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TS€$H Arson Zine Bibliography/ RecommendedReading Becausea WrhiteMan'll NeverDo It - Kevin Gilbert Communiqud#2: summer 200516 Acts of Rebellion:The lltard Churchill Reader- Ward Churchill .4gainstCivilization - JohnZerzan (Ed.) Blood on the Wattle;Massacres and Maltreatmenrof .4boriginalAustralians since 1788 Invitution to an Insurrection ; (third editiod - Bruce Eider k -J:t i, Green.4narchy magazine #'s 18,I9,20 - various Endgame:The Collapse of Cit'ilizationand the Rebirth of Con'tmuniry- Derrick Jenserr .'1,Green History of the llorld; TheEnvironment and the Collapseof Grear Civilization.s- ClivePonting Thel'lazi Doctors;Medical Killing qnd thePsychologt of Genocide- Roben Jay'Lifton Catalyst;The Birth and Death of Cit,ilization(draft) - Kevin Tucker SpeciesTraitor Journal #/ - various 'My -7-rs-&I-':I-.$ITISometimesit seemslike the horrorsare hardly evensupriiin!?ily-morel Nameis Chellisand I'm in Recovetyf'om lVesternCi,-ilizatton '- ChellisGlendinning TheBook of Pleasures- RaoulVaneigem TheParty's Over; Oil, War,and the Fate of Industrial Societies- RichardHeinbers Anatomyof HumanDesn uctiveness - Erich Fromm The War practice It'sffi.ilH{'ffim like we're all eitherbeaten unconscious or blissfullvunaware: of the Flea; Guerilla WatfareTheory and - RobertTaber Feral Revolulion- FeralFaun .il'tjG On the RoadAgain; Direct Action tJnderg.ouncl- Anon. Eitheryoulve taken in somuch brutal trui[ ca!'t take in anymore, At Daggers Drawn; with the existent, it's defenders,and itsfalse critics - Anon. ArmedJoy - Alfredo Bonzurno il.'G:,: RuminationsFrom a Dead Tonguezine -N. or yoll were neverreally payin ayingattention to be Rolling Thunder#l - Crimethlnc Fire and lce: Disturbingthe Comfortable it E"G and Comfortingthe Disturbed llhile Tracking \:i Either somuch hellyou can't Our WildestDreams - LaurelLuddite & SkunklyMonkly ir In the Absenceof the Sacred; The Failure of Technolog,,and the Sur.viyalof Inrlian i',': Nations - Jer'ryMander or you'vebeen asleep this whole time. j IrI--- (Someof whichare available rvithin Australasia from the anarcho-bookr.vorms ai BeatingHeafts Press: www.beatin gheartspress. com)
Acknowledgements. Many thanksto Kevin Tucker for his invaluableassistance with the draftof'Its TwistedSoul' thatappears here, his sinceagreeing to co-authorthe piece(the Slavery. final versionwiil hopefullyappear in a future issueof SpeciesTraitor or GreenAnarchl). his fantasticoriginal contributionto this issue,and his help with U.S distribution.Thanks also to John,Deegan and the rest of the crew at Green.Anarchy,for their encouragement and support,and for publishing'we Television. Are Not Separate'inits originalform in G,A#19. Thanksespecially to friends old and new for the insights,feedback and rvisdomof their ic Radiation. letters.Apologies to thosewhose letters I dearlywanted to includebut for which therervas I1ospace. FossilFuel Depletion. Adve rt i sing Exe cut iv e s Back Cover. Text: JeremyBentham, Pic: Palm lsland(from http://itwillbethundering, resist, ca)
Dedication. For L, who makesthis world rvorthfighting for. Thereused to ustbe four Horsemenof theApocalypse. \' Enragedthat everyplace I go is inaccessible evenwhen they'vealtered the barhroomsinside because it's rhe law when a chair still can'rger up rhe outsidestairs or in the door At the braillesigns inside elevarors where rhere are none ourside ir Furiouswith ignorance& aparhythose smug cousins in everyfamily I can'tshut my heart to the pain rhudding all aroundus Here in my handsare all the facesof rhoseI ve seenbegging in doorways,on freewayramps, on sidewalks beggingfor changefor a mealor a drink whosedesperation is now againstthe law This is just the scratchedraw surfaceof my anger which is fueledby the righteousness of knowing we don't haveto live this way 'We couldembrace our profoundconnections and our deepdifferences learnfrom eachother Honor eachorher beginro livewirhout torturing If you aren'ras angry as I am we probablyshouldn'r try to talk to eachother becauseI'm furiouswith your fearof anger I'm angry that othersare always telling me that they feelthem sameway I do but chey'reafraid to sayso or they don't know how or theyd losetheir job or their lover Ifyou canspeak you can be angry if you can'tspeak bang your fork If you'refurious with me becauseI haven'tmentioned something you'reangry about get busy & write it yourself There is no suchbeast as roo angry I'm a canarydown this mine of aparhy singing& singingmy yellowthroat on 6re with this sacredholy purifring spirit of anger
For AyofemiFaloyan with the terri$'ing idea_that-wearingfur rnakes a woman sexy or speciai WE ARE NOT SEPARATE with the largestslave labor force in the world which is called the u.s.bureau of prisons An Introduction to Arson #2 Sick of everyonewarching light-Flled shadows on a screen more imporranr than life that your averagecirizen spends Weare not separqtebeings, you and I. more rime adoring those shadows than l4/eare dffirent strands of the sameBeing. speaking to their own children I'm Furiouswith my incoherence Youere me and I amyou my inabiliry ro afFectalmost everything in my life qre I m angry wirh everyonewhot said some appallingly and we are they and they us. stupid thingo about peacepipes or pow wows or rorem pol., o."tipi. Thisis howwe're nteantt0 be. Furious thar the accepredways ro solve our pain euchofus one, are to pay somebody to listen to us eachof us all... or to adopr some parry line withour deviation Ec preach ir to everyoneelse - or ro ger high LeonardPeltier or to buy yet another piece of crap we don,r realiy need or to disappearinro games Anqy wirh organized.& disorganizedreligions which 6ll It couldbe saidthat this issueof lrsoiu hassomething of a theme.It was peoplet lives with ignorant laws or hocus pocus o, .orrii.r.. not originallyintended to be so, but, for severalreasons, this is how it evolved. th.m that p"in i, hoty although I reservemost of my venom for Next issuewill rnostlikely be a returnto the chaosof the first issue,with all the catholic chrrrch which ruined my life with lies kinds of materialon all kinds of subjects,but let's worry aboutthat when it I'm srill unravelins I'm angry thar " happens.Right now I'm thinkingsome kind of introductionto this issueis in none of us lives ro our potenrial order. that we ve frighrened into being rhe leasrwe can be with the exceptionof the occasionalcampaign to protecta specific to survive placefrom a specificthreat (Lake cowal in New Southwales, for instance).it Outraged rhat so much is swept under rugs seemsto me thereis preciousIittle unity betweenindigenous and anarchist that we can barely walk struggles all overthe globe.That this shouldbe as true,or evenmore true, here Furious that almosr everyonestill uses rhe world blind in Australia,where the indigenouspopulation have been subject to absolutely to mean ignorant or insensitiveor clumsy indisputdblegenocide, and where the invasionand colonization of their that landhas millions of treesare slaughteredto prinr romance novels takenplace without a shredof legality, or spy chillers withctutone square inch ctf lancl ceded by & every kind of wall street garbage treaty by the indigenouspopulation, is (or shouldbe) shocking.when you takea until I'm ashamed stepback and think aboutthe vastiniustice that this verynation as we know it is to pur words ro paper at all foundedupon, and comparethis in size and scopeto tire struggleagainst this Mosr of us can hardiy funcrion veryinjustice, it beggarsbelief. What are we doing? poisoned by corporare nonsense I think the enormityof the problemis parl of what causeswhite/non- assaulredwith indigenousanarchists and radicals to keeptheir distance. We haveno ideawhere unnecessarychemicals making to start,and we all too often fall into the trap of a politicsof (racial)guilt - somebody who hates us a nice fat profit feelingbad because we havethe samecolour skin asthe peoplewho perpetrated Angry that my back hurts all the time from clean-ing the genocideand continueto forcibly deny indigenoussovereignty - which the housesof the lazy wealthy for 20 years hardlyinspires and empowers us to act, nor one of whom is as andso we endup doingnothing. (l don't intelligenr,creative, or powerful as I am at all wantto belittlethe efforlsof thosewho do get activein campaigns rhat I'm going like, for fngry to die this angry & probably nor be able ro change a damn thinq & whether I have a piece ofpaper or not instance,the Lake Cowal Campaign- I'm sayingthese folks shouldhave a All the piecesof paper all the degreesare burning up in my anger whole bunchmore people jumping on board,so we can broadenand intensifo Everyone will have to face each other as human tlre strugglebeyond just protecting little parcelsof landwhen they're threatened I'm sick of everyone who asks by somenasty corporation), \Yhat do you do? Some whiteinon-indigenousradicals might argue that we have no responsibilityto lendourselves to indigenousresistance, or indeed,that we have fu though some corporate tirle or college bs no commoncause in the first place,that our livesand communities and histories is an identity are so fundamentallydifferent that it's perfectlynatural for our strugglesto I want to tie up all the white supremacistsinto crosses remainseparate. I'm concernedthat tl'ris flawed thinking might be informingour set 6re to their hatred choicesmore than we careto admit,so I wantto takea little time to give my take I want to 6ght back with every tendon of my weary body on this. run by a mind who remembers the toilet taste of jail food knows rhe brutaliry of nut houses We Are All Indigenous.We all, everyone of us,have roots in ancient arms that remember straitjackets 6c forced drugs & the screams communitieswhose ways of life were (and perhapsstill are) infinitely more of women being dragged off to shock torture harmoniousand healthythan the industrialdeath sentence we live witl-rnow. Whilefew of us liveon theland our ancestors originally did - the bloodyera of knowing that to speak up too loudly means to be killed conquestand colonialism has spread us, Europeans especially, far andwide - we becausedecent people are still connectedto it; we are still indigenousto it. We are all of the earth, beat or wives instead racism or hunger pillows their of somewhere. becausethe idea of being nice is more important This is why a fetishizationof indigenousculture - frequentlyspringing, than the idea of being real in my opinion,from a desireto imbue our struggleswith moreauthenticity - It's the cotton candy we've all been eating makes senseonly in the context of missing what v,e have long ago lost: until L at least.am sick to death belonging. I'm furious with English-only laws in a with Japanese-bashingcelebrated We Are All Colonized.We haveall beensubmerged since birth as some kind of specialholy cleancutsport monocultureof occupation,and now we, ourselves,are occupied territory. Long ago ancestors pushed (wherever Furious that anti-Semitism is as respectableas ever our hadto be killed,starved or offtheir land that might havebeen), overrun and taken prisonerwith lies of a befterlife before & everybody who wants to talk about it must be a pushy Jew they'dsubmit to themega-machine. Now thatwe're all behindenemy lines, the I could kill those thousands of people who claim rhe nazi Holocaust colonizerscan just sendus to schoolto learnwho's boss. didnt happen This is why the commonliberal/left pitfall of a politicsof (racial)guilt I'm angry that as these words rattle out of my mouth makesno senseto me - it impliesidentification with the colonizingculture, an I'm already cutting them back cooling them off identificationwe needto break.not reinforce.While it is true that white/non- taking the sting out becauseI'm afraid of what I might do indigenouspeople living on colonized indigenoussoil are by default the ii I hearone more damn time benefactorsof genocide,it is not true thattl'rey need remain so. lt is not true that \X/HY are you so angry? they are merelythe childrenof a genocidalculture, unable to do anythingbut Raging that common senseEr kindness are passi wring their handsand feel bad aboutthe blood-soakedgifts their parentsgave nor quite with it them. Argry that breast cancer kills rwice as many women Theseare ideas that canbe interpreteda million differentways, that can of AIDS/SIDA but we're all as men who have died meana million differentthings to a million differentpeople. I don't have the still paying attention to the poor men time or spaceor inclinationto try and coverevery base here, and in any caseI as usual only knowwhat these ideas mean to me: I'm biowing my top about clearcuts, abuseof resources abuseof workers, torture of animalsfor testingcosmetics We Are Not Separate. Some time ago, I found out that I have Maori heritage.It cameas quite a who takes our taxesto go to Bermuda 6< relax shock, for various reasons(not leastmy previouslyunquestioned 'whiteness'), after spendingour money to murder whoever is and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. Becausethere is very little I can do the current enemy & it's sometimesus about it - the circumstancesare sucl.rthat it's impossible for me to recover the I'm spitting with ragethat most of my friends can barelyscramble by precisedetails of my heritage.But the cultural identity crisis I've had as I've I'm angry that I can't sleep that I hate tried to come to terms with this lost and found and lost again part of my ancestry myself has taught me some things, I think. lt's certainly tauglrt me somethingabout the that I can't write as well as I want natureof the positionwhite (and for this discussionthis might also includenon- becauseI'm so damn angry I can'tbreathe white non-indigenous[to Australia]folks as well) radicalsfeel ourselvesto be in Furious that nobody elseseems ro be angry wlren we considerinvolvement in the Aboriginal resistancemovemenl: we're 6r they don't want me to be eirher terrified of becoming colonizers ourselves.Of coursewe are, and rightly so, All Enraged ar rhis whole sodden rorring mess rhey keep calling over the world, white radicals(including anarchists)have a long and sordid civilization history of taking over, fucking over and flaking out on non-white struggleof all as it poisons the air & the warer & kills everyone in irs way kinds. Just as often white radicals (still including anarchists)have feigned which is so barbaricas ro lock up irs Elders support for a far more militant non-white struggle, and then left them to be for the crime of not being able to carefor themselves crushedby the full force of the stateonce someactual effortwas required-you which thinl Cunysros speciallywhen I rnention land theft or rape or genocide They go to rherapy ro undersrand rhemselves pound anonymouspillows safely with a srranger in the closedroom of improper behavior There is no pillow I'm angrywith fu far asI'm concernedI'm too rired to be angryenough "We've ltsd enough mute, this is ridiculous,..Thesystem Arg.y thar I can'rgo anyplace withourseeing demeaning images & outrighrlies about Indian people not only is not workingfor us, it has neverever workedfor I'm livid thar we can'reven keep rhe fe* liriful acreswe have'left us or deliveredjustice. What is going on on Palm Island is ifthey happento haveuranium o, .opp.i or coal ct genuine reflection of how all Ahoriginal people are Furiousrhat I neverfeel safe alone on the srreets Argry that orherPeople of Color at this stageocross Aboriginal Awtralia. " "/beling aresomerimes as oppressive as whites becausewhites taught them MurrandooDoomadgee, cousin of Mulrunjie Doomadgee,on Lateline, 26tr'Novemb er 2004 everythingthey rhink they know about Indians fuled that an Indian friend askedme why I hangour wirh all rhoseBlack people On the 26h of November, 2004, around 300 membersof the Aboriginal Angy with myselfthar I wasn'rfasr enough ro say communityon Palm Island in northern rioted, burning down the police Queensland Ilhy doyou hangout with all thosedamn )t tu stationand courthouse,and settingfire to the policebarracks, a policeofficer's house, |oil, Steamingmad that a million peoplein this counrry and a stolen police car, by throwing Molotov cocktails(as well as rocks and other which is no longerin a recession projectiles),The island'sarmed police force were helplessto stopthe destruction,and haveno placeto live the scoresof riot police readyto be flown in from the mainlandto put the riot down while of6ce wereprevented from doing so by riotersblockading the island'sonly airstripwith cars. buildingssit empry for years On the 19'nof November,36-year-old Palm IslanderMulrunjie (Cameron) Enragedthar you can buy a submachinegun in Florida Doomadgeehad died in police custody,after being arestedfor 'drunk and disorderly aboutany orherkind of gun any placeyo-u *".,, while the army behavior'.The riot camein immediateresponse to the readingof the coroner'sautopsy & the copsamass more than enoughweapons ro kiil repofta week later,which detailedDoomadgee's injuries at time of deathas beingfour everyperson on earth broken ribs, a puncturedlung, and his liver literally torn in two - an injury most Furiousrhat my cousingot shot in the head commonlyseen in seriousroad accidents. The coronerdeemed these injuries to be in- & livesnow barelyable ro sayhis name keepingwith the officialpolice line of Doomadgeehaving "fallen on a concretestep" I'm mad ashell at alcohol,crack & child abuse duringa "scuffleo'as he was beingled from the policepaddy wagon to the island's I could easilykill severalmillion randomwhire folks l-nttlr lrcwst' It orrnts thv Abvriginol gsmurunity of Pohn Islzurddid not agrec. just ro feela litrle balanceon this poorearrh Palm Island has quite a history of colonial brutality and indigenous colour coded and hair samples resistance.Before taken.My ancestorssubmitted to this and rvereplaced in categor.ies white invasionin north Queensland,the islandbelonged to the slchas half-castes,quarter-castes, .uo.t,1 and hybrids (the rvomcn*.r. r.r.r.a io This notion Manbarrapeople. It was only in 1914that the QueenslandGovernment claimed the of ll2'll1,l18 or ll16 aboriginalis "r a civilisedd6vice rvhich is oftenused as a way of control....bynot island as a "reserve",and shortly decidedit would make an appropriatedumping officiallyacknorvledging your right to identifyas an indigenousperson iryou aretoo far removedon groundfor Aboriginal and Islanderpeople regarded by the colonialestablishment as the family tree.(my grandmotherused to put powder on her I'acqtomake irer look white) After all, "uncontrollables". people Truganini rvasrel'erred to as the'last ,br.eed By 1940, at least 1,630 from 40 differentAboriginal of the Tasmanianaborigines'. (they managedto it out,l) My aborginality communitiesaround would be forcibly removedfrom their communities is a connectionthrough the generationsto pre-invasionTasmania and Queensland through m1'grorving unde rstanding of history aru1my anddeposited - imprisoned- on the island. own life experience,I am reminded.just how fragile the connection betrveengenerations before and the onestofollow can be. The severingeffect Removalto Palm Island was the heaviestpunishment a colonial officer is happeningno\v. Whereare.our elders? (living in 'filing cabinets'for the aged)What skills and of Iiving with could legally administer.In chargeof the new "reservesettlement" was an ex-army 91.ge1i9nce the land and seasare passeddown ro the next geneiation?(technology has killed it) Whereare captain,Robert Cuo)', a man with no previolrsadministrative experience. From the our children?(taught by beingoutsourced into educationt'acilities with a standardisedcurriculum. startthe settlementwas the residents(that is, prisoners)of the in beforeand after school care....theylearn how to queueand soon forget under-financed,with hou' to play).It is part a of lif'ebelbre tecnho-crazy, sub-urban living...before,marnsrream economlc island- violentlydenied their traditionalways of life (even speakingAboriginal Iif'e' pollution, L) , chemicals, to 5,24/7, beforeroads, the car culturelclear cuts, open cuts, languageswas forbidden)- surviving on meagre rations and living in complete dor.vnsizing,the fastlane, ...etc. we needcivilisation to crumbleto get backwhat we,velost. poverfy.Leprosy and venerealdisease spread through the settlement,and the doctors Our loveto you appointedto the islandby the colonial administrationwere, unsuprisingly,less than M------enthusiasticin their attemptsto curtailthe diseasesspreading. Perhapsan indicationofjust how desperatethings were on the islandduring this time is the mental collapseof AdministratorCurry - whose living conditions XXX would have been positively luxurious compared to the settlement'sAboriginal population- who in February1930 went on a destructiverampage, killing his own children and torching severalbuildings before he was shot by one of his own Discussionand feedback are welcomed. Write to: Aboriginalstaffers. In 1957 a seriesof incidentsinvolving the colonial stafPs treatmentof itsalreadyhere l.com Aboriginalwomen and a decisionby the colonialadministration to cut wages,led to a @wildmai strikeby the residents.The authoritiesresponded by expelling25 identifiedringleaders If you're not comfortablewith correspondencebeing published just of the resistance,and their families,from the island.A secondstrike occurredi:n l9'74 sayso. when the colonialadministration sacked the local CommunityCouncil and threatened Namesand personal information will be edited(as will to turn control of the island over to the City Council of Townsville - the nearest anythingtoo long).As always,please keep death-threats, name- mainlandcity. calling and shit-talkingoriginal if you want it to be consideredfor The AustralianGovenment finally relinquishedcontrol of Palm Island- at publication. least on paper- in 1985 when title for the island was passedto the Community Thanks! Council in the form of a DOGIT (Deed of Grant in Trust). While this gave the residentsa greatersay in the administrationof the island,the transferof title led to the removalof much of the Governmentinfrastructure. Soon after the decisionwas made, barges arrived and houses,shops, the timber mill and farming equipmentwere disassembledand shippedback to the mainland.The Aboriginal residentsof Palm Island - some of them Manbarrapeople, indigenousto the island, many of them indigenousto elsewherein Queenslandand transported(or the descendentsof those transported)to the settlementas punishmentfor their defianceof colonialauthorify - hadtheir traditionalways of life stampedout and replacedwith the poverfy"of colonial capitalistlife by the white Europeanoccupiers over the courseof 70 brutal years. Then, when they protestedtheir slave-like conditions and insisted upon some semblanceof independence,the Governmentpunished them for their perceived ingratitudeand removed everything it hadtaught them to rely upon. In the 20 years since this event,familiar symptomsof social traumaand denigrationhave set in as a direct result of the poverty,appalling conditions and Shetold me that I haveTasmanian aboriginal heritage ancl something clrcked into place.N{y grandfather subsequentdesperation of the communityof Palm Island,who grapplewith tlreweight 7 generationsago was Mannarlargenna. My familyline, on my niothersand farhers side, of a common legacyof colonization:they are at once brutally oppressedand utterly descendsfrom aboriginalwomen rvho were forcibly taken by thesealers because they had abilities to hunt(as well abandoned.A Deparlmentof Public Works Director-General'sbriefing note records as beinganother resource which was there forthe taking),i havetravelerj to Tasmania on numerousoccasions. I met my birthfatherand that in an 8 month period in 2003, there were 16 youth suicidesand 8 domestic hisfamily and the rest of my birthmother,sfamil1,. For the tirst time in my life I sawpeople who hadmy f'eatures- it wasmind.blorving srulfl I have murderson the island.The communify of 3500 indigenouspeople is squeezedinto hvo brothersand a sisteron my birthmother''sside and a brotherand sister on my hirthiather's.I also about220 houses,averaging 17 peopieto a house,The unemploymentrate on the metmy greatgrandmother (and for my daughter,her great, great grandmother'), and my grandmother island- rememberingthat the Aboriginal peoplecomprising the communifyof palm on my mothersside. On my father'sside, I metmy grandmotherand between both thire \\,eremany unclesand Island have had their traditionalways of life completelyannihilated * auntiesthat I beganto know.It wasso overwhelming, .. I can'tbegin to llndthe rvorils. is said to be years It's I I thisyear since that time. I foundsome answers to mf questionsand I havea around 95Yo,ln the late 1990's, The GuinnessBook of Recordslisted Palm Island. family again.We've been to FlindersIsland, where my birthmotherand birtllather grew up andsaw Australia'slargest indigenous community, as the mostviolent place on earthoutside theold of familyhomes and the churchand museum at Wybalenna,where aborigin.s *.r. takenonce a war-zone,Here we seethe extentof the damage theywere Australiahas done to its surviving 'roundedup'. We've been to sacredsites on thewest coast of Tasmanrarvhich was a very indigenouscommunities; the legacyof colonizationin its starkesttones. specialrime. How my heritagetranslates into real life is a real love of place,,.lve havea strong relationship buildingwith our landand the surrounds. We learnall thetime. The r.veather comes from the mountainsand I look to them - they teachme to be observant.My sensesare gradually awakening.I trust the landand am beginningto tunein to movementsand souncls. I love watching the diversityof birdlifeliving on theaircurrents, collecting insect life andnever ceasing ro *rur.n-,.'. (like fte w'aya dusky robincan perch on our fenceand thin fly halfrvavacross the gar.den to landat anexact spot pull and up a worm,..doesit seeminute changes in thesoil and knor.r'an earthlvorm is beneath?)There's alwayssomething to learn anci anorherstep towardsshedding the cultural conditioningthat we all grewup with. I readLeonard Peltier's book during the time a loggingcoup was berng rvorkecl nearby... his wordsof rvisdom and his storycut into me alongwith the soundiof charnsar.vsin the fbrest.I NEEDto feel pain this - it helpsto shedeach layer of domestication,Chellis and Derrick [Glendinning] [Jensen]are both wonderful writers and have each helped me to understandmany aspects oi myselfand psychosis the of civilizedculture. And I'm thanktuithat A--- beganto wakeme up rvhile we lere stillliving in suburbiaby askingme to read'lshmael',., my owntoipor may have continued indefinitelyif not for that first.step.I love listeningto ward Churchillrp.ui - the raw energyand truthof his words l haveread some of his essays...some I don'tgresp so well,however I don,t believe I'll everhear a moreeloquent and powerful understanding Jtlifl.,.the ghostsof500,000 kaqi babieson thewings of thoseplanes,.. or theuncierstanding-of horv rve are all colonized...rve gottakill thecolonizer. Sincethe uprising,the palm LatelyI've beendipping into the zines you sent- thankyou Israndcommunity has beenvirified by the very so muchl I-hereis so much political and excellentstufTwithin them.. and I cansee how people everywhere cultural establishmentthat createdits problemsin peter aretrying to conreto termsrvith the first place. gainingwhat'sbeen lost by understandingand action. Reading Lindsay, The FederalMember for Herbert (in which palm thisstuti'is o[en challengingand it,s Islano is situated),for sonecessary to me... I don'tever want to losesight of thereal rvorlcl instance,recently called his constituents,,dysfunctionur" again. *o-;rropeless,,.perhaps a reporterfor the ABC went even further in revealingtttr itu. nutup of Austraiia,s ...Our love to you... supposed'multi-culturism' and respect M------for its indigen-ouscultures: during trr. inqu.ri into Mulrunjie Doomadgee'sdeath (which at thiJwriting is stilr in progress),legar representativesfor Aboriginal witnesses 28'nOctober. 2005 requestedinterpieters for the witnesses,for whom Englishis not a first language(Aboriginal people'areno*-ut t.ust permittedto speak their own ranguages palm on tslano). The'reportei in question askedwhether I Aboriginal ,'w.hy asked an ''' [you] callmysetf aboriginal or referto myselfas having aboriginal spokesperson, can-,tthese people just heritagel preferto saythat ,poot frgtislrZ,, I haveaboriginal heritage because I feel iiacknowledges my ownhisrory Aside from the unabashed andexperiences. An anthropologist white supremacist.o,on,.ritury of the occupying wentto theBasi Strait Islancls in the1930,s to olassilythe culture- which, by the way, has no aboriginalpeople there. They were photographed, measured more regar_rightto ur o..upfing a singresquare (includingheacl cjrcumference). skin inchof Ausrrariathan, say, the U.s miritaryin rrai - th" p;; I:i*d .orruniry has "...1 don't everwant to losesight of the real world aguin.,, beentenorized since the uprisingby a paramilitarypolice force that has itself been Autumn 2005 nothing short of an almy of occupation on the island. Indeed, well-respected Aboriginal activistSam Watsonresponded to a questionfrom the mainstreammedia Dear----. about"violence in the Aboriginalcommunity" in the wake of the riot thusly:"The only A--- and I have beenreading your letterswith an overri " ltiita Crabb says, "tuecan discusstyhether hunrans u,ill changebefore, after or becauseofthe crash.But I think mostsintply von't. But it only maftersthnt the humanswho surt,it'echange." Hang on... l. ntoslhunrans v,ho suryiye won't change. Lo00ftl 2. To stal'tproperly ot,eragain, hunans who suryivemust change Aborlglnalland tttt Idefeats2!" aufYlt f Norrflrbcr 2O0a tr Land cedod to Inyrderg Actuall;t,point I is ntisreadingv,hat N ita wrote.She v rote that "mostsinrply won't", but she'snot talkingabout those vtlle sy1'1,i1'ethere - she'stalking about the entire humyn race ("before, after or becauseoftlrc crash" - be/brethe crash is Like I said totuardsthe end AgD. Sourcesworth checking out: of nty'.AgainstCivili;ation'piece (the title ofvthich I stolefronrareally excellentbook): a large portion of the humynrace is about to die o.ff.Yes, that is absolutelyfuckinghorrific. I'lo, there's http://itwillbethundering.resist.cahttp://pariah.alturl.com no gettingaround it. Infact, you could evensay that the longerv,e put if of.fthe vorse it will http://palm-island-news.newslib.com http://didj shop.com.au/Abori ginal_news_comments. htmI The chan6e o I vr1::d :_s conl::g. Brace yourself fon the blg chan6e - 6et ready. a"ndfight. Maybe it couldbe arguedthat the only oneswho could rightf'ullyresist the copswere those The Flre Creator for Jusllce 1s awoken. lhe power 150youth and their familiesand that help from someonelike me (on a separateoccasion) doing the ol tho flre ie allve and rncvlng and rsklndllng the flre of tne 6pir1l. samervould help them but thenagain cops are there to protectfamilies like mine in the first place.I 'to refuse ' Tbe tlne has coroe cure the: evl1, to shoulderthat guilt. rlght tho w:ong!. :,S '',1 Nita Crabbsays, "we candiscuss rvhether humans will changebetbre, al1er or because r, . Fr-. ,ra.-' of the crash.But I think most Tho lbl!eran cane Jr, *- simplyu'on't. But it only maltersthat the humanswho survivechanse." Ine vroDg f,ay. Hangon.,. Ij '.i' r',, . r;1r;. When he entered tra era a! our lendlbr ca.Ee I . mosthumans who surviveu,on 't change. r,.;i.r'r: i'r.f.d| the wrong uay. -- ;.ll...f til;d ,tl 2. To startproperly over again,humans r.vho survive must change. uomt-ng the wron wa' ta,g i.rI.., e l6tartlnE o e lYro foot.,.rrj I defeats2 ! In the sameway you sellyour zinefbr 3 dollars,Michael Moore sellsThe Corporation DVD (amongsthonorable others) through corporations fbrthirty cjollars,calling it'a nooserhar corporations,by sellingthis product,hang themselves rvith', It hassimilar destructive carrabrlities (in a positiveway) asyours but my ideais thatmaybe when activistmaterial hits the big time. corporationswill be forcedb1'the popularity ofsuch productsto changetheir ways Sweatshops coulclbecome so tiownedupon that big multinationalsmight be forcedto hire expensivelaboi. That l cansee happening soon. ...I reallyenloyed 'The Politics of Sadness','The Night is a Monsrer'and'FICHT BACK', andthe "rve'rein capitalisthell" billbroard,This is.juststuf'f I cansave in nrl,mind and use no matterwhat. I'm oneof manygirls who probaLrlywouldn't, of my orvnacoorcl, be ableto seethat exercisingpre'emptive mercy by not havingthe gutsto forcefullydisable an attacker,lbr the sakeof humanlife would be no good,Because they don't seeME ashuman lii-e. ...Hear from you soonI hope?Please take good care ofyourselll xxoooooxxL----- 2l't February,2005 hey L-----, Wonderful to hearfronr you. Thank you so nrucltfor your thoughts o1 n6, :ine I JJere the ev are my lhoughts in return... I take your poinl aboul lhe Counldov,n to Putsch thing abotil taking our tmte ctnd deciding.for ourselveswhat's in'rporlantand urgenilo us. At the same tinte, i think li/b isfucking precious,andsofuckingshort,thatwe'refoolstotakeitforgrantec)- I'ntsureCltptvoulrl *UNtl.m agree tltere. I also think that il's a mistake to lhink lhat ute'rein conrylete conh.ol antl t,e can choose what needsto be worked on nexl according tovhal is ntosl important lo us as people. I ust 1ce think the ecological nreltdown of the entire planet kind of negatesthoi. An author Leilbilore ,l called Ward Churchill has an anra;ing essay called ant Indigenist,, ythere he identifiei Tf' o P{ struggles such asfeminisnt, anti-honrophobia, anti-racisl, ettenanti-capitalisnt as secondary lo indigenous land rights. His reasoning is Ihat if ve had a queer,fentinisl, anti-capitalist etc rettolution today, our post-capitalist, post-patriarchy etc utopia wouLD srILL BE oN sroLEN L'41{D,just as our fucked sexist capitalist society was (is). He also argues thal indigenous cultures (in his discussion, specifically Anrct.ican Indian nation.s) hit,e an infinitellt healthier take on things like race and gender and sexualpreference, etc.- so he's not siying' ";ilTTI that thesestruggles should be abandoned, at all, he's saying that rhesestruggle,s ory nliroiy a lf part of awhole that requi.resour attention. ^- I do agreewitltrhese aspeus of iis,lntligenist, cii perspectite, "w and I think they applyjust as well lo lhe earth liberationient,ir"onntenlalstruggle. e Yt:l zztc0lL, Arabunna Nation . .I can relateto thc debilitatingpessimism you spokeol It's somethingthat visitsfiom time to time despitethe wonderf'ullife I'm leadingnow. We're all living outsideof our naturalplace gsffi By Kevln Gllberto and only after civilization has crumbledcan we truly be free of it. r0 ffi.radjuri Nation Love io you, The four of us. v,tOI,Htrgu (re73) XXX ",..we can'tjust drop everythingondfight," 5thFebruary, 2005 TONY (THE SEEDING . . .) Hey ---'-'. I pickedup a copyofyour zinethe otherweek! ... I remember\4urnrna-when the baby cameaiong Ok, first of all I like it becauseof the way it sits next to similar stuff I've read. We werelivin' at the old Trelawneyplace Rememberhon'you told me aboutCountdorvn to Putsch?Well, at the lastBelladonna I bdughttheir geta doctorhe wasmuch too far zine. A-'- took particularinterest in it but somethingI felt that it had that yours doesn'thave, is a And we couldn't senseofurgency to the point ofrefusingto acknowledgethat (healthy) humans have 80 yearsto live away and that we havethe right to take the time to choosejust what is really urgent,in our minds, and horv And we hadn'tany money so he wouldn'ttreat to helpovercorle it. Therervas one particular article which tore savagelyinto liberals... OUR race Daddylived on stationhandouts for the bit of "Sowhat is the ideology ofthe activist left (and by that we mean the globaljustice, peace, media work he did democracy,community organizing, financial populist and green movements)? lsthe activist left just an And we ateoff the wild rabbitsthat he caught inchoate"post-ideological" massof do-gooders, pragmatists andpuppeteers? No,The young Or whenwe were real hungry he would go andsteal troublemakersoftoday do have an ideology and it isas deeply felt and intellectually totalizing asany of a sheep thegreat beltef systems ofyore. The cadres who populate those endless meetings, who bang the drum, He'dlaugh and bring it in thedoor'Look whatI've wholead the "kaining's" and paint the puppets, do indeed have a creed.They are activistists, bought!' "That'sright, activistists, This brave new ideology combines the political illiteracy of But the laughterslowly faded as my mumma's hypermediatedAmerican culture with all the moral zeal of a 19th-centurytemperance crusade. Inthis time drewnear worldview,allroads lead to more activism and more activists. And the one who acts is righteous The Her bodyhunchin' tightly up with pain activististsseem to borrow their philosophy from the factory boss in a HeindchBoll short story who greets The crinklelines upon his facegrew deep and dark hisemployees each morning with the exhortation "Let's have some action," To which the workers with fear obedientlyreply: "Action will be taken!" " As herode out for thedoctor who wouldnot come, again. Whatyour zine does seem to advocate though, rvith all this in mind, is resolve toget violent. I think of my dad, r.vhois one pissedoffguy with (but the rvorld neveraggressive.) At the I rememberMumma when the babycame along most fi'ustratingtimes for him, he burrows into his Chomsky collectionand returnsvery cynical (and her handsscrewed tight aroundthe old informed) about everything.We watched 'The Incredihles'and he was CONVINCED it was With propaganda(actually he managedto convinceme it was propaganda),But he'snot about to go take a bedstead torchto a Macca's,or tanglewith the police,or stealanything (that would be againsthis conscience) Her dear,dear body twitching,screaming all that becausehis highestpriority, evenrvith such an understandingofpower, is to take careofhis family, awful night meaningraising the means(rvhich he has done all by himselt) by which we can get educatedand be Till silencecame with morning-both weredead. ableto takeour own time to chooseto tight.This is great!! Now we live back on the missionand my daddyis Of course,people who resolveto not fight andjust "go with the t'low" and dismiss a drunk activistsas "bleeding hearts" ancl "people looking for somethingto whingeabout" are utterly shit and Its not as nice as old Trelawneyplace rvalkon a very delicaterope. Death comes to themsuddenly because they don't expecta blemishin I'm gonnabe a doctorwhen I growup someday theirlives (ofrvorking hard and beingan "Aussiebattler" or not.) Or a soldier--captainmaybe and I'll figirtfor my An,uvay,through this exampleof my dad, my point is that we can'tjust drop everything blackrace! cold climateand rve'recunently puttingin more conventionalgarden beds, We eat a lot of salads primarily madeu'ith wild greens.I havenou startedhunting to providemeat. And i'll haveto take up fishing as r.vell.There is so much to learn that it is ovenvhelming at times u,hen I come fiom a Yeah,I'll fight'emon my ownsome day so no one completelysuburban upbringing and aren't in the leastbit a handyman. elsegits hurt We havet'ree'range chickens for eggsand a coupleof t'reeranging milking eoats.I knou. it is domestication, And I'll shoottheir soldiers-everybloody man which is somethingthat I ideallyrvould have likecl to ui'uid,but I ilio neeclto be realisticin what Until they know the wrong they do and why my we can achieve.The goatshave a lot to teachus. The StateForest all alound mummadied us and all over the stateis beingraped, poisorrecl and turned tnto plantationmonoculture, The rumbleoithe log trucksas they pass by our placeis an ever.present Yeah,one day I'm gonnashoot right back- reminder of the ongoingecocide. We've.just beentold that the recenflylogged coLrp behind us is I'LL MAKE themunderstand! ! going to be sprayedwith roundupto kill even,rvild plant so they can ptint their single specics seedlings.Once they've planted the seedlingsthey'll be sprayingrorn. pot.nt chemicalt6-at prevents any seed from germinating for six months. The tears are rvelling up having .just rvritien this THEFLOWERINC... paragraph. I really appreciatethe quote you finishedyour letterwith. A visiting ltiend recentll, When the white man took his bloodiedboot remarked thatthey had nevermet a happierchild than our son,and the way we aretrying to live our From tle neck of the buggaredblack lives gives great.joy, us It's a diftlcult processovelcoming thirty odd year:sof condiiioningancl l'e Did you expectsome gratitude havea long way to go. His smile'Good on you Jack?' When your psalmistsang Enoughfor now Love to you' Of a sufferingChrist The four ofus. Whileyou practisedgenocide Did you expecthis hatewould fade Winter 2005 Out of sight with the ebbingtide? In anothertime, anotherage IJ^., Gee I've been If fate had reversedthe play really busy of late. We ende Summer200412005 And that makessense too. Many country Aborigines are afraid ,Black power' Hey of -'--, becauseto them it hasmeant ...Welive on tbrtyacres of landthat is roughlyhalf cleared and half bush. We border urban Aboriginesdescending on their town, kicking stareforest and that in turn bordersNational Park. Our daughter(ll yearsold) andson (almost 7) up hell about something,usually pu6 or don'tgo to school.Instead they simply live and love lit'e. We areworking towards sustainability as far asour foodgoes. Last year we triedsimply scattc.ringseed Fukuoka style but foundthat his methodswere not workablewith our clay soil and Late September2004 wage Dear A----, discrimination,and clearingout. The local blacks are left, undefended,to cop the ineviiablewhite reprisals.Never_ "The consensusassumption of cittili:ation is theless,the ideaof BlaCkpower rhat an exponenrially expanding huntan population hasenableJ many Aborigines, tt'ilh exponentially expanding consunlption especiallythe youngergeneration, of material resources can continue. based on to lift their treiostowa]rds a dwindling resources and a dying ecosystem. Tltis is simply absurd. vision of hope and a new Nonerheless,cit'ili:ation dignity. It has brought a subtle continues ott tpith no memory of its history and changeto many no t,ision of itsfuture." - William H. Koetke, of the most down_trodden,f.igfrteneO com- 'The Final Entpire: The Collapse munities of Ch,ilization and the Seed of the Future,. and it is no accidentthat all blackswh6 knew of the Embassyand understgod aims,hailed it. its message_land '.'Yes, I do believe that the planet is overpopulated. L'erymuch so.Clearly at soutepoint I hat,e rightsfor black Australia.concurrent with this is the-iactthat come to consider owrpopulalion afact, rather than an opinion, or else I vould htit,e qLtolifiecl blackseverywhere are no-longerjust 'Against acceptingbut u.. uJuUtl the statenrentsin the Cit'ili:ation'piece in ny:ine. My bad. The nuo authors that questioningthe squalor, J'tte the purpbsel"rrn"rr,dre waste of theii read recently that address issues of (ot,er)population spectfically are Derrick Jen,cen -. ltvesancl the social in the conditionthey find themselvesin. book he's about to finish writing, excerpted in the :ine the ttolunrc Black,Power,. [N.B Jirst of this book, as.symbol,signifies the return to pride,to entilled'Endgame; The Collapse of Cittilization and the Rebirth of Comnrunity', is scheduled manhgoct,.lor to Aborigineswho havelong agolost theitatus of be published around the sante tinte as this:ine you're reoding righr nov,J - and warrl will provide 3.n:..It a new identity_imigeltnf time positive. Clurchill,inanessayofhiscalled'lamlndigenist',whichappears inseveral ofhisbooks,rhe It will, in time, ,give spellthe end of tne arun-t XXX happen lnyyay, regardlessof what good measuresare gorng to be implementedby the Labor government.It is "What scoresme is the idea that we will destroyourselves without g:i:g t? happen-insome areas, as a spontaneousthing. It has in the last Iravinglearnt just how wrongwe've been..." .happened two or three years quiie dramaticallyon lots of missionsand reserves.A can has beenp-ut on this, to keep it quiet. Nobody knows l4th September2004 about it at all. Yet it has happenedfrequently. It has to be expectedbecause the peoplehave Dear----. been suppressedfor so long andfhey're. just sick and tired ...do you reallythink the planetis overpopulated?(l'm pickingup on a line in your piece of p#mises, pro_ qa.mTes,pilot projectsand about how we've 'overshotthe carrying capacity' ofthe earth).i've neverbeen entirely convincedby beingtold whit to do by the white bossesand this argument- I thought the problem was more to do with distribution (of population,of food and administrators.-Havingttlings planned for themby people crops,ofresources) than overpopulation.Over-consumption, sure, I think that's a given. who don't really havetheiiinierest at In termsof the idea of 'civilisation',I think you're right in sayingthat it's an inherently heart.Being deceived and deniedtirings. I think they are just 'civilised'thing to talk/doubtof the conceptin the tlrst place.This is the theory-readinguniversity goingto hit out. studentin me, which is not necessarilya great or particularly 'truthfirl' position to be speakingfrom, As I attendedmeetings and askedquestions but I don't think we can 'get out' ofcivilisation.Structuralist theory l0l would bethat as soon as you both of city and outback blacks, the idea have language,you have separation(of the self liom the world in our ability to identif/name things) of impending violence came throughrepeatedly both - separationmeans that all ofour understandingis constructed,by language.'Nature' as rve conceive from the articulateblacks and from thosewhose depth it is a construct,because we can't think of it without the mediationof language.Therefore everything of pain and hatred had left them almost rncoherent (for us) is cultule - 'civilisation' to a greateror lesserdegree. It's a theory that has many flaws (1bra on the subject.And over and over again they start,it assumesthat'language'is a one-waystreet between us and everythingelse in the world, stressedthat violenceis necessary,not as aggressio;somucil that.is part rvithout any accountofnon-humyn languages),but I rvould agreewith the idea that in the end rve are lat$ouel of it) as ior d4encZi defenceagainst alr.vaysseparated to some degree - becauselanguage constructs us - from everything else. You policepersecution and actsof small-townand city bullyingby knor.v.I can't 'be' the tree, I can't 'merge' with my environment,however much I'd like to. I can't whites.As Paul Coe put it: get beyond or language, before but I supposemy qualification to the theory would be: ifthat's the I don't believe case,I should probablytalk lessand listen more to lbrms any Aboriginal will initiate violence.But other of languagethen. I believe When I r.vasreading a lot of stuff on the idea of apocalypseearlier in the year, I read an that,like all groupsaround the world who have intervier.vrvith the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, and his ideas were really interesting...if I been colonized,Aborigines will take a defensiverole. remembercorrectly, his basic argumentwas okay, we're destroyingthe planet and it's bad but rest They will ensurethat-they survive as a race. They will assured,the planet is going to destroyus first. We'll probably rvipe out humanity,but it's arrogantof ensurethat their kids don't keepdlng from malnutiition, us to think thatthe riseand f'atlof the planetcoinoides with the riseand fall of humanbeings. We've that-theywill not be usedanaltused ascheap labour. i only beenhele fbr a blip on the planetstime-line, and that's all we ever will be. The planetwill think that when you take into accountthe inititutional- survive rvithout us, becausethat is 'normality' - the time of humanity is an anomaly in the life of ized violencethat most Aborigineshave to live under Earth. and their psychicreactions against it, then you:vegot to It soundsincredibly nihilistic, which I supposeit is from a human perspective(the only find a way,some kind of defensivemechanism that ;llows perspective we have) - and I (nor don't think do I think he meant) that this mitigates our the peopleto surviveas a raceand I think that one day, responsibilityfbr the destructionwe have caused.Of courserve have to fight it, but if damageis the the out$owth of this, of Aboriginal men and irreversibleancl rve destroy ourselvesbecause of it, perhapsit's a fircking good thing for the long womjn qigking up guns,wilt be just. To me, term health of the planet. What scaresme is the idea that we will rvithout having the idea that the destroyourselves Aboriginalpeople will one day pick learntjust hor.vrvrong rve've been.that we'll go down draggingas much of the planet with us as rve up the gun, to use it perhaps,to build their can grab hold of, stubbornlyblind to the fact that rve are the onesat fault. own separateitate o, find some " much love' A---- process'To nte,that nrcansa nruchincreased needfor total autonomyanrl clecisitte aclion, in ordertowrenchourlit'e_sfrontthemawofdonrinationanddontesticitionbeforeil,stoolute In any case, wherheryou disagreedv,ith something or simplymisunderstood it (or ntis_ rementberedil, consideringyou muslhat,e v,ritten your criticisntsvithout a copyoJ the :irte to other_wayof ensuringthat the racedoes survive, is a just hand),'shir'is a prertystrongv,ord ro usero afriend abouttheir,first et,er solozine. one. It's somethingthat I'm not frightenedof becauseit I lotally agreewith your sentimentabout our potuer.I i,eallydid try to nrakethe ;ine is somethingthat's just got to happen.I seethat there as enrpov,ering as I couldfor people reading it (andfor myselfputring it together).The other will be no alternative.. . . n1opeoplg who've sofar given ntefeedbackdid seemto get tllisout of thezine. possiblythe focus onfentinistdirect action/sel/-defense assured Even the more coDservativeelements agree on this.Neville this,-asrhey rrnrr" bo,h wontytl. Webolh knotvthatyou can out-analyze(and Bonnerstated, after the fall of the Embasiy,a peacefulblack out-argue)nre, D---,Hott aboutinstead you keepnrc on my toesby conrinuingro contribure demonstration,'I can't seehow violencecan rofuturelssuesofthe zine? be-avoidednow'. Thanks aga i n he PastorFrank Robertscommented, for t fe edb ac k. Stru g g Ie wi th /a nd/for_ ove, The militants have becomea creativeforce-- If it is rightfor the earth, our mother, it is right. If the humynrace - and perhapsthe planetitself - is going to survivethis cancer called civilization,we must find our way back to this placeof certainfyand love, at any cost.Everything depends upon this. two distinguished Germanprofessors, Alfred Hoche and Karl Bindipg,wrro wrote a I,IKE LIGHTNING AGAINST philosophical permission treatise entitled The to Destroy Lt"fe unworthy of Lrfe, emphasizing the supposedhealing quality of suchdestruction (that's "healing,' for ine A HOLLOW LIMB: bfoadersocial body, not healingfor theunfortunate lives "unrvorthy oflife,', obviously). This workwas merely a brickin theelaborately constructed wall of Nazi moralitv. We considerthe Nazi's extremenot becauseof the endlesspiles of corpses they produced- THOUGHTSON cold, calculatedmass-murder is an everydayoccurrence in this culture - but becausethey were so crassand unabashedwith their insanejustificationsfor such massivebloodshed, atldbecause nowadays we canproduce the mountajlsof corpsesso PRIMAL GUERRILLA muchmore quietly and efficiently. But thecorpses are still piling up. WARFARE- PART 1 And thejustifications are still insane. The mechanical heartof civilizationhasn't misseda beat,ancl morality, its twistedsoul, not only oils the gearsby providingpurpose and jusrificationfor rhe By Kevin Tucker slaughterof the naturalworld and its inhabitants,but it tries to l-nuk.u. all f'eelgood aboutit, too. Asking the Right euestions, Finding Some Answers PLEASENOTE: This is not an argument for or surrounding the reality of collapse, But what anarcho-primitivist critique, questionsof wildness, or what a post-collapserl'orld of the infants born into primitive communitieswho choseto limit theirpopulation through mav look like - you'll find that elsewhere(much of it I've discussedin some depth infanticicle?Were they not.just as innocent as the vrctirns of the Nazi's? in speciesTraitor 4). This is explicitly intended to lay out and explore tactical questions for those who recognize civilization as their enemy, its collapse as Certainlythey were,but that is r.rotthe right question. The problemis not death. inevitable (regardlessof how long 'inevitable' might be), and that action must be Deathis a cruciarpart of the naturalcycre, All of thesepeople we arediscussing taken againstit. weresure to die,justu.l u- sureto die,an ...In closing,I would like to turn againto the critics,the skeptics,those who will decry what has been said here as being "unrealistic," or even "crazy." on the former score,my reply is that as long as rve def,rnerealisrn, or reality itself, in conventionaltenns, the terms imposedby the order of understandingin which we now live, we will be lockedforever into the trajectory in which we presentlyfind ourselves.We will never break free, because any order, any structure,defines realify only in terms of itself. Consequently,allow me to echothe seutimentsexpressed in the Frenchstudent revolt of 1968;"Be realistic;demand the impossiblel" If you read through a volume of American Indian oratory, and there are severalavailable, you'll find thatnative people have been saying the samething all along. As to my being crazy, I'd like to say, "Thanks for the compliment." Again, I follow my elders and my ancestors- and R. D. Laing, for that matter - in believing that when confronted lvith a society as obviously insaneas this one, the only saneposture one can adopt is what that socierywould automaticallydesignate crary.l mean,it wasn't Indians who tu'ned birthing into a religious fetish while butchering^s a couple hundred rnillion people with rveaponsof mass destructionand systematicallystarving anotherbillion or so to death. Indians never had a Grand lnquisition, and we never came up with a plumbing plan to reroutethe water flow on the entire continent.Nor did we ever produce"leaders" of the caliber of Ronald Reagan,Madeline Albright, and pat Buchanan,Hell, we never even figured out that tuming prison constructioninto a major growth industrywas an indication In wildness, there is no true control. You can't control everything that can and of social progressand enlightenment.Maybe we were never so much crazy as we were congenitallyretarded. will happen to you. But this lack of complete control is not like the powerlessness we feel. All beings do things that have strong effects on the Whateverthe reason,and you'll excuseme for suspectingit might be somethingother than lives of others. That is the nature of being, living and existing. You don't have crazinessor retardation,I'm indescribablythankful that our culturesturned out to be so complete control, but nothing has complete control over you. different, no matter how much abuseand sacrifice it's entailed.I'm proud to stand inside Domestication, by its nature, changed that relationship. Though only in the heritageof native struggle. proud I'm to say I am an unreconstructableindigenist. For minute and sometimes frivolous ways during its long inception period, the me, there's tro other reasonableor realistic way to look at the world. And I invite anyone very word: to make for domestic use, implies the violence of breaking a wild rvho sharesthat viewpoint to come aboard, regardlessof your race, creed, or national spirit so that it can be turned into controlled fodder. That applies to origin. domesticated humans as much as it does the plants, animals and environments that have been brought under this perceived realm of domination. And it turns inwards. When our world has been put in terms of control, MaybeChief Seattlesaid it bestback in 1854: we can only see it that way. We respond to the lack of control we have over "Tribe follows n'ibe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea, Your time of our lives as a whole and embrace the minor choices we can make as a sign of decaymay be distant,but it will surely come,for men the white man whosegod walked our control. We become psychological predators: embracing the carrot dangled with him and talked with him asfriend withf iend, cannot be exemptft,om the common before our eyes and waving our piece of it before others as an examPle of our destinv,We mav be brothers after all. lVewill see." level of control. A part of the rewilding process means coming to terms with our lack of control. And rather than seeing this as the powerlessness we feel in the hierarchy of civilized sociefy, using this as a vantage point to understand that wildness is not about a Darwinian battle for survival or the dialectic of nature, but about the flow of energy. that I'm advocating"genocide." Get oJfthat bullshit.It's genocidewhen sotnecetitralized That is cooperation rather than competition. And that is the underlying state,or somecolonizing power, imposes sterilization or aboftionon targetgroups. It's not distinction between civilization and wildness. genocideat all when we recognizethat v,e have a problern,and talcethe logical steps FIow has long been an essential part of martial arts. It applies the basic ourselvesto solve thern. Voluntary sterilizationis not a part of genocide.Voluntary principles of wiidness to understand and better utilize the human body and abortion is not a parl of genocide. And, most irrportzurt,educating ourselvesand our then spread outwards. The rigorous training is meant to condition and imprint respectivepeoples to bring our birth ratesunder colltrol tlrrough consciousresorl to birth the muscles with certain types of movement, but beyond this, the underlying controlmeasures is not a part of genocide,What it rs, is part of taking responsibilityfor element of nearly every form of martial arts is that you cannot control what ourselvesagain, of taking responsibilityfor our destinyand our children'sdestiny. lt's movements your opponent/s will make, but when you see how their energy about rooting the ghost of the Vatican out of our collective psyches,and the ghosts of with flows, you can redirect it and use it against them. Adam Smith and Karl Marx. It's about getting back in touch o:urown ways, our ovlr? knowledge,and it's long past time we got out of our own way in this This is as important an exercise as it is a lesson. And with our limited traditions, aur own respect.We've got an awful lot to unlearn,and an awful lot to relearn,not tnucli tirne in ability to see wildness on its own terms, this will have to be a vantage point for which we can afford the luxury of avoidance,and we needto get on with it. our discussion. I'll get into the importance of martial arts as training in a later section, but The other aspectof populationI wantedto take up is that there's anotherway of counting. flow is about more than fighting, it's about looking differently at the way the One way, the way I just did it, and the one it's conventionallydone, is to simply point to world interconnects, and that is applicable on every level. By applying this to the nunber ofbodies,or "peopleunits." That's valid enoughas far as it goes,so rvehave to the nature of technological civilization, it helps to understand how it carries on look at it and act upon what we see,but it doesn't really go far enough.This brings up the and where its weaknesses ale (a lesson indigenous resistors have been secondmethod, which is to count by differential ratesof resourceconsurnption - that is to successful in pushing on). This understanding is essentiai to the process of say, the proportional degreeof envirorunentalimpact per individual - and to extrapolate lewilding. It has been said that you can survive off of primitive skills, but the that into peopleunits. Using this method,which is actuallymore accuratein ecological ability to live in wildness comes through primal knowledge and primitive life terms,we arrive at conclusionsthat are a little different from the usual notion that the most overpopulatedregions on earth are in the Third World. The averageresident of tlie United ways as a holistic approach rather than just having a hammer stone instead of States,for example,consumes about thirty times the resourcesof the averageUgarrdan or a hammer. And the sarne goes for applying this in your personal life: it is Laotian.Since a lot of poor folk residein the U. S., this translatesinto the averageyuppie about understanding the nature of powerlessness rather than just looking at consumingabout sevenfy times the resourcesof an averageThird Worlder. where control lies. It is about understanding what it means to be up against a system that is both psychological and physical. Every yuppie bom has the same impact on the environmentas another seventyCl.rinese. Taken together, this is an entire way of approaching the world rather than Lay that one on the next Polo-cladgeek who approachesy,ou with a baby stroller and an just a laundry list of what is good and bad. And it is about efficiently targeting outragedlook, demandingthat you to put your cigaretteout, eh? Tell 'em you'll snuff the that system, Revolutionaries, never questioning the issuesof control, have only smokewh'en they snuff the kid and not a moment before. Better yet, tell 'em they need to sought to reasserttheir power the only way they know it be it reclaiming their get busy snuffing themselves,along with the kid, and do the planet a real favor. Iusl labor, or their land (usually meaning their farms), or through religion. You "kidding" (heh-heh). take back your labor, but you still have to work. It's a never-ending cycle, and Returningto the topic at hand,you have to rnultiplythe U.S. populationby a factor of one that fails to recognize the source of that innate feeling of unease about the thirty - a noticeablyhigher ratio than either Western Europe ol Japan- in order to figure direction our lives are heading. out how many Third Worlders it would take to have the same environmentalimpact. I And in this sense, r'evolutionaries only replace one philosophy with makethat 7.5 billion U.S. peopleunits. I think I canthus safely say the rnostoverpopulated another. They put all their trust in the world that lies awaiting and the portionof the globeis the UnitedStates. Either the consumptionrates really have to be cut assurancethat the Revolution will change everything. But rer,r'ilding,the anti- in this country,most especiallyin the rnore privilegedsocial sectofs,or the nurnberof domestication process, is not something proscribed or some path to follow. It people must be drasticallyreduced, or both. I advocateboth. How much? That's a bit is about establishing connections on a personal and unmediated level. There subjective,but I'll tentativelyaccept the calculationsof William Catton, a respected are skills and words that can give direction, but it's not about waiting for the ecologicaldemographer. He estimatedthat North America was thoroughly saturatedrvith Revolution or Insurrection to create or unleash something within: it is about humansby 1840.So we needto get both populationand consrunptionlevels down to rvhat finding that here and now. they were in that year,or preferablya little earlier. You can't touch wildness, but you can feel it. It's something knowable. Communism, socialism, and anarchism, like Islam, Bucldhism, Christianity, Here rve are in the midst of a rapidly worsening environmentalcrisis of truly global and Judaism, are ideas that we believe in time will prove themselves true. you proporlions,every last bit of it attributableto a wildly acceleratinghuman consumptionof wait, you act and you're either wrong or you/re not, but these are causes. the planetan habitat, and you have one of the world's major ofienders expressinggrave These are matters of belief rather than experience (or, in the case of religion, collcern -or"trvo. that the rate at which it is able to consumemighi actually drop a notch dictated experience). Think about it. I suggestthat this attitude signifies nJtning so inuch- as stark, staring The nature of primal war lies in these feelings and experiences,not just the madness.It is insane:suicidally, homicidally, ecocidally, o*iiridoly insane.No, l,m no] ideas of them. Like anything, there is always the risk that this becornesrhetoric being rhetorical l meantwhat I've just said in the most literal way possible,but I do1,t rather than genuine, and certainly with some people it has, But the real want to collveythe misimpressionthat I seethe Japaneseas being iri this respectunique. difference lies in the attainable nature of wildness. It creates a known Rather,I intend them to serve as merely an illustration of a far broaderand quite viruient conviction unlike pathology a known belief. called"industrialism" - or, lately,"postindustrialism" - a sicknesscentered in an But most of us have never known what its like to live among a wild utterly obsessivedrive to dominateand destroythe naturalorder. (Words like ,,production,', community. We haven't had that experience, at least not with a wild human "consurnption,""developrnent," and "progress" are mere code rvords masking this reality). community. But the steps are there and with growing strength, they are being It's not only the industrialized countries which are afflicted with this dis-ease.One taken. it's part of the larger process. byproduct ofthe past five centuriesof Europeanexpansionism and the resultinghegemony of eurocentl'icideology is that the latter has been drummedinto the consciousnessof mosl And, as I said earlier, that is a processthat goes back way before us. peoples to the point rvhere it is now subconsciouslyintenralized. Everywhere, you find Primal guerrilla warfare is no more recent than primal war. That is in people thinking it "natural" to view themselvesas the incarnationof god on earth - i.e., terms of reality instead of terminology. we can look immediately towards the "createdin the imageof God" - and thus dufy-boundto "exercisedominion overnature', iu type of resistance earth based societies have taken against colonizers ancl the order that they can "multiply, grow plentiful, and populate the land,' in ever increasing armies of expanding states. "abundance." Largely, the concepts of conquering and complete annihilation have no The legacy of the forced labor of the latifundia and inculcationof Catholicism in Latin point of comparison in indigenous societies. They don't have that created America is a tremendousoverburden of populationdevoutly believingthat "wealth', can be competitive drive that fills mass graves. What colonizers were doing was often achieved (or is defined) by having ever more children. The legacy of Mao,s not seen for what it was because it was so unthinkable. But, this was not implementationof "reversetecturology" policy - the official .nrourug.mint of breakneck always the case.There was never a completely successful case of conquering childbearing rates in his already overpopulated country, solely as a means to deploy without resistance.And where that resistance laid, though only a footnote in tnassive labor power to offset capitalisrn's "technological advantage" in production - history, it was hardly insignificant. resultedin a tripling of China's populationin only two generations.And then there is As we'll see in more detail in the next sectiory the very nature of a wild life India... puts everything in place for would-be guerrilla warriors. Hunting is about stealth, evasion, tracking, and stalking. Making Make absolutelyno mistakeabout it. The planetwas neverdesigned to accommodatesix your own tools makes you less likely to be wasteful billion humart beings, rnuch less the ten billion predicted to be here a mere forfy years and pushes you to practice aim under any number of circumstances. hence.If we are to be aboutturning power relationsaround between people, and between Foraging and trekking make you tnore u*ire of your surroundings groups of people, we lt.lustalso be about turning around the relationshipbetweel people and give a deeper insight into the nature of ecosystems. and the restof the naturalorder. If \ve don't, we'll die out as a species,just like any other These are just a few general elements of the awareness that spreacl from speciesthat irrevocablyovershoots its habitat.The sheernumbers of humanson this planet necessity and the flow of wild living. But more to the point for our purposes needsto come down to about a quarterof what they are today,or maybe less,and the plain here, all of this comes together in a spiritual sense. That's just the way h.tmans fact is that the bulk of thesenumbers are in the Third World. So, I'll say this clearly:not have interpreted our relationship with our bioregions and communities. And a only must the birth rate in the Third World cornedown, but the populationlevels of Asia, part of that is a sense of being defined not by territory or boundaries or Latin America, and Africa must be reduced over the next few generatiols. The numbers something external, but between the complete interconnectedness of beings: must startto come down dramatically,beginning right now. the realization that we are not an isolated Self in competition with the external Other. Life is wound up with community, both human Of course,there's another dimension to the populationissue, one which is in someways and non-human. when you understand life in this way even more important,and I want to get into it in a minute. But first I have to say something and have this kind of connection, you wind up with else.This is that I don't rvant a bunch of Third Worldersjumping up in my face screaming primal warriors who fight in defense of what they know rather than over ideals (like the spread of Democracy and Freedom, for example). This is heart and soul, not fodder. And this is an incorruptible desire to remain wild, And this is the kind of spirit of resistancethat has been nearly universal when it comes to the defense of indigenous societies against this global empire. Populationand Environment This is the spirit of primal war. And this is something no revolutionary could ever understand By WardChurchill [Part 2 of this work in progresswil appearnext issue.] Excerptedfrom theauthor's essay 'I Am Indigenist,,as published inActs of Rebellion;The WardChurchiil Reader. ."The population ofindigenous nationseverylvhere has alrvaysbeen detennineclby the number of peoplethat could be sustainedin a given environmentor bioregionwiihout overpowering and therebydestroying that environment.A very carefully calculatedbalance - one which was calibrated to the fact that in order to enjoy certarn sorls of materia.l comfort, human population had to be kept at some level below saturatiol - was alrval,s maintained between the number of humans and the rest of the habitat. In order to accomplish this, nativepeoples have always incorporatedirrto the very core of our spiritual traditionsthe concept that all life forms anclthe earth itself possessrights equal to those enjoyedby humans. Rephrased,this meansit would be a violation of a fundamentof traditional incligenouslarv to supplantor eradicate anotherspecies, whether animal or plant, in order to n,u'i..way for some greaternumber of humans,or to increasethe level of rnaterialcomfort availableto thosewho already exist. Conversely,it is a fundamentalrequirement of traditional law that eachhuman accept his or.her primary responsibility,that of maintainingthe balalce and harmonyof the natural order as it is encountered.One is essentiallyfree to do anythingo'e wants in an indigeuoussociery so long as this cardinalrule is adheredto. ...cur!,ing capacity is a fairly constant reality; it tends to change over thousanclsof years, *tr.n il changesat all. what I'm going to say.next will probablystarlle a few people...I think this pr.incipleof populationrestraint is the singlemost importantexample Naiive North America can set for the rest of humanify.Itis the thing rvhich it is most crucial for othersto emulate.Check it out' I recentlyheard thatJapan, a smallisland nation which hasso rnanypeople that they,re literallytumbling into the sea, and which hasexported about half againas many peopleas live on the home islands, "birth is expressing"official concern"that its rate has declined very slightly over the last years. few The worry is that in thirty years there'll be ferver workers availableto "produce",a'd thusto "consume"whatever ii is that'sproduced. Ever askyourself what it is that'sused in "producing"something? Or whatlt is that,sbeing "consumed"?Yeah You got it. Nature is being consumed,and rvith it the ingredientsthat allow ongoing human existence. It's true that nature can replenish sorne of rvhat is consumed,but only at a certain rate. That rate has beenvastly exceeded,and the extent of exces-sis increasingby the moment.An overburgeoninghumaniry is killing the natural world, and thus itself. It's no more complicatedthan that.