GREEN ANARCHY#15 (Winter 2004) is Out!

Winter is here. In Oregon, that means about five more wonderful/depressing months of darkness and rain (after almost three already)! It is a good time to reflect on the past year, and plan for the next. It is an inward time to question ourselves, look at our accomplishments, and examine our failures. It is a time for strategizing and debate.

In this issue, we have an extensive section focusing on the anti-globalization movement and the demonstrations/battles that have occurred outside economic summits. Since Seattle, these events have become the most outwardly visible and public forms of anarchist resistance, but many feel that they have become stale, predictable, ineffective, or otherwise limited. Some anarchists have suggested that we abandon these activities for more underground and illegal action, while others wish for anarchists to become more autonomous, elusive, prepared, and destructive at these events. Many of us wish to embrace a holistic approach in which we are able to successfully strike on multiple fronts, without depending entirely on one tactic or single event. We hope the debates in the pages of GA will help further these and other much needed tactical discussions. Issue #15 also features a special, "Back to Basics" section (also available as a pamphlet) which focuses on "the Problems with the Left" (including leftist anarchists). This is part two of an ongoing series that we hope will clarify some basic assumptions and ideas in Green Anarchy and the broader anti-civilization analysis. Our next issue’s "Back to Basics" will focus on "Re-wilding and Primitive Living". We look forward to any contributions along these lines. In this issue, we are honored to present the second part of an amazingly provocative interview with eco-psychologist, political activist, and writer, Chellis Glendinning. The Winter issue also contains: an involved tactical analysis on the targeting of the techno-grid’s infrastructure, an update and analysis on the continuing resistance in Iraq, a look at the Palestinian struggle from a radically anti-authoritarian perspective, a primitivist examination of witchcraft; and a number of other articles, special sections, and of course, a ton of reports on resistance from around the world to update and hopefully inspire our readers.

We have a new format! After fourteen issues (and many changes) as a newspaper, we have finally decided to publish in magazine format. This is a trial issue. We have been debating this change amongst ourselves and our supporters for over a year, and have not come to any definitive conclusion, so we figured the best way to determine the most effective format, is to try it out. If we feel this change is not beneficial for the goals of this collective, or in the interest of our readers, we will go back to the tabloid format. Our content will not change, no sections will be cut, and the size and consistency will remain the same. While the cover price will go up slightly for those who order GA by mail (the price increase will be less for subscribers), we hope to be able to continue to give away as many as before locally, to prisoners, and to those who are unable to pay. We made this change in the hope of providing a more durable and long-lasting piece of propaganda, and to attempt to get the magazine into larger circulation through distributors (who would not carry GA in newspaper form due to its more flimsy qualities). Let us know what you think of the new format.

We are happy to announce that due to the demand of our last issue, we had to do an additional over-run of 2000 copies, bringing our print-run up to 7500. For this issue, we have decided to print 8000 copies, with the anticipation of an increase for our next issue. This increase in demand for GA, and our ability to keep up with it, is exciting to our collective. We feel that getting Green Anarchy as far out there as possible can only be beneficial for this project, the proliferation of the anti-civilization critique, and general increase in anarchist awareness.

We need your help! This project can not succeed without your help. We are always looking for contributions of articles, rants, poetry, images, action reports, prisoner updates, and ideas for future issues. We are especially interested in articles from indigenous and eco-feminist perspectives. Some possible topics for upcoming issues include: class struggle and the anti-civilization critique, the phenomenon of war from a green anarchist perspective, a radical look at the prison industrial complex, and a look at the connections between patriarchy and civilization. We are always in need of local distributors (at any level) of GA, subscribers, and financial supporters. We thank those who have contributed to this project, in any form, in the past.


For the Destruction of Civilization,
And the Reconnection to Life

The Green Anarchy Collective





Feature Articles include:
The Psychopathology of Work by Penelope Rosemont, Fawda (an anarchist look at the Palestinian struggle) by the Friends of Al-Halladj, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun: The U.S. Military Continues to Get Hammered in Iraq, The Way of History — Today by Thomas Manning, Impassioned Violence, Justified Violence, Recovering From Western Civilization: An Interview with Chellis Glenndenning - Part II, Electric Funeral: An In-Depth Examination of the Megamachine’s Circuitry by the Havoc Mass, Notes On Summits and Counter-Summits, Riding the High of Cancun and the Dangers of a Crash by Blackbeard, Under the Palms of Miami…This Season’s #1 Tourist Trap by E. Lou Civ, it’d feel so funny to be free, Feral Visions: A Journal of an Anti-Civilization Roadshow by Felonious Skunk, Notes on the Function of the Outlaw as Anti-Role by Thomas Tripp, Resisting the Neoliberal Discourse of Technology, by John Armitage, Reclaiming Thoreau for Anarchy, and Colonization, and Self-Government and Self-Determinatioin British Columbia by Insurgent-S.



The Usual Features:
The Garden of Peculiarities by Jesus Sepúlveda, State Repression News, Political Prisoner Listings, Reviews, Letters and News from the Balcony with Waldorf and Statler.



Extensive Direct Action Reports, including:
Ecological Resistance, Anti-GE Actions, Indigenous and Campesino Resistance, Anarchist Resistance from Around the World, Political Assassination Attempts in 2003, Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Imperialist Resistance, The Wild Ones Fight Back, Animal Liberation Actions, Further Symptoms of the System’s Meltdown, and Prisoner Uprisings and Revolts.



This issue also contains the special "Back To Basics" volune two: The Problem of the Left, which includes: The Nature of the Left, Leftism 101 by Lawrence Jarach, Liberation, Not Organization by A. Morefus, and The Left-Handed Path of Repression by Crocus Behemoth.




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