A Quarterly Journal of Anti-Civilization Thought and Strategy $2 U$A, $3 CAN, $4 WORLD Green Free to Prisoners! AnarchyAnarchy ##1010 FALLFALL ‘02‘02 IssueIssue The price of Progress. A planet plundered, It’s forests obscenely slashed, clear-cut, Man-icured and man- aged. It’s soil exhausted, Disappeared, paved over, chemo-therapeutized It’s water polluted, it’s air turned into a sulfurous Poison gas, a charred planet exposed to deadly Radiation. A garden turned into a toxic cesspool. A phoney civilized veneer doesn’t impress or Deter me. When it falls, I will spit on the very memory Of it and rejoice. In this issue: *Repression of N17 movement, by Jim Awol *Interview with Ann Hansen of Direct Action *myriad info-bombs! ISSUE 10- Halloween 2002 $3 U$A, $4 CAN, $5 World Always Free to Prisoners! GREENP.O. Box 11331, Eugene, ANARCHY OR 97440 [email protected] NONO MEMBERSHIP by Jack Wylde REQUIREDREQUIREDREQUIREDREQUIRED organization: act of organizing; the manner in which the abstract oblivion, I will illustrate them with an example. A ORGANIC branches of a service, etc. are arranged; individuals group of people from all different backgrounds came together systematically united for some work; a society. for a weekend to prepare an action against a large biotechnology REVOLT OR corporation. People were invited only by word of mouth and PUBLIC Peering out a jetliner window over the coast of Los Angeles, no flyers or press advisories were sent out ahead of time. This DISSENT? California, my thoughts drift into disgust by what disgraces gave us the jump on the company and the cops. Revolt has nothing to do with the creation of alternative my vision. Sustaining this burgeoning parking lot with all of The preparation weekend was one of exquisite cooperation. institutions or making civilization more friendly through its sewage, industrial waste and State-dependent citizenry is Meetings were kept to a minimum and work was done by reform. We can still directly aid those who suffer worse than that which cannot be reconciled by even the most far-reaching almost everyone. Political affiliations of the crowd ranged from ourselves. Instead of just serving food to the homeless, teach pipe-dreams of liberal reform. Orchestrated squares glow sad solid pacifism to militant insurrection and everything in- ways of sustaining oneself. Instead of just petitioning the fascist and gray in artificial light. Black veins of asphalt flow with the between. The connecting factors were a mutual disgust for the government for welfare reform, teach your neighbors to grow diseased blood of civilization. It is Earth’s very plasma that company in question and an understanding that asking them their own food, forage for food and medicine, hunt for non- brings alive this lack-of-concentration to change their ways would get us endangered animals, collect and process roadkill and countless camp, if decaying cement and blank nowhere. It was decided early on that other skills that help extinguish our dependence on the state stares can be called life. everyone attending the action/ and our need for jobs and money. All illusions of benevolence Myriad boxes of all sizes upon the demonstration would wear identical within the corporate/state power structure must be negated. squares completes the picture as we clothing and masks to provide solidarity The psyche is the final frontier of neo-colonization. We must descend. Massive amounts of razor among the group and cause confusion stop believing in the necessity of electricity, petroleum wire contain and maintain this giant for the police. products, money, work and industry. When any of these factory of which prison is a The idea was raised that some phenomena attempt to infringe upon or dominate our lives, we microcosm. L.A. is the future of members of the group may choose to must force back their influence, for it is a colonizing one. Create everywhere slated for development. engage in property destruction. A well and demonstrate methods for people to remove themselves from Cities and prisons are the logical known pacifist among the group made the system. The creation of our lives outside of the strict endpoint of progress. Civilization’s the comment that while s/he chooses boundaries set for us is consistently usurped by the emergence integral deception, Progress, the not to take such action, s/he does not of dogmatic ideological scenes. We must stop being activists ultimate excuse for covering over have a problem with others choosing and start acting on our ambitions for new ways of life. wildness with order—organization. to do so. Other pacifists and activists Those readers who have the luxury of not ever being involved Just when hip-hop has transcended echoed this sentiment and the with a public scene or getting arrested are in an especially good the false dichotomy of east coast vs. underlying feeling was one of position to create anarchy and spread the fires of dissent. Don’t west, a new and equally false one has camaraderie and goodwill. It was bother getting bogged down into trying to work with people arisen. This time it’s not Tupac and understood and accepted that weA had who don’t respect your views of liberation. Talk to your friends Biggie; instead-much too publicly diverse plans for the day, and in order Federated Anarchy, Inc. and families. Start living your life in the ways you feel are known anarchists are fabricating the to enact them, we all had to have each freeing and desirable. The obstacles that prevent you from living illusion of polarized scenes. These scenes are the same as other other’s backs. freely are the challenges to be overcome; TVs to be smashed, subcultures, except that police surveillance and repression On the morning of deployment, a group of over 50 people computers to be hacked, roads to be ripped up, powerlines and create added pressures on our ability to relate well with one split into affinity groups and the action was on. Some folks ran billboards to be knocked down, clearcuts reseeded with native another and everyone else. Seasoned civil disobedience activists straight for the buildings and began spray-painting slogans and seeds, farms let go fallow on their path back to wildness, tell newcomers repeatedly that they must learn to work with symbols everywhere. One group was on the roof dropping a schools to be eliminated, factories and mines to be closed people they do not agree with politically and sometimes do banner. Others hung banners from highway overpasses, causing forever, technology to be exposed and destroyed for the monster not like at all. “After all,” they say, “we all have the same goals.” rush hour traffic to halt to a standstill as commuters pondered it is...start making your own list, but make it with care and This lie is the same one perpetuated in offices, factories and the demonstration. Still another group held up large signs while with love for every child and every living being. Whether you schools. Involuntary cooperation between people in order to more people dug up the lawn to plant organic seeds in the want to dig up some concrete and plant food or destroy the serve some righteous cause cannot be considered liberating. middle of a mock biohazard zone that had been set up by yet institutions that prevent us from living, do so in a way that In my own process of discovery, I fell into what I call another affinity group. The police did not arrive until everyone releases you and everyone around you from the ties that bind Organized Revolt. Any liberating idea for action must first be had completed their part of the action and everyone was us to any institutions and ideas that are not of our own creation. run through a consensus process. Ideally, this is a wonderful and non-hierarchical form of decision ENTHUSIASM: PASSIONATE making. In the hands of fundamental pacifists or any ZEAL FOR A PURSUIT reformist group claiming to have the one-path-to- liberation, it becomes a counter-revolutionary tool Organic revolt arises out of enthusiasm. Most used to crush dissenting opinion. This leads to severe organizations I have experienced left me feeling burnout, and in my case, getting extremely fed up. anything but excited towards their various structures. Fed up with meetings where militants are seen as Once a certain level of bureaucracy is reached, (i.e. obstructions to consensus. Fed up with feeling obliged membership applications, party platforms, rules of to work with uninspiring and draining cling-ons to order, long and tedious hand-raising meetings, etc. the movement who have nothing to offer but argument ad infinitum) rigid ideology and subsequent boredom and strife where strategy and action are required. Fed drive out any creative newcomers who don’t toe the up with feeling too tired and overwhelmed by party line. Serious study and skill-building do not moderation and violence vs. nonviolence arguments require organization, only time and patience. Detailed to even express my “extremist” views. Fed up with plans for revolt can be worked out -perhaps more sacrificing my passion for the destruction of this easily- without any overarching administrative civilization just to not offend people or violate demonstration together underneath the giant signs. trappings. In fact, organization is what usually leaves paper permits that were forced down my throat to begin with. I spent Three people were arrested, and as the pigs grabbed each trails (electron trails vis-à-vis computers) that get direct action hours trying to relate to people I would never voluntarily hang person, unarrest attempts were made.