Industrial Civilization Collapse! First Pre—anniversary Issue WHY I DID IT, WHY I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN... 1VE UILD OR DIE: Te's not a movesent; ic's just a slogan. 1 just vanced to clear that up since the last thing ve iatend to do here is co provide another fals Juscitication for aceivity, another ideology o cause to sacrifice happily for. in this paper are discussions abouc the meces- sicy of acting out of our on crus desices, our own vild subjeccivity, our internal vilderne Personally, vhat I dresa of is a fuller, way of 1ife and 1iving, not just a new slogans to suffer for. In chis, the firs, the world premter, che grand opening issue of Live Wi14-- we've included much material that ve is reflective of the title snd vhat ve of and we'd Like to see these ideas dis- cussed and expanded furcher. Personally, I's Looking for a way ouc of induscrialism, & vay out of the global NegaWorkPillageNachine of Civilizacion. I'a looking for the end of dos- inacion and boredon along with a solucion o the ecological crisis. I wish for a re-en- chantaent of everyday life, a life of free- play and dreass, 4 planecary vilderness, & sac- Velous, daring, {nceraction vith che earch, “ach other and all of nature. And I vant it now. Hope is suppressed desire projected in- © the abscract Future; it allovs us to bear a miserable presenc. L have no hope, only demands. There 1s no future, only Nov. So vhy be sodest in the face of tapending doom? Live wild or die! This ta not an "Environsencalist” nevspa- per. Eavizommencalisa is che political ideol- o8y vhich places bureaucratic band-aids on the industrial cancer. Environmestaliss is aingle- issue Liberal politics divorced from the ensea- ble of 1ife. This s not even a "radical en- vironmentalist” paper! We need to re-invent the orld, not re-label ic. Avoiding categor- Lzacion and (non-)cthinking chat refuses to break wich the old packaging of ideas s but one of ay necessacy goals. e're also not out to create a niche for oucselves i the policical or econoaic appar- Atus of the Machine. We have no {ntention of producing another commodity for the new hip eco-consuser market; anocher plece of sco-ne Shandise. This is the motivation for the var- Lable price. Ue'd racher Jusc give it avay bur the Posc Office and princer are not yet con- Vinced of our views of sconomics and propercy. On the off chance that ve ever have soney left over (ha ha), it vill be puc covard the kind of dtract aceton we vane to reporc on here. It Jou thiak anyone's sver charging too much for Ehis paper, please just rip it off. Or write us for a free copy. Price should never be & barrier to sayehing! Ic say seen odd co be pucting-out an anci- induserial Journal when we are obviously using industrial paper, printing and transportation. 1 we dislike deforestacion, the argufment goes. shoulda't ve just quit using paper and wood? But do ve really have a cholce in the macter? Our parcicipation in the industrial process is not voluntary. It is imposed upon us with force: work or scarve; pay or go to jail; con- fora or be shot. e have none but che fal. choices, the logic of lesser evils presented by the Machine: Democrat or Republican? Commun- ist or Capicalisc? Brand A or brand B7 Factory slavery or office slavery? Induscrialisa is o aystem, ac encire, inescapable nec of soctal ofganizacion. Even Lf a few of us venc off fnco the uilderness € Live, Lt uould be buc an 1i- lusory escapisa. The Machine is, or soon will be, everyvhere. Indeed, ve can reduce our pact and dependence on the syscem a bic by re- Eycling, boycotting the worst corporate offen- ders, reducing our level of consuaption, ecc. but even this only rearranges the excrement. makes the shit 3 bit less scinky. But the of- fal s the result, not the cause, of che des- Gruction. It is the industrial mpire-—its Cechnological, mechanical, policical, soctal, paychological and sconomic apparatus cosbined {nto a unified operation, cha Machine--chat is cesponsible for the scate of the planet and our daily living condicions. We reproduce Lt but e have no conerol over Lc. This is the con- tradiction, the inconsiscency thar ic feeds off and exploits in order to enlarge itself. Liber- ation fs impossible for the individual while the Maching still funceions. The solucion, wnile startisg individually, {s global oc it is R0t ac all. This is no reason for despat, Just for action. This paper is incended to Spread ideas chat furcher the dismancling of the Machine 50 that someday ve won'c need news- papers. So, don' recycle this paper, use it fo stare a savmill on firel Bat I've been vondering lately Lf news- papers aren’t what ve do inatead of re-lavent- fng reslity, tnscead of really solving our pro- blens. Perhaps ve produce journals vhen ve're too afraid of resl communicacion. [f a planet- ary alternative to the induscrial plague is Sought, then comunication is imperacive. But Zould ic be that newspapers (and radio, tv and A11 the rest) are iahecencly divisive and a- Ttenacing? ALL sedia do juse thac: mediate And by mediating, they kill the life from every- Ching human and natural chey touch: experience, celations, communication. Newspapers place ob- Jects betwaen people and the objects speak. inen objects speak for us, ue remain mute and isolaced from one anocher. Somecises many people build objects and the objeccs calk to Zach ocher. This is called a "free press” and aur ability co observe objects of this fre press while remaining in passive isolation is Uoheld as & greac priviege. People have even been convinced £o die for this "cight. Maybe we should not do nevspapers at all. Believe a6, this vhole effore has been anything but sdventurous, interactive or Liberatory- anyching but wild. Moscly, ic has inspired to 30 ouc and try removing barriers and objects that scand becueen ayself and pocencial allies. T'vant € actempt, hovever fesbly, to experi- aent vich vhat it is to be really husan and not Tust a cop in the Nachine or & uaic fn the Econ omy. Many of us speak--racher starty-eyed--of Creating 4 new tribaliss, of discovering and Creating nature-based communicies. But the: Fequire direct interaction with one another and Fo function, can never be aediaced by objects GF notions of hierarchy oc sconoay. How, then, “an nevapapers be anyching buc an unnecessary diversion, an tnterference in chis discovery process? T can’c help but speculace chat ve could all do more good by becoming serry vanderers. Toaning the counryside and spreading subver- Sion person-co-person, defining and initiating Common projects and resisting che Machine in The best way of all--by direct example. There Ls"a world vaiting to be seized, a global wild- fess yet o be Liberated boundless passions to be realized——if only for enough desire and {sagination o do so. iy St Saia February 16, 1988 Froa a boring rooa in Sei~ Linghan, Washingcon afcer three days (o front of this fucking Cypevricer with no end in aignc (or, by Chaco So this is the part where I'm supposed to put into vords why I've spent che last several weeks in a yucky city, grueling over 2 hot light table, pecking away at this stupid typeuriter, and inhaling toxic xerox Funes until I'm sure I have no intact brain cells left. There must be a reason for this madness after all. ‘There 1s one thing I'd Like to clear up right off; this paper does NOT represent "The Splic" faction of Earth First!, people have already questioned us about. We're not attempting to offer a philosophy which can be defined by the opposition of an- Tn fact, ve're not offering a "Phil- osophy” at alll’ We're endeavoring only €o offer an open forum to encourage the free- thinking of individuals uho ould like to See not only wilderness being preserved, but Che whole damn destructive leviathan elini- nated once and for all....because we're tired of watching the planet ve Live on being hacked away at by people who consider them- selves "suthorities," and we're tired of liv- ing our lives in chains, ever-supressing our own wild nacures. many Surely the battle that Earth First! is fighting is laudable and many of us have learned from ic. But what was once supposed ©o be a movement has become self-limiting in its scope. It's done this by trying so hard to define itself, and thereby draw boundar- Te's become a banner under who to say 1t) authority some people take action. In chis vay, Earth Firsc! has become sort of a branch of the Environmental Movement. There are those who will argue this point, but the bottom line is that there are lots of vital voices which are not being heard vithin the reals of Earth Firsc! and that's bad. Which brings me to vhy I'm suffering my- e1f with Nevspaper Fever. Well, the main reason is because when I put my ear to the common ground of people ivolved in Earth MY ANTI-EDITORIAL How I Spent My Winter Vacation! First!, the anti-authoritarian Sovement, Native struggles, the Animal Liberation Front, eco-feninism, direct action, and any- one eise who's actively trying to stop The Machine from killing us all, then I can hear ' deep rumble that I imagine to be the first tremors of an industrial-civilizationqual and that's music to my ears. The scope of our problea is enormous and each movement approaches the problea solving diEferencly. Perhaps a fault of too many of us is to limic our perception not only of the probles, but of what to do about it 00 We could benefit by listening to each other, because many of us have the same ultimate dre: I'm hoping this paper can become a sort of soapbox situated on common ground, for people vho have ideas on how €0 make chat drean come true. But there's something else that's been bothering me. Within some movements, I've noticed a serious deficiency of healthy self- cricicisn, and that's a mistake vith grave consequences. Any moveaent should be open not only to self-criticisa, but also to the "outside" criticism of would-be allies. If we can't allow ourselves to be criticized, thenl we can't change and grow. Our ideas become doctrines, running rivers become stagnant Suamps, vild animals become cement statues Co remind us of what vas once alive. With that in mind, lec me say that I hope somevhere between the front and back cover of this paper, we've managed to take {at least) a jab at almost everyone, (inclu- ding ourselves—do you know that ve have an envelope marked "Live Wild or Die Receipt: Does that seem absurd to you?) In essence, chis paper is a place to drean...of a wild, free natural vorld with wild, free, nacural humans living as part of the world instead of against it. And per- haps more importantly, ic's a place to con- sider our game plan-—-just how we're going €0 make it happen. And 1t's a place where we can openly and freely consider our mis- takes along the vay. But this paper is NOT living wild. (i1l someone else please voluateer to do the next one?? I'M OFFICIALLY RESIGNING!!!) Therefore, I guess the title is a contradic- tion. "Live Wild or Die" belongs back around the campfire in the woods where it origina- ced. To me, 1t's a chotce—-If I can't live wild, then T want to die wild. But, it's also’a fact; 1€ people don't start living wild, ve will die. In fact, people who Gren't living wild are already dead. But, Chere's one more way to take it, and thos of you who are thinking on THAT are the ones T really vant to hear from! | SERREREREREEREERERAEN SasARARARAAARAREARAAAS So, Mike Roselle ave us some Direct Action Fund money to help pay for this rag, since 1c's che first issue and all. We were sup- posed to make a point of saying that, but we Geren't supposed o say that he actually submitced some Stuff co be printed too. way, he hasn't seen any of this yet and I Any- us any money again. So, needless to say, we —— $999999 f e ht O No Rights Reserv B R eproduce Freely. | B Reproduce Frech 8 . L e e - will gladly take donations of any amount. But if you don't have money or you're in jail or something, tell us and we'll send you one anyway. And, naturally, if you see one for sale and you steal it, then it's free too... 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Paul ¥ Hatericor avaning shou in Des Moines, Tova ' Onaha, Neb. overnight in Davemport, oy Shouin Chicage, 1L K g0 (depart 5/1 am) Tna.; Evening shou in Detroit, Mich I evening snow in Ci “vening shou in Colunbus, OnLo Sops. in Nevark and Clevelands over: n Pitesburs: evening show in Aa stop in e i Fhilaceipnia, Penn: SVening Show in masnington, b Rashvitie, ST Loosa, Kangas - TAFRS Senver or Boutder, ol 5 Shou in Botse, ldan ; o show 1n Show by Rabinowitz In the Pentagon they're still making excuses dor the downing of Libyan airplanes The 04l companes are atitl making excuses fon thousands of duing birds washing up all atong the Northiest coast But here everyone xan 20 their windows this moxRing and yelled "wow! Look at the snow!” Thick white enissarics from another wortd dalling all over Seattte-- You catch college students staring at their feet in wondex as snow gathens on their boots, otder peaple suddenty smiing at each other, three-year-olds Letting themselves out the back doon 20 make their oun footsteps Hownible gratings of the city are hushed-- jets are mere distant rumbles, cars sound Like moving sush Othex sounds axe mated too-- T grin ovex the faint tinkle of broken glass as another bubldozen is buried in white, spurting hydrutic ftuid quickly Lost; ninging mallets hit spikes in a soundproof forest Somewhere 4§ this snow extends far enough even jack hamners on misste silos may- work sagely 2o be fee for another xound; other footsteps across unbroken expanses may disappear agter winer justice, 44ghting 04§ the ecLipse of Earth n the hunans’ shadow o G 0 . Shaae o Pl w - . - . - . - - o e - Utterly the World's ‘acetul Course, © What Happens When We Der @ il Inteligence. s ineligent? /. - g m < e — P e e e e GRS TN sl e I Gt e For more infornation about Direct Action Fusd, ceablet), . pob 83 Canyon, CA 94516 In The Belly Of Which Beast? By Luke From our pre-dawn post on a ninth-story rooftop above Denver's 17¢h (local ver- sion of New York's Vall) Street, the scene looked and felt like a Blade Rumner out-take. The night-lights of banks and in- surance company skyscrapers composed ab- stract repeating patterns above and away. We uere the outlaws, poised to strike at high noon. The opening day parade of the 83rd Annual National Western Stock Show was due to pass directly beneath us in six hours. It was almost unbelievable to me that this stunt could be pulled off unnoticed: rise at 3 a.m., drive in- to the grid of glass and steel tovers, roll into the dark alley. The earli- est of the worker ants beginning to cluster at bus stops, janitors clanging dumpsters, as the city machine begins to hum. Nobody Looks down alleys in the city! We crash the fire escapes, haul- hauling gear, rope, banner. Now, momentarily repose above it all; plunes of silent steam, stars, hints of gray to the east. The surroundings enhance our sense of aiming right. Housed in the enormous cages around us are the powers which firsc brought the money, markets, railroads. And Wolf slaughtering, land desecrating... 1 fight down exhil- aration, the urge to howl out over the valls. A thud. Perfect throw. Ex- acely as Eric (Doub, climber and technical genius of the enterprise) called it, the sand-filled sock lands beside us on the parapet. It's tied firnly to a lightueight surveyor's Line which now links us to the roof cross 17th. Securing the string, Mike and I retire to the stairvell and wait. Luck- ily, the forecast for -8'f with strong gusts has not arrived. We monitor the wind vith great interest. The 15'x40" banner could be very difficult out Chere. A few early gusts subside into Ac 11 roof, set rails, and lay out ked to the vorld. spotted? line (a heavy non-stretching rope) The banner clears. the 45 ve move our loads onto the anchors on heavy metal-pipe stair the banner. Ve feel na- How long before signals, and pulls the static Eric ripples, unfurls and hangs clear. No otion vet: once we're out there with the nner they won't be stopping us. Far down the street the parade {s gecting undervay. 1 look over the edge. The sidewalk ate sparsely populated. Where are the throngs we'd pictured? Tise to step out into space. That moment when you suspend disbelief and put your trust in rope, harduare, planning. Eric joins me on the rope from the opposite oof and we tighten up the banner, Learning to handle its tendency to sail. The stretch from our anchor ropes Leaves us sbout 15" below rooftop level, the message pulled taut and level between us. Our Support people move uo onto the roofs to pro- tect the lifeline. We've pulled it off, crashed the party. Passing below are the governor, the mayor, the the World Champion Cowboy, the cowgirls with American flags, the dignitaries vaving numbly from limos. It's 3 dramatic first salvo in our week of efforts to undernine the western ayths that have boosted this event into a $72 aillion spree for Denver, with rodeos and stock exhib- fts attended by half a million domesticated hu- mans. Every truck dealer, radio station, h burger joint deliriously jumps on the bandwag- Yet thanks to Colorado Eacth First!, the Direct Action Fund and activists from all over, a counterpoint is being voiced. Eric Holle and Mike Stabler are lassoing media opportunities. Television and newspapers feature the dramatic visuals of the banner hanging, and supporting Text gets across our point that the taxpayers aer supporting the continued ecological deva- station of public lands. As Eric likes to proclaia: THEIR STOCH "LIQUIDATE 1'd like to cut avay from the story here, the perfect action, but there vere some hard Lessons offered this time which must not go unheeded . Our support tean of Mike Petersen and Wichael Robinson were physically assaulted by a security guard. Screeming that our “brains are gonna splatter on the sidewalk,” he produced Scissors and threatened to cut the rope holding Eric and ayself. Michael vas forced to abandon his firnly held non-violent reststance and physically fatervene. Ve've since Learned that ft is common practice to hize ex-cons for this kind of work, and they develop a fierce terri- Cortality on their "turf". In fact, this sani- ac sald "t voulda't the first tine' whea T pointed out that he'd go up for murder Lf he cut our rope. This totally unexpected reaction should be considered by anyone planaing to put themselves fn s similar situation. As Nike Petersen said, "I've never been so glad to see a cop in ay life." Extra support and planing for ismedi- ate liason with the law enforcement are highly Ceconmended when the drama of one's actions is equalled by the potential danger. Another unforeseen occurrence left a seri- ous stain on the experience for me. A climbing problen arose in exiting upuards off the rope back onto the building which I was not experi- enced in and had not trained for. By sheer Luck, this mishap did not result in disaster. But just inagine the message value of an ac- tion in which a member of your party, or vorse, a bystander, {s Injured or killed. Our move- ment, our efforts to ork on behalf of life on the planet, would be critically compromised. Ve take risks and therefore ve must bear res ponsibility for the consequences of those risks. Plan as though lives depend on it HIGH OVER DENVER —-—part two by Lee And so 1t was all so funny clam- bering over these rodeo spectators in their seats, "Ha, ha, excuse me, ex- cuse me,” vell the Indian Princess was on and she was our cue, her and her horse were out doing their thing, "Yeah for the Indiansi” is what I say but Gavd, sheesh to hear to the In- dtan Princess gig for the third time in two days (cuz of recon and all that) husma, but no time to barf now “Gary and 1 started wiggling and squigsling our vay up che wall, Chanks to some conveniently locat- ed I-beams, pipes, cubes, and what not. A small moment of stuckness in the skinny place and then some quick moves across the ducting on= %o a catvalk. At this poiat we'd collected a Lot of dust and dirt (no one up here but usual mon- sters) and we figured we'd becter collect our breach and nerves €oo, un-duct-tape che banner bundle, consult the Coliseun Climber Guide. We'd had some hitches so far not the least of which vas somebody forgot all the climbing Topes, so it vas zilchola on plan A (a complicated medium alcitude rappel/banner hanging/trapeze ace). Well, the reason I brought the subject of hitches 1s to en- courage banner hangers and civil disobediencers in general that, yes hitches do happen buc big deal! Al- s0 to lead into the hitch that vas hap- pening around the time we gOt €0 the top /of the wall, which was chat all the Coli- seun lights vere coming on (vay early) in the middle of the Indian Princess act which was about to blow our cover! No big hitch, cus all we had to do was run out on the cat- walk, cut left onto another catwalk and start hanging, which {s vhat ve did. Somewhat to our chagrin the carefully rolled banner ropes had become spaghetci but after some moments ve got it scraightened out. This large banner (11'x 40') and ha, ha, various and assorced boos and hissings were watting up fora below which made our hearts exceedingly proud! This is what the banner said: "WILDERNESS, VILDLIFE, CLEAN WATER. COWS OFF PUBLIC LANDSI" So... after nothing left to do and I could see ve were headed for an adrenaline slusg real quick like. I suppose we could've pulled Off an un-roped rappel iato that sea of coboy hats dovn below (spectacular) and yes, it's Crue in one swell foop we could've taken out the rodeo asnouncer (Mr. Syrup-voice) who vas directly (or near enough) below us. No, Gary suggested that ve try and escape which was novel 1dea seeing as how ve'd been so tatent on our stuac. So this is what ve did: ve ske daddled don the vay ve came. An usher nabbe: Gary real quick and I 1it out across some seats and spectators, "Ha, ha, excuse me, excuse " they wern't Looking quice so amiable and friendly this cime, no siree, we'd been afraid there might ensue some nasty scenarios, ham, Chere vas one woman trying to tripme somevhere in the middle of the rou and some big covboy types right past her, "Ha,ha, it's a free country, excuse se," and 50 on into the arms of security--theirs not ours. Busted! ALL of our riots had been kicked out earlier for not having tickecs but Gena who had snuck back in vas nearby, smiling at our victory and Laughtng at our sooc covered cowboy clothes, and some usher sau that and she got rung too. So, there the three of terrorists are and ev- erything a'svirling and a'vhiling, confusion (you know how 1t 1s?1) and being passed off to various and assorced ushers and securicy guards and in all the confusion ended up gainst the vall guarded by chis one and ano- cher comes along and says real authoricacively, "We gotta clear this place, you're all gonna have to leave!" (he didn't realize that we were the crininals) and that's jusc vhat ve d41d Lickity-splicz out of there and lost in chat ther, A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WEST P #DIET FOR A Review of DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA by John Robbins, available from the Eacthsave Foun- dation, POB 949 Felton, CA 95018-0949; $11.95 Plus $1.50 postage plus $.66 when CA state tsx applicable. Checks payable to John Robbins. By John Seed It seems strange to be writing a review of a book where I've only read the last chapter, but I'n doing this very deliberately. The book is John Robbins' DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA, and the chapter, titled "ALL Things Are Connected”, is about the environmental effects of the live- stock industry in North Anerica. The rest of the book looks at issues like the auful lifelong suffering of most animals raised for food in feedlots and factories, the chenical contamination of their bodies and the 111 health that eating these brings to hu- mans, the fact that only small reduction in the amount of meat consused in North America would free enough grain to feed the 60 million people who will starve to death this year (In starving they strip their environment of what- ever residual fertility it might still have letting then starve is no solution to the en- vironsental crisis) and so on. 1 understand from people who have read the Whole book that John Robbins writes eloquently and persuasively throughout. However, 1 delib- erately avoid reading these other chapters be- cause it gives me an opportunity to focus ay undivided attention on 4 most neglected ari the environmental devastation coused by the Livestock industry. As a rainforest conservationist, I had been avare that cattle were one of the main factors in the destruction of rainforests in Central America andelsewhere: more than a third of Central America's rainforests have been NEW AMERICA But consider the following: ~-Livestock consume 807 of the corn, 95T of the oats, 807 of the soybeans grown in the U.S. If people ate the grains instead of feeding them €0 livestock, only 1/20th of this grain would be required. This would result in enormous savings {n land (vhich could revert to wild), water and energy. -Half of all the water used for any purpose in the U.S. is used by the livestock industry--to irrigate the grains they use, to vash the un- treated sevage from the feediots and factories into rivers and streams. It takes 25,000 gal- Lons (ten tons!) of water to grow one pound of hasburger in the U.S. This water is heavily subsidised. If the subsidies vere removed, this pound of hamburger would cost more than $35. -1f this vater were not removed from the aqui- fers, ve would not need to mine then; they could remain a renewable resource. If this vater were not resoved from the rivers but Left to power existing electricity turbines and... If such ‘enormous amouats of poer were no long= er required to create and transport the agri- cultural chemicals used to grow the grains fed fo the livestock, transport the grain and live- stock, puap the vater. Then ve could shut dovn every muclear pover Lant in the 0.5 3/ of the topsoil of the U.S. has been lost in the last 200 years. It is presently eroding and bloving avay at the rate of several tons per human inhabitant per year. 85% of the top- 501l Loss is at the hands (ot hooves as the case may bet) of livestock. --More than 3 cimes as much meat is derived fron foraerly forested land as is derived from range land and this ratio is clisbing every year-- as grazing lands are destroyed by the hooves of cattle, more and more forests are cut to replace them. So far, 260,000,000 scres of U.S. forest have been cleared to create crop- Land to produce a meat-centered diet. At cur- ceat rates, there will be no forest left in the U.S. in 50 'years. For every person who switch- €5 €0 a pure vegetarian diet, an acre of trees is spared each year. cleared for cattle pasture; 200 million pounds of meat are imported annvally into the US from Central Anerica alone. In fact I had celebrat- ed an isportant victory last year when concer- ted action by the US Rainforest Action Groups and Earth First! activists had forced Burger King out of Costa Rica and they had agreed to use only domestic beef. NAME THIS QUOTE o861 T1e “anss) Kavsioaruve ArAvy Gaivd stow 13Ty DIET...continued peits. It's not just the habits of the timber On January 31, a large barn in Sacramento, CA! The sense T got after reading this chap- |barons snd industrialists that have to be al- [Jused for public stock auctions was torched ter was that firstly the livestock industry ered, but our own, each and every us. [Iby soneone who apparently was unhappy about may be the single most important factor in the [And if we environmentalists, the ones who know, ff the current grazing activities on public Gestruction of the environment in the U.S. If [the ones who are concerned, if we can't change, lllands. A few days prior to the blaze, the ve were able to change our diets to vegetarian-then how the hell can we expect change from thefbuilding had been spraypainted with "Covs OFf Tam, (ot only consume ecologically grown animal|rest. If we can't become the cutting edge of [IPublic Lands” ~type slogans and derogatory products -~in which case meat would become an |a true, real total avakening, well we might as [l coments about welfare ranching. The barn expensive condiment or spice) this would give [vell shut up and stay home. burned to the ground. Unfortunately, it us some desperately needed breathing space. It But please, don't shut up and stay hose. [ldid not start the rest of Sacramento on fire. would buy us the time ve will need to deal witHFind the energy to deal with our crisis where some of the incredible environmental problems |it needs to be dealt with--everyehere simultan- that we're going to have to solve in no time af|eously. It's no use, it just won't work to all just to survive project the problems "out there". Ve have to Secondly, it gave me a realization of the [deal with them in here too. tremendous overlap between the concerns of two of the most radical and progressive Sroups in the U.S.: the environmental movement and the animal rights movement. Previously 1 had seen very little overlap between their concerns. Indeed, there was more than s little hostility betueen the two It is our add y vhere issues pitted the survival of [consus uels and trees which is In an effort to stay compliant tions sgainst.the velfare of indi- |destroying the ozone layer and cresting the with state and federal laws evg., what to do about feral animals |sreenhouse effect; that are mining the water regarding the distribution Ny g 43 £ e L e D destructive devices, we a2 FO5AS yeaEhTicad- bisn cPAC KRGS materials. We regret the e &) e gk st ) (@ 0% %" ot e L o S s B3° WOL oW i vival-—food is good, pain is bad Life, they say, began as a s It s bred for subaission. 1f-replicatis molecule in a primordial protein soup. In order to create duplicates of itself, this DNA precursor propriat COMIEX 1o domesticate is "o train b erican Heritage Dictionary). r proteins as building blocks endent forns we are now familiar with, other rela- urity of the barnyard (prison). Man can then add The task of domesticating people is tionships besides predator/prey were e he ¢ ese bed apply ¢ slightly more complex than that of arasitisn and mutualisn (sexval repro- their own flourishment t increase and domin-animals. Sometimes circuses must e exanple) along wit - be provided as well as bread. The tngs!" "Oh, what a feeling. Humans have brought the world to an ecological crisis. Hovever, since blame is to be placed, we is life evolved and continued over millions others, each being adapting to the pull of all the n of the Family, sust recognize that some humans others by developing its own kind of strength. This Che State, Frederick re much more culpable than others. state of nature was called the "war of all against Capitalism and domination ¢ er- They are a small minority of the all" by Hobbes, the 17th century apologist evils of the political state. Hobbes called the greedy, the poverful, the masters. Deep ecologists talk of individuals ere of domestic control exerted by a rtion- reconnecting with nature as the ally decreasing cadre of men in power. The first first step to social transformation.| definitions of culture in the Anerican Heritage But in order for us to be able to nary have to do with "the tillage of soil” and comprehend nature, we must be free state Leviathan, the eater of men, but it vas p erable to existing in nature. i Twpathan) (1 eomeihing effective cultural technique in fake democracy, patriarchy and all ache Paing 8 v Hriathan a3 Don't be a slave or a stusp, revolt before they clearcut you! Humans are the only aninal to attempt to break o he philosop deep ec as done a Job £ the web of mutual support. Humans are the only mpslysing (EERS L oE ity @ arcengrice Eoed other beings. It is the use of technology for do- bring ¢ e net down with hi mestication, not just technology alone that real of man's domestication of human nthropocent separates us from nature. Cer ication of 5. ain animals have been known to use simple tools and ants have been observ- 1 not the whole of the problem. When looking at odern, industrial culture, it is easy to see the ed taking slaves, but no other creatures have appro- 2 consunerisn and anthropocentrisn of the mas- priated the 1ives of others on the scale that humans S¢1fis! b ses of people. It is not so easy to see that such voice from the ancient forest'@w;%’ eep in the heart of the oldest old grouth forest around, life is rich and lush, magical, fanciful, and very, very inter-related. It's here that true stories of elves and toadstools, truf- £les, voles and all sorts of magical be- ings emerge. It's a rare and beautiful temperate rain forest that has been contin- uously evolving for 400 million years. After the last ice age, it became the seed bank for all the coniferous forests on the west coast. Throughout the centuries, all sorts of mystical creatures have emerged £rom this ancienc woodland, among them a wild-eyed story teller named Lou Gold and his (talking) walking seick. The cruth be known, Lo is from Chicago, but somehow that doesn't seem to maccer. His heart is deeply rooted in that primeval wonderland known as the Klamath/ Siskiyou Mountain Range. He comes tous some- what reluctantly, as it is understandably difficult to leave his forest refuge, but evidently his walking stick had a long talk with his, (not an unusual occurance in a and 1t 1s not his job. the great forest is gone . [ eticded B e Kalplysis cleiirdens Now the great forest 1s fallen and shipped to Japan for chopsticks. At night the rain pools in the cracks on che stusps. At davn a strange sun touches the naked ferns, the coroner spreads open the genitals, test tubes ready.'il It appears foul play is unusually foul. = But vhere are the birds? The sergeant docsa’t know magic forest) and left him no choice. For you see, this splendid ancient forest and all of the wild beings that dvell therein is being systematically slain by greedy, sap- thirsty cutthroats. Lou's unique tale-telling ability un- winds for us the splendor and the horror in a way that we won't soon forget. He unfolds for us some fascinating inter-re- lationships on which the survival of the whole old growth forest depends Briefly it goes that the foundation of the old growth forest is the mycorhizal fun- gus, the fruit of which is a truffle. The red-backed vole, who eats and poops only truffles, is the main transportation system for the fungus on which the forest depends. Sequentially, the red-backed vole is the main diet of the spotted owl, that “mil- Lion dollar bird," which, as you probably know, may soon become a major "bargainig chip” for environmentalists suffering the problea in courcs of law. He also explains how the vole is a fire insurance policy for the forest, as the my- S By Gila Tronr R corhizal fungus Hves up intestines of the vole. This becomes an i portant issue, for as you may know, the Kla- math-Siskiyou Nountains were heavily affec- ted by the fires of 1987. Consequently, the Forest Service is selling off (cheap!) all the so-called "salvage timber" in the forest, 80 days in the and making a real mess of things while they're at ic. Stopping these salvage sales is a main motivation for Lou's current tour. S0, as you can probably tell, this wandering minstrel first draws us in and makes us feel parc of this fanciful forest world, then drops the proverbial bombshell on us. For instance, did you know that BALF of the world's forests have been cut since 19502 Did you know that 13 BILLION board feet (read clearcauts) will be cut mext year in the national ‘orests alone? Do you know chat cax dollars have subsidized 343,000 miles of roads chrough the forests, (that's three times around the world) or that the USFS is THE LARGEST road building company in the world? But we're creating jobs!!" the timber beasts cry. Bullshit, says Lou. In the last 10 years, cutting has increased by 107, but tinber employment has decreased by 137. Due to exportation and mechanization, the liars are destroying more and employing less. In addition, the high-tech methods of log- ging are becoming increasingly destructive. It's not a precy picture...but this artise doesn't leave us to despair. There simply isn't time for that. He arms us with our own emotions, our sense of outrage. He calls on us to find our own screngeh and go out and ACT, because, dammit, there Juse gan'e a choice. A for more taformatton about Lau's tour [ o o nkereed o bavies tin Ledsue (303 14-2058 oF (303) 2914486, There are no oraithologists in Congress. Senator Hatfield goes home to a wife vho vas never a bird. b\ The Capttol halls are cmpty, the maids sveep the floor [j) in a din Light croubled by vingbeats. A They keep missing spots and must return, but cach tine there s sawdust vhere they svept. The Senator vakes up at four and canmot slecp. His vife lies curled up under blankets beside hin. He sLips out of the room, out of the tovn house iao che chilly Virgiuta air and plcks up the paper In the kitchen he heats up coffee and opens it vp. But today it is blank, there is no nevs, ' Just neatly folded paper, with leaves and roots fresh from his state. The coffee in blood. 7%y 400 HAVE 0 ATED, Y0u HAE SAISHTERED. Ve e pone s ués 7 Yokser Also The Senator knovs and will not tell but the committee is silent when he enters. - Each member has suffered the same. Evecy ornithologist on the East Coast is on vacation or will not answer the phone. Each day now the Senator goes home with a rabbit or mouse and puts 1t by the bed. Mrs. Hatfield will not speak and flies fato the closet if he opens the curtains. The mouse disappears and small pellets dot the sheets. The great forest is gone and the sergeant 1s off duty at the bar. He has had too much to drink and will valk home alone through the rain. The gutters are eloquent, they gush like an opera he saw in college. The water stands at the metal gates and gathers up the light from the lamppost. The sergeant starts to cry at the falling vater. He never vanted to be a cop, he vanted to be a stream. / He vanted to pick up moonlight and squander it in eddies. He never wanted the promocion he requested. Sliding dovn rocks would've been fine. THE ANCIENT FOREST RESCUE = ay 0 e onges: /\Ji*" coleoraton of . When the Ancent Forest Rescue Expediton (AFRE) comes W2 1o yourtown tus Sprng, escoring e body o an B00-year-od westem Washingion Dougias e, you wiundersand wnat we are losing as e ast greatoress arecut. £ Tris expecton s an efor 1 aise awaraness o he predcament of e Pacii Northwests ancient foresis. Lie a carpetofgreen, hesa beautiul forests onck: Govered the Pacifc Northwest rom Caiforia’s recwoods o southaast Alaska's 4 Sitka spruce. A contury o logging has desiroyed allbu ive o ten percent of hese, the Ean's most biokogically-producive forests. Most of the ramaining ancent groves are on pubic lands, our Natonal Foress, wharo the U.S. Forast Senvice continues the Gevastation. Al curtent logging rates, we may have as il as five yoars 10 save the oc-growt forest scosysiem. The coroner slices open the sergeant's chest— death by drounine. The Senate chamber is full but no one will speak. 5 There are not enough rodents in Washington, | £ there are not enough tall trees, the wives are dylng. First they must vote on cancer, and chen on crime. But no one will valk to the podium. = A flock of pigeons flies by the latticed windows | and every head follows the flight. o Leaving Seatto on April 15,the AFRE wil visit uncreds ofciles and towns from ‘oast 0 coast through April and May. Accompanying this awesame Dougias i g willbe musicians, speakers, and exhits, ai eling of the great beauly and naturalimportance ofthe ancient foress. Ralies in supportof e preservaton of these endangered remnants of wi America wil o heid n several cies, including Seatle, Poriana, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. Whilethe expeciton willbear a morbid remindar of ongoing ecological destructon, our message i one of nope: "W can save these great orests, and thetime s now.” Ourtask s 1o buid support for a moratonum on e logging of all0l-growth forests. Oy irough thi preservaton can we siop the habiat 1055 which rreatens many species-such as the spofted owl and e maroled murolet-ven axncron, Now the great forest 1s gon and the nation is silent. % The builders will not hammer or sav, )" they sob in the streets outside of the buildings 3 Pickpockets will not steal Sig and judges crouch behind the bench ©or pound with their fists at the strict courtroom floors The farmers see no use for vheat R _and the truckers sit naked on the black N2 need your help. Plea The Ancient Forest Rescus Expsditr PO Box 2962 Bolingham, WA 9822 ) s cont AN 3 It was a kicking, biting, | scratching free-for-all POLITICIAN MAULED BY VENGEFUL PACK A PACK OF WOLVES HELL-BENT ON MURDER BRUTALLY.BIT AND MAULED THE ENVIRONMENT MINISTER LAST WEEK WHILE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN CLAIMS WOLVES SPEAK TO HER DURTNG TRANCE. In late December the British Columpta 7 "iKal Mindstry of Environment announced that the effective since much of this controversial helicopter wolf wipe-out in battle centers around (I hate Northeast B.C. had been cancelled as being 0 8ay 1t) who can puc on the unnecessary since "predator and prey are best circus act and P.R. in balance"--as a result of their years of ~FOr various reasons th meddling, of course. This is good news e SepotagIy kaLley otk for wolf lovers (and wolves!) who had been the next winter planning another round of confrontation with the state's hired guns in the frigid outback of the Muskwa River region this winter. According to the newspaper re- ports, che kill "may not be necessary for the next four years.” Does this mean we THE ATTACK OCCURED AS STRACHAN AND JATLBATT LEFT THETR NORTH- ERN LIGHTS MOTEL ROOM IN FORT ST. JOHN. "1 STILL HAVE NIGHTMARES ABOUT 1T," CRINGED PERFORMER STEVE LAU, WHO WAS ALSO BITTEN SAVAGELY. "EVERY- THING BAD 1 EVER HEARD ABOUT WOLVES JUST CAME TRUE IN FORT ST. JOHN, B.C." HE SATD. "IT WAS VISCIOUS, JUST AWFUL," SAYS CLAUDIA JATLBAIT, THE MINISTER'S SECRET MISTRESS AND WITNESS TO THE ATTACK. "HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A WOLF EAT A HUMAN?" SHE GRTMMACED. story) took the initiative and travelled to the NE, staging protests all along the way By gotng up before the kill vas even announ- ced, the reasoning went, the threat of inter- vention would be given credibility and this The "reasons” for the wolf kill are alone would provide an effective deterent. many—mostly political/economic--and have been described in grueling detail elsevhere But, briefly, it goes something like thi. BUT WILHELMINA MOOSEPUNCH, FAMED snall cadre of professional huncing guides and | PSYCHTC AND RODEQ QUEEN KNOWS OTHER- outfitters in the NE want wolves removed to WISE. "THEY TALK THROUGH ME WHEN THE help arcificially increase the ungulate popu- | MOON IS FULL,™ SHE SAYS. "IT WAS lations (stone sheep, moose, etc.) for their REVENGE, HRE AND SIMPLE FOR BRUCE'S clients--nostly wealchy Germans and Americans. | YEARS OF WOLF KILLING." Lobby another subsidy. And this is exactly the backeountry; the rest went to Victoria and For those new to this issue: In 1984 Project Wolf was organized in an effort to stop the planned massacre of hundreds of wolves in the Kechika and Muskva River valleys. Over a couple-week period they braved hostile redneck locals and sub- freezing temperatures in town and in the bush using various methods to publicize the issue. Though few actual direct con- frontations took place, the extensive me- dia coverage brought wolf killing into the public's eye and more than anyching horribly embarrassed the Ministry. The next year many members of the original tean repeated the protest, this time ven- turing deep into che wilderness. The me- dia, hovever, had lost interest and liccle coverage was gatned, making efforts less 8.C. Tourisn Bureau offices across the U.S., reduced from 200 down fo Sd--still unaccept- Letter uriting, demonstrations at the U.S./Can- able, of course. The govermment was obviously ada Border and similar activities continued trying to save face afcer being hif vith so from Novesber o March. Protests and publi~ many mudballs. They nesded a vay to give-in city events took place around Canada and in without looking defeated. They wanted to win Britian and Portugal as vell. The efforts on their terms, not ours. Appearances, after culninated when 16 wolf defenders drove the o et B (o it hiowet 1 powe tvo days up €o Fort St. John from Washington er. Three days after the kill vas announced state to confront the Ministry in the heart of and with as yet no dead wolves—the program enemy territory. Daily demos, an office occu- vas cancelled for the year "due to poor veath- er and snow conditions (necessary for tracking wolves from the air)." Shortly aftervards, STRACHAN, FROM HIS HOSPITAL BED, COULD | ¢y iends of the Wolf vas granted an injunction FIND NO MOTIVE FOR THE ATTACK. "I'M against the Ministry in the B.C. courts. Ap- REALLY A NICE PERSON,” HE CLATMED. parently che Minister had made a procedural ercor in the vay the kill vas being conducted. There are no laws protecting wolves in B.C. pation, an Alaska Highuay base- Not suprisingly, all focus shifted to this camp and back-country forays 3 were all undertaken over a two- week period. (The stories from ~ this adventure could Fll pages themselves. Alas, they must be N Lefc for campfire story time.) Later, three members of Friends of the Wolf parachuted into the backcountry to gain publicity and confront glorious legal "victory." ACCORDING TO ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY EX- PERT RALPH ARCHIBALD, THERE HAS BEEN S J A HISTORY OF WOLF ATTACKS NEAR FT.ST. Soorsbom JOHN, INCLUDING: -~ A YOUNG MS. RIDINGHOOD'S GRANDMOTHT and document any wolf killing taking place. WAS KILLED IN HER BED IN 1895. But there wasn't any. -~ A WOLF BLEW DOWN A BARN AND ATE 3 In October 1987, the statements from LITTLE PIGS IN 1942. the Ministry sbout their intention to resume the aerfal ki1l ook on an oainous tone. == GROWLING PACKS--SOMETIMES IN THE "e plan to go shead with the progras mo mat- THOUSANDS--HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO STEAL " said a B.C. offi- SMALL CHTLDREN TN ORDER TO RAISE er article. But by mid- THEM AS THETR OWN. February the kill had yet to begin and the Mintstry's PR people vere waffling. The pro- tests and direct action vere achieving their : = incended effect. Tired of waiting for the ST. JOHN AND MATED WITH THEM TO THE CAPTION ON THE PLAQUE READS: winisery to make up its mind, WAG (aka Super PRODUCE A RACE OF WEREWOLVES. "T0 OUR GLORTOUS DEAD" Bad Friends of the Wolf--but that's another =~ IN 1957 WOLVES KIDNAPPED YOUNG VIRGINS IN FORT NELSON AND FORT [ o N S E\: Suf) 0 i, 85l only because history is so predictable, once you locate a few of its ciphers. Paccerns begin to emerge, each one different in appearance, but so much the same in effect. Judging from the state- ments and actions of the Ministry vis-a-vis the protests, the reasons no wolves died in the Muskua last winter are obvious: political and social pressure generated by direct ac- tion. The court case saved NO uolves. Nor would it have saved any this year since the Ministry "tidied up (their) legislacion’ they put it, and have managed to circuavent any constraints the court ruling may have placed. Again, the courts saved no wolves. The legalism did, however, have other effects. Once the court had ruled in “our" favor, all public atcencion focussed there. Even many of those who had been in the thick of the action becane mesmerized, enthralled by the Cidbit of power so temporarily bestowed upon them. Mainstream wolf groups upheld the great court victory uhile not even mentioning "WE THINK THE DESCENDENTS OF THESE HUMAN WOLVES MAY BE RESPONSTBLE FOR THE MAULING," SAYS JIM WALKER, NOTED SATANISM AND UFO AUTHORITY AND RESEARCHER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY.|and money. fforts, or, at best, were a uaste of time Dollars spent on lawyers could be much better spent attacking the real problem the direct action or the fact that had we all vaited for the courts, the wolf killing season would have come and gone (and 200+ wolves been killed)before the case vas ever heard! "HOWEVER SMALL, HOWEVER INSIGNIFI- CANT IT MAY SEEM, ANY ACTION WRICH DOES NOT SEEK A "MEDIATOR", WHICH EXCLUDES THE LOGIC OF DIALOGUE, IS A POTENTIAL DANGER TO THE STATUS QUO, NOT ONLY OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM, BUT ALSO OF THE OFFICIAL (ENVIRON- MENTAL) MOVEMENT.. " That the state and those who've created a niche for themselves within its entrails: and cherefore must uphold its logic--would find a way to negate and subvert a victory of this sorc comes, again, as no suprise. Auth- ority will aluays atcempt to "recuperate” (co-opt, appropriate for its oun benefit) any threat to the continued obedience and passiv- ity of its subjects. This process is the history of the decline of one after another radical group, uprising, movement and revolt. It's as old as power itself--but you'd think we would've learned something by now. Apparently not. With a stroke of a pen, chat judge re-legitimized her and the Minis- try's "right” to determine the fate of wolves after we'd removed that power from them. By playing their game, ve gave them an easy vic- tory: we stopped the kill, but the system got all the credit. But does it matcer, really? Without belaboring it much further, I ask Chese questions: Had we kept the victory squarely in the hands of direct action, what would all those mainline liberal reform en- vironmental groups' newsletcers have to talk about instead of how good the legal system is? What effect will this talk of false "court victories” have when we try to raise money for the next round of direct action? Who gets to claim victory and thus get their coffers filled by supporters? How does this make us feel? In other words, are we so afraid of our own abilities to wrest the world from evil iands that ve need the state to tell us and ‘the public” that we are right? Do we have no more self confidence than this? Siaply aving the wolves-- from a single-issue stand- it should be obvious that all the legalistic motions Likely hindered present and future The truly obscene part, though, is watching while groups and individuals who refused to support our (effective, wolf saving) direct action now clain a great victory for them- Selves in the name of 4 battle they never fought . We'd love to take credit for scopping this year's aerial kill, but ic's really hard ©o say this time. Certainly the renewed pro- mise of a W.A.G. '89 backed by last year's actions as 4 reminder helped. Indeed, mere preparations for resistance can often consti- tute a functional deterenc. We did let them know how we felt. In the Fall there were a few Consulate demos and border leafletting and in December, 13 of us hopped the ferry to Victoria and spent the day informing bur- eaucrats of our intentions. Four spent an MOOSEPUNCH DISAGREES AND ADDS, "NO POLITICIAN WILL EVER BE ABLE TO SLEEP WITHOUT KNOWING THAT A WOLF 1S SOME- WHERE NEAR THETR DOOR. 1T'S GOING TO extra day there, hanging banners, leafleting, stickering and enjoying a few activist perks along the way (another campfire story). The next day the kill vas announced as of - possibly for four years... WELL, SORT OF... The wolf kill continues: trapping, poi- soning, poaching, legal permit hunting, "muis- ance control® huncs, habitat destruction. However none of these are so focussed or dram- atic as the helicopter kill and thus present Little in the way of targets for direct inter- ference. Only trapping has any real possibil- ities and even this will be quite difficult €0 track down. But were working on it! 1 BE A BLOODBATH. .. THEY'VE TOLD ME SO." —J Meanvhile, a happy wolf story, this one from Trudy Frisk, longcime wolf activist from B.C. New Year's Eve just past, a female biol- ogist fron the University of Montana is fly- ing over the Canadian Flathead region. She apots wolf in a trap. No place to land She is forced to return to Helena and land She tries to call Canadian wildlife officials to help the wolf. It's New Year's Eve and no help is forthcoming. So she loads into a truck, some gear, a snowmobile, and a friend and sets off north across the border. Eventually she arrives at the ranch | on whose property the trapped wolf is. The rancher is far into celebrating and cannor | communicate, but his wife, still upright, agrees that there is no problem with people Boing out on their property fo find and help the wolf. They reach the wolf by snowmobile. It is almost dead of hypotheraia. Only one thing to do, they zip their sleeping bags together around the wolf (after freeing it from the trap) and climb in beside it o warm Lt up. After a long time it rouses. They leap out of the sleeping bag. So, after perform- ing several messy natural functions inside the bags, does the wolf. It lopes to the edge of the clearing, looks back, and houls! | JUSTIFIED ACTIVITY? | The B.C. Tourism Bureau office in down- town San Francisco was hit by wolf de- fenders who broke windows and spray- painted anti-wolf-kill slogans. The Bureau issued a press release denoun- cing the activity as "an unjustified response since the aerial kill had just been cancelled the previous day.” And what if the kill hadn't been can- celled...? EITHER WAY, ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY BIOLOGIST JOHN ELLIOT 1S LEADING A MASSIVE WOLF ERADICATION EXPEDITION TO THE NORTHEAST. "WE'RE NOT SURE WHICH PACK DID IT," SAYS ELLIOT, "BUT OUR POLICY 1S 'WHEN IN DOUBT, WIPE THEM our.'" BIOCENTRISM: ideology against nature by Mikal hat hunanicy is somehow "out of balance with nature is hardly a topic of controversy now- adays. There is little question that humans are fouling the world to the point of sui- cide for us and and mass extinction for all other life. To claim otherwise is ludi- Crous. In a variety of vays, people have attempted to grasp the problem, define it and seck solutfons. Of the many new and more faddish results, few have been as popular as "Deep 8y"--aka Biocentrisn--the view that humans are acting out of excessive human-centeredness ‘Anthropocentrisn”) and thus destroying the planet and the rest of the species which have just as much "incrinsic right" to live out their biological destiny as we do. Accordingly, Biocentrisn (life/earch/nature-centeredness) calls for a new way of accing. Specifically, it calls for "earth-centered” activity and thinking: putting the "earth first" (instead of puc- ing ourselves first) as a way out of the global dilemma. In the following rant, I wish to take a critical look at these assertions and show them © what I believe to be false, misleading and even counter-productive. I don't mean this £0 be a sermon or some statement of absolute truth. No way! What follows is, more than any- thing else, just my initial attempt at deciphering and understanding the relationships be- ween some types of ideas and activity that I've discovered to be true to the best of my ex- perience. The points I take on here and their broader implications have been of cencral in- porcance to many of the great disputes and inconsistencies within what can loosely be called the "cadical ecology movement.” Hopefully, ay effores here uill help to encourage further According to its proponents, Blocentrism is nature-centered living. It therefore be premised on an irreconcilable separation of humans from nature. This is so because if humans were {nherently natural beings--i.e., an equal part of nature, fully integrated into the natural flow of life--then to be human-centered (anthropocentric) would also imply being nature-centered (biocentric). But Biocentrism has already been defined by its practitioners €0 be the opposite of Anthropocentrism. So according to Blocentrist thought (nature-centered philosophy), humans are irredeemably estranged from nature--or were never part of it in the firse place--because "human” is posited as the opposite of "nature”. (Anthropocentrism vs. Biocentrisn). Oddly, Anthropocentrism implies the very same thing. Lf Anthropocencrism is human-centered living and this is the opposite of Biocentrism or nature-centered living then and "nature" are opposite and therefore separate. It is a contradiction £0 say that two positions which are idencical are, in fact, opposite. I will try to resolve this dileana by going outside of what is common to both Biocentrisn and Anthropocentrism: ideological thinking. Ideological thinking is false consciousness. which originate elsewhere, outside of our own emotional and intellectual subjectivity, our idencity. Ideology is vhen we mistake others' thoughts for our own or when our ow thoughts becone rigid and fossilized and- those thoughts come to control us-—-instead of the other way around. Marxism, all religions, guru-cults are all very clear and obvious exam- ples of ideological (non)chinking. The politically correct, sacred or official line is what one must adhere to. These ideas and demands on our activity originate not out of our own needs or desires or our ideas or personal lived experience or community, but from outside o us, externally to us. Other examples of ideological (false) activity include: all political ideologies, "causes" (doing things for "the cause" instead of for our own needs), consumer- ism (externally created wants and preferences) and philosophies ("I'm an Existentialist an example of self-definition in someone clse’s terms). Both Biocentrism, and its necessary companion, Anthropocentrism, are {deologies both place external demands on our thinking and acitvity. Biocentrism differs from, say Marxism, Christianity or the Moonies only in contemt. In form it is identical. How it differs 1s that it demands that we act, not according to the politically, morally deternined correct line, but to the "naturally" correct ome. "Nacure"--or an abscract overruling idea-of-nature replaces the guru, Bible or Party doctrines. There is any of these (or any other ideologies) for the vagaries of human wildness, independent thought, activity or desire--or nature. ALL thought and activity is pre-scribed, determined externally to our human needs, desires. At times we may agree with something that is also part of an ideology. But at this point, if it is truly no longer ideological, no longer external, no longer false consciousness, then we need not invoke the label, category, guru, docerine, holy book, savior, god, artificially induced want, hero, demagogue, fad or any other "authority" to justify our ideas and activity. In other words, instead of saying "ac- cording to the Marxist doctrines...” or "the Bible says..." or "Deep Ecology says...", we would say I think that...", "I've noticed that I feel that...", or "I'm doing this because...". In this case--auchentic, subjective ideas and activity based on our constantly changing needs and desire and aluays personally checked out against our own everyday lived experience--e can defend and explain our ideas and activity with argusents and examples that we know to be true because we've thought about or actually experienced thea. (This has been called "theory"--more on that later). In other words, we can claim our ideas as our When we are in the grips of ideological (non-)thinking and (pose-)acting we cannot do this because the ideas are not our own--we did not think, feel or experience them for our- (Ideology, in this way, is administered thought, directed action as opposed to d Therefore, ve cannot argue, explain or justify them our- once again, "human In other words, it is ideas and activity selves. ect action--nore on that later). selves. Instead when someone opposes or challenges our ideology, we must puc them into a category-—i.e., label them as "other"--and thus drav a line around them defining those ideas as "other”. The label (authority, justification) of the ideologist is then used to Justify Some examples are "That's just Marxism...", » "She's a Humanisc...". Thusly, any chall ology can be dismissed as that of an "outsider” in the eyes of the Party faithf all nod their heads in agreement at how clever the ideologist is Earlier I referred to "cheory”. Theory is (to clearly define it at least for of this discussion) the opposite of ideology. Ideology is inside-out theory. In cal activity, the motivations come from without. With theory, motivations come from withi from our own subjective ideas, experiences, longings and needs. Thus theory can also be called "self-theory”. Most people today are walking around inside-out, motivated and direct- ed by a myriad of things--anything but themselves. Theory is never static, never rigid Our theory, if we fail to constantly evolve it and test it against our experience and new in- formation, quickly fossilizes into ideological thinking. When ve base our activities and ideas on our self-theory, we can clearly see what the actuality behind new information is and choose to take or leave whatever we want. The self- theorist skips and dances through the great supermarket of ideology, tearing open every pack- age, scattering the contents and appropriating what seems good and nourishing and discarding the rest. The ideologist shops carefully, or even perhaps on impulse, looking for just the right fit of pre-packaged ideas to take home and consume wholeheartedly--after paying at the register of course! Ideologists often are brand switchers. They'll stick with one package of (non-)thought only until the next one in a shinier package comes along and lures them in. Other ideologists maintain a lifelong brand loyalty! In the earlier discussion about ideologists using labels to evade challenges, we can say that the self-theorist can easily see--and see past--ideological boundries of the opponent by watching for examples of ideological thinking such as scatements like "Deep Ecology says that...", "Marxism says...", "Ghandi would've said...". The person under the influence of an 1deology, a false consciousness, on the othsr hand, having constructed these barriers, cannot see out. It has become a wall, a real barrier to advancement, a very un-radical thing to do. Note also that just as the ideologist fsn't the originator of his/her ideas, so s/he neither claims credit for them (e.g. "Blocentrism says..."). But here is anocher example of how the ideologist is mystified. Doctrines, ideologies and the like do not themselves calk and so it is wrong and misleading to say "Biocentrism says...” Who is Blocentrisn? When we begin to ask such questions, ve can peel off layers of mystification and confusion "That's Violence, nge to an ide- 1 who will evasion of any challenge we follow the Nonviolence Code. Note also that just as the ideologist isn'c the originator of his/her ideas, so s/he neither clains credit for them (e.g. "Blocen- trism says..."). But here is another example of how the ideologist is myscified. Doctrin- es, ideologies and the like do not themselves talk and so it is wrong and misleading to say "Biocencrism says..” Who is Biocentrisa? Wny should I believe what this mysterious en- tity says? When we begin to ask such ques- tions, we can peel off layers of mystification d confusion like an onion until we can see at lies beneath: Actually Biocentrisa does- a't say anything. Actual people do and say things such as "Blocencrism this and that. not some mystical Biocentrisa force or creat- ure. It's important to uncover the real source of the ideas we hold so they can be fully evaluated on their actual content and meaning If ve then really do agree, then ve can say "I think this and that..." and the ideas will n0 longer have control over us. We will con- trol the ideas. Beware the dangers of atcrib- uting concrete activity and thinking to ab- stract concepts or doctrines or slogans. In response to actacks, the person who engages in ideological thinking and activiey stmply builds higher and bigger walls. To continue this imagery for a moment longer, we can see that eventually the ideologist will be overuhelued by the theorist who, being free to think, evaluate and rove around, will even- cually find the cracks and weak spots that will bring the vhole thing down with little effort. Imagine a guerilla group with a rad- ical self-theory challenging a monolithic state milicary force under the grip of a rigid chain of command (external control, ideology). This whole preceeding discussion has obvious relevance for anyone engaged in direct subver- sive resistance--or think they are: ideology creeps up uhere you'd least expect it. But you can draw your own conclusions on that.. I've tried to present a fairly clear and simplified (if not stmplistic...) picture of what ideological activity is, how it operates and how it can limit us. I've tried to con- trast that with theory, a better vay to under- AMACHINE THAT'S GEARED FOR SUCCESS. S_ABOUT TO BE SUCCESSFULLY DISMANTLED Y THOSE WHO WOULD RATHER NOT BE GEARS. W A WACHINE. stand the world and think and ace. What I'Ll try €0 do now is explain how ideology is the death knell of radical change, of humanity, of nature and of the earth and wilderness. I showed at the very beginning how Blocentrism (an 1deology, a category of Nature-ally cor- rect thought and activity, a label used to dis- credit opposing views, an external source of ideas and action, an authority) is premised on the view that humans are separate from nat- ure and act out of human-centeredness (Anthro- pocentrism) and this is what is descroying the earch. But I also shoved that the apparent opposites of Biocentrism and Anthropocentrisn both in fact mean the same thing. I said that this dichotony was resolvable by breaking out of tdeological forms of thought. This is what I mean: 1'd like to start wich this assertion: Humans are not separate from nature. Our "na- ture” is that which is most "natural" to us: our deepest needs, desires, dreams, internally defined ideas (seif-theory), our emotional uancs and expression, our wild, animal in- stincts. Our husan nature is our wild, free animal instinces and subjectivity. This is what {s most natural and also what is most hu- man about us since these qualities arise nat- urally and fron vithin us. “Hunan" and "nat- ure" are not contradictory, mutually exclusive Both Blocentrism (1ife/nature/earth-cen- tered) and Anthropocentrisn (human-centrism) mean the same thing, yet one is defined as be- ing opposed to the other. They both are ideol- ogies. They both are external, packaged thought for consumpcion and directed action. Both have adherents who purport that the ide- ology must be allowed to do the thinking for us and that we must acc out of motivations it prescribes. Ideological thinking requires that we relinquish our desires, our unpredict- ability, our ability to change and adapt and subit them to the category, label, doctrine, guru, bible or, in the case of Biocentrisa, o an abstracted Nature; an idea of nature. When ve relinquish our desires and wild animal instincts, ve are relinquishing what is most natural, what is most human about us. Ideological thinking (false consciousness since the thoughts and actions are not our own) is the enemy of nature. It is the enemy of hunans because it deprives us of what makes us human--our human nature, our wildness. ALL author{ty--since it is ideological, ex- ternally imposed--is the enemy of nature and wildness. All domination and obedience kills nature in us, deprives us of our natures by depriving us of our humanity, our dreams, de- sires and wildness. This is the mistake of claiming to act or think in the name of something external to us——hether it be Biocentrism, Marxisa, Non- violence, the Cause, America, Deep Ecology or an abstracted idea of Nature itself. These all kill our unruly, natural, wild humanicy. To say we are thinking or acting for Deep Eco- logy or the Earth or Nature or the Spotted Oul is to act for reasons external to us. To do this we musc submit our desires to these ideo- logical forms of thought, we must suppress our uildness, individuality--our nature. What a bizarre circumstance, to be risking injury or imprisonment to defend an idea of nature while killing real living nature in ourselves! Of course, 1if you are doing/thinking those things for yourself and not killing wildness, not kil- Ling nature, not involved in {deological act- ivity, then there is no reason to fnvoke these labels as justifications. Be able to say: doing this out of my own desires for wildness, for my own human nature (or whatever). And herein lies the way out of the concradiction. Both Blocencrism and Anthrocentrism are ideologies and therefore anti-nature. If we act out of Biocentrism we are actually killing our nature, mot being nature-centered. If we act out of Anthropocentrisa, we are mot acting out of our own human-centered desires and wild animal instincts. We are acting out of ideo- logical demands. So, Blocentrism is anti-nat- ure and Anthropocentrism is anti-human! So they are both anti-hunan and anti-nature. So, big deal? But this becomes criical when ve see that it is this same mode of self- denial, or self-repression of wildness that allows us to do anti-human activity and anti- nature activity of this society. Biocentrism (and all ideologies), therefore, reinforces this precondition, reinforces our domestica- tion. The actual daily activity, the dominant mode of human existence on the earth today is mislabelled by the Biocentrists. It is not Anthropocentrism, not human-centered. It is not done to meet human needs, not done as a result of the fulfillment of wild human des- ires. This activity is done to fulfill the "needs" of power and capital, nation-states and commodity exchange, the whole military- industrial-national-empire. It should right- 1y be called production-centered or pover-cen- tered or Death-centered since we mist kill our wild natures to be parc of it. Our daily ac- tivity is done to keep these"machine” running. This Machine is what is devouring the earch, nature, wilderness and humanity. To work in the entrails of this "leviathan” requires that we subnit all our wildness to the "needs"” schedules and routines of it. On a daily ba- sis, this is how ve individually kill our des- tre for our nature, our wildness. To do this, to suppress our own wild, human, animal in- stincts, ve must put on successively thick layers of emotional "armor” to protect oursel- ves fron the pain of a murdered nature trying to break through. Like asphalt and herbicide to keep the wild plants from destroying the roadbed, this armor must be constancly added- to or it begins to fall avay... This armor can also be thought of as the internalization of the Machine, its logic and schedules. Ev- entually the armor can be mistaken for vhat it is suppressing in the same way chat so many people today mistake concrete, machinery and media images for the real world. This is the success of the system, the goal of our educa- tion, the triumph of Domesticacion over Wild- It is only such armored beings, domesti- cated humans who have incernalized the Machine that would engage in self-destructive/nature- destructive activity. Herein lies the danger of all modes deological (pseudo)avareness and activity (of which Biocentrisa is but one of many, many...): By encouraging us to follow that which is external to us, that which neg- ates our own human wildness and desires, these ways of thinking and acting help build our emotional armor against mature! They encour- age self-repression and domestication. Ideo- logy causes us to further distrust our wild natural instincts to be free. In this way, we are more able to destroy the world while at the same time we are that much less able to transcend and break free from this very mode of destructive behavior. What is needed is a subjective, critical, internal-human-nature-centered type of "self- theory" that helps us peel away the mystifi- cation surrounding our relation to ourselves, our world and our daily activity. We need to see domestication and the suppression of wild- erness, wildness and freedom clearly and with- out iilusions before we can begin the wild, Liberatory celebration of our nature, the creation of planetary wilderness and the piti- Less anathilation of everything which stands in the vay BEYOND EARTH FIRST! toward a feral revolution of desire Last year, Fifth Estate published a crit- ique of Deep Ecology which Included criticisms of certain people who use the slogan "Earth Firstt Tnis has led to a fairly intense dia- logue. As I have read this dialogue it has be- come clear to me that most people--including those who call themselves EFfers--aren't real- Ly sure what EF! is. A nusber of letters and one article ("'Live Wild or Die'--The Other Earth Firsti", FE, Vol. 23, No. 3) attempted to show that EF! ¥as not monolithic, that it was a movement ra- ther than an organization, Yet the writers of these pieces spoke of "what EF! actually does” by Feral Faun and, in the article, of EFI's "split personal- -as though EF! were indeed a single en- tity, a monolithic organization. To clear this'up, Lt is necessary to figure out just what EF! {s. There is an EF! that is an organization. This is what Nikal called the “centralized personality” of Earth First! in his FE article. This EF! consists of the editorial staff of the national paper and the “stars" of EF! They create a major portion of the public im- age of what EF! is all about. And their re- cent right-wing Malthusian ravings have not helped that image one bit. There is another Earth First!-- however, that EF! is not a movement. The real movement is an anti-authoritarian, anti-industrial-civ- ilization, pro-wilderness movement, and people of Fifth Estate are as much a part of that nyone else who chooses to use the slogan Earth First! To claim that a slogan creates a separate movement with an inside and an outside defined by the use of the slogan is a mystification. In fact, the idea that move- ments have an inside and an outside is a mys- tification. As Mikal said in his article, the defining quality of a movement is that it moves. Everyone who is active in any way In Gpposing civilization and striving to expand wildness is participating in that movement and needs to criticize any part of that movement that is stifling the Liberation of wildness. BEYOND EARTH FIRST! «ee.continued 1o 2 S0 do T chink Barch Firset 7 10 Just what this slogan neans ang y PRopls need it as a callying point needs to'be. exan- faed. Earth First!, the slogan is a simple, two putting our concept of the earth fifst. Robert Why do'they need to clain that they are doing commodity consumption--the activities that are destroying wildness everywhere. So the best terrorists is beconing dominant. Give the press a name and claim that it represents a single movement and they will see an organi- zation there. And when even those who claim that Earth First! is not a monolithic organ- ization speak of it in monolithic, organiza- tional terms, can anything else be expected? To summaize my thoughts 1) The slogan, Earth First!, needs to be left behind because it reflects false consclousness. We aluays act from our own needs, desires and experiences. When we recognize that in terms of our radical activity, ve free that activity fron any ideological constraints. 2) The slogan needs to be left behind because thing we can do for wilderness is to let our oun wildness break free by trusting and acting on our own instincts and desires. To be trap- ped in the ideology of a slogan is to chain our radical consciousness and to stifle our By equating the slogan with a movemen speaking of the movenent as a monolithic being that acts on its own, defining participation in the movement in terms of use of the slogan rather than people's activities, the image of EF! as an organization is created whether such an organization actually exists or not. The Tucson crew reinforces this image by creating a visible bureaucracy, but even without them the inage would exist because EF! is spoken of in organizational teras even by those who clain it is not one. So an image has been cre- ated which the media can use to create a good guy/bad guy scenario. And thanks to Foreman, Abbey and other EF! stars, the image of a mono- Lithic organization of crack-pot, racist eco- i¢ has created an insge that allovs the sedia to manipulate the public's conception of those who'act' in the slogan's nase. 3)" The slogan needs to be left benind because 1t is associated with the red-neck, macho, raclst posturings of Abbey, Foreman and others. &) The'slogan needs to be left benind becavse it creates the inage of a movement whose only basis is the use of that slogan, creating an {nsider/outsider dichotosy that allows "insid- ers" to write off the criticisms of "outsiders” “ithout giving them much thought. 5) It needs to be recognized that the actual novenent, of which thase who use the slogan, EF1 are part, is a movement to save what is Vil from civilization. Many of us who have Criticized the ideology that has been sssocia- Led with EF! ace active pacticipants in that novement, so our criticisns are not those of §) It needs to be recognized that "Earth Firsti" is merely 8 slogan, a rallying cry. It does nothing concrece. Individual people, acting separately or together, are the ones do- ing things of actual significnce. In order to avoid the image of being a monolithic or- sanization, we have to be careful to make this Ve need to go beyond the false conscious- ness of the ides, Earth First!, and recognize that only by setting our ovn wild instincts and desites free can wilderness be saved. Ours 13 s revolution of desire, a feral tevolu- Fion. e o mot do it for anything supposedly Greater than ourselves; we do it for ourselves. So come on, snarchic adventurers, let's go wilar Men who know say it's really a breeze, Once the decision's been made it happens with ease. Women who know get smiles on their faces, For with one gentle whisper, her worry he erases. Our planet is crowded, our worries are great, And an activist's shoulders don't need extra Well, one problem at least, has an answer you'll find, y fo the males of our kind. That's ever so e: It has nothing to do with losing virility, For it's oh-so-seductive to be full of sterility. Now this dilemma belongs to both genders the And 1 don't mean to imply that anyone' €0 blame. PROGRESS? by Kelpie Willsin weight. But, stop to consider that throughout the years, The woman's the one who's lived with the fears, ~the month-to-month worry, and to do wrong or right, When her chosen control doesn't do vhat it might. And let it be known to all who will listen, If they cut out her tubes, it von't be all that she's missin' There's weeks of her life and lots of dough too, And trausa unequalled to what men have to do. 1 don't mean to imply that it's a bad option, It might just be better than abortion or adoption. But the bottom line boys, is whatever else be, A man who's been cut 1s a hero to me, and to more and more vomen with Earth's health on her mind, Aman that considerate is an incredible find. Romantic endeavors, 1 could pursue all night, With a man vho's shown me he's full of insight, and concern for his sisters, and love for the earth, May the Goddess alvays grant him all that he's worth. by Chaco LUST AND POLITICS (together again) Advice to the Politically Correct Lovelorn by Andie Rogenous Dear Andi This year at the RRR a really sexy hippte chick accused me of being sexist! What's her problea? Mystified in Montana Dear Dick for Brains, Dames, who can figure Dear Andie, Women are where it's at, man. I mean like their energy is so connected to Mother Earch, y'knou? - 1 feel the need to balance my Yang vith some Yin. There isn't enough wo- man energy in my life, you know what I mean? ~Sensitive in Southern California Dear Dick for Braias, Yes, 1 think 1 do know what you mean, the cleaning isn't getting done, right? T Andie, I've tried acting like a manly man, I've tried acting like I'm 2 sensitive emotional Kind of guy (I've even tried crying!) Why aren't women interested in me? ~Confused in the 80's D Dear Dick for Brains, Once you can fake sincerity, you've got it made Confused about love and politics? Send your questions (serious or otherwise) to Dear Andie Rogenous c/o this paper. Ceystals. Their shimering beauty vib- braces deep inco your being, helping your be- ing, helping you self-accuaiize wich healing povers and guided inageries. Cool and hip, Fight? Nev age and scylin', yes? Buc at vhat price? Well, hell, can a price be put on spir- fualicy? Can a price be put on how the earch feels vhen her poverful energy transmittere and healers are ripped from her bowels for & Profic, be 1t monetary or spiritual! The ripping (rip-off) of crystals from the earth is causing her to ulcerate. Gre eroding scars result from the crystal hung hordes scouring the U.S. National Forests (aatn- 1y in Arkansas) and areas 4n other councries, Such as Mexico and Brazil. Armed to the ceeth with scredrivers, shovels and bulldozers, nev-age hucksters and spiritusl profiteers, vell-meaning healers and seckers of the sacred are mining and cearing ac the earch with no chought of the cost €0 her. The environmencal iapact of our rved, buck-hungey 4 you seroll by Tools for Fools (no kidding) or any other flashy cryseal store in Sanca Cruz or where, and see those t.v. sized cryst mering in che display windov, think about the hole 1t lefc vhen it vas vrenched out by its roots, Like a blood; visdom tooch from a gus. And ail those smaller ones...chey aren't lay- ing around the forest floor like pine cones. © reseables Gold Rush Days,” said Hon gonery County Sherif James Carmack in Spe: 23, 1987), about cryi mits, according to Spectrum, but the erated don'c begin to cover the cost of momi- tering the mines or controlling illegal hun- e nere they are for & Chen chere, vhere the she sees fic. It is & folks, who profess to < 50 blinded by the crystal light that they destroying vhat they profess to love. Their Crystals are bloody. Does our endlessly Faped earch need more of this? The NFS and the crystal-hungry sasses need to hear fros environmencalisce: cryscal atatng 1s yet another massive vounding chat our earth doesn't need. We need to heal our- selves by healing che earch. Boycoce crystals! IE you own chem, don'c flaunt chem, vhich e~ courages others to get thea. the NFS know Ehat you don'c vant thes to crystal nining peraits. Let people know chat cryscals belong to the sarchl NSCIOUS THROUGH S ¢ our actine be our priy o up in October. Kelabit and Penan in the Lim of the very few places that I vould personally .e,mw,_«..,/,,. L pregen. bang River reion vere arrested. On December advocace sending money to. -—-nikal) : 10, tnternational husan rights day, snother v 2 guy havit dore 12" Penan were arrested at blockades on the There will likely be demonstrations in the everything gt g s el near future in support of the Penan. For more ",,,,!! it info contact EF! Rainforest Action, pob 83, Nou in some Penan sectlements there are only Canyon, CA 94516 (415) 376-7329. 1f you've women and children left; all the men have been gor the time, you might check around for the arrested. The spirit of the blockading cribes nearest Malaysian Consulate and pay them a is said to be strong but they obviously can- midnight visit not stand this kind of attack on their vay of TERMINAL BOREDOM? e compter s T claset, exprassioniess eyes: dizzinessi cxanmy sking d4ull, "turaip-like’ personslity chronic sense of loneliness and Lsolacion. Victin often develops propensity to vander away From work place. ~Absentecise and Cardiness common in Advanced cages. Viccia may Caperience irreprecsinie longings Tor human oo otitr o he Greek word for work, "ponos”, has the same root as the Latin "poena”, which means suffering WORK: THE REAL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Asen SINTEGRITY OF GOVERNMENT Hunt Sabotage Once upon a time, bighorn sheep thrived chroughout the mountain and d of the West, muabering about 10,000 in California alone. Buc the shee for early sectlers By 1873, fever than 1200 bighoras were left in California. At that tise, conservation effores forced the Depart— Bent of Pish and Game, (DFG), fo put restrictions on hunting the bighorn experinental Nelson hunt in the East Mojave Desert. During the past five years, 20 eves and young rams have been relocaed to this acea at a cost of 32000 per animal. Overpopulation of the sheep is encouraged by the construction of "guzzlers,” (artifictal vater canks), in the desert. This year, eight huneing permite were dravn out of a pool of 3385 applicants. Each huacer paid 5200 for the chance to "hag a trophy." One permit was auceioned off in addition, that netted $39,000 For the DFG. Also for the second year in a rov, Hunt Sab- oteurs showed up to disrupt the hunt. This took some amount of courage, as last year's hunt sab cesulted in several activists being locked in 4 horse tratler for L1 hours, and one activist hav- 1ng his nose broken by angry hunter This is an facerview with that same activis, Lee Desseaux. Live 114 or Die. Tell us about the Bighorn Hunt. Lee: Well, this vas our second annual Bighorn Sheep sabotage. A few years ago, Nelson Bighorn were de-listed from endangered or rare or some such, (1 forget which), atatus {n California. That has botled down to a DFG sponsored trophy hunt the Last two Deceabers in the East Nofave Desert. In 187 around 20 EFlers and animal rights activists and twice that many this last December, all ca cogether and collaborated to ruin some hunters' eDier Wmy? ...Die: There's been some violence? Lee: A lot of us feel that Lt is ecological lun- iy acy to be hunting antnals vho's overall numbers £ % stand at 2300 stacewvide, hence Earch Firsc! involve RLeRCa s i s nenc, “Thare are oiher davicommental ressons wuch e P ey the importance of the rols play in herd dynamics male kinda thing, There's also the antaal rights soctal thing about fucking up activities that exploit animals for fun and ego-gratification. Being involved in both movements, 1t's been a jazz to see EFlers and a inal rights activists boogying around the desert cogecher. My nose was broken felony charge Dic: What's be Lee: Boch years all Tn spite of our eff (LA Tiaes, S.F. B etc. atc.) Perhaps Broup of us have Dic: The DFG and the hunters claia that the dol- Fs from the hunt benefit the sheep and that huat- sabbing is hurting that scene? Yeah, yeah, it's a husan-cencered wildlife Banagement system that vorks on a certain level and Lc's the old argument that hunters everywhere use. Froa a deep scological perspective, ic's bullshic. with more radical a sinning Jan. '89, legal fn Caltfornta the future, I'd like to ely taprisoned in a horse trailer. ‘and eventually ve vere Jailed on Batned? What's 1n the future 1 the hunters bagsed thetr sheep, orts. We got gobs of media, ay Guardian, Associated Press, most iaporcancly the motley ined some good experience. For Lots of experimentation (be- proa 1t'd be hot to e a grea- o ‘nuaber of people willing co buse up huncs. The relocated a ot of sheep and that's Jorge (and small) memmals of the western scates are ve're glad sbout that, chat's What they | on'the run- there are trophy hunts of big horns, hould be doing! They've built water guzzlers which is s temporary band-aid kind of thing, they've done nothing about, and appear to have no incerest or backbone in kicking the cows/ORVs/ainers out of big- horn habicac, which historically included large por- tlons of the stace. Neither are they even hinking of restoring native predators to the vildlands of California. It's somewhat of a systery chat a gov- ernment agency can be 50 chick, though it's not really, Lc's just business as usual, in this case narrow-ainded business that caters to trophy hunt- er's interests. black bears, lions, varaine hunting; al te: Whac can act Lee: 35" the' o ing by running up veights and yeling Right now? Ve .1 BUGGERI"™ and seuff Send aoney 1f they -Die: How does one save sheep? Lee: Actually, it cakes more than one. The cech- Aique is siaple but very energetic. It basically involves monitoring the hunters and their movements, £ollowing then and blowing air horns vhen chey've spotted cheir sheep, and thereby ruining their sho...and_then running up and down steep moun~ tatns when they (the huscers) chase you. vacations ding an iaterview with Dave Foreman in the 20th an- niversary issue of the Whole Earth Review that two things occurred to Be. First of all how Dave has ach- feved stardon and is now in lots of magazines but also included in the symposia of "Great Minds" in such large circulation publications: the more EFi--supposedly a diverse group with oo leaders--confronts the in- dustrial juggernaut, the louder is one person's voice and the finer his imperial clothes will appear to those outside the group. And T vondered—how do the rest of us gain any voice, how does EF! expand beyond this one point of view, the Big Man's booning voice? How can diversity become a reality and not a rationalization for Dave o do anything he likes with the sroup? T started to have my doubts last summer at the Round River Rendez- vous when T realized that on all macters, large and seall, Dave was to have his way. An emperor, real- 1yl It vas also then that I no- ticed how his hunger for pover and control contatns the classio fasci- nation with shit, associated with the anal stage of development i psychoanalysis, and which has beea characteristic of capitalism since the origins of Protestantism, the money econony and the work ethic. Norman 0. Brown, in his book Li Against Death, has dravn a very believable picture of this rela- clonship between shit, "filthy lucre" (money) and pover over o- thers (including the world and nature). Dave, despite all the razzmatazz about spontaneity, equality and wilderness, seems to fit this profile. (It shouldn't be entirely sur- prising to us. The wilderness defender, 1ike the zen adept, may leve deep ecological self-reali- zation orenlightenment. The prox- imity to the ideal becomes the last resistance to crossing over to authentic understanding, be it buddhahood or real tribal divers: iy Foreman said in the Whole Earth Review that he thought "the shit will Bit the fan in the next 20 years. And that suddenly reminded me of last sumer's RRR. The Washington folks had done to great lengths to provide ecologically sound, locally made privies for our gathering. They used a kind of ash and wood chip mixture, T think, to deal with the real, not metaphorical, shit of wild- rness warriors. The privies were a great idea, and given that we weren't in a pristine wilderness but an al- ready logged cow pasture, and they were approved by the local health department-and the USFS, everybody should have been satisfied with them. And as is our policy, the say in this matter should have rested with the Rendezvous committee, if we are s egalitarian and decentralized as we clain. But_then Dave said no; the Emer- or declared that the organizers must provide petrochenical potties (hich would have to be trucked 4n and out and then their chemo-shit mixture either sprayed on some rural dumping ground or run through some industri- {zed treatment plant back in Mega- lopolis). People dida't Like te 1dea, and balked, which was when Foreman announced that 1f there were no_chemopotties, he would stay home. Well, 1f anyone else had made such an ultinatu, ve would have called the person on it, But what is an RRR without Chairmen Dave, after all? So the organizers relented and Dave 8Ot to sit on his throne in the style o vhich he 1s accustomed. I liked people's responses—-the boycott of those fiberglass space stations,chose Lutheran shrines to civilized man. The handmade posters that proliferated were also great. And even when Dave offered to pay the cost, it didn't set well--I realized v aren't all equals on this bus. Maybe the anarchists have a point, after all. Because I also remesber the previous year's hullabaloo a- round Alien-Nation, how A-N became the focus, conveniently, of diatribes against anarchisn. Does anyone else revesbe? Nancy Morton's argiment that anarchy could never work in real 1ife, how 1€ EF! had been anarchist, we would never have gotten porta- potties {nto the Grand Canyon? For Nancy, too, the reassuring presence of industrial chemopotties vas not a simple necessity based on a spec- ific context, a logistical question, but_the divid: the cutting edge between anarchy (ot chaos) and the organized world. Anarchy--the abolition of organized power and the /sten of power—would result if the regine of shitting that is the para- dign for the megalopolitan behemoth were to be challenged. And the aut- onomy of other tribal folks must ev- en be overrun by the port. if this pseudo-cleanlin held. Weird We're not such hot shit, then, are we? The no-comproaise gang caved in €0 the Eaperor's tantrum. For the rest of us, the prospect of an EF! without Dave, or the Earth without EF!, is apparently as terrifying as an RRR without plastic toilets is for the Pharach himself. If the Protestant ethic and spirit of cap- italism, for all its christian fast- 1diousness and compulsive cleanli- ness, 1s turning the world into a toxic shit pile (the image of a san- itized shopping mall juxcaposed with the toxic dump that must inevitably accoupany 1t cones to mind), what is Forenan's compulsion to control = ality and keep all shit in its place doing to EF1? Just uondering, Lee Muir Deep Woods, Turtle Island ren grizzlies, going on from say nothing of slob hucing and 1 good clean sport, of course. civiscs do now to help? 11, hunting season is mostly say people can start practic- ind down stairs with heavy things Like, "UP YOURS, YOU Lke that. Also, people can Letters: Letters to TLive Wild- are alvays encouraged and should be sent neatly printed or typed. All letters will be printed with author's initials only unless requested other-| wise. Letters will be edited only if they are excessively long or boring--not for political content. Edited letters will be roted an' complete copies made available on request. Sending letters or articles typed into 95m col- ums (which will be reduced later to 15%) will save us the tedi- un of any more extra typing. Thanks! WITH ENOUGH TOOTH BRUSHES. INTRO: On Decesber 24, 233,000 gallons of o1l was spilled into the ocean just outside of Gray's Harbor on the southern Washington coast. The incident occured during a heavy storn (20' swells) after a tug-to-barge tow cable snapped. In the process of regaining conerol of the barge (the "Nestucca"), the cug-boat opgrated by Sause Bros. Ocean Towing ramed the barge, ripping a 7' gash in its side. Ostensibly to protect the fragile Gray's Harbor ecosystem, the leaking barge was toved out €0 sea and later the spill vas finally brought under control. Almost tmmediately, oil-soaked seabirds began washing up along the shores and a sive propaganda campaign was launthed to Fouse-up volunteers to help clean the birds. Iniially, the spill was "officially deter- mined" to be 70,000 gallons and, sccording o Coast Guard officials, vas expected to dissipate "harmlessly" at sea. 200 birds were dead and tens of miles of beach had been fouled within a couple of days and bird res- cuers estimated that clean-up operations might have to continue for a couple weeks. In the early media accounts, as well as all succes- sive coverage, Sause Bros. was consistently quoted as accepting "full responsibility" for the fncident. Typically, this vas never de- fined--but 1f 1t sounds good in the media, why bother? Almost a veek later: Gee, looks like someone goofed. The actual size of the spill is now known €0 be much bigger than 70,000 DARE TO DREAM T 0 DEANREASONAR, £ D THE “IMPOssig, ¢- gallons and dead birds nusl © in the high hun- dreds. The oil slick, pushed by ocean cur- rents and winds has now fouled pristine wild- erness beaches on the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Olympic National Park. Against usual procedure, helicopters and mo- torized vehicles are being used in these areas ©0 aid clean-up effores. Volunteers are be- ing actively sought as are donations of toothbrushes, rags and dishwashing liquid to clean the birds. (I wonder: why volunteers and donations if Sause Bros. is accepting "full responsibility"? Should I send them a bALL for my toochbrush?) A "comand center has been set up in the Ocean Shores, WA Con- vention Center. Dozens to hundreds of volun- teers (depending on the day) work here clean- ing birds and out on the beaches gathering bothlive and dead animals. Live birds are to che Center where spot. Most oiled birds are sea-diving spec which becone oil-coated when feeding bel surface. They flounder helplessly in the and are vashed to shore. There is volunceer meeting in Bellingham tonighe. I'LL go. The meecing is depressing. 60 or et Europe. Now, wih technoloay g ety it i v e e the S Thers s o bt o lrts, o i, ey and fow, eadiog cilston. No ongr o e oree e e il fo o iy v hology s We gt the mpitid o0d hot ety g 1 e mochn vt Furt Fow akiren wouid s "o anioned” hond Wi ik o hycogerated vetse o wih 3 fer1) Wit s machn procen. e sed oo s Condtionad 0 food tht he s echmcaty et The Caming oftheNew Ordr of Realty The o Popl,the Kiva Pl s the o tey hd bon e o The ivader 3 st and deah wat e pora 0 g0t Wit Mountar bans 1 h E3t. 1 he e ters f e il R, woe he Bookanesof e ot b 10 s the e of the Erpie) Tesdr i he st days The Crinies werecatared B Thay ke h o 4 B e it Gois a5 o . ey pertted o s o, Ot ot N, ad s e e o s e A o e i Gl v oy et which ks el o s ekt e OF clony onthe S Franacn Grarus st wesk. S1ihe goup oforeivors b, e hkoren e . Alovg it he beer e e o h s of miionof haWe. o ekt sttt b S P e Wittt (o o et bre o Y, A ot than cow's i) o sl 100 oo 0 P —— st i o o om0 sy of st e ot ey for e o ron ot oo oo e Y PUEHION S i o e St e S o pok o s vt rcoere Tey o e - fem i o et he Athebiscan e hd rt ¥ bren xtrranated. Th icers e u 3 wisoe 2 Adutaio de bxtowd from he Menican nd The S bpen th deeticton f th Wt s bering 10k th beers echne thy . —_— — alvays be external to us. At worst it is a pseudo-consciousness, a form of es- capism, that helps make our flattened lives more bearable without having to confront the source of that impoverishment. But the consumption of culture is just that-- another form of consumerisa. Attempts at beautifying the machine culture by hang- ing beads, feathers and plastic Buddhas (or crosses) on it only expose its ugliness all the more. We can no more become Gitksan than we can become Hopi or Hindu. Though it's easier to simply step into a read-made project or imitate one, the basis for that effore—-history, land, experiences and the like--is for us rooted elsewhere. Cer- tainly much can be learned through communi- cation with people who still possess some of the "old ways", but the challenge ahead of us is to find the courage to dream, inciate and realize our own projects, our own communities. Working with virtually nothing, ve will have to create an entirely new reality, all our own, animated by our own deepest dreans, needs and desires. As we begin this effort we can come to an auareness of solidarity with others- Wet'suvet'en, Penan, wolves, rainforest, whales--uho fight a common eneay and see that our struggles are also theirs. To this extent ve are not "helping" other people or species (a patronizing and in- herently authoricarian viewpoint), but "WE'RE GOING TO STOP ALL ACTIVITY, standing alonside them in the fight against ALL LOGGING AND MINING ON THE the wicked machine civilization, the global TERRITORY. " Leviathan. e all live in occupled ter- ricory and only in the Liberaced Zones, the land and spirit behind the blockades, can genuine freedom, wilderness and wild- ness flourish. Power never abdicates. Colonial Courts n the Supreme Cour of British Tolumbia (BTORE T voNoURARLE TN G JuSTICE) ATE ORAL isTORY vs EUROPEAN WISTORY i, Gertie keeps us from recognizing its horrendous character. We've murdered our sensory and emotional faculties, becone numb, in exchange for 4 place’ in the syste * To the Girksan Wet' On one trip here, some elders inquired a5 co why people were lining up at one spot. Food bank, they were told. When it was explained, the Indians, being char- wil1 not go against the Colonial Government and "retura” Gitksan Wet'suvet'en territory. ‘The Indians on-Indian Office of the Gitksan Wet'suwet'en Chiefs PoB 229 Hazelton, B.C. VOJ 110 other native peoples. terns such as "pover”, ority” and "property” bear little re: emblance to the modern policical state's codified interpretation of these words. Viewing these people through the smog- clouded lenses of industrial civili- zation inevitably leads to gross mis- interpretation. This 1s precisely what the G are struggling to overcome in the Courts and why there can never be any real justice there. Conflict of interesc? Not really. The interests of Capital and the interests Of the State have never been in conflice! Like Tribal Councils in the U.S., these were set up by the Colonial government 50 that they would have an "official"— i.e., Western-style, hierarchical--body €0 deal with on Indian matters. Unlike most U.S. Tribes, the Gitksan Wet'suwet'- en subverted the Provincial intention by declaring the Council totally sub- servient co the Heriditary Chiefs, MORE PLUNDER ON GU INDIAN TERRITORY ALCAN ("ALCOA" in the U.S.) currently operates an aluninun smelter at Kitimat, B.C. Their sole reason for this location is the cheap power obtained from their dam on the Chaco River. This entire watershed was_essentially given to ALCAN so they could produce their own pover, thus cut- acteriscically generous, offered to bring oun a truck-load of salmon to share. ‘They should not go hungry, we have plenty Predictably, the state and food bank would have no part of it. For those of us actively seeking some sort of radically different vay to live Some genuine communicy to be part of, it's often tencing to romanticize what other people appear to have, to imagine going there to become "one of them.” Many, in fact, have tried this. Witness all the devotion to commodified, packaged versions of Native American culture (a big-money industry these davs!), Buddnism o Hinduisn. But for us. children of Western Industrial Civilization, this is false activity, a ization of a way of life that will fetts ting down their cost. Talk about a sub- sidy! They now want to build a second dan, called the Kemano Completion, in order €0 reduce costs further by selling the pouer elsewhere--like the U.S., for example. The recently approved Free Trade (read: Plunder) agreement betueen the governments of the U.S. and Kanada will expedite this goal. If built, the dam will reduce cur- rent river flow to 12 of its current vol- une, crippling the salmon runs. The GH plan to £ight this monscrosity--which could begin.goon. We'll keep you posted in these pal Notet ALCAN has similar schemes hatching in the Amazon as well. = E ADDRESS OF THE GITKSAN AND WET'SUWET'EN HEREDITARY 'S TO CHIEF JUSTICE MCEACHERN OF THE SURPEME COURT Cx BRITISH COLUMBIA. My name is Gisday ¥a. T am a Wet'suwet'en Chief and a plaintiff in this case. My House owns territory in the Morice River and Oven Lake area, Each Wet'suvet'en plain- ©if£'s House owns similar territories. Together they own and govern the Wet'suet'en errifory. As an example, the land on which this courthouse stands is owned by the uvet'en Chief, Gyolugyct, in Kyas Yax, also known as Chief Woos' Housa. My name is Delgam Uukw. I an a Gitksan Chief and a plain- elef in chis case. * My House owns territories in the Up- Each Gitksan plaintift's House owns ‘Together, the Gitksan and Wet'suvet' Chiefs own and govern the 23,000 square miles of Gitk- in and Wet'suvet'an cerritory. For us, the ownership of territory is a marriage of the Chief and the land. Each Chief has an ancestor who en- cknowledged the life of the land. From s come pover. The land, the plants, the an- inals and the people all have spirit--they all must be shown respect. That is the basis of our law. The Chief is responsible for ensuring that all the pecple in his House respect the spirit in the land and in all 1iving things. Jhen a Chief directs his House properly and the laws are followed, then that original power can be Fecreated. That is the source of the Chief's authority. That authority is what gives the 54 plaintiff Chiefs tne right to bring this action of behalf of their House mem- bers--all Gitksan and Wet'suvet'en people. That authority is what makes the Ciiiefs the real experts in this case. My power is carried in my Nouse's histories, songs, dan- cas'and crests. It ls recreated ac the feast when the histories are told, the songs and dances parformed and the crests displayed. 'With the wealth that cones from re pectful use of the territory, the House feeds the name of She Chief in the feast hall. In this way, the law, the Chief, the territory and the feast become one. The unity of th-Chief's authority and his House's ownership of its Rerritory are witnassed and thus affirmed by the other Chiefs at the feast. By following the law, the power flows from the land to the people through the Chief; by using the wealth of the ter- Fitory, the House feasts its Chief so he can properly ful- £411 the law. This cycle has been repeated on my land for thcusands of years. The histories of my House are always being added to. My presence in this courtroom today will ade"to my Houses's power, as it adds to the power of the other Gitksan and Wet'suvet'en Chiefs who will appear here Or who will witness the proceedings. ALl of our rol the words of the chiefs in OF_ 4, 9OBall the histories, century afk TncTuding yours, will be remeAbered in the histories that will be told by'my grandchiidren. Theough the witnessing ised our jurisdiction. A e Europeans 44 not want to know’ Tespect our lawe or our ovnership @ our territories. Toporance and his aiszespect cOMEinves. The former an Uukw Albert Tait, advised the Chiefs not to come This court with their regalis and their crest-blan- Here, he said, the Chis ‘not zeceive the pro- they are vearing the EitTenpect will be coun to this land, its laws e s wich stories; they aia Tegislation sciously bloch take to assert now, have sinile systen, how will you deal own the land? The atcempts