Green Anarchy #10

A Quarterly Journal of
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by Jack Wylde

organization: act of organizing; the manner in which the
branches of a service, etc. are arranged; individuals
systematically united for some work; a society.

Peering out a jetliner window over the coast of Los Angeles,
California, my thoughts drift into disgust by what afograces
my vision. Sustaining this burgeoning parking lot with all of
its sewage, industrial waste and State-dependent citizenry is
that which cannot be reconciled by even the most far-reaching
pipe-dreams of liberal reform. Orchestrated squares glow sad
and gray in artificial light. Black veins of asphalt flow with the
diseased blood of civilization. It is Earth's very plasma that
brings alive this lack-of-concentration
camp, if decaying cement and blank
stares can be called life.

Myriad boxes of all sizes upon the
squares completes the picture as we
descend. Massive amounts of razor
wire contain and maintain this giant
factory of which prison is a
microcosm. L.A. is the future of
everywhere slated for development.
Cities and prisons are the logical
endpoint of progress. Civilization's
integral deception, Progress, the
ultimate excuse for covering over
wildness with order — organization.

Just when hip-hop has transcended
the false dichotomy of east coast vs.
west, a new and equally false one has
arisen. This time it's not Tupac and
Biggie; instead-much too publicly
known anarchists are fabricating the
illusion of polarized scenes. These scenes are the same as other
subcultures, except that police surveillance and repression
create added pressures on our ability to relate well with one
another and everyone else. Seasoned civil disobedience activists
tell newcomers repeatedly that they must learn to work with
people they do not agree with politically and sometimes do
not like at all. "After all," they say, "we all have the same goals."
This lie is the same one perpetuated in offices, factories and
schools. Involuntary cooperation between people in order to
serve some righteous cause cannot be considered liberating.

In my own process of discovery, I fell into what I call
Organized Revolt. Any liberating idea for action must first be
run through a consensus process. Ideally, this is a
wonderful and non-hierarchical form of decision
making. In the hands of fundamental pacifists or any
reformist group claiming to have the one-path-to-
liberation, it becomes a counter-revolutionary tool
used to crush dissenting opinion. This leads to severe
burnout, and in my case, getting extremely fed up.

Fed up with meetings where militants are seen as
obstructions to consensus. Fed up with feeling obliged
to work with uninspiring and draining cling-ons to
the movement who have nothing to offer but argument
and strife where strategy and action are required. Fed
up with feeling too tired and overwhelmed by
moderation and violence vs. nonviolence arguments
to even express my "extremist" views. Fed up with
sacrificing my passion for the destruction of this
civilization just to not offend people or violate demonstration
permits that were forced down my throat to begin with. I spent
hours trying to relate to people I would never voluntarily hang
out or live with. This got me nowhere but pissed off and
unmotivated to do anything.

In response to this despair, I found a way out. This involved
considering everyone else's opinions and ideas of liberation
and, after careful deliberation, working and playing with only
those people whom I feel solidarity with in any given situation.
I create my Utopia every day, because every day is all I've got
to work with. Be open to other's subjective Utopias; discover
whose dreams you would like to find yourself in, and in doing
so, find out who the players will be in your own. It is a voluntary
collective effort at imagination and creation of our daily lives
and interactions that will deliver us away from sub-cultural
scenes and ever closer to our visions of liberation.

JUST A DREAM?

Every individual is capable of contributing to the great
anthology of freedom. Each of our essays can flow together
into volumes of liberating experience until a mutually agreeable
collective existence emerges. To rescue these concepts from

abstract oblivion, I will illustrate them with an example. A
group of people from all different backgrounds came together
for a weekend to prepare an action against a large biotechnology
corporation. People were invited only by word of mouth and
no flyers or press advisories were sent out ahead of time. This
gave us the jump on the company and the cops.

The preparation weekend was one of exquisite cooperation.
Meetings were kept to a minimum and work was done by
almost everyone. Political affiliations of the crowd ranged from
solid pacifism to militant insurrection and everything in-
between. The connecting factors were a mutual disgust for the
company in question and an understanding that asking them
to change their ways would get us
nowhere. It was decided early on that
everyone attending the action/
demonstration would wear identical
clothing and masks to provide solidarity
among the group and cause confusion
for the police.

The idea was raised that some
members of the group may choose to
engage in property destruction. A well
known pacifist among the group made
the comment that while s/he chooses
not to take such action, s/he does not
have a problem with others choosing
to do so. Other pacifists and activists
echoed this sentiment and the
underlying feeling was one of
camaraderie and goodwill. It was
understood and accepted that we had
diverse plans for the day, and in order
to enact them, we all had to have each
other's backs.

On the morning of deployment, a group of over 50 people
split into affinity groups and the action was on. Some folks ran
straight for the buildings and began spray -painting slogans and
symbols everywhere. One group was on the roof dropping a
banner. Others hung banners from highway overpasses, causing
rush hour traffic to halt to a standstill as commuters pondered
the demonstration. Still another group held up large signs while
more people dug up the lawn to plant organic seeds in the
middle of a mock biohazard zone that had been set up by yet
another affinity group. The police did not arrive until everyone
had completed their part of the action and everyone was

together underneath the giant signs.

Three people were arrested, and as the pigs grabbed each
person, unarrest attempts were made. A few folks were pepper
sprayed and roughed up a bit, but the cops knew that there
would be no easy mass-arrest and they let the rest of us go. No
one was ever charged with the damage that occurred. Local
newspapers and citizens were sympathetic toward the activists
and there was very little anger over the destruction of property.
From beginning to end, every participant knew what they
wanted to do and they did it. Since there was no hostility over
different choices for action, a true autonomous zone was created
where all forms of expression became possible. This action,
however small, was the epitome of functional anarchy.
Individuals made individual choices and acted collectively to
make each other's visions come to life.

The method of planning outlined above involved no creation
of institutions or dependence on anything but each other and
ourselves. All involved chose voluntarily to participate and
since it was word of mouth, we for once had the jump on the
pigs. Once activists and anarchists become tired of constantly
defending their positions and arguing over tactical
disagreements, the real struggle can begin.

ORGANIC
REVOLT OR
P U 5 L I C
DISSENT?

Revolt has nothing to do with the creation of alternative
institutions or making civilization more friendly through
reform. We can still directly aid those who suffer worse than
ourselves. Instead of just serving food to the homeless, teach
ways of sustaining oneself. Instead of just petitioning the fascist
government for welfare reform, teach your neighbors to grow
their own food, forage for food and medicine, hunt for non-
endangered animals, collect and process roadkill and countless
other skills that help extinguish our dependence on the state
and our need for jobs and money. All illusions of benevolence
within the corporate/state power structure must be negated.

The psyche is the final frontier of neo-colonization. We must
stop believing in the necessity of electricity, petroleum
products, money, work and industry. When any of these
phenomena attempt to infringe upon or dominate our lives, we
must force back their influence, for it is a colonizing one. Create
and demonstrate methods for people to remove themselves from
the system. The creation of our lives outside of the strict
boundaries set for us is consistently usurped by the emergence
of dogmatic ideological scenes. We must stop being activists
and start acting on our ambitions for new ways of life.

Those readers who have the luxury of not ever being involved
with a public scene or getting arrested are in an especially good
position to create anarchy and spread the fires of dissent. Don't
bother getting bogged down into trying to work with people
who don 't respect your views of liberation. Talk to your friends
and families. Start living your life in the ways you feel are
freeing and desirable. The obstacles that prevent you from living
freely are the challenges to be overcome; TVs to be smashed,
computers to be hacked, roads to be ripped up, powerlines and
billboards to be knocked down, clearcuts reseeded with native
seeds, farms let go fallow on their path back to wildness,
schools to be eliminated, factories and mines to be closed
forever, technology to be exposed and destroyed for the monster
it is. ..start making your own list, but make it with care and
with love for every child and every living being. Whether you
want to dig up some concrete and plant food or destroy the
institutions that prevent us from living, do so in a way that
releases you and everyone around you from the ties that bind
us to any institutions and ideas that are not of our own creation.

ENTHUSIASM: PASSIONATE
ZEAL FOR A PURSUIT

Organic revolt arises out of enthusiasm. Most
organizations I have experienced left me feeling
anything but excited towards their various structures.
Once a certain level of bureaucracy is reached, (i.e.
membership applications, party platforms, rules of
order, long and tedious hand-raising meetings, etc.
ad infinitum) rigid ideology and subsequent boredom
drive out any creative newcomers who don't toe the
party line. Serious study and skill-building do not
require organization, only time and patience. Detailed
plans for revolt can be worked out -perhaps more
easily- without any overarching administrative
trappings. In fact, organization is what usually leaves paper
trails (electron trails vis-a-vis computers) that get direct action
practitioners caught. Phone lists and address books have
brought pigs many more leads than they would have if
persons-in-revolt shunned formal organization in favor of
voluntary associations. These associations must be based on
a collective passionate zeal for the project at hand (which in
our case means both mentally and physically unmaking
civilization).

It has been said that action is the antidote for despair.
Extrapolating beyond this dictum, it makes sense that the
action referred to would be full of passion, bringing
deliverance as far from despair and as near to true subjective
freedom (outside the bounds of oppression) as possible.
Earnestly discussing our versions of freedom with close
comrades, new friends or friendly strangers (not pigs!) is a
liberating experience unto itself. Sharing methods of day to
day survival, trading ideas for scamming capitalism and
strategizing and preparing for insurrection all build the
affinity we must have when the walls of civilization begin
to crumble. It is out of necessity that we learn the guttural
truths of mutual aid.

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Repression of the November 17 th Movement Begins

An Update From Greece by Jimmy Awol

Athens July 8, 02

Following 27 years of existence, countless
actions and no arrests (nor any serious leads),
17 of November (N17) made their first serious
mistake, leading to the unmasking of the elusive
organization! At 10:25 Saturday night on July
29 a loud explosion disrupts the Port of Pireaus!
It is to become the triggering of the N17
unveiling.

An explosive mechanism went off in the
hands of Savas Xiros as he was planting it at
the Flying Dolphin agency (possibly an act of
solidarity with the striking naval workers). His
fellow cell members abandoned him and
escaped, leaving behind crucial evidence.
Among this evidence, and besides Savas Xiros
himself, was found a duffle bag containing: A
38 pistol, 2 hand grenades and a bunch of keys.
Xiros was seriously injured with chest and
abdomen burns, eye damage and injury to his
lower right arm. He was soon arrested and taken
to the hospital.

Two hours later things really heat up when
the .38's identity is discovered. It is the weapon
of murdered cop Christos Mattis, who was shot
by N17 during a bank robbery (group funding)
on Christmas Eve '84 in Petralona, Athens. This
weapon was later used in a shoot out with police
in '85, a robbery in July '88, an attack against
District Attorney's Androulak and Tarsoulea in
January '89, a shoot out with police in Sepolia
November '91 and in the murder of millionaire
Peratikou in May '97! For the first time, police
have in their hands a N17 member.

On Monday afternoon Xiros' picture and

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CIA pig Richard Welch, assassinated by N17
in March 1975.

name were given to the press. His home in
Palini was raided along with his workshop and
apartment in the same area. Fingerprints, tools,
explosives, wires and weapons were found. On
Wednesday afternoon, police got a lead about
an apartment in the Pattisea central area of
Athens that Xiros was maintaining. What police
found during the raid exceeded their wildest
expectations. The apartment turned out to be
the groups "giafka". Weapons, seals, the
infamous typewriter, a computer, explosives,
wigs, files and records of the groups actions as
well as their flag and N17 logos were found.

The group gathered their arsenal periodically.
The main sources being the expropriations from
the military base of Larrissa, the military
museum (taken from the guards), a Coast Guard
office in Rafina, a police station in Virona
(which was raided with the officers tied up and
their weapons removed) and hand grenades
which the group stated they had since the
founding of the group in 1975. The majority of
these weapons were found in the Patmou
"giafka" (safehouse).

35 of the 65 rockets N17 possesses have
already been used. A few hand grenades have
been used as well in the Sepolia shoot out and
against a riot police vehicle in Excharia. Now

the police have hundreds of leads when they
were once hoping for even a single one. Before
the Xiros accident, the only leads the State had
were a few strands of hair found in a helmet
after the '83 George Tsantes assassination, and
DNA from blood found in a stolen get away car
during the rocket launching at the German
Diplomat's home in '99.

Who Is Saras Xiros?

Xiros is 40 years old and the son of an
orthodox priest. He himself is said to have spent
time living in the Agios Oros monastery and
works as a Christian iconist. It is said that his
first contact with anti-authoritarian groups was
in Thesaloniki during his college years. In '83
he met his now ex-wife and had a son. In '84 he
became involved with N17 and took part in his
first action, the bank robbery where police
officer Mattis is killed, and his infamous 38
removed. He is also believed to have taken part
in the Sepolia '91 shoot-out as well as the
assassination of Petraikou in '97.

On Christmas Eve '84 at 8:05 am four men
entered a bank with the intention of robbing it.
One of them wore a police officers uniform and
he approached bank cop Mattis holding a box
of pastries which he offered to him saying,
"Chrystos, these are for your birthday". Officer
Mattis realized something was wrong, since he
didn't recognize the men, and stepped back and
attempted to pull out his automatic. At that
moment the N17 member kneed him in the
stomach and took his weapon. As the cop then
tried to pull out his .38 a second N17 activist
walked up and shot him in the head. The group
then took 7.5 million drachmas and escaped.
The .38 pistol of the murdered cop was found
18 years later, next to an injured Saras Xiros.

On November 20, 1991, four men were
stealingl a white van (to be used in future
actions) when a squad car pulled up to the
scene. The police officers attempted to
apprehend the men when one of them opened
fire. A second police vehicle pulled up and a
wild shoot-out ensued. The N17 activists threw
a hand grenade between the two vehicles and
attempted to escape on foot. A chase followed
between them and the few non-injured cops.
The activists stopped a passing cab, pulled out
the driver and passenger and took the vehicle.
Anew chase ensued, a few more hand grenades
were thrown at the police and the cell escaped.
Xiros is being linked to this shoot-out as well
as to the murder of millionaire Kosta Peratikou
in May of '97. He is believed to be one of the
three men who walked up to Peratikou, shot
him, calmly exchanged fire with police officers,
stopped an oncoming car and drove off (as they
had done in Sepolia)!

Who Is 17 Of November?

Their name comes from the date the Hounda
(a U.S. -backed right wing dictatorship) stormed
the Polytechnic University and trampled over
the gate and an estimated 23 demonstrators.
The group took their name in revenge of the
murdered activists, and as a response against
U.S. imperialism. N17 has its roots in a 1968
Trotskyist group and also in the later-formed
ELA (Revolutionary Solidarity Front), which
gave birth to N17. The first revolutionary act of
violence was taken by the ELA in March of
'75, followed by the December 23 murder of
Athens CIA chief (and U.S. government
employee) Richard Welch. Ayear later the group
assassinated police officer Malio. Three years
went by before they were heard of again with
the January 1980 murders of police officers
Petrou and Stamilou! Three more years of non-
action followed until they struck again in
November, blowing up a police riot bus and

killing a cop named Georgiakopoulos.

Between 1980-1983 it is said that the group
underwent structural changes. New blood was
recruited. It is significant to note that after ' 83
the targets began to include wealthy
businessmen. This caused a lot of questions in
the movement. At this point that the attacks
increased and there is one every year up to '87
when three actions took place. In '88 the
attacks reach five, just as in '89, with the last
and most significant being the assassination
of New Democracy congressman Bakogianni.

Solidarity Actions Follow:

On Saturday July 6 (a week after the Xiros
capture), an Aspis bank in Athens was
firebombed in retaliation for the increased state
oppression following the Xiros incident.

At this time police are looking for a second
man involved with N17, the one who was renting
the second "giafka" in Pagrati.They believe him
to be in his 40's and married to Angelici
Sotiropoulo, Xiros's ex-wife. At present no
further arrests have been made or warrants

A sample of the captured N17 arsenal found at the Patmou "giafka", specifically: Brauning
pistols, m11 rifles, anti-tank launchers and mk2 USA hand grenades.

In 1989 there were major changes in the
foundation of the group. It is said that of the
3-4 founders, 3 pulled out due to ideological
differences and only one "organizer" remains
who is believed to be a man in his sixties who
studied in Paris in 1968. The Xiros generation
seems to have taken control after the
Bakogianni assassination. This is evident in
the attacks that took place in the '90's. During
1991, fifteen actions occurred, all with
economic objectives, and a callous face with
no moral or ideological restraints emerged. All
of this led up to the assassination of British
military leader, Brigadier Stephen Sanders,
which played a major role in the capture of
the group. After the Sanders murder the
investigation took on an international
character. In my opinion, this fact along with
the group's ongoing internal dispute and
friction led to their capture. The founders
"grandfathers" believe that what started out as
ideological, political resistance was drifting
towards nothing more than a bank-robbing
group of murderers.

issued. The police want to finish the gathering
of fingerprints, then start the ballistic
investigation of the weapons found in the two
"giafkas" to determine which ones were used
in what actions. They want to determine if the
three .45 's found were part of the 32 stolen from
the Kavala army base. Five of those guns were
found in 1986 in a Sepolia "giafka" that was
discovered by chance when the "giafka" flooded
shortly after the Chrystos Tsoutsouvis murder.
Tsoutsouvis was killed during a shoot-out with
police, after wasting three pigs himself. He is
now considered a hero in anti-state circles.

Sotiropoulo is now suspected of being the
woman who emerged in some of the groups
actions: She was being questioned a second time
as this article was being written. The "anti-
terrorist" police are now pursuing their
investigation on three fronts.

The first has to do with the capture of the
second member and the one who rented the
second "giafka" in Pagrati. He is the present
husband of Sotiropoulo who is now in hiding.
He is believed to have been a member of the
group since 1987. He has been on the police
most-wanted list for years now but cannot be

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found because he is underground with changing
I.D.'s and residences. The second facet of the
investigation has to do with the surveillance of
unsuspecting N17 members. Past members,
withdrawn or burntout members, or
unsuspecting but still-active members, all of
whom the police hope will make a mistake. The
third main thrust of the investigation focuses
on the ballistic evidence and gathering of prints.
In the next 10-20 days the police have stated
that there will be numerous arrests.

But militant solidarity actions continue in
spite of the intense repression in Greece. The
new group N.E.L.A. ( the New Revolutionary
Social Struggle) has formed and has hit two
targets in the last five days. The first action was
on July 7 with the bombing of the Military and
Police Veterans Cemetery. The second action
was at midnight on July 9 with the bombing of
the Flying Dolphin office, the same office Xiro
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Greece was submitted. On July 22, Hmiicles
Kostaris and Constaninc KarntsoliMwerc
arrested by police in Athens and chargAd with
involvement in a string of attacks sinU 1975,
including the assassinations of US0irman
Ronald Stewart and Britain's military envoy
Brigadier Stephen Saunders. On July 25, Greek
investigators announced the arrest of two more
suspected members of the small but persistent
N17 group, who have killed at least 23 people
in Athens in a sporadic anti-American, anti-
imperialist campaign waged over three decades.
One of the suspects, Pavlos Serifis, is a hospital
telephone operator believed to be the
organization's second-in-command. The other
suspect, Constanine Tellios, has reportedly
confessed to involvement in two assassinations
and an equal number of armed robberies
carried out between 1989 and 1992. Presently,
at least 15 suspects are under arrest, including
the individual the Greek State is portraying as
the group's ideological leader, Alexandros
Yiotopoulos, 58, a French-born mathematician
and philosopher who is believed to have led a
group of Greek dissidents to Cuba in 1971 to
get arms and explosives training. Mr.
Yiotopoulos's father, Dimitris, was a close
associate of Leon Trotsky until they clashed in
1934, and Dimitris later fought in the Spanish
Civil War before taking refuge in France. It was
Alexandros Yiotopoulos who reportedly pulled
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informed on each other. "Revolutionaries don't

confess and they don 't give up their colleagues, "

she said. She speculates that Nl 7 decided to give

up a cell and try to convince the government

that there was nothing more to find. Ms. Bossi

sees the reality of those so far arrested as too

far from the standard prof He of an ideologically

committed guerrilla group, like France's Action

Directe: she's skeptical of the government spin

that the group had long ago lost its ideological

center and had become a gang of small-time

criminals, acting on the orders of a single Mr.

Big.

Many Greeks say that what has been seen so
far must be an incomplete picture of the group.
"I don't believe that a case that has been in the
shadows for 30 years can in 10 days be brought
out in the open and solved," said Yannis
Michaloudakis , a restaurant manager. Pressing
questions about N17's political orientation and
long-term goals have also remained unanswered
by these recent arrests. Over the years,
November 17 took pains to cultivate a kind of
Robin Hood image, releasing stridently Marxist
proclamations defending its deeds as
revolutionary violence aimed at oppressors of
the people. With an intense loathing for the West

and capitalism, the group has, at various times,
denounced the United States, NATO, the
European Union, all major Greek political
parties, the nation's business elite and a host
of other oppressive political and economic
forces. "Does it bother them so much to admit
that we are simple fighters for the people, that
our motives are political?" , N 17 asked in their
most recent communique, which denied ties to
Mideast movements . Greek terrorist "experts"
have continued to promote their theory that N17
was trying to launch an anti-capitalist popular
uprising against the Greek middle and upper
classes and that their ambitions were to become
a genuine communist revolutionary movement.
But none of the group's actions give any
indication that their goal was ever the seizure
of State power; if anything, N17 seemed to be
primarily concerned with carrying out
wmtaliatory acts^ff revenge and retribution
against the Greek and American States, which
something that many of us on the Green
,rchy ^| ptf/ve can sympathize

broad attacks and its targets didn't leave the
general public feeling threatened. In fact, the
group's early strikes were widely seen as
justified payback for the 1967-74 military
dictatorship. Anti-U.S. sentiment is extremely
high in Greece ( Greeks strongly oppose the
American military campaign in Afghanistan and
have organized by far the largest demonstrations
against it of any country in the European Union
or NATO) and a recent national poll showed that
31 percent of Greeks agreed with the political
goals of November 17 , with 64 .5 percent willing
to classify them as a "terrorist group " .N17 also
appears to have some degree of support among
anarchists in Greece, as evidenced by the two
anarchist solidarity actions that have occurred
since the beginning of the N17 crackdown.

sccM m!7's long life seems to be the
1 ' thatmM" recently, vreck authorities felt
domestic pressure to react. Unlike Italy's
fBrigadis and the Red Army Faction in West
ermany, Mtoember 17 has never engaged in

N17 And The Greek Anarchist Movement

Last June, one explosion of a small bomb at the hands of a 17N member led to the arrest of

about the whole group.

17N has never expressed anti-authoritarian ideas. Politically they belonged to the milieu of
the left. Few Greek people paid attention to their ideological base. Even today 19% of the
Greek people regard 17N as revolutionary and not as a terrorist group. It must be noted that
many smaller groups made and continue to make similar actions. There was a group called
ELA ( Revolutionary Popular Struggle) with many members, which was focused more on

bombings than 17N and had more anti-authoritarian oriented ideas. ELA never killed
anyone except a cop when they bombed a cops bus. It stopped its actions in 1995. Chrystos
Kassimis was murdered in 1985 by cops ( before that he killed three of them). He was a
member of the group "Anti-Statist Struggle", which had executed a prosecutor. Many
comrades have been accused, at different times, that were members of the above groups,
and of other anarchist ones much smaller. No one has been accused of being a member of
17N. The arrestees of 17N are not anarchists. That's for sure. They are leftists. Most of
them now disapprove of armed struggle and say that they were wrong. Things are very fluid
and we don't know what we have to expect. The cops try to connect all the above groups to
prove that they have a common origin. If this is done we're afraid that they will try to mass
up many anarchists too. Even though 17N was a closed, leftist group and their communi-
ques were reformist, we regard them as strugglers. Nobody supports them from the leftists.
Anarchists are the only ones who have not dissaproved of their actions and don't see them
as terrorists. For us the state is the only terrorist. The normal people who tend to like 17N
are not heard. The police try to produce a climate of panic and fear. The mass media try to

make 17N members seem ridiculous and like common criminals by saying a lot of

lies.IThey spread terror and fear and try to connect many other people with 17N. For this

reason leftists don't dare to talk even about the violation of the human rights of the arrested

17N members because of the control that the CIA, FBI and Scotland Yard have over the

Greek police.

I forgot to say that some soccer fans of an Athens team shouted a slogan at a game asking

17N members who are not arrested to burn Athens! ! Some young men have made henna

tattoos of the 17N symbol. There are also people wearing t-shirts with the ironic message,

"I'm NOT a member of 17N."

Until now, there hasn't been much activism in support of arrested 17N members. Various

small anarchist and leftist groups have done actions like burning banks but they haven't

stated solidarity with the arrestees. These actions are against the State and the police. But

those actions are nothing more than the normal case for the Greek anarchist scene.

It's difficult to say that we are in solidarity with the arrestees. Most of them co-operate with

the police to insure a light penalty. No one has expressed ideological thinking. No one talks

in favor of their own actions. There are some people who haven't said anything. Their trials

will begin at the end of 2003. Furthermore, it's difficult for the time being to say what is

true and what is a lie.

17N can be described by words like: far-left, workerist, left urban guerrillas.

They are not Stalinists. They disliked the Russian "Communist" State. They hoped for a
true communist society. They also favored self-management. They are not anarchists.

Their actions were anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist. They seem to have operated in a
hierarchical way. It seems that lately there hasn't been good communication between them.

When cops killed a young anarchist at the Polytechnic riots in 1985, 17N rocketed a police
bus in solidarity with the anarchists. A cop was killed.

The above text contains our assessments.

Panos and Thanos
Athens, Greece

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y\ Sleeper ;Awakens;And The
Great Buildings Tremble...

Dear GA,

Thankyoufor not being a clone. Thankyoufor maintaining
integrity. The books you sent me have helped clear many
things that were blurred, helping to define terms that were
very confusing in my ignorance of the genre/ culture/ non-
movement regarding the big A. You see, I have just recently
begun asking WHY. I have never read any literature like this
before because I am young, nihilistic, stupid, uncaring. But
this has now matured or at least changes. And guess what?

Suddenly I am asking why. And how. And I am starving for
answers, desperately trying to figure it out for myself. As I
mentioned, I am unread, unlearned, untainted. All of my
newfound "politics " (I hate that word) are purely organic,
rather than taught, and these cravings to question everything
are coming from somewhere beyond thought, beyond senses
or feelings or observations. I do not know where this change
in me has come from or why it has come. I only know that it
has begun and the more I feed it with thoughts or writings or
discussions, the more it grows, the more I want to feed it and
see it grow!!!

Does this make sense to you? Am I making any sense?

It's hard to explain. Anarchy is not my religion, not my
classification, not my designated sub-culture in society. It is
not how I meet chicks or piss off my parents. It is not a sign
I hold up for the world topercieve me with. It is not a "stage "
of rebellion that I will grow out of. (No longer a tourist!)

It is something that has occured naturally. It is, simply put,
the deepest yearning I've known. John, I have wanted to write
to you for a couple of years now, I have wanted to ask you an
unreasonable ammount of questions, but I am glad that I
waited, that I tried to figure it out for myself, that I then read
two of your books before I wrote this letter, because now my
ignorance is more defined.

And, of course, sitting on my bunk, in my cell, listening to
Pantera at maximum volume, my mind is a blank. Or rather,
it is a swirling mass of confusion, a thousand unanswered
questions written over one another as to be indiscernable.

Let me think...

Let me think...

I guess the most important question that I have trouble
figuring out for myself is: How? I mean, how do you change
the world, stop the machine, return to an integral existance
of first-hand experience and non-knowledge? !?! I read about
everyone "hoping" this thing breaks down, but hope equals
bullshit; and besides, waiting to be saved is really no different
from the christians! If I were in a twelve step recovery
program for western civilization, which step would be action
and what action could possibly bring about the most
incredible change ever?

And even more important to me personally, is how you think
it might change if electricity were not allowed to exist, if it
were to be made globally extinct upon waking one morning?

I'm sorry I waited so long to communicate. Ihopeyou might
be too. I don 't know how to thank you for what you have
already given me. Part of my smile is your doing. I'd like to
pickyour mind. I wish we could sit together and talk all night.
I'm hoping you will help me.

I'm twenty-nine years old. My name is Casey.
PS. Murder. Life without parole.
PPS. Ask any
questions you want.
Answers are free.

Casey Maddox
J.59489 (A80-217)
PO Box 7500
Crescent City,
CA 95531

What Ails Us

By John Zerzan

On the level of personal affliction or dis-ease, matters are
steadily worsening. This situation corresponds to the
deepening crisis at every level. At the same time, according
to Michelle Mary Helvica, "we live in a society that seems
increasingly numb to the causes and effects of human
suffering." In this sphere as with every other, the promises/
protections of technological civilization are failing on a grand
scale.

Tuberculosis and malaria have grown resistant to modern
antibiotics and other standard medicines. E-coli and West Nile
virus outbreaks are now common in the U.S. Infectious
diseases of all kinds, once declared conquered, are on the
rise. They accompany the major degenerative illnesses that
are a staple of civilized life. Rift Valley fever, mad cow disease,
hanta virus, Ebola, cholera, etc. "At least 20 major maladies
have reemerged in novel, more deadly, or drug-resistant forms
in the past 25 years," pronounced the February 2002 National
Geographies "War on Disease" survey.

It is hardly surprising that industrialized medicine is unable
to remedy the toll that is inherent in industrialized,
standardized,
estranged daily
life. In fact,
updating a point
made by Ivan
Illich decades
ago, Michael J.
B e r e n s '
investigations
have revealed the
extremely high
levels of life-threatening infections produced by hospital
environments and other aspects of the health care industry
(3-part Chicago Tribune series, July 2002). Recent studies have
shown that artificial light causes breast cancer, by superseding
the natural light cycle. Food now contains only a small fraction
of its former nutritional content, as packaging and appearance
considerations dictate that nutrients be bred out of fruits and
vegetables. Nonetheless, health-threatening obesity, epidemic
in the U.S., has become a global problem because of the
increase in junk food and processed food.

More than 20 million Americans - mostly women -
suffer from often devastating auto-immune
disorders, such as lupus, Crohn's disease,
multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Many afflictions attack women almost
exclusively, notably anorexia and bulimia.
Hilde Bruch finds that anorexia is typically
about a young woman's "struggle for control,
for a sense of identity, competence and J
effectiveness." A struggle within a patriarchal, |
male-defined culture that actively excludes
her from all of those fundamental human dimensions.
Michelle Mary Hebiica's Starving for Salvation (1999) focuses
on eating disorders as a yearning for meaning and wholeness
in the context of how very much is missing, especially for
women. J.A. Sours' Starving to Death in a Sea of Objects
testifies, from its title onward, to the underlying deprivation
or emptiness at the base of these life-threatening conditions.

Margaret Talbot observed that physical incapacitation has
been one of the few ways in which women could effectively
absent themselves from their assigned duties and roles.
Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are among the
illnesses, suffered by millions, that must be seen in light of
women's basically unimproved condition in society.

Countless forms of suffering, from AIDS to cancer to
depression, are experienced within the increasingly unhealthy
regime of technology and capital. There can be no "cure" so
long as we all must strive to endure the bludgeoning conditions
of daily life. Rural America now resembles a constellation of
meth labs and Oxycontin supply networks, while epidemic

drug use varies only in terms of which narcotic is most popular
in a given season. What kind of society is it in which the teen
suicide rate has been climbing for decades and self -mutilation
is commonplace? Male sexual function will become dependent
on pharmaceuticals like Viagra, a development far less
grotesque than the growing number of toddlers on anti-
depressants. The techno-world serves up increasingly bizarre
"solutions" to the problems it continues to create, not
forgetting the rising levels of both climatic temperatures and
environmental toxins. Pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer
proclaims, "Life is our life's work," as if anyone needed a
reminder of the genetic engineering and human cloning in
our future to which cyber-leftists like Donna Haraway have
no objections.

An increasingly overworked populace labors in a more and
more anxiety-prone, destabilized consumer void. The need
to be diverted from a glaringly impoverished present and
future is addressed in books like Neal Gabler's Life the Movie:
How Entertainment Conquers Reality (1998), a point explored
in greater depth by writers such as Adorno and Debord, but
accurate and timely all the same. And in just four years (New
York Times, 8/4/02), Gabler says, this situation has become
qualitatively much worse. We now get only short-hand,
truncated versions of escape that he terms the illusion of
entertainment. Ersatz or otherwise, entertainment is now
quite possibly the primary value of modern life, precisely
because reality has become unbearable.

But of course it is only "chemical imbalances" that are said
to account for this massive immiseration. This reactionary
and desperate claim responds to phenomena such as the fact
I that 2.8 million kids had what is euphemistically called a
"runaway experience" in 1999, by diagnosing most of them
with a pseudo -medical condition called "conduct disorder."
A mid-2002 survey conducted by the National Sleep
Foundation showed that 69% of Americans experienced some
insomnia after September 11. (Glaxco Wellcome, by the way,
spent $16.5 million promoting Paxil in October 2001.) Even
more noteworthy is their finding that 51% of the population
were already insomniac during the previous year! What will
new polls on sleeplessness, anxiety, depression, etc. reveal in
light of more systemic bad news: revelations that corporations,
science, the Red Cross, et al. are routinely fraudulent, that
90% of students cheat, that male athletes begin steroid use in
adolescence, and so on and on.

David Barlow's Anxiety and its Disorders (2002) discusses

the high prevalence and
chronicity of a range of
such conditions, like
panic attacks, obsessive-
compulsive disorders,
and various phobias. He
concludes that the
aggregate toll on social
life "dwarfs even the
most pessimistic

estimates." Many have
charted a steady rise of more serious mental illnesses that
began with and correspond to the industrialization of society,
as documented for example in The Invisible Plague: the Rise
of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present, byTorrey and Miller
(2001). The answer to this scourge is obviously
deindustrialization, the undoing of the root cause of all this
and other crises in physical and mental health.

Society is a racket, and its everyday practices are no longer
hidden from us. Nonetheless, as everyday life becomes
steadily more impoverished, cheapened, surveilled,
standardized, and otherwise debased, the official version (in
many more aspects than mentioned in this article) prevails,
with its stark omissions and lies. As Derrick Jensen has it, it
is truly a "culture of make believe."

Marx inaccurately predicted that growing material poverty
would bring revolution. A more plausible forecast today is
that growing psychic or emotional suffering may inform a
widespread refusal of this no-future reality.

Dear Editors:

In GA No. 8 you published as an article something I had written to John Zerzan. In a note immediately following it
you accused me of " fairly overt homophobia," citing my use of what you called " the queer-identified term 'pink'."

If the term "pink" is identified with homosexuality, I didn't know it. Maybe I have failed to keep up with the twists and
turns of political correctness. I was using the term in a much older and well-established sense derived from the fact that pink
is a watered-down form of red: "Pink" people are those who dabble in leftism but don't have the guts to be real revolutionaries.

You claim you've seen homophobia in previous articles of mine, but you mention only one, namely, "Ship of Fools." Of all
the people who have commented on "Ship of Fools," you are the only ones, that I know of, who have seen homophobia in it.
As a matter of fact, "Ship of Fools" was reprinted in the San Francisco gay periodical Magnus.

In the interest of complete honesty and disclosure I will state two facts: (1) During my early teens I had a few homosexual
experiences with another kid my age. (2) I mildly dislike homosexuality. This is a matter of personal taste. My emotional
involvement in it is slight, and it has no effect on my "political" viewpoint. In other words, I basically just don't care. What
people do in the bed is their own business and not mine.

My contempt (as expressed, e.g., in "Ship of Fools") is not for gay people, women, ethnic minorities, or sweatshop work-
ers, but for activists who think that the special problems of these groups are more important than the disaster with which the
technoindustrial system threatens the world.

-Ted Kaczynski

Going from city to woods to camp on weekends as a child, I
always suspected something was wrong. My parents returned
to work on Mondays and I wondered, "why aren't we in the
woods all the time?" In this light, Ted Kaczynski occupies a
special place in the wildness of my being. Years of living among
and being manipulated by technology in its endlessly prolific
forms crushed my will to survive. There were no words to
describe the endless anxiety of city existence. Into the deep
well of my despair, Industrial Society and its Future fell like a
lifeline. The much-needed critique of technology as a
mangling force on physical and mental planes displayed
the origins of my severe mental anguish. A primitivist
critique was lodged in the collective consciousness. No
longer could technology be shrouded in neutrality, much
to the disdain of its leftist defenders. I don't always agree
with Ted on personal levels, but I don't always agree
with anyone, even close friends. What is important is a
disdain for civilization, a love of wildness and chaos,
and a respect for everyone's personal autonomy. To me,
Ted upholds these ideals.

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PART ONE: THE ZIONIST PROJECT

In 1948 a collaboration among a group of
Jewish imperialists (Zionists), Britain and
America created the State of Israel. Not
surprisingly, the Zionist State is very similar
to Britain and America's other imperialist
missions throughout the world.

Israel's creation expelled over three million
Palestinians from their homeland. Those who
have remained live under a brutal apartheid
state, as non-Jews within a system created
entirely for Jews. It is not uncommon to hear
the Zionists describe the Palestinians as
"cockroaches" and "filthy
dogs."

Accordingly,
Palestinians are treated
like the American Negro
after the civil war, shoved
around, spat on,
ghettoized, ruthlessly
exploited, and frequently
brutally assaulted.

Meanwhile, any Jew from '
anywhere in the world is
vigorously encouraged to
settle in Palestine, and
crowd the people out even
further.

Understandably, when
Israel declared itself a nation in 1948, every
surrounding Arab nation declared war against
them. The Arabs lost the war and even more

included boycotts of Israeli goods, mass
demonstrations, tax strikes, workers' strikes,
rock throwing, agricultural, medical,
educational, housing and consumer
cooperatives to cripple the Israeli occupation
and to create a new and independent
Palestinian nation.

Though united under the central leadership
of the Marxist-Leaning Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO), the intifada was carried
out by an intricate system of dozens of local
"uprising committees" that could remain
functioning even when many of their leaders
were jailed.

Some of the most highly
respected freedom fighters are
the shebab (literally "the
boys"): the masked
Palestinian youth (some as
young as seven or eight) that
produce intifada graffiti,
throw rocks to defend
communities, and kill
Palestinians who collaborate
with Israel.

Women also played a
critical role in the intifada,
« participating on every level of
the resistance, while still
carrying out their full load of
tasks required by the sexist conditions of their
society. To some extent, the need for unity in
the fight against Israel allowed for a good deal

with Indigenous leaders for "as long as the
grass grows and the sun shines. .." (cloaking
the extermination of more than 95% of the
Native population - over ten million people)
the Oslo Accords were simply another one of
the colonizer's weapons.

Essentially, the Palestinian Authority was
given the power to police some small portions
of still-occupied Palestine, as long as they
remained loyal to the Zionist's goals. The
settlements would continue, construction of
bypass roads would continue, the USA would
continue to arm Israel, and a handful of elite
Palestinians would get to police their own
population.

THE AI-AQSA INTIFADA

The gross failure of the "peace process" to
bring any genuine improvement to the lives of
everyday Palestinians, combined with the
rampant corruption of the Palestinian
Authority (PA) and the rise to power of the
fascist butcher Ariel Sharon in Israel, sparked
the second intifada. It is known as the "Al-
Aqsa" intifada, because on September 28,
2000, as an intentional provocation, Sharon
visited the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem,
unleashing the wave of anger that is the rebirth
of the Palestinian intifada.

This time around, the Palestinian uprising
is fiercely and vehemently resisting the
imperialist bastards. Suicide bombings within
Israeli cities and Zionist settlements increase

Palestinian refugees in one giant, rotting pile.
And, 1,800 more were reported as "missing."
These men were herded into a giant stadium
and never returned to see their mothers,
daughters and sisters.

It must have reminded at least a few semi-
conscious folks of National Socialism in
Germany, 1933. That was when, well, you
know...

PART TWO: THE NEW OFFER

The colonizer must be executed.

It has been the
colonizer against
us all, and he has
turned us against
ourselves so that
even when you
can't see him,
he is with you,
killing you
slowly. We
must kill him
quickly, before
we have been
ruined
entirely.

The day that the colonizer is sent to his grave
will be the birthday of a free humanity.

You're invited to participate in his
assassination. In fact, your participation is his

I N T E R N A T I O N A L I N T I F A 1) A

An Urgent Call To Participate In The Colonizer's Execution

of Palestine. Again, in 1 967, the Arab Nations
fought a war against the Zionists, and again
they lost. At the end of the war, Israel had
stationed its military on the west bank of the
Jordan River, and in the Gaza strip on the
coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

The military occupation continues, and
increases its vicious domination of the
Palestinians. Hundreds of new, all-Israeli
suburban developments are steadily being
built, and thousands of Jewish settlers (who
choose to be Israelis) are arriving to steal
larger and larger chunks of Palestine. The
settlers view their presence in the west bank
and Gaza as a missionary project to support
the "holy" land of Israel. They are frequently
armed, and often show their "support" in
Klan-style terror campaigns against
Palestinians.

The settlements are connected by militarily
patrolled "bypass" roads for Israelis only, so
that the Israelis can totally "bypass" the
people whose land they are stealing.
Palestinian land is rapidly being seized
through imperial laws which condone theft.
The Israeli military uproots thousands of olive
trees to cripple the Palestinian economy.
Palestinian homes are frequently bulldozed
as punishment for resisting the occupation.

The occupied territories are riddled with
military checkpoints, where millions of
Palestinians are subjected daily to degrading
scrutiny by the Israeli military. The
Palestinian population is forced to pay a whole
series of taxes to fund their own subjugation.

All of this fits within the British model in
Ireland, the Dutch model in South Africa, the
American model in Turtle Island, the Spanish
model on Aztec land, and so forth. And
America explicitly and rigorously supports
Israeli policies with guns, money, helicopters,
propaganda, tanks, and political
manipulation to the tune of several billion
dollars per year.

THE INTIFADA

The Arabic word "intifada" is roughly
translated as "uprising" or "shaking off." It is
the word that the Palestinians have chosen to
name their popular struggle against Israel.

The original intifada was a massive
campaign of noncompliance with the Zionist
State spanning from 1987 until 1992. The
intifada had the support of almost one hundred

percent of the Palestinian population and

of "shaking off" of patriarchal standards and
expectations of women.

The intifada was carried out while Israel
imposed harsh (and sometimes 24-hour "shoot
on sight") curfews in dozens of Palestinian
towns and villages, sometimes for weeks on
end. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) arrested
thousands of Palestinians at every level of
society for resisting occupation. The IDF also
frequently murdered Palestinians they
"suspected" of being "terrorists" (the shebab
mostly). The Israelis blew up Palestinians
using small explosives disguised to look like
chocolate bars so that young children would
explode upon impact with the "candy."

But the spirit of the intifada was such that
when homes were demolished or olive crops
destroyed by the Israelis, villages came
together to plant and
build again. And,
when workers were
trapped in their
homes by Israeli
curfews, the

uprising committees
would ensure

workers full wages
for their time out of
work.
Demonstrations
popped up as if out
of nowhere and
faded away within
fifteen minutes; the
shebab disappeared
into the rest of the
Palestinian
population.

The intifada was
everywhere, and it
was nowhere.

THE "PEACE" PROCESS

In 1992, the PLO signed a "peace treaty,"
known as the Oslo Accords. The USA and
Israel carefully manufactured the accords to
ensure Palestinians would have enough of an
illusion of autonomy to stop fighting, but
nothing substantial enough to threaten Zionist-
American imperialism or gain any true
freedom.

Similar to the agreement reached in 1947

to partition India (which resulted in over two
million slaughtered) and US Army treaties

in frequency and strength. Many mass
demonstrations include folks with guns who
will shoot back at the Israeli military and a
number of large-scale riots have erupted in the
occupied territories.

This new intifada is a raging tumult against
both the US-Zionist occupiers and the
traditional Palestinian leadership. The PLO
and PA-having accepted rampant wealth and
the role of suppressing popular uprisings-are
now being exposed for what they are: enemies
of Palestinian freedom. Militant Islamic
organizations, notably Hamas, are now playing
social service roles in the Palestinian
community and are at the forefront of the
attack against Israel.

Israel responds in true colonizer fashion:

never flinching to increase its systematic

decimation of

Palestinian people,

homes, and dignity.

Currently, Israel
is the most overtly
brutal colonial system
in the world. Militarily
backed by the
American empire to an
unfathomable degree,
Israel continues to
carry out one of the
most lethal programs
of imperialist

aggression the world
has ever seen. Since
the beginning of the
intifada, nearly 200
Palestinians have been
murdered and over
5,000 wounded by the
Israelis. Recently, in
response to a
Palestinian attempt to
blockade a tank attempting to invade their
community, Israel murdered seventeen people,
and jailed approximately 2,000 men between
the age of 18 and 45. The men were rounded
up wholesale, many of them given an ID# in
ink on their forearms, and imprisoned simply
for being Palestinian men.

It must have reminded Palestinians of the
Sabra and Chatilya massacres of 1982. Then,
in southern Lebanon, Christian

fundamentalists, backed by and in
collaboration with the Israelis, murdered 600

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assassination.

Ever since you were born, you have been
dying - so that the colonizer might live. It is
time to start living -so that the colonizer might
die. From now on, you can discard your desire
to make peace with, or reform, the colonizer.

There is nothing more to ask of him.

We asked him kindly not to take our land,
and, after seizing it, he raped the women
among us, poisoned our water, destroyed our
crops, and built churches, temples, mosques,
memorials and museums on our bloodied soil.

We demanded to be included in his
government, ballot boxes, schools, and armies;
he has let us in, exactly to the extent to which
we agree to remain degraded, docile, invisible,
and inferior in his presence.

We have written a million letters, cast a
million votes, signed a million petitions, and
marched a million times with a million signs -
all asking him to please, please, please not start
another vicious, greedy war. And billions of
us have - on dozens of occasions - been sent
all across the globe to butcher each other
ruthlessly and to stuff his filthy pockets and
fatten his gluttonous stomach.

We have pleaded with him to simply go
away, to be done, to leave us alone. Sometimes
he leaves, but only after ensuring that we are
too poor, too tired, too conditioned, too
addicted, or too busy killing each other to
actually live free on our own. And, you can be
sure, less than a day after he has left my house,
he has shown up at yours - telling you, "You're
in the way."

It is best just to shoot the fucker.

THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR MASS SLAUGHTER

No amount of killing of Americans, Brits
and Israelis will free us from colonial
domination. This is not to say that these
folks won't be (or "shouldn't be") killed in
the process of de-colonization. What is being
said is that there is nothing inherent, or
genetically significant, about settler
populations (whites, Spaniards, Frenchman,
Israelis, etc.) that could be done away with
through simple slaughter.

The American as the American must die.
The human being raised to believe in, defend
and perpetuate American imperialism, may
live free exactly when they are no longer
willing to defend Americanism.

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International Intifada

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All of us in America have been forced to
understand ourselves on the colonizer's terms. We
were offered only demeaning definitions of
Durselves.

Both subtly and brutally, the messaging was
Dlaced inside us that we are American. In a nation
Duilt on stolen land, slave labor and genocide, we
are a people with an untold and untenable history.

The American is a great, and deadly, lie. We
Duy fantasy images of ourselves as free people,
and we simultaneously continue to create a way
Df life where people are forced to sell themselves
nto a life of endless misery and boredom, simply
to survive.

Those of us raised to think of ourselves as "white"
lave been particularly bludgeoned since birth to
Dassively accept and reinforce colonization. We
lave been bought off with petty privileges, and a
slightly less harsh (but never far away) whip. The
missions of the colonizer have been so deeply
mbedded inside us that we find ourselves struggling
against an alien oppressive force inside our
learts and minds whenever we try and have peer
■elationships with non-white people.

No, it is worse. The colonizer has invaded so
thoroughly we have such difficulty distinguishing
Durselves from him, that we can no longer truly
lave peer relationships with anyone.

In all-too-subtle ways we have come to embody
the aggression, arrogance, thievery and
jismissive-ness of the colonial project. The
colonizer dominates even our most intimate
spaces, so that notions of submission and
domination viciously taint our attempts at love. Our
attempts to be helpful all too often replicate the
Did values of the Christian crusades.

By shaping a white identity for certain human
Deings of European descent, the colonizer has
started a war within millions of human beingsThe
'white" person's heart and mind are occupied
:erritories.

The settler within us seeks to stay alive at all
;ost. And, even if we are fighting him at every turn,
Dur humanity shows itself only in the briefest
glimmers.

The settler and the human cannot occupy the
same space. One of them must die.

This is what is meant by saying that thecolonizer
must be executed.

DEATH TO THE SYSTEM

The most essential murder is the murder of the
system of colonization, so that the system can no
longer execute its murderous schemes.

Settler-colonialism is a created system. It goes back
at least one thousand years and pretty consistently
looks something like the 17th century British system
of the Ulster plantation in Northern Ireland. The British
government gave away Irish land to British and
Scottish settlers, and made them sign an agreement
that they would build an armed fortress on "their" land,
and that they would remain forever loyal to the
English crown.

The settlers
were to take the
best land, and
then collect
taxes from the
natives for the
'right' to remain
on the settler's
property. Laws
were written by
the British to
ensure that, no
matter howsimilar
the settlers
might be with the
native, they
could never know one another as peers.

A ferocious sense of superiority is encouraged
in the settler: their religion, language, culture, and
physical features must all be established as
undeniably superior to the natives. The native must
either be brutally excluded from these activities,
or brutally forced into accepting them as their own.

If both settlers and natives must go to schools,
the native schools must be inferior, and encourage
stupidity and docility. If the natives are to be allowed
jobs, it is only to 'break them' of their uncivilized
ways, and only under the worst conditions, for the
worst pay. If anything in the native culture is allowed
to survive, it is only because it can turn a profit for,
and sufficiently entertain the settler. If the native is
to live amongst the settler, it is only because she is
his servant -and still, in her own community, there
will never be enough to truly live.

And, of course, if the natives ever step out line, it
is the settler's responsibility to shove them back
down again.

All of this is a creation. It exists to serve the
interests of the imperial mother country, and it remains
because of the guns, courts, jails, asylums,

theologies and schools of the colonial government.
The whole system is founded on slaughter of all
kinds, at all levels, and to all living things.

No one has anything like real autonomy or dignity.
The native is forced to submit to the settler, the settler
is a mere thug for the elite, and the elite have all sense
of humanity leached from them in the interests of
profiting the system. It is the system that lives, and
we a//die for its survival.

THE INTERNATIONAL INTIFADA

It is time for the international intifada. It is time to
globalize the "shaking off" of colonization.

After
2,000 years of
suffering the
civilizing
mission of
imperialism, we
can unleash a
full-on program
of de-

colonization
and de-

civilization.

u r
goal will be
both simple and
profound and
everyone is invited to participate.

Our goal is nothing more than the total and
uncompromising destruction of the colonial
system.

We will ally with each and every struggle
against colonial rule.

We will reject no tactic that legitimately seeks
to do away with colonialism, and we will rigorously
challenge every attempt by the colonized to
placate, make peace with, or seek a moderate
reform with the colonizer.

We will unconditionally reject every viewpoint
that argues that there can be any conditions put
on self-determination for colonized peoples.

We will systematically learn and teach history
which radically undermines the system. Because
the colonizer has robbed us all of our past, and
dominates our present, simply demanding to know
history will be a weapon against the system. We
will build our own future by studying where our previous
attempts to destroy colonialism have fallen short,
and refusing to fall for the same murderous tricks.
We will begin to de-civilize society. The civilizing
motion of colonial society leads us ever deeper into

the pit of stronger, more vicious, more centralized
and more multi-faceted systems of colonial
domination.

And all along, the mission of civilization has
been a brutal extermination of indigenous, pagan
and animist spiritual cultures, shrouded in the
guise of "well-intended" efforts towards progress.
This slaughter brought about by the monotheists is
not a side issue. Colonialism would be nowhere
without the forceful subjugation of simple,
self-sufficient, earth-loving folk.

So, instead of seeking to out-modernize the im-
perial powers, and instead of iconisizing African
kingdoms and such, we will struggle in defense of
the indigenous and uncivilized anti-colonial warriors.

We will actively and completely strive to become
neither colonizers nor colonized peoples. We will
consistently and constantly commit treason against
colonial values and mentalities. We will shake off
all of the conditioning that was forced on us by the
colonial society, all the way down to the most subtle
and hidden colonial attributes.

We will fight to win.

We will expose colonialism as an inhuman system
of oppression, and we will wholly and unceasingly
struggle for the recreation of our own humanity
and the assassination of colonization.

The rebellion against colonization has been
never-ending and spanned the entire globe.
Numerous colonial governments have beep ousted
from native land, and so-called revolutionary
governments have been set up in the new nation-
state. But nowhere, at any time, has colonization been
eradicated.

And, everywhere the colonizer has fought
against us, he has been full of an overflowing
arrogance that he will surely win. He has created
entire industries, running full-time, that are focused
on studying new and more effective ways of
maintaining the system at all cost.

We will fight, not with a defeatist sense that we
are "doing the best we can," but with a dignified
sense that we are doing everything possible, and
we should surely win.

That's it.

That's our final offer.

Everyone is invited to participate.

...and no one who wants to remain passive is
invited...

Harold and Maude

An elderly anarchist woman shows a suicidal
young man a way out of his tiresome daily
existence. Very uplifting and amazing.

The Neverending Story

A roadmap out of the unimaginative and boring
school/work/death existence. Disguised as a
kids' movie, this one should be in schools and
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Desaparecidos-Read J\Ai\s\c, Speak Spanish

Desaparecidos refers to the "disappeared"
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Paradigm Shattering Perspectives:
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Just a few selections from the worlds of
movies and music to keep our minds more
blown than simple escapist entertainment
is capable of.

benefit from every scene. Our hero is a young
hunter-gatherer who can save Fantasia only
by fighting against the nothing and encouraging
everyone to embrace dreams and imagination.
The effects are DIY and pretty cool. There's
even a giant nihilist turtle. Hard to beat this
one for pulling ourselves out of the swamps
of sadness and back into action against the
death march we call civilization.

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Colonization Is Always War Zig Zag $ 1

Modern resistance to the oppressive forces of colonialism.

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Industrial Domestication: Industry As The Origins Of
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On The Road Again: Direct Action Underground $1
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Essays against civilization, industrialism, and modernity. A

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ANTI-IMPERIALIST RESISTANCE

May 9, Lebanon: Bomb Blasts Rattles US Fast-Food Franchises

Tripoli: A bomb exploded outside two American-based fast-
food restaurants, leaving extensive damage but injuring no one.
The authorities claim that 3.3 pounds of TNT were used in the
blast which occurred at 4 am outside the Kentucky Fried Chicken
and Hardees restaurants on the southside of this Lebanese port
city. In a phone call to a Tripoli newspaper, an anonymous group
took responsibility for the action, saying that it was carried out
"in protest of American cultural imperialism and against the
US-led war in Afghanistan."

May 1 3, Pennsylvania: US Foreign Policy Reaps Explosive Consequences
Philadelphia: A suspicious package found inside a US Postal
Service mail drop exploded as it was being diffused by a police
bomb squad. The blast sprayed shrapnel for 100 feet, but no one
was injured. A mail carrier discovered the package inside the
mail box and became alarmed by a note on its exterior which
said "Free Palestine".

May 17-19, Spain: Over 100,000 Protest Globalization

Madrid: Some 100,000 anti-globalization demonstrators
marched through the city center, chanting against capitalism
and war and dancing to the beating of drums. Organizers said
nearly 200,000 protesters marched behind banners that read
"Against the exploitation of Latin America" and "Against war
and capitalism." It was the last and the biggest of three
demonstrations that were held over the weekend in the Spanish
capital to protest the European-Latin American summit, which
gathered some 50 government leaders from the European
Union, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Recent
massive peaceful protests against imperialism/capitalism/
globalization have received little press coverage (if any at
all) - which is further indication that only by destroying
property and using militant methods can your voice be heard
on a national or international level.

May 21-23, Chile: Hundreds Detained After Mass Protests
Valparaiso: Agents of Chile's militarized Carabineros police
used tear gas, water cannons and nightsticks to disperse
between 5,000 and 10,000 demonstrators who marched to the
national legislature in the city as part of a day of broad protest
against government policies. The march was called by the
Confederation of Students of Chile and the Unitary Workers
Federation (CUT); participants included unemployed people,
indigenous Mapuches protesting for land rights, and activists
fighting corporate globalization. The protests were timed to
coincide with President Ricardo Lagos' annual "state of the
union" address to Congress. Lagos, a member of Chile's Socialist
Party, expressed satisfaction with the May 17 signing of a free trade
accord with the European Union, announced a plan to ease poverty
and unemployment, and urged the protesters to be peaceful and
not to cover their faces. However, many protesters were hooded,
including one group who trashed a McDonald's. The next day,
some 50 Mapuche activists protested at the gates of the
Congress; four of them chained themselves to the bars and
submerged their hands in cans of cement to prevent them from
being easily removed from the site. The protest was sparked
by the government's recent naming of a commission to
appraise lands claimed by the multinational corporation
Endesa, paving the way for completion of the Ralco dam, which
will flood Mapuche communities.

May 28, Russia: Anti-America Activists Clash With Authorities

Moscow: Police wielding batons clashed with dozens of
protesters in the capital at a demonstration against the Kremlin's
rapprochement with the West on the eve of a Russia-European
Union summit. Officers dragged away protesters and wrestled
others to the ground, hitting them with batons. The protest
against Russia's warming ties with the West came as Russian
President Vladimir Putin was in Italy taking his place as a
junior partner in NATO, the military alliance created more than
a half century ago to contain Moscow. The NATO-Russia
Council formalized a new partnership between Russia and the
West that has been quickly developing since Putin reached out
to the USA after the Sept. 1 1 attacks. "We have to protest because
authorities who live at our expense want to decide everything
for us," said one protestor. The protesters represented a wide
variety of organizations, including environmentalists, anarchists,
and anti-globalization activists. Anti-American and anti-West
views are widespread in Russia, but the country rarely sees the
large-scale protests common in western Europe. Protest
organizers attribute the small turnouts to a lack of tradition of
free speech.

May 29, Argentina: Duhalde Faced With Massive Protests Over
Economic Policies

Buenos Aires: The economic policies of President Eduardo
Duhalde and his government came under fire again (as they do

regularly) in a day of strikes within the public and schools
sector, as protesters blocked more than a thousand roads. The
nation's largest labor union, the Argentine Workers' Congress
(CTA), called the strike. Several hundred people including
jobless and protesting workers took control of major access
roads to the Argentine capital, blocking bridges and key
boulevards with barricades, severely disrupting traffic. Top
officials spent the day in intense negotiations to encourage
Senators to move forward in abolishing the economic subversion
law, a key demand of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
to renew credit to the crisis-stricken nation. Argentina has been
in recession for just short of four years, with unemployment at
a record 25 percent and 50 percent of the population now living

in poverty. Three groups of pickets in the working class town
of La Matanza west of the capital interrupted traffic on the
major Route Three, which joins the federal capital with southern
Argentina. Highway blockades around La Plata, the
provincial capital, virtually paralyzed traffic. Other strikers
set up barricades in the "Once" commercial district, where
numerous important roads meet, and also blocked off traffic
to Buenos Aires city hall, situated some 100 meters from
government headquarters. In the central provinces of Cordoba
and Entre Rios and in Neuquen in the south, protesters attacked
a bank, and government and local party offices. Some context:
Last December, the people of Argentina rose up in fury against
the economic disaster wrought on them by "their" government,
hand in hand with big business. The world watched transfixed
as pictures on TV of supermarkets and food shops being looted
showed a "modernized" country at a breaking point. Since then,
Argentina has been through an astonishing time. TV news has
become a surreal portrait of a country turned upside down —
On an almost daily basis banks and ATM machines are being
attacked ( on January 15th alone, in three cities in Argentina's
interior, hundreds of anti-government protesters stormed banks,
ripping out computers and smashing window fronts, while also
setting fire to ATM machines belonging to Citibank and
BankBoston outlets: damage was in the millions), politicians
are spit on when they appear in the streets and the electoral
system of "choosing your masters" has collapsed due to
widespread non-participation ( In the recent general elections,
more than 40% of the (compulsory) votes were blank or cast
to a cartoon character, Clemente the cat politician, who has no
hands so that he cannot steal!). From the first night of the
uprising last December, the Argentinean people have shown
utter contempt for politicians, summed up in the popular
slogan "Que se vayan todos"- They ALL Have To Go\ Others
around the world have taken up the slogan "Todos Somos
Argentina" — because people know that what is happening now
in Argentina will be happening in a country near you soon if
the IMF and their ruling class business partners continue
destroying the planet in their never ending search for profit.

June 14, Canada: Liberal Politician & Cops Are Humiliated By
Raging Demonstrators

Vancouver: Gordon Campbell - the Canadian Premeir - was
set to speak at the opening of "Carr, O'Keefe, Kahlo: Places
of Their Own" at the Vancouver Art Gallery, but didn't dare
show his face. A crowd of about 400 people gathered there to
demonstrate against Campbell's Liberal government, to
disrupt his speech, and to bring attention to the rise of
corporate fascism in BO His choice of venue, an opening of
feminist and revolutionary women artists, was an obvious
insult to everyone living under his policies. Campbell has
recently cut all funding to women's centers; another attack in
a long line of cuts to social programs in BO Police had erected
a fence on the south side of the art gallery, where Campbell
was to make his public speech outside. As guests arrived they
had to walk through two rows of armed police guards lining
the pathway to the door. As more guests arrived police showed
a more aggressive presence and shoved, grabbed, and threatened
to arrest people standing around in the entranceway. Many
protesters decided to enter the showing and disrupt Campbell
from inside. The Anti-Poverty Committee made a few speeches
while the crowd continued screaming and chanting anti-
Liberal and anti-capitalist sentiments. "Campbell's Cuts Are
Class War" and "Off With His Head" were popular. People
banged fists on the fence and then started to shake it. Some
tried to dismantle it. The crowd grew more agitated and the
police got more aggressive. The crowd started to spit on the

police and jeer at them, eventually forcing them to leave the
area drenched and humiliated. The person the police attempted
to arrest got away. Pepper sprayed people then returned to the
fence to demonstrate their defiance and contempt of the police
and the police state. A statement released by the Insurrectionary
Anarchists of the Coast Salish Territories read: In our analysis,
the militants who attacked the fence in open rebellion, and
regardless of official activists plans and speeches, were the
ones who contributed the most to the disruption of the event,
the canceling of Campbell's speech, and to strengthening the
social movement of the exploited in BC as a whole. The fence
was a physical barrier between classes, rich and poor, that
needed to be torn down. The rich cannot be allowed to mingle
and sip wine while the poor are starved and beaten. The fence
was attacked by a diverse group of people, including, men and
women young and old, parents, Euro-Canadians, native people

- all people who are deeply, and adversely, affected by the cuts
Campbell's government is making, here and now, and also by
the policies of capitalist globalization. We are tired of this false
democracy. When the police try to move us back by telling we
are endangering Campbell, or that we' re only going to get
hurt (by the police attacking us) we know that what the Liberals
are doing here, and what capitalists are doing around the world,
hurts more. Pepper spray is agony for half an hour, state
terrorism and murder last forever. Against capital and the state

- Insurrectionary Anarchists of the Coast Salish Territories
(Vancouver and Victoria).

June 15, Peru: Privatization Smashed By Insurrection

Lima: Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo declared a state
of emergency for the southern province of Arequipa, authorizing
the country's military to use force to maintain civil order
following three days of anti-government rioting. Toledo
decided to issue the decree, which suspends constitutional
guarantees for 30 days throughout the department, after a
lengthy meeting with his cabinet. Vice President Diez Canseco
said the rioting, which has resulted in nearly 100 wounded,
threatens to "destabilize the democratic order." Area residents
are angry over the government's auction of two state-owned
utility companies, arguing instead for regional ownership. The
capital of Arequipa, which carries the same name, is Peru's
second most important city. Diez Canseco said protest
organizers - including Arequipa Mayor Juan Manuel Guillen,
a former top Toledo supporter - had lost control of their followers,
and groups which he declined to identify were causing serious
damage to private property. The protesters pulled up paving
stones to block streets leading to the city center and burned
tires around the Plaza de Armas. Others blocked an airport
runway until removed by riot police. Several government
buildings, companies linked to multinational capital and the
airport were practically destroyed when the population broke
into the streets in protest against the privatization of state
companies and against the whole neoliberal model: At the
airport landing lights were smashed and equipment was stolen.
The protests stem from the planned sale on June 14 of Egasa
and Egesur, two public utilities based in Arequipa which is
just south of Lima. The Belgian firm Tractebel, the only firm
bidding in the sale, offered 167 million dollars for the two
utilities. The rioting continued on up until the 20th, when the
Tractebel company announced that they would not be buying
the public utilities.

June 19-21, Spain: General Strike Halts Country, European
Union Met With Opposition

Spain was paralyzed by a three-day general strike beginning
on June 19. Pickets clashed with police, many shops closed
and hundreds of flights were canceled as workers staged Spain's

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first general strike in eight years. The country's main union
federations reported that more than 80% of the work force
walked out. Hundreds of thousands of workers demonstrated
across the country. More than 100,000 people marched in
Seville - where a European Union summit meeting was due to
take place on June 21 - while 50,000 protested in Granada and
30,000 in Malaga. Both the general strike and the anti-
globalization protests had significant participation from anarchists.

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Burn money.. .and it becomes ash. ..burn clocks and
time disappears... burn civilization and life emerges...

Anti-capitalist etc. News

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The general strike and the anti-EU protests were
mostly peaceful, though the Basque national
liberation army ETA set off three car bombs
outside two Mediterranean resorts on June
21st: one of the bombs detonated in the center
of Marbella, a playground for the rich and
famous, burning nearby cars but causing no
injuries. The following day - amid extremely
tight security - the ETA jolted Spain as two
more explosions targeted government offices
throughout the country, significantly contributing
to the chaos that swept the nation. Spanish
kops said that they received advance warnings
that ETA planned to attack tourist targets
during the EU summit in Seville, which was
surrounded by police roadblocks and army and
air force units on high alert. The struggle of
the Basque people has intensified in recent
months as the Spanish government has put a
ban on Basque political groups that support
clandestine resistance.

June 26, Argentina: Two Shot Dead in Anti-
Government Riots

Buenos Aires: Two Argentines were shot
dead as hundreds of anti-government
demonstrators fought pitched battles with
police in the largest riots since an elected
government was toppled in December.
Argentina's President Eduardo Duhalde, at
the bottom in the polls and fighting for his
political future, had vowed a get-tough approach
on protests as he struggled to convince a
skeptical International Monetary Fund to
grant an aid pact vital to stem a spiraling
social crisis and four-year recession. The riots
came just as Economy Minister Roberto
Lavagna journeyed to the United States to
meet senior IMF officials in a bid to get
negotiations on the pact rolling. Riot police
fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse
unemployed protesters, some wearing ski
masks and holding sling-shots, who tried to
block highways into the city. The violence
erupted just before midday as police confronted
the demonstrators near the Pueyrredon
bridge, a key highway artery connecting the
capital's north and south districts. Masked
demonstrators responded to the volleys of
police tear gas and rubber bullets with a hail
of rocks. The protesters also used homemade
clubs to shatter shop windows and smash cars;
one bus was also set on fire. The riots were
the latest chapter of violence and protests this
year against Latin American governments
as they grapple with mounting economic
problems in a region affected by
capitalism's' virtual collapse in Argentina
and financial jitters in Brazil. Peru has
also been hit by major riots this summer
against privatization plans, Venezuela
was rocked by a failed coup and
neighboring Uruguayans have gone on
strike against IMF austerity policies. In
these recent Argentina riots, tear gas
mingled with smoke from burning tires
laid on the road by demonstrators, providing
cover to hundreds of protesters scattered
through the streets, falling over each other
as they ran through a gritty industrial
suburb after the clashes. Some
demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails;
others shattered car windows. Television
showed one protester beating a policeman
over the head outside a hospital where
injured had been taken. Some Context:
Argentina's popular social rebellion began
in earnest on December 19 of last year
when years of recession, unemployment
and austerity brought the "social explosion"
that critics of neoliberal policies had
long predicted. Organized looting of
supermarkets and other stores intensified
in the Buenos Aires suburbs the following
morning ( in Mendoza a group of 40
women and men overpowered guards at a
Atomo Avellaneda chain store and carried
away cartloads of rice, flour, pasta and mate).
Twenty-seven people died in December amid
these food riots and looting festivals that

forced the resignation of President Fernando

de la Rua, ushering in the political upheaval
that finally saw Duhalde named as interim
leader after four other presidents were dethroned
in just two weeks!

July 3, Guyana: Police Kill Two Demonstrators
In Anti-Government Demonstrations

Georgetown: Guyanese police agents fired
into a group of anti-government demonstrators
in the presidential compound, killing two
people and wounding six. The violence came
while thousands of people marched in a protest
called by leftist groups to coincide with the

bombing - but representatives of the current
Afghan puppet government have suggested
that this may have been celebratory gunfire at
a wedding ceremony. In Kabul, the demonstrators
- half of them wimmin -gathered outside the
United Nations office to voice their anger. "The
Afghans, who have had enough of war and
bloodshed in the past 23 years, will react
seriously if this is repeated," said one demonstrator.
"We consider the Americans our liberators, but
after this, they may soon become occupiers,"
said a Kabul grocer who took part in the protests.

start of the annual three-day summit of Caribbean
Community (CARICOM) leaders. Police
officials said the agents shot at a small group
of protesters who broke away from the march
and forced open a metal gate to enter the
yard of the presidential compound. Other
demonstrators reacted to the police shooting by
overturning and torching at least three cars
and setting two commercial buildings ablaze.

July 4, Afghanistan: Anti-US Protest In Kabul
Kabul: Up to 200 Afghans demonstrated
against a US bombing raid that is believed to
have killed more than 40 civilians. It's the first
time people in Afghanistan have protested
against the Amerikan military presence in their
homeland since the fall of the Taliban last year.

The demonstration came as US and Afghan
military overseers claim to be investigating the
bombing that occurred in Uruzgan Province.
US forces in Afghanistan say their planes had
come under anti-aircraft attack before the

July 30-August 2, Uruguay: Looting Hits
Supermarkets

Montevideo: Chanting, "There is hunger,"
hundreds of Uruguayans looted or attempted
to loot nearly 30 supermarkets on August 1,
mostly in poorer neighborhoods on the
outskirts of the capital. Crowds that included
youths with their faces covered and women
with children succeeded in looting at least 13
supermarkets. Police agents used tear gas and
rubber bullets to keep the crowds out of the
other supermarkets. Some 300 people
participated in an attack on a supermarket at
Ricardo Mackinnon and Isidro de Ayala, while
about 200 all but destroyed a supermarket at
Veracierto and Spencer. In some cases, looters
and neighborhood residents threw stones at
Police agents and at reporters covering the
incidents. A heavy police presence prevented
most attempts at looting on August 2.
Interior Minister Guillermo Stirling insisted
that the looting, unprecedented in Uruguay,
was organized and coordinated by groups
from the "extreme left" and anarchists. The
August 1 looting came the same day as a
general strike called by Uruguay's only
labor federation, the Inter-Union Workers
Plenary-National Workers Convention
(PIT-CNT), to protest government economic
policies. Only health and education workers
and some bank employees failed to observe
the morning strike. Uruguay is now in its
fourth year of recession, in large part because
of the ongoing recession in neighboring
Argentina. Both Argentines and Uruguayans
note that in Argentina a wave of supermarket
lootings followed the government's decision
to freeze bank accounts there last November.
Ironically, experts from the U.S. and the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) insisted
last December that their policies had
"contained" the economic crisis in Argentina
and had kept "contagion" from spreading to
neighboring countries.

July 3 1 , Greece: November 1 7th Movement
Releases Statement

Athens: Crippled but defiant after a police
onslaught, Greece's most-wanted and slippery
urban guerrilla group mocked reports of its
demise and warned it could open a new front:
grabbing hostages to exchange for captured
suspects. "We are still alive," said a declaration

attributed to the November 17 cell that has
waged a 27-year anti-American/anti-
imperialist campaign against capitalism,
NATO and the Greek state. The blunt
proclamation, published in the newspaper
Eleftherotypia, reopened questions about the
size and resilience of the group after an
unprecedented police counter-strike.

August 2, Greece: Arms Heist Baffles Army
And Police

Dozens of pistols, machine guns and rifles
from an army camp on the island of Kos were
stolen recently in another suspected N17
action. Intruders entered the armory by
tunneling through the wall of an adjacent
building where tents and uniforms were stored,
having broken the lock of that building, which,
unlike the armory, was not fitted with a burglar
alarm. The thieves cut the perimeter fence of
the camp in the northern half of the
Dodecanesian island, at a point where there
were no sentries. Three light machine guns,
three standard army rifles and 17 .45 caliber
handguns - all weapons traditionally favored
by the coldly efficient N17 movement - were
taken, and in a call made to State -run NET
television from a mobile phone, an anonymous
male caller claimed that N17 had organized
the heist. Greek authorities are loathe to admit
that the beleaguered N17 group would have
dared carry out such a heist at this point,
particularly on an island which would be
difficult to leave undetected and as police
continue a major sweep against the group amid
fears of retaliatory action from members still
at large (Greek police have seized large
weapons consignments allegedly belonging to
N17 and have uncovered attack plans,
including a strike against a convoy of NATO
"peacekeepers" traveling through northern
Greece en route to Balkan missions. The
assault was never carried out but it suggested
that the group had the resources and depth to
contemplate major operations and conduct
detailed reconnaissance. The group reportedly
used an array of code-words to refer to targets,
such as "uglies" for police and "no misters"
for american soldiers).

August 4, Greece: Explosives Found Near
Historic Olympic Stadium, November 17th
Movement Suspected

Athens: Greek police found a cache of
explosives buried near the site of the first
modern Olympics. The 19th century stadium
is scheduled to be used for the 2004 Olympic
Games in Athens. Media reports coming out
of Athens say that based on evidence recovered
in recent raids, police now believe that
November 17 had compiled a list of potential
future targets, including NATO
"peacekeepers" and the U.S. consulate in
Thessaloniki: This has led them to speculate
that the explosives found at the Olympic
stadium may have been planted by N17 in
preparation for a future action, though they
haven't ruled out the possible involvement of
other urban guerrilla units active in Greece,
like the Revolutionary Cells and the ELA.

August 22, Oregon: Bush Gets Greeted
"Beiruit"-Style During A Fund-Raising Visit
To Portland

The following news item was compiled from
uncensored video footage taken by anarchists
who were in Portland for the Bush protests,
and also from direct interviews: The Pacific
Northwest once again sent a clear message to
our would-be masters that the peasantry are
polishing their guillotines and mobilizing for
the Final Confrontation, as thousands took to
the streets of Portland calling for the
resignation — and in some cases, the death —
of George W. Bush, who was in town trying
to raise funds for the re-election campaign of
Timber Industry lapdog Gordon Smith. The
corporate media is attempting to downplay the
size of this demonstration ( and hatred of Bush
in general) by claiming that only 500 people
were in attendance, but eyewitness reports put
the numbers closer to 1,500-2,500 and the
video footage we've seen confirms this. At one
point in the afternoon, on the corner of 5th

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Ganden of Peculiarities, Part 5: Colonization

by Jesus Sepulveda

A few things are certain, or at least, nearly
irrefutable. One of these is that life flowers
around trees. Another, that trees cannot live
without water. On the contrary, they dry up.
Clearcutting and the damming of rivers do not
only imply the human and corporate human

dominion over nature, but also the destruction
of every fountain from which life emanates.
The defense of the planet, by every possible
means, is not only a question of self-defense,
but also of survival.

The instinct of self-preservation of the human
species has brought about dominion over nature.
But this very dominion threatens our self-
preservation. It is a vicious circle that sooner or
later will break down. And any breakdown will
be a total breakdown, a rupture both mental and
material because it necessarily involves our
ways of perceiving and interacting with nature.
The dominion over the environment and
creatures that inhabit it does not bring about
preservation but colonization. Its effect is
concrete: the conquest of the planet, of animals,
of plants, of insects and, of course, humans.
Real people, those who still have not been
alienated from their own natures— by luck or
resistance— still feel a strong connection with
the earth and maintain a strong connection with
their ancestors. Native peoples have a sense of
wellbeing not seen in civilized cultures.
Primitive populations still preserve an atavistic
wisdom. In their eyes, the understanding that
we are nothing but nature is an act of simple
lucidity.

This radical revelation deconstructs all

taxonomies— and epistomologicalclassifications-
-that tend to justify the objectification of
people in reifying categories: kingdoms,
classes, races or orders of any type. Human
beings are nothing but nature. Every creature
is singular and unrepeatable. Colonizing
cloning and the notion of a monolithic identity -
-as a subjective identity
identical to every
other identity, and
thereby petrified-negates
the peculiarity of
every being. Civilization-
-and by extension its
sublime expression,
the city—embodies
1 this negation. Its
tendency is toward
expansion, and it
^carries along with it
• colonialism and the
holy war. Christian,
Muslim, Inca, Aztec,
Japanese, Ottoman,
Greco-Latin and
hinese civiliations,
mong others, have
hown their proclivity
oward invasion and
onquest. Civilization,
een as second nature,
as legimitated the
destruction ot anything other than its own
civilized order. The negation of the truly
natural is the base of the civilized order,
which expands like a conqueror and
manifests its bloodthirsty ways in the
extermination of indigenous communities
and aboriginal cultures.

For civilization, every act of destruction of
its icons is an iconoclastic or terroristic act.
When civilization destroys a way of life or
culture different from its civilized order, this
becomes civilizing action. This is the logic of
colonialization. The extermination of
colonized communities is not just brought
about by the cracking of the whip or the shot
of the cannon, but also by the clearcutting of
forests and the construction of dams.

Note: This is part five, out of forty-seven
sections, from the book "The Garden Of
Peculiarities" , recently published in one of
the planets most explosive hot-spots, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. The bookis being translated
by Daniel Montero and is edited by Janine
and Jesus Sepulveda. We're reprinting these
segments in no particular order and will
probably continue to serialize it in future
issues of "Green Anarchy" in a non-regimented,
organic fashion .

A Call To Action!!

For A Convergence Of Total Liberation Against Colonialism; Against The
Celebration Of Genocide; Against Columbus Day in Denver, Colorado 2002

COMRADES, the world is inflames!

And there is an entity — with many names,
responsible. Some call it a machine with no
engines. Some call it a demon — infecting
the weak. Some call it leviathan — devouring
worlds. Some call it a god — at war with the
goddess. It's names are endless, but there is
one thing for sure. It will stop at nothing in
the annihilation of all things of truth.
The current manifestation of global
capitalism is just one of
it's many faces. A new
battle — in an old war.
But it grows weak, and
as any empire expands,
it reaches it's limit — the
industrious rebels find its
cracks, and exploit them
for all they are worth.
— One thing is certain —
the empire is on the brink of
collapse.
Where We Go From Here
Lies Within Our Hands
Through Seattle, to Prague, to
Quebec, to Genoa — We have resisted this
menace. And now for one last stretch of
glory — to go down in a blaze, the emperor
declares war on "terrorism" — a war on all of
us; and begins the death of all kind.
Comrades, time is running out, and the
powers that be know it. Now is the time to
become subjects and not merely objects of
history!
Christopher Columbus has again come
back to haunt us; as the emperor speaks in

twisted logic of the war of "western

civilization with the savages". The cowboys

indeed plan to ride again. And their targets

of conquest are endless. It all looks so bleak.

History again, repeating itself, a new name

for the old war. Genocide and Ecocide, a

hatred of wimmin, the enslavement of

people with darker skin, the exploitation of

class, power-over, indeed the "wrath
of god" and his civilization.
We Plead With You Comrades, now is the
time — not to beg but demand and create a
new world!
Please make plans to join us in Denver,
Colorado for a convergence unlike any "anti-
capitalist" convergence before. The birth place

of this celebration of genocide and the
systematic annihilation of all things wild will
now host its death.
WE ARE STANDING,
and we've been on our
knees for far too long.
We demand more!
We will initiate a week-
long convergence that will
attack and confront
colonialism and our
internalized supremacy and
patriarchy. We hope for this
convergence to initiate a new
direction within the anarchist
movement, to create a movement
for TOTAL LIBERATION— for
anarchy! We will stand as participants and
allies with comrades in struggle against not

only Columbus Day, but the very System

that perpetuates colonialism and domination.

We will humble ourselves if asked by our

allies, and we will strike with fury and

passion when needed. We will make our

lives truly reflect our visions for a society

without domination!

FOR TRUE AND TOTAL FREEDOM,

FOR A RECONNECTION TO LIFE,

FOR TOTAL LIBERATION— FOR

ANARCHY

— The Beltane Collective

To endorse this action or to participate,
email: anticolonist@hushmail.com

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Anarchy Available!

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still available for $3.00 each, or
$20.00 for the complete set. We are
rapidly running out of copies of
issues # 1, 2, and 3, so if you'd like
to have a complete set for your
archives, we suggest you order
soon. Green Anarchy is also looking
for submissions from other like-

minded anarchists around the
world, as we would like to see this
publication utilized as a movement-
building tool. Send action reports,
articles, graphics, drawings, poems,
fiction, essays, rants and ideas for
distribution.

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were threatened with lead pipes if the dumpster hit the street

Wouldn't you know it, when the kkkops came with a snatch
squad, they came, again unhindered, to the spot where
minutes before activists wanted to place dumpsters.

The lives of millions upon millions of people are run by a
tiny handful of ruling elites who possess most of the wealth
almost all the land, and all of the power. We are expected to be
grateful to them for the privilege of having them rule our lives
We are expected to be grateful to them for the privilege of
paying for the roof over our heads. We are expected to be
grateful to them for the privilege of being their slaves in their
factories and offices, and for the privilege of accepting the
miserable wages that they pay. They grow richer at our
expense, but we are expected to be grateful for the privilege of
paying them huge taxes so that they can finance their
oppression of us, the people. Finally, we are expected to be
grateful for the privilege offightingfor them in their wars and
killing other people like ourselves, or to be killed by other
people like ourselves. We are expected to love, honor and obey
these international wife-beaters 'till death, quite probably
premature and certainly ours, do us part.

Written by:

REVOLUTIONS ACHIEVE FREEDOM ( RAF)

Dead Pennies fvom Heaven.
Deceased .^Materialist

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and Taylor, 3 pigmobiles tried to disperse a crowd but were
auickly surrounded by 4-500 people who spat on their cars
and attacked them with placards and other random objects like
water bottles. The pigs responded in typical pig fashion by
unleashing their usual arsenal of rubber bullets, bean bag
bullets, teargas and pepper spray. Another melee erupted after
the Portland pigs ordered about 500 protesters to move from a
barricaded area. Protesters then pushed down a barricade along
with the kop standing behind it, breaking her wrist. The Portland
police are admitting that at least two patrol cars were damaged
by protesters, and anarchists on the scene report that numerous
un-arrests were performed throughout the day. Evidently, there
wasn't too much damage done to corporate property, but a
significant amount of tagging took place around the city ( "Kill
Bush", "Kill Republicans") and many protesters came fully
prepared for battle with padded armor and homemade shields.
Bush doesn't seem to be a very popular guy anywhere these
days: On May 21 in Germany, over 10,000 anti-Bush protesters
took to the streets to express their disgust with the war in
Afghanistan and on May 27, several thousand people marched
through central Paris to protest Bush's two-day visit to France.
Reprinted below is a flyer that was distributed in Portland
during Bush's visit that captures pretty accurately the mood of
the day:

Against The Peace Movement
(only class war will bring us peace)
Communique No. 1. :

Of course the end of war, oppression and imperialist con-
quest is a goal of all truly liberatory popular movements. Peace
is something we need to fight for! Having said that, we must
point out the obvious fact that WE ARE AT WAR, or more spe-
cifically, that the empire is at war with us and has been as long
as it has existed. Our hopes for liberation are hinged upon our
ability to effectively fight back in such a way that results in the
working class winning the class war and destroying the appa-
ratus of colonization.

We must not beg or petition: 100,000 marched in D.C.;
bombs fell on Afghanistan the next day! Government uses the
force of arms to prop up its existence against the will of the
oppressed. Government will continue to exist so long as we
let it. Perhaps if they had left D.C. with the White House in
flames, the ruling class would be having second thoughts about
the "war on terrorism" . There is no authority other than yourself!

While in Seattle on April 20th, a few things were noticed
that we feel should be addressed on how the complacent Utne
Reader activists are keeping us from making any real change.
As in letting the kkkops unhindered cut through our ranks in a
power trip play to protect windows. If we were in Palestine
would we let the enemy do this? To do so would mean death.
Another instance of complacency getting in the way of real
change came during Reclaim The Streets. We marched until
we got to a tripod that had been erected. The scouts told us
where the kkkops were massing and that if they were to attack
they would do so from this one side. As an affinity group, who
for all we know had been planning for weeks, tried to move
dumpsters into the streets to hinder the kkkop advance, they

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INDIGENOUS

.May 9/ Columbia: Victory On Campaign .Against Oil Company
Auraca: A spokesperson for Occidental Petroleum
announced that their evil company would halt all exploration
in the Sirri region of Colombia's Arauca department. The
region is home to the U'wa indigenous people and an
internationally organized campaign had joined with the tribe
to protest the oil company's plans. It is also believed that the
growing strength of rebel groups in the region influenced
Occidental's decision to halt the project that would have
destroyed the local environment and devastated the tribe.
According to Ebaristo Tegria, a spokesman for the U'wa
people, "We have been waiting for this news for a long time.
It is the result of the hard work that the U'wa and our friends
all over the world have put into the campaign." A major
campaign had been formed to work with the tribe and this
network had organized many protests against Occidental in
Europe, the US and, in r.
particular, Los Angeles I

- home to the company, i
Army repression against
those involved in the

campaign in Colombia was severe and the struggle was not
without its distressing moments. According to Patrick
Reinsborough of the San Francisco-based U'wa Defence
Group, "The resistance of the U'wa against the project suffered
various types of violent repression over the years, including
the dreadful time in 2000 when the army
attacked a protest leaving three indigenous
children dead". Despite the victory the danger
to the U'wa has not entirely disappeared as
another multinational oil corporation has
recently expressed an interest in prospecting
for oil in the Capachos region - another part of
the U'wa reserve.

June 8, Pakistan: PeasantWomen
Lead Land Struggle

Punjab: In the latest attack on a growing
struggle by peasants for land rights, police raided
seven villages in the Khanewal district. Eight
people were arrested. Many more would have
been detained had it not been for the militant
defense offered by hundreds of peasant women,
who held a senior police officer captive for
hours. The authorities' attacks increased after a
June 2 gathering of 6000 peasants defied a
government crackdown that has resulted in three
deaths and hundreds of arrests. A similar
gathering in November attracted 10,000 participants with an
impressive representation of more than 1000 women. Women
are playing a leading role in the struggle, aggressively repelling
police with wooden sticks traditionally used by women to clean
clothes at river or canal banks. At issue is the government's
move to replace peasants' tenancy rights with an inferior
"modern" contract. These contracts pay little regard to the
peasants' families' long cultivation of the land, which began
under British rule when the land involved was part of "military
farms". Around 500,000 peasants are being organized by the
Punjab Tenants Association. They are demanding ownership
of 27,500 hectares. Some of the members of this organization
seek political power, while others simply want land to live on.

June 25-27/ Columbia: CTndigenous Block

Roads, FARC TK^eaten Politicians

Cauca: Early on June 25 some 3,000 Paez indigenous people

- residents of the Caldono Municipality in the southwestern
Colombian province of Cauca - set up a blockade on the
PanAmerican highway in the area of the La Maria indigenous
reservation in Piendamu, shutting down transit between the
cities of Popayan and Cali. The protesters are demanding the
resignation of Caldono mayor Gerardo Ivan Sandoval, accusing
him of corruption and of instigating conflicts among indigenous
communities. They also want Caldono designated as an
autonomous reservation, since 80 percent of its 32,500 residents
are indigenous (Sandoval says the municipality is 60 percent
indigenous). The conflict first heated up on May 23 when
residents of the six Paez communities of Caldono seized the
mayoral offices to demand Sandoval's resignation. As of June
25 they were still occupying the offices. The highway blockade
was suspended 14 hours after it began; an agreement was
reached under which the indigenous community set a deadline
of three days for the issue to be resolved by the Constitutional
Court. On June 27 the Jacobo Arenas Front of the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) issued a communique
demanding the resignation of eleven mayors in Cauca Province,
including Sandoval, as well as the provincial assembly deputies.
The FARC's Camilo Arturo Medina Front had previously
ordered the resignation of five other Cauca municipalities.
Similar FARC threats were repeated around the country. In a
communique read by commander "Byron" of the FARC's
Eastern Bloc and reported in the press on June 26, the FARC
ordered all mayors and local officials around the country to
step down or risk kidnapping or execution. At least 73 mayors
had resigned as of June 28. President Andreas Pastrana

responded on June 27 by promising better security for
threatened officials and offering a reward for the capture of
FARC leaders.

July 3, Columbia:Thousands Of CTndigenous People J\Aarc\\
AgainstTeiTonsm Vromthe "Right &Tlte Left

Cali: Some 5,000 indigenous Colombians marched from their
reservations in Valle del Cauca Province to the provincial
capital, Cali, to protest continuing murders of their community
members by rightwing paramilitaries and leftist rebels. "We
demand respect for our indigenous territories," shouted the
demonstrators. Indigenous leader Luis Angel Perdomo told the
press that the armed groups constantly violate the human rights
of indigenous people "in a war that isn't ours." "The guerrillas
and the paramilitary groups have intruded in our territory and
have killed our companions, that's why we want to reject that

■ situation with this
| march," explained
I indigenous leader

I Anibal Bustos. At

least seven indigenous people and five campesinos were
murdered a month ago by right-wing paramilitaries in four
municipalities of southern and western Colombia, according
to the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC).

July 25- August 3, Pent: Rice Producers Win Demands

San Martin Province: On July 25, Peruvian campesino rice
producers went on strike in the Huallaga valley area to press
13 demands toward resolving a farm crisis caused by

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with the campesinos. The same day a group of 200 people
seized the local airport in Tarapoto. Police responded by
dropping tear gas on the crowd from helicopters, a tactic they
used repeatedly against protesters throughout the day. The
gases hit near several maternity hospitals, affecting newborn
patients and their mothers. A plainclothes police officer who
had infiltrated the protests was discovered and beaten by the
campesinos. Some 3,000 campesinos then seized the airport
in the city of Juanju. Provincial mayors and other officials
from San marten Province signed a letter expressing solidarity
with the rice growers and threatening to start a hunger strike
on August 3 if the protest demands were not met. More clashes
between protesters and police took place in Tarapoto on
August 1, with police continuing to drop tear gas from
helicopters. Campesino leaders insisted that all 92 arrested
protesters be released before negotiations could with the
government could begin. After the two sides agreed to form a
commission to seek the detainees' release, the talks began.
The government agreed to have PRONAA buy 5,000 tons of
rice in August and September, in addition to the 6,500 tons
that the agency had previously pledged to buy, and promised
to help the campesinos export an additional 15,000 tons of
rice to Venezuela and 30,000 tons to the Dominican Republic.

July-August 2002: M^cKetes Undeccwt
Plans T-ot" /Mexico's international A'Vpoet

The grassroots movement to block the new
international airport in the Valley of Mexico has
been building a head of steam since it began
last Oct. 22, when Mexican President Vincente
Fox declared the expropriation of 15,000 acres
for the $2.5 billion project. Infuriated by the
threat of the government stealing their ancestral
land, a few hundred Nahua Indian farmers
picked up their machetes and called for the
formation of a peoples front to defend the land,
instigating a struggle that eventually achieved
the astonishing and unexpected result of the
Mexican State canceling their airport plans this
August. Leading the dissidence was the People's
Front for the Defense of the Land, based in the
community of San Salvador Anteco, which is
located on the mostly dried-up lake beds east of
the nation's capital. The residents of Atenco
stood to lose 80% of their corn-growing and salt-
harvesting properties if the airport expansion
went through and began their resistance by
(simply enough) digging huge trenches in the
new runways. In the months to follow, the campesinos of
Atenco, who insist that their machetes are work tools and not
weapons, have become the shock troops of protest marches
from Mexico City to Monterey, earning the distinction of

the

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available markets.

The campesinos*

were demanding*

that the National a

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Assistance (PRONAA) and other government agencies buy

some 20,000 tons of excess rice; protesting a 10 percent tax

on production that the government requires them to pay in

advance; and demanding relief for campesinos who have

agricultural debts with private banks. The campesinos began

by blocking roads in the province of Bellavista on July 25;

police responded by arresting a protest leader. Thousands of

campesinos then

burned down the

provincial

prosecutor's office

and freed the prisoner.

On July 27, the

campesinos began

arriving in the

regional hub city of

Tarapoto in order to

step up their protests.

The campesinos tried

to shut down the

airport and burn down

the prosecutor's

office, and then

clashed with police; 15

campesinos were

arrested. By July 29,

some 3,000 campesinos from the provinces of Altomayo,

Rioja, Moyobamba and Bellavista had taken over the city,

blocking all its access roads and bridges with pickets. By July

30, the striking rice producers in Tarapoto had been joined

by delegations of campesinos from the coffee, corn and cacao

sectors, as well as from indigenous communities, seeking

solutions to their respective demands. On July 3 1, women from

Tarapoto 's grassroots organizations led a peaceful cacerolazo,

a march in which they banged on pots and pans, in solidarity

• social conflict
occurring under

• the Fox

• administration.
• •••••••••••••••••••a Crashing their

broad knives
together like swords or scraping them along sidewalks to create
the most exasperating sound in town, the macheteros became
the focal point of countless demonstrations. In April, the
struggle entered a deadly serious phase when campesinos took
six local police hostage, stripping them of their revolvers and
R-15 automatic weapons (see Green Anarchy #9 for more
details). In June, a team of
topographers mapping ejido lands
was captured and paraded at
machete-point to the Supreme
Court of Mexico, which had
barred all preparatory work on the
airport until it could determine the
legality of Fox's expropriation
order. At another demonstration in
early July in front of the U.S.
Embassy, the furious farmers
chopped up the Stars and Stripes
with their famous machetes,
accusing U.S. dictator George W.
Bush of encouraging the
expropriation. On July 2, they
burst into Mexico City's still-
operating airport, waving their
broad blades and frightening
passengers already intimidated by
the prospect of flying while Amerikkka's "War On Terrorism"
rages on. Then on July 11, the macheteros of San Salvador
Atenco held yet another demonstration to impress their resolute
opposition upon Mexico state Governor Arturo Montiel, an
airport champion. This time, a police riot squad waded into
the crowd, swinging truncheons and firing off tear gas canisters.

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Thirty-three people were sent to the hospital,
three of whom hovered between life and death
for days. Word of the clash spread through the
ejido like wildfire, and the farmers, their
community network honed by months of
struggle, quickly responded. Thirteen
liostages, including half a dozen cops, were
locked up in the municipal auditorium. Taking
advantage of Atenco's strategic location at the
side of an industrial
highway, the ejidatarios
set up roadblocks that
stalled interstate traffic
for days, seizing trailer
trucks and converting
them into barricades.
Two Coca-Cola

transports were

relieved of their cargo,
and the pop bottles
were emptied out and
refilled with gasoline
to stockpile hundreds
af molotov cocktails. A
pair of police cars were
set on fire and the
angry campesinos
threatened to roast
their hostages alive if
the ejido was attacked. For Mexico's two-
lieaded TV monopoly, the specter of violence
filled a news hole between such "important"
events like the World Cup and the imminent
arrival of Pope John Paul II. BothTVAzteca
and Televisa rushed in crews for extended
prime-time coverage, helping transform a
local flare-up into national and international
[leadlines. Front-page photos of the machete-
wielding farmers circled the globe. Against
sensational images of flaming police cars and
angry peasants, theTVgiants sounded a shrill
sail to Fox to intervene and restore "law and
srder". But listeners polls during the two
nights of rioting showed that the general
public favored the farmers and their cause.
As an offshoot, farming and fishing
communities in the far-flung states of
Yucatan, Hidalgo, and Chihuahua took up the
machete as the symbol of their ire, waving
them around at solidarity demonstrations. By
luly 13, tensions over Atenco were taut as
piano wire. Helicopters chop-chopped
through the sky above the ejido, and the

Direct Action Against
Capitalism In Uruguay

The following is a communique from
anarchist comrades in Uruguay that has been
edited down for size:

The so-called neo-liberal model has unfolded
without limits in these last two decades. It has
globalized its content throughout most of the
world. It has carried on producing more and
more grief for the peoples. A penetrating and
merciless grief and poverty. Its transnational
companies have brazenly sown death with a
cold scythe that destroys bodies and dreams.
They are financial capital, medical industries,
patent holders and weapons manufacturers
among others. A coherent articulation
operating with a single intention:
accumulating more wealth and power in the
hands of a few, sowing everywhere a sullen
and gloomy distress perhaps never seen before .
Our people are sinking into misery. There are
no jobs, there is no food. Hunger pangs in our
guts and stings our sensibility. Our children
ask for bread that does not exist. Leftovers
from the rubbish are beginning to be a resource
against the imperiously painful grumble of our
bodies. And the speeches come and go, each
with a different theory, all speaking of
difficulties, of saving the financial system, that
it is necessary to design a policy that attends
the problems of the country. All of this done
under the timespan of wealthy people who eat
well every day. And suddenly reality arrives
shouting. The people break into the
supermarkets. They take the merchandise from
sixteen of them and try to without being able
to in fourteen others. An explosion of hunger
that will not wait. The official answer is that

farmers responded by firing off ornamental
cannons utilized in annual Cinco de Mayo
celebrations. Boys on bicycles circled the
Atenco perimeter to ward off infiltrators, and
two State officials masquerading as reporters
were captured. A spokesperson for the
Peoples Front For Defense of the Land pulled
out a knife and threatened to cut off reporters
ears. Finally, in the wee hours of July 14 —
with confrontation looming — Fox decided
that going down the road of repression would
put a curse on his airport that would be hard
to shake, and he called off
his troops. "We're prepared
to fight to the death to keep
our homes. This has been
our land for 500 years. It's
how we earn our living. It's
not a question of money
anymore," said

spokesperson David
Pajaro, making it clear that
no negotiations with the
Mexican government were
possible until 15 fellow
protesters arrested during a
previous confrontation
were released. Tensions
eventually eased enough to
result in the release of the
State-held ejidatarios , as
the uprising began to attract
some formidable ultra-left sympathizers, like
the Popular Revolutionary Army-Democratic
Tendency, who pledged that their armed
militants would defend the ejido against
government attack. Finally, on August 16, Fox
backed down and canceled entirely his plans
for the airport! The clash between earth-based
communities and Industrial "Progress" is one
of the most explosive social issues facing
Mexico and other resource-rich countries
today. China, for example, faces similar
protests from poor farmers forced to move by
the Three Gorges Dam project. "We cannot
do business this way. A handful of
subversives cannot be allowed to stand in
the way of progress," bemoaned Jorge
Espina, president of COPARMEX,
Mexico's most elite business confederation.
But a handful of "subversives" did stand
in the way of Progress, and in this instance,
won, demonstrating to the entire world the
power that we all have when we begin to
take back our lives. Congratulations on
your victory, Comrades!

of always: repression. A major deployment of
police, shooting bullets, brandishing clubs against
young kids and women who run off with a package
of flour, noodles or rice. There are prisoners,
wounded and a fifteen-year old in a serious
medical state due to the blows inflicted by police.
A new world is emerging outside of classical
structures. It knows what does not work and
seeks what does work. It will collide against
certain imaginary socio-political structures
of those who consider themselves to be its
representatives or vanguard. Political,
theoretical and classical blows and sticks will
appear, leaving bruised and battered heads.
It is a reality, this misery is destroying the
bodies and hopes of entire generations,
already at this time murdering our children.
And this is not rhetoric but cruel, inhuman,
palpable daily events. CARAJO! ( in this context,
a "violent rejection of something" ) THEY
ARE MURDERING OUR CHILDREN. We
will say it again, that lacerating cloak of
misery is murdering our children , and the poor
in general. Hungry children in rags are found
throughout the country. Begging for a coin,
cleaning windscreens, stealing someone's
wallet, fainting from hunger, eating rubbish,
forming bands to steal from other poor,
pushing carts full of nothing, with their blood
contaminated by lead, looking for edible
scraps in rubbish piles. Looking at the world
with hatred and despair, without child's play
or happiness, seeing the aggressive and hostile
opulence of a few. Thus are living a great part
of our children. And in a similar way, a great
part of our people . As always, the people seek
ways out and fighting is their tool. They will
thus go on processing a true strategy for urgent
immediate achievements and future dreams.

Mujeres Creando Activists
Arrested in Bolivia!

On August 15, 2002, a video crew working on
a television series on sexuality was assaulted
by cops in La Paz, Bolivia. Actresses, actors
and activists involved in the project were
beaten and kicked. The police used tear gas
against passerby who had assembled to watch
the series being shot. Twelve crew members
were arrested and were subjected to further
(unsurprisingly) cruel treatment while they
were in detention. The television series in
question — created by the Bolivian anarcha-
feminist and lesbian organization, Mujeres
Creando — deals with issues of sexuality and
violence, in a framework of women's liberation
and with an educational purpose. All detainees
are now facing charges of "obscene acts" and
"obscene performances." For more information
on Mujeres Creando, see Green Anarchy it's 6
and 9.

"The turning of the world upside down
is effected by the shortest distance
between one delight and another."

We Never Sleep Is Back!

After several months hiatus, We Never Sleep
is being published again. We Never Sleep is
the newsletter of the Anarchist Prisoners' Legal
Aid Network (APLAN), featuring prisoner-
written updates, resources for prisoners, and
news on anti-state repression efforts by anarchists.
A new issue of the newsletter if available upon
request for prisoners, and for a donation from
those on the outside. You can contact APLAN
at: 818 SW 3rd Ave., PMB 354, Portland,
Oregon 97204. APLAN is also collaborating
with Break The Chains on a new prisoner
pen-pal program. Write for details!

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awareness is not just intellectual. It can't be or
civilization will just turn into another academic
theory. We are feeling it. We have heard the love-
songs of rivers and mountains and have seen
the dances of trees. We no longer want to use
them as dead things, since they are very much
alive. We want to be their lovers, to join in their
beautiful, erotic dance. It scares us. The death-
dance of civilization freezes every cell, every
muscle within us. We know we will be clumsy
dancers and clumsy lovers. We will be fools. But
our freedom lies in our foolishness. If we can
be fools, we have begun to break civilizations
chains, we have begun to lose our need to achieve.
With no need to achieve, we have time to learn the
dance of life; we have time to become lovers of
trees and rocks and rivers. Or, more accurately, time
cease to exist for us; the dance becomes our lives
as we learn to love all that lives. And unless we
learn to dance the dance of life, all our resistance to
civilization will be useless. Since it will still govern
within us, we will just re-create it.

So let's dance the dance of life. Let's dance
clumsily without shame, for which of us civilized
people isn't clumsy? Let's make love to rivers, to
trees, to mountains with our eyes, our toes, our
hands, our ears. Let every part of our bodies awaken
to the erotic ecstasy of life's dance. We'll fly. We'll
dance. We'll heal. We'll find that our
imaginations are strong , that they are part of

PANEROTICISM:
THEDANCEOFLIFE

Chaos is a dance, a flowing dance of life, and
this dance is erotic. Civilization hates chaos and,
therefore, also hates Eros. Even in supposedly
sexually free times, civilization represses the
erotic. It teaches that orgasms are events that
happen only in a few small parts of our bodies
and only through the correct manipulation of
those parts. It squeezes Eros into the armor of
Mars, making sex into a competitive,
achievement-centered job rather than joyful,
innocent play.

\fet even in the midst of such repression, Eros
refuses to accept this mold. His joyful, dancing
form breaks through Mars' armor here and
there. As blinded as we are by our civilized
existence, the dance of life keeps seeping into
our awareness in little ways. We look at a sunset,
stand in the midst of the forest, climb on a
mountain, hear a bird song, walk barefoot on a
beach, and we start to feel a certain elation, a
sense of awe and joy. It is the beginning of an
orgasm of the entire body, one not limited to
civilization's so-called "erogenous zones", but
civilization never lets the feeling fulfill itself.
Otherwise, we'd realize that everything that is

not a product of civilization is alive and joyfully
erotic.

But a few of us are slowly awakening from
the anesthesia of civilization. We are becoming
aware that every stone, every tree, every river,
every animal, every being in the universe is not
only just as alive, but at present is more alive
than we who are civilized beings. This

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the erotic dance that can create the world we

desire.

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OR 97440

In 1982, five Canadian anti-
authoritarian activists, variously known
as Direct Action, the Wimmin's Fire
Brigade, and the Vancouver Five,
conducted a highly visible series of
guerrilla actions against patriarchal,
industrial civilization. When the five
anarchists— two wimmin and three men-
-who comprised these cells were finally
captured by the Canadian state in 1983,
they were charged with a host of
clandestine attacks on industries
that represented some of the
most notorious war criminals,
environmental despoilers, and
exploiters of wimmin and children. The
most serious charges that these
anarchists faced when they were
captured related to three bombing
operations, all conducted in support of
massive public campaigns of protest: one
against the Litton Systems plant near
Toronto, where parts for Cruise missies
were made; another against the
environmentally destructive Cheekeye-
Dunsmuir power project of British
Columbia on Vancouver Island; and also
a smattering against retail stores of the
Red Hot Video chain in Vancouver, where
videotapes glorifying rape and other
forms of savagery toward wimmin and
children were sold.

Ann Hansen was a member of both
those groups and has recently published
a book titled, "Direct Action : Memoirs Of
An Urban Guerrilla". This exclusive
interview was conducted in the summer

Marxism was outdated and lacked the
depth of critique needed to address
modern society's alienation from nature
and lack of respect for other cultures and
life forms.

When I returned to Canada, my
involvement in the prison abolition,
anarchist, environmental, native and
feminist movements, rounded out my
political experience. Through working in
these different movements, I came to

American CIA continually schemed
through the contras to defeat them. In El
Salvador, the CIA backed death squads
who massacred villagers, religious
leaders, women and children.

I was not the only political activist in
Canada who supported the FLQ, the Viet
Cong, Sandinistas and the FSLN.
However I was one of the few who did
not leave my support for armed struggle
south of the Rio Grande. Most activists at

Armed Resistance

realize that what was needed was a
unique revolutionary movement that
could launch a more offensive campaign
against the root causes of these "issues."
Unique; because it would not be based on
a static political ideology, but would
evolve and describe our modern day
experience. I also felt that we needed to
reject pacifism as an ideology because
historically it has only contributed to our
pacification. In other words we needed a
militant revolutionary movement that
would also embrace the diversity of
tactics.

GA: One thing we are curious about, and
something we think all those who want
to challenge the system on any significant
level can learn from, are the events in your
life and the political context which led to
your transformation from a political
activist to an urban guerrilla?

the time, and unfortunately still today,
support guerrilla groups in so-called third
world countries, but conveniently analyze
that the same tactics are not effective here
in North America or Europe. To put it
simply, this privileged exemption of white
European and American radicals from the
perils of death and prison smacks of
imperialism and racism. Seeing this
hypocrisy for what it was, we reasoned
that militant actions are most important
in the heart of imperialism. We believed
that militant actions could play a role in
the development of a revolutionary
movement and had to start somewhere
someday, why not now?

GA-What mistakes did you make when
taking actions that we can learn from today?
AH: I think the most obvious mistake was
depending on the security guards and
police to clear the Litton plant before the

individuals are replaceable in today's
economy, is the fact that corporations just
don't give a damn about life unless it costs
them money. Think about all the
controversial corporate policies we hear
about today. The Glaxco drug company
challenging the legality of the South
African government distributing
affordable generic drugs to AIDS victims
in Africa. Shell Oils legacy of allowing
high levels of sour gas emissions,
polluting and killing whole villages
in Nigeria. The NAFTA tribunal's
decision to allow the company
Metalclad to dump toxic wastes in
a Mexican village, polluting their drinking
water, over-ruling municipal bylaws
outlawing this practice.

Let's face it, corporations may put on a
sad face when human lives are lost at
either their hands or someone else's, but
the real pain they feel, is when their profit
margins narrow, their stocks fall, when
capital is affected adversely. This is the
area where the corporate state is
vulnerable and sensitive. This is the area
that activists should be targeting.

Besides relying on security guards and
police to prevent major injuries during the
Litton bombing, I would
also question our entire
model of a small high tech
underground guerrilla cell.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that in all
situations both now and in the future, that
underground guerrilla cells are wrong,
but I think there are other models that are

to

Interview with Ann Hansen of Direct Action

of 2002, and we are honored to make it
available to our readers.

GA: Thank you for taking the time out
of your busy schedule to do this
interview. We've been very excited
about the new interest in Direct Action
and your writings, they've been
incredibly inspiring to many of us in the
green anarchist I anarcho-primitivist
movement. Could you start by giving us
a brief overview of your political
evolution?

AH: It will be difficult to keep these
answers brief but I will try. When I look
back I can see the seeds of my present day
political views taking shape in my dreams
and games as a young child. I was always
pretending to be an Indian, Eskimo or
wild horse because I loved the wilderness
and the natural way of life of tribal people.
At the same time I became increasingly
disturbed at the industrial development
going on around my home on the
outskirts of Toronto. By the time I was a
teenager, my first overtly political essay
supported the FLQ, a French Canadian
urban guerrilla group, active in the late
60's. Since I had no developed political
ideology at that young age, I believe that
I had a natural empathy for both the
oppressed and those who were willing to
fight for justice.

My first encounter with a radical
political ideology was Marxism which I
studied for several years in university.
However, after working with some
Marxist-Leninists on the university paper
and reading about the implementation of
Marxism in the USSR, I became
disillusioned with the authoritarian
nature of Marxist parties. At the same
time, I traveled to Europe during the late
70's and became active in a support
network for the Marxist urban guerrillas,
the Red Army Faction and Red Brigades.
Exposure to these groups refined my
critique of Marxism. I realized that there
was so much more wrong with western
civilization than an unequal distribution
of wealth and power as epitomized in the
concept of class struggle. In fact I felt that

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AH: I grew up during the 60' s when the
FLQ, one of the first North American
urban guerrilla groups, was active in
Quebec, Canada. I read Pierre Valliere's
book, White Niggers of America, and
agreed that the English corporate elite
would never let Quebec secede peacefully
from Canada. I also was of age in 1973
when the CIA backed Pinochet's military
coup of the democratically elected
government of Salvadore Allende in
Chile. And of course, my childhood and
teenage years were filled with the news
of the US governments campaign to crush
the Viet
Cong in Viet
Nam. I was
not
politically
sophisticated
during
those years,
but I did
understand
that the US
military
continued
to wage war
against the
Viet Cong
despite the
peaceful
protests by
t h e
American

students at home. Even then it dawned
on me that the only reason the American
government eventually pulled out of Viet
Nam was because they simply could not
win against the Viet Cong guerrilla tactics
and the support of the Vietnamese people.
I didn't have to go to university to study
politics to come to the conclusion that
corporations and governments were using
the military to protect their interests
against the people. I simply had to read
the daily newspaper and watch the
evening news. News report after news
report during the late 70's continued to
reinforce this fact. The Sandinista
guerrillas in Nicaragua enjoyed the
popular support of the people, yet the

bomb was set to go off. It is a real mistake
to depend on the guardians of the state to
act flawlessly, particularly if the safety of
your action depends on it. This mistake
led to a number of injuries.

Militant actions should avoid injuries to
both human and animal life if at all
possible for both moral as well as reasons
of effectiveness. Once we embark on a
path of targeting individuals, where do
we draw the line? In today's global
economy, we are all both responsible yet
innocent. We can not control whether we
are born on a gray blanket in an Afghan
refugee camp or a
mansion with a
silver spoon in our
mouths. Of course
as we grow older,
we become more
and more

responsible for
both our

individual social
responsibilities as
well as those of the
society into which
we were born. As
a result, those born
into wealth and
power are more
responsible for the
oppression of
their society, but
even the poor
have a responsibility to right the injustices
of their society.

Besides being immoral, militant actions
that target individuals, are generally
ineffective because even the most
responsible and reprehensible individuals
are replaceable in this global economy
driven by multinational corporations. For
example, if a CEO of a large oil company
were to advocate signing the Kyoto
Accords and using primarily renewable
energy, the shareholders and other
executives would soon have him fired or
demoted. Unless a CEO can keep the price
of stocks and shares high, he will soon be
replaced by someone who can.

But more importantly than the fact that

more effective for today's conditions.

We modeled our group after the urban
guerrillas in West Germany, Italy and the
United States in the 70's. These groups, in
turn, were modeled after Palestinian and
South American guerrilla groups which
operated under very repressive conditions
in countries where they enjoyed popular
support. The social conditions of the
Palestinians and South Americans are
very different than those of the western
industrial nations. They operate in
countries where there is no legal
opportunity to organize or resist. And
they could count on significant numbers
of people to either join or support the
guerrilla forces.

These guerrillas lived completely
underground to avoid capture from the
police. This entailed acquiring false
identification, using weapons and
carrying out robberies or kidnappings for
money. Most of their political actions
involved bombings, highjacking and
assassinations.

This high tech, socially isolated lifestyle
is the model we chose to follow although
we did not believe in killing or injuring
people. In a short time the stress and social
isolation of living in such a small cell
began to take it's toll. We were personally
unhappy and were becoming alienated
from our community.

I would be naive to think that conditions
in North America have improved since the
early 80's. There is still a small proportion
of the population who identify as
revolutionaries and who would support
"armed struggle." As a result a group
similar to ours would more than likely
become alienated from the community,
begin to show poor judgment and
eventually be arrested with no continuity.

During the early 80's, the Wimmin's
Fire Brigade(WFB) enjoyed the widest
popular support and was the most
successful in achieving it's goals of
stopping the spread of a particularly
violent pornography chain, Red Hot
Video. The WFB was made up of wimmin
in the community who carried out the
firebombings and then immediately

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melded back into the community. They
did not have to go underground, get false
identification, guns, dynamite or carry out
robberies. I think this model is still the
most effective for today's conditions.
Probably the closest thing to the
Wimmin's Fire Brigade is the ELF and
ALF.

GA- We often get frustrated with the lack
of support (both vocally for their actions
and ideas, and physically for political
prisoners) for underground groups who
have similar ideas and orientation as
aboveground groups or individuals. It
seems that for any meaningful resistance
there needs to be a connection on some
level between underground cells and larger
social movements. What are your feelings
on this?

AH-Of course it is very important that
there is support between the
"aboveground" and "underground." The
usual divisions arise over the questions
of "violence" versus "non-violence", and
over identifying as revolutionaries or
reformists.

I think it is important that those of us
who identify as revolutionaries and who
understand that direct actions aimed at
economic sabotage are not "violence"
should speak out. There are lots of people
who have chosen not to join the
"underground" but they can be just as
important by refusing to be silent or
marginalized. The more vocal and in your
face we are, the more likely it is that people
will hear our ideas and understand them.
There are many people out there who
silently support the "underground" but
are afraid to vocalize their support
because they feel isolated and alone.

Maybe the anarchists who are not
"underground" should start our own
environmental, prison abolition, animal
liberation, feminist groups that are based
on anti-authoritarian, militant politics. So
many radicals join groups such as
the Sierra Legal Defense Fund,
Greenpeace, Humane Societies
because they want to be
"legitimate" and accepted by society.
Unfortunately in their desperation, they
end up being co-opted and reformist.

The more of us who stand up and say
who and what we are, without
compromise or begging for acceptance,
the more likely it is that the silent majority
will hear and join us.

GA-We feel it is important for groups to
maintain autonomy within the larger
context of political struggle, and to
promote an anti-mass method of
organizing. Do you feel that the cell or
affinity group structure is an effective
method of organization, and how can this
fit into a larger struggle?
AH-I think the cell or affinity gr
structure is effective as long as there are
basic principles that they follow. This is
the model that the Black Bloc and ELF and
ALF follow. The reason fpy-^basj
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groups are: 1) actions should avoid
injuries to people and animals as much as
humanly possible 2) that actions target
major corporate and government
structures 3) that actions be accompanied

The Vancouver Five:
armed struggle in Canada

by Jim Campbell

Solidarity *
April 2001

with communiques that reflect the politics
of the group.

The strength of the cell or affinity group
structure is that individuals can work
closely together, getting to know each
other which also prevents police
infiltration. Yet they can also be part of a
larger movement without sacrificing the
personal element that an affinity group
provides.

GA-Often, as people working towards
social transformation, we get trapped by
political ideology. Some of us are trying
to transcend politics and connect with
people on more basic levels, like the
alienation in our lives, how we are going
to feed ourselves, the unhealthy and

reproduction and perpetuation of the
patriarchal system. What are your current
views on industrial civilization and
patriarchy? What do you feel radicals
today can be doing to help dismantle these
systems of domination?
AH-My current views on industrial
civilization and patriarchy are not much
different than they were 25 years ago. I
still believe that industrial civilization and
patriarchy are founded on a materialistic
value system that worships greed and
power. Our entire capitalist economic
system is founded on this value system
and reinforces it to the degree that at this
point it is difficult to say which determines
which- does the economic system
determine the value system of society or
visa versa? It hardly matters.

Economists, in general, overemphasize
the importance of economic relations in
people's lives. Although humans are
much more complex than simply
materialistic beings with materialistic
needs, I would agree that the way a person
makes a living and therefore spends a
large portion of their lives, is going to be
a prime determinant of their values and
how they live. This being the case, those
of us living in capitalist societies are
constantly being conditioned to value
everything for it's economic value; trees
as lumber, mountains as mineral
resources, people as consumers, animals
as meat and pets.

Not all societies have placed such a high
priority on economics or materialism. In
particular, there were many tribal societies
which placed a much greater value on
"the spirit world" and nature.

Unfortunately, I suspect that some tribal
societies have also been plagued by
patriarchy. I don't think that industrial
civilization is it's only domain. Humans
are imperfect creatures and no matter
what kind of societies we live in, there will
never come a day when we won't have to

INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION

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continue to intrude more and more into
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there will be little space that corporate
culture has not possessed. A huge western
corporate monoculture will exist,
spectacular in it's superficiality, yet
destructive beyond reason. People on this
planet will become so domesticated and
institutionalized that they will soon
become as free-thinking and independent
as a factory farm chicken.

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the western industrialized world building
a movement isn't the police or state but
rather our own wealth, privilege and
social conditioning. More and more like
the modern day chicken, we become
increasingly unable to survive outside of
the artificial environment that we have
created for ourselves; brainwashed to
believe that the way we are living now is
the only way to live.

Sometimes I fear that we may have run
out of time, but those of us who have not
lost our spirit to the corporate world have
no choice but "to rage against the dying
of the light", as Dylan Thomas so aptly
put it. We have no choice but to be free,
passionate, wild, and creative and would
rather go down fighting than go down
dead before we even get there.

I don't think any of us are
revolutionaries because we believe that
we will "win" or "succeed" in our
ultimate goal. I don't think we have a
choice to be anything other than what we
are : to compromise is to die a spiritual,
emotional and intellectual death. We are
living alternatively because we believe it
is right, not because we will "win."

GA-What is your current legal status?
AH-I am on parole for the rest of my
natural life which means that I have to
report my whereabouts to a parole officer
as well as follow whatever conditions the
parole board stipulates or I can be put
back in prison. At this point it's
kind of like being on a long leash.

GA-What projects are you
currently working on?
AH-I am currently working around prison
abolition. We are concentrating on prison
"issues" within a revolutionary context. I
think the key when working around
prison "issues" is to work within a
coalition that has a revolutionary analysis
to avoid becoming reformist and short-
sighted.

I am also doing some individual animal
rescue work and beginning work on
another book which will loosely revolve
around what life in prison does to a
person, and the role prison plays in
society. In the long-term I would like to
see a coalition of different groups working
loosely together based on common
rinciples; sharing a non-authoritarian
revolutionary analysis; supporting the
iversity of tactics including direct action;
referring all life and the different cultures
thatelB^ on this planet.
Recommended Reading:
Writings Of The Vancouver Five
Available from the Green Anarchy Distro
for $2 at PO Box 11331, Eugene, OR 97440
Disorderly Conduct #5/ Spring 2002
Contains an excellent article on Direct
Action and the Wimmins Fire Brigade
■Available for $3 from Green Anarchy PO
3ox 11331, Eugene OR 97440
\narchy: A Journal Of Desire Armed, #53/
tSpring- Summer 2002 A third of this issue
lof Anarchy is devoted to honoring and
ldiscussing Direct Action. Contains "Legend
mish Five" by Jonathan Slyk,
ue To Memoirs Of An Urban
y Ann Hansen Reprints the
e's that Direct Action released
jeekeye-Dunsmuir and Litton

t Memoirs Of An Urban Guerrilla

oy Ann nahsen (Available through AK
Press catalog or at anarchist bookstores.)

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TO DO WHA T IS POSSIBLE, RA THER
THAN WHAT IS PERMITTED/
EARTH AND ANIMAL LIBERATION
ACTIONS FROM GROUND OUR
BEAUTIFUL PLANET

Liberation begins at home. In our personal lives, we find
disdain for the rampant and absurd destruction of all life and
all manifestations of wildness. What is not destroyed is
assimilated, imprisoned or otherwise mutilated. There are no
solutions to be found pandering to officials and their goons,
this point is obvious. The prolific increase of actions in defense
of life after September 1 1 , in this time of a heightened security
and police state, demonstrate the frustration and dispossession
that accompany the way of life we have been dealt. Be careful,
study hard, learn to be secure, don't get caught, and most of
all, carry on comrades.

May 20-23, Australia: Protests Against Development
Intensify

Wollongong: Around 150 people broke through the fence at
the Sandon Point development site. The contractors and their
equipment withdrew to a fenced inner compound. Some people
then marched up to the inner compound and proceeded to pull
down the fence around it. When it was completely demolished
attention turned to the perimeter fence around the whole site.
Groups of people pulled down the entire fence and destroyed
as many of the posts as possible. Eventually about 40-50 police
arrived. Protesters fled the area. Seven people were arrested.
Two days later the developers attempted to begin their work,
but the fence was again breached by protesters. One picketer
chained herself to a digger and others joined her in support.
About 30-40 police were on hand to arrest people. Altogether
16 people were arrested. The arrestees were charged with a
range of offenses including "assaulting police". A woman was
also arrested for throwing a rock at a contractor. Most protesters
refused to accept their bail conditions of "staying further than
200 meters from the Stocklans site." So, they were transferred
to the Wollongong court cells and put before a magistrate. The
campaign to stop the development is being fought on many
fronts and it's intensifying rapidly. Background on the situation:
Sandon Point has long been an open community area and part
of it is also sacred ground of the traditional indigenous owners
of the land. The protests against construction have received
popular support from the local communities, and the protests
have been organized in a non-hierarchical way. For more info,
email: anarcho_sando@hotmail.com

&ELAMATKAN

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"Save the Earth or Await Destruction"

June 12-13, Holland: ELF Attacks Genetic Engineering
Research Laboratory As Part Of A Month Of Ecological
Insurrection

Utrecht: The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) disinfected a
genetically altered field trial with "elvenwine". The trial,
situated in the Botanical Gardens of the Utrecht University,
has supposedly been destroyed. "The genetically modified
bacteria have deceased because of us spilling our distilled
elvenwine," says the ELF in a statement delivered to the Dutch
environmentalist magazine Ravage. The ELF also states: "We
had a bit of a party a week or so before midsummer, and those
gardens are the only thing that's a bit nice in the concrete
apocalypse of De Uithof [the main campus of the Utrecht
University] . It went down all right and it turned out to work.
Maybe we'll try it a again for midsummer! So girls and boys,
have a new moon party on those weird mutant fields, oh and

there was the eco insurgence month that we agree upon." The
group apparently refers to the "month of ecological
insurrection" called for by GroenFront! (the Dutch version of
Earth First!). The group ends their statement with words that
characterize the ELF: 'Wo Compromise in Defense of Mother
Earth!" The Earth Liberation Front is an international radical
environmental movement with the purpose of committing
ecologically inspired sabotage, to economically damage
polluters and earth-rapers.

July 8, Kentucky: ELF Action Against Wal-Mart

Louisville: From the communique: In the darkness of night
July 8th, the Earth Liberation Front traveled through the dense
forest behind the recently built Fern Creek Wal-Mart Super-
center in Louisville, Kentucky. Liberators climbed up a hillside
and proceeded to slash the tires of a construction equipment

STEAL WHAT YOU NEED

AND BURN THE REST

trailer. Messages such as "Stop Sprawl" and "Respect" were
painted on the wall of the Wal-Mart and a construction trailer
in the parking lot. The locks on the main construction trailer
were glued and four windows were smashed out. This action is
a protest against the sprawl which seeks to expand its
treacherous grip beyond the Gene Snyder Freeway and into
the outer limits of Louisville - seeking a never-ending expansion
of strip shopping centers. In the process, beautiful areas of
forest and streams are paved over to make way for another
multinational chain that profits from the destruction of the
earth, animals, and workers. The ELF is only beginning in the
Kentuckiana region. As more wilderness and farmland areas
are paved under and precious pieces of earth sold for the profit
of a few, more actions are being planned. We will not stop until
the developers and oligarchs do. With love and hope, ELF.

July 1 0, Washington: Animal Rights Activists Smoke-
Bomb Downtown Buildings

Seattle: Smoke grenades were set off in two downtown
Seattle buildings. One smoke device went off on the 23rd floor
of the 28 floor Financial Center at 1215 Fourth Ave. A few
minutes earlier, a similar smoke device was set off on the 20th
floor of the One Convention Place building at Seventh Avenue
and Pike Street. Marsh Inc., an insurance underwriter for HLS
(Huntingdon Life Sciences) has offices in both buildings. One
anonymous poster to the news wire stated: "Marsh and Guy
Carpenter got 'smoked out of their holes'." The poster added
"As George W Bush stated, we need to smoke these terrorists
out of their holes! Insuring the murder of 500 animals every
day is not acceptable." Quoted from the SHAC (Stop
Huntingdon Animal Cruelty) Website: "As reported by some
media outlets, SHAC is not affiliated with the attack. Although
we do support direct action, as long as it does not hurt any
animal, human or non human, we do not engage in, organize
or fund such activities. However we do applaud those brave
enough to do so." SHAC and many animal rights advocates
have an ongoing campaign to close down HLS Labs. HLS Labs
tortures and kills 180,000 animals a year. That is 500 animals
a day!

July 1 9: Arizona Construction Site Attacked

Tuscon: An arson at an unidentified construction site causes
$1,500 in damage. Sewer pipes are found arranged into the
letters "ELF." We have no further information on this action at
this time.

August 9, Oregon: Pryor Timber Sale Spiked

From the communique: In order to defend the delicate
ecosystems of the Salmon Creek and Salt Creek watersheds, a
small autonomous group of individuals took action at the Pryor
timber sale. Dozens of trees in each of the sale units were spiked
with both 50-penny and 60-penny nails. In several instances,
scattered throughout the units, non-metallic spikes were used
in order to elude metal detectors. All spikes were placed at a
variety of heights on the tree, high and low. This action took
place several months ago, after the contract for Pryor was
officially awarded to Roseburg Forest Products/ Scott Timber.
We choose to delay the announcement of this action until
logging was imminent. The safety of all workers now rests in
the hands of Roseburg Forest Products and their partner in
crime, the U.S. forest service. This 250 acre timber sale is
located along the Eugene to Pacific Crest Trail, Aubrey
Mountain, and a roadless area near Heckletooth Mountain, in
what is known as the Willamette National Forest. Pryor is also
adjacent to the Bunchgrass Ridge roadless area and the
infamous Warner Burn. Much of the Pryor area has been

naturally regenerated by fire in the past 200 years. Some trees
survived the fires and are now 400+ years old. All but one of
the sale units is previously unharvested native forest. We will
make sure it remains that way. Wildlife that would be effected
by logging activity here include the northern spotted owl,
peregrine falcon, red legged frog, and the elusive wolverine.
Species including bull trout and Chinook salmon historically
existed here and one day we hope that they will thrive again.
Companies such as Roseburg Forest Products are destroying
our planet for prof it . We will no longer be passive observers.
We will stand in the way of greed at every step. We will not rest
until the greedy machines of destruction cease to exist. We are
everywhere.

August 1 1 , Pennsylvania: ELF Torches United States
Forest Service Northeast Research Station

Irvine: The ELF Press Office received the following
communique on September 1, 2002: The Earth Liberation
Front is claiming responsibility for the 8111102 arson attack
on the United States Forest Service Northeast Research Station
in Irvine, Pennsylvania. The laboratory was set ablaze during
the early morning hours, causing over $700,000 damage, and
destroying part of 70 years worth of research. This lesson in
"prescribed fire" was a natural, necessary response to the
threats posed to life in the Allegheny Forest by proposed timber
sales, oil drilling, and greed driven manipulation of Nature.
This facility was strategically targeted, and if rebuilt, will be
targeted again for complete destruction. Furthermore, all other
U.S. Forest Service administration and research facilities, as
well as all DCNR buildings nationwide should now be
considered likely targets. These agencies continue to ignore
and mislead the public, at the bidding of their corporate
masters, leaving us with no alternative to underground direct
action. Their blatant disregard for the sanctity of life and its
perfect Natural balance, indifference to strong public
opposition, and the irrevocable acts of extreme violence they
perpetrate against the Earth daily are all inexcusable, and will
not be tolerated. If they persist in their crimes against life,
they will be met with maximum retaliation. In pursuance of
justice, freedom, and equal consideration for all innocent life
across the board, segments of this global "non-violent"
ideology. While innocent life will never be harmed in any action
we undertake, where it is necessary, we will no longer hesitate
to pick up the gun to implement justice , and provide the needed
protectionfor our planet that decades of legal battles, pleading,
protest, and economic' sabotage have failed 'so drastically to

achieve. The diverse efforts of this revolutionary force cannot
be contained, and will only continue to intensify as we are
brought face to face with the oppressor in inevitable, violent
confrontation. We will stand up and fight for our lives against
this iniquitous civilization until its reign of terror is forced to
an end-by any means necessary. In defense of all life,
-Pacific E.L.F.

August 18, Iowa: Group Breaks Into Farm To Release 1,200
Mink; Half Recaptured

Waverly : Members of an animal-rights group cut fences and broke
open pens at a mink farm, releasing hundreds of the cat-sized animals
prized for their fur. Becky Demuth, who owns the farm with her
husband, said about 1,200 mink escaped and half were recovered
the following day. She said others had been run over by vehicles or
killed by dogs. "Those that are recovered are in high stress. They're
not used to running free," Demuth said. "We're talking thousands
of dollars in damage. Our family farm has truly been hit in its heart."
The mink were scheduled to be killed in October, Demuth said.
Animal Liberation Front spokesman David Barbarash said he
received an anonymous email in which members of the group
claimed responsibility for the attack at the Misty Moonlight Mink
Ranch. He said members target mink farms to give the animals "a
chance of freedom." "A percentage will die, there's no doubt
about that," said Barbarash. "But all of them would die at the
hands of the mink farmer if they weren't released. Outside
their cages, they do have a fighting chance of survival." This
farm is 20 miles south of another farm where the group
claimed responsibility for releasing over 14,000 mink in 2000.

LOOK FORWARD IN
ANGER!

ANARCHISTRESISTANCE
AROUND THE WORLD

June 1, Greece: Arson Attack On The
Headquarters OfTheRulingSocialist Party

Athens: A gasoline bomb started a small fire
outside the headquarters of the governing
Socialist Party in central Athens. No one was
injured and the fire caused minor damage. Police
have a long-standing rivalry with anarchists in
the area, and the street where the attack took
place is guarded around the clock. Anarchist
arsonists carry out dozens of attacks in the capital
each year, typically targeting the vehicles and
property of large companies, government
departments and embassies.

June 8, Australia: Italian Football
Fans and Anarchists Battle Police

Sydney: In the community of Leichardt (a
suburb with a large Italian population), people
gathered on Norton St. to watch the Italy vs
Croatia World Cup match. Shortly after the
game began, police were forced to close
Norton St. because they couldn't control the
thousands of people who came out to enjoy
this event. Italy lost 1-2 but the mood was still
festive. There was a beautiful pyrotechnics
display sponsored by the youth of Leichardt.
When police tried to stop this and move people
along in an aggressive manner the crowd
responded by shouting insults, chanting anti-
cop slogans, and spitting at the cops. The
situation quickly escalated. Football fans and
anarchists ran onto the streets blocking traffic

and reclaiming several roads. Police moved in
shortly after and dispersed the crowd. Cops
were attacked with bottles, fireworks and
eggs. Several of the pigs were injured, unfortu-
nately no fatalities. The cops had fear in their
eyes and obviously
could not deal with the
situation. This is because
people were highly orga-
nized, using mobile
phones to communicate
police movements, and
were structured into affinity
groups. This display of
working class resistance
demonstrates that some
will not accept pigs
meddling in community
affairs.

July 2-3, Italy:
Anarchists Attack
Antenna And
Transmitter Installation

Bergamo: During the night on the peak of a
mountain where antenna and transmitter
installations important to the entire Lombard
region are located, an incendiary attack took
place, slightly damaging some transmitters. At
the site of the fire a circled A was found. Cell-
phone and television transmission towers-
which are known to produce electro -magnetic
pollution that leads to high cancer and leukemia
rates in the areas they are located, and which
have also become one of the main linchpins
of the technological system - have been targeted
with relentless regularity in recent years by
anarchists in Italy (see this issues State

Repression News section for more details).

July 6-8: Anarchist Solidarity Actions With
The November 17 Movement In Greece

On July 6, Greek police, assisted by
American and British
agents, raided an apartment
and found dozens of anti-
tank rockets they believe
ere the same stolen from
he army in the late 1980s
by the elusive November
17 group. Police now
believe that they have
sized most, if not all, of the
group's known arsenal,
owever, November 17's
hadowy members, sought
or nearly three decades,
ontinue to elude arrest,
olice estimate that the
group has less than a few
dozen members. Anarchist
groups reacted to the raids with two firebomb
attacks in Athens. One slightly damaged a building
at a cemetery where Commonwealth soldiers
who died during World War II are buried. The
other slightly damaged an Athens bank.
ed. note: direct action taken by individuals in
order to breakdown domination and control
is utterly important. Times are grave but we at
GA feel that by creating anarchy there is a
chance to re balance this abused planet. With
severe risk to themselves people continue to
strike out at authority hoping to one day break
the stranglehold it has over our whole planet.
We at GA salute all who do such. We will
publicize every action we can.

GA collective note; Green Anarchy would like
to set the record straight. We had nothing to
do with the "Green Anarchy Tour of 2002" ,
other than advertising for it in issue #9. This
article does not represent the views of the col-
lective, it is a submission by an individual
regarding their experience with the tour.

Addtionally, not every member of the edito-
rial collective favored publishing this article
as we consider other situations in the world
to be of more pressing importance.

Green Apathy Tour 2002:
A Critique Of Slactivism
by Chuck A. Rock

I joined forces with the GA tour of 2002 in

Long Beach, Calif., on the 24th of July. I had
just got back into the country from Europe
and was really excited that the tour was going
to be in the belly of the beast (L.A.) at the
same time as me. I had first heard about it
via word of mouth, and later checked out the
web page. The web page looked really good
and hyped the tour as a filmfest, with
speakers, action workshops, spoken word, and
music. It professed that it was "destroying
civilization on this stolen land." Aside from
the large number of dates in the short time
span it seemed like my kind of gig. I thought
I could add something to the tour.

When I met up with the tour in Long Beach
California I was Xtremely disappointed. In
fact there are few words I can use to describe
how let-down I was. I had expected things that
did not even exist. The tour was HYPE! There
were no speeches, no workshops, no poetry,
and the filmfest was videos on a little-assTV.
And as far as music there wasn't much.Worse
yet, there were 14 folks touring and I could
hardly figure out why. Half of them had no
obvious role. But for some reason (maybe
masochism) I still decided to contribute my
efforts to the tour.

The dynamics of the tour were like this:
the band is the #1 focus. There was an invisible
centralized decision-making body, that
disguised itself with a consensus process.
Finances for the tour were a mess and alcohol
was abundant. From Long Beach there was
an LA show that had no film, no workshops
and the only speaker was myself. The next
day there was supposed to be a San Diego

show that never happened. After that the Hype
traveled to Las Vegas where an excited group
of six watched the videos.

The music venue canceled so the show was
in the desert for about eight drunk people.
After a long beautiful drive through the
Arizona desert we arrived late to the Phoenix
show. The community in Phoenix was
beautiful and passionately serious. I felt
embarrassed to show up with the eleven other
folks who were still on the tour. We had
nothing really to offer them. After the videos
were shown I got together a GA discussion,
since there were no workshops. The people
were intelligent and an energetic discussion
occurred with more than twenty folks. I felt
a highlight of the tour was seeing communities
like Phoenix who had their shit together.

After crashing the Tribe Infoshop in a

Friends don't let friends do Green Anarchy Tours

drunken stupor, we left for Texas through more
desert. A group of us watched the Sun rise
over the New Mexico desert, hanging out with
Raven, desert flowers in bloom and amazing
sky. It was green anarchy in the physical. My
tears absorbed into the desert sand, as the
world got more polluted. Sad enough the best
thing we could offer to stop this shit and turn
it around was a pathetic tour guzzling gas
across the country.

We arrived at the El Paso gig early (for a

change), but the whole crew was burnt out.
We set up a table with merchandise, literature
and videos, but nobody was competent
enough to stay with it all day. Although we
arrived early, we still slacked and let El Paso
down. No workshops, only another
discussion.

We left El Paso before the last band played,
but it was still physically impossible to arrive
on time to the next venue. I drove 85mph for
five hundred miles and was still three and a
half hours late to Austin. Here is where I give
props to the super competent organizer of this
tour who forgot to factor in such real things
as sleep and time zone changes. We showed
up in Austin to a group of disappointed
anarchists. "There were a bunch of people
here earlier, but they all left. Maybe they'll
be back later?" An Austin kid said. The folks
in Austin were very conscious, and it seemed
like we didn't really need to be there 'cause
we had nothing new to offer them. We were
even more burnt out than the last show. The
finances were in shambles, and we barely had
enough cash to make it on to Houston. All of
the drivers were heavily taxed, myself
especially included.

Next was Houston, where we arrived 8 or 9
hours late. No filmfest, no workshops, only a
disappointing music group playing to
disappointed kids. By this time I was sick and
tired of this tour. Sick and
tired of the let-down looks on
the faces of the folks we met.
I can only commend the
organizers' good intentions,
because the logistics of the
tour were so poorly
organized that I could puke.

ANARCHY IS NOT
A LACK OF

RESPONSIBILITY!

If we are to ever again live
as earth-based humans in
face-to-face communities,
then we would have to take
responsibility for our every
action. If the highest form of
government was the self,
then eating, shitting,
sleeping and especially
face-to-face interactions would be solely our
own responsibility. In western civilization we
form only a tiny part of a big industrial
machine that we can take no responsibility

September 4: Statement From The
Earth Liberation Front Press Office

Over the past several months, it has come
to our attention that people are unclear about
whether the Earth Liberation Front Press
Office (ELFPO) is still being attended to,
and what support the ELFPO is continuing
to give in the absence of an identifiable
spokesperson.

Although there is no single person who
communicates for the Earth Liberation Front
(ELF), there are still people distributing press
releases, communiques, and other information
to further the goals of ELF activists. We remain
steadfastly committed to disseminating
information as it becomes avaiable, and
updating the ELFPO website. We recognize
that over the past few months communications
and website updates have been inconsistent
and this will be corrected in the upcoming
weeks.

We will only conduct interviews via email
at the current time as those who are working
on the ELFPO wish to remain anonymous to
the media and the general public. Please for-
ward requests for media interviews to

The ELFPO is a legal, above-ground news
service dedicated to exposing the political and
social motives behind the covert direct actions
of the underground ELF. The ELFPO receives
anonymous communiques from the
underground ELF and distributes the message
to the media and public nation-wide.

For more info, visit the ELFPO website:

www.earthliberationfront.com

for. We are taught this, to be a tiny cog, easily
replaceable, the machine will function with
or without you. No responsibility, not for food,
shelter, personal accountability, etc... We sell
our responses to the government machine.

I feel many anarchists misunderstand
anarchy to mean total lack of responsibility. I
argue that anarchy is the natural ability to
respond to the motion of the world. Apathy
about the state of the world is understandable,
but it is not anarchy. Anarchy is a place. It is
every place wild, where the universe is not
confined by human dominance.

As far as the tour is concerned there was
nothing that resembled anarchy, or resembled
a shade of green. Good ideas don't mean shit.
We all know the Machine is threatening the
biosphere's capacity to sustain humanity.
What will-if anything-threaten its course of
action? Certainly not Apathy, even if it is
'green'. I feel our chance to alter its toxic
course lies in creating the places of Anarchy.
So be apathetic if you will, but please don't
call it anarchy.

I left the tour two days after one of the gas-
guzzling vans broke down in the bayous of
Louisiana. I felt that I did a lot to change the
attitude of the tour, but not enough. The
decision-making body seemed not to listen
to my critique or suggestions. I don't know if
the tour ever crawled out of the swamps. I
hope it did and hopefully it
left indifference behind.

To all the folks who were
hoping to experience this
tour I apologize for any let-
down, though maybe you are
better off. And to all the
folks who showed up in the
places it did go through, I
apologize for the HYPE and
let-down. To all involved
with the tour, lets get moving
onto real revolutionary
projects, those that will help
break shackles of government
and techno-dominion. We

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don't need better luck

Excessive alcohol consumption has been a nex t time we need

feature of western civilization for centuries better planning and

execution. Let's respond the best our warped

minds will let us to the current ecological

Armageddon.

"a dead pig is a dead pig, even if they're killed by a
leftist, a leftist is a leftist, even if they kill a pig..."

the plow has probably
done more harm - in
the long run - than
the sword...

As with some of your readers, I too have
become seduced with the hope of
civilization's collapse. John Zerzan and
others have clearly provided a powerful
critique of our present situation. Of the
many paths toward our hopes of a better
world, this article speaks of a revolution
in our everyday lives.

After working in agriculture for a good
portion of my life, I agree with Zerzan's
critique of it (at least I get to be outside!). It
is inherently unsustainable. Don't believe the
hype, sustainable agriculture rarely ever
exists. It is practically impossible to remove
a large amount of biomass (food) from a space
year after year without replenishing the soil.
Conventional forms don't worry about soil
health and feed the plants chemically. This
destroys the soil and fosters further chemical
dependence. Organic farms replenish the soil
and feed their plants by applying organic
material. Their products are usually superior
in quality. But the question remains as to
where the organic material used to replenish
comes from. More often than not, factory
farm or trawler left-overs are used on certified
organic farms (sorry vegans). Factory farm
animals are usually fed chemically grown
grain because there just isn't enough animal
products to go around. Most organic farms
are unsustainable in the long term because
they import their nutrients/biomass from
elsewhere. They are just one link in the
funneling of our soil resources down the toilet.
Not to mention all the fuel spent doing it.

Although it is hard to grow demanding
crops without chemical or heavy animal
fertilizers, there are sustainable examples to
be had. Gardening or small scale farming can
use home made composts and composted
humanure. The Chinese developed a
sustainable civilization by integrating human
waste back into the system. Masanobu
Fukuoka claims to achieve higher than
average yields without outside inputs.

But even if all the world was growing food
in this idyllic manner, it would totally fail to
meet my criteria of being ecologically sound,
among other things. How many salmon can
swim though an exposed stream next to a
carrot patch? How many eagles live in a
strawberry field? Seen any bobcats in the

collards recently (besides eating chickens)?
You cannot purchase a solution to this.
Basically, if you're buying conventional food
(organic or not), you are directly supporting
the eradication and suppression of the wild. I
should remind the reader that if he or she must
consume domesticated food, a vegetable
based diet is less destructive than a meat based

one

Towards A
Paleolithic

by Mountain Goat

Existence

and
a dumpster based diet beats all.

A hunter-gatherer food system, on the other
hand, is completely compatible with the
environment and can, in some
areas, provide an abundance of
food. For this to be an option in a
native ecosystem, property lines
cannot exist, as travel between
vastly different regions is
necessary. Another drawback is the
amount of people it could support.
I highly doubt that the current
population (built on future
resources) could return to this
existence.

I've wondered if there was a way
to produce as much food per
square foot as conventional I
agriculture and yet meet the
ecological criteria of a hunter-
gatherer food system. I looked for
nexus points between the two
worlds.

For the purposes of this article,
I will call it the modified gatherer
food system. Aspects of it are
found in agroforestry and
permaculture. Agroforestry, while
solving many of the ecological
problems of agriculture, still exists
in a surplus/capitalist world.
Permaculture integrates the system theories
into its larger all-encompassing lifestylism.

One principle of it is its reliance on wild
plants. I believe that humanity has failed in
its attempts to improve on nature through
breeding. Breeding has usually been for
increased size (water content), transportation
issues (shelf life), and better taste (sugar
content). What we have lost in exchange for
these things is nutrition. Recent studies have

shown anti-oxidant activity to be far higher
in wild fruits and a couple of dandelion leaves
can beat a head of lettuce nutritionally. So it
is important to also realize that producing
more calories out of a given space is not the
only criteria for a food system's superiority.
Feral plants and reseeding annuals can
reproduce by themselves, completely
eliminating the labor of saving seeds. They
can hold their own alongside natives (not
always a good thing). Once established,
perennial trees and shrubs require little
care. Once gathered or purchased, they
intersect very little with capital. The
knowledge of edible weeds and native
plants allow the landless a free food source.
A knowledge of edible landscape plants can
turn even an urban area into a forager's
delight. Wild plants require less specialization
to grow and can be a challenge to a highly
cultured pallet. They therefore are highly
resistant to commodification (i.e., it is hard

to make a living growing them).

Another principle of the modified gatherer
food system is multi-story production. This
involves mimicking a forest by using plants
of all different sizes (trees, shrubs, perennials,
and bulbs). Since private property limits
movement, one should draw from the wide
variety of edible/useful plants available for
their zone. There are literally thousands of
edible species of plants in the world. One

potential of having so many bred cultivars
available (in civilization) is the ability to
obtain genetic diversity and then learn which
plants work best with your site, helping you
to exit civilization. All this diversity in size
and type of plants should produce what will
appear to the layman as a chaotic jumble.
Organized instructions and calendars will be
of little use now. Some books will reveal
detailed processing info, but most of what you
now learn pertains specifically to your space
and therefore remains uncharted. With the
sophisticated knowledge needed to fully
utilize everything and the lack of straight
lines, this system is also highly resistant to
slave labor and mechanization.

These are very shortened principles of a

system designed to be resistant to the worst

ravages of capitalism (although some aspects

of it can be recuperated). This system is also

compatible with the environment and

virtually everyone can participate in it to

some degree. A main barrier to its

implementation is its incompatibility

with industrial capitalism, but the habits

of our everyday lives and our cultural

programming reproduce the present.

Food produced in it is unlike the

domesticated fare we're used to. Plus,

let's face it, hunter/gatherers were

opportunists and our culture of excess

produces many opportunities to be a

bottom feeder with little effort.

For those interested in pursuing
these ideas and more, books or classes
on wild edibles, native plants,
permaculture, and edible landscaping
can provide much. Recognizing the
many useful plants can seem
, overwhelming at first, but our minds are
i designed for it. Brand recognition in
the grocery and drug store is this ability,
but mutated. Lastly, this article is not
meant to discourage anyone involved in
the plant community. Annual gardening
on a small scale is more efficient than
centralized production. Organic
farming is superior to chemical
agriculture in many ways. Farming is a
thankless job that pays little but allows
for mental freedom and a daily relationship
with the earth. Please send critiques and
correspondence to Feral Farm, P.O. Box 92,
Rockport.WA 98283.

As a plant person, I'd like to express
solidarity with those involved in direct action,
including but not limited to property
destruction, and thank them for providing me
with entertainment as well as my day to day
inspiration.

3NTT CENETTX ACTION
AROUND THE WORLD

When "farmers" look like astronauts whose feet have never
touched the Earth, when pesticide pushers and hydroponic lab
technicians attempt to manipulate and reconstruct our food
into their dysfunctional techno-model, when genetically-modified
food organisms biologically pollute the natural world —
introducing a tremendous new hazard on scale with nuclear
power — it's time to start fighting for our lives! Here are just a
few of the actions people all over the world are taking to
challenge the Agribusiness Juggernaut, as it seeks to control,
simplify and homogenize everything in its path.

March 28, India: Genetically Modified BT Cotton
Seeds Burnt On Holika Eve By Farmers

Sadalpur: On the eve of the ancient Holika festival several
tons of hazardous BT cotton seeds were burnt by village farmers
of the Hisar Harayna district. Children, aged villagers and farm-
ers were present during this ritual. One of the farmers tied
traditional cotton thread on the wrists of farmers present at the
occasion, who in turn promised that they would protect farms,
villages and the natural world from anti-nature seeds like that
of BT cotton. They also swore to boycott BT cotton and any
person buying, selling, and growing BT coton.
{Editors note: This action is fairly old at this point,
but it was only recently sent to us by anti-genetix
campaigners in India, and since we haven't seen it
mentioned anywhere else in the North American
underground press, we've decided to include it in
this issue of GA.)

April 25, England: Notorious Anti-Roads Activist
Resurfaces To Fight GM Crops

Weymouth: In the early morning hours of April 25, a
diverse group of determined individuals erected and moved
into a giant pink castle located at the entrance to one of the
fields in which the British government hopes to plant
genetically modified (GM) maize this year. Equipped with
an arsenal of "lock-down" gadgetry - and with the full support
of local residents - the GE protesters plan to maintain their
occupation long enough to prevent the planting. The pink castle
is located next to the Littlemoor Estate near Weymouth, and
has won mass support from residents of a nearby estate in
Dorset. "They use this area to walk their dogs and for

and they don't

crops planted

said Liz

recreation
want GM
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occupiers. \l \l /\ 1^. 1 "There were
attempts to " ■ ' ».!>.* grow GM

maize here last year and the locals destroyed around 70% of the
crop." "Swampy", the eco-warrior who rose briefly to fame in
a series of anti-roads protests six years ago, emerged from
obscurity in early May to assist the Pink Castle occupiers in
their battle against GM crops. Shortly after "Swampy" joined
the campaign, protestors fought with police and farmworkers
as the latter used seven tractors to plant the field with GM
maize. The crop is designed to resist Glufosinate - a broad

spectrum herbicide - and would allow farmers to apply the
chemical in greater quantities than before. The 25 protestors
were supported by more than a dozen families from the
adjacent Littlemoor estate who joined in as the protestors
chained themselves to the tractors and battled with police.
"Swampy" became a media celebrity for his protests against
the Newbury bypass and a new runway at Manchester airport
six years ago. The Newbury bypass cut a nine-mile swathe
through pristine countryside and was opposed by hundreds of
local residents. The protests cost the government 26 million
pounds and forced them to rethink their road-building policy.

April 27-28, Scotland: Multiple Attacks On GM Crop Site

Black Isle: Five people were arrested after a field of
genetically modified oilseed rape was damaged for the
second time in a week at Roskill Farm. The same field of GM
oilseed rape was also attacked the previous weekend (see GA
#9 for more details). About five acres of the crop were
damaged on that occasion and police investigations are still
continuing. At this time, the total amount of damage to the
crop trial site is still being assessed. Less than twenty four
hours later, that same field of GM crops was damaged by
protestors for the third time in a week. Campaigners say that
more than half of the GM oilseed rape crop at Roskill Farm
has now been destroyed.

May 18, Canada: Organic Farmer Unveils Location
Of Secret Genetically Modified Wheat Plots

Regina: A Sasketchewan farmer has gone public with the location
of two secret sites where researchers are growing and testing GM
wheat for the bio tech company Monsanto. Marc Loiselle says
there are test plots of GM wheat at Agriculture Canada's Scott
Research Farm, located in west-central Sasketchewan, and at Ag-
Quest, a private company located just outside of Saskatoon.

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...continued from previous page

Loiselle, an organic farmer from Vonda,
learned the locations from an agronomic
:ommittee that he sits on. He believes the
aublic has the right to know where the test
ites are and has presented the information in
peeches, in a newsletter regarding organic
sroduction and to the media. Monsanto
confirmed that Agriculture Canada and Ag-
Quest are conducting research trials on its GM
wheat. Before Loiselle's revelation, the exact
location of Monsanto 's many GM wheat plots
was a closely guarded secret in Canada. Even
the Sasketchewan government didn't know
sxactly where the plots were located in the
Drovince. Officials with the Scott Research
Firm have expressed concern about the
ecurity of the research trails, referring to
the destruction of GM research plots that
Is so rampant in Europe these days. There
ire 33 Western Canadian sites where
Monsanto is testing GM wheat this year.

June 7, Thailand: Nestle Office
Raided By Greenpeace Activists

Bangkok: Activists of the Greenpeace
Southeast Asia raided a Nestle's office,
iumping products containing genetically
nodified ingredients on the floor. According
to the report, ten activists stormed the
Mestle's office and dumped boxes of Nestle
3M products including Cerelac, a baby
food, and the Starfish brand of snacks.
They tied themselves to a counter at the
Consumer Information Center while a
3reenpeace activist presented a protest
letter to Nestle executive Nophadol
Siwabutr, in which they criticized the Nestle

ompany for preparing to supply GM food
sroducts to Thai consumers while the 1
sroducts sold in Europe were GM-free. A

imilar protest also took place simultaneously
in Manila, Hong Kong and Switzerland. The
iction was to kick off a campaign urging
:onsumers to return products containing GMO
^genetically modified organisms).

June 8, Scotland: Demonstrators
Trample Genetically Modified Crops

Fife: An estimated 250 people from across
Scotland met at Wester Friarton Farm in Newport
for a "Tea in the Field" protest. 70 anti-GM crop
demonstrators trampled crops in the field
in full view of the cops. Four people were
arrested during the trashing.

June 8, Italy: 40,000 March Against
Genetically Modified Food

Rome: Under tight security, an estimated
4-0,000 people marched through the streets of
Rome to air grievances over genetically
nodified food and other agricultural issues
wo days before the start of a U.N, summit in

the Italian capital. With memories of the anti-
capitalist/ anti-globalization riots that tore up
the city of Genoa last summer ( and left 23-
year old anarchist Carlo Giulliani dead), the
Italian State spared no expense and arranged
heavy security for the march. But the sheer
number of people who showed up anyway —
rivaling the ammount of people in Seattle on
N30 — is a clear indication that the
international ruling class is going to have an
increasingly hard time shoving GM food down
the throats of their subjects, who are resisting
everywhere it's being introduced.

June 18, England: The Pink Castle Is
Gone - Long Live The Pink Castle!

Weymouth: After seven weeks of occupying
a GM field in Dorset, the perky pink symbol
of defiance is gone - as has the entire GM
maize crop! From the 25th of April the pink
fortification stood guard over a field where the
mutant remains of the previous years GM
maize crop could still be found. The castle
residents hoped to obstruct the farmer

from planting again and prevent further
GM contamination. In May, three weeks into
the field occupation, the multinational-
collaborating farmer Charles Foot, with
seven tractors and massive police backing,
entered the field and succeeded in planting the
Aventis GM maize. Only two thirds of the field
was planted so the pink castle camp remained
to defend the rest. Naturally, there was plenty
to do after the maize went in and loads of
people visited the encampment to insure that
the job was done. By early June, the entire crop
of GM maize had been pulled up by visitors
to the pink castle and the farmer and his
corporate sponsers' Aventis wrote off the trial,
acknowledging that they had been defeated by
a grassroots, local movement they couldn't
infiltrate or control. On June 15th, following
the victory, a celebration was held that included
a large communal feast of organically-grown,
non-GM vegetables. Last year, Littlemoor

residents decontaminated a massive 70% of
the GM maize planted in the same feild and
all five Dorset GM trials were destroyed or
damaged. Within hours of the seeds being
sown, at least twenty locals were seen digging
them from the ground.

July 8, Belgium: "Red Devils"
Destroy Genetically Modified Crops

Flanders: A group called "Red Devils"
destroyed a field of GM sugar beets thai
belonged to the company Advanta. Despite the
fact that the British/Dutch company had
earlier announced to have quit producing
GM crops, a field of GM sugar beets was
discovered by activists in the area of
Verrebroek. The "Red Devils" claim this
action is part of the world wide campaign of
resistance to genetic engineering.

July 15, India: Bt Cotton Seeds Set Aflame
By Farmers And Environmentalists

Farmers and environmentalists attacked a
shop selling Bt cotton seeds and set fire to
the seeds stored inside. The activists said
they had already warned the government
that if Bt cotton seeds were sold, they would
be immediately destroyed. Opposition to
genetic engineering is widespread in
India, and the opposition is becoming
increasingly militant.

August 1, England: Anti-GM
Protestors Damage Crops

Essex: Protesters against genetically
modified crops damaged part of a field of
maize. Members of the Colchester GM
Campaign arrived at the field in Wivenhoe
in the early hours and trampled the crop. A
campaign spokesperson said 12 protesters
had taken part, some remaining at the scene
for six hours. The campaign spokesperson
also said that a third of the crop had been
damaged.

August 6, India: Environmentalists
Destroy Bt Cotton

Davangere: Environmentalists destroyed Bt
cotton cultivated in an area of two acres at
Rudranakatte. The activists convinced the
farmers that it would be a good idea before
destroying the crops. Security was tightened
in the village to prevent any untoward incident
However, the police could not take any steps
against the activists as they destroyed the crops
after convincing the farmers. Two farmers of
the village had cultivated Bt cotton. The
environmentalists told them that the crop
would have to be destroyed since it affected
the environment. Earlier, while addressing the
villagers, an environmentalist professor stated
that the crop, though disease-resistant, would
destroy farmer-friendly insects and affect the
environment ...FUCK BIOTECH!

Celebrating The One-Year Anniverssary Of A Tornado Attack On
An Agricultural Research Site In Washington, D.C.

On September 23, 2001, a tornado struck suburban Washington, D.C, causing as much as
$41 million dollars in damage to the government's largest agricultural research facility, and
disrupting studies on everything from soybean genetics to exotic citrus diseases. The
research centers' greenhouses, which covered 100,000 square feet, recieved varying degrees
of damage, and a third of them were destroyed. Fifteen buildings that housed laboratories
and offices were also damaged. In one of the labs that was damaged, USDA scientists had
been mapping the genetic code of soybean plants, so hopefully, their research was knocked
back considerably. Damage to the greenhouses and buildings was estimated at $38 million.
There was another $3 million in damages to vehicles, equipment and supplies. "Science"
has been unable to determine what made this tornado suddenly change course and unleash
it's full fury on this benign, humanitarian, State-funded research facility. Maybe there's
something to the Gaia hypothesis after all...

"Anarchy describes a particular type of
situation, one in which authority does not
exist or its power to control is negated. Such
a situation guarantees nothing - not even the
continued existence of that situation, but it
does open up the possibility for each of us to
start creating our lives for ourselves in terms
of our own desires and passions rather than
in terms of social roles and the demands of

social order. Anarchy is not the goal of
revolution.itis the situation which makes the
only type of revolution that interests me
possible - an uprising of individuals to create
their lives for themselves and destroy what
stands in their way. It is a situation free of
any moral implications.presenting to each of
us the amoral challenge to live our dues
without constraints." -Feral Faun

-He kas an arm, an iron arm

?\na tkougk v\e. \\as but one —

TTkeres a magic in \\\a\ single arm
TTkat cruskes millions down.

Kaczynski's Analogy Still
"Hits Where It Hurts"

I very much appreciate Green Anarchy

running the article by Ted Kackzynski. As long
as the Green Anarchy collective continues to
publish information of this caliber they will
continue to have my support.

I think the GA collective's response to Ted's
article missed his essential message on a core
point. Ted was speaking to STRATEGY, not
CRITIQUE, and was attempting to search out
strategic points of vulnerability — this is very
different from dismissing valid points of
critique. "Civilization" is the word used to
identify the totality of the enemy we are faced
with and is an important concept to use when
speaking to the essential inter-relatedness of
all the evils we face. Along the same lines, if
I were in a fight with another person I might
say I was fighting " John doe". This identifies
the collectivity of the enemy and includes his
whole body and spirit — fists, face, mind, head
and feet. However, to say that my STRATEGY
for defeating "John doe" should be to attack
all aspects of him is not very helpful — just as
saying that our strategy for defeating
civilization should be to attack all aspects of
civilization is also a waste of essential energy.

I agree with the GA collective's position on
civilization and patriarchy, however, I also
agree with Ted that the STRATEGIC VALUE
of attacking issues like racism, homophobia,
sexism, etc., is marginal due to the adaptability
of the system and its ability to co-opt such
struggles for its own purposes. To continue the
metaphor of two people engaged in a fight —
if you tell John Doe he can't use his left foot
to kick you, he might agree while he proceeds
to hit you in the face with his right fist. This
has been a theme repeated down through the
history of radical struggle with empire —
radicals say "stop hitting us with (fill in the
blank)" and empire turns around and hits them
with something else that is just as bad or worse.
This is an essentially reactive posture on our
part and has gotten us nowhere so far. Perhaps
we need to stop complaining so much about
what IT should or shouldn't hit us with and
start concentrating on what WE are going to
hit it with — and where and how WE should
strike?

One bit of my own perspective that I would
like to add to Ted's article is that bio-tech is
nothing new. Bio-tech is as old as civilization
itself and the common word for it is simply
"agriculture". Think about it.

— Godless Savage

LIVE WILD! FREE YOURSELF!

FREE TED KACZYNSKI!

DESTROY THE TECHNO-

INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM!

Destroy King Steam, tke JV\o\oc.i\ wild/

you toiling tkousands all!
Bind kim kis kand, or else our land

Will over nigkt down fall.

— anonymous Luddite

[p^^nTJ 1/

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January 22, India: Buffalo Pays Visit To EC
Office

Alor Star: Crowds at the Federal Building
in Alor Star, where the Election Commissions
office is located, were shocked to see a water
buffalo storm the buildings compound. The
buffalo sent workers, mainly from the EC
office and the "Anti-Corruption Agency",
helterskelter when it chased them in front of
their offices. Veterinary Department officers
fired four shots of tranquilizer at the 175kg
buffalo, but to no avail. The buffaloe's rampage
against "representative democracy" continued
until the Chief gardener of Sekolah Menengah
Stadium — Omar Mahmud — succeeded in
calming the buffalo by reciting a prayer.
January 23, India: Rubber Tapper Gored By
Wild Water Buffalo

Dungun: A rubber tapper was seriously
injured when he was gored by a wild water
buffalo while on his way to extract rubber in
water buffalo habitat. Local cops said that
Rosmadi Semur, 20, had ventured near a river
when he suddenly encountered a herd of water
buffaloes. "One of the buffaloes charged
Rosmadi and gored him causing serious
injuries to his stomach and body", the cops
said. Rosmadi was taken to an intensive care
unit with tears to his liver and excessive
internal bleeding. He's expected to recover but
hopefully he's learned that he
shares this planet with other
species.

February 11, India: Wild
Elephants Kill Three, Injure Ten

Cox Bazar: Rampaging
elephants trampled to death three
Bangladeshis and injured 10 in theifi
country's southeastern forest^'
region, according to local human
"officials". "Two of the victims
died on the day of the attack and|
the other the following day when
herds of elephants stormed two
farming villages near a forest at
Ukhia, 450 km ( 281 miles) from
Dhaka," said the deputy
commissioner of the Cox Bazar district. The
elephants destroyed nearly 15 straw and
bamboo-made houses, leaving some 100
people homeless. Elephants, a protected
wildlife species in Bangladesh, often make
forays into villages, mostly at night, to look
for food. They also damage crops, police said,
indicating a hostility to the displacement
caused by agriculture and the permanent
settlements of domesticated humans. Forest
"officials" said they believed the elephants
strayed out of the forest when disturbed by
illegal loggers.

March 6, Austria: Caged Jaguars Stage
Uprising

Vienna: While visitors watched, three
jaguars at the Schoenbrunn Zoo attacked and
killed an employee as she was preparing their
food and injured the zoo's director when he
tried to rescue the zookeeper.
March 6, India: Scared Residents Let Monkeys
Run Riot

Hungry monkeys have gone on the rampage
in an Indian temple town and no-one will
complain because of myths surrounding the
animals. The town of Noida in Uttar Pradesh
is under siege from monkeys who raid fridges,
uproot gardens and attack hospitals, pets and
people. The monkeys have also been
plundering shops selling fruit and vegetables
in Ayodhya. The newspaper Aaj Kal reports
that a policeman who tried to drive away the
marauding monkeys had one of his ears bitten
off. In another incident, the monkeys pulled a
heavy lid off a water tank and dropped it on a
car below, severely damaging the vehicle.
Some people are said to feed the monkeys just
to help keep them at bay, reports the Times of

ANIMAL UPRISINGS: THE
WILD ONES FIGHT BACK

India.

Local

"officials"

claim the

monkeys even send out scouts to check out

possible raids and once they locate one, they

return with several other monkeys. The

religious and anthropomorphic projections of

the human race seem to be protecting the

riotous monkeys, who are associated with the

Hindu monkey god Hanuman, and who are

being granted a type of "diplomatic immunity"

as they seek to reclaim stolen territory.

March 12, England: Captive Elephant Sets Out

To Kill Jailkeeper

London: A four-ton Burmese elephant held
down a zookeeper at London Zoo and
deliberately crushed his skull with her foot,
according to an official zoo inquest. In front
of dozens of shocked visitors, the 20-year-old
female elephant pushed over zookeeper James
Robson, then wrapped her trunk around his
legs to hold him down before stamping him
on his head.

March 26, India: Liquor-Loving Elephants
Wean Villagers Off The Hard Stuff

Bengal: Illicit liquor manufacturers
(bootleggers) in eastern India complain that
they are being put out of business by rogue

elephants with a fondness for booze. Elephants
in West Bengal's Midnapore district have gone
on the rampage destroying thousands of barrels
of alcohol. The bootleggers say the animals
are attracted by the smell of liquor being
produced at the distilleries and have now
appealed to the police for protection against
wild elephants, though it's unlikely that more
bribes will solve their financial problems.
Biman Mahato, a businessman whose liquor
outlet was damaged, said: "The fact that the
elephants love the liquor produced by us could
have been a great advertisement for our
business if only there was something left for
us to sell."

April 5, Florida: Motorist Escapes After
Alligator Bites Through Car Bumper

A Florida motorist escaped from an alligator
after it bit through her car bumper and lifted
her car off the ground. Stephanie Feola pulled
over after hitting what she thought was a small
animal on her way home. Feola, 43, said: "The
car started shaking and it was lifting the front
end up. I thought it (the alligator) was going
to come up through the floor." Feola managed
to put the car in reverse and escape before
calling police on her mobile phone. Wildlife
cops in Port Charlotte later caught and killed
the rebellious 7ft alligator. Considering the
significant impact that roads and motorized
vehicles have on sensitive terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystems and wildlife in Florida
(since 1981, 65% of documented Florida
Panther deaths have been roadkills, reducing
the total known wild population to 20), it's no
wonder that this alligator didn't want to
become the next "roadkill victim" of car
culture.

April 10,
India:
Wild
Elephants Foil Police Chasing "Terrorists"

A herd of rampaging elephants forced police
to abandon a mission against so-called
"terrorists" in an Indian jungle. The elephants
charged at police commandos chasing
guerrillas of the United
Liberation Force of
Assam, a rebel group
based in the state of
Assam. Police and
commandos raided th
forest following ;
heavy gunfire]

exchange with thel
rebels near Jaldapara.
Regional police chief
Shiv Kumar said the
operation had to be
called off after they
were chased away by a \
group of wild elephants. Kumar, who was
among the police and commandos, said: "It's
impossible to carry on the operation."
April 1 7, New York: Turkey Breaks Into Store,
Trashes Hunting Videos

Batavia: A turkey recently decided to take a
turn as social critic, attacking
movies in a video store and taking
particular aim at hunting videos.
Nancy Arena arrived at her video
store 30 miles east of Buffalo to
find the front window smashed and
feathers and movie cases scattered
everywhere. She called police, and
when the cops finally arrived, they
flushed a young torn turkey out of
the science-fiction section. Arena
says the episode was "kind of
I weird" because the turkey bashed
into the hunting videos first and
:, left some droppings on them.
May 12, Florida: Feline Zoo
Prisoner Bites The Hand That
Tortures It

Bush Gardens: A 1 2 year old 350 pound lion
bit off the lower-half of a zookeepers right arm
at Bush Gardens — the Anheiser-Bush owned
"theme park" — in Tampa Bay, Florida, during
what amusement park managers called a
"routine training exercise." Lions have a long
tradition of challenging human tyranny: In
1898, two male Tsavo lions made meals of a
reputed 135 laborers, stopping construction of
what is now Kenya Railways in its tracks. Why
the taste for humans? Perhaps
because rinderpest, a disease brought
by the European colonizers' cattle,
had killed off most of the lions natural
prey.

Late May: By Leaps And Bounds,
Marauding Monkeys Overrun Japan
Violent, rebellious monkeys —
hostile to human laws and customs —
are spreading across Japan, a tidy,
cement-trimmed nation more
commonly associated with
electronics and international
commerce than wildlife. From a
scraggly postwar population of 15,ooo, the
number of monkeys has increased tenfold in
half a century, reaching 150,000 today. The
generation of monkeys produced by this
population explosion seems to be an anti-social
and defiant one, and have been accused of
everything from burglarizing supermarkets to
mugging humans for food to carjacking! "It
just gets worse and worse," complained Toki
Kaneda, a resident of the Chuzenji Lake
district who closed her souvenir store because
of monkey theft. "We haven't been able to
leave the windows of our second-floor rooms

open for years." Increasingly, Japanese
officials demonize monkeys as "pests" that
"infest" farmland, causing at least $7 million
dollars crop damage a year. Like coyotes in
the United States, monkey numbers in Japan
keep increasing. With monkey bands moving
from mountain areas to farm areas, their diet
has improved, allowing most adult females to
have one baby a year. Japanese monkeys are
also becoming bigger
and more aggressive
because of their Western
diets: By rooting through
garbage bags or
extorting food from
tourists, they've gotten
much stronger and larger
from 20-30 years of
eating greasy, fatty
McDonalds food.
Farmers are wondering
if they're growing
vegetables only to
provide monkeys with
buffet salad bars. A new book, Protecting
Mountain Fields From Monkeys, contains the
latest in anti-monkey technology, including
electric fences and 12-foot-high nets. Rural
villages have been posting bounties of up to
$1,000 for the leader of a particularly
destructive monkey troop. And in cities,
sensational news reports about monkeys
"molesting women and children" have stirred
police to start patrolling streets with nets and
bananas tied to poles.

June 2, Malaysia: Rampaging Elephant Herd
Kills Plantation Worker

Kuala Lumpar: Sharifuddin Ghani, 23, a
worker at a Malaysian palm oil plantation, was
dragged from his home by an elephant who
used its trunk to carry him back to the remote
plantation where he worked in Temerloh —
once there, a total of five elephants trampled
Ghani to death. The elephants then returned
to Ghani 's village and tried to attack his
neighbors, but they all escaped. Rubber and
palm oil plantations have replaced large tracts
of forests over the past century in Malaysia,
forcing animals such as elephants and tigers
out of their natural home. To animals, the
entire world is like Gestapo Germany, humans
being the Nazis and animals being the Jews.
These elephants seemed to think that they
were at war with humans, humans having been
the first aggressors by destroying the animals
homes in the interest of capitalism and modern
agribusiness. The reason animals don't strike
back more often is their fear of humans, but

we may be seeing more animal rebellion as
we humans destroy more and more
irreplaceable wildlife habitat. The elephants
who killed Ghani were acting more like
soldiers on a commando raid against the
enemy than crazed animals committing a
random, senseless act of murder.

Humans Aren't The Only Species
Oppressed By The System, Nor Are
They The Only Species Fighting Back!

Once far enough from the house
from the confines of civilized language,
I forget who I'm supposed to be,
And become who I am.

Words flow like food, like water, like blood.
The plants speak to me.
I become an animal
Blackberries in my maw.
All of a sudden

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My fears

Of breaking human law

To defend this sacred land

Dissolve,

Playing no part in this flow.

The bees, the birds, the bears know no human laws,

Nor do trees, nor berry bushes,

Nor, when one with bee, bird, berry bush, and tree

Do I.

-Winston the Pooh— On Eating Blackberries

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lee ©mm en died Reading:
*Revolt of the Bats by Alon K. Raab
(reprinted in John Zerzan's seminal
anthology, Against Civilization, available
for $15 from GA distro. (see distro list)

*Beasts of Burden: Capitalism, Animals and
Communism (published by Antagonism
Press, c/o BM Makhno, London, WC1 N
3XX, United Kingdom )

"Let us hope that acts of self-defense and
resistance by animals, fish, birds and their
human brothers and sisters increases. Let these
actions multiply and intensify until human
tyranny is thrown off and replaced by a
community of free living beings, assissting
each other in this magical journey, and
reforging the ancient bonds of beauty and
comraderie."— Alon K. Raab

Several years before animal liberation became
a national and global issue, the following tract
by the Chicago Surrealist Group not only
raised the question in the strongest terms, but
also related it to the revolutionary struggle
against capitalism. Initially distributed at
Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in August of 1971 ,
this obscure leaflet tackles the issue of animal
liberation from a revolutionary perspective,
not a moralistic one, and is much more
reflective of how many of us involved with
"Green Anarchy" feel about that particular
struggle, than the purely ethical arguments put
forth by the mainstream animal rights
movement.

THE ANTEATER'S UMBRELLA

A Contribution to the Critique
of the Ideology of Zoos

The ostrich, the deer, the jerboa, etc.,
will come and join forces with man as soon as
his company becomes attractive to them, which
it can never be in the civilized order!
— Charles Fourier

It is not without significance that animals
in the zoo are captured and brought against

their wills to this, the penitentiary of the
instincts. The contemptible slavery that man
too readily tolerates and allows to dominate
human existence provokes an immediate
revulsion, a profound disdain, a cataclysmic
resistance among these animals of grace and
savagery. It is only through the technological
brutality of science in the service of oppression
that the living are forced into a suspended
death, in which dreams are deprived of the
future they call forth, and sleep itself crumbles
against the bars of destruction.

Here, in the zoo, in this place of hypnotic
fascination, human beings come to see their own
instincts caged and sterilized. Everything that
is intrinsic to humankind, but smothered by
capitalist society, reappears safely in the zoo.
Aggression, sexuality, motion, desire, play, the
very impulses to freedom are trapped and
displayed for the alienated enjoyment and
manipulation of men, women, and children.
Here is the harmless spectacle in which
everything desired by human beings exists only
to the degree that it is separated from the reality
of human existence. The cages are merely the
extensions of the cages that omnipresently infest
the lives of all living beings. Here the animals
are placed in the unnatural habitat of a society
unnatural to itself.

The incandescent speed of cheetahs, the
desperate prowling of leopards, the celestial
fever of black swans, the immaculate laughter
of seals, the absent-minded tumbling of
marmosets, the cabalistic brooding of owls:
These veritable emblems of grandeur are
imprisoned, severed from the past and the
future and turned into empty shells of a
previous joy. All that has been natural and a
source of pleasure, for animals, has been
converted into the performative slavery of a
zoological bastille. Ability has been made the
toil of suffering.

The condition of slavery automatically
poses the question: What are the prospects for
liberation? It hardly needs to be stressed that
the very notion of the revolutionary
transformation of the relationship between
humankind and beasts is all but unthinkable
today . And yet, in the great myths of the

American Indians and ancient African
cultures, in the writings of certain thinkers of
rare genius (Charles Fourier, Alphonse
Toussenel, John Ruskin), in the tradition of
so- called "accursed" poetry and in a
remarkable popular tradition that extends at
least from Mother Goose to animated
cartoons, from The Musicians of Bremen to
The Call of the Wild, it is possible to perceive
at least some faint glimmers of the immense
possibilities in this domain. One must heed,
too, the invulnerable signals through the
flames by the animals themselves: A few years
ago, for example, the polar bears at Brookfield
Zoo, after heavy rains flooded their lair, swam
across the moat, broke into a concession stand
and frolicked about as they consumed
thousands of marshmallows.

If enslavement begins with humankind, it
must end with the simultaneous liberation of
humans and animals from the yoke of
commodity fetishism and narcissistic
effusions. The brutal confinement of animals
ultimately serves only to separate men and
women from their own potentialities, and to
make them victims of their own insidious
barbarity.

It is the reality of dreams that necessitates
the reintegration of humans and animals in
everyday life. In the realization of its deepest
desires, humanity will achieve what it has
always sought:, a ittp|4rse of the incredible.
-The Surrealist Group of Chicago

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PRISONER
RESISTANCE

May 2-7, England: Prison Riots Spread
Throughout Country

The prison population in England and Wales
is at a record level of 71,000. The Prison
Service is considering using another ship to
house prisoners because the jails are full to
overflowing. In this situation it is hardly
surprising that three separate disturbances
broke out in British prisons in the first week
of May. At Guys Marsh, Dorset, on the 2nd
of May 30 prisoners barricaded themselves
in and damaged fixtures. At Lindholme jail
on the 6th, 25 prisoners on a wing refused to
return to their cells. At Ranby in
Nottinghamshire, on evening of the 7th, 48
prisoners took over their residential unit. The
authorities attempted to keep quiet about
these disturbances and then when word got
out, strenuously denied that they had done so.
There was no mention of the prisoners making
any demands, but the condition of being
imprisoned is sufficient to explain the rage
felt by those inside.

May 17-18, France: Riots Break Out At
Detention Center

Calais: Police used tear gas to disperse illegal
immigrants after rioting broke out at the
Sangatte refugee center close to a cross-
Channel freight depot near Calais. At least four
of the rioters were seriously wounded in
fighting, which began shortly after the French
railway authorities announced measures to
tighten security at the depot. Britain has
complained repeatedly about illegal
immigrants using the depot as a means to enter
Britain through the Channel Tunnel. The state-
owned French railway company, SNCF, said
it would install infra-red cameras and erect a
double layer of fencing and barbed wire
around the existing fence of the depot, to deter
immigrants from Sangatte. Some of the rioters
threw stones and smashed up a fence and used

fence posts as weapons in the clashes. The
violence broke out after a football match in
the camp, but tensions were already high due
to the increased security. Police managed to
quell the rebellion, but more than 100 Kurds
were stopped from re-entering the camp to
prevent further trouble. This was the latest of
several violent incidents at this center, which
shelters about 1,200 refugees. The British
Government has accused France of lax
policing around Sangatte, allowing many
immigrants to board trains to Britain illegally.
May 26-30, Ecuador: Prisoners & Families
Protest

Quito: Some 700 prisoners at the Garcia
Moreno prison seized control of the facility
during visiting hours on May 26 to protest the
elimination of sentence
reduction provisions. Some 300
family members who were at
the prison when the protest
began - including nearly 100
children - remained there in
support of the protest. The
prisoners were angered by the
elimination of the "two for one"
provision, which rewarded
good behavior by eliminating
one year of a sentence for every
year served, effectively cutting
sentences in half. As part of a
set of reforms to the sentencing
code passed last September,
Congress changed the measure
to reduce sentences by 180 days
for every five years of a
sentence - a "10 for one" benefit
the prisoners say will increase
violence by providing no
incentive for good behavior to
those with shorter sentences. On May 28,
police tried to enter the prison, claiming the
prisoners were holding relatives hostage and
refusing to let any of them leave. The prisoners
responded by threatening to blow up tanks of

butane gas if police got in. Police then fired
tear gas; pandemonium ensued, and
paramedics had to evacuate a mother, her one-
month-old baby, a pregnant woman and a six-
month-old child who were badly affected by
the gas. Tensions subsided after police and
prisoners agreed to avoid violence. The next
day negotiators failed to win an agreement,
and the prison warden threatened to cut off
food supplies. On May 30 the prisoners
announced they were ending the protest after
the PGE withdrew its interpretation of the
law's retroactivity. The PGE has asked
Congress to issue regulations clarifying the
law's application. By the time the resolution
was reached, more than 30 prisons around the
country had joined the protest.

WILD G E E SE

-by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert

repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell

you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles

of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the praries and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean

blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and

exciting —

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

The Anarchist Black Cross Network
Conference Is History!

The first Anarchist Black Cross conference
in North America since 1994 was held on the
weekend of July 26-28, 2002, in Austin, Texas.
The event, hosted by the Austin ABC and
former political prisoner and Texas anarchist
Christopher Plummer, comes on the heels of
the release of A New Draft Proposal For An
Anarchist Black Cross Network which
advocates the creation of a new network of
anarchist anti-prison collectives. The ABC-
Network is now in existence and is a promising
development in the generally weak and dismal
North American activist milieu. Reports on
the conference have been written by longtime
anarchist activists Lorenzo Kom'Boa Ervin
and Ernesto Aguilar and others. These reports,
and other info regarding the ABC Network and
prisoner-support activism, can be found at the
impressive Anarchist Black Cross Network
website at: www.anarchistblackcross.org

June 27-28, Australia: Mass Breakout
From Asylum Camp

Canberra: Radical asylum seeker supporters
used a car to drag down fences at Australia's
most notorious detention center, allowing 34

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people to escape. Immigration Minister Philip
Ruddock said 15 asylum seekers were involved
in a carefully planned mass breakout just before
midnight on the 27th from the Woomera
detention center, a former missile testing base
in central Australia. The other 19 took
advantage of the confusion and fled into the
desert. "This is a deliberate, organized breakout
by people who have been in contact with
detainees," Ruddock told Melbourne radio
station 3AW. Ruddock said members of an
asylum seeker support group drove a car up to
one of the razor-wire topped fences of the camp
where they pulled down part of the fence and
ferried the asylum seekers away. Australian
Broadcasting Corp. radio said it had received
an e-mail from a group calling itself Our Sacred
Country, which claimed
responsibility for the
breakout. They say they
decided to "liberate" the
asylum seekers only after
seeing the pain and
suffering on their faces.
Ruddock said five of the
detainees were recaptured
by police, and another 10
had been spotted and were
expected to be recaptured
by police scouring the
surrounding area. About
160 of the 200 Woomera
detainees there had been on
a four-day hunger strike.
Police have established
roadblocks around the area
and are using helicopters to
search for those still on the
run. The Immigration
Department says most of
those involved in the break-out have had their
applications for asylum rejected. For up to date
info on the struggle of refugees in Australia,
see the Melbourne Independent Media
Center website at:

www.melbourne.indymedia.org

Taking Children Seriously (TCS) and Anarchy

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What is TCS?

One of the greatest breakthroughs in anarchist theory and
practice first appeared six years ago, and hardly any anarchists
even know of its existence. Not only that, but most of the
anarchists who do know of its existence either disregard it or
dismiss it with comments containing hierarchical and
authoritarian language. I am referring to the philosophy and
practice known as Taking Children Seriously or TCS.

Taking Children Seriously is an educational and parenting
philosophy which uses Karl Popper's views on epistemology,
critical rationalism and a belief in fallibilism to reach a conclusion
that coercion of any form is bad for the growth of knowledge
and psychologically damaging to people, especially children.
From this conclusion, Taking Children Seriously creates the
framework for a methodology through which parents can
cooperate with their children to find mutually preferable
solutions to problems and disagreements that arise between
them. The TCS movement has over a thousand participants
all over the world, has produced two books and main

journal and a number of active e-mail discussion lists

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The advantages of TCS

TCS takes parenting, a subject which is hardly ever discussed
or thought about in anarchist circles. and provides an approach
to it which is consistent with anarchist principles that oppose
hierarchy and domination. TCS also lends a sharply critical
eye towards contemporary authoritarian parenting philosophies
and practices.

The lack of such a critical approach to parenting, as well as
the lack of an alternative parenting methodology consistent
with anarchist principles, cr^Bts one of the most discouragin,
situations within the anarchist movement. Namely, anarchist:
end up inexplicably conveyinjsHiessaiies to their childrefloi
acceptance of the "necessity" of relationships of domination.

TCS combines educational philosophy, epistemology and
parenting and transforms them into a unified and inter-
dependent system. This is of great value to anarchists, since
most anarchists strive for a holistic outlook and approach
towards people and society, and tend to shun laundry lists o
forms of oppression and anarchist principles

Along with providing a holistic approach to child-raising
TCS provides a rational approach, as well as an emphasis on
peoples innate fallibility. Given the fact that many defenders
of authority often use the inequality of knowledge as a
justification for those with the greater knowledge to
assume positions of authority, TCS sees the explicit recognition

.ting one
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of ones own fallibility as being essential for prev

from becoj«ftan authority over childre^. TCS ah

as vital for the growth of knowledge, since if one realizes th

one may be making a mistake, one is left more open to ne'

and better ideas which can be of more use for both parent and

child alike. BwaMMl

The TCS approach to learning and parental discipline

Most people, anarchists included, unconsciously view children
as being products in the process of being assembled. Schooling,
parental advice, life experience and sometimes religious
indoctrination are supposed to supply the product with the
appropriate software necessary for functioning, while parental
control and "discipline" are supposed to ensure that the product
does not damage itself or leave the factory during the assembly
process. This view of children comes about from a lack of
faith in the abilities of children to use reason or make their
own decisions.

Instead of this, the TCS approach contends that every
action that one does comes from an individual choice, either
explicitly or implicitly. The choice one chooses may or may
not be the right one, but it is through the use of one's abilities
to reason that one is able to eventually find the choice that
works best for them at the moment, and as a result create or
grow their own knowledge.

TCS says that children can and should live outside the
factory /product paradigm of childhood. TCS sees authority of
any kind as being detrimental to the growth of knowledge by
discouraging one to think for themselves, since such activity
is futile under authority. With no certain or secure environment
through which one could put ones thoughts into practice and
test out the validity of one's ideas, one has no safe grounds on
which to grow one's knowledge.

Furthermore, any "education" or "advice" given by an
authority figure to a child has no deep value for the child, other
than that of being a tool through which the child can appease
the authority or use to score points to gain some reward
(psychological or tangible) which is offered as an "incentive"
by the authority. Outside of the social construct of the parent/
child or school relationships, the "knowledge" or behaviors one
is supposed to carry out no longer has any apparent use-value to
the child, and therefore can be forgotten without any negative
consequences. These behaviors or "knowledge" were never
something which the child used to satisfy their own curiosities
or interests, and therefore have no personal significance to them.

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TCS' conception of the ideal role that a parent should play

is in many ways similar to that of many anarchists conceptions

of the role that anarchists should play in society. TCS believes

that parental advice can still be very useful to children and

that parents should offer their advice and useful information

to the child whenever the child is willing to receive it.
TCS sees the role of parents

as being that of a "helper" for

the child. The parent is not

supposed to be a "guide" or

set an example, but instead

should be a supplier of good

ideas, useful information,

resources, and materials.

Parents should also actively

work to make sure that their

child does not become

trapped in a coercive situation

that they do not want to be in

and to make sure that their

children are well-informed of

any potentially coercive situation

that they could become

involved with, so that the

child does not stumble onto a

coercive situation without

warning. Parents are not

necessarily "protectors" of their children, but rather people

who use their special advantages of being a parent to help their
hildren live in as open and free an environment as possible.

This will probably mean that the parent may end up playing

the role of the "protector", but it would only be done so at the

expressed (verbally or otherwise) desire of the child for protection.
Now, some people may look at this and think that TCS asks

for the parent to be an amazing, always- wo rking , self-sacrificing
aint. TCS is actually very much against that idea. TCS is

opposed to parents sacrificing themselves for their children,
nd sees the desires and preferences of both the parent and the
ild as being of equal importance. E^ ^k

TCS instead posits that great effort should be made to find

mutually preferred solutions to problems and disagreements.

With authority damaging a lot of our current abilities for
dependent and creative thought, the potential for common
eference finding may seem small to none. However TCS
ntends that with lots of practice and discovering what
actical and self-imposed barriers exist within ourselves, we
n eventually discover how to be creative and be more effective
finding common preferences. The trick is to always honestly
trive to find common preferences between parents and children,

and not give into the authority-based myths that it is "impossible".

The failings of TCS

One of the major failings of anarchism is that it has so far
overwhelmingly examined and analyzed big picture things like
institutions, class, civilization, and society, and has paid next
to no attention to smaller scale things, like psychology,
epistemology, inter-personal relations and face-to-face
interactions. One of the major failings of TCS is that it has
had the exact opposite problem.

An example of this problem is the fact that TCS considers
parental authority to be something which could be eliminated
by the parent simply thinking and behaving differently. This

authority, it needs to be simultaneously eliminated at an
institutional and social level as well as at an inter-personal
and psychological level.

Another example of TCS' lack of social consciousness, is
that it pays no attention to how race, class, patriarchy and other
forms of social oppression coerce and dominate children. If
one truly wants to eliminate coercion from children's lives,

and from the practice of parenting, one needs to have a clear
analysis of how all the various spheres of life effect and relate
to the lives of children and parents. Taking this into account, it
could be said that race, class and patriarchy coerc e children
just as much as the State and schools do, and that parents
actions are just as guided by considerations of race, class and
patriarchy as they are by the dictates of the State.

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It is with the goal of integrating the philosophy and practice
of TCS into anarchism and anarchism's various analyses of
the State, capitalism, racism, patriarchy and other forms of
social oppression that I created the anarchist Parenting e-mail
list and web-site. I believe that children are a uniquely
oppressed and dominated class of people, and that this is largely
either ignored or over-looked by anarchists. And when
anarchists do pay attention to this, focus is generally just given
to the educational system and State laws. The institution and
practice of parenting is left largely unexamined and untouched
by anarchists. I hope to do my part to help change this.

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Contact Info

TCS Web-site: http://www.tcs.ac

TCS Journal and e-mail contact: sl@tcs.ac

Anarchist Parenting web-site: http://www.anarchistparenting.com

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outlook pays no attention to the fact that parental authority is
also an institutional creation. With the State using laws that
force every child to live under the dictates of a legal guardian,
a police force that will find and bring back every "runaway"
child, and an economic system that forces every child to be
materially dependent upon a parent, a parent will have authority
over their child regardless of what parenting style they practice.
With this being the case, a child can not genuinely trust a parent
to be non-authoritarian with them, for at any time and for any
reason the parent could impose rules upon them and have the
full force of the State to back them up. To truly abolish

Editorial note:¥or most modern humans the domesticating
process begins early in childhood, if not before birth (as it
does for all the mutant by-products of civilization; cows, mass-
produced battery hens, etc.). Authoritarian culture reproduces
itself in the childhood years, generation after generation, as
damaged, psychologically- scarred slaves unwittingly do their
masters' dirty work and cut down on capitalism's operating
expenses by programming the next generation themselves .
Most children entering the world now are born in bondage,
just as their ancestors were, from whatever point in time their
cultures were hunted down and violently assimilated/ swallowed
up by civilization — and we've been slaves for so long that very
few recognize to what extent we've internalized the Systems
values or how thorough our own brainwashing has been. It's
time to try to heal from the wounds the System has been
inflicting on us for ten thousand years or at least make sure
that the psychosis of civilization isn't passed on to another
generation. Green Anarchy would like to include more articles
on anarchist parenting in future issues, as it seems obvious to
us that the roots of authoritarian culture (and the perpetuation
of patriarchy) lie in sadistic cycles of abuse and domination
that have been going on for far too long.
John Taylor Gatto has written some thought-provoking books
on the compulsory public school system in the United States,
such as Dumbing Us Down and The Empty Child, in which he
discusses how one of the State's main priorities is to control
"education" so that all the rest of the aspects of the social
engine won't be destabilized. By getting hold of the children
the State secures its territory and insures that its factories are
well-stocked with docile, house-broken worker drones. Gatto
discusses in painstaking detail how the Amerikan public school
system is based on an 18th-century Prussian indoctrination
model, a system scientically developed to guarantee certain
results, like obedience and the willingness and actual need to
follow orders. This is done by destroying our ability to think
for ourselves by narrowing our perceptual field and dividing
life into subjects which had hardly existed before, and then

Taking Children Seriously

...continued front last page

dividing the subjects ( botany, math, language,
politics) further into units. According to the
theory, with enough variations in the course
of a day, no one would know what was going
on, and would gladly turn to the Bible or the
State (or in our modern context, television) for
guidance and direction. Judging from what we
see around us every day, it would appear this
theory works and has been yeilding profitable
results for the ruling class for quite some time.
Once an individual is addicted to fragmented

S C H

I grew up in the woods

outside my folks' back door

with the raccoons

skunks and squirrels

when I was not in school

or wrapped around some book

I was climbing trees

or stalking bugs

until the bulldozers came

to eat the forest

and section by section

turn it into shopping plazas

and apartment complexes

the woods became my school

of warfare

HATE SCHOOL?
SOMETHING ABOUT

UNLEARN School teaches us a lot of crap.
Not just in boring textbook lessons, but in its
day to day activities. It teaches obedience and
submission to authority. It teaches that
academic intelligence is more important than
our passion in life, that getting a job and having
an income is more important than building and
nurturing a healthy community. Difference in
economic class is also a large factor in the
>•••••••••• equality of a learning

•environment. But
^regardless of wealth
•or poverty, mass
•education based on
.compulsion and
•competition will

never result in self-

•

.empowered, and
•cooperative people.
We need to get the
•schoolin' mentality
•outta our heads!

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sabotage became my game

moving surveyors stakes

sugaring gas tanks

breaking windows

even making home made bombs

in my war to stop destruction

of my playground

it was a losing fight

for the trees

but they never caught

the Little Warrior

and when school was out

a Big Warrior

went on to fight

the Spirit War.

studies and mental confusion, it's the rare
person who can ever get control of their own
mind and their own will again. They may get
angry and refuse to do something but they
don't know how to write the script of their own
lives, the System has destroyed that in them.
Of course, authority has utilized many different
techniques of domestication over the centuries
and Gatto's books only discuss some of the
more contemporary forms of mass-hypnosis.
If we're serious at all about creating and living
Anarchy, then we need to start taking a close
look at social conditioning and where it begins,
and we need to start treating childrens liberation
as the core issue that it is. In addition to John
Taylor Gatto's books, we can suggest some
other useful books on anti-authoritarian
parenting to our readers:
Summerhill by A.S. Neill
Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
Libertarian Education by J.M. Raynaud and
C. Ambauves

June 12, Missouri: Schools Are
Prisons And Prisons Burn!

Arnold: Someone apparently set fire to the
Sherwood Elementary School in the early
morning hours. The blaze gutted two classrooms,
melted structural supports in the roof and
caused heat and smoke damage ammounting
to more than $1 million dollars. The local
police have arrested two boys aged 13 and
15 in connection with the fire. The school
superintendent, whose position indicates how
thoroughly he has forgotten his own childhood
educational experiences, expressed shock at
the attack. We're sure most of the children who
have been forced to attend the school recently
including the two boys currently being held
by the cops could refresh his memory with a
thousand reasons for burning a school.

•RESIST

'Challenging authority
# can be very empowering .
•In a society where
alienation and frustration
often lead people to find release in drug abuse
or misdirected aggression, we need to seek ways
to channel our rage and attack the root causes
of our problems. Rebellion is healthy, now let's
make it strategic, too. Get with a group of trusted
friends or work alone. Make an underground
newsletter. Write inspiring graffiti. Play pranks.
Hand out flyers. Make posters. Plan walkouts
or skip days. Do phone/fax jams to the
administration office. Just be aware of who you
are affecting and play safe!

ESCAPE What are our options? What
would we do without schools?!? Look around,
kids everywhere are leaving the school
institution and taking education back into their
own hands. There are tons of home school
groups around. Many are conservative, but
often they have tools and resources that may
help you start a more radical unschooling
support group. If it is the question of pleasing
the parents, check out the GED option, or a
structured mail-in homeschool course. If they
won't be satisfied with your decision then
maybe you should look into legal emancipation.
Parents abuse their authority, it is what they've
learned to do all their lives. They need some
unlearning of their own, but in the meantime
don't endure any sort of abuse. We have to find
ways out of these self-perpetuating cycles.

IMAGINE what the world would be like if
kids were free to pursue their own interests,
instead of being locked up in a school all day,
for 12 years, and force fed 'knowledge.' School
doesn't only affect youth, it affects anyone who
has hope for the future. School is the breed-
ing ground for the domination, competition,
and violence in society. Getting out of school
and fighting it is a big step in the direction of
freedom and equality. We need to challenge
authority and social privilege wherever it is
found. Youth have a strong tradition of igniting
movements. The potential for a new world
lives inside you...

Be sure to check out the "Anarchy Youth"

Page on Infoshop.org at: www.infoshop.org/

kidz and the "Anarchist Youth Forum" at:

httpl ' I flag, blackend.net/wwwthreads/postlist

Modern childhood was invented by the
industrial revolution, science, and public-
education (mass-media) in the last 200 years.
Now it's being destroyed. Many millions of
kids are breaking the old-taboo lines seperating
or preventing them from wildness. It's widely
known that shame and guilt, threats and fears
are commonly used to civilize and control
children made to grow-up too fast, to fit into
our high-speed, hi-tech law and order society.
Giving and allowing children social equality
is almost unknown in this sick culture where

domination by elders is very expected and
assumed.

Here are a few more books that might be
useful to anarchist parents and kids:
Liberated Parents, Liberated Children by
Paber and Mazlish

Escape From Childhood by John Holt
The Politics of the Family by R.D. Laing
Dreaming In Someone Else's Mind (an
anthology of poetry and art by third, fourth
and fifth graders)

It all starts with the Engineers and
Inventors. Weaseley little math — and —
science geeks obsessed with creating the
perfect circle, the perfect square, the perfect
system, the perfect mass-manufacturing
process for a mass-manufactured society. The
perfect Machine. Ideas are spawned in the
grid-haunted depths of Euclidean brains,
plans are drawn up and copied and revised
and reworked by little front-line armies of
C AD-artists and R&D-specialists, part molds
are designed and ordered from machine
shops, and labor-contracts are devised over
boardroom coffee and donuts by underworked
/ overpaid fat-cats in suits whose only real
job is making six figures a year deciding the
fate of thousands of manual-labor
shitworkers. Ladies and gentlemen, the new
Chevy SUV is a go-ahead, lets order ten
million of them! A toast to the auto industry!
It's only 10 a.m., the day is over.. .anyone for
18 holes on the green?

"The green", the golf course, the country-
club. ..even more so than the factory farm, the
symptom par excellence of corrupt capitalism
and industry run
amuck. The futures of
millions of wage-slaves
are decided by a small
handful of filthy-rich
old men whacking little
white balls around
meticulously
manicured lawns. It
would almost be funny,
if it weren't such a
disgusting travesty.

My workday begins at 3 p.m., and lasts for
8 long hours in 105-degree heat. While the
random ad-execs in some random skyscraper
in some random city are just finishing their
grueling day in central air-conditioning,
alternating between flirting with secretaries
and surfing the web for e-porn and sitting
around in padded conference room chairs
brainstorming about why the all-consuming
american public needs one more SUV to
choose from and how to convince them of this
(though considering the mentality of the
average consumer, this task is never too
difficult). I meanwhile am at my assigned
press, getting my paperwork in order and
preparing to start my first "heat," or machine-
cycle.

I currently work in a rubber parts factory.
We manufacture parts almost exclusively for
the american auto industry. When you see cars
on the road at any given time, chances are
pretty high that a few of its countless little
rubber whatnots came from this factory in
northern Indiana or form one just like it in
some other anonymous little factory-town
somewhere. Detroit is hard-pressed to meet
production deadlines to satiate the ravenous
auto-driving public. Consequently, all its
umpteen-kazillion parts suppliers, like this
place, are under even more pressure. Quantity
must be high or else we don't make crucial
quotas, causing us to lose contracts. Quality
must be high or else the parent companies get
fed up with the numbers of bad parts we're
sending out and cancel our contracts. But as
hard as these idiots making the big decisions
in modern industry try to convince
themselves otherwise, they can never get past
one small and simple fact: QUALITY AND
QUANTITY ARE COUNTERPOISED,
MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE AND
ULTIMATELY IRRECONCILABLE. You
can have small quantities of high-quality
craftsmanship, handmade with loving care
and pride, or you can have mass-quantities
of shit. One or the other. Our society naturally
opts for quantity, so quality necessarily
becomes a mere facade, a crass and

hypocritical illusion deftly concealing the
tenuous house of cards beneath...

But anyway, back to my mindless job. The
rubber is milled and prepped (i.e. mixed
together with various chemicals, then cut to
size) in the millroom. The people working in
the millroom push a cart load of rubber
"preps"-some round, some square, some
sticky, some grainy, etc. depending on the part
that's being made-over to the press operators
like myself. On go the gloves, push goes the
button, down go the hydraulics, and in go my
gloved hands to pull out the hundred pound,
350-degree steel mold. I brush it clean, blow
it off with pressurized air, slap on a piece of
rubber, push it back in, and press the start
button. The press closes at between 1000 and
1500 psi, and the timer sets itself for a 6-
minute cycle. Then I repeat the same process
on 2 or 3 other presses, and wait for the cycle
to end. After 6 minutes elapse on the timer,
the presses open. I put on my gloves and pull
the hot molds out, punch all the parts out onto
a cooling screen, and repeat the entire process
the entire shift. Like clockwork, a well-oiled
wage-slave
performing the well-
oiled machinations
of factory life. Every
odd hour I write
down a cycle-count
on the Production
Control paper, every
even hour I take the
molds' temperatures
(or, more often,
fabricate
temperatures within the allowable range) and
write them down on a quality-control graph.

I slack off as much as possible, as do most
of the other press operators and workers in
other departments. We drink lots of water and
soda, take lots of restroom breaks (the
restroom is a good 15 degrees cooler than the
factory floor), have play-wars with all the little
pieces of scrap rubber our machines produce,
leave early and return late from lunch and
sneak outside for illicit smoke-breaks
whenever possible. Trust me, inhaling
cigarette smoke is quite healthy compared to
the various silicon-polymer and hydrocarbon-
polymer vapors workers are forced to inhale
for 8 hours per day at this factory and many,
many others like it. As evil and insidious as
the tobacco companies might be, they do
provide a valuable service to hundreds of
millions of wage workers worldwide: stress
relief and a tangible social bond to combat
the massively alienating and reifying effects
of the artificial division of labor necessary
to support the vicious circle of mass-
production and mass-consumption. Besides,
most low-end factory workers smoke generics
anyway, simply because they're too poor to
afford the name brands; with recent tax and
price increases, Joe Camel and the Marlboro
Man are fast becoming the SUV's of the
cigarette world: only the middle and upper
classes can afford them. And when you're
sucking on a cancer stick, you know that to a
certain degree, at least your death is still in
your own hands. They might own my life, by
God, but I'll die on MY terms...

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The systemic powerlessness that industrial
capitalism forces onto countless millions of
people, all in the name of more and better
and cheaper products of consumption and
convenience, is far beyond pathological. The
machine chokes the bodies and souls of living,
breathing human beings in perpetual slavery
so it can in turn choke the planet with more
automobiles and more concrete and more
nonbiodegradable waste and more noxious
pollution. The average city's daily routine

fresh out of high school, intelligent and

creative kids who come from poor families

and are too poor to afford college, selling their

bodies and souls to these industrial

sweatshops just to help pay their family's bills

and put food on the table. I see people

working two full-time jobs trying their

hardest to take care of babies they never get

to see anyway. I see

apathetic souls and ruined

minds, wreckage from the

human sacrifices made to

the great Machine-Gods. I

see kids younger than me

whose arms are covered in

permanent burn-scars, kids

younger than me forced by

their mere birth into an

industrial-capitalist

technocracy to spend the

beautiful sunny afternoons

inside a fume-filled

concrete building operating

dangerous machinery, just

so they can eat. Kids

younger than me handling

liquid nitrogen and caustic

acids and bases and

carcinogenic superheated

silicone and working next

to wide-open vats of

boiling oil. On and on the

list of atrocities goes. ..and

I go home at night, and

think about it all, about what we've done to

ourselves and our Mother Earth, and tears

come to my eyes, and I weep... Every bad part

I "miss" during inspection is a tiny but

conscious prayer of hope that we might see a

new and better world come into being. Every

intentional act of sabotage is my heartfelt cry

of passion against the inhumanity of a

machine that I know, one way or another, can

be stopped...

So the next time you hear of a car accident
involving malfunctioning or poorly-crafted
internal parts, you can thank me and people
like me. We do not care. We're only here for the
paycheck, because we have to be, because we
have babies to feed and bills to pay. We do not
care about this system, we'd much rather see it

crumble and give way to a more humane way
of life on Earth. We don't give a shit whether
or not the 2003 Cadillac Escalade is a "top-
quality" piece of gas-guzzling, air-polluting,
earth-raping machinery. Some of us will not
rest until the scrapyards of the world are piled
high with wrecked, destroyed and abandoned
automobiles waiting to be converted into iron

skillets, bicycle parts and alternative energy
sources. One Wrench will break the Machine,
and its a wrench we all have a handle on, but
we must wield it in one final and deadly blow,
a collective effort of will and passion and
desperation that will sever every single head of
the techno-industrial hydra in a single death-
knell. Until we reach that penultimate point of
despair for our lives and the life of our planet
and environment, despair for LIFE ITSELF,
we will remain doomed to the silenced
powerlessness of slavery and the hopeless
futility of isolated individual action. But let us
act together, as one, and... NO machine will
stop us.

For the immanent industrial apocalypse,
David

A STUMPT SAVAGE

"Your 'right to work'?" the savage said
Your 'right to earn' your daily bread?
Why, man alive, what do you mean?
Have you got bugs, friend, in your bean?
Your 'right to work'! Ain't there the Earth
She feeds us all from our day of birth
You 'don't own it'? Well, you don't say!
And how did you get that away?
Your 'constitution' and your 'law'?
Well I'll be jiggered! Haw! Haw Haw!
'Civilization'? — excuse my smirk —
It steals your bread? your 'right to work'?
And turns you loose upon the Earth
More helpless than you were at birth?
And you stand for it? Well, I'll say!
What is 'Civilization,' anyway?
— Covington Hall

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Reviews

Fifth Estate

Fifth Estate is easily the longest- running
"underground" publication in the U.S., founded
in the '60's. By the mid-'70's it had degenerated
into a sensationalist, sex-ads tabloid rather like
the other old standby, the Berkeley Barb. In 1975,
however, it was taken over by a very radically
exploring bunch that came to call itself the "Eat
the Rich" gang. From this point on through the
'80's, they discovered new sources of critique,
including Camatte, Ellul and Sahlins, and
published the likes of Fredy Perlman, David
Watson and John Zerzan who questioned and
indicted technology and civilization. But over
the past decade or so, Fifth Estate has come to
avoid new critiques or visions and no longer
merits Anarchy magazine's perennial
description of it as "consistently anti-
civilization." In fact, it hasn't questioned
civilization, technology or hardly anything else
fundamental in some time. And now, sadly, it
seems to have hit a new level of decline under
the editorship of hippie-pacifist Sunfrog. No
more edge at all and an obvious aversion to the
real resistance developing around the world.
When opposition to the mounting, all-inclusive
crisis is most needed, Fifth Estate has reached
its weakest ebb. It's voice is now so removed
from an attack on the world system — any world
system — as to celebrate ( Summer 2002) those
in Porto Allegre last winter who seek a " a
process for globalization 'from the bottom up'."
We'd love to see a rebound from this kind of
bankrupt reformism but the trajectory of Fifth
Estate seems to be well-established, especially
now that the project is in the hands of liberal,

lifestylist Sunfrog. It's acutely painful to see an
anarchist paper that once set such a high
publishing standard — and which spent 15-20
years examining the foundations of civilization
to describe how thoroughly its subjects have
been conquered (with just a handful of eco-
anarchist allies supporting their inquiries) —
break down into such a worthless, irrelevant
waste of tree flesh. How about a decent burial
for a publication that was once a beacon of
originality, life, and fighting spirit?

The Northeastern Anarchist: Magazine of the
Northeastern Federation ofAnarcho-Communists

As I trudge through the monotonous, unoriginal
and long-winded essays in The Northeastern
Anarchist (NA), what immediately comes to mind
is Crimethlnc.'s article "Face it, your politics are
boring as fuck" from Days of War, Nights of Love
(of which NA provides a condescending "Your
politics are incomplete until you read a sufficient
number of dead European intellectuals"-style
critique). The anti-FTAA resistance in Quebec
City in one of their issues — the last one I bothered
to read — has four separate articles, occupying a
total of twelve pages, devoted to it alone. While
this was an inspiring insurrectionary event, it is
a toilsome chore to read four separate articles
about it in one publication. Equally tedious is
the burdensome task of reading the three essays
on antiquated methods of organization contained
in this publication, along with the numerous news
pieces that report on assorted mass demos, riots
and events (of which only some are interesting).
Only those with sufficient endurance, patience
or interest to make it through an entire issue of
NA will be prepared to participate in NEFAC's
politics, along with the bureaucracy and
hierarchy it undoubtedly entails. It should be

recognized by now that federations only serve
to reproduce the power relations that currently
exist. If small collectives are to make joint
decisions with each other, each collective must
send delegates to act and speak on behalf of its
members. It is often argued that instant recall
procedures and "strict mandates" will hold
delegates accountable. However, this assumes
that the group can be sufficiently informed about

their delegation's actions when the membership
as a whole is not present to monitor them
constantly. Additionally, a limited number of
mandates (which are themselves open to
interpretation) cannot serve as a guide for an
unlimited number of possible decisions that a
delegate may be required to make. As
federations between groups increase in size,
delegate assemblies must elect delegates of their
own to coordinate regional, continental or even
global scale projects, thus creating a relationship
between communities and political institutions

that is just as distant and mediated as that of
today. Also, specialists and experts will be
assigned to inform political and economic
decisions, but those affected by their advice that
don 't specialize in the same areas will not be able
to adequately evaluate the accuracy or wisdom
of their opinions. If this is the alternative, why
bother? - we might as well save our time and
energy, and just stick with capitalism. Although

the members of
NEFAC may have
anarchist
intentions, they
need to re-examine
their methods,
for they will soon
find that their
organization has
a bureaucratic
and authoritarian
life of its own,
whether intended
or not. The fact
that the inside
front flap of their
publication
reveals that they
have a "General Secretariat Collective" and an
"International Secretariat" should be sufficient
to make any anarchist cringe. If personal
autonomy is desired, collectives should be small
enough to allow for group-wide decisions to be
made by all members without delegation. Groups
can share and communicate with each other
without joining, and hence controlling, each
other. For a copy of NA, send a check or money
order for $4 US ($5 Canadian) to The
Northeastern Anarchist PO Box 230685,
Boston, MA 02123.

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...reviews continued from last page
Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban
Guerrilla by Ann Hansen (Between the Lines/
AK Press, Toronto and Edinburgh, 2002) 493
pp, $19.95

In the early 1980's Ann Hansen and others
calling themselves Direct Action (AKA the
Vancouver Five or the Squamish Five) blew up a
hydro-electric substation in British Colombia,
burned some especially misogynist Vancouver
porn shops, and bombed a Toronto factory that
made Cruise Missile components.

"/ would prefer to live in peace but, when I
looked around me, I couldn't find it anywhere.
Everywhere I looked, the land was being
destroyed, the Indians were victims of genocide,
Third World peoples were oppressed and
massacred, people lived in industrial wastelands
and womyn were being raped and children
molested. I could never live in peace, only quiet:
the kind you find in cemeteries." Ann spoke to
her decision to engage in active, illegal
resistance in these terms in court in 1984, before
receiving a life sentence.

She served seven years and now lives in
Ontario, Canada. She was and is an anarchist
whose acts were informed by a deep
understanding of the malignant nature of
industrial civilization. In fact, Direct Action was
virtually unique for its time in having arrived
at a critique and a vision that were much more
radical than the prevailing North American
activism. In both theory and practice the Five
embodied an exemplary level of revolutionary
commitment.

Much of the Direct Action approach finds its
echo in debates that are ongoing. For example,
we at GA see property destruction as a necessary
tactic (among many). Ann addressed those who
see the sabotage of destructive property by
protesters as being on the same level as the
violence of the state and corporations. She
pointed out that this equation is no more
accurate than saying that the peace of the
concentration camp is the same kind of peace
that one finds in a healthy society.

Ann Hansen's voice and resolve, (see the
interview elsewhere in this issue) are urgently
needed in the movement today. Direct Action is
a candid and extremely well written account of
a project that has instructive relevance almost
twenty years later. Strongly recommended.

Veiled Courage: Inside The Afghan Women's
Resistance by Cheryl Benard (Reviewed by
anarchist p.o.w. Rob "Los Ricos" Thaxton)

Afghanistan has been ravaged by warfare for
over 25 years now. Used as a pawn by the U.S.
in order to draw the Soviet Union into a
Vietnamese quagmire along its own border, the
country was left to fend for itself when the Red
Army withdrew, leaving behind — in the words
of the Soviet commander-in chief — "Dust, lice
and blood."

Since the Soviet withdrawal, Afghanistan has
suffered constant civil warfare as rival warlords

and Islamic fundamentalist jihadis contend for
power. Constantly shifting alliances have not
helped calm the situation. The U.S. in particular
has exacerbated the violence by backing different
factions of jihadis — first the alliance known as
the mujahideen, later the Taliban occupation
forces and currently the so-called Northern
Alliance. The latter is an insane patchwork of
armed groups as diverse as former communist
loyalists, opium producers and jihadis ( Islamic
holy warriors) — including former mujahideen
and Taliban factions.

When the Taliban and Al-Quada were forced
to flee, men throughout Afghanistan celebrated
by shaving or trimming their beards, which were
mandatory under the Taliban's reign, with a
prescribed minimum length. The women of
Afghanistan have declined to shed their veils and
burquas, however. All they see is more of the
same shit coming their way. Hamid Karzai
proved them right by refusing to rescind Islamic-
based law after the loya jurga (grand council)
appointed him as interim president.

It's difficult to find any good guys in the hate-
filled factionalism that still plagues Afghanistan.
I can't think of a single one. That doesn't mean
there aren't brave, compassionate, militant
dissidents there. Cheryl Benard's book, Veiled
Courage, tells of the Revolutionary Association
of the Women of Afghanistan ( RAWA),
documenting RAWA to inform the world that
there are alternatives to the raping, murdering
thieves and thugs being propped up as the leaders
of the Afghan people.

Benard presents a history of RAWA, from its
beginning as a student-based group in opposition
to the Soviet occupation in the 1970's, through

its evolution into a clandestine women's rights
organization and on to its current status as the
only Afghani political group that lives up to its
promises.

The contrast between the Taliban and RAWA
couldn't be more divergent. Under the Taliban
and other fundamentalists rulers, women were
prohibited from showing any part of their body
from beneath their burquas, could not travel
outside their homes without male escorts — even
for medical emergencies (this was true for
widows and orphaned girls, too), and were
prohibited from either education or work outside
the home.

RAWA, on the other hand, ran clandestine
schools for girls, established health clinics for
women who could not legally obtain health care,
and have done much of the relief work necessary
to provide for the 5 million-plus refugees forced
from their homes by factional warfare among the
warlords. The most amazing thing about RAWA
is that they have been doing all this clandestinely
in Afghanistan and warily in Iran and Pakistan.
RAWA was forced underground by the Soviet-
backed government in power in the '70s. When
RAWA organized school girls and women
college students to "speak poetry" against the
occupation, the terrified police forces fired upon
the chanting girls, killing two children. This
murderous incident cost the Soviet puppet regime
any credibility with the Afghan people. The
government responded — as any communist
regime would — by suppressing all opposition.

The women activists of RAWA have put their
lives on the line in order to provide everyday,
vital services to Afghan people, particularly for
women and girls. The jihadis only provide for
boys in internment camps where they are kept in
isolation from their families and indoctrinated
in religious fanaticism.

Reverence for RAWA's founder, Meena, is a
large part of RAWA and this book. Again, her
life provides a vivid contrast to that of her
contemporaries, like Gulbuddin Hekmatyr, who
first came to prominence as a college student by
throwing acid into the faces of women who dared
to show them in public. Until recently, the
cowardly scumbag Hekmatyr was one of the key
players in Washington's schemes to establish a
new government in Afghanistan. Whereas
Hekmatyr 's authority was enforced through
strength of arms, Meena's influence was
forthcoming due to her compassion, bravery and
love. In 1986, Hekmatyr captured Meena's
husband, himself a dissident in Pakistan, and
personally tortured Faiz Ahmed to death. The
next year, with the aid of the CIA-backed
Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, Hekmatyr did
the same with Meena. Many RAWA activists
hold Meena's memory close to their hearts to
this day. Not because of her authority, but because
they knew and loved her as much as she knew
and loved them.

Benard's book works best when she allows the
Afghan people to share their stories in their own
voices. Her analytical weaknesses are apparent
when she throws in her own perspectives.
Thankfully, this is mostly in the second-to-last
chapter. Benard has fallen under the spell of some
very strange individuals in regards to her political
take on the state of world affairs. She also appears
to be painfully naive about American foreign
policy. This is as confusing as it is questionable.
Her husband, Zalmay Khalizad, works for the
National Security Council (of the U.S.). Since
Benard mostly sticks to recounting the history
of RAWA — up through 9/ 1 1 — the book is both
informative and valuable for anyone who wants
to learn about RAWA.

www.rawa.org

Break The Chains
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The new issue of Break The Chains, the
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organizing in Eugene, legal updates re-
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Cascadia Media Collective
Releases Guerrilla Video
Primer

Cascadia Media Collective will release
its long-anticipated Guerrilla Video
Primer on October 1, 2002, teaching
viewers everything they need to know to
videotape a riot, spot news event or
community issue. Featuring lessons
culled from CMC's experiences in the
field, the lively 90-minute tutorial
teaches aspiring videographers and
guerrilla journalists:

* Camera Basics: how to get a good,
steady shot of an action in progress;

* Copwatch: how to catchthe pigs on tape
for community defense;

* Editing: how to put together a tight,
smooth piece;

* Tips for filming local, national, and
internatioanl events;

* Cable access and distribution issues.
The Guerrilla Video Primer is
accompanied by a Guerrilla Video
Handbook which goes into greater detail
on all aspects presented in the video.

Guerrilla Video Primer (video only): $15

Guerrilla Video Handbook (book only):

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Book/video set: $20.

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May 31-June 1, Oregon: Police Get Pelted
With Rocks And Bottles In Off-Campus Riot

Eugene: Police used tear gas to quell a campus
area riot that ended with eleven people arrested
after partiers pelted officers with rocks and
bottles, lit fires and ripped down street signs.
The melee began about 11:30 p.m. on May 31st
and continued for hours as up to 500 people,
most of them apparently in their late teens and
early 20s, gathered in streets just west of the
University of Oregon campus. "There was a lot
of alcohol consumed, a lot of people out because
of the warm weather, and they were just cruising
out and about wherever the action was," Eugene
pig Jan Power told the press. Power said a
sergeant first responded to reports of loud and
disorderly people and quickly realized that more
officers were needed. An area resident said
partiers became more aggressive when they saw
the first police car retreat from the area. Officers
wearing helmets and face shields ordered the
partiers to disperse, but people responded by
throwing rocks and bottles. At least eight pigs
suffered minor injuries and windows in three
patrol cars were smashed out. Additional pigs
were requested as the crowd continued to grow.

At the height of the riot, 21 Eugene police were

helped by 20 officers from the neighboring

Springfield and Coburg police departments,

Lane County sheriff's office and Oregon State

Police. Police fired three to five canisters of tear

gas, but Power said it didn't bother some of the

revelers. "It didn't seem

to affect some of them,"

she said. Eventually,

most people either left

the area or returned to

parties inside area

houses and apartments.

But even hours later, as

city crews worked to

replace signs and fix

other damaged

property, some people

yelled taunts from

inside homes and atop

a garage. In addition to

the damaged police

cars and uprooted

signs, partiers started fires in garbage bins,

broke a water main and removed a manhole

cover. Because so many officers were focused

on one small area, most of the city was left
without police "protection". "It really leaves the
community pretty vulnerable," Power said. "It
really does strap our resources.

June 8, Greece: Man Arrested After Shooting
Outside Greek Prime
Ministers' Residence

Athens: A man
described by police as
a "drug addict" was
arrested after firing a
stolen police pistol into
the air outside the
Athens residence of
Greek Prime Minister
Costas Simitis. Simitis
was in the building at
the time, but
unfortunately, was not
injured or killed during
the incident. The man,
38, had been armed
with both a hunting rifle and a pistol he had taken
from a policeman, which was the weapon used
in the shooting. Following an exchange of gunfire

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with Greek cops, the man was "lightly" injured
before being finally captured after a short car
chase in the capital. A government spokesperson
described the shooting as "a particularly serious
event" though Greek pigs said the attack was not
connected with any known political groups. It is
not clear to us how this guy managed to steal a
cops pistol, nor what "drugs" he was on, though
whatever it was, it did seem to impair his aim.

June 14, Greece: Firebomb Blast Damage
Public Works Ministry, Bank

Athens: Firebomb blasts damaged three
vehicles belonging to the Greek public works
ministry and a bank branch in two separate
attacks. No injuries were reported. Three bombs
made with propane gas canisters exploded under
the cars, which were parked outside a public
works ministry building south of the city center,
about 5:00 a.m. Half an hour later, a firebomb
was thrown at the entrance of an Alpha Bank
branch in the eastern suburb of Kessariani,
causing minor damage to the entrance.

June 17, Indonesia: Police Kill Separatist
Rebels Of The Free Aceh Movement

Indonesian police claim to have shot dead four
separatists rebels connected with the Free Aceh
Movement and say that they are holding another
in connection with the killing of two politicians
the previous week in the war zone in the northern
province of Aceh. This recent police action came
as the number of deaths of civilians in the war
between the government and the Aceh Merdeka
continue to rise. The secrecy of Aceh 's hidden
war is startling. Few in the West know that the
Aceh Merdeka rebels in Indonesia's
northernmost province have been fighting the
military for as long as Fretilin in East Timor.
Aceh, dense with palm oil and towering stands
of coconut and rubber, has always been the most
Islamic and independent area of Indonesia: most
people in Aceh describe themselves as fervent
adherents of Islam, but say they are not
fundamentalists. Religion, in any case, the
people say, has little to do with the conflict which
is more directly related to the people not wanting
to share their rich energy, mineral and food
resources with what they consider to be a corrupt
and economically-exploitative central
government in Jakarta. During a 25-year civil
conflict - between the Indonesian military, who
are notorious for their repression, and Aceh
Merdeka, a well-armed rebel group demanding
independence - a once proud and vibrant people
have seen massacres, "disappearances", schools
destroyed and more than 100,000 traumatized
refugees living in makeshift camps. In 1989, the
scale of rebel activity and government attacks
increased and during a military operation which
lasted until 1992, 2,000 people were killed. Care
Human Rights Forum lists around 1,300 civilian
deaths, about 2,000 missing and 16,000 orphans;
around 3,500 cases of torture, 130 rapes and 600
house burnings, all blamed on the Indonesian
military, who have now given in to international
pressure and are willing to accept human rights
monitors to enhance their tattered reputation.
It's only been in the last two years that
information about the rampant raping and human
rights abuses of the Indonesian military has been
collected and presented to the public. Through
our own research we have confirmed that the
unanimous opinion of Java-based and
international organizations and "experts" on
Aceh is that the Indonesian government is
responsible for all these atrocities and that Aceh
Merdeka has no record of attacking civilian
populations. At the same time, Aceh Merdeka
has itself prompted refugee flows: these typically
begin when Aceh Merdeka tells villagers that a
military raid is imminent and organizes
transport to the camps. The rebel group has taken
over the refugee camps and "pooled" the
refugees' resources so they are left with no means
to go back to the villages. It has then attempted
to indoctrinate the refugees and now seeks to
use them to present to the world Aceh Merdeka's
view of the truth - that the military has created
a refugee crisis, should withdraw from Aceh and
allow it to be independent. In Aceh Merdeka's
mind the UN and the Western nations cannot
ignore 100,000 refugees dying and sweltering
in camps. So the refugees are being controlled,
even created, and their image manipulated into
a humanitarian plea for independence. This type
of leftist authoritarianism makes it impossible
for the Green Anarchy Collective to endorse the
Free Aceh movement, though to their credit it
must be admitted that they have a strong
environmental agenda and have shown
undeniable solidarity with the womans liberation
struggle (something rare in Islamic culture).
Adding to our suspicions and doubts about Aceh
Merdeka is Libya's financial support of their
struggle (in January, the army killed the rebels'
long-time military leader, the Libyan-trained
Tengu Abdullah Syafei. Another Libyan-trained
fighter, Muzakkir Abdul Manaf, who claims to
have been a bodyguard for Col. Muammar el-
Qaddafi, quickly replaced him). At the same
time, it needs to be acknowledged that Aceh
Merdeka are part of an ongoing international
anti-colonial movement, and that this movement
often takes on bioregional forms that may appear
authoritarian to us, but that are in many ways
unique responses to unique bioregional and
cultural conditions. Viewed collectively, these
various bioregional struggles constitute a
genuine international movement against
capitalism and colonialism, and by staying

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informed and learning to read the "patterns
within the chaos", we can have a better
understanding of where we fit into the larger
struggle.

June 22: County Deputy Gets Wasted In
Washington

Seattle: Less than two weeks after being
released from prison for an attack on "law
officers", Ronald Keith Matthews was held
without bail for investigation of aggravated first-
degree murder in the death of Deputy Richard
Herzog, 46, in suburban Newcastle, WA.
Sheriff's officers said Herzog responded to a
report of a naked man running through traffic
in the Eastside suburb. Witnesses said the deputy
cop was trying to subdue the naked man with
pepper spray when the man grabbed a 40 -caliber
semi-automatic Glock handgun from the pigs
holster and opened fire. An autopsy performed
showed that Herzog, who wore a bulletproof vest,
died of multiple gunshot wounds to the head.
Noone will ever have proof of the precious

untested, but the few incidents that we have seen
of politicized hacking show amazing promise
and potential. Basic guerrilla concepts like
invisibility and mobility take on a whole new
meaning in cyberspace, and this is important
when we consider the present size of the
anarchist movement. This type of guerrilla
activity wasn't possible twenty years ago, which
means that the State - while concerned about it
- is still not fully prepared for it. As much as the
government would like to limit the use of the
worldwide web to commerce and entertainment
(the internet is starting to replace TV as
America's favorite "plug-in drug"), it's clear that
the electronic matrix known as the web is full
of opportunities for subversion that don't exist
in the physical world.

July 3, England: Margaret Thatcher Statue
Decapitated

London: A vandal decapitated an eight-foot-
tall marble statue of former Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher by smashing a metal pole

deeds that I achieve

Noone can logically argue with the things
that I believe

Just a trifle of positive thinking, a healthy
dose of LSD

The following day T 11 be watching the news
and giggle while others grieve

It's not the first time and it sure won't be
the last

Psychic prayer is functional and the piggies
are dying fast

This isn't the first time and it sure won't be
the last...

June 30, Poland: International Hunt Seeks
NASA Hacker

Poznan: Polish prosecutors said they were
searching for a computer hacker believed by the
United States to have penetrated the NASA
computer system. The damage caused by this
well-chosen act of computer sabotage was
estimated at $1 million. The search is being
focused around Poznan, an area in Poland that
has a tradition of code-breaking dating back to
Polish citezans helping to crack Nazi Germany's
Enigma encryption machine during World War
Two. Green Anarchy is definately interested in
hearing more about acts of politicized hacking
in the future, as we consider computers to be
the systems' Achilles heel: the increasing
reliance on computers for the normal operation
of modern society has resulted in the creation
of critical nodes whose destruction would be
comparable to brain death. Thus, the ruling class
have greatly increased the potential for major
disruption and economic loss stemming from the
sabotage of computer facilities or interference
with computer operations. The science of
electronic warfare is new and for the most part

against the sculpture of the Iron Lady. The
attacker grabbed one of the poles that supports
the ropes keeping people back from exhibits at
the Guildhall Art Gallery and used it to knock
the head off the statue. Paul Kelleher, 37, of
London was charged with criminal damage and
blamed Thatcher for "promoting capitalism and
endangering the world". Thatcher is hated by
many British people for her right-wing, anti-
labor, pro-capitalist policies. She's hated by
people the world over because of her
collaboration with Ronald Reagan in global
imperialism.

July 5-6, France: Youth Riot Against Racist
Pigs

Lille: Roving bands of young people set fire to
cars and trash cans in the second straight night
of rioting in this northern French city over a
court's refusal to imprison a police officer who
killed an Algerian man. One rioter threw a
gasoline bomb at a government building, causing
a small fire. Eight people were arrested. Most of
the rioters were of North African descent. A night
earlier, six people were detained in similar rioting.
All had been released by the 6th, but three of
them were to face charges for setting fire to
property. The violence came after a regional court
threw out charges of homicide against a police
officer who shot and killed a 24-year-old Algerian
in Lille in April 2000.

July 6, Oregon: Explosive Device Blows Up In
Front Of Starbucks Coffee Shop

Eugene: A loud explosion shook windows and
set off business alarms near the University of
Oregon campus at approximately 3:30 a.m. The
explosion was centered in front of the Starbucks
coffee shop at 801 E. 13th Ave. Eugene police

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searched the area and found an improvised
explosive device that had been detonated. The
front doors at the shop were slightly damaged.
The Eugene police claim that several people
heard the explosion, but that no one saw what
happened. A newspaper in Seattle referred to this
incident as "anarchist related", though thus far
we have no reason to believe this "action" was
politically motivated.

July 8, China: Falun Gong Movement Accused
Of Disrupting Broadcasts

Beijing: Chinese officials accused the outlawed
Falun Gong spiritual movement of "launching a
challenge against civilization" by disrupting
satellite television transmissions in parts of the
country for more than 12 hours last month. In a
news conference followed by a prime-time news
special, broadcasting officials heaped new
condemnations on the banned movement. Falun
Gong has largely been crushed inside China over
the last two years but still has closeted
participants in China and a large, vocal
constituancy abroad. Communist officials said
the operations of the sinosat satellite, which
broadcasts national and numerous provincial
television channels to remote corners of the
country, had been repeatedly "hijacked" during
the week beginning June 23, endangering public
"security" and violating international law.
Communist officials said that the disruptions
were the work of "the Falun Gong cult stationed
abroad, manipulated and directed by Li
Hongzhi," the group's exiled founder. But they
declined to provide backup evidence or to say
where they believed the intruding signals
originated. For long periods that week, viewers
"dependent" on the satellite saw black screens
and for more than 20 seconds on June 23 they
saw scenes of a Falun Gong rally and hundreds
of meditating people. "Officials" wouldn't
estimate how many TV viewers might have been
affected but said signals had been disrupted to
13,000 receiving stations, which distribute signals
locally, located mainly in remote mountain areas.
The Chinese State's recent statements were the
first indications that Falun Gong members might
have taken the more advanced step of jamming
satellite beacons and trying to substitute their own
broadcasts. Falun Gong is a movement that
claims to harness "supernatural" forces for
improved physical health and a healthier society
which attracted millions of adherents in the late
1990's. By outlawing it as an "evil cult" the
Chinese state has only helped turn Falun Gong
into an internal and international resistance
movement. The Chinese authorities took extreme
measures to prevent the movement from growing,
and sent thousands of die-hard members to labor
camps: at least 438 members have died in
communist custody so far. But remnants in China
and members abroad have resisted with
demonstrations and other tactics, such as the
pirate television broadcasts. Actions such as these
elevate guerrilla or unauthorized media to the
level of revolutionary culture jamming and
suggest forms of resistance that could be
amazingly powerful and effective if they were
employed constantly and all over the map. Given
the fact that the State creates and reinforces the
dominant paradigm through it's monopolization
of the means of communication and its possession
of technology designed and perfected for the
specific purpose of molding the group mind,
disrupting their hypnotic propaganda signals is
indeed a revolutionary act. The communist States
paranoid reaction to any slight display of free
thought or deviation from the worldview
provided by "the Party" shows how threatening
our very ideas are to authority. It's interesting
that the Falun Gong movement was originally
just promoting a meditation technique but, like
the Branch Davidians in the United States, any
break with nationalistic social conformity is
enough to trigger off State-sponsored "search and
destroy" operations. It's also interesting that since
September 1 1th, governments the world over are
describing any and all forms of non-cooperation
or social rebellion as a "war with civilization",
which is hopefully what the global resistance is
becoming. »^^^^^i

July 13, Italy: Decomposing Water System
Prompts Large Protests

Rome: The Italian government is making feeble,

unconvincing promises to do something about a
severe water shortage after weeks of public
protests by southern Italian farmers with
shriveled crops. While weeks of dry, rainless
skies haven't helped the situation, authorities say
the shortage is largely caused by an aged, leaky
water distribution system. Coming in a country
where the influence of ancient Roman engineers
can still be seen in the ruins of aqueducts, the
unsustainable, fragile nature of the modern day
water network is a clear sign that this
civilization, like the Roman Empire, is starting
to come apart at the seams. Nearly every day for
two months, Sicilian farmers have blocked roads
or town squares on the island with tractors and
cows. Palermo residents have held protests,
sometimes clashing with
police, after their faucets ran
dry for days. Many of Italy's
water pipelines date from the
1920's and they "are leaking
all over the place", a top i
Civil Defense official said.
He estimated that about 40
percent of the water destined
for farm lands and cities is
lost to leaks. Nature has also
been stingy with rainfall,
perhaps due to the
hammering the biosphere
has taken at the hands of
industrialism. In the last 10
years, precipitation in Italy
has decreased by an average of 25 percent
nationwide. With temperatures in southern Italy
in the mid-90s nearly every day for weeks,
tempers have flared on farms, ranches and in
homes dependent on these modern systems for
survival. The Interior Ministry, which controls
state police services, said that police chiefs have
been ordered to keep on guard for disorders or
"illegal acts" linked to the water shortage.
Hopefully, this situation is prompting people to
take a deeper look at the unsustainable nature
of mass society and most forms of agriculture.

July 24, Papua New Guinea: Power Pylons
Destroyed, Mining Operations Disrupted

Ten power pylons have been blown up on
separate occasions between the Hides Gas project
and the Porgera mine area. A police official said
he believed the attack on the pylons to be election
related. He said the pylons were not destroyed at
the same time. The Porgera Gold Mine relies on
power supply from Hides Gas and may have been
severely affected by this act of sabotage. Recently
a mine manager from Hides Gas expressed
concerns about the operations of the mine being
affected by shortage of fuel due to election-related
violence. But he said since his office received
information of the attack, he had dispatched a part
of a platoon stationed in Tari with police into the
affected areas. Damage estimates have not yet
been made. In February this year, when some
people cut a 22.1kw power pylon, the mine
suffered serious damage. It is unclear who is
responsible for this action or what was the
motivation behind it, though one can guess that it
was an action against corporate exploitation and
for self-determination for Papuan people against
colonial rule. Papua New Guinea, West Papua in
particular, is a country suffering from internal
strife, as well as foreign imperialism. Violent
conflicts between various rebel factions, Natives,
foreign companies, and the government are a
regular occurrence. Some groups within Papua
wish to keep the country a neo-liberal colony,
others want an independent state, and others,
namely certain indigenous communities, do not
want any government, or any other aspect of
modern life. They simply want to be left alone.
But the government and the corporations are not
likely to respect their wishes, and they will have
no choice but to engage in armed conflict for their
sovereignty.

August 1, Chile: Students Protest Bus Fares
With Force

Santiago: Some 5,000 Chilean high school
students marched to the Education Ministry to
demand that the government of President Ricardo
Lagos freeze student bus fares at the current rate
of 100 pesos until 2005. Some of the protesters
blocked traffic, threw rocks at police and
journalists, vandalized public and private property

and looted businesses. Rocks injured two TV
camera operators. Police agents from the
Carabineros Special Forces arrested 378 people
and used tear gas and water cannons to break up
the crowds. The police tried to disperse the
crowds, but the students regrouped and the
protests continued in several locations of the
capital over the course of the day.

August 2-3, Haiti: Police Flee City After
Jailbreak And Attacks By The "Cannibal
Army"

Gonaives: On August 3, Police searched cars

and buses leaving this northwestern city for 159

prisoners who escaped after gunmen drove a

tractor through the wall of a prison to free a jailed

political activist. Police fled

Gonaives on August 2 after

the jailbreak, and residents

locked themselves in their

homes as automatic gunfire

rang in the streets. People

burned down city hall and

the courthouse, and

authorities acknowledged

they had lost control of the

town. On August 3, police

returned with

reinforcements and restored

calm. Officers were

patrolling the streets and

searching vehicles for

escaped prisoners on the

southbound highway from Gonaives to the city

of Port-au-Prince. Gonaives has about 200,000

people. Government officials said the purpose of

the prison assault was to free Amiot Metayer, a

former ally of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide

who turned against the president after he was

jailed July 2 on charges of burning down the

houses of a rival gang. He blamed Aristide for

his arrest. Metayer was seen on August 2 parading

through Gonaives with his supporters, an armed

group calling themselves the Cannibal Army.

August 11, Oregon: FBI Investigates Multiple
Attacks On Bonneville Power Lines

Lane County: The FBI and Oregon State Police
have joined an investigation to find out who is
shooting out insulators on key Bonneville Power
Administration transmission lines. Investigators
now suspect that recent incidents of vandalism
against Bonneville - that seem to have begun in
May - are related. "This is an inordinate amount
of vandalism for this area," said a BPA security
officer. "We've noticed a distinct pattern.
Whoever 's doing this knows exactly how many
insulators to shoot out so the line will not go out
immediately. They also leave the area clean, with
no shell casings or other evidence left behind."
A power line insulator works like the surge-
protector feature on a computer plug. The glass
bell-shaped hoods help regulate the flow of
electricity through high-voltage power lines as
they approach a tower. They prevent the tower
and the ground below it from becoming
electrified. When an insulator is damaged, water
or moisture can cause the power lines to go dead,
interrupting the flow of electricity. Investigators
say that usually this type of vandalism is done
by bored people who mix guns and alcohol, but
that these recent shootings in the Oakridge area
are carefully calculated to cause an outage after
the shooter has time to escape. The suspect would
have to be a pretty good shot to hit the eight-
inch-wide insulators, which are usually about 70
feet from the ground. The first set of damaged
insulators was discovered May 24 near Cougar
Dam, about 25 miles east of Eugene. In that case,
vandals shot about 80 insulators on the Cougar -
Thurston line, causing it to go out of service.
Repairs cost about $6,000. The insulators cost
Bonneville anywhere from $90 to $300 to
replace. On June 3, a helicopter surveillance team
discovered additional broken insulators on the
same Cougar- Thurston line. A few days later,
another helicopter patrol spotted more damaged
insulators on the Hills Creek-Lookout Point line,
eight miles west of Oakridge: repairs were
estimated at $6,500. On July 30, vandals damaged
insulators 15 miles east of Lookout Point, causing
a two-hour outage in Oakridge. At that point, the
Lane County sheriff's office joined the
investigation. When a U.S. Forest Service
helicopter crew discovered 16 more broken

insulators on the same power line on August 3,
the BPA notified the FBI. Similar acts of
vandalism have been discovered in Montana and
Idaho, where damaged insulators shut down a
dam for nine hours in June. Repairs and power
outages have cost the BPA and smaller power
suppliers close to $40,000 since late May.
August 19, Greece: Government Office
Attacked With Bomb!

The local office of the PASOK ruling party in
the Thessaloniki district of Kyveleia was
damaged in the early morning by a gas-canister
bomb. Nobody was injured, and no group claimed
responsibility.

The Global Police State Is Coming Down
Fast!!!

We're standing right now on the brink of a
planetary police state, a technological and military
net of social control being woven by the
combined nation states of the world, that has
the potential to crush all effective resistance to
it unless we react quickly and become educated
about the new threats facing us all. Ultimately,
any movement that seeks fundamental and
transformative changes in society will be
confronted with state repression. If the legal
apparatus limits or restricts this repression, State
security forces will ignore such laws, or the State
itself will enact new laws legitimizing repressive
actions: this has been true throughout the
history of Empire and should come as no shock
to anyone engaged in revolutionary struggle with
the State. What is unique about the current
consolidation of ruling class power that we're
seeing now is the unprecedented level of
cooperation that's taking place between the

governments of the world as they attempt to
neutralize all resistance to their rule both locally
and globally. The essential characteristics of the
new National Security state are not the results
of 9-11, but rather of a historical process, today
referred to as Globalization. As such, the effects
of 9-11 signify a new stage in the development
of total social control, which is based on
technology, increasing social conflict, and the
need to ensure the continued exploitation and
expansion of transnational capital. This inevitable
progression has led to the establishment of a global
corporate fascism, where technology has vastly
expanded the capabilities for the surveillance
and monitoring of political dissidents, non-
conformists and "undesirables". Just as technology
has been a driving force behind globalization, it is
also used as a means of repressing those sectors
which resist and/ or have no place in the new
economic order (particularly indigenous
peoples). The only logical response to the
National Security state and its repressive function
is the continued application of resistance, based
on present-day analysis and the lessons of history.
The uncertainty and conflicts of the future will
create conditions in which resistance will be
fertile, providing that revolutionary movements
are prepared to exploit such oppurtunities,
overcoming their present marginalization, while
at the same time being able to survive increasingly
violent and lethal forms of repression. It's
vitally important for revolutionaries and dissidents
to begin communicating with each other
regularly, sharing important information with
each other about our various struggles, and
engaging in the critical self-analysis that is
necessary to keep our tactics and strategies
effective.

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"If there were any serioius concern about
liberation we would see thousands of people
simply walk away from the vast economic, po-
litical, and intellectual machine we call West-
ern Civilization and refuse to be enticed to par-
ticipate in it any longer. ... Liberation is not a
difficult task when one no longer finds value
in a set of institutions or beliefs. ... Liberation,
in its most fundamental sense, requires a re-
jection of everything we have been taught and
its replacement by only those things we have
experienced as having value." -Vine Deloria
Jr., from For This Land

"If a plant is threatened with overwhelming
danger or damage, Backster observed that it
reacts self-defensively in a way similar to an
opossum -or, indeed, to a human being- by
"passing out," or going into a deep faint. The
phenomenon was dramatically demonstrated
one day when a psychologist from Canada
came to Backster's lab to witness the reaction
of his plants. The first plant gave no response
whatsoever. Nor did the second; nor the third.
Backster checked his polygraph instruments,
and tried a fourth and a fifth plant; still no suc-
cess. Finally, on the sixth, there was enough
reaction to demonstrate the phenomenon.

Curious to discover what could have influ-
enced the other plants, Backster asked: "Does
any part of your work involve harming plants?"

"Yes," the physiologist replied. "I terminate
the plants I work with. I put them in an oven
and roast them to obtain their dry weight for
my analysis."

Forty-five minutes after the physiologist was
safely on the way to the airport, each of
Backster's plants once more responded fluidly
on the graph.

This experience helped to bring Backster to
the realization that plants could intentionally
be put into a faint, or mesmerized, by humans,
that something similar could be involved in the
ritual of the slaughterer before an animal is
killed in the Kosher manner. Communicating
with the vicitm, the killer may tranquilize it
into a quiet death, also preventing its flesh from
having a residue of "chemical fear," disagree-
able to the palate and perhaps noxious to the
consumer. This brought up the possibility that
plants and succulent fruits might wish to be
eaten, but only in a sort of loving ritual, with a
real communication between the eater and the
eaten. ..instead of the usual heartless carnage.

"...Entertaining a group of skeptical psy-
chologists, medical doctors, and computer pro-
grammers at his house, Vogel let them look
over his equipment for hidden devices and gim-
micks which they insisted must exist, then
asked them to sit in a circle and talk so as to
see what reactions the plant might pick up. For
an hour the group conversed on several topics
with hardly a response form the plant. Just as
they had all concluded that the whole thing
was a fake, one of them said, "How about sex?"
To their mutual surprise, the plant came to life,
the pen recorder oscillating wildly on the chart.
This led to speculations that talking of sex
could stir up in the atmosphere some sort of
sexual energy such as the "orgone" discovered
by Dr. Wilhelm Reich, and that the ancient fer-
tility rites in which humans had sexual
intersourse in freshly seeded fields might in-
deed have stimulated plants to grow...."

—Taken from The Secret Life Of Plants by
Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird

State Repression and Political Prisoner News

Italy: Anarchists Arrested For Acts Of
Ecotage

Last winter, Green Anarchy recieved an
envelope of news clippings pertaining to the
reppression of Italian anarchists from
comrades of ours in Italy, but unfortunately
for us and our readers, all of these articles were
written in Italian and it took us several months
to have them translated. At this point, some of
the information is a little dated but we've
chosen to include it to give our readers an idea
of what the eco-anarchist movement is up to
in Italy and also to try to generate support for
anarchists who have been arrested there in the
past two years for impressive actions carried
out in defence of the Earth. If anyone reading
this has more up-to-date information on either
of the two situations we're about to discuss,
then please contact us at PO Box 11331
Eugene, Oregon 97440 USA

On March 13, 2000, some unknown people
knocked down an ENEL (an Italian electric
utility company) electrical transmission tower
in Sedonira, Italy causing a power blackout in
the rural areas of Sedrina, Ubia Le Cloorezzo,
Almerro San Salvatore and Villa da Aline.
Shortly after this action, Italian cops arrested
"G.B.", a 24-year old man with no fixed
address who was involved in anarchist circles.
On October 17th, 2001, the Italian courts
sentanced "G.B." to 2 years of imprisonment
at a preliminary hearing. Evidence against him
included tools, topographic maps, a copy of
"Terra Selvaggio" (an italian anti-civilization
anarchist paper) and a small notebook with
drawings including one of an individual sawing
the legs off a transmission tower. "G.B."
continues to deny any connection to this action.

In a related story, on July 4, 2001, in
Porteranica on the Maresara River in Italy, a
television, radio and cellphone transmission
tower was attacked with simple incendiary
devices -10 fruit juice bottles full of gasoline.
Those involved climbed the gate, and
systematically attatched the bottles to the base
of the tower where the cables that transmit data
are located. Flames caught the cables on fire
and burned the tower up to about 50 ft. There
was graffiti left behind which read " Struggle
Against All That Is Noxious And Against
Telecom" (probably referring to the Italian
phone company); the Graffiti was accompanied
by a circle A. Other anarchist graffiti was found
sprinkled around the town: "Against Every
Drug, Against Human And Animal Abuse" and
"Consumerist Murderer" being two examples.
Damages were estimated at $1 million dollars.
On July 17th, cops searched the home of 19-
year old anarchist student Silvia Guerimi. The
pigs found spray paint that matched the same
color and brand as that used at the transmission
tower site, as well as four bolts that looked
similar to those from the sabotaged tower. This
was all their evidence but on October 22, Silvia
was placed under house arrest with charges of
participating in the attack. She denies any
connection to the action. Anarchists and
classmates demonstrated in front of the
courthouse during the preliminary inquiry.
There were other demonstrations in solidarity
with her in November and December, but the
flyers handed out at these demos weren't too
impressive — one of the flyers even went so far
as to claim (without any evidence) that the
action might have been the work of
government agents and fascists — the worst sort
of dissociation! All of the support offered in
the flyers depends on the presumed innocence
of Silvia, and so one is left to wonder if these
people would stand by her if she decided to
claim the action. We've recently learned that
Silvia was sentanced on June 3 of this year to
three years imprisonment, but is currently free
from the restrictions of house arrest until her
appeal trial occurs. If the sentance is upheld,
she won't go to prison, but will be placed under
the supervision of a "social assistant" for the
two years and four months remaining of her
sentance ( the eight months of house arrest
counting as time served).
Russia: A Call For Solidarity With Natalia

Kexiopoulou

Natalia Kexiopoulou is a 19-year-old student
who came with her step-family from Abhazia,
a region of the former Soviet Union. From the
time she was 14 years old, her father had been
raping her regularly, threatening to send her
back to Abhazia - a place that she remembers
mainly for the horrors of the conflict there - if
she said anything. On March 11, he tried to
rape her again in her office. She pulled out a
knife to defend herself and stabbed her father
to death. It should be noted that her father was
a man of some power, being a member of the
security service of Vladimir Putin, Russian
head of state. In addition, he may have been
involved in "people trafficking", that is to say,
pimping. Rapist, security agent, pimp - in other
words a pig through and through. Acting in her
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ridding the world of another petty authoritarian
piece of shit. She was supposed to go to court
on March 15. We have not heard what the
outcome of that hearing was. We agree with
the Greek anarchist group "Back to the Streets"
in their call for solidarity with Natalia
Kexiopoulou and all who take direct action
against those who exploit and victimize them.
Email "Back to the streets" for more
information: dromous@yahoo.com
Holland: Volkert van der Graaf Accused Of
Wasting Fascist Scumbag

On 5-6-02, the Dutch fascist politician, Pirn
Fortuyn, was shot dead. A 32-year old man,
Volkert van der Graaf, has been arrested and
accused of Fortuyn's murder. International
media reports around the world have described
Volkert as an animal & earth liberation activist.
However, as yet, no official reason has been
given for why Fortuyn was murdered.
Tennessee: Anarchist Political Prisoner/
POW Needs Support!

Long-term US anarchist prisoner Harold H.
Thompson is challenging a decision that will
determine whether inmates across the US are
able to receive mail containing "political
content". Currently between 22,000 and 25,000
prisoners receive anarchist, environmental or
animal rights literature. Thompson has been
pursuing this case for over two years to ensure
this legal right is maintained. A recent District
Court setback (these invariably produce biased
verdicts) means that at least a further years
intensified struggle will be necessary to ensure
prisoners access to what state governors refer
to as "Security Threat Group Material". This
is a serious heavyweight legal contest with far-
reaching implications for every prisoner held
in US jails, particularly those prepared to stand
up and fight the system from behind cell bars.
There is increasing likelihood it will finish in
the US Supreme Court for final resolution.
Harold needs funds urgently to carry on this
fight. He remains convinced that this struggle
can, and indeed, must be won, and an awful
lot of hope is riding on his endeavors. If the
case folds through lack of resources then

prisoners across the USA will be the losers.
Please help if you can with donations to:
Friends of Harold H. Thompson PO Box
375, Knaphill, Woking, Surrey, GU21 2XL,
England. For more info on Harlold H.
Thompson, see our Political Prisoners
Directory.

July 25, Sweden: Man Sent To Prison For
Anti-EU Actions

A 22 year old man from Stockholm received
a five-year prison sentence for his involvement
in the protests at EU-summit in Gothenburg,
Sweden in 2001 . Letters of support can be sent
to him by addressing your letters to: "Man
jailed for 5 years" c/o Solidarity Group
GBG c/o Syndikalistiskt Forum Box 7267
SE-402 35 Gothenburg, Sweden. You can also
email solidaritetsgruppen@hotmail.com for
more info.

August 13, Oregon: Activists Detained For
Arson

Portland: Two eco-activists, Jacob Sherman
and Jeremy Rosenbloom, were arrested on
suspicion of arson against logging trucks at
Eagle Creek last year. The police also
announced they were seeking two other
activists, Angela Marie Cesario and Michael
Scarpitti, on the same charges. Following the
initial arrests, news of Angela's arrest soon
followed. Jacob, Jeremy and Angela have now
all been charged with four counts relating to
arson and bailed pending trial. However,
Michael, who is known as Tre Arrow, has not
been located by the police and he is considered
"on the run". For more info, contact: Break
The Chains PO Box 11331, Eugene, OR
97440.

August 24, Chris Plummer Arrested On
Bunk Charges

Huntsville: The Texas Department of
Criminal Justice (TDCJ) held what was
supposed to be a public forum for families of
Texas prisoners to address concerns with TDCJ
policy. A reporter for Indymedia, longtime
activist, and former political prisoner, Chris
Plummer was arrested outside the campus
building for asking a simple question regarding
TDCJ policy. Many activists in Texas feel this
is not only a violation of his free speech rights,
but also an example of the repression and
intimidation that TDCJ officials use to
eliminate any real concerns that families and
supporters of prisoners have. Chris Plummer
is on parole and this bunk arrest could land
him back in prison if the movement does not
give Chris the support he deserves. For more
info on how you can help, call: Chris
Plummer at #5 1 2-497-5975 or 5 1 2-476-3446
or email him at: txuaf@yahoo.com Solidarity
is needed immediately!
August 24, Maryland: Revolutionary Anti-
Fascists Arrested!

Baltimore: About 200 white supremacists on
their way to a Washington DC racist gathering
were attacked with gas grenades, tire irons,
baseball bats, and hockey sticks at a Southeast
Baltimore hotel. Twenty eight people were
arrested on assault and weapons charges in the
melee, which erupted at about 7:30 am in the
parking lot, lobby and hotel rooms of the Best
Western Hotel and Conference. Officials said
about 30 to 40 people participated in the attack
on the white supremacists. Three of the white
supremacists suffered minor injuries, one of
whom was hospitalized. Some of the nazis
attacked are members of the racist group
National Alliance. They were travelling to a
Washington DC anti-Jew demonstration. Of
those arrested for allegedly attacking the nazis
are members of the Northeastern Federation
of Anarchist Communists (NEFAC), Anti-
Racist Action, and the Anarchist Black Cross.
They are facing very serious charges and they
desperately need your support. For more info,
contact: Black Planet Books 1621 Fleet Street,
Baltimore, Maryland 21231-2931. Email:
antifalegal@hotmail.com
August 26, California: Feds To Indict Raise
The Fist Webmaster

Los Angeles: Federal prosecutors are
indicting Sherman Austin, founder/webmaster

of Raise The Fist - an anarchist/independent
media/direct action network. Sherman is being
charged with two felony violations, including
"Distribution of information relating to
explosives, destructive devices, and weapons
of mass destruction with the intent that such
information be used in furtherance of a federal
crime of violence." Sherman rejected a guilt
plea in court offering him one month in jail,
five months in a half-way house, and three
years supervised release. If founf guilty in trial,
Sherman could serve a maximum of four years
in prison. For background info on the case of
Sherman Austin, and updates on his situation,
please visit the Stop Long Beach Repression
website at: www.stoplbrepression.org
Biometry: A State Developed Human-
Tracking System Goes Global

Biometric identification using such
technologies as fingerprint and retinal scanning
is well underway worldwide, a development
that should be of concern to anarchists and
outlaws everywhere. After debuting in
Australia in 1987, national computerized
fingerprint systems now exist in several
countries. The Japanese telco giant NTT is
developing a fingerprint-recognition method,
and the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia
National Laboratories is assessing equipement
from several vendors in the retinal scanning
industry, including EyeDentify (Baton Rouge,
LA) and Recognition Systems Inc. (Campbell,
CA). Transpoder technology is now routinely
implanted in animals: the pet market most
predominately, at 3 million ID chips and
counting. LifeChip, produced by the Destron
Fearing Corp. (St. Paul, Minn.) and the Trovan
electronic identification tag, from Electronic
Identification Devices Ltd. (Santa Barbara,
CA), offer a chip etched with a 10-or 64-bit
ID code. Available for $10 at local animal
shelters, the chips are small eneough to inject
with a syringe, and the ID number is read by a
handheld scanner. These implantable
transpoders were originally developed in the
1970's by the livestock industry as a form of
high-tech "cattle branding", and tags are now
routinely implanted in pigs, sheep, cows and
horses. Texas Instruments Inc. is also
manufacturing a device called Tiris, a radio
frequency identification technology for vehicle
identification and livestock monitoring.
Though the Trovan dealer's agreement
prohibits placing a chip under human skin,
there's currently no law preventing them from
being worn on a bracelet, and indeed, such
devices are already being utilized by nursing-
home and prison administrators to track
people. Even ski resorts are putting the chips
inside lift tickets. Not satisfied with this level
of social control, the U.S. Department of
"Justice" and the FBI are now pushing for
transpoder chips to be implanted into the
bodies of ex-cons and parolees to "cut back
on recindivism and keep tabs on the criminal
class." As further indication of where all this
is heading, a Florida family recently became
the first humans to be implanted with computer
chips containing "only" telephone numbers
and medical information. Jeff and Leslie
Jacobs, along with their 14-year old son,
Derek, voluntarilly had chips about the size of
a grain of rice implanted into their arms in a
simple procedure that takes about a minute
under local anesthesia: the family wanted the
implants ( called the VeriChip and designed
by Palm Beach-based Applied Digital
Solutions Inc.) in case of "future medical
emergencies", reinforcing the State's sales
pitch that these technologies are here to keep
us safe. Biometrics takes the domestication
of life to intolerable levels, and in our opinion,
the development of these technologies needs
to be opposed as forcibly and aggresively as
anti-GE activists are opposing the development
of genetic engineering. Once these systems are
in place, they may be next to impossible to
dismantle. ( A more detailed pamphlet on the
"Veri-Chip" or "Digital Angel" can be
downloaded from the Cascadia Media
Collective at: www.cascadiamedia.org).

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Anarchist Prisoners:

Frank J. Atwood #62887, Arizona State Prison
- Eyman, Box 3400 - SMU 2, Florence, AZ
85232. Radical involved in anti-establishment
actions since the '60's. He was framed for
murder in 1984 and sent to death row.
Jerome White-Bey #37479, Jefferson City
Correctional Center, PO Box 900 (5C-146),
Jefferson City, MO 65102. Social prisoner
turned anarchist activist. Founder of the
"Missouri Prison Labor Union."
Ojure Lutalo #59860, POB 861, Trenton, NJ
08625. Black liberation activist and anarchist
serving a lengthy sentence for clandestine
actions.

Robert Middaugh T41 137 Bldg 410 23up, PO
Box 8, Avenal, C A 93204. Serving three years
for an assault on a pig during the 2001 Long
Beach May Day action.
Mike Rusniak DOC K88887, Dixon CC, 2600
Brinton, PO Box 1200, Dixon, IL 61021.
Serving time for stealing a police car, and other
anti-government acts.

Robert Thaxton (Rob Los Ricos) #121 12716,
OSP, 2605 State Street, Salem, OR 97310.
Long-time anarchist activist convicted of
Assault and Riot for throwing a rock at a cop
at the 1999 Eugene J18 Reclaim The Streets.
He received a seven year sentence. He's
currently assigned "Anarchist Security Group
Status." Do not send anything containing any
circle-A's.

Harold Thompson #93992, Northwest
Correctional Complex, Route 1, Box 660,
Tiptonville, TN 38079. Sentenced to life plus
50 years for a 1979 robbery of a jewelers,
killing a police informer who had murdered
his partner in a shooting incident in Ohio. He
was later given an extra 32 years for a failed
escape attempt.

Thomas Tripp #12032560, 777 Stanton Blvd.,
Ontario, OR 97914. Social prisoner turned
anarchist activist. He's facing up to three years
in prison for his participation in a prison
insurgency aimed at winning religious rights
for Native prisoners, better educational
programs for everyone, and other concessions.
Shaka N' Zinga (Arthur Wiggins) #196612,
POB 534 (MHC-X), Jessup, MD 20794. New
Afrikan anarchist being framed for a crime he
did not commit.

Ecological Resistance Prisoners:

Charles Hoke #861206, ACH, Indiana
Department of Correction, Indiana State Prison,
PO Box 41, Michigan City, Indiana 46361-
004 1 . Radical farmer serving time for robbing
banks in order to support himself, and other
farmers, who were being forced from their
homes by developers.

Ted Kaczynski #04475-046, US Pen-Admin
Max Facility, PO Box 8500, Florence Colorado
81226. Sentenced to multiple lifetimes in
prison for the "Unabomber" bombing attacks
against industrial society.
Jeffrey Luers (Free) #13797671, OSP, 2605
State Street, Salem, OR 97310. Long-time
environmentalist serving 22 years for
politically-motivated arson attacks. He needs
your support!

Craig Marshall (Critter) #13797662, SRCI,
777 Stanton Blvd., Ontario, OR 979 14. Serving
five years for a politically-motivated arson
attack against a Romania Chevrolet car
dealership in Eugene.

Peter Schnell #99476-111, FCI Otisville, PO
Box 1000, Otisville, NY 10963. Anti-
authoritarian earth/animal liberation activist
serving two years for being in possession of
incendiary devices.

Fran Thompson #93341, 1107 Recharge Rd.,
York, NE 68467. Eco-activist serving a Life
sentence for shooting dead, in self-defense, a
stalker who had broken into her home.
Matt Whyte #99477-111, Taft Correctional
Institution, PO Box 7001, Taft, CA 93268.
Anti-authoritarian earth/animal liberationist
serving two years for being in possession of
incendiary devices.

Helen Woodson #03231-045 FMC Carswell,
POB 27137, Admin. Max Unit, Fort Worth, TX
76127. Serving 27 years for robbing a bank
and then setting the money on fire while
reading out a statement denouncing greed,

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capitalism and the destruction of the
environment.

Assisted Suicide:

Dr. Jack Kevorkian #284797, Southern
Michigan Correctional Facility JMF, 4010
Cooper St., Jackson, MI 49201 . Imprisoned for
helping suffering people die through assisted-
suicide.

Indigenous Prisoners:

William Firewalker Burchett #03655032,

West 5852, Federal Prison, PO Box 7000, Fort

Dix, NJ 08640. Native American religious

rights activist being held in prison under

questionable circumstances.

Eric Wildcat Hall BL-5355, Unit I/A 10745

Route 18, Albion, PA 16475-0002. Serving 35-

75 years for helping ship arms to Central

American indigenous resisters.

Eddie Hatcher Marion Correctional

Institution, PO Box 2405, Marion, NC 28752.

Long-time Amerindian activist being framed

for crimes he did not commit.

Leonard Peltier #89637-132, PO Box 1000,

Leavenworth, KS 66048. American Indian

Movement (AIM) activist, serving two life

sentences, having been framed for the murder

of two FBI agents.

Andy J. Riendeau (John Two Names)

#193786, B-Dorm, Staton Correctional

Facility, PO Box 56, Elmore AL 36025-0056.

Native activist being framed for setting schools

on fire.

Tewahnee Sahme #11186353, Oregon State

Prison, 2605 State St., Salem, OR 97310.

Native rights advocate facing time for

participation in a prison rebellion.

David Scalera (Looks Away) #13405480 OSP

2605 State St. Salem, OR 97310. Dedicated

Native rights advocate serving time for a prison

insurgency.

Anti Imperialist &
Anti-Capitalist Prisoners:

Kathy Boudin #894171, PO Box 1000,
Bedford Hills, NY 10507. Former Weather
Underground activist serving time for being a
passenger in a get-away van during the 1981
Brink's expropriation attempt in New York.
Despite her work with incarcerated mothers
and AIDS victims, she is still being denied early
release by the authorities.
Marilyn Buck #00482-285, Unit B, 5701 8th
Street, Camp Parks, Dublin, CA 94568.
Serving 50 years to life for actions taken after
she escaped prison herself including an armed
robbery of a Brink's armored truck and the
liberation of Assata Shakur from prison. She
is the only white member of the BLA.
Judy Clark #83-G-313, PO Box 1000,
Bedford Hills, NY 10507. Former Weather
Underground member.

Bill Dunne #10916-086, Box 1000, Marion,
IL. 62959. Anti-authoritarian sentenced to 90
years for the attempted liberation of a prisoner
in 1979.

Larry Giddings #10917-086, PO Box 1000,
Lewisburg, PA 17837. Anti-authoritarian
activist imprisoned in 1973 for attempted
expropriation, paroled in 1978 then re-arrested
in 1979 while attempting to liberate a comrade
from prison. He's serving 75+ years with no
known parole opportunities.
David Gilbert #83A6158, Attica C.F, POB
149, Attica, NY 14011. Serving time for
clandestine actions against imperialism and
capitalism.

William Gilday P.O. Box 1218, MCI Shirley,
Shirley, MA 01464-1218. Jailed for the
shooting of a cop during a 1970 bank
expropriation intended to fund the movement
against the Vietnam War.
Alvaro Luna Hernandez #255735, Hughes
Unit, Rt. 2, Box 4400, Gatesville, TX 76597.
Chicano-Mexican freedom-fighter serving time
for a police-orchestrated frame-up to stop his
effective community organizing.
Yu Kikumura #090008-050, PO Box 8500
ADX, Florence, CO 81226. Alleged member
of the Japanese Red Army.

United Freedom Front (UFF) Prisoners:

The following three individuals are serving

huge sentences for their role in actions carried

out by the (UFF) in the 1980's. The UFF carried

out solidarity bombings against the US

government on a variety of issues. All of these

individuals are excellent people to write to and

will answer letters.

Jaan Karl Laaman W41514, Box 100, South

Walpole, MA0207.

Ray Luc Levasseur #10376-016, Box PMB,

Atlanta, GA 30315.

Thomas Manning #10372-016, Box 4000,

Springfield, MO 65801.

Richard Williams #10377-016, 3901 Klein

Blvd., Lompoc, CA 93436.

Black Liberation Prisoners:

The following prisoners are all serving time
for activism for black liberation. Many of them
are former members of either the Black
Liberation Army (BLA), or the Black Panther
Party (BPP), or both. They are either in prison
for their clandestine actions against the state
and the racist pigs, or because they have been
framed by the authorities who work to crush
dissent.

Sundiata Acoli #39794-066, Box 3000, White
Deer, PA 17887, USP Allenwood. BLA POW.
Zolo Agona Azania #4969, Indiana State
Prison, PO Box 41, Michigan City, IN 46361-
0041. Community activist being framed for
murdering a cop.

Hanif Shabazz Bey (Beaumont Gereau)
#295933, Wallens Ridge State Prison, PO Box
759, Big Stone Gap, VA 24219. Imprisoned for
actions carried out against US colonialism in
the Virgin Islands.

Jalil Muntaqim (Anthony Bottom)
#77A4283, Box 338, Napanoch, NY, 12458.
Former Black-Panther who's accused of
participating underground activities. He's been
in jail for 22 years, which makes him one of
the oldest political prisoners in the U.S. He may
be up for parole soon and he needs support!
Joseph Bowen AM-4272, 1 Kelley Drive, Coal
Township, PA 17866-1021. BLA POW.
Marshall Edward Conway #116469, Box
534, Jessup, MD 20794. Veteran BPP leader
who continues to maintain his innocence of a
police murder in 1970. He asserts that he's one
of many political prisoners as a result of FBI's
war against the BPP.

Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald B-27527, Box
290066, CSP-SAC FC 1208, Repressa, CA
95671-0066. Former BPP member serving time
for the death of a cop.

Bashir Hameed (J. York) #82A6313, Box
149, Attica, NY, 1401 1-0149. BLA POW.
Robert Seth Hayes #74A2280, Box 500,
Elmira, NY, 14902. He was captured and
convicted in 1973 under a host of charges,
attributed to membership in the BLA.
Mumia Abu-Jamal AM8335, SCI Greene,
1040 East R. Furman Highway, Waynesburg,
PA 15370-8090. Former BPP. In 1981 he was
framed for the murder of a cop. He was recently
taken off death row and was re-sentenced to
Life in prison.

Khalfani X. Khaldun (Leonard McQuay) St.
Joe County Jail, 129 S. Main St., South Bend,
IN 46601. New Afrikan activist serving time
for allegedly killing a prison guard.
Richard MaFundi Lake #079972, 100
Warrior Lane, #6-39, Bessemer, AL 35023-
7299. Black community activist being framed
for a crime he did not commit.
Robert Mitchell In transition. Social justice
activist serving time for a frame-up. Email

JoNina Abron at for

more info.

Mondo We Langa (David Rice) #27768, Box

2500, Lincoln, NE, 68542-2500. Former BPP

member accused of killing a cop.

Abdul Majid (Anthony Laborde) #83-A-

0483, Upstate Correctional Facility, Box 2001

Malone, NY 12953. Former BPP serving time

for a crime he did not commit. Another victim

of the COINTELPRO wars against the BPP.

Ruchell Cinque McGee A-92051, PO Box

7500, SHU-2-C-233, Crescent City, C A 95531 .

Serving time for a court-house action to free
incarcerated black liberationists.
Sekou Odinga #05228-054, 3901 Klein Blvd.,
Lompoc, CA 93436. Former BLA sentenced
to 25-to-Life for shooting a cop in self-defense,
and an additional 20 years for the liberation of
comrade Assata Shakur and the expropriation
of an armored truck.

Ed Poindexter #110403, 7525 4th Avenue,
Lino Lake, MN 55014-1099, Minn.
Correctional Facility. Former BPP member
falsely accused of killing a police officer.
Mutulu Shakur #83205-012, Box PMB,
Atlanta, GA 30315. He was sentenced to 60
years imprisonment for an alleged conspiracy
by the Black Liberation Army/New Afrikan
Freedom Fighters against the U.S. government.
Russell Maroon Shoats AF-3855, SCI Green,
1040 E. Roy Furman Highway Waynesburg,
PA 15370-8090. BLA POW.
Herman Wallace #76759, CCR Upper C Cell
1, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, LA
70712. Former BPP member and one of the
infamous "Angola Three".
Gary Watson #098990, Unit SHU 18,
Delaware Correctional Center, 1181 Paddock
Rd., Smyrna, Delaware 19977. Social prisoner
turned black liberationist. One of the "Smyrna
Five" (S-5), a group of radicals that attacked
prison authorities after the death of George
Jackson.

Albert Woodfox #72148, CCR Upper B Cell
13, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, LA
70712. Former BPP member and one of the
infamous "Angola Three".

Prisoner Support Groups:

Anarchist Black Cross Network See the

website to get the addresses of the various
chapters: www.anarchistblackcross.org If
you don't have internet access, then write to
the Austin ABC to get filled in on ABC
Network activities. Write to: Austin ABC POB
19733, Austin, TX 78760-9733.

Anarchists Prisoner Legal Aid Network

(APLAN) 818 SW 3rd Avenue, Portland, OR
97204. Email: aplan@tao.ca An essential
prisoner-support group.

Break The Chains: Northwest Political
Prisoner Support Network POB 11331,

Eugene, OR 97401. Email:

gumbycascadia@yahoo.com and visit the
website: www.breakthechains.net

Chicago Anarchist Black Cross POB 721,
Homewood, IL 60430. A very solid prisoner-
support group.

Free's Defense Network POB 50263, Eugene,
OR 97405. This is the newly formed support
group for Oregon eco-defense/anarchist
political prisoner Jeffrey "Free" Luers. Be sure
to check out their excellent website:
www.freefreenow.org

Friends of MOVE POB 9709, Philadelphia,
PA 19143. Friends and supporters of the
MOVE organization and their prisoners.

Rob Los Ricos Enterprises POB 50634,
Eugene, OR 97405. Friends of anarchist
prisoner Rob "Los Ricos" Thaxton.

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Oregon, April 16: Political Prisoner
Thomas Tripp's Statement to the Court:

Today you think you have won, today you find me
guilty of turning your methods against you and today
you steal away more of my life.

K Today the state, rapist of the Earth, thief of years ,
murderer of innocents , has passed judgment on me -
not for being criminally mischievous, nor for
engaging in riotous behavior - but for battling against
— the tyranny of the state, in its most tyrannical setting:
_ its prison system.

Today the state fancies itself as above the people
because it is grown fat on the bloodstained dollars
of capitalism. Because the state owns the prisons,
the guns, the fences and walls. Because it has raped
the meadows and murdered the forests and stolen
the lands of the Native peoples. And you, the
representatives of the state - the judges , prosecutors ,
politicians , and cops - also are grown fat on the
bloodstained dollars and have built the electric chair
and bought the guards to silence the dissidents and
secure your positions as the representatives of a false
power.

But do you know that a tide is rising - a tide of
liberation, of which the actions of my comrades and
I are only the merest hint - and that no guns, no
prisons, no fences or walls can stem that tide? Do
you know that the days of your illusory power are
drawing to an end? Your two million prisoners know.
The homeless, wandering the streets with only hunger
in their bellies, know. The families and minds torn
apart by your bombs and prisons and guns know
also. I know. And soon you judges, prosecutors,
politicians and cops will know too.

So, for today, you may think you have won. But a
tide is rising, and someday we will all be free - maybe
even you. Until that day, I remain openly defiant to
this court and everything it represents, with a proud

- Thomas Tripp

Write to: Thomas Tripp: #12032560, 777 Stanton
Blvd., Ontario, OR 97914.

Green ANAitchy

PO Box 11551

EuqENE, OR 97440

greenanarchy@tao.ca

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