters to even analyze the friend- a direct action anti-“speed camera” campaign Overexposed to a Mirror ships that form between fellow slaves. The in Britain, kicking it off with the UK’s most With Memory CCTV network threatens to smother all profitable speed camera located at the bottom It would be a serious mistake to focus wildness, that “dreaming ground... invoking of the infamous M11 motorway near exclusively on the “self-policing” quality of ever new dreams,” as all conceivable sites of Woodford, Essex. This particular camera was video surveillance cameras and ignore the resistance are absorbed by the Spectacle of reputed to earn up to 840,000 pounds per week physical dimensions of this latest despotic self-oppression. The cameras of the State in traffic fines, as it tracks the movements of encroachment of the State. The ruling class is seek to produce a new type of civilized all motorists and communicates in real time endeavoring to construct a “Total Institution” slave, one that is satisfied in its restricted via microwave links and the phone system to of permanently entrenched fear, a digitally possibilities, isolation and anomie, dreaming the newly upgraded Police National Computer. re-mastered menagerie, and their cameras are the circumscribed dreams of the powerless and Within two weeks, MAD had sabotaged a there to archive and track our movements as unimaginative, never crossing the paltry bounds further 29 speed cameras along the whole 27 well. The state has a vested interest in estab- that the system provides. With no aspirations mile length of the A406 North Circular Road lishing whether or not rules are obeyed, who that go beyond what exists in their plastic between Chiswich and the east side of London. obeys and who does not, and how those who tombs, the exploited become like wild animals A member of the resistance calling himself deviate can be located and punished. CCTV whose teeth and claws have been removed. Captain Gatso (a tongue-in-cheek reference to cameras do freeze moments in time and provide But humans are not simply robots or the inventor of the speed camera, Maurice a reservoir of information to the probing, “docile bodies” following the dictates of Gatsonides) released a communiqué soon investigating eye of law enforcement; in some coercive micro-mechanisms of state power, but after the CCTV Jihad started, stating that “we of the larger urban labyrinths, these cameras potentially feral, ungovernable agents capable are fed up with lining the pockets of police are becoming more common than wildlife. of interpreting, rejecting and destroying these forces and councils as a stealth tax revenue Class struggle has always been a component structures. In his book Asylums: Essays on the raising scheme. Everyday now it seems we of civilization and the War on the Wild, and video Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other read stories about camera technology and hear cameras are the absolutist tool of a particular Inmates, Erving Goffman discusses how people talking to radio stations moaning about social class (civilization’s ruling elite), wielded although “primary adjustments” or acts of them. Up until now this has not made a lot of to sequester another class. The exploited, the conformity abound in tightly run “Total difference which is why it is time for all of us undesirables, the “bad consumers,” the natural Institutions,” rebellious individuals also make to act before it all gets out of hand.” world, the wild — we are all to be reduced to “secondary adjustments” which defy the The balaclava-wearing highway liquidators high-resolution captivity superimposed on us suffocating demands of the institutional of MAD vowed to burn, bomb, and dismember by video surveillance, and autonomy and order. These acts of recalcitrance are practices all speed cameras within the range of their feralness are to be faded out cinematically. In of “reserving something of oneself from the wrath. They followed through on their threats the workplace video cameras are proving to be clutch of the institution... like weeds they with a string of attacks in the county of Norfolk, a forceful new feature of the class war, as the spring up in any kind of social organization.” where six cameras valued at more than 100,000 roving overseer or foreman is being substituted To use straightforward war terminology, for pounds were set alight and vandalized. The by the silent and untiring electronic eye. every strategy that is planned for a particular secretive mutineers are fast becoming the most GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 22

GA #16-main doc 22 4/14/04, 8:36 PM popular outlaw folk heroes in Britain since police had the $90,000 unit repaired the next Robin Hood and his Merry Men stalked the day, and its images were being examined for THE GARDEN OF countryside: from the south coast of England clues). In early October 2003, a pipe bomb to the Highlands of Scotland no camera is safe, took out a CCTV unit in North Belfast, and PECULIARITIES as the “Gatsometers” are being playfully on October 23, in Milan, Italy (as reported in destroyed in a carnivalesque transformation issue #15 of Green Anarchy) 101 security by Jesus Sepúlveda of the State’s totalitarian topography. With cameras were attacked throughout the city. each unit costing about $38,000, a huge bill is That’s a Wrap Fragment 8 being run up. But the rebels are unrepentant: Beauty is fragile. This is another “We are all guinea pigs in a huge experiment While some people conceive of “rewilding” almost irrefutable truth. The calypso that will restrict our liberty, not just in as scattering marijuana seeds in the cracks orchids that grow along the paths London but the whole U.K.” around City Hall or learning the Latin names of the temperate forest take at Communicating to the broader public of “native” plant species, we recognize that least nine years to reproduce. This is through internet chat rooms, MAD rails against any serious rewilding will also necessarily a heroic act of palingenesia that takes speed cameras (calling them “Weapons of involve the destruction of the technological place in the middle of the forest. In Mass Persecution”) and warns of the menace system. The total administration of life is the spring their rose-color graces the of what they call the Talivan — mobile police underway and to fight it we need to move from skirts of the pine trees. But if an speed detection units. Particularly destructive arresting paralysis to the deployment of intruder touches its stem, the orchid MAD cells are known to be operating in North regenerative chaos, by smashing the rational dies instantaneously. Not so if only London, Essex and Wales, while recent months and institutional restraints placed on our lives the petals are touched. This is the have seen new operations in central Scotland. and rekindling the Promethean fires of the beauty of life, fragile and delicate, Most MAD actions have involved simple imagination. The struggle to reclaim wildness like everything that passes through approaches like spray-painting camera lenses, is intrinsically a confrontation between chaos our hands. Human beings are nothing more than burning them or cutting them down with power and organization: whether we accept it un- nature. To pretend differently is to fall into tools. But Northhamptonshire police are questioningly or rebel against it, technology alienation. It is to forget beauty. Usually offering a reward for help in identifying the has acquired not simply a life of its own, but a children go to the zoo. This experience is MAD members who used plastic explosives life that substantially infiltrates our lives, part of our early training—it distances us from the rest of the animals. We all inhabit to bomb a camera in May 2003. warping our characters as we gradually accept this planet, which feeds and gives shelter to MAD’s “mad antics” are definitely catching its mechanistic parameters. every living thing. The balance between If we succumb indifferently to the totalitarian on, as the destruction of these noxious devices everything and the planet is as fragile as has become a near-weekly occurrence in the reengineering of our world, we risk becoming the orchid. Looking past the function of British Isles. To date, MAD has taken credit androids ourselves, animals made into machines. nature, the desire to find its utility and for the destruction of more than 700 cameras, To deny technology’s pervasive role in our control it and dominate it, is a central challenge. while other clandestine groupings around existence means, then, to deny reality — at a On the other hand, to observe nature in order England have taken up the practice of placing time when the prospects for life and liberty to appreciate it is to find plentitude. Our tires over speed cameras and setting them seem to be rapidly drying up, and we are existence and the existence of everything alight (and often posting images of their advancingly imbricated in the Panopticon’s else on this planet depend on this challenge. charred remains on the web). Still other presence. Only by demolishing the System’s For this reason, unlearning the conditioning of camera-haters are shooting them out with guns machinery itself can we hope to get out from our childhood in order to be able to appreciate and one creative hooligan pulled down a speed under the thumb of the political order and nature’s beauty is a primordial necessity. camera by attaching a rope from the back of achieve our vision of renewal. Technology and Human beings can be beautiful creatures. But his car to the camera’s pole and driving away the State are two of the more obvious enemies for this to happen we need to shift our — a humorous reenactment of the staged of wildness. Destroy what destroys you! perception of reality from the utilitarian to toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue? one of appreciation. In other words, we need In early February 2004, a group called the to substitute the instrumental for the aesthetic. Mendip Mafia achieved a local publicity coup The dominant ideological paradigm creating in its battle against speed cameras when it used the present gives free rein to technological dynamite instead of the usual flaming tractor reason, but it displaces creation. Heidegger tire to destroy a CCTV camera in the village calls this latter mental agitation “poiêsis.” But of Emborough, on the A37 Road. This same to replace the drive to dominate, expand and camera had been destroyed once before — by colonize-in order to radically dismantle other means — and twelve of the fifty economies based on competition and surveillance cameras operated by the Avon, comparison—it is absolutely necessary to Somerset and Gloucestershire “Safety Camera change the lenses through which we see Partnership” (who “oversee” this district) have reality. This is to say, refashion your been violently disabled since May 2003. perspective to appreciate day, night, the And the camera rebellion is spreading, a seasons, waves, the potency of rivers, the heartening sign of chaos in revolt! In Brussels, birds’songs, the movement of animals, the Willem Laurens is accused of leading a gang woods, bees, women, men and all of the that torched 26 cameras in the city of Flanders, constellations of peculiarities that form while in France, the country’s first radar camera other constellations of peculiarities and that was vandalized just hours after its inauguration spring savagely like orchids in the forest. by someone who cracked its armored-glass Translation by Daniel Montero plating with a sledgehammer (equally determined Edited by Janine Sepúlveda & Jesús Sepúlveda Page 23 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

GA #16-main doc 23 4/14/04, 8:36 PM The Revolutionary Imperative “Goingof “Going Native” Native”– rob los ricos DURING THE ERA OF CONQUEST, there was a current of resistance based insurgence. The EZLN of Mexico are the most well-known alternative to colonialism from within, as people expected to participate in the to the classic communist revolutionary group. The Zapatistas spent 10 subjugation of foreign lands and Peoples instead switched sides. They years underground, learning the lay of the land, the ways and needs of the disappeared across the frontier and integrated into indigenous cultures, people and, most importantly, deprogramming themselves, clearing out usually through marriage. rigid Marxist dogma in order to cultivate a new revolution, one arising Trappers, adventurers, outlaws and renegade slaves escaped from the from the struggles of Indigenous Peoples.4 repressive conditions imposed upon the subjects of militaristic colonial Native Peoples of South America have shown their strength by toppling powers. Escaped slaves played a vital role in helping some Indigenous governments in Ecuador and Bolivia, and are continuing to threaten the states Peoples replenish their numbers after they’d experienced epidemics of of Chile, Argentina and Peru. Adivisi Peoples in India are fighting against imported diseases. In some instances, escaped Africans, colonials and development projects that would destroy their ancient cultures — mostly remnants of decimated native Peoples created their own distinct cultures. because of dam construction that would flood their homelands.5 In these These African and mixed race Peoples became instances, there are no vanguard parties known as Maroons.1 At times, Maroon directing native insurrection — the people societies prevented colonial expansion into are guiding themselves. No education is unconquered lands or outright defeated required, they live through the conditions colonial powers in armed conflict, as they of their exploitation and oppression. did in Florida, Brazil2 and Haiti. Another successful insurrection is taking Intermarriage between native Peoples and place in Algeria. There, an insurgent colonials also led to the development of movement of village and neighborhood distinctive, bi-cultural societies, most notably assemblies — the AARCH — has arisen Caribbean Creoles, French-Indian Metis and to displace the federal and provincial New Mexican Cibaleros. The latter were governments in the Kabylia region. The Spanish and Mexican settlers who “went AARCH consists of a network of revocable native.” They built homes more similar to delegates. Their insurgence has such native’s pueblos (easily defended) than to widespread support, the Algerian gov- Spanish estates. In the spring, they would ernment and their henchmen in electoral plant corn, squash and beans. The men would and leftist parties, unions, even Islamic spend the summer hunting in the plains, then fundamentalists have been unable to gain return home for the harvest. A newly appointed the slightest grasp on the movement. 6 viceroy to New Mexico once complained It is encouraging to see revolutionary that he had difficulty distinguishing “the movements after the post-Cold War Christians from the savages.”3 collapse of totalitarian communism. There are many such subversive cultures we Even more encouraging is the evolution — as insurrectionary, green anarchists — can of Marxist revolutionary movements look back upon to help us envision alter- into genuine People’s movements. natives to the shitstem we’re currently mired in. The Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) Sadly, we cannot return to the past. We has toned down its dogma since the can only learn from its examples. The capture of their Party’s chairman, pertinent question to be answered at this Abdullah Ocalan, in ’99. Although still point is: Are such cultures of resistance revered by his followers — who write achievable in the 21st century? poetry about and for him — his successor Frantz Fanon’s monumental book The and brother, Osman, has changed the Wretched of the Earth suggests that it’s not group’s name to the Congress of the only possible, but necessary, in order to rid People (Kongra-Gel), and they’ve become the world of residual colonialism and more of an Indigenous People’s movement. imperialism. According to PKK founding member Duram Kalkam, “We wanted to Fanon describes the differences between revolutionary urges in city-bound, transform a system that massacred our language, culture and being. educated Marxists and the more immediate, deeply felt aspirations of the Perhaps instead of asking why we didn’t take advantage of the (partial country folk, and focuses his attention on Algeria. As the revolutionaries amnesty) law, one could ask Turkey, ‘Why did the people leave their homes — workers and students for the most part — began to attract the attention and go up to the mountains?’” of the government, the resultant repression brought against the rebels drives By giving up their privileges as wage earners and following the people them out of their comfort zone and into the countryside. There, they into the mountains, the guerrillas of the Kongra-Gel are learning to encounter people oppressed beyond the city-dweller’s worst nightmares. value their People’s cultural heritage above their own material comfort. At this point, the revolutionaries must tread carefully, because the rhetoric They admit to suffering hardship, but believe the sacrifice is worth the with which they attempted to attract followers in the cities is volatile effort, particularly the women soldiers who have the most to lose should in the countryside. The oppressed tribal Peoples are restless, angry and fundamentalist mujaheedin governments form in Iraq and Turkey.7 always ready to explode. The revolutionaries must organize among the Indigenous People’s struggles to maintain or regain their autonomy people and ingrain themselves within their culture in order to successfully are forming the basis of revolutionary insurrection in the 21st century. Here utilize the revolutionary energy in the countryside. in the US, we must look to the past to rediscover our own culture of Too often, Marxist parties end up merely using the natives for their resistance to Leviathan.8 This is the one step back we must take in party’s gain. However, this is no longer the only example of native- order to take two steps forward. Those steps being: 1) supporting genuine GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 24

GA #16-main doc 24 4/14/04, 8:36 PM insurrectionary People’s movements throughout the world, and 2) creating Green Anarchy Editorial Note: While we’re pleased to the conditions for our own autonomous revolution. hear that the PKK (Workers’ Party of Kurdistan) is moving in a more Right now, the native cultures of Free Papua are in danger of being anti-authoritarian and pro-indigenous direction, we have serious wiped out by the Indonesian army and corporate mercenaries. Similar reservations about endorsing them until we become better educated genocides are being carried out in Amazonian Peru, the Cloud Forests of about these recent changes. For years, the PKK “leadership” (a problem Colombia, western Sudan and numerous other places in Africa, the unto itself) was under the strong influence of Yale ‘n Kücük (a Stalinist Americas, and Asia. writer who, incidentally, worked at the Institute of State Planning in The people perpetrating, growing wealthy or otherwise benefiting from the 1960s), and has been very clear about its desire as an organization e” these atrocities mostly live in the G-8 nations, where the banks that to create its own State. Nations (needless to say) are an abstract concept finance genocide and the corporations who profit from it also reside. They (with very real implications) utilized by aspiring power structures to are able to do this with impunity. It is up to us to hold them accountable deceive and misdirect the struggle of desperate and oppressed peoples, for their actions. and we’re extremely hesitant to applaud the PKK until we can confirm It’s worth mentioning that vast amounts of lands claimed by the Canadian that they’ve made a clean break with their Stalinist past and are now State have never been ceded by the Native Peoples (1st Nations) there, so promoting a vision of liberation that goes beyond the conceptual confines Canada has no legal claim to much of British Columbia, the Yukon and of Western democracy. The Turkish Left (comprised of numerous rival Northwest Territories. If half the number of people who attend anti- gangs) is notorious among anarchists there for ignoring and scorning globalization protests were to sustain continuous pressure on the Canadian the ideas of freedom, individual initiative and autonomous organizing, government to recognize 1st Nations’ autonomy in those regions, it would while praising the “dictatorship of the proletariat” and the “vanguard be a major victory, one which all North American Indigenous Peoples party”. We can only hope that these new shifts in orientation and could build upon. And one which we could benefit from, if we “go native.” focus within the PKK will alter the trajectory and dynamic of their struggle. We’ve also heard (admittedly, unconfirmed) reports of PKK Notes: members targeting anarchist prisoners within the Turkish prison (1) From the Portuguese “cimmarron,” meaning “wild,” according to John Conner in system. At any rate, we want to thank Rob Los Ricos for contributing Children of Guinea. (2) Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage by William Loren Katz. this excellent article and we want to remind our readers that Rob is (3) The Comanchero Frontier: A History of New Mexico-Plains Indian Relations by Charles L. Kenner. still serving a 7-year measure 11 (mandatory minimum) sentence for (4) ¡Basta! Land of the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas by George Collier. throwing a rock at a cop during the June 18, 1999 riot in Eugene, and (5) The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy. (6) Insurrection in Algeria from Ye Drunken Sailor Vol. II issue III. needs our continued support! (7) Guerrillas in the Mist from U.S. News and World Report, 3/15/04. * You can write to Rob Los Ricos at: Rob Thaxton #12112716, (8) See Fredy Perlman’s epic Against His-Story, Against Leviathan. OSP, 2605 State Street, Salem, OR 97310. “Do you know what the soul really is? It is the primitive in us...Some people sneer at us. They think we are advocating a return to the idea of the Noble Savage! They are incapable of understanding! We do not want to “return” to anything; we only want to peel off the layers of paint and varnish, chrome and plastic behind which we human beings have hidden ourselves from ourselves, and so come to the true man buried underneath.” - young siberian man, from Shelekhov region near Irkutsk

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GA #16-main doc 25 4/14/04, 8:36 PM A SANGRE Y FUEGO IndigenousIndigenous andand CampesinoCampesino ResistanceResistance

“It’s like science fiction. There’s this predatory energy…it’s on the earth…it’s on this planet and it feeds off the essence of all living things and when we look at the natural world and consider our proper place in the natural world (we’re not necessarily superior to it but we’re a part of it), and when we consider our role in that proper context – this predator energy feeds upon living things – it has found a way to take fossils and mine them into a form of energy to run its machine system. This predator energy has also found a way to mine the spirit, has found a way to mine our minds, it can even feed off the essence of our spirit because of that physical machine. It feeds and it taps upon the essence of our spirit, our soul, upon our essence. It feeds off of us. And just as that fossil fuel system contaminates December 30, 2003, Brazil: January 7, Halmahera Island and pollutes the environment around us – the air, the water, the whole life cycles – it leaves it with its poisons and contaminations. Ranches Occupied by Those with (Indonesia) – 400 indigenous As they mine our spirit through our minds, the contaminations Ancestral Claims insurgents from the Kao and Malifut and pollutants are the distortions that are left and leave our minds Thousands of indigenous people communities occupied the Loguraci foggy so that we can’t see clear. That’s the insecurities – have invaded several farms close gold mine and stopped production that’s the hatreds and that’s the extremes of self trust and self to Brazil’s border with Paraguay in on their traditional territory. respect and the many forms of masks and disguises that it wears an attempt to reclaim ancestral January 12, Tajra (Bolivia) – within our minds. This is all very deliberately done. land. Brazilian police said that Peasants fed up with water poisoning So in order for this system, this predatory energy system to work, members of the Guarani and from mining operations decided to we have to believe in it, and if we were to look clearly at what’s Kaiowa peoples appeared with set fire to mining equipment. When really going on as this process works, if we are going to believe painted faces and bearing traditional police showed up the peasants set in it then we cannot believe in ourselves, we cannot trust weapons. Occupants of the ranches fire to nearby railway tracks and ourselves; that’s just the way this system works. We all have a in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul attacked the police with dynamite. commonality and it’s within our genetic memory. I am from the fled in fear. Reports from the area One police truck was destroyed. people that are indigenous to this hemisphere but we are all said people armed with bows and indigenous to this planet. The DNA of the earth is in all of us. It’s arrows and shouting in their native January 12, Soncochi (Bolivia) – in all of us and it’s just part of what’s being mined along with the language took over two farms located 40 indigenous Aymara families rest of the fossils. It’s some elaborate system that I can’t quite truly near the city of Iguatemi. Two reclaimed and occupied an 80- understand but it feeds upon us. Our commonality is that some- thousand Indigenous people hectare farm and farmhouse. where within our genetic memory, within the DNA patterns, we have also set up camps at the main are all tribal people. Each and every one of us are the descen- entrances to other farms, performing January 14, Tlalnepantla (Mexico): dents of tribal people, it doesn’t matter where we come from on war rituals and planning more Townspeople Clash with Mexican this planet – we are descendents of tribal people. invasions. The Native people have Police After Declaring Autonomy So this process that they work upon the indigenous peoples in long been at odds with farmers Dissidents battled police in a small this hemisphere in this time – this historical space in time, in his- who have moved into the area and town south of Mexico City after tory – is just a repetition of a process that they used upon the use the land for large-scale cattle police entered to reinstate a mayor other tribes throughout history in order to make them become ranching. The Guarani have one of who had been kicked out by indig- submissive and subservient to the male god theory of domination. the highest suicide rates in the enous residents earlier in the week. And that’s reality.” world, according to Survival Inter- Local residents (supposedly aided national; more than 300 out of a by what the Mexican government - John Trudell population in Brazil of 30,000 have termed “leftist supporters”) had killed themselves since the mid-80’s. recently seized the town hall in legally-elected mayor of the town.” Government officials of Morelos Tlalnepantla and declared the Police eventually recovered the appear determined not to allow the January 4, 2004, Brazil: hamlet an “autonomous municipality”, town hall, allowing Mayor Elias establishment of an Anteco-style Indigenous Land Reclamations and had violently defended them- Osorio to return. The dissidents municipality, like the townships run Continue to Intensify! selves from the police by throwing refuse to recognize him, and in by the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas. Indigenous families wearing masks molotov firebombs. Morelos Gov- many ways this dispute resembles Such townships refuse secret-ballot and war paint on their faces and ernor Sergio Estrada said police the 2002 standoff in which rebel- “elections”, block access to federal armed with shotguns, bows and were attacked by dissidents when lious farmers seized the town of and state authorities, and reject all arrows, have now taken over 16 they entered the town, in what he Anteco, east of Mexico City, for government development pro- ranches near the Paraguay border called an effort “to prevent violence over a year, blocking highways, grams. After clashes broke out in since the last week of December, between the mayor’s supporters and taking hostages, halting elections Tlalnepantla, police arrested about a 2003. dissidents…at the request of the and facing down federal authorities. (continued on page 28) GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 26

GA #16-main doc 26 4/14/04, 8:36 PM Insurrection in Australia On the night of February 15, the Sydney inner-city suburb of Redfern been destroyed by union machinations and many social alliances experienced probably the most defiant and successful urban insurrection amongst the multitude were broken by the strategies of incorporation within recent Australian history. It was centered around an area known and isolation the Labor Federal government used to implement neo- as ‘The Block’, a thriving Aboriginal community. Around 150 liberalism throughout the 1980s. Aboriginal youth engaged in direct conflict with police, injuring about The Aboriginal Housing Company is now largely estranged from 40, and fighting back wave after wave of offensive by the cops. The the community of The Block (which has formed the Aboriginal Housing result is a political crisis that could add to a slowly growing wave of Coalition), and has participated in the demolition of 70 of the 90 houses unmediated resistance to Capital that has marked the start of 2004. in the area. This is symptomatic of the effectiveness of social democracy The insurrection was sparked by the culmination of systematic in recuperating a layer of official leadership of oppressed groups to racist brutality by the police against indigenous people in the area, the help with harmonious social management. death of 17 year old TJ Hickey. TJ died after he was impaled on a All this also happens within the context of the changing political fence pole. His friends argue that TJ was fleeing the police at the time, geography of Sydney. Sydney is quickly becoming the Capital of a charge that the cops deny. Since the insurrection there has been Capital within the region. Of course, since Capital is a social relationship something of a crisis that has gripped the country, and it is unclear how it has no true “home”, yet many concrete functions of both the financial we can connect with and deepen the revolt throughout the social body. workings and cultural production of and for Empire in the Pacific The roots of the rebellion lie obviously take place in Sydney. This means that in the inheritance of genocide. The many people flock to Sydney to find invasion of the Australian continent by work (of a total Australian population the British Empire, and the transformation of 20+ million, approx. 5 million of of the land into basically a jail, mine, and them live in the Greater Sydney military base (which in part remains the area.) This has led to a process of de/ global function of Australia today), reterritorialization in Sydney, as involved a protracted campaign of previously poor inner-city areas are extermination against the indigenous transformed into far more expensive population and a long series of “border locales, and a surge in the construction wars”. The indigenous population faced of high-density housing powers much extreme attempts to shatter their social of the local economy. The Block then bonds and push them off the land. This stands as a thorn in the development of took the forms of both violence and potentially very expensive land. In the last exclusion, but also forcible integration few months, economists have started to into liberal and church institutions. Indeed predict that the building economy will children were stolen from their families and (to use their term) “overheat” and go into raised in foster homes and orphanages recession. Access to this land therefore through most of the twentieth century. becomes increasingly important for Capital. However, countering this is a hidden Since the night of the insurrection the history of Aboriginal resistance, in aftermath has been telling concerning which indigenous people have struggled the conditions of Australian politics. against their oppression and have worked Whilst there has been some support of hard to reinforce and maintain social and the revolt, it has been unable to go cultural links. The Block in Redfern is such beyond simple protest and symbolism a spot and embodies the successes and and match the insurgent ferocity of the difficulties of this process. revolt itself. We should not be too Aboriginal people have lived on The pessimistic. Indeed the willingness of Block in Redfern for over 60 years (since people to publicly support and sympa- being kicked out of their traditional land). thize with direct confrontation with the Since at least 1968, various state authorities have tried to relocate police is quite advanced for Australia. What it does show is two things: people out of The Block and into other areas of Sydney. The early the containment of revolt within the world of the political and the very 1970s saw a wave of squatting in the area. At the time, the Builders real divisions of power and identity that chain the multitude in Australia. Labourers Federation (BLF), which was quickly becoming the most Dissent in Australia (with a few exceptions) remains largely stuck militant union in Australia, was going beyond the constraints of trade in the world of the political – protests, petitions, the Left – and rarely unionism and was engaging in “Green Bans”. This meant that the matures into a real social clash. We could attribute this generally to BLFers refused to work on projects they thought were environ- the effects of neo-liberalism that have largely decomposed the more mentally or socially destructive and tried to have cheap housing in combative sections of the class war. It also arises from the inability to the inner city. Going well beyond the terrain of legality, they would develop new methods to articulate and actualize our antagonism to often destroy the work done by scabs and made alliances with many Capital. We remain largely stuck in out-dated conceptions of social in struggle. Indigenous people in The Block and the BLF and radical revolt. The very real moments of revolt and micro-networks of plumbers worked to transform houses into a livable condition, and solidarity that do form are largely isolated from each other. This is in the Aboriginal Housing Company become the official landlords. 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GA #16-main doc 27 4/14/04, 8:36 PM Indigenous and Campesino Resistance (continued from page 26) shows how concerned they are about expansion of a nearby golf course on dozen people on weapons possession the example that was set there. In to land Mohawks considered sacred. and other charges; the fighting fact, Sergio Estrada – the governor January 21, Brazil: Federal included exchanges of gunfire, of Morelos State – blamed “radical tear gas and molotov cocktails. One leaders from Anteco” for the trouble Police Move to Evict Indians dissident died after being shot by the in Tlalnepantla, saying that “these Police have revealed plans to evict police. Many of the local dissidents dissidents were supported by 3,000 Indigenous people from farms scattered into the surrounding subversive groups from outside the they are occupying in southern Brazil. mountains after the clash. 300 state town. These groups were apparently The people who come from the police have been posted in the supplying them with weapons.” Guarani and Kaiowa tribes, began invading the farms in mid-December town to prevent any further moves Morelos State, the smallest in the February 6, Aotearoa (New Zealand): 2003, and as of mid-January had towards autonomy. Helicopters were country, is currently controlled by the Annual Waitangi Day Clashes seen by eyewitnesses hunting PAN, the conservative party led by seized 16 farms in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, on land that About 200 indigenous Maori campesinos in the hillsides. Mexican President Vincente Fox. sovereignists clashed with 70 By contrast, the Mexican State ancestrally belongs to them. The January 14, Kanesatake, previous week a federal judge sided police on Waitangi Day, New never made such a determined Zealand’s national day which effort to intervene in Anteco, which Mohawk Territory (Quebec): with the farmers and gave the Police Chief Forcibly Ousted indigenous people three days to commemorates the Treaty of Waitangi made between European 60 cops left the indigenous community leave the land. On January 21, a tense settlers and Maori chiefs in 1840. of Kanesatake after being barricaded stand-off developed as displaced Maori sovereignists traditionally Insurrection inside their station and deprived of farmers returned to confront the protest the day, sometimes clashing food for three days. Community native people, who wore tribal dress with police and replacing the New in Australia members had been angered by and carried bows and arrows. The Zealand flag with the Maori sover- (continued from previous page) Grand Chief James Gabriel, who had farmers fired shots into the air, but eignty flag. This year’s battle broke brought in new cops from outside the police soon arrived to restore Capital has restructured the out when a Maori tried to the community, in order to multitude in Australia in a way stop a plainclothes cop “crack down on crime.” On that accentuates divisions of from videotaping the January 12, community power. The most obvious tool Maori protest at the members responded by is race. The machinery of the Treaty House. Scuffles cutting down trees to blockade system has worked hard to broke out as police tried a highway, burning Gabriel’s accentuate feelings of racial to arrest the man and home and car, and surrounding division, through the cham- Maoris fought back. the police station, trapping pioning of a white racialist Maoris yelled “fuck off, all 60 police inside. A large ideology, institutional privilege, this is our land” at the red-and-black Mohawk warrior and by ghettoizing people police. One Maori climbed flag was put on the fence near through multi-culturalism. a tree during the battle the reserve’s police head- The insurrection in Redfern Mohawk warriors oust police and hung the Maori quarters, and when cops showed both our potential chief in Kanesatake sovereignty flag. Maoris attempted to leave the police strength and our weaknesses. threw mud at politicians, station they were pelted with bricks. “order.” The 600 police who have It highlighted the lack of police, and journalists the day before, Police Chief Gabriel said that this wife assembled to carry out the dispersal practical solidarity amongst hitting the National Party leader in and children had left the house of the occupation will receive logis- the multitude, something we the face. before the fire started. His dog died tical help from the army, and local must work to deal with; the in the fire and his car and tractor were hospitals are on stand-by in the event February 17, Latacunga (Ecuador) – question remains how? How also set on fire. However, Gabriel said of injuries. The indigenous people can we avoid the pitfalls of the Businesses were closed, indig- he wasn’t going without a fight. “I’ll have refused to go quietly and have enous people blocked roads with Left or a fetish for building be damned if I’ll let them chase me promised to fight to the death in barricades of rocks and burning organizations, yet still weave off my territory where I grew up.” defending the reclaimed farms. tires, and food was looted from a real social bonds? There is no Some Mohawk warriors told the February 4, Grassy Narrows, small market in the second day of clear answer. My suggestion media that there was no need for any Ontario (Canada) – The indigenous protests against the International would be that we start from the kind of police on the reserve, since Anishnabe community of Asubpee- Monetary Fund. Four interprovincial perspective of circulating Warrior Societies have always filled schoseewagong (Grassy Narrows) set buses and two soldiers were also struggle. We work hard to the function of protecting their up another blockade to stop clear-cut detained by protesters. spread the experiences and community. Tensions were still high logging on their territory, and because ideas of individual revolts after the captured cops were released March 7, Wodrabinda (Australia) – loggers had recently destroyed an throughout the class more and a highway leading into the About 20 youths in this small Anishnabe man’s access trail. A broadly, and maybe in the Mohawk reserve was still blocked with Aborigine town attacked a police blockade has been maintained here for networks we create, we will two large pine trees that were felled. station, hurling rocks at the building more than a year, making it the longest create a more practical The reserve, near the community of and trapping the two on-duty cops running blockade in Canadian history. resonance for revolts against Oka, gained notoriety in 1990 over inside for about 20 minutes. the global order of Capital. a land-claims standoff that saw one “The land has never been merchandise for us, as it is with - Dave Antagonism provincial cop killed when police capitalism, but it is the support for our cultural universe.” stormed barricades erected to prevent -Julio Carduno, indigenous mexican GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 28

GA #16-main doc 28 4/14/04, 8:36 PM INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION IS RAVAGING THE EARTH, only have to put the world back the way it was, and its participants are sick, stressed out, and and with the slightest precautions, this nightmare alienated. Agricultural and pastoral societies are will never happen again. But given that some- a lot less destructive, but destructive enough that thing happened, we should assume it was prone they’ve turned formerly lush regions into deserts, to happen, more than half likely given the and the lives of the participants are easier than circumstances. The burden of proof is on those ours but often narrower. Hunter-gatherers are the who want to say it was a fluke, and in this case, least destructive by far, do the least work (and though they have some evidence and stories their “work” is more like play), are the healthiest, about how hunter-gatherers got tipped into and have socially rich, meaningful lives. settlement and farming, they’re nowhere near From here, it’s only a short step to the political proving that the shift was unlikely. ideology that we should all be hunter-gatherers If you look at a thorough global timeline of again, after we take apart this civilization or it prehistoric technology, you don’t see a sudden falls apart on its own. This position is stridently movement beginning at the invention of agri- condemned by people who (predictably) have a culture, merely an acceleration of a movement huge ego investment in civilization, who don’t toward domesticity that goes much farther back. want to consider that they could have wasted their Around 40,000 years ago there was an earlier lives, or their history, so badly. They cry acceleration, still unexplained. Anatomically “romanticism” while themselves dreaming that modern humans might have appeared at this time, technologies of domination and self-absorption or much sooner, or even later, depending on your will lead to utopia. Or they declare it categori- definition of “anatomically modern” and the cally impossible to “go back,” though that’s what evidence you focus on or exclude. This whole we’ve done all through history when our little subject remains tangled in uncertainty and civilizations have burned out. Or they correctly controversy, but in any case the technological point out that the end of this system will mean a and biological changes that made civilization drop in the human population, as if the blame possible, if not inevitable, have been going on for for the die-off rests on the economy of the well over a million years, since fire and stone tools. survivors and not on those who permitted It seems—though there is still debate—that our billions of human lives to depend on the radically harmonious hunter-gatherer ancestors exter- unsustainable exploitation of “resources.” minated a lot of species. For a good argument If our species survives at all, it will be in societies that at least some of these were killed off by a more intimately related to the rest of life, and thus, global catastrophe (other than that of domesticated according to Western mythology, “lower.” What humans), see Vine Deloria’s book Red Earth, I’m arguing here is that the ideology of simply White Lies. But other extinctions occurred at knocking down or different times—and at outlasting civilization, “If our species survives at the same times that and then simply being humans appeared in in these other societies, all, it will be in societies those areas. Even in even hunting-gathering, more intimately related to historic times there is does not go far enough. the rest of life, and thus, evidence of ecological The usual anti- according to Western impact by hunter- civilization argument mythology, ‘lower.’ What gatherer societies. A features a line between recent analysis of the civilized and natural, I’m arguing here is that the journals of Lewis and such that on one side ideology of simply knocking Clark found that the we use up the Earth down or outlasting civili- regions with the most

by Ran Prieur by Ran Prieur and crash, and on the zation, and then simply diverse and abundant other side we can live being in these other societies, wildlife were the in balance forever. Or, regions with the fewest actually, there are two even hunting-gathering, indigenous humans. lines, one for what we does not go far enough.” Also, what happened, can get away with in exactly, to Homo the future and one for where we went wrong in erectus and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis? the past. Whether these lines must be in the same One often reads that they were not “exterminated,” place, or may be in different places, is such a merely “out-competed,” as if the actual people profound question that most people simply faded into air as peacefully as the colored assume one or the other without thinking. For lines representing them on graphs, as if the now I leave the question open. extinction of an adaptable and intelligent In telling the story of where we went wrong in human species in a world of wilderness can the past, the line is most often drawn at the sort of happen by accident. If they ran short of invention of agriculture around 10,000 years ago. food they must have been driven out of the land So on this side is a densely-populated, authori- where they were getting their food, which tarian, labor-intensive, Earth-consuming, would have required force, maybe the same expansionist society, domesticated and cut off kind of force with which Americans “out- from its roots, and on the other side are nature- competed” natives in the 1800’s. Neanderthals based wild humans and all of nature, merged in had larger brains than us, so it’s a reasonable perpetual harmony, disrupted only by the single guess that they were smarter, but apparently exceptional event that spawned civilization. not as good at fighting. If you’re against civilization, it’s comforting to believe that this event was a fluke. Then we (continued on next page)

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GA #16-main doc 29 4/14/04, 8:36 PM John Livingston, in his book Rogue Primate, would put us in the extremely civilized mental holding us to nature, then all it takes is for wonders if we killed them off because we were space of fixing a problem by killing the bad guy. conquerors to force us out of that place, or bothered by their wildness. That’s just an aside There is no problem, only a situation, one that eradicate the species we eat, or send our kids to in a radical and challenging analysis of human demands more complex understanding and school, or kill almost all of us, and we’ll be domestication. action than just knocking down the technological disconnected and drifting, sucked into depression Livingston distinguishes humans from all other infrastructure—although that would certainly feel and probably into the culture of our conquerors. animals by our reliance on culturally-transmitted good, and it would greatly decrease the assault on Or will we? Some of the world’s indigenous technique: knowledge of how-to-do-it that is no nature… for the moment. cultures have survived conquest and displacement, longer dependent on nature, on having a place in The situation is that particular civilizations keep or are fighting it now, and they are not the same the web of life, but on nurture, on abstract crashing but the human tendency to fall into as they were a few centuries or decades ago, in mental models learned from other humans. He civilization persists. Roughly, we do it by using that they now include awareness of civilization calls this a “prosthetic being,” an interface with our hyper-flexible technique to invent ways to get and techniques for resisting it, techniques that are the rest of the world that is no longer direct or some obvious benefit by doing some less obvious evolving right now under intense environmental intimate, but buffered or mediated by our harm. The harm could be geographically distant, or pressures. Even people with no indigenous intellectual and ideological devices. far in the future, or concealed in the perspectives cultural background, even people (like myself) He speculates that the tipping point was the of other creatures, or even right in front of us but who don’t feel a deep bond with nature, are taming of fire. From that time, our ancestors built subtle. And once we’ve done it, we’re in a feed- culturally evolving awareness of civilization and an increasingly domesticated or idea-dependent back loop, tending to become dependent on the techniques for resisting it. culture, and here’s the kicker: Out of that domes- benefit, to extend and intensify our destructive There may even be a level of evolving behavior ticated culture evolved Homo sapiens sapiens, practice, and to hold back our empathy or our deeper than learned culture, but not DNA. It’s us, already biologically adapted for domesticated “self,” so that we don’t notice the harm because the level that tells a spider how to spin a web, or life, with thin bones, weak muscles, dull senses, that awareness would jeopardize the whole racket. birds when to migrate, a level that biologists can and brains specializing in abstraction. How can we ever avoid this trap? There may tell stories about but have yet to explore. We Then we spread over the Earth and developed be no exit, nothing but to keep veering off and could see it as a kind of species-wide group mind the whole variety of nature-based indigenous crashing, eon after eon, until we veer so far off that can change over time. I suspect that this cultures—but these cultures are still prosthetics: and crash so hard that nothing survives bigger concept would not be troublesome or even They are not a true merging with nature, only surprising to most non-European and an uneasy fitting-together. Livingston writes: indigenous cultures, and even Western experimental scientists are starting to Nowhere may the human presence be notice it. (See Rupert Sheldrake, The seen as fully integrated and “natural,” Presence of the Past) because wherever we may be, or however In any case, it’s not enough that we learn long we may have been there, we are still a location, a way of being that’s in balance domesticates. Domesticates have no eco- with nature. We must also learn a direction, logic place, and they show it consistently a way of moving toward wildness. The and universally. When non-European mythology of our civilization is onto some- indigenous peoples received and began to thing when it says “we can’t go back.” use firearms, for example, they revealed their We (individually and collectively) find it exotic placelessness without missing a beat. psychologically much easier to drift deeper into comfort and control and predictability, A common anti-civ argument goes that than to open ourselves to rawness and “we” lived sustainably for more than a otherness and flux. How often does a child million years before the few thousand who wears shoes become an adult who goes years of civilization, that stone age tech- barefoot? Have you ever seen a “property” nology and only stone age technology has owner remove a lock from a door? How ever been sustainable, and that therefore many people, as they get older, have fewer we should live pretty much like we lived possessions and care less whether those for that million-plus years. But that wasn’t possessions get scratched? We try to go us! Those were our less biologically- “back to nature” by moving to the woods domesticated hominid relatives. Arguably, and installing buildings and utilities, but Homo sapiens sapiens has never lived how many people move to the city and take sustainably, by which I mean that we have them out? had societies that gave as much as they We have to learn, if not these changes, then took, but that these societies themselves thousands of changes like them, and the were precarious, that they could and relentless focus and expansive awareness to sooner or later did fall out of balance— drive them. If we don’t, as long as we favor or get knocked out of balance by conquest or than a rat. Or maybe humans will continue to domesticating motion, we’ll get a ratcheting technological infection from some imbalance physically evolve off to the side, farther from effect that will seduce us from the healthiest over the horizon. our roots, more dependent on our fleeting society straight through self-absorption into hell. I suggest that we draw the line in our heads not technologies and cultures, making our extinction And if we do, if we learn to favor motion toward between industrial civilization and hunter- ever more likely. Or maybe somehow we can wildness, or learn to navigate the spectrum with gatherers-plus-nature, but between Homo physically evolve into a more integrated animal, full consciousness, then we can not only stabilize sapiens sapiens and all other life—and of course through some sci-fi scenario that’s not as ourselves in stone age societies that are known to not in the sense that we are more “highly” evolved, implausible as space colonies. work—we might also increase our range, and but that we have evolved to some strange place But the usual idea is that we will culturally sustain ways of being that are farther from nature off to the side, isolated and dangerous, the evolve into a more integrated animal, and the than the stone age—or closer! As the drug animal in the dark tower. simplest version of this is that we’ll live like trippers say, it’s not how far you can go—it’s how Maybe everyone would be better off if we just known indigenous peoples, anchored by the far you can come back from. went extinct. But that’s not realistic as a goal or customs of our ancestors and our knowledge and even politically viable as an argument, and it love of our native place. But if this is all that’s email me at: [email protected]

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GA #16-main doc 46 4/14/04, 8:36 PM Fences Cannot Hold Back the Wind! Prisoner Uprisings and Revolts “The most beautiful moment is when the clash against all the things that oppress us expresses our passion for equality and solidarity. This passion cannot be destroyed. The insurrectional flame, the will for life, will pass through the rubble of prisons and courts...because they don’t capture a free man because they put him in a cell. Even the most inhuman power of authority is not enough to erase what we have in us. It cannot crush what we are fighting for, what pushes us and what we are pushing for, all of us: the social revolution, when the free expression of human nature won’t be just an abstract concept but will take life from the same passion that fires us to fight” - Anarchist Group of Cyprus

December 4, 2003, December 17, London (U.K.): January 7, 2004, Missouri: Prisoner from custody at Highland Hospital. Port Hedland (Australia): Youths in a detention center Escapes from Webster County Jail 32-year-old Dion Parrell was being About 20 immigrants held a protest started fires in their cells after David Choate, 22, escaped from the escorted by a sheriff’s deputy to the on the rooftop of an immigrant three prisoners climbed on the Webster County Jail but was hospital so that he could have a cast detention center and were attacked by roof of the building. The three quickly recaptured. According to on his broken wrist recast; because guards who used tear gas. There were rebels were placed in isolation Sheriff Ron Worsham, Choate had of the injury only one wrist had been clashes between detainees, guards units for their actions. been arrested on a warrant for handcuffed. Parrell also wore a cast and police. Four guards and one cop December 19, Columbia, South possession of a controlled sub- on his leg – even though he had no were injured. Four days later, 21 of Carolina: Prisoner Escapes From stance. While in the booking area, related injury, Lt. Dale Amaral said. the refugees being held in isolation County Jail Choate observed the combination “They wouldn’t have put leg irons cells because of their participation in to the keypad lock on the area’s on him,” Amaral explained. “This John Griffin Jr.,20, escaped from the riot began a hunger strike. door. “When the jailer left the area has certainly been planned. It was Ridgeland Correctional Institution to take another prisoner back to the not a spontaneous escape.” The December 13, Helena, Montana: but was recaptured more than a week cell, Choate dialed in the combination prisoner and his supervising escort Prisoner Escapes from State later at a Lexington County mobile and got out,” Worsham said. A were in an elevator at the hospital; Penitentiary home community. Marshfield cop (unfortunately) appre- when the doors opened at the A prisoner’s escape from the December 20, British Columbia: hended Choate 15 minutes later. seventh floor, Parrell bolted. “He Montana State Prison is being Prison Guards Hospitalized exited the elevator, running down blamed on prison staff who got lax January 7, Palatka, Florida: Prisoner A prisoner at the Kent maximum- seven flights of stairs,” Amaral said. with security policies. Charles Avitt Escapes from Putnam County Jail security prison east of Vancouver “He hit the streets – he was like a is believed to have snuck out of the Prison officials say Johnny Edward attacked two guards, causing gazelle.” A search of the area sur- prison by hiding in a load of clean Staten, Jr., sentenced to 30 years in injuries that required them to be rounding the hospital was conducted laundry, Warden Mike Mahoney said. prison for armed carjacking, was taken to a hospital and suspended immediately, and Parrell’s red jail Avitt was caught the next day after awaiting transfer to the Department from work to recover. In response clothing and wrist cast were located breaking into a veterinary clinic. of Corrections when he escaped. to the assault, prison officials put a few blocks away. Deputies said Staten apparently got the entire cellblock on lockdown, access to a white kitchen uniform, January 12, Bindura (Zimbabwe): meaning that all 28 inmates in the which allowed him to mix with the Prisoner Escapes from Farm cellblock were confined to their cells general jail population during the Labor Camp until further notice. Kent prison is morning feeding time. They said he Takesure Katena, a prisoner at the notorious for riots and rebellions; then climbed over the razor-wire Chawagona Prison Farm escaped two riots took place in 2003 alone. fence, cutting himself. Deputies under the nose of armed guards and December 28, Grafton (Australia) – found a bloody jumpsuit about dogs in the middle of the afternoon Youth rebelled inside a high-security one-half mile south of the jail, and while working in a maize field. After juvenile detention center, started proceeded to search for the escapee working for about an hour, Katena is fires, attacked guards, and armed using bloodhound teams and a said to have asked for permission to themselves with weapons from the helicopter. It’s unknown to us go urinate, and then disappeared. woodwork shop. Guards were forced whether or not he still eludes arrest. Last year two other prisoners escaped to flee the building and police were January 8, Oakland, California: from custody in Bindura. The two brought in to quell the uprising. The Prisoner Escapes from Hospital were repairing a vehicle before they center sustained serious damage and asked to test the vehicle. When given A manhunt was under way in the Bay many inmates were transferred to permission, they allegedly drove out Area in early January for a prisoner another prison. of the prison premises. who police said used a fake leg cast to dupe sheriff’s deputies and escape (continued on next page)

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GA #16-main doc 47 4/14/04, 8:36 PM February 7, Edmonton (Alberta, February 12, Whitehorse (Yukon), Canada) – An inmate reportedly (Canada) – Eight prisoners are beat up a guard at the Edmonton facing new charges after a small riot Institution and sparked a riot by broke out inside the Whitehorse Jail about 19 prisoners who refused to when guards provoked the incident return to their cells and destroyed with a late-night search for drugs. furnishings and computers, causing The eight prisoners barricaded $170,000 dollars in damage. After themselves in the dormitory, ripped being promised dinner the inmates sinks off the wall, used the legs of went back to their cells. beds to smash equipment, and set February 8, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): small fires. Massive Prison Break! February 14, Arkansas – Inmates 49 prisoners escaped through a hole in the White County Jail removed a in the wall of their cell. 74 prisoners surveillance camera and destroyed were in the cell but guards didn’t it. Inmates also ripped a sink and notice until 49 had escaped. Six shower from the wall, causing guards have been suspended $5,000 damage. The revolt seemed because of the incident. Only two to have been triggered by the recent January 21, Oklahoma: were taken hostage at the Arizona prisoners have been recaptured. suspension of smoking privileges. Prisoner Escapes Custody…Briefly State Prison Complex – Lewis, a Okmulgee County cops were unfor- 4,400-inmate medium-to-high- February 8, Valencia (Caraboo February 15, Nyborg (Denmark) – tunately successful in re-capturing security prison west of Phoenix. The State) – The most recent reports 100 prisoners rioted at the Nyborg a prisoner after he pulled a “dis- standoff began almost a week earlier claim 7 dead and more than 30 State Prison, setting two offices on appearing act.” The prisoner, who when a prisoner attacked a guard in injured in a jail house mutiny at the fire and smashing furniture. The made a valiant bid for his freedom, a kitchen area. That prisoner and Tocuyito State Penitentiary after prisoners were angry because the has been identified as Lance Edward another inmate then got into an midnight confrontations between Danish government had decided to Harris, age 19. Harris made his brief observation tower where two prisoners and the National Guard. remove all weightlifting equipment escape gambit following an early guards, were stationed. It’s not Prison Governor Luis Calderon says from the nation’s 80 state prisons morning court hearing on “Knowingly known how the prisoners managed riots spread throughout the facility and probation centers. Prison officials Concealing Stolen Property” to overpower the armed guards and and shots were heard fired just after seem to be afraid of the strength of charges. Captain Shimika Johnson take them hostage, but the guard 1 a.m. by local residents. Prison the prisoners. “Some inmates have was returning from the courtroom tower, in the middle of the prison inmates were said to be using grown to abnormal size,” said to the jail facility with Harris and grounds, was believed to have been roughshod firearms and improvised Carsten Pedersen, the chairman of three other prisoners, when Harris stocked with weapons. This possi- swords but Calderon said the distur- the Union of Danish Prison Officers. disappeared, apparently leaving the bility, coupled with the tower’s bances had been brought under “They have become monster men.” courthouse through the east-side three-story high position on open control by daybreak. February 16, New York City: door. Johnson said Harris was still ground, left prison officials with few February 9, Tecumseh, Nebraska: Prisoner Escapes in the Bronx! dressed in civilian clothes. Johnson existing options to free the hostages Prisoner Escapes Using Toilet- A handcuffed prisoner swung open then discovered Harris had fled east quickly. Four days into the standoff, Paper Gun! the side door of a police van and down an alley. An employee of a one of the prisoners holding the Prisoner Michael McGuire escaped managed to escape. The male prisoner carpet business told local pigs that guards hostage set off a gas canister from a hospital, where he’d been had been arrested for possession of a man fitting Harris’ description had that landed in the prison yard; taken for a medical scan, after using a controlled substance, police said, run into the business’ warehouse. prison officials (wisely) chose not toilet paper to make a fake gun. adding that officers were still Police later apprehended Harris to retaliate and negotiations resumed. According to his lawyer, McGuire had investigating whether the name he hiding in the men’s restroom of the This standoff was still in motion been planning his escape for up to a provided was really his. warehouse area. when we received this news item in year and he’d discovered wet toilet February 28, St. Petersburg late January, and quite honestly, paper would harden if left to dry. January 21, Albuquerque, New (Russia) – 5,000 prisoners started we don’t know how the situation McGuire stuck the cap of a pen Mexico – A prisoner–described by a hunger strike in six different played itself out. (We’ll try to dig it (without the pocket clip) into the officials as paranoid-schizophrenic– prisons in the region to struggle up for next issue.) hardened paper to make the hole at is now back in custody after he against the brutal conditions inside the end of the barrel. He then briefly escaped while being February 6, Exeter (U.K.): the jails and the recent murder of a wrapped the “gun” in tape and colored transported to the local Metro Prison Riot Tears Shit Up! prisoner by guards. Detention Center. It’s unknown how Inmates rioted at the Exeter prison, it black. McGuire didn’t tackle the this prisoner escaped, so we have damaging computers, doors, and an two guards in charge of watching no tips to offer our readers. office, and arming themselves with him and instead waved the “gun” around so they couldn’t see the January 23, Buckeye, Arizona: chair legs and pool balls. The rebellion broke out when about 15 prisoners barrel was actually crooked. He Prisoners Hold Guards Hostage forced them out of the hospital and in Tower refused to return to their cells after socializing. Guards were forced to into a prison van where they were On the sixth day of an ongoing penal withdraw. Riot police were called in, ordered to handcuff themselves system uprising, two prison guards and some prisoners returned to their together. He then drove to a remote held hostage inside a watch-tower by cells, but about 8 inmates barricaded area and left them handcuffed to a tree. a pair of inmates sent word to the themselves in a cell. The prisoners outside world that they were all right. February 10, Guatamala City – suspected of being involved in the The voice (radio) contact was at least A riot broke out inside a women’s prison revolt have been split up and the second time negotiators spoke during a police operation. Six guards transferred to a different prison. with the prison guards since they and 35 prisoners were hospitalized. GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 48

GA #16-main doc 48 4/14/04, 8:36 PM Their Terrorists, Our Freedom Fighters! North American Political Prisoners Listings: Note: We cannot list every political prisoner, so we are prioritizing anarchists, anti-authoritarians, eco-defense warriors, animal liberationists, native and land rights prisoners, and others we have strong affinity with that are being held captive in North America. Anarchist & Jeffrey Luers (Free) #13797671, OSP, Native American & 2605 State Street, Salem, OR 97310. Anti-Authoritarian: Serving a 22+ year sentence for setting Land Rights: Bill Dunne #10916-086, Box 019001, fire to SUVs to protest the destruction of Byron Shane Chubbuck #07909051, US Atwater, CA 95301. Anti-authoritarian the environment. He has been made an Penitentiary, PO Box 1000, Leavenworth, sentenced to 90 years for the attempted example of by the criminal injustice KS 66048. Indigenous rights activist serving liberation of a prisoner in 1979. system and urgently needs your support. time for robbing banks in order to acquire funds to support the Zapatista rebellion in Tewahnee Sahme #11186353, SRCI, 777 Larry Giddings #10917-086, Box 1000, Craig Marshall (Critter) #13797662, Chiapas, Mexico. Stanton Blvd, Ontario, OR 97914. Native Lewisburg, PA 17837. Anti-authoritarian SRCI, 777 Stanton Blvd, Ontario, OR rights advocate serving additional time for prisoner serving 75+ years for revolution- 97914. Unapologetic eco-anarchist serv- Eddie Hatcher #0173499, ECI, PO Box a prison insurgency. ary action. ing a five-year sentence for setting fire 215, Maury, NC 28550. Longtime Matthew Lamont T90251, Centinella to SUVs to protest the destruction of Native American freedom-fighter framed David Scalera (Looks Away) #13405480, State Prison/ A-5-114, PO Box 901, the environment. Critter has been extremely for murder. TRCI, 82911 Beach Access Rd, Imperial, CA 92251. Serving time for marginalized and needs support. Leonard Peltier #89637-132, PO Box Umatilla, OR 97882. Native rights advocate serving additional time for a allegedly planning to attack a white Benjamin Persky - RELEASED, after 1000, Leavenworth, KS 66048. American prison insurgency. supremacist gathering. serving multiple years for property destruc- Indian Movement (AIM) activist, serving Ojore N. Lutalo #59860, PO 861, SBI tion at multiple anti-HLS demonstrations. two life sentences, having been framed Luis V. Rodriguez #C33000, PO Box for the murder of two FBI agents. 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532-7500. #0000901548, Trenton, NJ 08625. Anarchist Fran Thompson #1090915 HU 1C, Apache/Chicano activist being framed for and black liberation soldier serving time for WERDCC, P. O. Box 300, Vandalia, MO, Andy J. Riendeau (John Two Names) the murder of two cops. revolutionary clandestine activities. 63382. Longtime eco-activist serving a life #193786, Dorm 16/Bed 25, Limestone Brian McCarvill #11037967, TRCI, 82911 sentence for shooting dead, in self-defense, Correctional Facility, 28779 Nick Davis Beach Access Rd, Umatilla, OR 97882. He a stalker who had broken into her home. Rd., Harvest AL 35749. MOVE Prisoners: became politically active while serving MOVE is a radical, ecological movement a 39-year sentence on bogus charges. that has been attacked by the Philadelphia He has been continually harassed after More information on Political Prisoners & POWs Police since its inception. Nine members filling a lawsuit against the Oregon Dept. can be obtained from the following websites: were convicted and sent to prison for of Corrections. life following a 1978 siege at their house in which one cop was killed by another Mike Rusniak DOC K88887, Dixon CC, Anarchist Black Cross Network cop. One of those nine, Merle Africa, died 2600 Brinton, PO Box 99, Dixon, IL www.anarchistblackcross.org in prison after being denied medical 61021. Serving time for stealing a police treatment. car, and other acts of anti-govern- Eddie Hatcher: Native American Political Prisoner ment property-destruction. www.eddiehatcher.org Debbie Simms Africa #006307, Janet Holloway Africa #006308, Janine Philips Robert Thaxton (Rob Los Ricos) Howl For Freedom: Free Defense Network Africa #006309, 451 Fullerton Ave, #12112716, OSP, 2605 State Street, Salem, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238. OR 97310. Long-time anarchist sentenced www.freefreenow.org to seven years in prison for throwing a International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Michael Davis Africa AM4973, Charles rock at a cop in self-defense at a June www.freepeltier.org Simms Africa AM4975, Box 244, 18, 1999 Reclaim the Streets protest in Grateford, PA 19426-0244 SCI Grateford. Eugene, OR. Jericho Movement Edward Goodman Africa AM4974, Box Harold Thompson #93992, Northwest www.thejerichomovement.com 200, Camp Hill, PA 17011-0200 SCI Correctional Complex, Route 1, Box 660, MOVE Camp Hill. Tiptonville, TN 38079. Serving multiple www.onamove William Philips Africa AM4984, Delbert Orr Africa AM4985, Drawer K, Dallas, PA life sentences for clandestine resistance. Prison Activist Resource Center Rodney Wade #38058, I.S.C.I. 13A-20B, 18612 SCI Dallas. www.prisonactivist.org P.O.Box 14, Boise, ID, 83707. Ecological United Freedom Front (UFF): activist serving time for self-defense Robert Thaxton (Rob los Ricos) against a racist attack. The following three individuals are serving www.defenestrator.org/roblosricos huge sentences for their role in actions Jerome W. Bey #37479, SCCC (5-D-256), Spirit Of Freedom: carried out by the (UFF) in the 1980’s. 255 West Hwy 32, Licking, MO 65102. Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network The UFF carried out solidarity bombings Social prisoner and founder of the anarcho- against the US government on a variety syndicalist Missouri Prison Labor Union. www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk of issues. Eco-Defense & Jaan Karl Laaman W41514, Box 100, Note to Prisoners: South Walpole, MA 0207. Animal Liberation: Due to our mailing costs, we are asking that prisoners now re-subscribe (for free) every five issues so we know that you would like to continue receiving our magazine. Ray Luc Levasseur #10376-016, Box Ted Kaczynski #04475-046, US Pen- PMB, Atlanta, GA 30315. Admin Max Facility, PO Box 8500, Florence, We will let you know when your subscription has run out with your fifth issue. We Colorado 81226. Sentenced to multiple are dedicated to providing free subscriptions of Green Anarchy to those who have Thomas Manning #10373-016, Box lifetimes in prison for the “Unabomber” been kidnapped by the state, and are currently sending over 400 free copies an issue 1000,Leavenworth, KS 66048. bombing attacks against architects of the into the prison system. We just want to make sure its going to people who want it. Richard Williams #10377-016, 3901 New World Order. Anyone prisoner who is currently receiving GA will receive the next three issues. Klein Blvd., Lompoc, CA 93436. Page 49 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

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MICHIGAN MEN THREE RICHMOND, VA ELF from all these recent arrests, we need CHARGED FOR LAST MEMBERS TO BE SENTENCED to analyze (to the best of our ability JUNE’S RIOTS IN John Burton Wade and Aaron Labe and with the facts we have at our BENTON HARBOR Linas, both 18, and Virden Blackwell, disposal) what went wrong and how Two Benton Harbor 20, face possible five-year sentences these mistakes can be avoided in the residents, Larry Doolittle for their guilty pleas in conjunction future. Because the reality is, folks, and William Johnson, with damage to SUVs, construction we’re up against a global leviathan faced resisting and ob- sites, and fast-food outlets in the and its trajectory of universal anni- structing police charges Richmond area. We’re not sure how hilation is not likely to peacefully late in January for allegedly any of these three individuals was change course. The responsibility is driving vehicles at cops identified and apprehended, or WHY now ours, whether we want it or during the Benton Harbor they pled guilty to federal conspiracy not, and in this war none of us are rising last June. Houses, charges, but their convictions were expendable! police cruisers, and fire the first in an avalanche of bad news trucks were burned and to arrive this winter regarding ELF- SUV OWNERS APPEAL TO several cops pelted with related arrests. The specific charge FEDS FOR PROTECTION rocks and bricks at that they pled guilty to—being part of a The Sport Utility Owners of America LONGTIME REVOLUTIONARY time. In charging vehicle drivers with conspiracy to destroy vehicles and (SUVOA) called on Attorney General NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT rioting, Chief Assistant Prosecutor property by fire—carries a maximum John Ashcroft and Homeland Security Green Anarchy has just learned of the Arthur Cotter asserted that the penalty of five years. One of the czar Tom Ridge in January to take imprisonment of former situationist defendants’ actions delayed efforts to actions they pled guilty to involved effective measures against the ELF and anti-GMO militant RENE RIESEL, restore order, making them as culpable an attempt to blow up the fuel tanks and save their hogmobiles! SUVOA who is serving seven months in prison, as the people who assaulted police. of a crane and other motorized represents 24 million threatened as of December 2003, for twice The riots were torched off by the death construction machines at Short Pump guzzler-consumers who are sup- destroying genetically modified crops of Terrance Shurn, whose motorcycle Town Center in Henrico, according to posedly scared shitless of the in France. He could definitely use some crashed into a house while he was court documents. The actions militant Earth Liberation Front, who letters of support! You can write him: fleeing police at high speed. Although against SUV’s were: marking the defiantly take credit for targeting Rene Riesel, no. d’écrou 4612, Maison the two men are not accused of active windows and bodies of 25 vehicles SUV’s all over the country in a d’Arret, 37 chemin Sejalan, 48000 participation in the police assaults or at a Ford dealership; smashing constantly escalating campaign Mende, FRANCE arsons that marked the riots, the windows, slashing leather seats and of destruction. Founded in 1999, Editors Note: See page 14 for his prosecutor’s office contends that a denting the body of a jeep at another SUVOA actively defends the “rights” article on biotechnology, and also, state rioting statute applies because the dealership; and damaging SUV’s of SUV owners and seeks to refute the check out a new English translation drivers disobeyed police orders to parked at homes in Henrico. They also “false” charges regarding the safety of some of Rene Riesel’s writings stop. The riot statute says that a admitted defacing the windows of two and environmental record of SUV’s. on genetic engineering, now avail- person who fails to do any of three fast-food restaurants able as a pamphlet entitled “Against specified things when ordered by police by writing ELF-allied The Engineering Of Life”, which can at a riot scene can be prosecuted as a graffiti with glass-etching be ordered for $3 from: Venomous participant. When ordered by police, a cream. Hopefully these Butterfly Publications, 818 SW 3rd person must “aid and assist in seizing busts (and the others Avenue, PMB 1237, Portland, OR, and securing such rioters,” help that followed) will be a 97204. suppress the riot, or leave the area. wake-up call to all those Only one person has been convicted supportive of or directly ELF BUSTS IN TEXAS so far of an assault stemming from the involved in the Earth Four teens were arrested at the end riots, Kevin Cloy, of Benton Harbor, liberation struggle: We of January in Harris County, Texas who was sentenced to a year in jail for cannot afford to lose any for allegedly causing $90,000 throwing a bottle at a car. An arrest more of our warriors! damage to as many as 50 SUVs, in a warrant has also been issued for Spontaneity is what vandalism spree that began last another person the police are unable allows us to engage in October. The names of those arrested to locate. Prosecutor James Cherry surprise attacks on our were withheld, but the accused said his office has not been able to enemy, it’s what enables ringleader is said to have been charge more people with violent acts us to strike unexpected convicted last year of criminal because of identification problems. and effective blows, but mischief for burning a flag in front Tense standoffs between large numbers spontaneity combined of a local school. Two of the accused of police and rioters took place across with sloppiness lands us are said to be 18 years-old and a no man’s land that made it “virtually right in one of the State’s another is believed to be 19 years- impossible to get through and make cages—and weakens old. All four of them stand accused arrests of people throwing rocks and the underground resis- of a felony that carries, with conviction, bricks,” Cherry said. “It’s almost as if tance immensely. We 2-10 years behind bars. we were on a Napoleonic battlefield.” need to start learning GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 50

GA #16-main doc 50 4/14/04, 8:36 PM CALTECH STUDENT HELD WITHOUT BAIL EverythingEverything thatthat PlummetsPlummets Billy Cottrell, 23, is in federal custody after his March 9 arrest, accused of by Dan Todd firebombing 125 SUVs to the tune MustMust ConvergeConverge of $2.3 million in LA County last August. He faces up to 40 years; his George Bush, a man who in his (greatly prolonged) coercive Communist Party. Goldman wrote, “The free lawyer has proclaimed his innocence. youth could not drink and (having completed extended exchange of products between the workers and the Cottrell is a second-year grad student toilet training at Yale University) now cannot think, peasants, between the city and the country, embodied in physics at the California Institute has outsourced this activity to minions who in their the very raison d’etre of the Revolution.” This program of Technology, and emails from youth drank deep at the fountain of Leon Trotsky, was the alternative to forced requisitions, not the computers at that school claimed the Russian Bolshevik leader. With apologies to reintroduction of capitalism under the term “New Flannery O’Connor, everything that plummets must Economic Policy.” responsibility for the SUV destruction converge. From Trotsky to Bush, a legacy of slaughter for . . . on behalf of the Earth Liberation In the early 1920’s, about the time Winston free trade? Yes, for Trotsky actually said, “The Front. FBI agents also claimed in an Churchill advocated gassing “uncivilized” Iraqis insurgents did not have a conscious program and they affidavit that Cotrell was involved in who rejected British occupation, Trotsky oversaw could not have had one because of the very nature of a plot to plaster sport utility vehicles the murdering of revolutionary Russian workers and the petty bourgeoisie. They themselves did not clearly with 5,000 bumper stickers that read sailors who did not accept Bolshevik control, most understand that what their fathers and brothers “My SUV Supports Terrorism.” His notably at Kronstadt, the naval fortress protecting needed first of all was free trade.” (Emphasis added lawyer has accused the presiding judge St. Petersburg, where sailors had broken the back to contrast the patriarchal attitude of the Bolsheviks of “Guantanamizing” Cottrell, referring of Tsarist authority a few years earlier. Trotsky never with that of the Kronstadt sailors, who on March 7, to the military base in Guantanamo Bay repented his severity, despite being denounced by Woman Workers’ Day, sent a radio greeting to the where U.S. authorities are holding Stalin some years later for being on the wrong side working women of the world, expressing hope that hundreds of suspected Islamic militants of History. In a 1938 essay entitled “Hue and Cry “you soon accomplish your liberation from every form without bail or access to lawyers. Over Kronstadt,” he continued to slander the of violence and oppression. Long live the free memory of those he had slain by arguing they revolutionary workingwomen!”) Nowadays, of HELEN WOODSON FREE represented, “on the basis of objective circum- course, many of us are still ignorant of our need for ...BRIEFLY stances,” as he so magisterially put it, reactionary, free markets, but that may be because of our belief The eco-peace activist was released petty-bourgeoisie elements, quoting Marx to the in the magic of the (flea)marketplace. March 9 after 27 years in prison for effect that “it is impossible to judge either parties William Pfaff wrote in the 4/8/04 issue of the New robbing a bank and burning the or peoples by what they say about themselves.” York Review of Books, “The search for consensual money in protest of capitalism and It is this essential arrogance that no doubt endears American global hegemony, as for the ‘defeat’ of his memory to writers such as Stephen Schwartz, a terrorism and ‘victory’ over evil, is a naive the destruction of the environment, former disciple of Trotsky who has transferred his simulacrum of the serious armed utopianisms that and damage to a nuclear missile silo, allegiance to another 20th century luminary, William were the curse of the twentieth century.” Yesterday most prominently. Woodson reported F. Buckley. Writing in National Review last year the utopians were intoxicated with the State; today to federal authorities March 11, (6/11/03), Schwartz hailed the trend in radical leftism it’s the Market. They lurch and stagger over the globe, whereupon she poured red paint that “followed the principle of opposition to the spewing spiraling destruction on their progress to over security apparatus and issued a Soviet betrayal of the revolution to its logical end,” nowhere and reminding us our sobriety means nothing Christian-oriented eco-statement. noting disciples of the “Old Man” joined the AFL- until the punchbowl of Power they slurp from has been She’s now back in prison, but un- CIO in the 1960s, “its best Cold War period,” and shattered into a thousand points of light. fortunately, we don’t have any more eventually became staunch Reaganites. Perhaps information available to us at this time. the most pathetic example of this strange odyssey SPECIAL DELIVERY: is Christopher Hitchens, who unabashedly supported MICHAEL SCARPITTI ARRESTED, the invasion of Iraq. aka TRE ARROW Trotsky’s legacy offers much his bastard disciples Tre was nabbed in Canada in mid- can use. As noted above, the elementary courtesy March, while supposedly trying to steal of calling people the names they choose to call bolt cutters at a home improvement themselves is scorned. Schwartz calls critics of the store. On the run for two years, he neoconservatives “neofascists.” His fellow National had been accused of torching logging Review writer, Victor Davis Hanson, calls opponents trucks at the Eagle Creek, OR timber of the Iraqi occupation “Islamofascists.” Hanson sale protest in 2001. Prior to extra- sneers at Arundhati Roy for wearing stylish jewelry while she denounces war, amusingly echoing dition to the U.S. he can be reached Trotsky’s derision of the Kronstadt mutineers as at: Michael Scarpitti (remand prisoner), containing “completely demoralized elements, PO Box 9224 Stn. Prov. Govt., Victoria, wearing showy bell-bottom pants and sporty haircuts.” BC, Canada V8W 9J1. Tre had been on And just as National Review mocks anti-war activists the FBI’s most wanted list. The former for their supposed naiveté, Trotsky condescendingly Green Party congressional candidate denounced “sentimental lamentations of the pacifist confronts a possible twenty-year kind in the spirit of Alexander Berkman, Emma sentence if convicted, so he needs all Goldman, and their latest imitators.” the support that we as a movement can Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were muster! Be assured, the State WILL try anarchists deported from America to Russia after to make an example out of Tre Arrow, the October Revolution in 1917. They were in St. FOR YOU, BUSH A new form of life is emerging against the global as they did with Free, so now’s the time Petersburg at the time of the Kronstadt Revolt and commodity production system, a life organized around play to go on the offensive, before his wrote sympathetic accounts of the mutiny and its and the wisdom of elders. We are not doomed to accept the ruin of creation; we can share in the creation of ruins, extradition is completed! causes. They described how hateful the “flower of the ruin of a social order more palpably deranged every the Revolution” found the increasingly cruel and day. ‘ PagePage 51 51SPRING SPRING 04‘04 ISSUE ISSUE

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“The idea of anarchism is the absolute incompatibility between freedom and authority. From this it follows that one can only enjoy total freedom in the complete absence of Power. Because Power exists and has no intention of dis- appearing voluntarily, it Anarchist Resistance will be necessary indeed to Anarchist Resistance create a way to eliminate it. Correct me if I am mistaken.” fromfrom AroundAround thethe WorldWorld - Penelope Nin

December 3, 2003, Rome, departments and made several makes millions of dollars while rubbish bins near Prodi’s home that (Italy) – The special police arrested arrests; three of the arrested are ordinary people slave away at shitty past week were claimed by an an anarchist with the accusation anarchists. On December 9, 2003, jobs or starve or freeze on the streets anarchist group. The previously that he participated in the beating Iraklis Maragakis died in a hospital. of Vancouver and all over the world. unknown group, Informal Anarchic of an undercover police officer, We don’t think it’s a coincidence. So Federation, claimed the earlier rubbish along with anarchist prisoner December 11, 2003, Athens we decided to hit back. bin attacks in a letter to an Italian Two anarchist groups Massimo Leonardi, during the (Greece) – Sincerely, newspaper in which it said that it claimed responsibility for firebomb European Union Summit street A Few Angry People wanted to target “the apparatus of attacks which took place the night clashes of October 4, 2003, which control that is repressive and leading before on the home of a senior December 26, Thessaloniki took place in Rome. Police the democratic show that is the new Athens Judge and on a car with US (Greece) – A gas canister bomb searched the arrested comrade’s European order.” The message went license plates, saying that they exploded at a Socialist Party home and the home of another on to say that the attacks were carried carried out the attacks in solidarity (PASOK) office. anarchist out to make sure that Mr. Prodi “knows with recently convicted Greek December 27, Athens (Greece) – that the maneuvers have only begun December 5-9, Heraklio (Greece): “terrorists”. The arsonists, calling Two Molotov firebombs were thrown Anarchists, Family, and Friends to get close to him and others like themselves Popular Justice and the at an office of the New Democratic Party. him.” Prodi said those attacks, which Attack Police Headquarters After Proletariat Resistance Group, said Brutal Shooting December 27, Bologna, (Italy): also failed to cause injury, and other in telephone calls to an Athens warnings had made him more cautious Iraklis Maragakis was shot in the newspaper that the attacks were to Romano Prodi Survives as he tackled a pile of Christmas post. head by Greek police for not stop- protest the convictions of 15 Parcel Bomb Attack ping at a roadblock. The next day, members of the armed leftist European Commission President December 30, Amsterdam: December 6, his family, friends and November 17 organization. Romano Prodi escaped unhurt after New Bomb Scare as EU about 80 anarchists (in total about a parcel bomb attack on his home. Steps Up Security; 100 people) attacked the police December 22, Vancouver, BC: Prodi said a wrapped novel burst into Anarchists Blamed for Attacks headquarters in Heraklio. The crowd Why We Fucked With the CIBC flames as he opened it, burning his A suspicious package arrived in the broke almost every window and Bank on Hastings Street carpet and a piece of furniture. The mail and triggered off a panic at the video camera and flipped over and (by A Few Angry People) pages of the book, wrapped in yellow European crime fighting organization damaged several police vehicles. To whom it may concern, paper and addressed to his wife, had Eurojust. The package arrived at the About 10 cops ran out of the building On Monday, December 22 we broke been cut to insert explosive powder. Eurojust headquarters right after the and attempted to make arrests but a few windows at a CIBC bank branch The book used was The Pleasure by EU organizations ramped up security were beaten back by the crowd. on Hastings Street between Nanaimo Gabriele D’Annunzio, a famous sup- following a spate of parcel bombs Four pigs were injured. Pig rein- and Benfrew in East Vancouver. We porter of Fascism before his death blamed on Italian anarchist groups. forcements arrived from other wanted to strike a company which in 1938. Two other explosions in Four parcel bombs have now been GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 52

GA #16-main doc 52 4/14/04, 8:36 PM sent from the Italian city of Bologna, working with law enforcement “from cells. Di Nicola worries that Italian February 4, Athens (Greece) – A including one sent to European Com- half of Europe.” Persico also said that anarchists are building ties with gas-canister bomb exploded at a mission President Romano Prodi on the Bologna addresses from which what he calls “more experienced” bank and damaged its ATM machine. ! December 27, followed by booby- the packages were sent were false. Greek and Spanish anarchists, evolving ! February 9, Thessaloniki (Greece) – trapped packages received on A spokesman for the German federal into a far-flung array of cells united by Six gas-canister bombs exploded December 29 by European Central prosecutor’s office in Hamburg — ideology and targets rather than outside a bank early in the morning, Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet Harmut Scheider — said they were coordination from a central command. causing an estimated 3,000 Euros in and Europol Chief Juergen Storbeck. working with Italian police and had January 8, Argentina – Paintbombs damage. The most recent bomb, which was the launched an investigation against were thrown at a church. A group size of a book, was diffused by Dutch unknown suspects for attempted February 12, Thessaloniki calling itself the “Grupo Revoltoso military experts, according to the murder and forming a terrorist (Greece) – A gas-canister bomb Insurrecto” (Insurrectionary Rebel public prosecutors office in the organization. “We are looking at exploded at the entrance to offices Group) claimed responsibility and Hague. Like Romano Prodi, all the members of an Italian group that are of the Missionary Evangelical said “We attacked and disappeared targets represented Trans-European close to the anarchist spectrum,” Church, causing roughly 3,000 Euros mysteriously. But the attacks will organizations. Europol is a law said Scheider. “It seems that some- in damage. Police also found an continue. There is nothing of this enforcement agency that coordinates one is angry at the EU system.” The unexploded gas-canister bomb outside world to save, all is within our sight. European police forces with one city of Bologna was the departure the office of the New Democracy For the extension of the rage. We are another and with intelligence agencies point for all the earlier bombs sent candidate for MP for Thessaloniki, already here, wild and destructive.” outside of Europe, like the CIA; the by the shadowy new anarchist move- Erotokritos Theotokatos. On the European Central Bank oversees the ment, who advocated armed struggle January 14, Thessaloniki same day, a “suspicious” fire broke 12-country joint European currency, in their proclamation and state that (Greece) – A homemade explosive out at a car showroom belonging to the Euro. the first explosion was the beginning device, planted in front of the Hellenic the PASOK (the ruling Socialist party Telecommunications Organization in Greece) candidate for MP of January 1, 2004, Thessaloniki of their “Santa Claus” campaign. Enrico Di Vicola, Bologna’s chief (OTE) offices in Thessaloniki’s Thessaloniki, Thomas Rombopoulos. (Greece) – Three gas-canister attorney, said he was surprised by Kalamaria district, failed to detonate. bomb attacks were carried out February 17, Urbino (Italy) – A the recent bombs. “Just yesterday I The incident followed three suc- against the city government’s central Telephone Interface Module (TIM) said the only thing missing was a cessful such attacks in the northern town-planning offices. repeater was set on fire. Six days earlier city this year, believed to have been bomb against the legislative power. Telecom and Ti di Fontecorniale radio January 5: the work of anarchists. In Greece, We were expecting it.” Cary Titley, towers had also been set aflame. Italian Anarchists Blamed Again one of the British politicians targeted, anarchist groups have been blamed As Parcel Bombs Explode whined on about how “There can be for a spate of arson attacks over the February 17, Italy – The homes in Euro MPs’ Offices no justification for these attacks past year in which simple (but effective) of 40 people were raided by police Parcel bombs exploded at the offices which are in reality an attack on gas-canister bombs have been used in the cities of Viterbo, Rome, of two Euro MP’s, prompting fears democracy.” Di Nicola and his team against banks, political party offices Abruzzi, and Reiti, in a crackdown on of a fresh wave of anarchist attacks of investigators say the movement and the homes of members of anarchists. The police are trying to against politicians. These latest could have up to 350 members and parliament. Greek police are now produce charges against the anarchists attacks were aimed at the office of for “subversive association” and Gary Titley, a senior British MEP, and attacks against institutions. a German member of the European February 17, Parliament. At least two other parcel Athens (Greece): bombs were sent to the European Anarchists March Against Parliament headquarters in Brussels, Olympics addressed to German and Spanish About 1,000 anarchists marched political figures. All of the explosive through central Athens to protest devices were concealed in books in massive security measures being brown envelopes, but the packages planned for the August 13-29 in Brussels failed to explode. Olympics. Police attacked the The latest packages to turn up in anarchists with a small amount of Brussels appear to have passed tear gas near the end of the demon- through European Parliament security stration. This was the latest in an screening operations before the A diagram of the parcel bombs sent to EU officials ongoing series of protests against earlier bombs alerted staff to a the Olympics and security measures Bologna-based threat. One of the sympathizers with a wide range of joining with colleagues from other costing more than $750 million. packages, which was opened by a profiles— from radical punks on the European Union members in a task The measures will include the staff member, was addressed to margins of anti-globalization marches force targeting anarchist groups, follow- deployment of 50,000 police and Hans-Gert Poettering, the leader of to dissident intellectuals steeped in ing a series of incendiary letter attacks soldiers, the militarization of Athens the centre-right European People’s theory. “This movement is character- on EU officials attributed to an Italian to enforce restrictions on street Party. The other, unopened, device, ized by a complete lack of structure and ring with links in Greece and Spain. protests during the games, and the was sent to Jose Ignacio Saiafranca, cohesion. In that world there are no February 1, Spain – Anarchist installation of some 1,300 security head of the Spanish Conservatives. rules and no hierarchies.” Gabriel Pompo Da Silva escaped from cameras in Athens and five other Bologna police spokesman Luigi Investigators are nervously the prison isolation unit where he was cities serving as Olympic venues. Persico said that Italian police were acknowledging that the anarchist being held captive and released a Greece, one of the smallest countries coordinating investigations with network is international in scope, statement to his family and friends! colleagues in other countries and with Spanish, Greek and German (continued on page 55)

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GA #16-main doc 53 4/14/04, 8:37 PM LET THE OLYMPIC GAMES DIE IN THE LAND THEY WERE BORN “There is no doubt that we are entering a police-state situation and we The local version of the global terror-war is being established through will have to learn to live with this. (...) If necessary, even the stadiums the colossal operation “Safe Olympic Games”, including: the collaboration will be guarded by the army” Jacques Rogge, president of the Inter- of “anti-terrorist” specialists from Greek, US, British, Israeli and national Olympic Committee, November 26, 2003. Australian secret services, military exercises by Greek and foreign In times of war for the imposition of global domination, where the mercenaries belonging to special forces of the police and the army (with bosses proceed to inter-state coalitions and capitalist completions, dominant participation of the US), based on “pre-emptive action” and coordinating their raids in the name of “anti-terrorism” to establish “management of disproportionate threats” scenarios, spying military totalitarian control and the pillage of the world... aircrafts flying over the city, the use of NATO’s “security systems”, mass In times of an all-out attack against the peoples of the so-called “third imports of modern weapons and the installation on a large scale of world”, whose genocide from starvation and diseases and their enslavement technologically advanced equipment monitoring public spaces and in the dungeons of mass production-colonies persons, such as the C41 system developed by of the multinationals nourish the “developed” the American multinational SAIC (a company world’s well-being; whose death during the New providing know-how, infrastructure and Order’s crusades and under military occupation, armament for the war in Afghanistan and their confinement in concentration camps and Iraq). Hundreds of surveillance cameras are the attempts to neutralize their resistance being placed, forbidden “Red Zones” are insti- have become the foundation stone for the tuted and in the streets the death squads of a security of domination’s projects... police occupation army are loose. During the In times of intensified exploitation, sur- Olympics, 50,000 soldiers will be on “high veillance and repression for the excluded and alert” and every demonstration or working those who resist within the metropolitan walls... strike will be forbidden. ...The Olympic Games are a front-window of Through these orgiastic preparations, the capitalism and domination itself. An advertise- repressive apparatus is upgraded, and the new ment of the world of class slavery and of the police role of the army in the confrontation of subsequent police and military means to impose the “internal enemy” is being promoted. The it. A global-range gala, sealing on one more level “zero tolerance” doctrine against any expression the cooperation of the local bosses with multi- of social and class dissidence is taking root national corporations, international political and the operations against “illegal” immigrants staffs and agencies of repression. are being intensified. For the Greek state, a participant in the criminal The Olympics are proclaimed a “matter of coalition that is launching the global terror-war, national interest” and their safety becomes the Olympic Games are a step to upgrade its role the ideological vehicle for an accelerated in the world’s elite, to strengthen its pre- imposition of a State of Emergency (not only eminent position in the Balkans, as well as the spearhead for its attack for the period before and during the games, but mainly for the period against the exploited and the oppressed within its territory. An attack to which follows, where the intensification of social struggles is anticipated), be continued after the new confirmation of the parliamentary dictator- for the implementation of methods and conditions that are either way ship through the fraud of elections on the 7th of March. considered as priorities for modernizing state terrorism. Within this Every day it is becoming obvious that the Olympic Games are not just situation, “court-martials” are set, such as the one that accomplished a sports event lasting a few days, but a permanent process, signifying a its mission recently inside Koridallos prison, imposing to those accused new era of repression and social control. as “November 17” members exterminative sentences of political In the name of accomplishing the Grand Idea, the “ideals” of profit are convenience, and the one that will take place on February 9 against praised by the bosses: the companies, contractors and state officials the five accused of participation in E.L.A (Revolutionary Popular who handle the huge 2004 budgets. In this giant commercial enterprise, Struggle). These are trials aimed at having the institution of “independent the proletarians are labeled as the “volunteers” to pay its cost by being justice” legalize all “anti-terrorist” commandos operations, the tortures robbed through taxes, the expensiveness and wage freeze, but also to and confinement in “white cells”, the snitches and the pogrom against pay its price: speeding up the rhythms of work, in extremely dangerous the dissidents of terror-democracy. Participation in social resistance conditions, with their own blood in working “accidents”. The human and solidarity with persecuted fighters is criminalized, while many of sacrifices of local and immigrant workers on the altar of profit and of them remain literally hostages awaiting trials, like the arrested in the the bonuses given for the fast termination of the Works, have taken demonstration against the EU summit in Thessaloniki. The Greek nightmarish dimensions in the Olympic construction sites where state signs international “anti-terrorist” acts and treaties allowing hundreds of workers die or are seriously injured. A new model of the extradition of social fighters to the Global Gendarme (USA), and absolute exploitation and expendable humans is consolidated in the takes part in the establishment of a European Task Force committed Olympic works, to characterize from now on the conditions of labor in to chasing anarchists. Officials of the “anti-terrorist” agencies from every other site of wage slavery. the 7 countries participating in this Force met in January and At the same time, as the Games offer a unique opportunity for capitalist specifically examined the issue of Athens Olympics, while introducing looting, the natural environment is plundered and destroyed, while the concept of “struggle against anarchist terrorism” for reasons of the urban landscape is redeveloped according to the new norms of preemptive repression and preparing the ground for suppressing any commercialization and surveillance of public space. social resistance. GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 54

GA #16-main doc 54 4/14/04, 8:37 PM The Olympics, as the bosses’ Grand Idea, propagandized by the whole spectrum of the authoritarian system (political parties, financial Anarchist Resistance (continued) institutions and the Media) is a contemporary ideological machine to to host the event, is planning to behind a trail of shattered windows extract social consent, consisting of the most conservative figures, such spend a record $800 million on and spray-painted graffiti. The as nationalism, to the most modern “values” of consumerism and security, three times the amount graffiti painted in front of the “voluntary” offer of unpaid labor in the service of the bosses. spent on the Olympics in Sydney businesses seemed to hold similar We do not forget that, here as much as globally, the excess of multi- four years ago. But a confidential anti-corporate messages. The one advertised means, mechanisms and methods of repression the state and US report, cited by the Greek in front of the Carroll Avenue Subway capital are getting armed with, as well as their intimidating campaign, media, questioned the Olympic read “Shop Local” with an anarchist reflect also their insecurity caused by existent and imminent social organizers’ ability to tackle the symbol drawn inside a heart. explosions. They reflect the failure they taste in their effort to present threat of snipers from hills around February 25, Athens (Greece) – their domination as indisputable and totally invulnerable, when all over the venues, as well as the threat of About 100 anarchists broke off from the world there are struggles and revolts bursting against globalization anarchists who regularly carry out an anti-Olympics demonstration and of exploitation and oppression, against war and capitalist peace. firebomb attacks against the threw rocks and paintbombs at riot Today, the Olympics concentrate the state’s effort to deepen its reigning social order in Greece. police near the Labor Ministry. The authority in society, repressing all those resisting its plans. But this Protesters are also angry with the anarchists unfurled giant black campaign is not adequate to instill fear, discourage and deter the multi- rising death toll among builders on banners near the entrance of the form expressions of social and class struggle. On the contrary, it is a Olympic sites, many whom have Athens University. One read: “The condition highlighting the necessity to intensify and spread this struggle died in the mad rush to complete Olympics are about bribes, doping, in every front the bosses are opening with their aggression and in every construction of Olympic facilities. front they try to close to their account. and concrete. These are the Olympic We antagonize the projects of the growing commercialization and February 19, Rome (Italy): ideals,” while another said “No surveillance of public spaces, reclaiming them and transforming them to Bomb Explodes in Police Station participation in the Olympic plague.” spaces of resistance. We sabotage social peace. We resist against the “anti- A letter bomb exploded at police February 26, Athens (Greece) – headquarters in the central Italian terrorist” war inside and outside the borders. We stand in solidarity with A group named after the Olympic city of Perugia, injuring three cops, political prisoners and persecuted social fighters. We act together with all mascots “Phevos and Athena” including one who went into surgery those revolting against the dictatorship of the State and Capital. claimed responsibility for bombing to try to save three fingers. This is two government vehicles, in an REKINDLE SOCIAL AND CLASS WAR the latest in a series of parcel bomb attack timed to coincide with a visit DESTROY THE BOSSES’ GRAND IDEA attacks over the last couple of to Athens by International Olympic Open Assembly of Anarchists-Antiauthoritarians Athens, Jan. 2004 months. A bureaucrat at the Committee officials. Athens security syndicate’s office in Perugia said that chiefs forecast that a crackdown to this particular parcel was actually head off possible international terror sent to a local petrol station where attacks ahead of the Olympic Games employees noticed wires hanging would also spell an end to these types out of the package and called in the of attacks by anarchists. “These are police; the bomb only exploded when all very small fringe groups and they it had been taken back to police have no popularity among our headquarters. Italian police have society,” Athens chief of police since put some 40 people under Colonol Lefteris Econoov said. “The investigation for alleged links to closer we get to the Games the tighter anarchist groups aimed at “under- the security measures in the urban mining democratic order.” areas will become and we think by February 21, Barcelona (Spain) – the time of the Games they (the Two gas-canister bombs exploded anarchists) will be finished.” at a Synergie temporary labor February 27, Athens (Greece) – agency. A group calling itself “We Five political party offices were Break The Silence” claimed the firebombed within 15 minutes of action, saying that the attack was in each other. Three New Democracy response to the deaths of 1,000 Party offices and two PASOK Party workers over the past year and in offices were the targets. solidarity with the struggle of the Spanish shipyard workers. March 5, Athens (Greece) – Unidentified dissidents caused February 22, Takoma Park, damage to offices of the ruling Maryland – At least five different PASOK and opposition “New commercial businesses were Democracy” parties in the eastern vandalized in the early hours of Athenian district of Vyronas. The February 22, in an apparent effort insurgents used empty beer bottles to discourage the spread of chain and stones to smash the windows stores. Two of the targeted stores of both political parties’ officials. were Subway and Starbucks in Police believe the culprits are probably the Woodmoor Shopping Center. linked to Exarchia-based anarchists. The as-yet-unidentified vandals left

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GA #16-main doc 55 4/14/04, 8:37 PM Summits,Summits, Counter-SummitsCounter-Summits andand SocialSocial WarWar

-Wolfi-Wolfi LandstreicherLandstreicher

“We are at war, even if the images of spectacular daily life the event had been completely recuperated into try to make us believe the contrary. spectacular frameworks even in anarchist circles, We have not chosen these social conditions ourselves, with the sad result of people trying – and we can only choose from what position to fight.” inevitably failing – to repeat the event over and over again. One of the essential traits of —Quale Guerra, Winter 2003-2004 spontaneity and surprise is that they cannot be “The enemy must not know where I intend to give battle. For if he repeated. Their force can only be maintained does not know where I intend to give battle he must prepare in a precisely by the refusal of repetition. The positive great many places. And when he prepares in a great many places, elements in Genoa (the participation of local poor and exploited youth in some of the trashing and those I have to fight in any one place will be few. […] if one looting and the willingness of a substantial number knows neither the battleground nor the day of battle, the left of people to defy Tute Bianche control of the will be unable to aid the right, or the right, the left; the van event) also carried the element of surprise simply to support the rear, or the rear, the van. […] Therefore, when I because things got way out of the organizers’ have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to control. But Genoa also revealed quite clearly circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.” who has the military force for direct confrontation. We need to begin to develop a practice of revolt —Sun Tzu based on a different conception of force, a method We are living in the midst of a social war that When the question of counter-summits comes of attack not based on direct face-to-face con- has being going on for as long as there have been up, it is necessary to bring in the critique of the frontation, but on discovering and attacking the classes and states – that is, since the beginning spectacle – that social relationship in which the fragile points of the social order wherever we are. of civilization. If most of the time this war is a image mediates all social activity. As a matter of It seems that anarchists forget that these cold war in which rule through fear – whether fact, the real decisions of our rulers are made counter-summits are organized by someone. This fear of the direct repressive violence of the rulers, daily, out of any limelight, and their summits are was true of Seattle – where certain of the orga- or that of some ephemeral menace such as precisely the image of decision making, a nizers and other good leftist sheep even tried to “terrorism” or “crime” from which the rulers are spectacle. If the real activity of capital, of the protect a Nike shop from looting by local youth – supposed to protect us – maintains a tenuous social state, of civilization, is the ongoing social hell and even more so of later summits. Like the ruling peace, anarchists and revolutionaries desire it to that surrounds us every day, then real resistance authorities, these petty alternative authorities learn ignite in the form of social insurrection and to it happens precisely here, in our every day lives, from their experience – and the levels of control revolution and act in this direction. It is on this on the streets and in the villages wherever we may from all sides have increased drastically at these level that the debate on counter-summits can be live. Since the summits are a spectacle, the demonstrations, in a precise attempt to prevent of interest, raising questions about how to develop counter-summits, which simply follow in their surprising elements or bring them back into the a principled strategy for battling the social order. steps, are the same. Certainly, individuals vent spectacular framework as quickly as possible. When I speak of a principled strategy, what I mean their rage at these events, and may even momen- Blackbeard’s story of his participation at the is a strategy or methodology for ongoing revolt tarily break out of their roles, but the question Cancun summit protests in GA #15 is particularly against this world that in its very practice reflects must still be raised: is the spectacle itself revealing in terms of what this has come to mean. our desires and dreams of how we would want to challenged or are the protests just another The protesters at these events find themselves live. In other words, methods and strategies for scene in the drama? sucked into hierarchical and vertical methods of struggle in which self-organization, horizontal rela- In Seattle, the sincerely rebellious element organizing activities, methods that help to keep tionships and communication, direct action, the took both the authorities and the organizers of the actions – even the tearing down of a fence or refusal of hierarchy and delegation, and autonomy the event by surprise, managing to temporarily the suicide of a Korean farmer – within the frame- from every institution that would try to represent our break through the spectacle. But this only work of the spectacle. None of this is really revolt are maintained as we carry out our attack on happened precisely because of the element of surprising when one considers that the organizers this civilization of domination and exploitation. surprise. 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GA #16-main doc 56 4/14/04, 8:37 PM the Social Forums, small-time wannabe to convene their banquets of power without a question we needed to ask was not “how do we politicians whose questioning of capitalism only challenge?” Of course not, but this is why we do this again?” but rather, “where do we go from goes as far as “fair trade, not free trade” – you need to challenge them daily wherever we here?” It is precisely because most people asked can imagine how foreign any critique of civili- encounter their projects in our lives, throwing the first question that Seattle was so quickly zation is to them. unexpected monkey wrenches into the works, so brought back into the spectacle. The summit in Cancun has another lesson to that when they meet, they will do so with the fear If the breaking of the spectacle’s spell in teach us as well. It was one of the extremely rare of not knowing when, where or how their projects Seattle had been more than momentary, insurgents occasions in which the decisions that the great will be attacked. This is the real challenge to their would have attempted to take the social war to powers had already made before the summit activity, as an analysis of their failure to ratify another level. Here and there some did. But can failed to be automatically rubber-stamped by the agreements in Cancun shows. Miami, where the anarchists and revolutionaries honestly speak of poorer nations. Only the most self-deluded police closed down the city, proves that closing any counter-summit since then as any sort of activist looking through the narrow tube of her down a city when it is expected challenges nothing. victory? If so, in what way? Those in power or his ideology could believe that this was due The masters themselves will order it if they find continue to make their decisions over our lives to the alternative spectacle outside. In fact, a it convenient. It is the unexpected blockades of daily. These protests really haven’t produced a significant number of poorer nations (and even normality – the wildcat strikes of transit workers significant ripple in this process. And those a few wealthier nations like South Korea) have in Italy, the blockades of Basilicata in the same involved in the counter-summits aren’t even able been rocked by ongoing unrest roused by recent country to prevent the building of a nuclear waste to create horizontal, non-hierarchical relation- hyper-exploitive economic policies (those known plant there, the blocking of the locks at the transit ships among themselves, let alone find methods as neo-liberalism). Governments have been stations in Barcelona – that scare the masters, for connecting with the dispossessed in the places threatened and a few even brought down by large- especially when accompanied by well-directed, where they are protesting. Even for the protesters, scale movements of revolt. But these movements anonymous sabotage. it seems these demonstrations remain just another have not taken place in the protest areas in front spectacular event in the media’s eternal now, of the summits, but in the places where those in disconnected from their daily lives where the real revolt live and directly experience domination and decisions of the rulers have their effects. Again, exploitation. These ongoing movements of revolt it is not counter-spectacles that really challenge where people live their lives are what turned the the spectacle. We cannot keep on letting our Cancun summit into a stalemate, showing once opponents choose the time and place of the battle. again where the real struggle takes place. It is our daily refusal to succumb, the various So one does not challenge the spectacle anonymous acts of revolt and sabotage carried by creating a counter-spectacle, but by out every day, in which the real challenge, the moving outside of its framework and real movement of resistance – and beyond attacking its roots in our daily lives. resistance to attack – exists. Why waste time at We can think of it in terms of different the planned confrontations organized by those ways of carrying on a war (since indeed who merely desire “fair trade” and “true a social war is going on): when one side democracy”, when we can attack the operation is aware that it is greatly militarily over- of trade and the state everyday wherever we powered, it makes no sense to use a are? These latter forms of daily struggle are military form of confrontation (particu- what demonstrate the most important thing: larly not a spectacular one in which the that we are everywhere. stage is set up by the enemy). Rather one should rely on unpredictability, John Zerzan Responds: Wolfi sets anonymity, and invisible omnipresence up a strict either/or dichotomy between the (“Riva is everywhere”) – i.e., attacking at “spectacle” of counter-summit militancy and any time from any place without seeking the authenticity of the “real struggles” in daily to be seen, the very opposite of “counter- life. But I think there is considerable spill-over summit” non-strategy. Of course this requires in both directions. In various countries, I’ve ridding ourselves of the evangelistic tendency come across many who’ve been greatly inspired and the idealistic conception of how revolutions Of course, there have been and will continue by what happened at the likes of Seattle, Prague, Genoa, etc. It would seem that these occur which is the source of this tendency. If we to be real rebels who go to these counter-summits. events have had a good impact on other, more actually look at various insurrections and move- Though I don’t agree with their strategy, this does “daily life” acts and projects. Similarly, I don’t ments of revolt that have sprung up recently in not mean that I deny them solidarity when they personally know any anarchists whose only the world (Argentina, Algeria, Bolivia, Ecuador, face charges for actions carried out in these activity is going to summits or who are etc.), not one of them began because the populace contexts. Critical solidarity can recognize real otherwise defined by them. The fact that the suddenly recognized the need to destroy capital, revolt even within a strategy with which one official organizers of counter-summit protests the state or civilization in any theoretical sense, disagrees. This is why, while the counter-summit are not anti-authoritarian radicals doesn’t but rather because the circumstances of their lives organizers are busy with press conferences and strike me as a compelling reason to abstain. angered them enough to act, and having lost faith other publicity, it will often be anarchists who Should we also avoid, say, conferences called in the authorities to deal with their demands, they reject the counter-summit strategy who are by non-radicals? The most important event in acted directly, discovering the methods of nonetheless in the forefront of solidarity activity modern society, the “French May” of 1968 in horizontal communication for moving such with those facing serious charges. which 10 million became involved in a action forward. So we don’t need to find ways to Some counter-summits are described as sweeping occupation movement, began as a preach anarchy and revolt to the world or to show “victories” or “successes”. No doubt, the events struggle to modernize the university system. off our rebellion, we simply need to rebel our- in Seattle caught the rulers by surprise and did The situationists and others chose to intervene, selves, in our daily lives, against all that stands in succeed in momentarily breaking through the on their own terms, and helped propel the way of our freedom. image of social consensus and social peace, matters forward. Would Wolfi have dis- Anarchist proponents of counter-summits have exposing the rage that is seething below the approved? At a demo or anywhere else, do asked, “Is it acceptable to allow our global masters surface. But this was not repeatable. The first we let ourselves be defined by reformists?

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GA #16-main doc 57 4/14/04, 8:37 PM OutOut ofof Isolation,Isolation, IntoInto Battle!Battle! Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Government Resistance “With a bit of practice we could get through a whole day without one single idea. Daily routine thinks in place of us. From work to ‘free time’, everything comes about within the continuity of survival. We always have something to cling to. The most stupefying characteristic of today’s society is the ability for ‘comfort’ to exist a hair’s breadth from catastrophe. The economy and the technological administrations of the existent are advancing with irresponsible recklessness. One slips from entertainment to large-scale massacre with the disciplined insensitivity of programmed gestures. Death’s buying and selling extends over the whole of time and space. Risk and brave effort no longer exist; there remains only security or disaster, routine or catastrophe. Saved or submerged. Alive, never.” -At Dagger’s Drawn

December 22, 2003, Badung December 30, Seoul (South Korea): said to have large stocks of food that windows knocked out. While smashing (Indonesia) – 1,000 workers Squatters Defy Police Action! can be used for several months. the windows of these well-lit recruiting clashed with 200 police during an A unyielding and often violent protest Meanwhile, the squatters have stations, the individual(s) involved action against the low minimum by squatters in an apartment complex promised continued resistance against realized that they had apparently wage in Indonesia. Two workers were in the Dongjak district of Seoul the police. One squatter wearing a scared people inside those buildings injured in the melee. persevered through the month of black mask said, “We have installed who were hiding once they realized December 25, Cibinong (Indonesia): December (2003), while Seoul police, deterrents here to prevent police what was going on. This is only a taste Striking Workers Temporarily Hold who vowed to put down the rebellion, officials from raiding our complex.” of things to come. The midwest will Boss Hostage have failed to make any arrests. Besides equipping themselves with no longer be a quiet, complacent place. slingshots and other weapons, Resistance is everywhere. This was a A dozen police raided a squatters have blocked the very small “welcoming” for the president. worker-occupied textile factory entry into the complex by and injured five workers in January 7, Seoul (South Korea) – piling up barricades of used order to free a boss who had Squatters in an apartment building furniture. They have also spread been taken hostage. The 600 fought off riot police and construction water near the entrance, which employees of the factory had workers with Molotov firebombs. froze overnight. been on strike for three About 100 people attended a solidarity months and occupied the January 1, 2004, Washington demonstration for the squatters, factory on December 24, D.C.: Zapatista Solidarity including militant workers, street demanding that they finally March Gets Rowdy vendors, and local residents. The latest be paid their wages. When A march commemorating the clash is part of an ongoing war management failed to deliver ten-year old anniversary of between the squatters and the their pay, the workers took Korean squatter families the Zapatista uprising in South Korean State (see Dec. 30) the company director hostage. resist eviction Chiapas, Mexico, took an January 8, Seoul (South Korea) – Although the boss has been released, uncontrollable turn when several The squatters are resisting plans by 3,000 farmers battled police, throwing the workers have maintained their paint bombs were thrown at a the district government to redevelop rocks and bottles, as they opposed occupation of the factory. Starbucks, a Subway restaurant, a the apartment complex. In November, the signing of a Free Trade Agreement cell phone shop and a bank. People December 29, Seoul (South Korea): construction workers attempted to (FTA) with Chile. Riot police used attempted, on several occasions, to Farmers Clash with Cops at Rally evict the squatters, but were beaten pepper-spray and water hoses block the crowd of about 100 people Against Free Trade Pact back when squatters resisted with against the demonstrators. The farmers from marching, but demonstrators South Korean farmers fought riot homemade weapons. A dozen workers had also clashed with the police the managed to evade the police, and police as thousands rallied to urge were injured in the clash. Police day before. nobody was arrested. parliament not to ratify a free trade found that squatters had used make- January 9, Venice (Italy) – The locks agreement with Chile. Hundreds of January 4, Missouri: ‘Twas the shift firearms to shoot metal pellets of ticket offices were glued shut in farmers wielded steel pipes and at the workers. The authorities have Night Before Bush Visits St. Louis… solidarity with striking transit workers. hurled stones at shield-carrying sworn to identify those who used It seems that the midwest (St. Louis police who used water cannons to guns and charge them with attempted especially) has been pretty quiet February 3, Spain – 2,000 masked stop them from entering the National murder. But police have not re-entered lately, and that Monsanto, Boeing, shipyard workers engaged in wildcat Assembly compound in central the complex since December 8, when Anhauesuer-Bush, etc., feel fairly strikes in Puerto Real and Cadiz built Seoul. The farmers claim the agree- they attempted to serve arrest war- comfortable there. But this recent barricades on bridges and launched ment would drive them out of business rants. Again the police were forced communique suggests that things attacks on riot police, using sling- by flooding the market with cheaper to retreat in the face of a barrage are starting to change. shots and Molotov cocktails. foreign products. “No to FTA (free of stones fired from slingshots and From the Communique: February 9, Seoul (South Korea) – trade agreement),” they shouted, while a cascade of Molotov cocktails, golf The night before Bush came to town 2 More than 20,000 farmers fighting some burned bags of rice in a symbolic balls and bricks. separate military recruiting stations against a “Free Trade Agreement” blaze. South Korea signed its first free The police once cut off electricity were attacked. The front windows of with Chile clashed with 9,000 riot the recruiting stations were smashed, trade agreement with Chile in February and gas to the complex, but the police, set fires in the streets, and of 2003, but its ratification has been squatters coped, using small power along with 2 red, white and blue torched cars and construction sites. delayed amid fierce protests. generators. The residents are also recruiting vans which had their GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 58

GA #16-main doc 58 4/14/04, 8:37 PM February 19, Vienna (Austria): anti-advertising campaign to some away. On September 5, 2003, the same Protesters and Police Clash extent dovetails with the larger group claimed responsibility for two Outside Opera Ball movement against globalization that powerful bomb blasts at Athen’s main Five cops were injured in clashes regularly riots outside meetings of court complex. The blasts, which with demonstrators who marched in the World Trade Organization (WTO), wounded a cop and damaged a downtown Vienna in a yearly protest the Group of Eight industrial nations, building in the closely guarded against the Opera Ball. About 450 and other capitalist bodies. court compound, were carried out in dissidents rallied, expressing outrage “Suzanne’s” group alone has attacked response to the trial of suspected at the most visible high-society event more than 50 billboards in at least members of the November 17 Revo- of the city’s social calendar – but also eight subway stations. On one lutionary Organization. Police said that against U.S. foreign policy and nocturnal mission, they happened the communique released after that capitalism. Demonstrators carried across other campaigners (from action was written on a computer and banners with slogans that included another affinity group) slapping up that each page bore a red five-point “Down with the Opera Ball, bring stickers saying, “Every day I wash my star, a symbol used by the November down capitalism” and “USA: inter- brain with advertising,” mocking 17 movement. In that statement, the national genocide headquarters.” laundry detergent ads. “Advertising is group lashed out at Greece’s Minister’s Demonstrators also threw glass and a one-way message that amounts to of Foreign Affairs, Justice and Public stones at the hundreds of police harassment,” says “Suzanne. Order, calling them “servants of guarding the opera house. “Suzanne’s” affinity group usually American interests.” It also criticized changes subway lines every three or the presiding judge in the N17 trial, February 22, Ouargla (Algeria) – four stations to avoid being spotted calling him a “theatre director”. Young people angry about unemploy- by security agents. At each station, Olympics-related security in Greece ment and poverty, and a visit to the they first follow other passengers has been increased following the city by President Abdelaziz heading towards the exits. Then, deadly train attacks in Madrid. A Bouteflika, raged through the streets having determined that no guards secret Olympics security operation attacking institutions and fighting are lurking in the tunnels, they double involving several hundred American police. Burning barricades were set back to set to work tearing down ads troops has started, as Greece’s new up in the streets and young rebels and spray-painting slogans like conservative prime minister took assaulted shops, a hotel owned by “Advertising Numbs You.” “It’s joy,” the troubled games under his the state hydrocarbon company says “Louis”, 16, describing how it personal wing. While there has been Farmers set fire to the wheels of Sonatrach, and the main government feels to spray-paint. “It’s a real pleasure a mainstream news black-out on the police buses which were being used building. Riot police used tear gas to finally be able to resist.” In all, secret operation, code-named as blockades and tried to push the to break up the rebellion. militants have been known to damage “Hercules Shield”, we’ve learned buses over, while attacking the cops up to 3,500 advertising posters in that U.S. forces will play a command with metal poles and rocks. The pigs March 8, Paris (France): Mass one night, says Metrobus, a Publicis and control role for 2,000 Greek fled and the buses were trashed. Sabotage of Subway Ads Suzanne (a pseudonym) glances subsidiary that sells the subway’s troops, and that operation “Hercules February 16, Quito (Ecuador) – A furtively up and down the subway advertising space. Shield” will stretch from the southern bomb exploded in the office of the platform in Paris. Slowly, the station March 15, Halandri (Greece): Greek island of Crete to Athens. Minister of the Economy. empties: the coast was clear. With a Time Bomb Planted at U.S. Bank February 17, Japan: Claimed mischievous glint in her eyes, she A relatively new militant Attack on Defense Agency whips out a red wax crayon from her group has claimed respon- A Japanese leftist group has claimed handbag, and wielding it like a sword, sibility for a bomb placed responsibility for an attempted attack scrawls her fury across a billboard outside an Athens branch on the Defense Agency headquarters advertising home appliances. office of a U.S. bank. Greek in an effort to block Japan’s troop “Too many things, not enough police used a controlled deployment to Iraq. In letters to the poetry!”, she writes. explosion to destroy the media, the group which calls itself Pow! Thus another blow is struck in small device, which was Kakumeigun (Revolutionary Army) France in a fight raging against hidden in a backpack and said it used projectile launchers around advertising. The attackers are a small placed outside a Citibank 11 p.m. in the attack, and is resorting but determined band of campaigners branch in the Northeastern to violent means to prevent the for whom ads are a plague. Their Athens suburb. The clan- deployment of the Self-Defense Forces battlegrounds are the tunnels and destine dissidents calling (SDF). Residents in the vicinity of the platforms of Paris subways, and bus themselves Popular Revo- agency’s headquarters reported two stops in other towns. Their targets: lutionary Struggle claimed loud bangs at the time of the attack companies that make capitalism tick. responsibility in a telephone and police later found two timer-set Organizing over the Internet, hunted call to the Athens newspaper projectile launchers, some 550 meters by the forces of order, these urban Elftherotypia. Police said from the agency. The launchers, each guerrillas are focusing attention on the bomb was made out of 6 centimeters in diameter and 60 cm advertising’s power. dynamite, a detonator and long, were similar to a timer-set To “Suzanne”, a 63-year-old political a timing device. The bomb projectile launcher found at a point militant since she first threw stones has raised even more concern close to the U.S. Forces’ Yokota Air at police during the student and among security officials Base in western Tokyo last March. In worker riots that shook France in preparing for the August 13- statements sent to media organiza- 1968, “Capitalism needs consumerism 29 Olympics. The targeted tions, the radical leftist group to survive…If we get rid of advertising, bank is located on a main Kakarokyo claimed that they set the we get rid of consumerism and that road leading to the Olympic launcher near the air base. will get rid of capitalism.” France’s complex, about two miles Page 59 SPRINGSPRING ‘‘0404 ISSUEISSUE

GA #16-main doc 59 4/14/04, 8:37 PM TheThe TrajectoryTrajectory ofof Refusal!Refusal! PeasantPeasant Combat,Combat, CapriciousCapricious Vandalism,Vandalism, andand FurtherFurther SymptomsSymptoms ofof thethe System’sSystem’s MeltdownMeltdown (get(get readyready forfor somesome finefine explosions…)explosions…)

December 3, 2003, Caracas December 22, Buenos Aires January 9, Louisville, Kentucky: and slept in a sheltered area on the (Venezuela): Riot Over Fireworks (Argentina) – An explosive device Pig Station Attacked course that housed the showers. For Police and troops fired tear gas to caused minor damage but no casual- During a protest of 400 residents, the last nine years, he has been disperse rioting street vendors who ties when it blew up before dawn enraged at the murder of a young joined by his wife Francis, 43. “This resisted an attempt by the police to outside the local headquarters of the black teenager by a white cop, some course became my job, and, later, my seize their fireworks. Street vendors ruling rightwing Popular Party. angry demonstrators attacked the home, “ said Bethel. “What have I hurled rocks and fireworks at the December 30, Wellington (New office of the Police Chief, breaking done to deserve this?” police and the rioting spread to the three windows, while he was sitting Bethel now gets chased away by Zealand) – Police evacuated the US steps of the mayor’s office and the inside. The protesters then ran away, the staff when he tries to collect embassy because of a bomb threat National Electoral Council, which were dragging garbage bins into the balls. And the restrooms are locked but found nothing suspicious and attacked with stones while garbage street as they fled. Police arrested at night. Golfers who had become employees were soon back at work. was set on fire in the streets. During four people. accustomed to seeing Bethel on the January 5, 2004, Thessaloniki the battle a corporate news camera- January 10, Sweden: Action course were surprised by his ban- (Greece) – A gas-canister bomb man had his camera stolen. Six cops Against the Dead World of “Art”! ishment. “It seems a shame that were hurt in the street clashes. exploded under a van used for cash someone who is an institution on Four masked persons rushed into a transfers by a private security firm. the course can’t be grand-fathered December 14, Concord, North museum and destroyed or partially in,” golfer Jim Anderson said. “He’s Carolina – A teenager accused of January 8, Germany: destroyed art with an estimated value a nice guy,” agreed golfer Mario plotting to blow up his high school Students Chase Top Politician of 150,000 Swedish crowns (or Deif. “You have to admire some- with homemade napalm will be tried From Building! $20,000 U.S.). An employee who one who has debunked modern as a juvenile, ruled Chief District Several hundred students stormed tried to intervene got punched in the life and lives off the land.” Bethel Court Judge William Hamby. a building in Leipzig to prevent face. The four then left the art gallery has temporarily relocated to a Chancellor Gerhard Schroder from December 15, Worblavten (Berna): running. signing an official application for the nearby bridge and has vowed to Sabotage At Military Base January 10, Vancouver, British city to host the 2012 Olympic Games. fight the eviction. Unknown warriors have taken Columbia: Fuck the Police! The signing ceremony was forced to January 15, Rafina (Greece) – credit for five incendiary devices From the communique: move to a nearby hotel. Students all Three people attacked and robbed placed near a military truck under the “This Saturday, Janaury 10, the so- over Germany had been on strike for the Deputy Prefect for Eastern obscurity of night, causing damages called “Community Policing Centre” over a month against proposed cuts Attica (who is also the most likely of roughly 70,000 francs. The on Wall Street had 3 of its nice big in University financing. candidate for the New Democracy saboteurs penetrated the military windows broken. We hate the police. Party in the upcoming Greek area unnoticed and unidentified January 9, Thessaloniki (Greece) Solidarity to anybody who has ever elections) as he was leaving his shortly after cutting through a newly (Again!) – Three gas-canister been beaten down by the VPD and home. The attackers got away placed metal fence. Three military bombs exploded under another solidarity to the families of people with the official’s jeep and 600 vehicles were completely destroyed car owned by a private security who the VDP have killed. Euros in cash. and an investigation is underway. company. — People in the city.” January 12, Kawerau January 19, Jamaica: American Capitalist Digs His Own Grave! (New Zealand) – Three John Eugster III, a developer/land Molotov firebombs were speculator who grew up in Stoughton, thrown over a fence towards Wisconsin, and who built a secluded a police station and damaged beach resort in Jamaica, was found three police vehicles. shot to death on another Jamaican January 13, Miami, Florida: beach he planned to build on. Homeless Squatter Resists Eugster had been living in Presque Golf Course Eviction Isle, Wisconsin, with his family, while A man who has lived on a engaging in profitable development golf course for 40 years projects in Jamaica. His first devel- has been ordered to leave opment in Jamaica was a project because some golfers called Coconut Cottages, which was complained that he scared built about 15 miles from the town them. Kenny Bethel, 55, first of Negril, after Eugster bought land showed up at the golf course there in 1986. The land he had after he ran away from home purchased nearby to “develop” had in 1963. He collected and been inhabited by squatters, who resold stray golf balls, used Jamaican police claim may have the club’s showers and toilets played a role in the murder.

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GA #16-main doc 60 4/14/04, 8:37 PM Eugster had been fighting against February 21, San Luis Obispo, The disoriented and injured deputy March 7, Melbourne (Australia) – people who lived on the land he California: Mardi Gras Partygoers then staggered out of his vehicle and A suspicious fire broke out in a class- hoped to develop for years. A Turn Against Police was looking back at the suspect’s room at Mowbray Secondary College, Jamaican newspaper, the Jamaica Mardi Gras celebrations turned truck but was partially blinded by the causing about $15,000 in damage. Observer, published a story that links violent when partygoers threw bottles headlights. The suspect came charging Since the beginning of March there Eugster’s killing to another death and rocks at police, who responded at the Oakland pig on foot, screaming have been similar fires at three other related to the “long-running land by firing rubber bullets and tear gas “I’m going to kill you!” Sadly, he schools in Melbourne; the Malvern feud.” The article said Eugster was and arresting as many as 60 people. wasn’t able to follow through on his Valley Primary School, the Mount fighting in court against residents The rowdy revelers started hurling threats, as he was subdued and Waverly Secondary College, and the who charged that he couldn’t develop beads, bottles, cans, road cones, and brought into compliance by pepper Seaford Primary School. the land they lived on. spray and baton blows March 20, Eugene, Oregon: Eugster was reportedly to the legs. Small Explosives Found on supervising a backhoe February 29, Settara Transient at Jail! operator when his killers (Algeria) – Residents Eugene pigs got more than they drove by and shot him attacked state build- bargained for when they booked a in the head and chest. ings in anger over 44-year-old transient into the Lane Squatters are often at unemployment and County Jail for a parole violation. the forefront of the battle electoral corruption. When Richard E. Park was taken to between capitalism and Barricades were built jail shortly before noon, deputies personal dignity. At in the streets, the claimed to find three small, homemade times they are forced to home of the regional explosive devices in his belongings. defend themselves with state representative The Lane Metro Explosive Disposal violence against those was torched, and the Unit was called in, and a portion of who claim to own the town hall and regional Fifth Avenue was closed for about Earth. This is an example government office 15 minutes while the bomb experts of how revolutionary were trashed. removed the devices. action needs no Van- photo provided by d.m. guard or party ideology “There is a single world, the world of authority and money, of to determine who the enemy is. True at least one steel pipe at police after exploitation and obedience: the world in which we are all forced revolution can be a spontaneous and they broke up two large parties at an autonomous defense of one’s family apartment complex near the California to live. It is impossible to pretend that we are outside. This is and way of life. State University’s San Luis Obispo why we cannot allow ourselves to be indifferent, this is why we cannot manage to ignore it. If we oppose ourselves to the February 13, Kingston (Jamaica) – campus. An estimated crowd of about 5,000 was dispersed with tear gas. state, if we are always quick to seize the occasion to attack it, Hundreds of people attacked a police it is not because we are indirectly molded by it, it is not station and set police cars and a February 26, Algiers (Algeria) – because we have sacrificed our desires on the altar of revolution, military jeep on fire after a cop shot a Youth set up barricades in the streets but because our desires cannot be realized as long as the State high-school student. The student was and rioted after a policeman killed exists, as long as any Power exists. The Revolution does not eating lunch with classmates near his one of their friends at a garbage distract us from our dreams, but is rather the only possibility school when the cop shot him in the dump. The murdered youth had been that allows the conditions for their realization. We want to over- head. “The policeman just pointed his searching through the trash for gun over the fence and started shoot- fireworks to sell on the street. turn this world as quickly as possible here and now, because here and now there are only barracks, courts, banks, concrete, ing,” said a witness. “He said he didn’t February 26, Oakland, California: like people from west Kingston.” As supermarkets, prisons. Here and now there is only exploitation, Deputy Narrowly Escapes while freedom, as we understand it, does not really exist.” news of the incident spread, about Deadly Assault 500 people gathered and marched to A rookie Oakland County Sheriff’s - Insurrectional Anarchist Group “E. Malatesta” the Denham Town Police Station, deputy barely escaped serious injury attacking it with stones and setting as he was attacked by a motorist he vehicles on fire. Police also say that had attempted to pull over. Deputy some people fired shots at the Scott Howden was patrolling the station and wounded a soldier. Riot streets of Oakland just before 1 a.m. police used tear gas to break up the when he saw a large Dodge pickup rebellious crowd. blow a stop sign. Howden gave chase February 15, Sandy Spring, and caught up with the pickup truck, Maryland – The computer lab of a which pulled over as the cop drew school was broken into and set near. Howden then got out of his fully aflame with firebombs, causing an marked patrol car and began walking estimated $10,000 damage. towards the pickup, at which point the February 18, Northhampton, suspect took off like a bat out of hell. Howden resumed the chase and as United Kingdom – The roof of the the patrol car pulled close, the suspect Billing Brook School was set on fire, slammed on the brakes, causing destroying one classroom and damag- Howden to fly past the truck. At that ing another. Windows had recently been point the larger pickup slammed hard smashed at this school, a garbage bin into the rear of the patrol vehicle, was set on fire, wires were cut and taps pushing the pigmobile appoximately had been knocked off the walls. 256 feet up the road!

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GA #16-main doc 61 4/14/04, 8:37 PM The real anarchy, needless to say, doesn’t issue from big offices, paid staff and well- heeled backers. From the same region as Adbusters come marvelous DIY publications such as the anti-civ Beyond Agriculture and Acephalous World. Quite some contrast! ReviewsReviews Available everywhere for $7.95 (no shit) 1243 West 7th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6H 1B7, Canada. www.adbusters.org

Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed After almost a quarter of a century as a cutting-edge theoretical anarchist publication, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed (AJODA) is still one of the most important magazines out there. Often tackling contro- versial subjects and themes, AJODA is not afraid to challenge every aspect of society and The last issue of Green Anarchy (Winter/#15) Adbusters: contained some rather controversial reviews, the anarchist movement. It has been at the which have received, for the most part, a Journal of the Mental forefront of the Post-Left discussion, making positive response. Our more critical (and Environment it clear that the Left has been a monumental anarchist) readers understand that without a The March/April ’04 Adbusters was to have failure which almost always stands in sharp examination of the projects we or consisted of critiques of the Left and post-Left opposition to individual freedom. While others are engaged in, we cannot move to visions of the future. Sadly, the issue contains AJODA may be too dry for those not used to challenge the system on any meaningful level. virtually none of the above and is one of exercising their cerebral matter or too critical Some people would like to see us give a good Adbusters’ worst ever. for those obsessed with the vague concept of review to everyone (which certainly didn’t Its politics are utterly reformist: calls to reform “unity”, the subjects raised are not only happen this time) and be a cheerleader for media and other corporations mark the limits of important to the creation of a free society, any project which is “trying”, but that would the “vision” available here. The token gesturism but vital to any anarchist be disingenuous and not really beneficial for of Adbusters’ patented trajectory (and by this I don’t anybody. Our review of Slug and Lettuce, “Buy Nothing Day” has which was critical (but we feel, fair) not only mean those who wish to cre- of that paper, but also the punk scene it been joined by marketing a ate counter-institutions or an promotes, was certainly one of the more line of (non-Nike) sneakers anarchist infrastructure, but contentious of the Winter issue. A few of the called “the Unswoosher.” If those truly committed to more defensive self-identified punks and it were possible to promote a liberated existence). local scenesters got pretty irritated, yet refused something even less radical AJODA has always been a to discuss their specific problems. A couple even than one day of the year’s top-notch publication, yet ended “polite” friendships (which really had non-consumerism, the Un- it does have some minor little significant depth to them anyway) with swoosher is it. Calls to mind limitations. Purely from some of us over this review, while others have the greenwashed capitalism of an aesthetic viewpoint, it attempted to undermine our project in some the Global Exchange hucksters. can be quite dull, with the very real ways (which we can’t/won’t get into Nick Rockel’s “Business same artist (Richard here). But we fully understand that this is what Solutions” is the rare exception Mock) filling the pages critical free thought (or just a simple opinion) gets one in thin-skinned and bohemian to the spirit-less horizon of and covers (not that his “anarchist” scenes. Meanwhile, others the issue, exposing the work is not interesting, connected to the punk world thanked us for a corporate influences and but it gets repetitive), and the lay-out can much-needed critical look at a scene that, practices of groups like Rainforest Action be uncreative. The editorial voice, while very despite some positive attributes, is unfortu- Network, People for the Ethical Treatment intelligent and thought-provoking, has been nately not willing to be very self-critical. of Animals, and Greenpeace. limited by the fact that Jason McQuinn (who We’re not afraid to ask questions that we feel Otherwise it’s the usual anti-war bromides has tirelessly kept this project going from the are important, ruffle the feathers of com- (plus graphics) and a line-up of progressive beginning) has been, for the most part, the sole placency, or have an opinion. This is what politicians, not forgetting several leftist heads voice of AJODA. This, however, will be people expect when they pick up our magazine, of Latin American states, also lauded. changing over the next year, as a transition to and that is what we will continue to provide. One piece goes so far as to celebrate the a new editorial collective takes place. The While most of the reviews in this issue are fairly passing of the Concorde, but of course doesn’t process has already been set into motion, as negative, we promise that the next issue will be hint at an indictment of jetliners in general and some of the new voices from the San Francisco more focused on things we feel are important to check out, rather than avoid. You can also the fatal industrialism they represent. Bay Area collective can be heard in the current look at the suggested readings, links, and Occasionally Adbusters rises—at least issue (#57/Spring-Summer 2004). I’m contacts in the “Rewilding” section for some partially—from this dreary plane, but not confident this will be a positive direction for useful information. We welcome your reviews this time. Glossy and expensive, its final the magazine, as these new folks build on a of books, zines, papers, cds, films, or other irony is the mandatory sprinkling of the solid foundation created by McQuinn and the projects (please try to keep them under 800 words). word “anarchist” in such a non-anarchist zine. previous contributing editors, who have

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GA #16-main doc 62 4/14/04, 8:37 PM included Lawrence Jarach, Manolo Gonzalez, be desired in that she didn’t seem all that When some friends finally found my rigid, Doug Imrie, Jonathan Slyk, Michael William, interested in the interview), a unique look at paralyzed body on the floor of Zerzan’s living and the lovable John Zerzan. While the schooling, a provocative rethinking of how we room (with the death grimace of rigor mortis transition will be gradual, by the fall of 2005, deal with domestic violence and abuse, beginning to form on my face), they quickly it will be complete. Already, the Aragorn!’s much appreciated revived me with smelling salts and a cold influence of the Bay Area crew can column on “Strategy shower. Ever so slowly, I commenced to regain be felt and appreciated. and Anarchy”, tons “consciousness”, only it was a foggy, blank, The current issue begins with a of reviews and letters, “hung over”-type of cognition, as if I was concise editorial by Jason and a much-too-long repressing horrible war memories I didn’t have McQuinn on “The Fear of Indi- (20 pages), yet intri- the strength to relive. I had amnesia for two vidual Freedom in the Radical guing, back-and-forth weeks and wanted nothing more than to watch Milieu.” Opening the issue with on Leftism vs. Post- Bugs Bunny cartoons and eschew thought of this rejection of the political Left Leftism, part of an any kind (if “thought” was now synonymous and ideology in general, and ongoing debate in the with acute suffering). The printed word was embracing individual freedom, Institute for Anarchist thoroughly repugnant to me, as the stench of is essential in a milieu which Studies’ web newsletter decomposition that was discharged from Telos’ still attempts to breathe life Theory and Politics. While booby-trapped interior was fouler than the pits back into the same old dino- this publication could use of Dachau and Treblinka. saur of the Left. The influence an infusion of wildness and After a prolonged period of convalescence of the new collective can be some creative imagery, from this headlong psychic onslaught and seen in the section featuring numerous overall, AJODA is a very defilement, I began to reflect on the presence essays which focus on identity politics from critical magazine put out by very critical people. of this recent, modernistic adversary and an anarchist perspective (“Anarchist Identity $6 a copy or $16 for a 4 issue subscription, resolved to study Telos carefully and methodi- Politics in the 21st Century”). These included Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, POB cally, as a hunter would study its prey. If Telos a critical report-back from the APOC (Anarchist 1446, Columbia, MO 65205-1446 or really had been sowing such potent, capable People of Color) Conference in Detroit by two C.A.L., POB 3448, Berkeley, CA 94703, “thought sedatives” throughout the body members of RACE (Revolutionary Anti- www.anarchymag.org politic for 124 issues, then they needed to be Authoritarians of Color). They challenged stopped, before they put anyone else to sleep some of the shortcomings of the reform-and- Telos (the lethal by-products released by a chemical rights-based agenda of many in attendance and (reviewed by Pepto-Dismal) plant into our drinking water are, remarkably, the lack of significant differences in structure less offensive to this reviewer then the baneful, Since the general theme of this issue of Green or curriculum compared to any other anarchist cheapening consequences that publications like Anarchy is “Rewilding”, it seems only fitting conference. Dot Matrix, one of the future Telos have on clarity and comprehension). Telos to take a look at a publication that is the very editors, contributes an excellent anarchist would have to be approached like any other antithesis of wildness: Telos, a lifeless, critique on the white, guilt-ridden “Challenging enemy of wildness, of life; I would need to be creatively-barren “journal of theory” that White Supremacy” (CWS) workshops; while armed with a thorough knowledge of my epitomizes academic drivel and intellectual well-intentioned, the overly-simplistic approach opponent’s weaknesses and methods of pomposity. From Republicanism to to racism often refuses to acknowledge the operation, its sources of funding, and its Postmodernism, from complexities around power, and often hidden purpose and agenda. Gnosticism to Plato, ends up objectifying those they are Determining Telos’ weaknesses was easy, as Telos is a veritable trying to respect. According to Dot it has no discernable strengths to speak of. My reference guide to the Matrix, “Unfortunately, right now, preliminary investigation into Telos’ sordid Western Tradition and CWS exists more as a stamp of leftist publishing history revealed that they once its multitude of mental approval on a white person’s activism, served as some kind of forum for dry, Marxist poisons. I probably to show that s/he is taking racism analysis, pandering strongly to the hideous never would have seriously, than it does to challenge the Stalinist philosopher, encountered this foundational concepts or relationships Georg Lukacs. putrid, pathogenic of racism.” Also of interest is Christina journal of mind rot Heatherton’s “Representation as had John Zerzan not Salvation”, a critique of the “Poetry for somehow managed the People” movement, a college course to get an article titled which promises the “political and artistic “Why Primitivism?” empowerment of students…motivated by published in their Summer the moral wish to mitigate the invisibility 2002 issue. Interested in this new outlet that and the imposed silence of those less privileged John had found for his ideas (and naively than we”. Heatherton found the course actually hopeful that I was about to discover a substan- playing into the representations of identity tial, new, post-left anarchist paper), I trustingly manufactured by the dominant culture, and opened the pages of Telos and began to suffer hostile to any radical or diverging perspectives an immediate cerebral hemorrhage as the on identity. The issue also contains an in-depth pernicious, suffocating gray dust of the look at the first Independent Media Center European philosophical heritage spewed forth split, a look at the Montreal punk riot after a from the other articles, depriving me of oxygen cancelled Exploited show, an interview with and sunshine, and inducing a mental blackout. author Ursula Le Guin (which left a lot to Page 63 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

GA #16-main doc 63 4/14/04, 8:37 PM Telos had some brief association with the New forum for “the raw voices of oppressed peoples HetHeru (although some of my favorite Left in the late 1960’s, but by the end of the who are, literally and figuratively, under the revolutionary hip-hop artists, like dead prez, seventies their “analysis” made an abrupt gun.” It has taken the place of the now defunct Talib Kweli, and Paris are sadly missing). (but unsurprising) shift towards the BLU magazine as the collective voice of My biggest problem with AWOL is the lack neoconservative. In its current, aimless revolutionary hip-hop and includes a cd, which of any clear anti-authoritarian politics. The incarnation, Telos exists to provide high-brow, is a decent sampling of many revolutionary analysis of race, gender, and imperialism is theoretical pornography for tenured wankers hip-hop artists. The project had an interesting there, but power itself is never fundamentally with kinky, intellectual fetishes. Rather than and controversial start as a radical project challenged. What you are then left with is a being physically bound and whipped by a within the War Resisters League, a national vague opposition to the current power structure, dominatrix (which would be an experience of pacifist organization. AWOL made some but no real direction to move in. It often falls the body, and not the mind), the readers and sizable waves in the back on the throwbacks to the black contributors of Telos appear to have a preference group, as its content nationalism of the ‘60s and ‘70s, for scatology, that is, eating each others’ shit and could certainly not liberal analysis of U.S. foreign dissecting the subtle variations in taste, the end be termed “pacifist” policy comparable to that of result being that, anytime one of these “learned” in any conventional Michael Moore, Howard Zinn or university types pontificates in the pages of use of the word. the Utne Reader, or vague socialist Telos, it’s with a mouth full of shit. rhetoric of taking back the streets If it was possible to measure the and the land to distribute them pulse of a publication, then Telos equally. There is even an interview would be a flatliner; there’s no heart with the Hammer Bros., two or spirit present in Telos, and the Palestinian rappers from New York, main artificial power source fueling who promote Islam as a potential the continued production of this way to unite the world. Also deathly ode to domestication is disappointing are the full-page ads nothing more than a chronic inflam- for well-known artists like Michael mation of gray matter, in abundant Franti and Spearhead. supply amongst the undead, limping Finally, on the back cover, there is ghouls of specialized “higher” Initially, it was some sort of spoof on “revolution”. education. Issue after issue of Telos exciting to see a It depicts a stereo-typed black woman with a is given over to endless, circular publication which spliff, bottle of Hennesey, and disgruntled face speculation that’s never really intended presented a coher- with the words “Before Revolution” under her. to go anywhere or arrive at any ent and positive Then, there is a smiling, dreadlocked woman conclusion, because then the game alternative to the often material- in African prints and jewelry with a bottle of

of collegiate cleverness and scholarly “one- istic, misogynistic, homophobic, and shallow “Revolutiontm (Maximum Strength Formula)” upmanship” would be over (and we couldn’t commercial rap and hip-hop world. The issue in her hand. It makes you wonder if they were have that!). If religion is the opiate of the begins with a rant by Mario Africa, of the listening to what Gil Scott-Heron had to say. masses, then Telos is the valium of academia, inspirational MOVE organization. He appears What makes it even worse is the list of “All another elitist house of mirrors manufactured to be one of the main editors of the project, the Freedom You’ve Always Dreamed About”, in some graduate studies department, a sort and kicks it off by redefining who the gangstas which includes: social justice, free health care, of “Rubik’s Cube” for philosophy majors. and thugs really are (Bush and his crew). The free education, affordable housing, economic Publications like Telos are just one of the many cover image of the magazine also reflects this equality, and reparations (I’ve always appreciated tentacles of control whose parentage can be perspective with images of George Bush and dead prez’s view on the subject of reparations: traced back to the toxic malignancy of the his posse (Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, they’re something you take, not something you university system. All in all, Telos seems to and Ashcroft) styled out in silver teeth, gold ask for). Anyway, the positive thing about not be produced by what the anarcho-punk band chains, automatic weapons, sports parapher- goin’ too far, is that there is plenty of room for Crass called “ancient, rotting corpses nalia, Hummers, and general flash, playing out improvement, which I have some hope for breathing horror by the hour” in one of their the tired-old switch of who’s really pimpin’ (especially since an explicitly anti-authoritarian songs. I think I’d rather be laid up with who. I mean sure, I guess the analogy works, friend of ours is working on the next issue). pneumonia for two weeks than to ever have to but it comes off as pretty superficial. $5 - AWOL Magazine c/o CCCO, 1515 even glance at a cover of Telos again. Some of the more positive aspects of AWOL Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, Telos, 431 E. 12th St, New York 10009 include the original artwork and poetry, 1-800-NOJROTC, [email protected] ($15 for back issues or $45 year-subscription) personal reflections on living as a person of www.telospress.com color in a white supremacist society, the chal- Harbinger: “The End lenging of sexist and homophobic language of the World” AWOL Magazine in hip-hop culture, anti-military recruitment information, and, of course, the music. The (Fifth communiqué) The Revolutionary Artist cd is well worth the price of the magazine, For me, reading CrimethInc. material usually Workshop, vol.3 and includes lots of up-and-coming artists and brings about commingled emotions, con- (reviewed by 4-NRK) hard to find tracks (at least here in Eugene). templations, and responses. The newest edition The long anticipated third issue of AWOL Highlights include “Point of No Return” by of Harbinger (not to be confused with the Magazine has finally hit the streets. For those Immortal Technique, “Face the Music” by non-anarchist Social Ecologist periodical from unfamiliar with AWOL, it is a thick and Young Lao, “Attack the System” by 25 Years Vermont) is no different. Like a perpetual roller impressive-looking glossy periodical of Resistance (featuring Mike Africa of Seeds coaster, or better yet, the teetering edge between (although irregular in frequency) which is a of Wisdom and MOVE), and “Black Fist” by being good and drunk and having the spins, GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 64

GA #16-main doc 64 4/14/04, 8:37 PM I love it, then I hate it. I still can’t even figure wallet stolen and shoe laces tied together, but For a while, the movie follows goofy out why I am so attracted to certain pieces, maybe that’s what they were going for. escapades, non-violent protests, and some silly and why some make me violently gag. I guess Free – CrimethInc. Refugee Forces, street theatre…then enters Johnny Black the free-spirited, Situationist-inspired, POB 1963, Never-Never Land, 98507, (dun da dun!). He is a dreamy nihilist who is anything is possible, you just have to take the United Anti-Statist of America, so rad that he doesn’t even believe in nihilism. first step attitude is refreshing in an increasingly www.crimethinc.com At first, I thought this might add something grim reality, but then I wonder how much time worthwhile to the plot, as he challenges their these people have on their hands to produce The Anarchist reformist and pacifist direction, and promotes this endless self-indulgent exercise. militant direct action, but instead it goes The new Harbinger is a mixed bag, and not Cookbook (the movie) further downhill from here. He unveils his so much from article to article (if you can call Directed by Jordan Susman tattered copy of The Anarchist Cookbook at them articles), but more from line to line. The Of course, I was cynical when I spotted this a planning meeting for civil disobedience main theme of this issue is “The End of the one in the local video store, but I had no idea against a polluter. For those unfamiliar with the World”, and starts off by embracing the how wretched it would be. As a sort of synthesis book, it is a relic from the sixties which has concept of “Disaster”. This part was probably of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures, an ABC instructions on how to make everything from the easiest to digest, bringing up clever After School Special, and Animal House, The drugs to bombs. While some of the information ideas and exciting Anarchist Cookbook in it is useful, it was done in such a half-assed examples of liberatory paints a cartoon-like way, that many of the “recipes” are actually and communal experi- picture of a so-called pretty dangerous. Some have suspected that ences in the midst of “anarchist” scene in the book was in fact put out by the CIA to natural and human- Dallas, Texas. To be cause militants to blow themselves up. I caused disasters. It’s blunt, there are no suspect that the movie had similar motives not that uncommon to anarchists in the film. behind it. recognize that people The story centers Anyway, to make a long story short, Johnny can have the great- around a run-down Black takes over the group when their old est potential in group house where leader is exposed as a pedophile. Black gets times of crisis, as cheesy graffiti covers the group hooked on speed, and turns them well as the opening the walls and parties are into a drug dealing gang, which forms alliances of possibilities for non-stop. It is obvious with neo-nazis and right-wing militias to direct experiences that someone involved advance their “cause” (we are never really sure during a rupture in in the film spent a couple what that is). Eventually the main character’s “civility” or interrup- hours within an anarchist best friend o.d.’s and he becomes a state tion in “normality”. scene, just long enough informant. He gets them all busted, takes his As usual, it is taken to get some superficial 200-grand pay-off and moves to California to to an absurd post- details of the traveler, join his young Republican girlfriend who is modern extreme, dumpster-diving, pan- interning at the Reagan Library. As he flipped back upon handling, tree-sitting, hitchhikes out of town, he realizes that the itself, then unfolded non-monogamous punk/ “rebellious” phase of his life is over, and it is a few more times be- hippie/anarchist lifestyle, time to grow up. To put it simply, this film is a fore it is thoroughly but there is no substance pathetic stereotype of anarchists, meant to exhausted and left virtually meaningless. here, and the characters make us look stupid. While there are some very Not that we didn’t have some good times are ridiculous. The politics of the crew are embarrassing people together. Particularly useless is the excessively liberal at best, with some anarchist- in the anarchist long rant on how we should strive for failure. like rhetoric sprinkled in for effect. “movement”, this I appreciate the attempt to do something The main character is a suburban is absurd. You are unique, but sometimes it feels like they try too kid frustrated with college, who better off not hard. CrimethInc. often appears to exist in a latches onto this sorry bunch. His viewing it, unless vacuum, rarely ever acknowledging any other politics are mostly unclear, and you want to get anarchist projects, ideas, activities, or resistance. where there is clarification, they really pissed. It’s What is created is a self-referential world with are pathetic. He knows something only worth men- all roads leading back to CrimethInc. This is not quite right about society, but tioning because might work once or twice as an attempt to open just can’t put his finger on it. Most of it is out in the space outside of the anarchist ghetto, free of the women in the movie are depicted mainstream, and certain baggage like lingo or historical context, as either the female counterparts of promotes a mis- but after a while, a new language and condition the male characters, or, in the case conception we’ll is created, only this one lacks any explicitness of the main female character, using have to deal with. or direction. Now, I’m all for leaving things sex for power. The “leader” of the As stereotypes radically open and unfixed, but without any crew is an aging hippie who “was go, I would much clarity whatsoever or sense of movement in part of the sixties”. He constantly prefer the arm- direction, we are left floating forever. The refers to the “good ‘ol days” and how chair intellectual or bearded bomb-thrower attractive 12-page tabloid is provocative at great it is in Sweden, since it is a socialist- to that of Beavis and Butthead. times, yet leaves you feeling that you had just leaning welfare state (wow, how anarchistic Available at most video stores. (But don’t been distracted long enough to have your of him). bother unless some direct action is planned!) (Reviews continued on page 67) Page 65 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

GA #16-main doc 65 4/14/04, 8:37 PM the future is unwritten hat way) (let(let usus keepkeep itit tthat way) “In the soft darkness that hides the future from the over-curious, i contentthe passion myself with this; that where I— will gloria be cubana, will not be where i am.”

i want out onwards towards death, we are kept so sacred there could be something else. so, in an and secure, trudging on with pseudo-liberty, attempt to move beyond mere survival, i i want out of here all while extolling liberty, unknowingly support mutiny in all its forms in order to a battle of hope vs. despair supporting our own oppression. for in this attack against the total conditions of life. world right now, what is there left to feel the conditions which manifest themselves stagnate existence—go away hopeful for? what joy is left in this age of in a world in which what masquerades as ...i’m confused grief and sadness? i have friends in fucked boredom is really defeat. what you risk and i don’t know where we are up and unhealthy relationships, friends reveals what you value, and besides, what hooked on all sorts of drugs and friends is death in the midst of so much life? going digging themselves earthen graves, working i just feel an inescapable need away the best parts of their lives. so i ask Let us strive to celebrate LIFE in the face you, in the west, in the ideal society, where of the alienation and desperation of modern to flee the rest of the world is supposed to envy us, day existence—get out any way that you i don’t know where we are headed why are we so despondent? we are supposed can. towards this aim, i do not need you to make my world, to make my freedom. and but i know where we are to be so happy, yet feebly, we all try to escape our existence, even if only briefly, so long as you are prepared to stay lifeless, where we’ve been even if only artificially. why do and i want out most of us feel we need to be on anti-depressants of some sort in When they insist that you outline your the happiest part of the world? alternative world for them, with every are we really depressed or are we possibility accounted for and every detail repressed? mapped out, refuse. this is not a new attempt to program everything and Oh, we are doing just fine we tell everyone, or a new formula that will finally ourselves and each other, gasping force all the organic complexity of living to maintain any level of composure, into the mold of some theoretical ideal. deluding each other, but ourselves this is a way of doing things, not a new most of all. it is just me that has a standard to march under, not another problem, yet tears mask the obvious system—it is an approach to life, to solving illusion, when we grieve for others, problems we have right now and then we grieve for ourselves as well solving the next ones. because we are really just all stuck in the same place. trapped in a Would they hold the vast uncertainty of the stagnant existence, unable to future over you as an objection to your move, to go up or down, forward fantasies of a better world? would they use or back, trudging on with business THEIR past to justify THEIR future? spit as usual when nothing seems right ...... in their faces, better to throw out all planned or usual—everything is not just tearstears maskmask thethe futures, theirs first of all, because look to fine. Yet we have survived like this llusionllusion where we are so righteously progressing. for so long we have forgotten that ousous ii GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 66 obviobvi

GA #16-main doc 66 4/14/04, 8:37 PM please do not interfere with my choice to know, all that we hold dear—to stay ALIVE live. if you see a problem with that then i any way that we can. let us no longer settle The Calvin and suggest you wake the fuck up! embrace for mere composure when we ache for true Hobbes Guide to the panoptic. let us get down to business, transcendence. neither in mute submission nor in blind Daily Life hatred, and discuss tactics. i am more then Yet beware of those who would have you put aside your passions for a future date. Edited by Robin Banks willing, to discuss, not argue, but discuss (reviewed by Chris San Andreas) how we can go about solving our collective Beware of those who glorify a cause, a Whenever I’ve read the so-called “funny pages” problems. we only have one world, one life, movement, before their own needs. and most importantly, remain wary of glossing in any newspaper since the termination of Calvin and humans were once free before the word and Hobbes as a daily strip, I’ve rarely even freedom became necessary. over your own actions, assuming that what you are doing or not doing is good enough. cracked a smile, much less laughed in response. Furthermore, we need to avoid abstrac- for myself, sometimes i cannot shake the Wedged between boring, conservative, unreflec- tions, my liberation is not about nitpicking feeling that i am writing my life instead of tive, and non-confrontational strips such as to solve individual problems. freedom solves living it. what i write must reflect that trade Garfield, Blondie, Hagar the Horrible, Peanuts all forms of oppression, we need to keep to off, is it reflecting that trade off? there is and Family Circus, Bill Watterson’s Calvin and the point, because individual problems no point in changing the world if we know Hobbes was one of the very few series that solved will not solve our unfreedom. the not what to do once we are free. spontaneity critically and disdainfully satirized the many freedom i want is to be found in the most is long dead and life is an adventure, so seek oppressions of modern life. This CrimethInc. primitive meaning of the word, the only the adventures of life. for the life we must publication, The Calvin and Hobbes Guide to kind that really matters i suppose, and create, for the world our hearts await and Daily Life, offers commentary on a selection of unless i am free, i cannot help others to get towards a future worth living, it is time to Calvin and Hobbes strips for the purpose of free. apathy is the problem, which stems get back to basics. the first step, for me, is making more explicit the message that too many of our everyday obligations are needless and from insecurity, bought by alien-nation, to remove the friction that my life causes, pointless distractions from a joyful and free unnaturally birthed by civilization. and all corresponding abstractions, to live existence. Our favorite six-year-old philosopher simply so others may simply live. if i can fix Calvin sees right through the facade of alleged Fortunately, for we are in possession of our myself everything else will fall into place, importance that work and school carry with them, own futures, it is up to each of us to take of that i am certain. the first steps to dig ourselves out of our recognizing them as the institutionalized forms wells of isolation, depression and boredom. Hope to see you on the other of thought control and drudgery that they are; we must do so at all costs, casting aside side, may we all make it through. unfortunately, he falls into the same consumerist trap as most members of mass society, as is anything which stands in our way—to take piece out, what we need. we must be prepared to betray evidenced by his television addiction, while at whoever we must, in order to never betray anonymous autonomist. the same time recognizing its absurdity. Both ourselves. yes we are insecure, yes we are crimethinc. bereavement center Calvin and Hobbes also realize what is lost when scared, but how much more are we willing 3773 peter st. windsor, on n9c 1k1 wildness is replaced with industry, as they to take before we break out of our shells? canada reflect upon areas being clear-cut and constructed we must be willing to cast away all that we [email protected] upon near their house during their jaunts through the woods. Robin Banks’ introduction contains inspiring info on the comic’s creator, Bill Watterson, who is the only mainstream artist I’m aware of who refused to license his creation for THE STREET-CORNER merchandising purposes. Additionally, I recall a DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS news article printed as Calvin and Hobbes was nearing its end, which stated that Bill Watterson Lackey (l_k’_) n. pl.-eys A servile worker, a “good” citizen, rejected opportunities for book tours and media interviews, preferring not to make a a toady, an ass-licker, one who could live with dignity but spectacle of himself. This indicates to me that chooses not to. * v. -eyed, -eying, -eys to act in a servile he’s a person of true integrity, contrary to most manner, to lick ass, to eat shit willingly. people who have similar opportunities. This pamphlet is synonyms: sycophant, toady, toad, crawler, bootlicker, available from lickspittle, dupe, stooge, footstool, doormat, puppet, brown- CrimethInc. nose, ass-licker, ass-kisser, shit-licker, worm, scum, shit, 2695 Rangewood legitimate target, corpse. Drive, Atlanta, GA 30345. Snitch (sn_ch) n. pl. -es An informer, a nark, a tattletale. * e v. snitched, -ing, -es to inform, to nark, to tattle, to grass out. synonyms: informer, tattler, tattle-tale, tale-bearer, nark, ...... stool pigeon, stoolie, fink, rat, squealer, blabber, traitor, worm, scumbag, slimeball, legitimate target, corpse.

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GA #16-main doc 67 4/14/04, 8:37 PM LETTERSLETTERS Thanks for the feedback.Sorry we can only print a fraction of the letters we receive.We give priority to letters directly responding to recent issues of Green Anarchy.In this issue, we printed some longer letters, but in the future, we would like to have more voices in this section, so try to keep them under 500 words.Our deadline for the Summer issue is June 1st.Thanks.

The Spermocidal about the fear of rape keeping her around my head like planes towards Warping My Anarcho- System from being free to do things she’d towers. i really see how rape is used Communist Mind! Dear Anarchists: like (i.e. trainhopping/hitchhiking, as such a control/soul-crushing Dear GA, I don’t know whether your anti-civili- etc.) and concludes that instead of thing for women (and men, i have Hello little amigos, this is Doug zation journal is prophetic or pathetic, letting the fear/worrying take her to add, though maybe it crushes from the DAAA collective. Your but what I do know is that the energy, she will turn it into “pro- them differently) and yes, this is primitivist filth is warping my destruction of the human race has ductive” energy facing the question FUCKED. But many-a-thing is fragile little anarcho-communist already been assured. We need do “what will my rape be like”?!! She fucked these days and i would say mind! Keep up the great work! nothing else. A review article on the says “it’s so much easier to manage it all can be traced back to our old PS-If you have any old pamphlets declining sperm count in human fear of the known than the unknown.” pal, Fear. Telling yourself over and that you want me to give out, we males was first published in 1994 Um, hold on a minute. Just because over that it is inevitable you will be will trade them around the collective by scientists in France, Belgium, you put energy into imagining raped seems fucking insane to me. and then distro them out to other and Germany. In 1996, the U.S. yourself being raped doesn’t make Why not tell yourself that you are people at protests or shows. When National Institute of Health rape known, but only makes fearful loved? That anything you want to we got your last order (thank you!) confirmed the European findings. thoughts of rape known, which seems do, you can do, without fear? i of the newest issues, about 6 of us Simply put, in less than 60 years to boil down to what the problem really believe thoughts are power- sat down and read through it and men will no longer produce enough was in the first place: the fear of ful things. For years, i was terrified talked about it. A lot of stuff we have sperm to impregnate women. In rape, which, is thoughts. Many a of being raped and during this time here is mostly from AK Press (that order to deal with this reality, time i have been walking alone at was assaulted, more than once, we all read and trade around as a industry, rather than trying to solve 3:00 am, paranoid out of my mind sexually by men i didn’t know on the collective), and animal liberation the underlying environmental about being raped – it is this very street. As my terror/fear/controlled literature, so your magazine is a conditions creating this problem, is state (the fear/acceptance) that mind shifts to openess/understanding, welcome inclusion into our reading. funding research into genetically makes a rapist’s gag a lot easier. If i am able to see that what energy i Thanks! re-encoding sperm from animals some man decides to jump you, and give off does effect what happens to Doug – DAAA Collective with more resilient reproductive you are like “oh well, I guess this is me in the physical world. i know systems in order to create humans. it…my rape…” then are you going you all may be saying “what the Speaking Out Against Personally, I pray this technology to be inspired to out-crazy the fuck?! Is she saying it’s the victims the Left-Handed Path never works, even though it appears motherfucker? By out-crazy, i fault?!” and i’d say No, but i’m saying of Repression the only way the human race is mean using unexpected tactics. there is a correlation between fear Green Anarchy folks! likely to survive its own hubris. This one cool woman called and sexual assault in terms of a rapist wow! the latest issue rocked!! Sincerely,Cynthia Wilson Diamanda Galas has a story from is looking to FEED OFF “the y’all address some pretty important Executive Director when she was coming home late victim’s” FEAR vibe – both subjects. i don’t always agree with you, Chemical Injury Information Network alone and a much-larger-than-she perpetrator and victim are playing but you certainly make me think, man came up behind her and said their roles, and so another rape goes which is more than i can say for most It’d Feel So Funny “This is a rape” and she said “oh, down as usual. Let’s out-crazy these of the alternative, progressive, leftist, To Be Free? really? Do you have a knife?” (in a motherfuckers! Let’s out-love them! activist, or anarchist press. it just keeps Hey y’all at GA, bored voice) and he said “er-no…” Let’s love the urge to rape/kill/maim getting better and better. i’ve never really written any and she said “So let’s just call it off etc. out of our physical world! It issue 14 (fall), up to then, was the publication before, but felt weirdly – i’m really tired.” And he did! All starts in our hearts and …radiates best. john zerzan’s piece on driven to after reading issue #15. i’m saying is: we must practice love out & out & out …for fucking ever. globalization made important What is making pen meet paper is not fear, having a sense of humor OK, rant done. Love to your connections and had a lot of insight. the article on pg. 41 called “It’d Feel EVEN WHEN IT SEEMS collective, love to the author I loved the piece from greece on the So Funny to Be Free”. i read this & CRAZY because this is disarming, woman of that article, keep up the co-optation of struggle in the reread it, confused. (First off i’d like confusing, a good tactic. And then work my friends. PS issue #15 university, and found the essay on to say nothing written here is meant there is also good ole kickin’ the rocked, lots of good shit in there… nihilism very useful and clarifying to be a dis – i realize this is just one rapist’s sorry ass, should it come to Jane (nihilism doesn’t = apathy, but woman’s perspective, but i’d like to that. Okay, this letter isn’t very Portland, OR instead is a place of great action). offer another.) The author writes coherent – ideas are zooming chellis inspires as usual and fredy GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 68

GA #16-main doc 68 4/14/04, 8:37 PM perlman was amazing (please print perspective on patriarchy, who use Too Much Is At Stake create straw dolls to criticize. more). i really dug the “back to basics” the term “anarchists” only when it Greetings, anarchic green comrades, John’s description of “insurrection- on origins, the entire series is a great helps them, who are mostly Developing a revolutionary alists” is completely off the mark. idea (always good to clarify), reviews authoritarians with personal issues anarchist critique of the left is He claims, “In order to maximize and actions were excellent as always and major power trips. they surround of major importance since the left the unity required to achieve an (especially the eco and iraqi stuff!). my themselves with eager young and in forms more or less adapted to insurrectionary condition, insur- main criticism was the essay on impressionable college kids, feed current conditions continues to be rectionalists find it useful to “collapsism” (good to address the their minds with outrageous stories, one of the main tools available to minimize a potentially non-unifying tendency, but not well articulated and get them focused on certain people the rulers for recuperating social discussion of specifics.” Yet his made too many generalizations). oh, i and projects, pressure them and struggles. For this reason, it is problems with insurrectionary also thought the report-back from the create a “group think” model of important to avoid sloppiness in anarchist perspectives began when “break the chains” anti-prison “you’re either with us or against us”. developing this critique. Unfor- two individuals (myself one of conference was pretty right on. i was these people do have something to tunately, by categorically including them) with insurrectionary anarchist there and thought y’all were pretty fair. say about patriarchy, but nothing “anti-state communists” and (and anti-civilization) perspectives You seemed to appreciate the work, about anarchy, and they certainly “insurrectionalists” (i.e., insurrec- raised questions about aspects of dedication, and overall conference, aren’t the “authority” on sexism (as tionary anarchists) in the left along primitivism that we felt reduced the but had many valuable and valid much as they would like to be). with scum like the Social Forum capacity for developing a serious criticisms, especially on some of the certainly, we have a long way to go folks and Michael Albert, John Z.’s revolutionary theory and practice. commie keynoters (where did they dig to challenge sexism and smash “The Left Today” exhibits the sort In other words we were precisely up those tired old leftists?) i thought patriarchy, but interestingly of sloppiness that needs to be initiating a “potentially non-unifying their stuff died with ho-chi-men. enough, many targeted by this avoided. Such associations are at discussion of specifics.” Unfortu- when i got issue 15 (winter), how- identity politics crew (like GA ), are best questionable. nately, it seems that at the time, ever, i was blown away! initially the men i do see challenging sexism and While there is much to criticize John and a few others did not see gloss threw me off, but the format abusive men daily, as anarchists!! it’s in anti-state communism, the this as two individuals expressing change is really helpful as a reader more than wearing a t-shirt or button, critique of the left actually began their own criticisms, but as a and will last much longer on my more than rhetoric or kissing the among them (the situationists in the competition between two tendencies coffee table and bookshelf. The right people’s asses (like the upper forefront). This critique included a for ascendancy within the anarchist design throughout is amazing, it class brats who run this show), it’s critique of rights, justice and politics, movement. This led them to looks “professional”. Sometimes i about taking stands and living what as well as parties and unions. It is waste time trying to paint an just look through it to admire the you believe. anyway, that was a long true that most anti-state communists uncomplimentary image of the beauty and obvious care and work and probably incoherent rant, but it remain attached to marxian concepts “insurrectionalist” tendency. This which goes into each issue. you all needed to be said, and i wish more and so tend to lack deep critiques of reaches comic proportions when are very under appreciated. who say it in private (i’ve talked to civilization, technology and progress these portrayals are precisely before i get into the new issue, i tons of women and men) would not (though there have been exceptions, opposite of the actual ideas and should say that my dynamic as a be intimidated and open up! such as Camatte, and the folks who practices of insurrectionary reader may be slightly different than thanks again GA, for saying what published Interrogations). On the anarchists. For instance, reading some, since i have lived in eugene needs to be said. the “leftist primer” other hand, anti-state communists insurrectionary anarchist texts (for (leftist capital of the world) for a was needed. i loved the palestine have always explicitly critiqued global example, “Fawda” and “Notes on number of years. i have witnessed a article, the pieces on summits, part trade. Their aim is the abolition of Summits and Counter-summits” in lot of the fucked up authoritarian II of the chellis interview, the article property, wage labor, the state and GA # 15) will show that insurrec- shit talked about in the “left-handed on neo-liberal technology, all the commodity exchange, and this last tionary anarchists pursue just the path of repression”. without going action reports, and the article on means trade in all forms. Thus, opposite of what John claims. For into details, i’ll just say that your destroying power stations. the John misrepresents the anti-state insurrectionary anarchists, the basis analysis of the “oppression politics” reviews were great, even Slug and communist perspective when he for acting together is affinity, and crew was accurate (yet too restrained). Lettuce, which i do read, but claims that they have not criticized this involves a thorough knowledge i have seen these individuals thought you had some very important global trade. Particularly when he of one another, of similarities and sabotage anarchist projects, spread things to say (fuck’um if they can’t speaks of them side by side with the differences, that can only come lies, pressure people to not associate take criticisms – the punks i mean). Social Forum crew who proclaim about through intensive debate of with certain people they have my only criticism would be to be “fair trade not free trade”, this is a specifics – a debate which can be deemed “manarchist” or “manarchist careful not to get too rigid and ideo- truly sloppy and inaccurate criticism. found in many insurrectionalist sympathizers”. i have witnessed tons logical and to have more personal Perhaps John did not mean global publications on topics such as of good people give up and leave rants like “it’d feel so funny to be trade, as such, but the global move- organization, technology, intervention town or just drop out of the scene free” (the article on rape, which I ment of goods outside a context of in struggles, armed struggle, the because of this bullshit, or because don’t totally agree with, but had trade. But this would take us precisely critique of politics, …. Since insur- they didn’t want to be the next some good things to say and in a to the lack of a critique of the tech- rectionary anarchists are among the target for standing up to it. while i personal voice). thanks for puttin’ nological system – a completely few not afraid to bring up civilization, generally keep to myself and have it out there. you’ll hear from me different matter. A serious critique technology and industrialism when not been too engaged in public again, in fact, you’ll probably see me of the anti-state communists must dealing with more immediate projects, i, as a woman who identi- soon (but you’ll have to guess). deal with what they actually say and matters such as surveillance cameras, fies as an eco-anarcha-feminist, was Free Free, Free Rob, Free Critter! do. If one relegates them all to the the current wildcat strikes of transit approached, pressured, and then Destroying Civilization, left and misrepresents their per- workers in Italy, transmission towers marginalized when i didn’t fall into Smashing Patriarchy, spective, such critiques will be for cell-phones, state repression, line with “the feminists”. people who Pink Flame weak and unconvincing. We must etc., one would think that John and see themselves as having the only deal with them for what they are, not other primitivists would want to Page 69 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

GA #16-main doc 69 4/14/04, 8:37 PM engage in real discussion rather and by, thus, making an argument Ideological Hair- I agree there is no great con- than make dismissive, inaccurate with very shaky foundations likely Splitting In The tradiction in theory between AP judgments. John’s one specific to collapse under any serious scrutiny. Service Of Paralysis (anarcho-primitivism) and insur- criticism, that Bonanno espouses Too much is at stake for this sort of Dear GA-USA, rectionism, not least because the “national liberation fronts” is also sloppiness. Your review of Alfredo Bonanno’s latter adds almost nothing to the inaccurate. In Anarchism and Against civilization, for free life, Armed Joy [GA-USA #12, p.11] former—it even detracts from it in key National Liberation Struggles, Wolfi Landstreicher might pass muster as fan mail, but areas—and I have seen impressive Bonanno argues that national hardly as critical review. syntheses from the likes of Species liberation struggles may include John Zerzan replies: I am Your reviewer’s contention is that Traitor and Italy’s Silvestre group. potentially liberatory and revolu- less concerned with what “anti-state whilst primitivist anarchism is just However, Bonanno’s introduction tionary aspects, but that these aspects communists” say they oppose than mere “ideology”, insurrectionist to Feral Faun’s anthology shows his would precisely oppose national with the logic of their fundamental anarchism is to be exalted as “a distasteful struggle with such (to liberation fronts, parties and the leftism. To accept global production practice, or an approach” (er, which?), him) unfamiliar concepts as domes- like – i.e., the “states-in waiting”, means that the state and global a stock sentiment that itself sounds tication and certainly at the time and the nascent native ruling class trade are also accepted, even if one like regurgitation of the standard Armed Joy was written, Bonanno they represent. I have many gives them different names. The insurrectionist ‘line’. If the reviewer had no critique of technology and problems with Bonanno’s analysis world hive with its division of labor expects to be told what to do— dismissed Greens as merely privileged of this question, not because I don’t on all levels must have coordination, evidently his main puff for and peripheral. Your reviewer think there can be any liberatory involving the functions of what is insurrectionism—then it’ll be a fine would do well to acquaint himself aspects in national liberation known as the state. If they want to pet ideology for him. If he was a with the works of Toni Negri and struggles – most indigenous preserve the apparatus of modernity, little more observant and less keen other autonomists of the 1970s struggles currently use the language they should admit what’s involved. to jump on the latest politico extra-parliamentary Italian Left, as of national liberation – but I think At least Michael Albert, insurrectionism is just that that the ideology of nationalism with his bureaucratic with an anarchist spin and always weakens liberatory ten- “parecon” scheme, cops to situationist larding, even dencies in a movement and must be this. You say perhaps I “did the anti-work gloss your challenged even in indigenous not mean global trade, as reviewer naively believes movements. But more importantly, such, but the global move- creates ‘clear blue water’ in terms of John’s use of this matter, ment of goods outside a with it. We have to wait Bonanno’s views on national context of trade.” Perhaps until the late-1980s, Jean liberation struggles are his and his you could explain the Weir’s Insurrection and alone, and should be dealt with as difference. I don’t see one, Bonanno’s From Riot to such. Bonanno is no leader not in terms of an actually Insurrection, before we get even on the theoretical level, but functioning system. As for any critique of technology merely an individual among insurrectionalism, I said and that only superficial individuals with his own ideas. that there seem to be distinction between those Lastly, insurrectionary anarchists competing strands or computer-literate and were among the first anarchists to tendencies within it. I have those socially excluded for develop a clear critique of politics heard insurrectionalists not being so. and thus of the left. Their critique, argue, in the U.S. and in This obviously wouldn’t springing from the direct experience Italy, that differences matter if insurrectionists of the insurrection in Italy in the should be submerged in took their ideology seriously 1970’s, has a certain clarity and the interest of moving and didn’t give a stuff specificity that is often lacking toward an insurrectionary about Bonanno presenting elsewhere. The development of moment. Evidently, others himself as some ideological this critique seems to correspond who employ the name do architect handing down in time with the beginning of the not emphasize this and are party lines, but this cultish anarchist critique of the left in the US lucidly anti-civilization. mentality pervades insur- in the late 1970’s in which John Z. You use the term insurrec- rectionism. The US section and Fifth Estate played a major part. tionary anarchism at times (I use the term ironically) With regard to both anti-state as if it has a stable meaning happily misrepresent those communism and insurrectionary and at other times, it seems they see as ‘ideological anarchism, John creates straw-dolls to me, as if it does not. I competition’, seek to recruit to knock down. This tactic can only agree that precision is a virtue and bandwagon, he might have noticed from them whilst demanding ‘loyalty undermine the credibility of his also suspect that we use the term both Zerzan and Perlman’s writings tests’ of recantation and cant-recital, critique of the left, because those leftism somewhat differently. For have been replete with examples of censor responses to all this, and who investigate can easily find the example, I see the situationists as past spontaneous, life-affirming plead hurt innocence if the truth holes in his claims. So a bit of representing the highest and revolt for decades. Where they have gets out anyway (“oh, why are comradely advice to John: since we perhaps last development of the something more to say than the you so sectarian?”) – the usual both agree that the critique of the left, even though they criticized Bonanno version is that they Camattesque ‘gang’ games, in other left is important, it’s best to avoid certain (other) leftists’ politics, they actually look to the origins of both words. Lorraine Perlman’s account weakening that critique by lumping had zero interest in the natural our oppression and resistance to it, in Having Little, Being Much of the others who reject the left with the left, world and no objection to tech- suggesting some future other than self-styled ‘anti-ideological’ SI’s by misrepresenting their perspectives nology or civilization. insurrectionism’s ‘whatever’. recruitment from Black & Red is GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 70

GA #16-main doc 70 4/14/04, 8:37 PM very illustrative of this racket in an any real purpose to it all, other earlier form. And, lest we again than Conner trying to demonstrate hear that old chestnut about “a few how “erudite” and “well-read” unrepresentative individuals” he is in comparison to the less (aren’t they all?), isn’t it spooky intellectually developed anarchists that wherever you go in the world, of Eugene. We’re not sure if insurrectionists have exactly the Conner was intentionally trying same thing to say in response to to slight us, but his conceited particular criticism, often using insinuations that we’re somehow exactly the same words....? new to anarchist thought and need My theory is that insurrectionism his wise, sage, paternalistic counsel is a soft option, supplying a rationale and clarifications could be insulting for militant ‘attitude’ without ever if it wasn’t so laughable and pathetic. having to coherently fundamentally With his overbearingly haughty challenge institutions like technol- approach and vacuous arguments, ogy and civilisation - I mean, Conner comes off like a snooty, ‘where’s the beef’ comrades? I cultured intellectual who is both believe an insurrectional AP is not amused and irritated that we can’t only possible, it’s inherent in AP, match his “intelligence quotient”, and its good insurrectionists are and that alone makes this tirade increasingly open to this as it’ll barely worthy of response. To deepen and extend their critique. avoid an unending personal back- The trouble is that the ideological and-forth (which would most ‘old guard’ are more interested in likely bore everyone), we’ll (at this peddling the ‘soft option’ for all the point) try to look past his smug- old reasons you’d expect of the ness and stick to the main sectarian Left - and so urgently need “points”(as trivial as they are). supercession. While this collective embraces Yours, for the destruction of primitivism as an essential element Civilisation, of an anti-civilization analysis of John Connor, GA-UK. the origins of domination, it is often lacking in much coherent this “ideological competition” he clear about what they are against: Two GA Collective Members practice (outside primitive skills, claims to have a problem with. We any institution, group, or individual Respond: It’s too bad that when which most self-described consider most primitivists to be which stands in the way of un- we have an entire civilization of “primitivists” have little use for or insurrectionaries, and many insur- fettered liberation. Maybe some domination to bring down, some knowledge of). Green Anarchy rectional anarchists (different from insurrectionalists don’t get as green anarchists would rather attempts to create a forum for both insurrectionary leftists) to be very caught up in specifics as some of spend their time trying to discredit theory and action, and many of us critical of technology, production, the movement academics would people (insurrectionalists) many feel that insurrectionalism bridges organization, and generally at like, but this outlook seems to be who are actively pursuing that aim. both and is an important part of a odds with civilization. Certain more about some insurectionalists’ While we have much in common with green anarchist perspective. Where insurrectionalists have some of the impatience with splitting hairs for John Connor and the UK Green Connor sees contradiction, we see most insightful critiques of the the rest of their lives and primacy Anarchist (not to be confused with ideas which complement one Left. Shit, Bonanno’s Armed Joy, placed on physical attack (a question the pitiable liberal rubbish of Steve another. Some primitivists if particular ideologues could read of prioritization), than it is over Booth’s Green Anarchist-lite), some (Connor included), have unfortu- it with an open mind (or at all) and any sort of “suppression of ideas”. of us on the Green Anarchy nately moved primitivism from an without the rigidness to certain We strongly promote the primitivist Collective (US) have some major important critique which fits “key” words (like primitivism), critique in the pages of Green disagreements with Connor on the alongside various indigenous, they might view it as a great anti- Anarchy because we feel it’s solid subject of insurrectionary anarchy. anarchist, and anti-authoritarian left primer. It seems that some are and penetrating, but we’re certainly Before we get into it though, we perspectives, to a rigid ideology more concerned with defending not out to create a new religion, should first comment that which views questions raised by their particular thesis or perspective nor do we feel that primitivism is Connor’s extremely condescending others outside of its perimeters to than they are at being anarchists. some seamless, airtight panacea tone and arrogance towards the be “leftist” or “ideological”. This While Conner barricades himself that will by itself be an antidote reviewer of Alfredo Bonanno’s is certainly ironic to say the least. in a room full of books, fine-tuning for the calamity of civilization (like Armed Joy (GA Spring 2003/Issue Insurrectional anarchy offers a his theories to crystalline perfection, those with ideological tunnel #12), is one we would expect from open (anti-ideological) approach “softer” anarchists like Alfredo vision). We hope to be critical of someone with no respect for our to our world, one which stresses Bonnano are engaged in a physical all anarchist tendencies, but we project, not from someone who autonomy and spontaneous resis- struggle with Power, and not one also want to learn from a wide range generally agrees with our per- tance. John Connor’s absurd occurring solely in the abstract of anarchist, insurrectionary, spectives as Connor does. When charges about insurrectionary realm of ideas. Connor views nihilist, anti-authoritarian, anti- we were actually able to get past all anarchists being some sort of cult insurrectionalism as a “soft option” colonial, anti-patriarchy, and the pretentious “name dropping” of or gang seems more like paranoia because it is not clear enough in anti-civilization perspectives. this delusional and self-glorifying than anything based in reality. what it is against. Yet, insurrec- Struggle happens outside of the ivory diatribe, it was hard to determine Connor seems to want to maintain tional anarchists have been quite tower. It’s not about “being right”. Page 71 SPRING ‘04 ISSUE

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These old-timers may offend and cause irreparable damage to people with enlarged egos, missing humors, Waldorf and Statler’s bruised reputations, fractured politics, severe ideological stances, those suffering from extreme guilt, activists with obsessive disorders in search of leftist “revolutionary” conditions, or the unfortunateRead “anarchists” with with extreme remarkably thin caution! skin. For those with hyper-sensitivity issues, they may evenNews cause you to piss your pants. From The Balcony Aren’t Fairs Supposed to Have a puzzling is that it appears to involve all of the running around and all of the competition, without any of the hooliganism or bad attitude. It Freak Show. . . Oh, wait. is one thing for anarchists to play sports; it is something else entirely After a night in coach my back hurts, my head is ringing and I just for anarchists to do it with a smile on their face and good sportsman- want to have a good meal and a sit. Instead, upon entering the 9th ship. If they were really preparing for the next riot they would at least Annual Anarchist Book Fair in San Francisco I was barraged with use their hands and be allowed to carry brass knuckles. limp vegetables, stale bread, and a rabble of the youth sitting on every Of course the fun didn’t end at 6 pm. The Barbary Coast is one of the flat surface. It would be one thing if they were juggling or swallowing last places where old Waldorf can satisfy all of his very particular swords but they just appeared to be peddling photocopies of dead peccadilloes that involve people his own age and forms of debauchery bearded men’s rants and participating in some elaborate courtship ritual that only old De Sade tells tale of. The youth scattered to their punk that thank goodness I don’t understand. shows, burrito shops, and floor space for the evening. The merchants AK Press had the right idea though. They are filled with piss-and- had after-show parties that involved wine and cheese. And another vinegar at Green Anarchy’s review of the AK product catalog and book fair comes to an end complete with bearded ladies, rubes, and questions about AK’s refusal to carry GA. So shills and only two failed attempts at a much so that AK reprinted the whole damn pickpocket. thing onto a ceiling-to-floor poster that they Boo!!! Hiss!!! hung in the middle of their 500 tables of merchandise. I guess the AK line is that GA Last But Not Least ain’t anarchist enough for their taste, which is Let it never be said that the two of us are why AK publishes picture-books about war ungrateful to anyone that is willing to provide protests, books by Michael Albert, and CDs a home for our unsolicited words of elder by Alexander Cockburn. Not only did they wisdom. That said, we wouldn’t be us if we have about 800 tables of their own, but the AK didn’t engage in a little lynching of the landlord Starter Pack (for the budding anarchist on occasion—as we well know, a little regular entrepreneur) was on about half of the rest of purging of colonic build-up is good for a body. the tables at the fair. The AK Advanced Pack (for the ‘organizer’ class of anarchist entrepreneur) You may or may not have noticed the new-fangled was only evidenced on a few tables, demon- magazine format of the last edition of this fine strating that it’s an awful lot easier to get into debt publication. While we mourn the passing of the with AK than it is to get a credit line with them. old format (old men do love their newspapers after all), we do have to admit it’s fairly snazzy The speakers were a refreshing blend of the looking and an added convenience to boot. If only archaic left and the ‘lower your voice before my medicated joint patches were so easy to you call them anarchists’ crew. The highlights unfold and apply! Now we’re just waiting for the among the anarchists were StarHawk and typesetter to catch on to the change. SunFrog, who obviously got their names from hippie-anarchist casting. As you can imagine, neither of them advocated Subsequently, I pulled out the last all-newsprint issue for nostalgic the throwing of bombs, the propagandizing by the deed, or even the causing purposes, and was befuddled and confounded to notice the text trailing of much trouble. Instead they offered the audience the option to dress up the end of our column: “The views expressed in this ongoing guest for protests, write angry letters to the editor, or read the damn ‘song and column do not necessarily reflect those of the Green Anarchy collective….” dance’ issue of their magazine. Troubling maybe, but barely trouble. Ol’ Waldorf and I are definitely of the “call ‘em like we seem ‘em” generation, but we were genuinely surprised to see that we merit a It only took a few hours before I was bored of speakers and angry at disclaimer—we thought this was Green Anarchy, not Yellow NPR! all the products looming around me. AK had to have at least 1500 tables of glossy books and CD’s with titles like “America, land of We’ve always been of the opinion that anarchy isn’t about making oppression” and “Bad Whitey. You’re not Cool,” and after 4 hours the friends, and thus we’re compelled to ask: In pursuit of an anti- tablers started poking me with sticks and telling me to ‘move it along, civilization agenda, is it feasible and/or desirable to remain civil? gramps’. I staggered into the sun only to be greeted by a vision too These teeth may go in the glass of Polident [tm] at night, but horrible to speak of. It appears that many anarchists are currently they can still bite you good! making much ado about the European game of soccer. What is totally

DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in News from the Balconytm in general, and by and Waldorf and Statler in particular, do not necessarily reflect those of Green Anarchy, the production collective, individuals involved with the project on various levels, and affinity group/kin/family members (including: sexual partners, playmates, drinking buddies, co-conspirators, third cousins, parents, step-parents, in-laws, siblings, offspring, and children yet unborn.). We only print this column because we found our way into their “Final Will and Testaments”, and hope the tolerance for their insider and mean-spirited jabs will eventually pay off and help fund the more intelligent, ecumenical, respectfully soft-spoken, and soothing aspects of this project. Sorry for any inconvenience or unsettled states. GREEN ANARCHY #16 Page 72

GA #16-main doc 72 4/14/04, 8:37 PM with a more structured anarchist movement were those who seemed to be college activists and identity politics folks. They had a hard time THOSE DIRTY BASTARDS! imagining a world without rigid institutions and A Report on the 2004 BASTARD Conference adjudication systems, some angrily demanding very specific structures and rules. The afternoon (Organization: Beyond False Dichotomies) panel entitled, “After the Situationists”, was a For the past few years, on the day following the and democracy as an “anarchist” model; and three report back from a conference held in the Bay Area San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair, the BASTARD who were critical of that approach, promoting last fall between post-left anarchists and anti-state (Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and small-scale, face-to-face, organic processes as a communists in which they discussed the areas of Research Development) people put together a way to know and interact with one another. One contention, agreement, and possible future conference, since the Bookfair is less partici- of the panelists, Audrey, now in her eighties, was collaborations between these tendencies. It was patory and its speakers are marginally, if at all, a “black diaper baby” (her parents were anarchists, very informative, yet the points of dispute could anarchist. These folks are mostly post-left anarchists and she was raised in that culture). She was in- have been made clearer, so as to have a better and very critical thinkers. The group has a weekly spirational, as she gave a history of the rise and understanding of the distance to be crossed, if anarchist study group in Berkeley, which I was fall of various anarchist organizations in the possible. Overall, the conference was a successful fortunate to sit in on last year. It inspired some of twentieth century, and her own experiences with day of intelligent dialogue and debate, much us to get a study group started in Eugene, which them. She is critical of large organizations due to needed in the anarchist milieu. Next year, maybe has been going strong for over a year now, and is decades of direct experience with the anarchist the theme will be “Post-Anarchism Anarchy”! an important element in any radical community movement, and not just through a theoretical which wishes to not become stagnant and to understanding. The panel was lively, with the by Felonious Skunk constantly challenge ideas. The organizers of the crowd taking on a Jerry Springer-like effect, with See: sfbay-anarchists.org for conference attempt to provide a non-sectarian each side cheering and giving support to their more details on the conference, environment to further the development of anarchist position. It wasn’t surprising that those who sided or info on next year’s event. theory, with a specific theme each year. This year was “Organization”, much more engaging and relevant than last year’s theme of “Economics”. While the BASTARDs are mostly anti-organizational The Nihilist’s Dictionary - Niceism in perspective, rejecting the federation, platform, party, and rigidly structured models of organizing The Nihilist’s Dictionary was originally a regularly running column by John Zerzan in Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed almost ten years ago. It is one of our favorites of John’s brief, yet in favor of decentralized modes, they encourage cutting critiques, so we have decided to re-serialize the collection. We hope to open these those who promote larger organizations to argue compact and blunt treasures to a whole new generation of readers, refresh those already their perspectives (and offer them enough rope familiar with them, and to re-traumatize those who hated them the first time. We will publish them to hang themselves with). While a few felt this in sequential order, and are delighted to begin with our favorite, and most needed in a milieu discussion has been beaten into the ground, some often too thin-skinned and uptight for bluntness; Niceism. The entire dictionary can be found of us feel it is important to continually dispute towards the end of John’s book, Future Primitive (Autonomedia/Anarchy) and now as a pamphlet and challenge the organizational model, especially available from our distro (page 76). as new folks come into the “movement”, because there unfortunately seems to be some renewed Nice-ism n. tendency, more or less socially codified, to approach reality in terms of whether interest in the tired old leftist approaches. others behave cordially; tyranny of decorum which disallows thinking or acting for oneself; Some of the workshops included: “The House- mode of interaction based upon the above absence of critical judgement or autonomy. hold as Organizational Form”, which looked at how All of us prefer what is friendly, sincere, pleasant––nice. But in an immiserated world we might organize from the base of our current of pervasive and real crisis, which should be causing all of us to radically reassess everything, (or desired) living situations; “Gender Issues the nice can be the false. in Anarchist Organizations”, a sort of 101 on The face of domination is often a smiling one, a cultured one. Auschwitz comes to mind, challenging our socialization within patriarchy; with its managers who enjoyed their Goethe and Mozart. Similarly, it was not evil-looking “Unions of Egoists”, a relatively incoherent attempt monsters who built the A-bomb but nice liberal intellectuals. Ditto regarding those who are to link Max Stirner’s ideas on the Ego and Wolfi computerizing life and those who in other ways are the mainstays of participation in this Landstreicher’s insurrectionalist perspective to the rotting order, just as it is the nice businessperson (self-managed or otherwise) who is extremely robotic and methodological “Non- the backbone of a cruel work-and-shop existence by concealing its real horrors. Violent Communication” (NVC); a scattered Cases of niceism include the peaceniks, whose ethic of niceness puts them – again and discussion on “Ecumenical Anarchism”, or the again and again – in stupid, ritualized, no-win situations, those Earth First!ers who refuse “let’s all put aside our differences and get along to confront the thoroughly reprehensible ideology at the top of “their” organization [written approach” led by Sunfrog from Fifth Estate; in the late ‘80s, today EF! is generally more anarchist in structure], and Fifth Estate, “Anarchist Theory and Critique of Organization” whose highly important contributions now seem to be in danger of an eclipse by liberalism. by Jason McQuinn of Anarchy Magazine; an All the single-issue causes, from ecologism to liberal feminism, and all the militancy in informative historical look at the Iberian Anarchist their service, are only ways of evading the necessity of a qualitative break with more than Federation (FAI) and its unfortunate progression just the excesses of the system. from affinity group to governmental “anarchists” The nice is the perfect enemy of tactical or analytical thinking: Be agreeable; don’t let by Lawrence Jarach; “Autonomous Self-Organization having radical ideas make waves in your personal behavior. Accept the pre-packaged methods and limits of the daily strangulation. Ingrained deference, the conditioned response to and Anarchist Intervention” by Wolfie “play by the rules” – authority’s rules – this is the real Fifth Column, the one within us. Landstreicher; and a number of other interesting In the context of a mauled social life that demands the drastic as a minimum response discussions and workshops. toward health, niceism becomes more and more infantile, conformist and dangerous. It There were two panel discussions at the cannot grant joy, only more routine and isolation. The pleasure of authenticity exists only conference. The morning panel was on the main against the grain of society. Niceism keeps us all in our places, confusedly reproducing all that theme of the conference, “Organization: Beyond we supposedly abhor. Let’s stop being nice to this nightmare and all who would keep False Dichotomies”. 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GA #16-main doc 73 4/14/04, 8:38 PM Global Days of Action International Day of Action and Solidarity with “Nevermind AK Press, Against Ecocide and Empire This Is Black and Green” -Largest Green Anarchist book source June 8-10 Jeff on this side of the Atlantic. On June 8-10 the Group of 8 will meet in Sea Island, GA. www.blackandgreen.org The G8 is an association of the 8 wealthiest nations of the “Free” PO Box 835 Greensburg, PA 15601 world: The U.S., France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., Italy, Russia, and Canada. The meetings will not only include Go Wild or Die Tryin’ state leaders, but also officials from the corporations which Luers www.gowildordietryin.org inflict the atrocities that wealth demands. These individuals (primitive skills, etc) will discuss with one another how to make the world an June 12, 2004 even easier place to extract profit and create wealth for Empire. Rather than join in with the well-intentioned pleas June marks the fourth year that our Species Traitor #4: to “share the wealth”, we should utilize the occasion of friend and comrade, Jeff “Free” We’re calling for any final submissions; their summit to collectively take aim at the notion of Wealth Luers has been imprisoned and held art, essays, letters, thoughts, DONATIONS. itself. It has always accumulated through the limitless captive by the state. Sentenced to This issue will be a big one (Do or Die style) with primary focuses on agriculture, extraction and control of the earth’s elements: the water, 22 years and 8 months for burning three SUVs. domestication, sedentism, and surplus; air, forests, oceans, diversity of lifeforms and culture, and spirituality; resistance; rewilding and more. labor of people and animals. For wealth to be maintained, Free’s Defense Network this extraction must spread like a cancer, always searching POB 3, Eugene, OR 97440 Deadline: May 30, 2004. Send in word for new colonies. Once it has consumed what it can, it [email protected] format, email, cd or disc. Please write returns again and again in different forms and shapes, to before sending attachments. feed itself on the already dispossessed. The pursuit of www.freefreenow.org/j12.html Looking to have this out mid to late wealth generates Empire. The extent of damage inflicted summer 2004, check out the website for by Empire is in evidence throughout the biosphere, and more info and we will probably open up Anarchy Radio pre-orders in May-June. on every level of dominant culture. In the southeast of the Green Anarchist U.S., mountaintops are clear-cut, blasted off, and piled into with John Zerzan www.coalitionagainstcivilization.org ravines, triggering catastrophic floods and landslides, all Sundays at 11pm [email protected] to mine coal for power. In the last remaining fragments of The original unapologetic 88.1 KWVA primal forest in the Northwest, old-growth dependent Coalition Against Civilization green anarchist paper from the U.K. online: species vanish as their habitat shrinks. In the southwest www.greenanarchy.org PO Box 835 Greensburg, PA 15601 rivers are sucked dry for industrial livestock production, Available for $3 golf courses and suburban sprawl. The skies of the north- BCM 1715, London east are choked with toxins emitted by Tupperware and Anti-NATO and Green Anarchist Gathering in Turkey! tampon factories. Worldwide, Empire burns, poisons, and WC1N 3XX, UK (June 18-19th, 2004) starves in its various wars for resource control. The www.greenanarchist.org/ We are Green Anarchists and Anarcho-Primitivists from Turkey. There will be a meddling hands of Empire manipulate economic, ethnic index.html NATO summit in Istanbul, the big metropolis of Turkey Land…And we want to show and religious tensions in the pursuit of power and profit. ------our response to the techno-industrial system, civilization and all kinds of In solidarity with those fighting Empire around the world, authoritarians through a series of anti-system demos and direct actions (although it may we in the G8 countries hold those at the helm of this will be purely symbolic to protest NATO). At the same time, as Green Anarchists and ship of fools responsible? A call has been made for Global re-pressed Anarcho-Primitivists, we are considering a “Green Anarchist Gathering”, as we Days of Action against Empire during the Summit in Georgia, feel it is important for us to meet, share our ideas and experiences of primitive USA June 8-10. In support of that call, we call for strategic distribution lifestyles and skills, and build a GA movement worldwide. emphasis to be placed on the ecological costs of Empire. c/o crc sholebroke ave Kara Yesil—[email protected] As for targets, take your pick. Be strategic, but remember the world is an open book. Let your fingers do the walking, leeds, 1s7 3hb Veganarsi Fanzine—[email protected] keep an eagle’s eye open, and leave no trace. www.re-pressed.org.uk Earth Liberation Prisoners—[email protected] Turkey— www.G8resistance.org [email protected] [email protected]

and don’t forget about the Earth First! Round River Rendevous WANTED! This year on the coast of Maine A Short-Term and Possibly Long-Term Late June/Early July Editor for Green Anarchy www.earthfirstjournal.org Due to the increased workload of an ever-expanding project and in an attempt to get more diversity into the editorial voice, we are currently looking for 1-2 dedicated folks to help out with one issue, Wildroots with the possibility of a more permanent relationship if it works out a new collectively stewarded radical for both parties. We are looking for people willing to re-locate (at Wild Earth 2004 homestead situated on 30 acres least temporarily) to the Eugene area for a minimum of two months next to the Pisgah National Forest (we will try to help with housing for one issue). 6th annual Gathering in Defence of the Land and its People in western North Carolina (45 minutes from Asheville) focusing on May 24-30 Mt. Elphinstone developing and sharing earthskills. Special Skills of Interest Include: We are currently seeking long term Word processing and typing, graphic design, copy editing, writing, “sunshine coast, b.c, canada” collective members as well as email, web design, research, filling distro orders, outreach, and a work-traders, apprentices and Wild Earth is an annual gathering of activists, anarchists, workshop participants interested passionate desire to destroy civilization. We are looking for anti- communitarians, elves, faeries, permaculturists, taoists, sovereigntists, in experiential learning and living. civilization folks who are eager to learn new skills, aren’t afraid to put punks, primitivists and the like. This will be the 6th annual gathering ...wild food foraging, permaculture, in long hours and prioritize this project, willing to put out their opinions, and is promising to be the best yet. United in the belief that another edible landscaping, wild seed saving, and work in a small consensus-based security-conscious collective. world is possible and engaged in the process of making it so. There will planting by the moon, hide tanning, Liberals, Leftists, and those without a sense of humor need not apply. be a wide selection of workshops, skillshares and discussions. Contact primitive shelter and tool making, seed saving, natural building, If interested, contact: us if you would like to offer an activity during the gathering. Take a look bioregionalism, radical earth-based at the website for updated info. People are welcome from far and wide, culture.... Green Anarchy, PO Box 11331, Eugene, OR 97440 travel subsidies may be possible if needed (contact us in advance). Contact for details: or email: [email protected] www.geocities.com/wildearth2004 (866) 460-2945 (toll free) [email protected] [email protected] www.wildroots.org www.greenanarchy.org

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GA #16-main doc 74 4/14/04, 8:38 PM Feral Visions Against Civilization nd GREENGREEN ANARCHYANARCHY The 2 Annual “Black and Green Anarchist Gathering” The Southern Cascades of Oregon August 1st-8th, 2004 The Black and Green Network is facilitating a week-long gathering in the beautifully wild southern Cascades of Oregon. After taking part in the various anarchist and environmental events and conferences, we felt that there was a need to have a gathering focusing solely on what seems to fall through the cracks: rewilding, physically, mentally, and spiritually. From this came the idea for last year’s successful gathering in Pennsylvania. Our goal is to help bring people into a wild environment, to break down mediation between ourselves and our world, and to encourage active participation with it. The gathering will provide an introduction to the various strands of anti-civilization thought, as well as being an in-depth forum for discussing and developing the theoretical and practical aspects of anarcho-primitivism/green anarchy (though not exclusively). We will focus on trying to connect face-to-face and deal with issues that are brought up within the critiques and practice, making stronger connections with oneanother, and applying our visions to our lives. There will be a heavy emphasis on primitive skill-sharing and collective experience. We AnAn Anti-CivilizationAnti-Civilization QuarterlyQuarterly PublicationPublication are hoping to create an environment where people are willing to share, grow, and Featuring: theoretical and practical ideas on the “Destruction of have a good time. The entire event is centered on active participation, and we hope Civilization and the Re-connection to Life”, analysis of anarchist that people will bring their knowledge and experience, as well as being prepared to and other resistance movements, action reports from around the be relatively self-sufficient. Some food will be provided (probably some sort of world, news, prisoner updates, reviews, letters, and more! morning gruel, snacks and a dinner each day), but for the most part, bring what you need, including (depending on how domesticated you are): several layers of Issue #15 featured: warm clothes (it’s high elevation, so it can get cold at night), sun block (especially “The Psychopathology of Work” by Penelope Rosemont, “Fawda” (an anarchist look at the Palestinian for you pale ones), sleeping bag or blankets, tent or tarp, flashlight, batteries, sturdy struggle) by the Friends of Al-Halladj, “Within the Realm of a Dying Sun: The U.S. Military Continues boots, eating utensils and bowl, water filter, mini-shovel, toilet paper, snacks and to Get Hammered in Iraq”, “The Way of History — Today” by Thomas Manning, “Impassioned Violence, Justified Violence”, “Recovering From Western Civilization: An Interview with Chellis food, water containers, notebooks, pencils, pocket knife, musical instruments, Glenndenning - Part II”, “Electric Funeral: An In-Depth Examination of the Megamachine’s Circuitry” friends and family, special skills and knowledge, and an enthusiastic and participatory by the Havoc Mass, “Notes On Summits and Counter-Summits”, “Riding the High of Cancun and the attitude. The site has wonderful swimming, hiking, and a natural spring. It is a wild Dangers of a Crash” by Blackbeard, “Under the Palms of Miami…This Season’s #1 Tourist Trap” by place which needs to be treated with care and respect, seriously folks. It is about a E. Lou Civ, “it’d feel so funny to be free”, “Notes on the Function of the Outlaw as Anti-Role” by Thomas Tripp, “Resisting the Neoliberal Discourse of Technology”, by John Armitage, “Reclaiming mile and a half hike in, so don’t bring excessive shit you don’t want to lug around, Thoreau for Anarchy”, “Colonization, and Self-Government and Self-Determination British Columbia” and try to leave the canine friends at home if possible. It will also be at the height of by Insurgent-S, This issue also contains the special “Back To Basics, volume two: The Problem of the fire season, so extra care will be necessary (including no personal fires). Please Left”, which includes: “The Nature of the Left”, “Leftism 101” by Lawrence Jarach, “Liberation, Not leave weapons and heavy drugs at home, and abusive behaviors will not be tolerated. Organization” by A. Morefus, and “The Left-Handed Path of Repression” by Crocus Behemoth. The location and directions will be revealed one week prior to the gathering on our websites, and on voicemail. Try to carpool, because parking is limited. Contact us HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO GREEN ANARCHY if you would like to get involved in the planning. We are also asking for serious Here are the rates for a 5 Issue Subscription: volunteers to come to Eugene a week or two before the gathering to get final U.S. - $18, Canada - $22, Europe - $28, preparations together. We are looking for people to commit to: food preparation, and the rest of the planet - $32 obtaining food (rice, beans, lentils, spices, soy products, jerky, oil, canned foods, Send well-concealed cash, postal money orders or checks in U.S. currency dried stuff, roots, and veggies, etc.) and cooking material (utensils, pots, pans, made out to Green Anarchy. knives, buckets, portable stoves, and fuel), people to help with shitters and obtain HOW TO DISTRIBUTE GREEN ANARCHY material for their upkeep (shovels, wood ash, buckets, tp, soap, etc), finding a few radio/walkie-talkies and batteries, people to give more formal workshops on Here are the rates for distribution: specific skills, folks to coordinate rides from other bioregions, publicity for the U.$. event, and, most importantly, financial contributions (consider throwing a benefit Quantity of 1- 49 copies - $1.75 per copy in your area). We’re looking forward to a life-altering event. Quantity over 50 copies - $1.50 per copy *You sell it for $3-4 per copy and keep the extra money for yourself. See you in the wild!! International See you in the wild!! Sending large quantities of Green Anarchy costs a lot of money and takes time. We ask that people pay the same rates as above but add about 30% more money for postage. We will send packages out as cheap as possible (usually surface) unless specifically requested by you to send it air mail. * Write or email us for a complete list of pamphlets, zines, videos, and books * Back issues (# 6-15) of Green Anarchy are still available for $3.00 each, or $28.00 for the set. ForFor moremore info,info, checkcheck out:out: * Check-out the updated www.greenanarchy.org www.greenanrchy.org www.greenanrchy.org Please contact us about specific rates, if you are interested in trading zines, ToTo getget involved,involved, contact:contact: or if you have any questions via email or post. 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