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Post by Hitch HighKIng on May 29, 2013 10:09:13 GMT -7
Any chance there is a seed camp I can help with?
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Post by Feral Wolf on May 27, 2013 15:16:45 GMT -7
we'll have more info about this in the woods, but be sure to hit up the Nature's Oasis health food dumpsters, including the Sunnyside Meats dumpster, which if not human-quality, can feed our canine companions. there's also Vitamin Cottage and Durango Natural Foods dumpsters in town, Bread bakery (just go in and ask for donations in the name of Food Not Bombs), and the Farmers Market every Saturday am (also get donations in the name of FNB). anything i'm forgetting?
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Post by Feral Wolf on May 27, 2013 13:20:56 GMT -7
Seeking feedback regarding when & where to meet up for 2013 Scout Council. We usually follow Earth, Lunar, Solar, and/or Celestial cycles. There's a "Dance of the Planets" alignment coming up at the end of May, and the New Moons in on June 8th. I'd say the New Moon should be our last opportunity for council, but I'm in favor of the planetary alignment the night of Friday the 31st. Also, where? A site from years past? Piedra?
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Post by Feral Wolf on May 20, 2013 10:09:05 GMT -7
wanting to do this again this year. please bring prisoner bios & other info, stationary (paper, pens, envelops, stamps, etc.). thanks!
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Dismantling Patriarchy
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Post by Dismantling Patriarchy on May 11, 2013 15:14:04 GMT -7
Contact dismantlingpatriarchy@riseup.net for more information.
The Dismantling Patriarchy group aspires to create safer spaces for open, critical, and honest discussion on the subject of gender, sexuality, and patriarchy (as well as privilege and oppression more broadly), as well as foster a culture of accountability regarding oppressive language & behavior in our community. We use the language of "safer spaces" rather than "safe space" and emphasize accountability in acknowledgment that in this culture, no space can ever be made completely safe for everyone, all the time.
Dismantling Patriarchy does not seek to create a hegemonic consensus of ideas. Rather, we seek to open a dialogue that leads to decisive action to confront & dismantle patriarchy & sexism in our communities, while fostering the cultivation of egalitarian relationships. While centering the experiences and voices of those most oppressed by patriarchy, we also want to acknowledge that patriarchy hurts men in ways that are not often articulated. We want to emphasize that while struggling to liberate & reshape gender, it is essential that we constantly stay aware of our privilege and remain accountable to those whose lives our privilege affects.
Everyone is welcome* at our meetings, workshops, and events; male-identified folks of all persuasions are highly encouraged.
*We recognize that it's not the obligation of those of us oppressed by heteropatriarchy to facilitate these group discussions & workshops. We don't expect oppressed people to attend, though all are welcome. While it is not the responsibility or duty of queers, POC (People of Color), and other oppressed and marginalized people to assist white, cis-hetero, and privileged people unpack, deconstruct, and confront their own privilege, these processes will be open to all.
(Adapted from the Philly Dudes Collective. Thanks!)
Anti-Oppression Policy:
We recognize that the institutional, economic, political, social and cultural dynamics of hierarchy, power and privilege that define mainstream society also permeate radical communities. These dynamics are expressed in various interlocking systems of oppression (e.g., racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, speciesism, etc.), which prevent equal access to resources and safety, disrupt healthy communities and movement building, and severely—sometimes irreparably—harm our allies, our friends, our loved ones and ourselves.
The Dismantling Patriarchy group offers a growing number of zines and other texts addressing the need to challenge these systems of oppression. This is a reflection of our understanding that implicit in our desire to stop the domination and exploitation of the Earth is a need to create communities that are free of oppressive social relations. We understand that failing to address oppressive behavior not only weakens our movement by alienating and further victimizing our friends and allies, it also calls into question our commitment to a better world and our qualification as a radical community of resistance.
For these reasons, we have drafted this policy of active opposition to oppressive behavior of all kinds within our group and at our events.
Definitions:
We define oppressive behavior as *any* conduct (typically along lines of institutionalized power and privilege) that demeans, marginalizes, rejects, threatens or harms any living being on the basis of ability, activist experience, age, class/income level, cultural background, education, ethnicity, gender, immigration status, language, nationality, physical appearance, race, religion, self-expression, sexual orientation, species, status as a parent or other such factors. Oppressive behavior comes in a wide variety of forms, from seemingly harmless jokes to threats of violence, from interrupting to verbal abuse, from unwanted touching to rape, from hitting to murder. Some forms are more extreme and irreparable than others, but all are unacceptable under our anti-oppression policy.
Goals:
This policy aims to:
•affirm and protect the personal autonomy, safety and well-being of all who participate in the group and events;
•empower all group members and participants to challenge oppressive behavior and provide them with skills and resources to do so effectively (including educational materials, response strategies, etc.);
•nurture a strong, safe, healthy, reliable, egalitarian and diverse community;
•make our group more accountable to ourselves as well as the greater community;
•support and promote anti-oppression principles and practices within the group and greater community;
•overcome barriers preventing cooperation and solidarity with oppressed individuals and groups who feel unsafe or unwelcome in the group; and
•combat the troubling legacy of oppression that continues to plague radical communities and our society as a whole.
Limitations:
We acknowledge the limitations of such a policy. Developing an anti-oppression policy is an ongoing process; this policy will undoubtedly need periodic review and revision. Additionally, this policy will not automatically make the group oppression-free, eliminate oppressive organizational structures and personal behaviors, or erase the grievances of previously oppressed and marginalized people. Realistically, our anti-oppression policy is only as strong as our commitment to addressing and confronting oppressive behavior on a regular basis.
Prevention and Education:
The best way to deal with oppressive behavior is to prevent it from happening in the first place. Therefore, we will ensure that all group members and participants are familiar with this policy, with the understanding that all participants in the group are expected to abide by it. Additionally, we will support individuals who are unfamiliar with the terms and ideas used in this policy by making available more resources (e.g., zines, essays, books, websites and articles) on topics such as: building conflict resolution skills; promoting consent and mental health; dealing with sexual assault, animal abuse and other forms of violence; confronting male/heterosexual/white privilege; and supporting anti-racist organizing and border justice.
Toward a Restorative Justice Model:
Every instance of oppressive behavior is unique and thus requires a unique response. Moreover, different types of oppressive behavior demand significantly different reactions (e.g., the strategy for confronting someone who makes an anti-Semitic joke will be different from the strategy for confronting someone who commits a sexual assault). Nevertheless, there are some familiar patterns that often arise when challenging oppression. We believe that anticipating these patterns, avoiding counter-productive reactions and aiming for ideal outcomes will benefit nearly all anti-oppression processes.
(Adapted from the Earth First! Journal's Anti-Oppression & Safe Space Policy. Thanks!)
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Feral Accountability
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Post by Feral Accountability on May 11, 2013 14:15:57 GMT -7
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Post by feralien on Apr 21, 2013 17:25:13 GMT -7
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Post by Feralien on Apr 20, 2013 23:30:05 GMT -7
feralfutures.blogspot.com/2013/04/street-medicine-training-at-wild-roots.htmlNote: If you have workshops, skill shares, teach-ins, etc. that you would like us to list ahead of time, please contact us at feralfutures@riseup.netWild Roots Feral Futures is very excited to announce a 2.5-day Street Medic training at this year's WRFF, taught by members of Chicago Action Medical (CAM), Mutual Aid Street Medics (MASM), and Finger Lakes Action Medics (FLAME). National first aid systems in most of the world came out of the medical corps of popular and liberation movements in the 1950s and 1960s. This was also true in the United States, where street medics were operating and training in Mississippi and New York City at least four years before Maryland established the first statewide EMS program. Street medics are an international informal community who have provided medical support during the last half-century of protests, direct actions, uprisings, and militarized natural disaster aftermaths. Becoming a member of the street medic community involves completing a 20-28 hour training, working at an action as the buddy of an experienced street medic, and maintaining relationships with the street medic community. Students who attend this training are expected to attend all of it. The training covers (1) street medic field operations and prevention, (2) emergency response, (3) patient assessment and first aid, (4) community health work, and (5) operating in unsafe scenes. Scenarios, skills stations, and critical thinking exercises are based on recent experiences of street medics in backcountry and urban situations. All students will get non-latex gloves and a 70pp street medic handbook, and may purchase a basic first aid kit. Itinerary: • June 19-21: 20-hour street medic training. • June 23: 3-hour Intro to herbal remedies for base camp and blockade. • June 23: 2-hour Wildcrafting high-desert medicine for common camp maladies. Trainer bios: GRACE KELLER is an internationally-recognized street medic trainer and a member of Chicago Action Medical. She trained as a street medic in 2001 and apprenticed as a street clinician in 2002-2003. She has spent the years since volunteering as a front-line health worker, clinician, educator, and health systems designer in urban, rural, and backwoods environments. Ms. Keller grew up among pokeweeds, corn fields, and ramps in a parsonage beside a country church in the south. She began formal study of clinical herbalism in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. As a survivor of psychiatric abuse and former assistant director of a peer-run, recovery-based state mental health agency, she takes a strong interest in how complex social situations and trauma can be addressed by lay health workers. BECCA PISER works as a registered nurse. She was trained as a street medic in 2002 and is active in Mutual Aid Street Medics and Philly Street Medic Collective as a medic and trainer. Becca is a founding member of Peoples Medical Relief, providing medical relief and recovery work with survivors of hurricane Sandy in New York. Becca has challenged medic trainers across the Eastern and Central US to update their trainings to meet current realities, and helped develop new curricula for training street medics, affinity group medics, and community first-aiders. Becca started two prison arts programs and is working on starting a third. GREG is a street medic, herbalist, Wilderness EMT, bicycle mechanic, farmworker, Reiki practitioner, and community builder. When he is not summit hopping he spends his time in Ithaca, NY, where he organizes with FLAME (Finger Lakes Action Medics and Educators) and the Ithaca freeskool. Greg offered ongoing herbal support at Occupy Wall Street and other protests, has helped maintain campaign health at longer forest actions and encampments. Most recently, he organized medical care for the 50,000 person Forward on Climate rally in Washington, DC and the Earth First! Climbers Guild's week-long climb training which took place in the snow-covered Finger Lakes National Forest.
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Post by Betrayal on Apr 5, 2013 18:00:59 GMT -7
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Post by Down With Dishes on Jun 14, 2012 11:35:39 GMT -7
The dish station will be four stages from left to right: (1) compost/trash bucket, (2) warm water wash bucket, (3), rinse bucket, and (4) sanitize bucket. ^sometimes people switch up (3) and (4), particularly if sanitizing with bleach water, which we will likely avoid in favor of something non-harmful to the environment such as white vinegar and/or grapefruit seed extract, etc. (ideas for natural sanitizers?). Here's some resources on this basic system: www.free-spirit.org/Events/washstation.phpwww.chesapeakepagans.org/Gathering/DishWash.html |
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Post by TAB on Jun 13, 2012 15:45:58 GMT -7
Also, how are the attitudes of entitlement of the "civilized" projected onto "primitive" or "non-civilized" cultures (including how they interact with their own "disabled"), including how that might fit into a post-civ world?
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Post by TAB on Jun 13, 2012 13:48:30 GMT -7
Also, is there anyone out there who might be willing to host or lead a discussion on dynamics of ableism in primitivist & anti-civ discourse, and how to approach these issues from an anti-authoritarian perspective that isn't simply inherently dismissive of primitivism, but rather tries to discover how a post-civ world can maximize accessibility for those of varying levels of ability and deal with these issues appropriately? Thanks!
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Post by TAB on Jun 13, 2012 13:30:34 GMT -7
Hey everyone,
So, there's been some conflict on the facebook event listing regarding ableist language in the initial call-out, and we're trying to work together to see what can be done to change it for the better. Here's what went down in the discussion so far:
Erik Safewright: "Due to natural circumstances and the lay of the land (rocky trails on steep hills, etc.), ableism and “disability” may hinder accessibility for some to the inner reaches of the gathering, including the hot springs. This is a reality of the natural world that is beyond our ability or desire to alter or control."<--That's some fucked up shit right there. You spend like 8 paragraphs detailing your preparations for hiding genitalia... then offer two sentences to say "the world ain't flat, if you're crippled then you're fuct, because we're ableists and thus you've been disabled."
Erik Safewright: "...even those writers who have specifically examined oppression have internalised the dominant, individualised world view of disability and have failed to conceptualise it as social oppression." -- (Oliver, Understanding Disability, p. 133)
Gimps R Us: I first talked to 'them' about this 3 years ago. The fact is that many are simply prejudiced biased, and did and do discriminate in their actions and beliefs.
If you show up let me and mine know and we'll create a p.rrotest line with you, block their road in, dump their water and in general create little havoc for some punks with clean kitchens. We will create a protest in the woods. College Kids! I've got a disability rights protest arrest record dating back a few dcades. Lets do 'em!!
Free Our People - ADAPT - Our Homes Not Nursing Homes
Yes it's fucked up shit. The ableist language that continues is bullshit crap. They conflate, in their prejudice and discriminiation, people with mobility issues (pregnant women, older people, rollers amputees, young children) and slap it all into ableist rhetorical shit.
Hey Eric, You wanna FREAK 'em - just for fun... Shouldn't take more than 2 or 3 of us. :-)
Tom, in Denver
Ab Irato: that part should have actually been edited out of this version, sorry. we're no longer at the site with the hill and hot springs. i will change it. regardless, that certainly isn't how we intended the statement, and if that's how it came across, then naturally it needs to be worked on. that said, i would love to hear your suggestions regarding accessibility to wilderness-oriented events such as this one. it's a discussion i take seriously and think needs to be had. we're certainly willing to help hoof folx' gear into the site, etc., and strive for maximum accessibility, but without having to twist it into the harsh statement that you did, what *are* we to do regarding land bases that make accessibility for those of differing levels of abilities an issue?
Ab Irato: also, Tom, i'm not sure why you're talking to and about people you otherwise call friends that way. our wording has always been an open learning process, and while we've made many mistakes over the years and hopefully learned from them, when you're talking about a community that you're fully empowered to influence the language of, calling for confrontation with your supposed comrades is simply counter-revolutionary and horizontally hostile. We are people you know and claim to love, and have shared many circles and fires with. We do not understand your hostility, even if we're trying to figure out how to better state that trails in the wilderness are difficult and we must say something about that in our texts lest we mislead people into thinking that a wilderness area will be as accessible as we'd like it to be, etc.
so what we'd like from everyone is a bit of collective process about how to appropriately word a disclaimer about the lay of the land. we don't want anything we say or write to be fucked up, unintentional or not, so let's work together and create something we can all live and work with.
Ab Irato: okay, i am tweaking things a bit, but it may still be fucked up, so bare with me here. Here's where i'm at so far (please suggest how to make it appropriate and not fucked up):
"The WRFF organzers' collective recognizes the dynamics of accessibility and ableism as a form of societal oppression in our culture, and strive to select sites with maximum accessibility, considering the context of an event located in forest and wilderness areas. Due to natural circumstances and the lay of the land (rocky trails on steep hills, etc.), ableism and “disability” may hinder accessibility for some to the inner reaches of the gathering. This is a reality of the natural world that is beyond our ability or desire to alter or control. We will, however, make very effort to help folx of differing abilities get their gear into the woods. Please contact us or ask an event organizers if you or someone in your group needs assistance hauling gear. Together as a community we're able to do anything!"
Ab Irato: ^i realize simply offering assistance doesn't solve the issues. but we're here in genuine openness asking for some semantic guidance regarding this language.
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Do others have thoughts, comments, criticisms, critiques, suggestions, etc. that they'd like to throw our way regarding dynamics of ableism and this language? Thanks!
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(captcha: "cool heads prevail")
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Post by Ferherbalogist on Jun 12, 2012 11:14:29 GMT -7
we'll have herbal tinctures on hand that will help with altitude adjustment as well!
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Post by Tom in Denver on Jun 10, 2012 15:27:51 GMT -7
No issue getting in. I bought that deer cart last year to haul stuff - we all used it at Earth First, remember. It will (barely) fit into the car we are bringing - but it fits. I wish the telescope fit. ;-(
I'll only bring a couple of water filters and housing and pictures of Hawkers and Jules systems. I'll probably work them into either the session on clay pot technology (since that incl water filtering) or 30, 60, 90 days in a community building infrastructure. I'm bringing chocolate zuzus soaked in Stoli to give to folks that attend.
Folks thinking of a feral future need to think about community and infrastructure safety health - sanitation, water - it's the Rainbow Way. The Human Way. JMO. If folks down there want to bring some 3/4" NSF rated water pipe and connectors, people can try to learn how to set up a real system.
We'll be down on Friday I think.
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