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  Anarchism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Many anarchists are critical of the fl bloc because some blocs have engaged in property destruction against multi-national corporations and have thus gotten a label as "violent" and "adventurists" from media and large-scale liberal organizations.
Green anarchists and anarcho-primitivists are also gaining ground, working in a large amounts of radical environmental campaigns.
Anarchists believe that if they were to support a war they would be strengthening the state — indeed, Peter Kropotkin was alienated from other anarchists when he expressed support for the British in World War I.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Anarchist   (8404 words)

  
 Sacred Lands - The Boiling Frog
As anarchists, we are not interested in forming a new framework or structure to live under or within, however "unobtrusive" or "ethical" it claims to be.
From primitivists, green anarchists are informed with a critical and provocative look at the origins of civilization, so as to understand what this mess is and how we got here, to help inform a change in direction.
Deep ecology, despite its misanthropic tendencies, informs the green anarchist perspective with an understanding that the well-being and flourishing of all life is linked to the awareness of the inherent worth and intrinsic value of the non-human world independent of use value.
www.sacredlands.org /green_anarchy.htm   (5476 words)

  
 Green anarchism - OpenWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Green anarchism is system-opposed anarchism suggesting that hierarchies in general and the ecological unbalance, uneconomic growth, economism, authority-power, international injustice, war, racism and centralism of today are a direct result of a cruel industrialistic rule of civilization.
Green anarchists practise an underground resistance based on autonomous direct actions, uniting different system-critics such as non-violent action, eco-activism, queer activism, animal rights acitivism, anti-capitalism and anti-elitism.
Green anarchism is often associated with primitivism or the confused with the less extreme eco-anarchism (which advocates small-scale eco-villages).
www.infoshop.org /wiki/index.php/Green_anarchism   (273 words)

  
 Alternative Press Review
This primer is not meant to be the "defining principles" for a green anarchist "movement", nor an anti-civilization manifesto.
Green anarchists tend to view civilization as the logic, institutions, and physical apparatus of domestication, control, and domination.
As anarchists, we are fundamentally opposed to government, and likewise, any sort of collaboration or mediation with the state (or any institution of hierarchy and control).
www.altpr.org /print.php?sid=228   (5475 words)

  
 Green_anarchism
Green anarchists compose a diverse and open movement of people who take influences from a variety of different places.
Green anarchists can be described as anti-civilization anarchists and sometimes anarcho-primitivists, though not all green anarchists and anti-civilization anarchists are primitivists.
Green technology is often rejected because it simply keeps the same exploitative system and only changes it on the surface to make it seem environmentally friendly despite the constant level of human and natural exploitation.
www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Green_anarchism   (444 words)

  
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Anarchists have been at the forefront of ecological thinking and the green movement for decades.
Murray Bookchin in particular has placed anarchist ideas at the centre of green debate, emphasising the *social* nature of the ecological problems we face and arguing that humanity's domination of nature is the result of domination *within* humanity itself.
Since feminism, ecology, and peace are key issues of the Green movement, anarchists believe that Greens are implicitly committed to anarchism, whether they realise it or not, and hence that they should adopt anarchist principles of direct political action rather than getting bogged down in trying to elect people to state offices.
www.spunk.org /library/intro/faq/sp001626.txt   (6409 words)

  
 Militant Spasm
Their emphasis (as Steve Booth puts it in his Into the 1990's with Green Anarchist) on "revolutionary action over theory" is a naïve evasion of responsibility, since every action presumes some theoretical premise, however crude or inchoate.
Radical greens, anarchist or otherwise, need to develop a constructive politics of solidarity, jus tice and renewal that moves beyond one-dimensional opposition to and unin telligible confrontation with mass soci ety.
Green Anarchists need to re-examine their ideas closely, and continually, not only in the light of theory but in the light of reality.
www.stewarthomesociety.org /ga/spasm.htm   (1346 words)

  
 ..:.:.:: brisbane.anarchy.org.au ::.:.:..
Green anarchism is system-opposed anarchism suggesting that hierarchies in general and the ecological unbalance, economism, authority-power, international injustice, war, racism and centralism of today are a direct result of a cruel industrialistic rule of civilization.
Green anarchists practise an underground resistance based on autonomous direct actions, uniting different system-critics such as non-violent action, ecoactivism, queeractivism, animal rights acitivism, anti-capitalism and anti-elitism.
Green anarchism is often confused with primitivism or the less extreme eco-anarchism which advocates small-scale eco-villages.
members.optusnet.com.au /~kkaoss/green.html   (337 words)

  
 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Green anarchism
Green anarchism' is an outgrowth of the environmentalist movement which combines environmentalism with anarchism.
Green anarchists often believe that the bigotry, social injustices, and exploitation of today are a direct result of the sort of culture we have, both politically and environmentally.
However, green anarchy tends to be more distinctly focused on relatively less radical changes to the fundamental physical structure of society.
www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Green_anarchism   (452 words)

  
 Summarizing Parecon For purposes of exploration and debate with Primitivists  By Michael Albert
A critique of industrialism is a natural extension of the anarchist critique of the state, because industrialism is inherently imperialistic, genocidal, ecocidal, and patriarchal.
Because as anarchists we seek no means to impose a “sustainable” number on the world’s populations, we choose to disseminate understanding and awareness of the problem for anti-authoritarian and autonomous action to be based upon.
Anarchist solidarity with Native peoples must not resemble, in any shape or form, the “solidarity” of “New-Age” cultural appropriationists - whose idea of “solidarity” with Natives really consists of stealing their traditions and exploiting them for personal gain and profits.
www.zmag.org /summprim.htm   (3842 words)

  
 GAIA - The Green Anarchist International Associaton - Eco-Anarchist International - Green Grass Confederation - Green ...
In 1984 at the Anarchist Gathering in Venice, the Nordic green anarchist delegation participated in the eco-anarchist discussions with Murray Bookchin and several other green activists, and presented interesting points of view.
The eco-anarchist section continued to work both within the Anarchist International and the green networks world wide in the 1980-90s and later, also functioning as a junction between the anarchist and the green movement in general.
GAIA is an abbreviation for the Green Anarchist International Association, but also the Greek word for the Latin term Tellus, the name of the planet Earth used in astronomy.
www.anarchy.no /green.html   (3661 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Osama bin-greenie
Like al-Qaida, these green terrorists work in small cells, strike in the dark of night, and wreak havoc on what they believe to be unholy.
Green terrorism is not limited to the eco-freaks who call themselves green anarchists.
Rather than comply with the law, and follow the judge's ruling, green pressure, inside and outside of government, is now trying to change the clear meaning of the 1989 law.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28430   (686 words)

  
 Anarchy Watch
There are many different ideas on ending ecological destruction and creating a world that is not based on hierarchy.While many debates rage within anarchists circles about the nature of ecological destruction and ways to combat it, important gains have been made in understanding the connections between human, animal and ecological oppression.
According To John Filiss Primitivism is "the pursuit of ways of life running counter to the development of technology, its alienating antecedents, and the ensemble of changes wrought by both." Many primitivists believe that technology, the division of labor, civilization and language create hierarchy, exploitation and environmental destruction.
While Many Anarchists with ecological perspectives may not consider themselves Primitivists, they do provide persuasive arguments that the scale of industrial capitalism is highly damaging to the environment and helps to fuel authoritarian power structures.
www.zmag.org /Awatch/green_anarchy.htm   (245 words)

  
 ..:.:.:: brisbane.anarchy.org.au ::.:.:..
However, in anarchist philosophies, anarchy means an "anarchist society", that is, a society where individuals are free from coercion.
Anarchist theories have a fundamental critique of government, a vision of a society without government, and a proposed method of reaching such a society.
Green anarchists accept some restrictions on individual freedom as a means of preserving natural capital (for example, farmland and water) and often promote limited forms of social ecology.
members.optusnet.com.au /~kkaoss/types.html   (1127 words)

  
 anarchy - G@   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Whereas most anarchists view the State and capitalism as the institutions from which our enslavement stems, green anarchists look deeper and see the roots of all institutions of domination (the State, capitalism, patriarchy, technology, industry, science, religion, etc.) stemming from civilization and a severe ecological unbalance.
We are "green" because we recognize civilization is anti-nature (against the natural world, and against human nature), and therefore any critique and praxis regarding anarchy and the dissolution of civilization is directly related with the environment, ecology and sustainability, and the "reclamation" of the wild.
Green anarchy and anarcho-primitivism are often used synonymously, however not all green anarchists are anarcho-primitivists.
www.greenanarchy.info /anarchy.php   (2396 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Osama bin-greenie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
They are now taking another name – "Green Anarchists" – and they are recruiting.
In July and August, they are conducting the "Green Anarchists Tour – 2002," a roving road show of punk-rockers and eco-freaks, spewing their anti-civilization venom from coast to coast.
Green anarchists – terrorists, to be more precise – consider the destruction they commit to be non-violent, since they target property, not people.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28430   (675 words)

  
 Insurgent Desire - A Dialog on Primitivism
But it is also true that green anarchists may actually hold onto some of the same basic institutions.
Green Anarchist (U.K.) is very clearly primitivist, rejecting civilization and its basis, agriculture (domestication).
Green anarchism sounds good, it's the coming thing, but it may be too vague or flabby.
www.insurgentdesire.org.uk /dialog.htm   (2989 words)

  
 Fresh Phlegm
I know Anarchists approve, but the day an Anarchist is taken seriously is the day the NRA decides all guns are evil and I willingly dance The Hustle in a white polyester jumpsuit.
Anarchists are petty terrorists who hide behind a nihilistic political dementia that in comparison makes Pat Buchanan's vision of America seem a shade to the left of Communism.
As I was watching footage of anarchists ripping apart an electronics store and running off with all they could carry (figurative loaves of bread to feed their starving families), how I wished the store owner would have pulled out a rifle and blown a few heads off.
www.oldpunks.com /oldpunks4-5.html   (16323 words)

  
 They're Green, They're Anarchists and They're Coming to Your Town
WASHINGTON - Participants in the 2002 Green Anarchy Tour vow to "destroy civilization on stolen lands," and with a secret calendar of dates and locations, they could be headed next to a town near you.
Critics say the anarchists in question are nothing more than criminals who should be treated no differently than other terrorists threatening the country.
Just this spring, an article written by Kaczynski from his jail cell was published by Green Anarchy, a radical environmental newsletter that appears to be connected with the tour.
www.cdfe.org /fox_green_anarchy.htm   (831 words)

  
 Swamp Fever
The Neoists are an amalgam of aesthetic vangardism and ultra-leftish swagger; the Green Anarchists are influenced by a mix of eco-anarchism and U.S. anti-authoritarian and European ultra-left politics.
Green Anarchists need to reexamine their ideas closely, and continually, not only in the light of theory but in the light of reality.
If green anarchists hope to influence even conscious minorities already committed to social change, let alone the large majority necessary to make significant change, they are going to have to cultivate tolerance, humility, patience, an ability to speak reasonably to people with whom they disagree and to cooperate on common projects with them.
www.insurgentdesire.org.uk /swampfever.htm   (11402 words)

  
 Anarchism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Anarchists also engage in building parallel structures and organizations, such as Food Not Bombs, radical labor unions, infoshop and radical social centers, new sets of schooling systems, media in various forms, organizing around housing and land issues, and work toward accountability with police and other institutions through such tools as consensus decision-making.
This is in line with the general anarchist concept of creating "dual-power", which is the idea of creating the structures for a new anti-authoritarian society in the shell of the old, hierarchal one.
From William Godwin's utilitarian anarchism to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's mutualism, to Max Stirner's egoism, to Benjamin Tucker's radical individualism, to Peter Kropotkin's anarchist communism, the roots of anarchist thought in modern political philosophy are varied, with many different views of what a society without government should be like.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Anarchism   (8425 words)

  
 Tennessee Independent Media Center: feature/4375   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Subsequently, we have invited Green speakers to the Libertarian Party of TN annual convention in April, and they have agreed to participate.
Many greens, probably most, are anarchists at heart who want to mess with the rigging of our elections/economy/media/government by the corprate Ds and Rs via their own political party.
Many greens also do a lot of messing on their own or with other groups which are not political parties.
www.tnimc.org /feature/display/4375/index.php   (2395 words)

  
 Organise! - Issue 45 - Letters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Obviously there is a difference between Green Anarchist and the liberal/humanist/pacifist camp but JM muddied the waters by citing Woodcock, whose arguments typify the views of that camp.
We, Turkish and Kurdish anarchists who live in Britain, first would like to express very briefly some of the weaknesses such as lack of co-ordination, communication and solidarity that we see in the British anarchist movement which either we are part of or trying to take part in.
We think that the British anarchist movement is at the moment in a situation in which it is disorganised and atomised, and it has no aims nation-wide.
flag.blackened.net /af/org/issue45/letters.html   (2776 words)

  
 Green Anarchy
The Green Anarchy web site is home to some of the most radical anti-civilization anarchist writing -- articles, news, editorials, reviews, and more -- available anywhere.
The Actions pages contain summaries of anarchist, anti-capitalist, indigenous and campesino, earth, and animal liberation struggles from throughout the world.
Click the GREEN ANARCHY text at the top of any page to return here.
www.greenanarchy.org   (256 words)

  
 CAKEHEAD WATSON DOES NOT EXIST
Since Watson reiterates a number of Green Anarchist slurs already reprinted and responded to in The Green Apocalypse, it would be advisable for anyone commenting on ‘Swamp Fever’ to read the pamphlet.
It should be stressed that Watson’s use of the capitalised plural term ‘Green Anarchists’ can be explained as a typo, or as a deliberate attempt to ensnare careless readers.
Likewise, from material reprinted in The Green Apocalypse, it is clear that the public line of the current editors of Green Anarchist is that Hunt held left-wing views prior to the Gulf War, before inexplicably turning fascist overnight.
www.stewarthomesociety.org /ga/shonwat.htm   (1102 words)

  
 portland imc - 2002.05.31 - "Green Anarchists" sabotage IMC
Their messianic claim to be the only "True Revolutionaries", with a rhetoric steeped in mystical apocalyptic references, is particularly offensive and reminiscent of Nazi reactionary conservative calls for a return to pagan roots.
A couple of the people now organizing under this "Green Anarchist" rubric and editing their newspaper are Brits, as evidenced by their use of such terms as "whilst", etc.
In America, Saxon Wood started up 'Green Anarchy'newspaper based in Eugene, but was ousted from this early in 2002, and this paper now seems to be pushing a worthless Primitivist / misanthropist population reduction line, which needs to be repudiated.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/05/11735.shtml   (4976 words)

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