#3: Luddites and Lockdowns and Lugals Oh My!
:Green Anarchism, report from the Tar Sands Blockade, Fredy Perlman review
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Summary
A short radio play about the Luddites kicks off our theme segment for this episode of the Ex-Worker, launching us into an exploration of the vibrant history and ideology of Green Anarchism. Alanis and Clara also bring us word from an activist fresh off the Tar Sands Blockade, a review of Fredy Perlman's seminal book Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!, and more international news than you can shake a stick at.{June 2, 2013}
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Notes and Links
Much inspiration from this episode was drawn from Do or Die: Voices of the Ecological resistance, a journal published in England at the height of Earth First! The Luddites War on Industry and Down with the Empire, Up with the spring!, provided material that we adapted for the theme segment, and the latter should be required reading for anyone interested in waging war on the techno-industrial nightmare.
For a thorough rundown of the Green Scare, check out the article Green Scared? Preliminary Lessons of the Green Scare from Rolling Thunder Issue #5.
Against Technology from Insurrection Magazine #5, and documents from the insurrectional anti-cruise missle base struggle in Comiso.
More thoughts about climate change and green capitalism.
It’s difficult to talk about contemporary green anarchist thought without giving lip service to author and activist Derrick Jensen, albeit with some huge reservations. Jensen is now largely discredited among anarchists for spearheading the authoritarian organization Deep Green Resistance, collaborating with law enforcement, and a recent scandal around DGR’s transphobic positions. That said, his books remain influential in eco-circles, exploring the interconnectedness of racism, ecological devastation, domestic violence and the necessity of resistance to industrial capitalism from a first-person narrative position.
From our conversation with Sycamore about the Tar Sands Blockade: Some additional information about the process of tar sands oil extraction. A website is under construction to help coordinate funds and solidarity for those arrested in the Blockade who are facing years of jail time.
June 11th is the international day of solidarity with Marie Mason, Eric McDavid, and long-term anarchist prisoners.
Other upcoming events: Black Mesa Indigenous Support Collective gathering, Against the Prison System Festival in Helsinki, Finland, Anarchist Book Fair in Barcelona, Spain. We discovered post-production that the Swedish Anarchist Book Far has been cancelled last minute.
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Addresses for political prisoners with upcoming birthdays:
Ramón Labañino Salazar (June 9)
Luís Medina III #58734–004
FCI Jesup
2680 301 South
Jesup, GA 31599
Please address outside envelope to Luís Medina, inside card to Ramón Salazar.Jared Chase (June 12)
Jared Chase 2012–0519003
Cook County Department of Correction
PO Box 089002
Chicago, IL 60608Sekou Odinga (June 14)
Sekou Odinga 09-A–3775
Clinton Correctional Facility
PO Box 2001
Dannemora, NY 12929–2000 Music for the Ex-Worker provided by Underground Reverie