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FERAL VISIONS AGAINST CIVILIZATION

The 3rd Annual Black and Green Anarchist Gathering

Unleash your wild side! Go Feral!

Southern Appalachia
July 27th - August 3rd, 2005
(exact location will not be announced till one week before the gathering - check back for updates)

As we embark on the process of rewilding - of opening ourselves to the wild desires that lie latent in our hearts and bodies - we can look to each other for knowledge and inspiration. We can never live as if we weren't born into Civilization's logic of control and distrust, but we DO have the power to begin to decivilize ourselves now. Our journey back into the circle of life follows new, unworn paths that we won't always understand or recognize. But we will always be guided by our feral visions...

A recent surge of interest in anti-Civilization and primitivist ideas has supported publications, gatherings, and all sorts of collaborations. The informal Black and Green network converges to share and collaborate, cross-pollinate, and inspire each other through our interaction in a wild place. The first Black and Green gathering took place in Pennsylvania in the summer of 2003. The second gathering, in central Oregon in August 2004, was called Feral Visions. We liked the name enough to carry it on at this next gathering, when we meet up in the Southern Appalachian bioregion of western North Carolina this summer, 2005.

Check out this web for more information about the exact location and date as the summer 2005 draws near. The exact location will be announced on the web page and on a toll free voicemail one week before the gathering. Shuttles will be available from Asheville.

Some of the subjects we've focused on in the past include anti-civilization theory, emotional recovery from Civilization, radical communication, ecofeminism, nihilism, indigenous solidarity, anarcho-primitivism, symbolic culture, post/anti-leftism, insurrectionalism, and direct action strategy. As for skillsharing, in the past we've seen hide tanning, arrow-fletching, basketry, shelter-building, wild foods gathering, friction fire-making, and roadkill skinning. We hope to find facilitators for all of this and more.

We're looking for folks who want to come early to help establish a camp. It will take place within 2 hours of Asheville, NC.

We want to start corresponding with folks about the gathering beforehand, to get as much input as possible.

Here are some ways we thought folks could participate:
-ideas for discussions and other content
-fundraising and promotion
-physical resources

Content:
*We want to hear from potential workshop instructors, discussion facilitators, and anyone with ideas for good group activities, topics you really want to see time set aside for, or specific earthskills you can instruct on, or that you wish to find others for collaboration or co-facilitation.

*Theatrical, musical, and poetic expressions of feral desire could be shared in a campfire setting with spoken word, original or recited/read poetry. Last year, a collective created a shadow puppet musical.

Fundraising/Promotion:
*We could pull this gathering off with very little money, but depending on how much money we had to work with, here's a things we could do:

1) PAY travel expenses for a teacher or two to come who wouldn't otherwise come if they had to pay to get there, but who has particular experience and knowledge that would be useful.

2) BUY some staple foods to provide more consistent and high quality meals than happens at most free gatherings. We will hopefully gather a lot of wild foods when we are at the site, but because we won't have gathered staples all year, we will need to get them in other ways. If we had a few hundred to work with we could probably make sure there's food like wild rice, nuts, whole corn for hominy, and local produce for one or two meals per day.

*Any money that's fundraised and sent to us that doesn't get spent on something (you can earmark it for a certain purpose too), will be donated to Green Anarchy magazine.

*We'll have posters and flyers on the website as PDF files in mid March, but we're also willing to mail them out if you don't have access to computers and printers, so let us know if you'll be needing that. We'll also be emailing updates to some contacts we already have, but there are many more out there we don't know yet, so please help us with this! We can also send out copies of flyers and posters if you don't have access to cheap or free copies where you live- just get in touch.

Physical Resources:
*large tarps and shelters- canvas wall tents, tipis, very large camping tents- where various spaces could be established for the gathering, including an infoshop, a clinic, rainspaces for meetings, food storage, kitchen, etc.. Extra tarps can be lent out to folks who come unprepared for rain.
*field kitchen gear

People Resources:
*large-group cooking teams who want to step up in advance to take on one of the daily meals, to coordinate with food donations. *folks to come early to help set up *folks to commit to help break down and clean up *people who are willing to do publicity/fundraising in their own areas *folks to work on content

For More Info
feralvisions@greenanarchy.org
www.greenanarchy.org/feralvisions
(866) 460-2945 (toll free)


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