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From: yakimov@ecf.toronto.edu (YAKIMOV Audrey-Olga) Newsgroups: alt.hemp Subject: The Anarchives Message-ID: <D0F6wo.9uA@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: 7 Dec 94 02:57:56 GMT This is an electronic version of the first section of Volume 2 Issue 1 of The Anarchives. If you wish to receive the real copy (which rocks) send your snail-mail address to: yakimov@ecf.utoronto.ca This issue's theme is on Anarchy & Marijuana The Anarchives The Anarchives Volume 2 Issue 1 Free The Anarchives | |.| |.| |\./| |\./| . |\./| . \^.\ |\\.//| /.^/ \--.|\ |\\.//| /|.--/ \--.| \ |\\.//| / |.--/ \---.|\ |\./| /|.---/ \--.|\ |\./| /|.--/ \ .\ |.| /. / _ -_^_^_^_- \ \\ // / -_^_^_^_- _ - -/_/_/- ^ ^ | ^ ^ -\_\_\- - The struggle contines... Sentences begin by stringing words together. Freedom comes from stringing ideas together Free thoughts constructed on free minds. This struggle creates Anarchy. Those old Greek guys (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle) believed the fundamental idea that all citizens could not be philosophers. How could an Ancient city, or even a modern one, have the ability to produce and prosper if all its citezenry were to busy thinkin. Only a select few must be free-minded, and they will rule over the herd. "What The Fuck!" you might say. "Are they saying that if there were to be real freedom of thought the city (nation) would collapse?" Interesting way of lookin at it isn't it? It sort of implies that by merely reaching for free minds we are on our way out of Babylon. Perhaps the chance to turn off the exploitative, hirarchical, liberal, twenty-four hour boob-tube. What we have here is a rule of destruction masked by lies of decency and democracy. Centuries of patriarchal domination have left a messed up male race, a beaten up female race, a devastated aboriginal race, a multi-billion dollar arms race and a-how-quickly can we destroy all the earth's life race. The freedom to be oneself and the responsibility to care for one's community has been lost in an unnatural order. The order is state, structure, symbol and you. A successful order nurtures the roles of individuals to be subservient to the order. The hegemony that has been internalized in all of us cannot be washed away by simply destroying state, though this would be a good start. All forms of authority shoud be abolished and replaced by the social self. Equality can only exist under small groups free of coercion. Group discussion with no onus on individuals to follow consensus is far healthier than mass dictated discipline. Where is the passion that should accompany freedom. How many people are aware of their consumers distributing freedom. They are all corrupt jurors getting lazy on their fat bribe from the state. I can't let myself become a passive spectator of history that is dominated by oppression. I make love to the darkness. I am drawn into the blues of the oppression and struggle that exists today. I slowly, but surely become aware of my own position within society, and its relation to the world outside the classroom. I sit in the back of the class and fume as I see the lies, the double-speak, and the occasional truth both favourable and unfavourable. I am drawn into the struggle. My heart, mind, and my body are in love with the battle for freedom. My consciousness expands and I become aware of my actions, thoughts, and surrounding environment. The truth becomes clear, and as I join my friends, collectively this increases. As potentially free minds we must come together and pursue the quest for truth, justice, and equality. For regaining liberty and community will take a nation of free minds. Freedom cannot be authorized. I can't tell you what it is as much as you can't tell me what it isn't. I can't make rules for you, you can't make rules for me, because the choices are inside ourselves. Cannabis is one method of realizing potently the stone in ourselves. The stone in ourselves is our energy source, what makes us go according to the rythym of our hearts. I don't care about how much of something you or I ingest. Quantity isn't a question of focusness. The more I climb up a mountain the more countryside I see. As I ascend my focus might fog. Fog is just dense sky between two or more parameters of myself. Many sober people never leave this fog. Critics of ganja smoking that I've come across fall into two groups. The first group are those herb opponents who cherish their unilinear clarity so much they seem fogged. The other group are those tokers who are concerned with questions of quantity because they ignore the stone in themselves. Like the cool, refreshing feeling of filtered water sliding down the gullet, absorbing space, activating dry energy, the herb enhances the world's infinite creations of which the self is the source. The answer isn't in poisons like pot or ideologies like Anarchism. The answer isn't in politik or ego-power or elite power. Time is running out for us to realize that the answer is within ourselves as a social species. It's time for us to stop the game of capitalist competition. The answer is in joining compassion with reason and action. All the revolution needs is some strong spirit. This issue marks the second volume of The Anarchives. As a periodical (newspaper, zine, rag, whatever...) we publish information that relates to the lives of radicals struggling for freedom in an exploitative system. Through The Anarchy Organization we hope to publish not only The Anarchives, but various other publications in the purpose of spreading the word to all our peoples. We are open to contributions ranging from the creative, to the intensely analytical. Our attitudes towards submissions reflect our attitudes towards life. That is feel free to give us whatever you want. There should be no limits to language or prose or intelectual exploration and development. We welcome all voices of liberation. We are planning our next issue to focus on the struggle for women's liberation. Please help us create a well rounded perspective on this issue by submitting something. Similarly any other help, be it labour or financial would also be greatly appreciated. We grow as you grow. Escape from Babylon... The Force told me that Haase, Jennifer <HAASEJ@MUSIC.LIB.MATC.EDU> wrote: > Any artist out there; fans of Star Wars, who could create a sketch >of Darth Vader? 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Give me back my burning wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul I've seen the future brother and its murder." - Leonard Cohen "The Future" The governments of most States are waging war on human beings. this war is often waged through "laws" which are supposedly designed to protect human welfare but are actually instruments of repression and violence. the laws around drugs are an excellent case in point. A small group of people, the power elite, have deceived the majority regarding the use of marijuana. The power elite, and thus the state are waging a violent war on peaceful human beings who wish to explore other forms of knowing, forms which the power elite want repressed. These "other" forms of knowing threaten the forms which the state relies upon to maintain power. The power of the state derives exlusively form psychological manipulation, or to put it frankly, its all in your mind. The first thing that happened to me when I began using pot seriously (ie, past that teenage phase when you get wrecked with the gang and giggle for two hours but a serious experiment of prolonged periods) was I began questioning everything that I once held as true or that once held me from thinking. More than that, I began to push my intellect farther because I no longer feared it. Imagination opened up as the ordered thought broke down. ..eee.. z$P"" ""*$c dP" ^*b zP *c $" ^$ .$ $. .$ *. $" $ dF .e$$$$b. b $ .$$$$$$$$$$c 3 $F.$$$$$$$$$$$$b $ $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$L $ $J$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 4 4$$$$$$$" $$$$$$r 4$$$ 4r 4$$$$$$$ 4$$$$$F $$$$F 4F 4$$$$$$$ d$$$$$b 3$$$ 4F $$$$$$$$ee$$$$$$$$ " $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. .$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$ ^$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. .$$" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$b. .d$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ '$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$% "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" ^$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" *$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P ^$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" ^*$$$$$$$$$$$$$P" "**$$$**" Gilo94' Deregulating Drug Use an anarchist perspective The debate about drug use in this country is usually framed in terms of continued criminalization vs legalization. the positions in this debate mean continued harassment, including arrests, imprisonment, theft of property, and possibly in the near future, execution of drug dealers and users, vs legal regulation of drug use and sales, similar to that of alcohol and cigarettes, including heavy taxation, and restraints on where, when and to whom drugs can be sold. Both of these positions are based on the same assumption, government has the right to tell individuals what they can and cannot do. While legalization would surely be preferable to continued criminalization, there is a third alternative: decriminalization and deregulation. Decriminalization and deregulation of drugs would mean no laws against drugs, no government regulation of drugs sales and use, no arrests, no prisons, no taxes. Eliminating drug laws, instead of simply replacing them with different laws, would produce a free market in drugs where people would be free to sell, ingest, or inject whatever they wished, without government interference. Drug use is a voluntary, non-violent activity, and should be an individual decision, the business of no one but the user. Government has taken it upon itself to regulate drug use, just as it regulates alcohol use, restricts abortion, and registers and drafts people. in order to better control people. Criminalization of drugs has produced, just as prohibition of alcohol did, an enormous amount of violent crime. Most of this crime is motivated by the need to obtain money to pay the artificially inflated price of illegal drugs. This drug-associated crime is then used as an excuse for police to indiscriminately harass young black men, stopping and searching, and frequently arresting them on the street, for no reason other than that they live in a "high crime" area. Doing away with drug laws would dramatically lower the cost of drugs and thereby eliminate most street crime, as well as remove the excuse police use to terrorize black people. Decriminalization and deregulation and the resultant competitive market in drugs would produce purer and safer drugs, eliminating much of the death and illness associated with drug use, most of which is caused by contamination of drugs or needles, and unreliable drug strength, not by the nature of the drug itself. Heroin is no more dangerous than aspirin if it is carefully prepared without dangerous additives and injected with a sterile needles. And aspirin overdose can kill as easily as heroin overdose, it just takes longer and feels worse. Decriminalizing needle use would virtually eliminate the transmission of AIDS among IV drug users, as has been the experience in the 38 American states which do not restrict sale of sterile needles. Needle exchange programs are not enough; there need to be more needles available to eliminate needle sharing. Besides abolishing laws against recreational drugs, eliminating government regulation of "therapeutic" drugs would also benefit people. The FDA prevents many drugs from reaching the market, including treatments for AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses. And those that do eventually become available are delayed for years by FDA rules, while thousands die. The government is currently responsible for restrictions on aerosolized pentamidine, a drug which prevents Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. the most frequent cause of death in people who have AIDS. Just as drug laws lead to deaths associated with street drugs and keep people from obtaining sterile needles to prevent transmission of AIDS, drug laws are killing people with AIDS by denying them effective treatment. Drug laws in this country are also preventing marketing of newly developed abortifacients, drugs which induce abortion early in pregnancy, freeing women from their current reliance on the medical establishment for abortion services. these drugs would put the decision about abortion where it belongs: with the individual. Eliminating drug laws would greatly increase people's options in the areas of pleasure and health. It would also reduce crime, reduce death and illness associated with illegal drug use, and reduce deaths from AIDS and other serious illnesses. Individuals should be free to make their own decisions about drug use, and all other aspects of their lives, without the interference of government or "the community". Boston Anarchist Drinking Brigade (BAD Brigade) PO Box 1323 Cambridge, MA 02238 Internet: bbrigade@world.std.com Chomsky On Universities In its relation to society, a free university should be expected to be, in a sense, ``subversive.'' We take it for granted that creative work in any field will challenge prevailing orthodoxy. Aphysicist who refines yesterday's experiment, an engineer who merely seeks to improve existing devices, an artist who limits himself to styles and techniques that have been thoroughly explored, is rightly regarded as deficient in creative imagination. Exciting work in science, technology, scholarship,or the arts will probe the frontiers of understanding and try tocreate alternatives to the conventional assumptions. If, in somefield of inquiry this is no longer true, then the field will be abandoned by those who seek intellectual adventure. These observations are clich\'es that few will question---except in the study of man and society. The social critic who seeks to formulate a vision of a more just and human social order, and is concerned with the discrepancy---more often, the chasm---that separates this vision from the reality that confronts him, is a frightening creature who must ``overcome his alienation'' and become ``responsible,'' ``realistic,'' and ``pragmatic.'' To decode these expressions: he must stop questioning our values and threatening our privilege. He may be concerned with technical modifications of existing society that improve its efficiency and blur its inequities, but he must not try to design a radically different alternative and involve himself in an attempt to bring about social change. He must, therefore, abandon the path of creative inquiry as it is conceived in other domains. It is hardly necessary to stress that this prejudice is even more rigidly institutionalized in the state socialist societies. Obviously, a free mind may fall into error; the social critic is no less immune to this possibility that the inventive scientist or artist. It may be that at a given stage of technology, themost important activity is to improve the internal combustion engine, and that at a given stage of social evolution, primary attention should be given to the study of fiscal measures that will improve the operation of the sytem of state capitalism of the Western democracies. This is possible, but hardly obvious, in either case. The universities offer freedom and encouragement to those who question the first of these assumptions, but more rarely to those who question the second. The reasons are fairly clear. Since the dominant voice in any society is that of the beneficiaries of the status quo, the ``alienated intellectual'' who tries to pursue the normal path of honest inquiry---perhaps falling into error on the way---and thus often finds himselfchallenging the conventional wisdom, tends to be a lonely figure.The degree of protection and support afforded him by the university is, again, a measure of its success in fulfilling its proper function in society. It is, furthermore, a measure of the willingness of the society to submit its ideology and structure to critical analysis and evaluation, and of its willingness to overcome inequities and defects that will be revealed by such a critique. Huxley on The Capitalist "Free Press:" Today the press is still legally free; but most of the little papers have disappeared. The cost of wood-pulp, of modernprinting machinery and of syndicated news is too high for theLittle Man. In the totalitarian East there is political censorship,and the media of mass communication are controlled by the state. In the democratic West there is economic censorship and the media of mass communication are controlled by members of the Power Elite. Censorship by rising costs and the concentration of communication power in the hands of a few big concerns is less objectionable than State ownership and government propaganda; but certainly it is not something of which a Jeffersonian democrat could possibly approve. In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Westerncapitalist democracies -- the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the enroachments of those who would manipulate and control it. In their propaganda today's dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization -- there petition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in the interests of the Party or the State. As the art and science of manipulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the future will doubtless learn to combine these techniques with the non-stop distractions which, in the West, are now threatening to drown in a sea of irrelevance the rational propaganda essential to the maintenance of individual liberty and the survival of democratic institutions. Aldous Huxley, 1958 "Brave New World Revisited" From: John Oleynick <juo@klinzhai.rutgers.edu> /-/\-\ The Anarchy Organization | / / \ \ Free Minds For Free Lives ( | ) --|-/----\-\-- yakimov@ecf.utoronto.ca \|/ \/ \/ jterpstra@trentu.ca `_^_' -- /-/\-\ The Anarchy Organization | / / \ \ Free Minds For Free Lives ( | ) --|-/----\-\-- yakimov@ecf.utoronto.ca \|/ \/ \/ jterpstra@trentu.ca `_^_'