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Despite the rising cost of oil, and increased drought, things are not too bad yet in Wilbur County. This is due to the foresight of many good people, and it’s why EcoSurvival Village chose to locate here on the edge of the Ochocos.
About 15 years ago the citizens of Germaine and Wilbur County decided to invest in the future. They believed that investing in alternative technology could help a small community in a cold northern desert survive, and even thrive. They invested in organic agriculture, solar and wind energy, and alternative farming methods.
The brave experiment proved that a small town and county could live nearly self-sufficiently. Most of our power is off the grid. Much of our fuel is non-petroleum based. And a large percentage of our food is grown organically in greenhouses, using sustainable methods.
Of course we are lucky to live in a little sheltered valley, protected from the bitter winds of the high desert, atop a number of artesian springs fed by the mountain aquafirs.
The people of our large, overbuilt cities, dependent on automobiles for transportation, and trucks for hauling produce and food are or will soon be sorely hurting. Energy collapse, and ecological disaster will leave many areas of the world uninhabitable. Borders will no longer have meaning as more and more refugees arrive.
What can we do to help? We can not hold any more people here in our fragile desert ecosystem. But maybe we can tell our story, and become an example.
And we stress, and will continue to do so, that alternative energy is not the whole answer. We must overthrow consumer capitalism. That is the name of the beast.
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While it is no surprise to those of us at EcoSurvival Village that oil shock has occured, the rapidity with which the finger-pointing social decline has already begun has caught us off guard. It proves a hypothesis which some have been promoting lately: change is going to arrive at a much faster pace than any “official” estimates from the scientific community.
While some of our readers will be inclined to see the advance of peak oil as a good thing –especially in regard to global warming– we want to provide a caution. Rapid economic breakdown is likely to cause much more death and destruction than a more gradual change will. War over resources will not benefit us.
On the other hand, cooperation to convert the economy to a more sustainable model has several positive points:
• community building and solidarity,
• preventing further damage to the earth’s ecology, which a resource war will undoubtably cause,
• avoidance of unnecessary death, and
• it will give us an opportunity to advance democracy and people power (on the other side of that coin is an increased danger of fascism),
As we step up our campaign against Malsanto on May Day, we ask you not to drive to the protest. Use your bicycles, or walk to the Germaine town square, and march with us to Malsanto headquarters in south Wilbur County.
Besides being the greatest threat to our planet’s food chain, remember that Malsanto is also one of the world’s largest producers of petroleum-based artificial fertilizers.
NO Oil Economy, NO Borders, NO Malsanto!!!
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The Council of the Other
The Council of the Other, the decision-making body of Planet Resist, issues the following communique to our friends “below and to the left,” as our compadres, the Zapatistas say.
We have entered into a new Situation. This change has nothing to do with the strength of our movement, although we believe that we are growing stronger. It has nothing to do with new dynamics in society, although we also believe there are new dynamics which favor our direction.
No, the new Situation grows directly from the anger of our mother, the earth who nourishes us. It is born from the exhaust pipes and chemical spew of The Destroyers. It is the result of our neglect, and our passivity, and our ignorance.
It is alarming, and it is necessary that we not hesitate to take action.
The Situation
The scientists of the world say that we have only a decade to turn around the Threat of Global Warming. However, they do not yet have the courage to tell us the full truth about the cause of our demise. That truth we call Consumer Capitalism. It is a system of endless consumption, which leads logically to death and destruction. It is a cancer which is eating our planet.
But, it is also the hypodermic needle which is feeding the addictions of the rich industrial north.
Do you understand this? Do you understand that your wasteful way of life is killing all of humanity? Do you understand that the very system which allows you to thrive must itself be destroyed?
The only way for the people of the earth to survive this coming disaster is for those of us in the rich north to come to a wisdom of Living in Balance. This new Radical Indigenism must grow out of the roots of the native peoples of this land, and of those who have become one with its soil.
Radical Indigenism
First, let us be clear, by Radical Indigenism, we are not referring to the empty intellectual discussions of the bourgeois ndn academics. We are talking here about radical practice to deliver the soil which nurtures our indigenous roots, from the hands of The Destroyers.
Five hundred years ago, the European Invaders brought to these continents the Western Ideology. That ideology has taken many forms as it has subjugated the people of the Amerikas. But in each and every one of its forms, it has promoted an elite hierarchy whose aim has been to extract the blood of the planet not for the betterment of humanity, but for the advancement of the elite, itself.
The capitalisms, and the conservatisms, and the fascisms, and the marxisms and the liberalisms, and the anarchisms are all invasive species. They suck the nutrients from our soil and destroy the ecosystems of the indigenous. Radical Indigenism is about taking back our soil, restoring our ecology, and growing our resistance from these ancient roots.
Who are the Destroyers?
The destroyers are the corrupt politicians, and the transnational corporations which feed their corruptions, and the media whores who soothe us with empty promises of sex and sexy cars, and the christian zealots who soothe us with their quick fix jesus opiates.
This is the army of the elite hierarchy, which we must destroy.
Our mother earth may be patient with us for a time. She may be our ally. But if we do not successfully challenge The Destroyers, she will turn on us as well, for then, we will all be complicit in the destruction.
Strategic Discussion
The Transnational Corporation, Malsanto, is at our doorstep. This company, which once developed Chemical Death for the war in Vietnam, now develops Chemical Death for the farmers of the north and the peasants of the south. It’s ultimate aim is to own a monopoly on life.
EcoSurvival Village calls on all concerned people of Germaine and Wilbur County to attend a discussion at the Germaine Public Library, “What to do about Malsanto.”
The questions will be: What is a Malsanto research facility doing in Wilbur County? How do we stop them? Who will stop them?
The answer to that last one is you, my friends, or no one. Act now.
Meeting: What To Do About Malsanto
Where: Germaine Public Library
When: Saturday, March 3, 1pm
Who: Everyone interested in stopping Malsanto
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Eco Survival Village and Planet Resist send sororial greetings of solidarity to the Nation of Bergonia from Germaine and Wilbur County, Oregon.
We invite Bergonians to visit our experiment in socialism and democracy, and to tour Wilbur County.
In turn, we encourage citizens of Eco Survival Village, and the greater communities of Wilbur County to visit Bergonia.
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