There are different streams within the anarchist/anti-authoritarian world. Some focus on working life, while others reject industrial society. This zine comes from the later way. Like many movements, there is a degree of hypocrisy within it…publishing involves the use of technology…but the broader green anarchist movement does posses some of the more insightful criticisms of the powers-that-be. A prime example of this is included in this issue as an insert…Lewis Mumford’s “Authoritarian and Democratic Techniques.” It is a well-reasoned critique of the replacement of individual and community autonomy with a technologically driven social order. About half of the publication itself can be considered political…concerns about the ecology of British Columbia as expressed within indigenous people’s resistance and a piece on non-status nationalism fall within this category. The other half is fiction, poetry and a piece on surrealism that would be at home in a general literary/arts publication devoid of expressed political content. By far the best content was found in the insert…the rest failed to stand out either positively or negatively. (Brian Burch)
zine, summer 2003, 14 pgs, $?, PO Box 47, Denman Island, BC, V0R 1T0