Open the Windows - Appeal for Help
Steve Booth | 06.06.2002 18:35
Appeal for help and appeal for fresh vision, fresh ideas and initiatives to engage the wider public with the urgency of the ecological situation...
OPEN THE WINDOWS
This is an appeal for help. Turning away from dogmatic Primitivism and its divisive, alienated politics of isolation, Green Anarchist magazine now seeks a wider, more committed, visionary, active and creative readership. If you think you fit this description, you can help by reading GA, by subscribing. You can help by selling GA. You can send me your comments, offer criticism, send me your vision of how Green Anarchist should develop. Please help...
Founded in 1984, Green Anarchist has always had a lively and controversial history as one of Britain's militant ecological magazines. Described as the conscience of the green movement by 'Green Pages'; later GA was called "The most radical underground newspaper on the animal rights and road protest fringe." [Observer, 9th July 1995] and "Britain's most notorious and seditious radical newspaper." [Student Outlook, Summer 1995]
Many of you will remember how in 1995 - 1997, under 'Operation Washington', the state tried to suppress Green Anarchist, with at least 56 police raids, culminating in the notorious 'Gandalf Trial', where three GA editors, Noel Molland, Saxon Wood and myself, Steve Booth, were jailed, but released in 1998 after a strong campaign and international outcry.
We cannot rest on the past though. The political situation changes, and the radical movement grows and matures. It's evolve or die. Radical politics now must engage with more people. We need vision and clarity. We need focus. We need to draw people in to our movement. We need to capture the imagination. We need to go far beyond the things of the past, and transcend the stagnant, declining expectations of the mainstream.
For too long, the old dispensation only preached to the converted, pushing a narrow agenda on to a shrinking marginalised ghetto. We need to raise our sights. If the radical green movement is to mean anything at all, today and in the future; if it is to survive and flourish, it needs excitement, a sense of purpose, and real solidarity. There can be no revolution without ethics - if we lose morality, we lose everything. The movement needs to grow. We must open up those windows, let in the light and fresh air.
Stephen Booth,
Green Anarchist, 9 Ash Avenue, Galgate, Lancaster, LA2 0NP
01524 - 752212
This is an appeal for help. Turning away from dogmatic Primitivism and its divisive, alienated politics of isolation, Green Anarchist magazine now seeks a wider, more committed, visionary, active and creative readership. If you think you fit this description, you can help by reading GA, by subscribing. You can help by selling GA. You can send me your comments, offer criticism, send me your vision of how Green Anarchist should develop. Please help...
Founded in 1984, Green Anarchist has always had a lively and controversial history as one of Britain's militant ecological magazines. Described as the conscience of the green movement by 'Green Pages'; later GA was called "The most radical underground newspaper on the animal rights and road protest fringe." [Observer, 9th July 1995] and "Britain's most notorious and seditious radical newspaper." [Student Outlook, Summer 1995]
Many of you will remember how in 1995 - 1997, under 'Operation Washington', the state tried to suppress Green Anarchist, with at least 56 police raids, culminating in the notorious 'Gandalf Trial', where three GA editors, Noel Molland, Saxon Wood and myself, Steve Booth, were jailed, but released in 1998 after a strong campaign and international outcry.
We cannot rest on the past though. The political situation changes, and the radical movement grows and matures. It's evolve or die. Radical politics now must engage with more people. We need vision and clarity. We need focus. We need to draw people in to our movement. We need to capture the imagination. We need to go far beyond the things of the past, and transcend the stagnant, declining expectations of the mainstream.
For too long, the old dispensation only preached to the converted, pushing a narrow agenda on to a shrinking marginalised ghetto. We need to raise our sights. If the radical green movement is to mean anything at all, today and in the future; if it is to survive and flourish, it needs excitement, a sense of purpose, and real solidarity. There can be no revolution without ethics - if we lose morality, we lose everything. The movement needs to grow. We must open up those windows, let in the light and fresh air.
Stephen Booth,
Green Anarchist, 9 Ash Avenue, Galgate, Lancaster, LA2 0NP
01524 - 752212
Steve Booth
e-mail:
grandlaf@lineone.net