Breaking patterns

(http://www.practicalanarchy.org/fnb_crass.html)

"Anarchism and Non-Violence:

There have been many concerns raised about whether or not anarchism and non-violence are compatible. We argue that anarchism and non-violence are inseparable.

First, let us look at the historic role of the state. Christopher Day, of the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, writes: "The state - by which we mean the police, the army, the prisons, the courts, the various government bureaucracies, legislative and executive bodies - is the enforcer and regulator of authoritarian rule. The state maintains a monopoly on organized legal violence." Day writes further, "The state has always been an instrument of war. It is impossible to conceive of a society without war in a society still dominated by states."

In the Food Not Bombs book Feeding the Hungry and Building Community, it is explained that, "The name Food Not Bombs states our most fundamental principle; society needs to promote life, not death. Our society condones, and even promotes violence and domination. Authority and power are derived from the threat and use of violence."

The state and correspondingly capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy, concentrate power into the hands of the few, which systematically denies power to the majority of humanity. The denial of power over ones own life contributes to the violence that permeates day to day life. Violence happens in hundreds of different ways, everyday, as a result of this system of inequality. Whether it comes through rent, food with pesticides and price tags that hide the damages done to workers, taxes, jobs working to make someone else rich, malnutrition, police sweeps of homeless people, forced sterilization of women of color, social exclusion of poor people, and the list goes on.

So what is the connection between anarchism and non-violence? We must recover the long history of anarchist resistance and movement that has existed, and we will find that in fact anarchism and the struggle for a non-violent world have a long history."

Seattle, WA

Food Not Bombs is not criminal behaviour as some would believe. "Free food!! for everyone"

Fremont Library and Seattle Center

Relocalization Network

This is an old Relocalization Network project outline
that I have filled out to give YOU the reader an idea
of my perspective and goals that I have set for myself.

"Develop a plan to inventory the skills of as many
people as possible in your neighborhood.

Key points you will need to establish first:

What are the boundaries of the neighborhood or area
you will inventory?"

North America

"In what manner will you make the information available
to your neighborhood?"

Website/Blog

"Your neighbors will want to know if you are publishing
information online or just creating a printed directory
for the neighborhood.
Be sure to ask permission as needed."

Check:)

"What kinds of information do you want to include, and
how will you categorize it?"

Eco-Home Design and Sustainable Agriculture.

"Are there any groups you can partner with to research,
develop and promote the database?
(For example, community organizations, neighborhood
associations, local newspapers, etc.)"

Starting my own to avoid conflict of interests.

"There are many ways you can collect skills information,
such as holding neighborhood potlucks, posting flyers
at local gathering places, and simply going door to door.
When you collect information from your neighbors, be
sure to get each person's full contact details and ask
their permission to be contacted for advice or instruct-
tion concerning their area of skill."

I recommend a Food not Bombs gathering.

"One fun way to collect information at a neighborhood
gathering is to have a very large-scale map of your
neighborhood displayed on which people can write their
skills occupation right in the spot where they live.

You may want to track down specific skills that would
be particualarly useful for Relocalization efforts.
For example: Food production skills, like metalworking,
wood working, pottery, weaving, knitting, and sewing.

Organizational and communication skills, like meeting
facilitation, project management, community organizing,
lobbying, and media relations."

Utilize everyones potential, don't let people go to
waist. I am going to Cuba to track down the best
practices of utilizing people and resources to aid in
building a sustainable future starting with community.

"Finally, after you've collected all the information
you need and have compiled it into a useful format for
people to use, promote the resource regularly to your
neighbors, and find ways to update it and to keep track
of how people make use of it."

Use this as a guideline for your own relocalization efforts.
Don't wait on bureaucrats, collaborators, or politicians
for change. Make it yourself, less talk more action :)

Thank you Mege, Peace, Love, move forth and multiply:)

I suspect the community had something else in mind for this community garden:(



In Seattle, Mege and I stayed in Fremont at the Foundry where many artists in the past have spent time creating.

Whidbey Island, WA

"Big Rig 1, this is Big Rig 2"

This is my school:

Manifest a battle plan, write it down, then execute.
Precision is not necessary, while your at it, blog it!

My institution, my mechanism, my machine is designed to learn and sell an alternative lifestyle to the super consumer North American capitalist nation.

Spanish, Botany, Permaculture, Eco-Home Design,
Green Infrastructure, Energy Systems.

"Be the change that you want to see in the world, it better sell."

Believe in yourself; your potential is what matters.

Adaptation Survey: Individual, Community, Provincial, Federal..North America

Vancouver Island en route Tofino BC

Victoria BC

Urban Garden Bicycle Tour

UBC Farm Protest

UBC Farm (all 24Ha)

UBC Botanical Garden