Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. #39, Winter '94.
ALTERNATIVE MEDIA REVIEW
-includes anarchist press review, alternative press books, etc.
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Anarchist press review
Compiled by Jason McQuinn
As always, we're happy to exchange with other periodicals (of 8
pages or more - or 4 pages if tabloid size). I try to list all the
anarchist publications that we receive in a timely way, but
please be aware that there are times when this is impossible due
to time and space limitations. Also keep in mind that the Anarchy
issue we send for exchanges will be the one your publication is
reviewed in, so please be patient. Please note that we no longer
exchange with non-English-language publications that are not
anarchist in orientation. (And for those concerned about also
getting exchange copies of Anarchy's sister magazine, Alternative
Press Review, you need not send us two copies of your
publication.)
FIFTH ESTATE #343/Fall-Winter '93 (4632 Second Ave., Detroit,
MI. 48201) is a 32-page anti-civilization, anti-tech,
anarcho-primi- tivist tabloid, consistently publishing some of
the most intelligent writing in the radical milieu. This issue
features an important analysis of "The PLO/Israeli treaty:
Another defeat for the Palestinians" by George Bradford & E.B.
Maple, Rob Riled's "Bosnia: End of the state or state of the
end?" (on the rise of "warlordism" during the break-up of
mega-states) and a response by Eddie Sabot titled "Putting "fact"
before poetry: a response." Also included is an update on the
"McLibel 2" (being sued for spreading the truth about McDonalds),
"U.S. gunmen to leave Somalia?" and coverage of the recent split
in the Love & Rage network. FE is always highly recommended, and
this issue is even livelier than many. Single copies are $1.50;
subscriptions are quite cheap at $6.00/4 issues.
HERE AND NOW #14/1993 (c/o Transmission Gallery, 28 King Street,
Glasgow G1 5QP, Scotland; or POB 109 Leeds, West Yorkshire LS5
3AA, England) is at long last another impressive 64-page issue of
this "Magazine of Radical Ideas," featuring a number of
interesting and useful articles from Karl Baxter's "What future
for the rave," and Arch Stanton's "The political economy of
Ecstasy" (the drug, that is), to Tom Jennings' "The hidden
injuries of theory," and Douglas Spencer's "Redefining the
radical: PC as media scare and translation." This journal, with
its emphasis on the critique of managerialism, professionalism
and bureaucratic ideologies, is almost always a refreshing change
from the heavy-handed, and usually anachronistic, analyses of the
PC left including left-anarchists. It remains one of the more
important magazines publishing in the radical milieu. Single
copies are =9C1.20; subscriptions are =9C3/3 issues.
NOT BORED #22/Aug.'93 (POB 3421 Wayland Square, Providence, RI.
02906) is a highly individual statement in the form of an
86-page, photocopied situationist-influenced zine=FEback after a
year's absence. This issue includes the publisher's lengthy
ruminations "On the trail of various and sundry legends of
freedom" (searching for traces of the COBRA group in Copenhagen,
visiting Marx's grave in London, d=82tourning posters in the Paris
metro, experiencing the annual Fasnacht in Z=81rich, visiting the
"Pynchon in Berlin" exhibit in a Berlin gallery, and impressions
of St. Petersburg and Moscow), an analysis of German fascism
under the title of "A Jew who chose to stay in Germany," a
translation of a "Tract by Marcel Marin," and a review of "A year
in music," followed by a piece titled "Ice-T & the gang
cease-fire." Always an engaging, often entertaining, read. No
price listed; I'd send a couple bucks for a copy.
R,A,G,E! FOR CHOICE unnumbered/undated (c/o Emma Center, 3451
Bloomington Ave. S., Mpls, MN. 55407) is an unpaginated anarchist
feminist zine produced "for the occasion of kicking Operation
Rescue's butt outta Mpls." The title is an acronym for "Resist,
Agitate, Gyrate, Educate." It includes "Population control is not
choice!" Ms. Abinni's "A complicated tirade on Christianity," a
reprint of Estrogen X's "Not just for the rich and white!" (from
Madworld Survival Guide), and a reprint of Peggy Kornegger's
classic essay "Anarchism: The feminist connection" (from the
Quiet Rumours anthology). Copies are available for $2 + postage.=20
RAVEN #22/April & #23/July '93 (Freedom Press, 84b Whitechapel
High Street, London E1 7QX, England) is a well-produced, 96-page
quarterly journal published as a companion to Freedom: Anarchist
Fortnightly listed below. The theme for issue #22 is "Crime" and
includes Tony Gibson on "Delinquency then and now" (then
referring to his article on the subject in 1963 published in the
London journal Anarchy), John Pilgrim on "Crime, delinquency and
the state," Colin Ward on "Penal reform: The great British
failure," and John Myhill on "Children abusing adults - Rule 43" (a
critical look at the child sexual-abuse hysteria which has now
reached Britain). Issue #23 includes articles covering aspects of
"Spain: Under Franco and after," as well as Donna Farmer's "Emma
Goldman, A voice for women?" Subscriptions are =9C12/year.
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ALSO RECEIVED:
ALARM #7/Summer & #8/Autumn '93 (POB 804, Burlington, VT. 05402)
is a 24-page zine subtitled "Voice of Revolutionary Ecology," and
is no longer billed as "a voice of Northeast Earth First!" The
Summer issue includes Orin Langelle's proposal for a sort of
synthetic deep ecology/social ecology in "Defining practice from
the field: Revolutionary ecology." The Autumn issue includes a
lengthy interview of native Cree concerning "James Bay: The
current situation." Subscriptions are $10/year.
AUFHEBEN #2/Summer '93 (c/o Prior House, Tilbury Place,
Brighton, E. Sussex, BN2 2GY, U.K.) is a promising new 52-page
magazine of "Revolutionary Perspectives," featuring interesting
essays on "Class decomposition in the New World Order: Yugoslavia
unravelled," "Somalia and the `Islamic threat' to global
capital," and "Decadence: The theory of decline or the decline of
theory." Subscriptions are =9C8/3 issues (I.M.O.s only).
BLACK FLAG #203/Autumn '93 (BM Hurricane, London WC1N 3XX,
England) is back again after a two year absence=FEnow as a 32-page
anarcho-syndicalist magazine, still subtitled "For Anarchist
Resistance." This issue includes coverage on Nigeria, a "Security
alert" concerning Gerry Gable of the English magazine
Searchlight, and Albert Meltzer on "Ringing down the Iron
Curtain." Cover price is =9C1, subscriptions are =9C8/4 issues.
BLACK FIST #3/undated (15110 Bellaire, Box 317, Houston, TX.
77083) is a growing, 36-page "anarchist magazine of radical
politics, culture and society." This issue includes "Peace? War!"
(on Operation Rescue's defeat in Dallas), and a couple pieces of
anarchist history - "Anarchism in Mexico 1860-1900" and "Anarchism
in Spain 1860-1900," both by Malacoda X. Cover price is $3;
subscriptions are $6/year (? issues).=20
EASTERN ORTHODOX THREAT #5/undated & Face the Threat #6/undated
(3018 J St.#140, Sacramento, CA. 95816) is the playful 16-page
tabloid successor to Alphabet Threat, Bicycle Threat, Castration
Threat and Deep Threat. Contributions to issue #5 include
entertaining pieces like "Giggle at the state: An absurdist
womanifesto," a humorous centerspread map of "Sacramento: Your
guide to our treasures," and "The summer of grunge." Issue #6
features a piece on "How to fuck shit up for the underground
press: Eight lessons from the late '60s and early '70s for the
aspiring government agent." Send a couple stamps or a donation
for a sample copy.
FREEDOM; ANARCHIST FORTNIGHTLY Vol.54,#16/7 Aug. thru #21/30
Oct.'93 (84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX, England) is
a long-running 8-page tabloid of news and comment. These issues
includes pieces on everything from antifascism, anarchist
organization, and cults, to strike news from Nepal and India, and
an interview with Noam Chomsky. Subscriptions are =9C18.00/year (24
issues).
KICK IT OVER #32/Fall '93 (POB 5811, Stn. A, Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1P2, Canada) is the second issue of this 48-page magazine
published by a new editorial collective. This issue, focussing on
a theme of "Living in the City," includes an account of the (New
Jersey) "North Camden Squats: Using squatting to build community"
by Tom Knoche, an excerpt from Murray Bookchin's important The
Limits of the City on "Libertarian municipalism," a fairly dismal
account of the reformist political party "Ecology Montr=82al: Green
city politics" by Phillip Chee, and a relentlessly reformist call
for "Human ecology & community politics" by the London (England)
Values and Vision group. Sample copies are $3; subscriptions are
$9/year (4 issues).
LOVE AND RAGE/AMOR Y RABIA Vol.4,#3/June-July '93 (Box 3, Prince
St. Station, New York, NY. 10012) is a 20-page left anarchist
news-bimonthly published in English & Spanish. This issue
includes lots of short news pieces in sections titled "Notes of
Revolt," "Anarchist Black Cross," "International News and Notes,"
and "Klan on the run," along with Richard Van Savage's "Squatters
and the roots of Mau Mau: A history of squatting in Kenya," and a
centerspread of reprints on the theme of "Strategy Moving towards
Revolution." Subscriptions are $9.00/year.
PRACTICAL ANARCHY #8/Nov.'93 (Chuck Munson, POB 173, Madison,
WI. 53701-0173) is a 26-page zine now focussing on anarchist
news, reviews and resources. This issue includes a section on
"North American Anarchist News," including coverage of this
year's gatherings, and a reprint of Boog Highberger's "What is
money?" (from an old issue of The Gentle Anarchist). Send $2 for
a sample copy; subscriptions are $7/4 issues.
SIC #1/undated (c/o Folder 19, 30 Silver Street, Reading RG1,
England) is a brand new "zine that intends to look at the
everyday with a mind to change it." This first, promising issue
includes articles on "Fast food: When you're hungry for fun!"
"Thoughts on television," and "Giving the status quo." The cover
price is 90 pence.
SLINGSHOT #49/Summer & #50/Fall '93 (700 Eshleman Hall,
Berkeley, CA. 94720) is a 16-page anti-imperialist, anti-war,
anti-authoritarian student tabloid for the UC-Berkeley area
community. The Summer issue features cover stories on
"Transgender rage against the psychiatric establishment" by
Transgender Nation, and "SLAPP suits: Questions for the movement"
by Michael Lee. The Fall issue includes cover stories on the San
Francisco "Crackdown!" on Food Not Bombs and the homeless, and
many short news pieces, mostly focussed on the S.F. Bay area.
Send $2 for a sample copy.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF INSURANCE! unnumbered/undated (POB 5184,
Bethlehem, PA. 18015) is a hilarious 50-page one-shot zine,
subtitled "Welcome to Corporate Hell," produced by an insurance
industry temp worker bent on exposing the business, in this case
the Firemen's Fund Insurance Company. This type of business
disorientation manual should be mass-distributed by radicals in
every industry! Send $3 cash for a copy.
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OTHER PERIODICALS RECEIVED:
A INFOS #12/May-Aug.'93 (c/o Int. Secr. LAS, POB 61523, 2506 am
Den Haag, Netherlands) is a 6-page photocopied information
bulletin (in tiny print) covering recent events in the
Netherlands. Send a contribution for a sample copy.
ANARCHIST AGE MONTHLY REVIEW #35/Nov.'93 (Mutual Aid, POB 20,
Parkville 3052, Melbourne, Australia) is a 40-page newsletter
consisting of photocopied reprints from other sources, along with
reprints of the Anarchist Age Weekly Review. This issue,
undoubtedly the best yet published, includes lots of information
from Russia on Yeltsin's October coup in Moscow. Subscriptions
are $18/6 issues.
@ NEWS #3/June-Oct.'93 (POB 30557, 10033 Athens, Greece) is a
4-page "Informative Bulletin" published in concert with the
Greek-language Anarchic Intervention. This issue documents a long
string of molotov attacks against (mostly) political party
offices in Athens. Send a contribution for a sample.
ANIM@DVERSE #9/July-Aug.'93 (POB 57464, Jackson Stn., Hamilton,
Ontario L8P 4X3, Canada) is a 16-page anarchist/autonomist zine
covering "issues of oppression and struggles towards the
liberation and self-determination of all beings." Single copies
are $1; subscriptions are $8/6 issues (cash only) or trade.
BLACK AND RED #7/Sept.-Oct. & #8/Nov.-Dec.'93 (c/o Hill, 160
Lefferts Ave., Brooklyn, NY. 11225) is an 18-page "Newsletter of
the @narchist Caucus" which is "committed to building an
anarchist presence within" the Committees of Corre- spondence.
Issue #7 is notable for its misleading (whitewashing?)
description of the recent Love & Rage split, and Mary Shelley's
account of the "Phillie Anarchist Gathering." No price listed;
send an SASE for a copy.
BULLETIN OF ACTION unnumbered/July '93 (c/o Piotr Rymarczyk, ul.
Grzybowska 30/914, 00-863 Warszawa, Poland) is a new 2-page
info-bulletin of "Anarchist news from Poland." Send a
contribution for a copy.=20
COMMUNIQU=90 AFTER DARK #0/undated (Inspiracy Press, POB 81392,
Cleveland, OH. 44181-0392) is a 32-page zine incorporating
reprints from its own earlier issues, including Bob Black on "The
latest from Loompanics," Black and Gerry Reith on Mike
Gunderloy's Factsheet Five, and editor Rodney Griffith's "Beyond
the fringe" critique of the marginals milieu. Copies are $3
postpaid.
THE CONNECTION #192/undated (Box 3343F, Fairfax, VA 22038) is a
56-page apa, formerly titled The Libertarian Connection,
featuring page upon page of tiny-print discussions, all
originating from reader-participants. Sample copies are $2.50;
subscriptions are $20/8 issues (checks to E. Strauss).
CONSUME OR DIE #1/undated (c/o So. Or. ARA, POB 3405, Ashland,
OR. 97520) is a new, unpaginated zine of "equality and anarchy,
period." This issue includes prisoner support news along with a
short piece on "Children and revolutionary babysitting." Sample
copies are $1 ppd. or trade.
CONTRA FLOW #7/Sept.'93 (56a Info Shop, 56 Crampton St., London
SE17, U.K.) is a 22-page info-zine formerly titled 56a Info Shop
Bulletin. It carries radical news "the general media doesn't
touch" compiled "from radical journals and leaflets," including
updates on the Twyford Down struggle and the legal action taken
by McDonalds against the anti-McDonalds campaign by the anarchist
London Greenpeace. Send a donation for a sample.
DISCUSSION BULLETIN #61/Sept-Oct.'93 (POB 1564, Grand Rapids,
MI. 49501) is an occasionally interesting 32-page assortment of
letters and reprinted articles primarily from the anti-market,
non-statist radical milieu. Subscriptions are $3/year (6 issues).
EXPOSING MIRAGE #1/Sept.'93 (22 Standard Ave., West Warwick, RI.
02893) is a brand new unpaginated zine billed as the editor Jason
McGill's "self-therapy" in his search for "personal liberation."
This very readable issue includes news on anarcho-syndicalist
Jon Bekken's threat to sue Autonomedia (over a book-jacket quote
on Bob Black's new Friendly Fire), a quick self-critique titled
"Punk...just the beginning," "Pieces of me," and an account of
"The 1993 Mid-Atlantic Anarchist Gathering." Copies are $1 + 2
stamps.
FATAL DEPRESSION #1/undated (Pall, 7904 Poplar Rd., Severn, MD.
21144) is a new 24-page zine containing reader submissions along
with reprints from the Anarchist Youth Federation and ACID Inc.
Sample copies are $1.75.=20
FAU INTERNATIONAL NEWS FLASH #4/Sept.'93 (International
Secretariat, Freie Arbeiterinnen Union Geko, c/o Buchladen Le
Sabot, Breite Strasse 76, D-53111 Bonn, Germany) is a 6-page
English-language summary of the German-language
anarchist-syndicalist tabloid Direkte Aktion. Send a contribution
for a sample copy.
FLOWER POWER #2/Aug.'93 (POB 78068, RPO Grandview, 2606
Commercial Dr., Vancouver, B.C. V5N 5W1, Canada) is a thick,
unpaginated new zine, which includes lots of hand-written
letters, comments, etc., along with a "Tour diary," and an info
on the "Portland riots" (in response to a police attack on the
anarchist gathering there). Sample copies are $3.
GREEN REVOLUTION unnumbered/undated (POB 845, Bristol BS99 4QE,
England) is a 4-page news sheet, this issue a "MOVE Special" on
John Africa and the Philadelphia police attacks on MOVE. Single
copies are 20 pence.
THE INFINITE ONION #7/May '93 (POB 263, Colorado Springs, CO.
80901) is a lively, 32-page anarcho-punk zine featuring an
interviews with the publishers of Artflux zine, and with members
of the Ch=82 Caf=82 collective, along with lots of other short
articles. Unfortunately, the extra-small print makes it hard to
read in places. Sample copies are now $1.50 postpaid.
LESBIAN & GAY FREEDOM MOVEMENT #8/Winter '93 (BM Box 207,
London, WC1N 3XX, England) is an excellent little 12-page zine
campaigning for sexual liberation without the usual blind spots.
This issue includes a cover article titled "Sadomasochism is a
part of sexual liberation." Single copies are 70p (cash only)
postpaid. These folks also have produced an Child-Adult Loving
Update #1/Autumn '93) "resource-list of positive and/or useful
sources, and other information." No price listed.
LITTLE FREE PRESS #91 & #92/both dated Oct.'93 (714 Third St.
SE, Little Falls, MN. 56345-3510), a long-running 4-page
newsletter of ideas for living freely in a "priceless economic
system," is surprisingly back again after publisher Earnest Mann
announced its end last year. Subscriptions are now $2
(subscription length as yet undetermined).
THE MEANDER QUARTERLY Vol.5, #3/Nov.'93 (c/o Ed Stamm,POB 1402,
Lawrence, KS. 66044) is a 20-page "Newsletter of evolutionary
anarchists" consisting of letters from contributors, now in the
hands of a new (and also the original) coordinator. Send a
contribution for a sample copy.
MEDIA BLITZ #4/1994 (POB 20420, London Terrace Station, New
York, NY. 10011) is a 24-page zine featuring interviews with
Black Rain and The Haters. Send $2 for a sample copy.
MUSELETTER #19/July thru #24/Dec.'93 (Richard Heinberg, 1433
Olivet Rd., Santa Rosa, CA. 95401) is a very readable 4-page
monthly comment zine. Each issue includes one essay or review.
Issue #19 sensibly argues "Don't enshrine the New Physics just
yet," while issue #24 covers the publisher's search for "Paradise
and the return to the wild." Subscriptions are $15/year.
NEWS & VIEWS FROM [THE FORMER] SOVIETSKY SOYUZ #2/Aug.'93
(Mikhail Tsovma, 21- 62 Volzhsky Blvd., Moscow 109462,
Russia/CIS) is a very readable new 12-page bulletin of anarchist
and labor news from the former USSR. This issue includes
information on the new "anarcho-capitalist" "Libertarian Workers
Union" in Moscow, Vlad Tupikin's report on "The Donbass strike"
(by miners), Evaldas Balchunas on "Privatization in Lithuania,
and Mikhail Tsovma on "The mistakes and misfortunes of Russian
`Labourism'." This is well worth checking out. Send a
contribution for a sample copy.
NEWS FROM POLAND #A/1993 (FA, c/o An Arch=82, Uniwersytet =FEl=FEski,
Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland) is the third issue of this
interesting 8-page, English-language "World Bulletin of Federacja
Anarchistyczna," containing the latest news on struggles
involving the Polish anarchist movement, along with an extensive
list of Polish anarchist contact addresses. Send a contribution
for a copy.
NIHILIST GLEE CLUB #4-#6/undated (24 Tuckett St., Hamilton,
Ontario L8P 2A7, Canada) is a 16-page comics zine. Send $1 for a
sample.
NO NATION BULLETIN #15/Autumn '93 (People to People Friendship
Ass., c/o S=94ren Groth, =FEdalen, Salt=86 Arb. Skola, 15 300 J=84rna,
Sweden) is a photocopied 16-page exchange of short letters and
announcements from people living on different continents. This
issue includes a piece by Steve Lund titled "Boycott the U.S.A."
(calling for a tourist boycott to protest the drug war and
skyrocketing prisoner populations). Subscriptions are U.S.$5/year
(4 issues).
RSVP #13/Sept. & #14/Oct.'93 (Tad Davies, 821 Highview Ave.,
Manhattan Beach, CA. 90266) is a 52-page "co-op publication of
writers and a publisher concerned about freedom issues of many
different views," with a fair number of anarchists and
anti-authoritarians involved. Issue #13 includes Bob Black on
Factsheet Five, and a reprinted report on the Randy Weaver trial
in Idaho (following the attack on his cabin by the feds). Issue
#14 includes Lee Bonnifield's "Whole in one, @ =3D doubt it, or
schizophrenics unite!" Both issues include special sections of
reprinted articles on the theme of "Kops as Killers."
Subscriptions are $16/year (8 issues + occasional bonus issues).
THE SHADOW #30/Oct.-Dec.'93 (POB 20298, New York, NY. 10009) is
a 24-page tabloid covering alternative scenes on the Lower East
Side in New York, including updates on the Tompkins Square Park
struggle, and the squatting scene. This paper is a model of the
kind of "cop watching" coverage every city should have.
Subscriptions are $10/year (? issues).=20
UNDERGROUND #2/undated (POB 3285, London SW2 3NW, England) is a
visually impressive, 4-page, newspaper-sized subversive
equivalent to the National Enquirer. Lots of short articles,
along with bizarre pseudo-advertisements mixed in with a few of
the real thing. Worth getting if you could use a few laughs. Send
a contribution.
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NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE
PERIODICALS RECEIVED:
A INFOS #35/Juin '93 (Humeurs Noires [F.A.], BP 79, 59370 Mons
en Baroeul, France) is the 8-page French edition of the A-Infos
international "Bulletins d'information" meant for spreading news
for publication in anarchist periodicals. Send a contribution for
a sample copy; subscriptions are $16/year (IMO payable to ALDIR).
A-KONTRA #46-48/April, #49-53/July & #54-57/Dec.'93 (POB 552,
17000 Praha 7, Czech Republic) is a 32 to 60-page "anarchist
zine, published by people from -.A.S. (Czechoslovak Anarchist
Union)" which includes an English-language summary up front. Send
a contribution for a sample.
ANARCHIC INTERVENTION #8/Spring(?) '93 (POB 30557, 10033 Athens,
Greece) is an 12-page tabloid published in collaboration with
Angels Mutiny. Send a contribution for a sample.
THE ANARCHIST #73/Mah '93 (Y.Kastanaras, Argiroupoleos 27,
Athens 11471, Greece) is a 12-page Greek-language zine from
Athens featuring anarchist news. Send a contribution for a
sample.
ANARES INFO #40/undated (Postfach 229, CH-3000 Bern 8,
Switzerland) is the 24-page German-language newsletter of this
archive and library. Write for more information.
ASPIRIN WON'T HELP #1/undated & #2/May '93 (Mikhail Tsovma,
21-62 Volzhsky Blvd., Moscow 109462, Russia/CIS) is a brand new
unpaginated Russian-language zine "which strives to deal with the
ideological hunger from which Russian radical circles suffer."
The first issue features a translation of George Bradford's "The
triumph of capital" (from Fifth Estate), and a brief overview of
the Situationist International. Issue #2 features a lengthy
analysis of the fall of Soviet totalitarianism, and a translation
of Max Anger's "We all hate the cops" on the L.A. riots (from
Anarchy). Send a contribution for a copy.
BRAND #55/Maj & #56/Juni '93 (Box 150 15, S-104 65 Stockholm,
Sweden) is a lively, 32-page Swedish-language magazine, with
consistently good photography and a fairly activist slant. Issue
#55 includes an interview with Matt Black of Love & Rage. Issue
#56 includes an English-language summary at the back. Cover price
is 20KR.
BUITEN DE ORDE Vol.4,#1 & #3/undated (Vrije Bond, Postbus 1338,
3500 BH Utrecht, Netherlands) is a 28 to 36-page Dutch-language
magazine of local and international anarchist news and reviews.
Subscriptions are 10 guilders/year.
CNT #152/Agosto, #153/Sept. & #154/Oct.'93 (CNT-Peri=A2dico,=20
Apartado de Correos 2.271, 18.080 Granada, Spain) is the 24-page,
Spanish-language newspaper of the anarcho-syndicalist
Confederaci=A2n Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of
Workers union). Subscriptions are 2,500ptas./year (12 issues). =20
COMUNITAS #1/1992 & #2-3/1993 (c/o ZAPO, Tkalci=FEeva 38, 41000
Zagreb, Croatia) is a new zine published by ZAPO (Zagreb
Anarcho-Pacifist Organization), whose first (unpaginated) issue
includes short pieces on "Anarchism," "Pacifism," "Nazism" and
"Racism," and whose second (32-page) issue includes a piece
describing ZAPO. Send a contribution for a sample.
CORRE@ #24/Oct.'93 (N. M=82ndez, Casilla 25, Fac. Ingenier=A1a, UCV,
Ciudad Universitaria, Caracas 1040, Venezuela) is a 20-page,
Spanish-language libertarian socialist quarterly"the only
libertarian publication in Venezuela," founded in 1987. Also
available from the same address is the 6-page, Spanish-language
La Gazet@, subtitled "Organo de Difusion de las Ideas
Anarquistas." Send a contribution for a sample copy.
DIREKTE AKTION Vol.5,#1/Spring & #2/Sommer '93 (A.S.O., Postboks
303, 1502 Kobenhavn V., Denmark) was a tabloid of the now-defunct
Anarcho-Syndicalist Organization (A.S.O.), and is now a more
general 12 to 16-page, Danish-language anarchist-syndicalist
quarterly, including a one-page English-language news supplement.
Subscriptions are 30Kr/year (4 issues).
EKINTZA ZUZENA: REVISTA LIBERTARIA #13/Oto=A4o '93 (Ediciones EZ
Argitaraldiak, Apdo. 235, Postakutxa, 48080 Bilbo, Bizkaia,
Spain) is a slick, 64-page Spanish-language "libertarian review"
from the Basque country. This issue includes pieces on "El fraude
del movimiento ecologista vaso," and "Prostituci=A2n y feminismo,"
along with a great cover collage. Subscriptions are $15/4
issues).
EXEGERSI #12/Nov.'92 & #13-14/Feb.'93 (Anarchist Coil, POB
30658, Athens 10033, Greece) is a 16 to 20-page, Greek-language
newspaper whose title translates as `Riot' or `Revolt'. Issue #12
includes "State syndicalism: The enemy is the same," and "Laws
and decrees get abolished on the barricades" (on the
controntational transportation workers struggle in Athens). Cover
price is 250 drachmas.
LE FRONDEUR #1/Juil.-Sept.'90 (B.P. 105, 94402 Vitry Cedex,
France) is apparently an 8-page, French-language pro-situationist
bulletin. Single copies are 5 francs.=20
HORS D'ORDRE #3/Juin '93 (Collectif Hors d'Ordre, 64, rue de
Maisonneuve, app.4, Qu=82bec, Qu=82bec G1R 2C3, Canada) is a
French-language publication, subtitled "Bulletin de Reflexions
Libertaires." This issue features "Le cr=82puscule de la modernit=82"
by Nicolas Calv=82, Mark Fortier & =90ric Pineault. Send $2 for a
sample copy.
DOTT. LEETE #0/Autunno '93 (c/o G.C.A. Pinelli, via Roma 48,
87019 Spezzano Albanese [CS], Italy) is a brand new 40-page,
Italian-language journal of "Ideazioni Anarchiche Del Dritto &
Rovescio," published as a supplement to Umanita' Nova. This first
issue includes reprints from Noam Chomsky and Mary
Wollstonecraft, along with an interview with Ernst Bloch titled
"Marx, Bakunin e lo stato." Included with subscriptions to the
weekly Umanita' Nova at US $55.00/- year.
LIBERA VOLO #51/Junio thru #53/Sept.'93 (A.R.P., PO Box 57,
Sakyo Yubinkyoku, J-606 Kyoto, Japan) is the 6-page
Japanese-language newsletter of the Federacio Anarkiista of
Japan. Send a contribution for a sample copy.
LE LIBERTAIRE; REVUE DE SYNTHESE ANARCHISTE #137/Juin,
#138/Juillet & #139/Sept.'93 (25 rue Dum=82 d'Aplemont, 76600 Le
Havre, France) is a 4-page, monthly, French-language "review of
synthetic anarchism" published by the Union des anarchistes.
International subscriptions are 80F/year (10 issues).
EL LIBERT@RIO #25/Mayo-Junio & #26/Agosto '93 (Brasil 1551, 1154
Buenos Aires, Argentina) is the 4-page, Spanish-language
newspaper of the Federacion Libertaria Argentina. The lead story
for issue #25 is "1993: Crisis y demagogia electoralista." Send a
contribution for a sample copy.
MAC PARIADKA #12/June '93 (PO Box 67, 81-806 Sopot 6, Poland) is
a 64-page Polish-language journal, including articles on
education, pornography and the Polish scene. Send a contribution
for a sample copy.
MAVRO RODO #3/Io=A3vio=FE 1993 (PO Box 10005, 54110 Thessaloniki,
Greece) is an impressive 100-page Greek-language
"libertarian-anarchist review for humans and their culture,"
whose title translates as "Black Rose." This issue includes an
account of the attitudes of 19th century Greek anarchists and
socialists toward the Balkan Federation, along with translations,
fiction and news. Cover price is 800 drachmas, or send a
contribution or trade for a sample.
MORDICUS #10/=90t=82 '93 (BP 11, 75622 Paris Cedex 13, France) is an
18-page issue of this French-language tabloid, featuring a cover
spoof (and including an interview with and other articles) on the
spectacular schoolkid hostage-taking episode in France, which
gained an immense amount of media coverage. The cover price is
20F; subscriptions are 100F/? issues.=20
MUCO #1/undated (Parasite Conspiracy, c/o Oliva, C.P 1739
Succ.5, 06100 Perugia, Italy) is a new unpaginated,
Italian-language zine that "works on decoding the most
underhanded elements of the system (advertising, information,
media, spectacle society)." No price listed; send a contribution.
DE NAR #80/Mei, #81/Juni, #82/Juli, #83/Aug. & #85/Okt.'93
(V.Z.W. De Nar, Postbus 104, B-1210, Brussels 21, Belgium)=FEwhich
translates as "The Fool" is a 4 to 8-page Dutch-language "monthly
anti-authoritarian newspaper." Send a contribution for a sample
copy.
PERSPECTIEF #32/undated (Libertaire Studiegroep, Dracenastraat
21, 9000 Gent, Belgium) is a 64-page Dutch-language journal of
libertarian perspectives. This issue focusses on nationalism and
the extreme right. Subscriptions are 300 Belgian fr or 20 Dutch
fl/year (4 issues).
LE PO=A8NT D'INTERROGATIONS unnumbered/1993 (H=8Ame c/o I.S., B.P.
243, 75564 Paris Cedex 12, France [don't mention the publication
name in the address]) is an 18-page, French-language, radical
anti-tech journal. This issue includes a review of the first
issue of Lantern Waste, and a long "Lettre de Guyane." No price
listed; send a contribution.
ROJO Y NEGRO #43/Marzo, #45/Mayo, #46/Junio, #47/Julio &
#48/Sept.'93 (Sagunto 15, pral., 28010 Madrid, Spain) is the
16-page, Spanish-language newspaper of the reformist
anarcho-syndicalist C.G.T. (Confederacion General del Trabajo=FEa
split from the anarcho-syndicalist C.N.T. in Spain).
Subscriptions are 1,000ptas/ year (12 issues).
SCHWARZER FADEN #46/April '93 (Postfach 1159, 7043 Grafenau-1,
Germany) is a well-produced 72-page, German-language magazine,
subtitled "Vierteljahresschrift F=81r Lust und Freiheit." This
issue includes Peter Bierl on "Feindbild Mensch: =99kofaschismus
und New Age," and an account of "Libert=84re Tage: Kritik und
Gegenkritik ein Mosaik unterschiedlichster Sichtweisen."
Subscriptions are 50.- DM/8 issues.
SOCIAL HARMONY #7/July(?) & #8/Oct.'93 (POB 76148, Nea Smirni
T.K. 17110, Athens, Greece) is an 8-page, Greek-language
anarcho-communist/communalist bi-monthly. Send a contribution for
a sample copy.
SOLIDARIDAD OBRERA #240/Agosto & #241/Sept.'93 (Ronda de San
Antonio, 13 pral 08001-Barcelona, Spain) is the 8-page
Spanish-language regional newspaper of the anarcho-syndicalist
C.N.T. in Catalonia. The front-page stories headlined in the
September issue is "Contra la crisis anarcosindicalismo," and
announcements of the Sept.-Oct. anarchosyndicalist "Exposici=A2
Internacional" in Barcelona. Sample copies are 100ptas plus
20ptas postage.
TELEGRAPH Vol.4,#4/April thru #10/Oct.'93 (Schliemannstr. 22,
Berlin O-1058, Germany) is a 48 to 64-page German-language
publication from East Berlin covering the current situation in
Germany. Subscriptions are 34DM/ year.
UMANITA' Nova Vol 73,#14/25 Aprile thru #33/24 Ottobre '93 (c/o
G.C.A. Pinelli, via Roma 48, 87019 Spezzano Albanese [CS], Italy)
is the 4 to 8-page, Italian-language weekly newspaper of the
Federazione Anarchica Italiana. Subscriptions are US $55.00/year.
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DROPPING OUT OF THE `ME GENERATION'
Review by Sean Donahue
Under the Bridge: Notes from a ME Generation Dropout by Randy
Viscio (Cowpasture Production, Lawrence, MA. 1993) $10.95 paper.
"What's left when the locks have all been broken, young children
of authority?"
-The Indigo Girls
Like our parents before us, and theirs before them, those of us
who grew up during the Reagan/Bush years were taught a simple
formula for success: sit down, shut up, work hard, and pay no
attention to the man behind the curtain. For following this
dictum, for believing the dream force-fed to us by Madison
Avenue, we were labeled the ``Me Generation'' by the very same
people who taught us we could measure our worth by our material
gain. Yet, despite Hollywood, New York, and Washington's efforts
to portray us as a herd of greedy, apathetic sheep, there were
and are among us those who rejected the suburban myth and those
of us who never believed it in the first place. Twenty-Five year-
old Randy Viscio's first book, Under the Bridge is the story of
one man who grew up outside the herd, moving from conformity to
resistance, from resistance to revolution.
Leading us through his life, Viscio takes us to the parts of the
United Stateswhich the TV and movie cameras dare not show. Seeing
the America in which hegrew up through his eyes, we come to
realize that behind the smiling face of thebenevolent
``Authority'' is a frightening, snarling beast determined to
maintainthe status quo, preserving the power of the corporations
and the governmentover people. Those who can't be lured to
conformity with promises of suburbanmilk and honey feel the force
of the authority's machinery pressing down uponthem.
The idea that our government and industry is determined to
silence dissentdespite its promises of free speech and free
thought isn't a new one. Ournation's history is full of concrete
examples of the government's fear of ``sedi-tion'': from the
riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention to
thegovernment's response to last year's riots in Los Angeles.
Yet, Viscio takes hisanalysis of the relationship between
authority and dissent a step further. Infollowing the story of
his life, we see how our society sets out to silence notonly the
political radical, but all of those who choose to follow a path
whichdeviates from the mainstream. We see how as a student who
possessed the abilityto succeed but who didn't learn in the same
way as other students did and whorefused to conform to the
expectations of his teachers, Viscio was labeled a lostcause by
the establishment and discarded. We see how the juvenile
``justice''system and the myriad of ``youth service'' agencies
serve to push those on theborderline further off into the streets
rather than bringing them in from thecold. And, we watch the
subtle economic war Reagan waged on America's poor.
Yet Under the Bridge isn't merely an angry indictment of a
system that hasfailed. It's also a story of hope and triumph of
the human spirit. Against all oddsviscio not only survived, but
developed the strength, the courage, and thecompassion to fight
against injustices which he and so many others havesuffered. And,
along the way, he found pockets of human kindness amid all
thecynicism and greed: the welfare mother who helped him learn
how to survive onthe street, the restaurant owner who took a
chance and gave him a good job andhelped him find a place to
stay, the woman who convinced him to go to college,the caring
community which grew up around the Grateful Dead, the list goes
on.We are shown that though the world can be a cold and
frightening place, itdoesn't have to be and there are a lot of
people out there who are working tochange it whether directly,
through political action or indirectly, through theway they live
their lives.
At times the transition between narrative and commentary is a
bit awkward, butthe insights Viscio offers are well worth any
break in the book's otherwisesmooth rhythm. His analysis is
thorough and perceptive, yet retains the humandimension so often
lacking in the dry, academic analysis of the Reagan/Bushyears
which we have become accustomed to.
In Under the Bridge, Viscio sets out to define himself within
the context of hisgeneration in his and their own terms, and not
only does he succeed, but in sodoing paints a vivid picture of
the state of our society and the role theindividual must play in
healing its wounds. Shattering our illusions aboutauthority, he
leaves us empowered to take action to redefine our lives and
takethe first steps toward building a new society.
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STONEWALL BESMIRCHED
Review by Jack Nichols
Stonewall by Martin Duberman (Dutton, New York, NY., 1993)
$23.00.
"The historian,'' quipped Walt Whitman, ``if not a liar himself,
is largely at the mercy of liars.'' This is nowhere more truly
reflected than in Professor Duberman's latest tome about gay
activism in the sixties, activism which preceded the Stonewall
uprising in Greenwich Village where bar patrons were
assaulted,during a routine raid, by the police, an event which
launched media hype about the modern gay rights movement.
Martin Duberman's credentials are impressive. He is
Distinguished Professor of History at Lehman Collage and the CUNY
Graduate Center. During the sixties he was holed up, he admits,
in a psychiatrist's office attempting to purge his homosexual
inclinations. Even two years after the 1969 uprising he described
a Stonewall parade in his diary as ``cripples on yet another
march to a faith healing shrine.'' But now, he thinks, his
awareness has been reformed. He embarks in ``Stonewall'' on a
mission to ``ground'' it in ``empirical reality,'' bragging ad
nauseam that he will not slight or compromise historical accuracy
nor be guilty of slovenly scholarship. Unfortunately for
lesbians, gay men and others who are curious about Stonewall and
the times, Professor Dubberman's book is riddled with errors.
``Better an absence of light,'' says Bakunin, ``than a false and
feeble light kindled only to mislead.'' Duberman takes pride in
calling himself a playwright as well as a historian. But even the
New York Times (June 27, 1993)book reviewer yawns at his choice
of ``a cast.'' Instead of seeing gay pioneers as
multi-dimensional, he embraces silly rumors and vicious gossip,
belittling many with stupid fictions.
In his see-saw overview of the sixties, Duberman calls pioneers
by wrong names, affixing those names to their photographs, giving
a plethora of incorrect dates for significant events, attributing
written materials to the wrong authors,ignoring principals, and
allowing malicious rumors about them to circulate without
double-checking his facts. One he mistakenly fears may have been
a government plant, another a thief. He has ignored the works of
other gay historians like John D'Emillio, Donn Teal, and Kay
Tobin, thus compounding his errors. In one case, it is possible
to show that Duberman engaged in a deliberate campaign of
literary revenge. If it were not for this, it might be possible
to say that his book simply reflects a revisionist historian's
hurried Manhattan schedule, too laden with deadlines and book
contracts, too short on careful scholarship.
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Alternative press books
Short reviews by R. Curtis, M. Eduard, P. Frank,=20
J. McQuinn & T. Otter
THE BOMBING OF IRAQ
On the Mass Bombing of Iraq and Kuwait by Tom Leonard (AK Press,
22 LuttonPlace, Edinburgh EH8 9PE, Scotland, 1991) 22pp.
=9C1.95/$5.00 pamphlet (ppd. from publisher).
More and more facts have emerged in recent months that show how
the American mainstream media and public opinion were caught up
in jingoistic hysteria and largely betrayed any critical spirit
during the Persian Gulf War. This pamphlet documents the story of
a very similar phenomenon in England. The opposition Labour Party
under Neal Kinnock was thoroughly docile. The newspapers
downplayed friendly fire casualties and so-called "collateral
damage." They refused to report at all on United Nations warnings
of a cholera epidemic in Iraq caused by allied bombing. Even in
Scotland, where 70 percent of the population reported opposing
the war before it began, the Scottish National Party "hadn'ta
clue what to say about the `war' other than to make pathetic
mutterings about the percentages of Jocks versus Sassenachs at
the front." Clearly, the UK as in the USA, we have been the
victims of manufactured consent. Leonard reels offthe facts, and
concludes that the war amounted to "political mass murder" of
large segments of the Iraqi population. He is a bit sniffy about
the rescued aristocracies of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, "who," he
says, "seem to spend one half of their lives breeding children of
the same surname and the other half breeding horses or sitting at
gaming tables." But for most sensitive people there is no
quarreling with his conclusion about the orgy of destruction
wrought in the region: "To let one's mind continue in turmoil
over present enormities is to reduce oneself effectively to the
status of a Francis Bacon scream." P.F.
SUBSPACE ZINE SHOW
Subspace International Zine Show edited by Stephen Perkins
(Plagiarist Press,1816 E. College St., Iowa City, IA. 52245,
1992) 52pp. $6.00 pamphlet.
Subspace International Zine Show incorporated over 300 zines
exhibited in a garage in Iowa City. This catalog documenting the
show consists of a short introduction, followed by reproductions
of the exhibited zine covers, accompanied in some cases by short
statements from their publishers. The statements generally answer
the zine show organizer's request for "...a short personal
statement on your thoughts/views, and experiences of zines and
networking, "though, for the most part, they aren't very deeply
illuminating. As another partial perspective on the world of zine
publishing, this catalog is a welcome addition to Seth Friedman's
Factsheet Five, Mike Gunderloy and Cari Goldberg-Janice's The
World of Zines, and all the other publications which have made a
major commitment to documenting and promoting the scene. -J.M.
RAGING GRANNIE SONGS
The Raging Grannie Songbook edited by Jean McLaren & Heide Brown
(NewSociety Publishers, 4527 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA.
19143) $14.95
Dressed in outrageous, flowery hats and shawls, the Raging
Grannies are groups of activist older women who sing humorous,
satirical songs and perform jovial skits at demonstrations, naval
bases and politicians' offices. With incredible success,
enjoyment and media attention, Raging Grannie groups have sprung
up all over Canada addressing issues from free trade to safe sex
and racism to pollution. Consciously exploiting the Grannie
stereotype, Grannies have held teaparties on naval vessels,
organized "knit-ins" for peace, have signed up for military
recruitment and have even been arrested while singing on a naval
base! The Grannies have a lot of fun singing song lyrics they've
cleverly written to classic folk tunes. The Raging Grannies
Songbook contains their most entertaining songs such as "Take me
out to the clearcut," "Give me a home where the river don't
foam," and "Safe sex" (sung to "Hey ho! Hey ho! It's off to work
we go!"). The songbook emphasizes songs on forestry, pollution,
anti-war and anti-war-toy, general political, and women's issues.
Also included are spirited stories of their triumphs and how to
get started as a Raging Grannie. I encourage Grandmothers, Earth
First!ers and others interested in fun songs for the naval base
or campfire to get a copy of this book. -M.E.
RAGGEDY ANNARCHY
Raggedy Annarchy's Guide to Vegan Baking and the Universe by
RaggedyAnnarchy (c/o 4942 Kurz Circle, Carmichael, CA. 95608)
unpaginated $3.00 (plustwo stamps).
Raggedy Annarchy is a vegan cookbook and source of honest
personal stories and information. Whether Kai, the author,
relates the excitement of a homebirth, her intense sadness about
the Persian Gulf War or the humor of a flopped "puke-in," she
describes the passion of the moment in all its pure emotion and
powerful feeling. She also includes tips on making menstrual
pads, safe sabotage and a Larry Law Spectacular Times reprint.
I was enthusiastic about the vegan recipes, especially the
eggless cakes. I had yummy success making the fruit muffins,
oatmeal spice cake and plum coffeecake. They turned out tasty,
light and fluffy. I've always had a problem getting whole wheat
cakes to rise, however these recipes work! Slicing up fresh
Missouri peaches, I loved the peaches'n'"cream" (tofu) pie
recipe. As Kai encourages, I changed some of her recipes; I used
some whole wheat flour and honey and less sugar. I look forward
to more adventures in the kitchen with this cookbook. I've
already given lots of my friends copies! -M.E.
THE MASTER RACE
Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema, and the
Colonization of AmericanIndians by Ward Churchill (Common Courage
Press, Box 702, Monroe, ME. 04951,1992) 304pp. $14.95 paper
If you saw the movie Dances with Wolves, or ever read the works
of Carlos Castaneda or Tony Hillerman and wondered what a
scholarly Native American might have to say about these and other
literary or cinematic endeavors dealing with American Indians,
you may wish to examine this book. Have you ever read The Memoirs
of Chief Red Fox, Hanto Yo: An American Saga, Seven Arrows, or
Sacajawea? If so, you'll probably appreciate Churchill's critical
perspectives.
Some other books upon which Churchill comments include: Dee
Brown's Creek Mary's Blood, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz's Indians of the
Americas, Raymond H.Abbott's That Day in Gordon, Michael Castro's
Interpreting the American Indian, Werner Sollor's Beyond
Ethnicity, James A. Clifton's The Invented Indian, and Sam Gill's
Mother Earth: An American Story. In the chapter "Spiritual
Hucksterism: The Rise and Fall of the Plastic Medicine Men," (and
elsewhere in the book) Churchill offers a critique of Jamake
Highwater, author of The Primal Mind, and also of Ruth Beebe
Hill, Lynn Andrews, Alonzo Blacksmith, Hyemeyohsts Storm, Sun
Bear, Wallace Black Elk, Osheana FastWolf, Rolling Thunder and
others.
Churchill and editor M. Annette Jaimes deliver a trenchant
analysis of the literary and cinematic portrayal of American
Indians in Fantasies of the MasterRace, and a general critique of
how colonization and racism are perpetuated via academe and the
arts in a capitalist culture.-T.O.
STRUGGLE FOR THE LAND
Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide,
Ecocide andExpropriation in Contemporary North America by Ward
Churchill (Common CouragePress, POB 702, Monroe, ME. 04951, 1993)
472pp. $17.95 paper.
Chapters in this volume by Ward Churchill include "American
Indian Lands: The Native Amid Resource Development" and
"Perversions of Justice: Examining the Doctrine of U.S. Rights to
Occupancy in North America." Churchill also looks carefully at
Iroquois land claims in upstate New York, Lakota efforts to
protect the Black Hills, the genocide of traditional Navajo-Hopi
in Arizona, the Western Shoshone battle for their homeland in
Nevada and the struggle of the Lubicon Lake Band (Cree) in
Alberta, Canada, for their ancestral land and against extinction.
Churchill also reflects on such topics as "Radioactive
Colonization" and "The Water Plot: Hydrological Rape in Northern
Canada." In the final sections of the book, Churchill discusses
the possibility of a "Buffalo Commons," that is, the idea that
parts of the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado,
Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Washington state, Idaho, Nevada and
Texas, could once again be autonomous Indian territory.
Author Ward Churchill, sometimes working with Jim Vander Wall,
has also written Marxism and Native America (1983), Agents of
Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party
and the American Indian Movement (1988), The COINTELPRO Papers:
Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the
United States (1990), Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature,
Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians (1992), and Cages
of Steel: The Politics of Imprisonment in the United States
(1992). Churchill is Creek/Cherokee M=82tis, and a coordinator of
the Colorado chapter of AIM (American Indian Movement).
By the way, the Spring 1993 issue of Fifth Estate has a review
by Kathleen Rashid headlined "Grounds for Decolonizing" which
discusses a book edited by M Annette Jaimes entitled The State of
Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance (1992,
South End Press). If Struggle for the Land is of interest to you,
so may be Jaimes' collection, which includes articles by Jimmie
Durham, Jaimes, Winona LaDuke, Glenn T. Morris, Russell Means,
and Ward Churchill. -T.O.
FOOD NOT BOMBS
Food Not Bombs: How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community by C.
T. Lawrence and Keith McHenry (New Society Publishers, 4527
Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA. 19143, 1992) 101pp. $8.95
paper.
This book is an extremely helpful guide for starting new Food Not
Bombs groups. Included in the guide are chapters on general
principles, FNB politics, logistics on starting a group, recipes,
and a collection of activist stories from various FNB members.
The book gives great advice on how to organize a large, effective
FNB group. However, the authors might have pointed out that a FNB
group, like the one I've been working with in St. Louis, can
still function even though it is small, inefficient and
disorganized, because there are a lot of produce vendors and
bakeries that want to get rid of food before it goes bad, and a
whole lot of people who want free food.
One question I have is whether or not the book is a description
of their own group or a set of rules for other groups. For
example, the authors write that "Food Not Bombs encourages
vegetarianism" (p.3), and list some of the great advantages of a
vegetarian diet. However, a little later down the page, the
authors insist that "all of the food we prepare is strictly from
vegetable sources, that is, no meat, dairy or eggs" (p.3). This
statement sounds a bit like ideology to me=FEif someone wants to
donate cheese for hungry people, I'm not about to throw it out.
Also, I'm not sure who the "we" refers to in the quotation:
Butler and McHenry's groups, or all other FNB groups?
All in all, though, I thought the book very helpful and an
inspiration to help make the St. Louis group more politically
active. Read the book and start a FNB group in your town, or join
an existing group. -R.C.
SECRET & SUPPRESSED
Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas & Hidden History edited by
Jim Keith (Feral House, POB 3466, Portland, OR. 97208, 1993)
309pp. $12.95 paper.
Conspiracy freaks will love this one. Swedish hospitals are
implanting electronic mind control devices in people's brains,
and by directing low-frequency microwaves at them, their thoughts
and emotions can be controlled. Our government has been heavily
influenced by Masonic Sorcery since its inception. Lee Harvey
Oswald is buried in Arlington, Texas, and JFK is buried in
Arlington National Cemetery. "Arlington" is a word of
significance in Masonic sorcery, and it has a hidden meaning that
has to do with necrolatry." There are subliminal messages in
Oliver Stone's movie on the Kennedy assassination. Jim Morrison
of The Doors was really several different people, some of them
intelligence agents. Reporter Danny Casolaro died in mysterious
circumstances while investigating the activities of a "power
cabal" called the Octopus, "which had its tentacles in a variety
of notorious contemporary events," including Jimmy Carter's loss
to Rea- gan in 1980. Hoo Boy.
In among the flimsy, the imaginative, and the
impossible-to-document plots and counterplots in this book are
some very important items that have much firmer grounding in
so-called reality, and have also been badly underreported in the
media. There is a good investigative piece on the early
background of Jim Jones of Jonestown, Guyana fame. Transcripts of
Ambassador April Glaspie's meetings with Saddam Hussein a week
before the invasion of Kuwait dramatically illustrate U.S.
Government complicity in that invasion. An interview with an IRA
member shows that "terrorist" group from the inside.
Editor Jim Keith, who has done this sort of book before (The
Gemstone File), has a point. Our news is selected, analyzed,
prioritized, packaged, and sold by media interests who treat it
as a commodity. This book is meant to counteract that trend by
offering a selection of stories chosen for their "quotient of
unacceptability in the reality tunnels of the mainstream." Keith
does not even profess to believe all that he is presenting here,
and he urges us in his foreword to read critically, a skill which
Time/Life/Newsweek subscribers have long since lost. So yes, this
book contains both treasures and trash. It's an adventure.
I have only one cavil to offer. The vast majority of events
discussed herein took place many years ago. I hope that
speculations about conspiracies and unprovable hypotheses in the
past do not blind us to what is happening right now in plain
sight. Reading even the mainstream New York Times with
sensitivity will reveal plainly that members of our government
are doing hypocritical, useless, dishonest, oppressive,
narrow-minded, and brutal acts every week. -P.F.
OTHER TITLES RECEIVED
Petersbourg by Michel Donnegan (c/o Actualit=82s, 38 rue Dauphine,
75006 Paris, France, 1993) 18pp. pamphlet, no price listed.
Tales from the Cass Corridor by S. Colman (Dawn Press, POB 02936,
Detroit, WI. 48202, 1991) 248pp. $19.95 8=ABx11 photocopied.
AIDS (Or Other Ills): Recovery, Prevention, the Natural No-Drug
Way by S. Colman (Dawn Press, POB 02936, Detroit, WI. 48202,
1986) 152pp. $19.95 8=ABx11 photocopied.=20
Free Love: 38 Essays in Libido Liberation by S. Colman (Dawn
Press, POB 02936, Detroit, WI. 48202, 1987) 245pp. $19.95 8=ABx11
photocopied.
The Trial of Gilles de Rais by George Bataille (Amok Books, POB
861867 Terminal Annex, Los Angeles, CA. 90086-1867, 1991) 279pp.
$12.95 paper.=20
L'Unique et sa Propri=82t=82 by Max Stirner (=90dition du Libertaire,
25 rue Dum=82 d'Aplemont, 76600 Le Havre, France, 1993) 38pp.
pamphlet, no price listed.=20
Ex Jugoslavia: Terrorismo di Stato by Gruppo Anarchico Germinal
di Trieste (Edizioni BFS, Biblioteca Franco Serantini, CP 247,
56100 Pisa, Italy, 1993) 60pp. 5,000 Lire pamphlet.
The Scorpion's Dark Dance by Alfredo de Palchi, translated by
Sonia Raiziss (Xenos Books, Box 52152, Riverside, CA 92517, 1993)
130pp. $9.95 paper.
L'Ennemi, C'est l'Homme by Bertrand Louart (Bertrand Louart, 6
place Jean de la n Taille, 45300 Pithiviers, France, 1993) 24pp.
pamphlet, no price listed.