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TFIE GnEAT qUINQUEhINIUh{ Sreat word eh? Qulnquennj"r.m ( kwin*kwen-ium) , lt &eans a five year period. Itve been xanting to use it for years and nsw lrve got the chance because this paper is five years oId as of this lssue. this Ls my last issue and ihe next iseire will be produced under the editonship of Bichard and Rodney. For nowr IoE can still wrlte to the Digger and Chrlstlan Anarchist c/a me, Kenny Hone at h55 Park 5tn1 North, Peterborough, OntarLo, Canada, KgH &R1. I'AI pass on your
letters to the
new editorsr
For a long tlme I looked on Digger: as a one man project, but eventuaLly reallsed how wrong I was* I never could have done it wi"?hout the suppor-t, of my com$unity, and my community corrers a coup}e of. hundred people spread over thousands of miles, severa.l countri.es and a couple of continents. Now ltre time for thanks. First, thanks t,o KeD Ranney who baiLed me out'financially several tirneso werltr:keep in touch. e number of people here in i,eterborough could be counted on for ten or twenty bucks every so often, thanks to all sf yotl. Itfs because of your that Digger has al"ways been free to anyone who asked for it"lenerosity Digger has suffered all a)-ong under a machine jinx. Irve used about fl-ve typewriters in five yeers, and brske three cf them* $heila loaned rfie a manual *uhich got through several issuesr 8n eLectric came from Projeets for Change which last* ed three issues before being destr*ired, ana this machine i-s a girt i"rom Craig, and is sufferinfi uncier a slight corap]aint right, rc.*I* $een*il- cr:tters of the eleetronie type have fail-e<i on a couple of occasions, thanhs to all who helped out ln tkre machi"nery *epartment, ?)ranks mest of all ?* thase who took the tim€ to nrite seurething for the mag. You savect *.,he paper from belng a oangerously indlvidualistic e6s projection. Look at all your. names: Richard Hamiltono Jim Ham* ilton, Simon Shields, Sheitra l,labigonr'!{eather ReynoXds, $har*n Fiac* &}plne, Ralph Hullr Eob Den Elzen, Tony llendry, Kathy $l:aidleo ldagg*.e i{elwig* Stephen Hancockr:John Hil}, and Lhere were more wh* =ent in blte and piee€s as well. If I di-dnrt reprint one of your artieles in this issue, it was for lack of space, not beeause 1 didnnt want. to" fhanks to al-l of you. The more thlngs change, the more they s#*ay the same. In the last five years Digger has seen a lot n ALI our Cruise Missiln !ry: bests were for naufht, but it looks like the re$istance to the I(ATC j.nvaeion of Ntassinan is going to pay off. After years of criticieirrg the vrelfare system, things haventt roally changed rauch, but we cairied the capittl pui:.shme[t issue to a decisive rejection of state rnurder. 0n thi globaI level, goverrunent,s and social systems are toppl"ing Like nine pins, but the people are replacing old tyrannies with new ones, the names and facee change but the oppression gCIes onr communisrn, democracy, monarchy, capitalism, free raarket, igtF aII the sarae, meei the new Li,ss * sam6-as tfre o1d boss. QnIy when the holy spiilt covers the earth and we change our minds (repen'ui wili we lie iree and we will be under Godre (our own true) rule, i€o &NABCHY. Finally I want to thank PETE&BOROUfiI{, THE AHABCHIST SrtPI?AL fHE CHRTSTIAN ANAft,CffiS? 0F CA}{ADA! $ee you aroundn,.* LONG tI RIITOLUTION! !
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Ifle}eone to the fj"rst issue of the Di"gger. We are concerned with christianity; how it has developed, how t,fiE iea"rri"s" of Jesus and His early church reLate to the presint situation in siefety" We are concerned with social issues, the atienition of trre-inaiviar,"i; tir; ploitation of the poor, ana t,[e il;iiliarion of society for dubious "*ends. ,Our social. and spiritual beliefs are rooted in the literal teachi'ngs of Jesusr.the ptriioiophles oi-c""".ra winsi.rl"y, Leo Tolsro1.r petlr Dqv. and Maurin: problems lgrgrrryI;-t"a.i."-;";i;"fifil"lociar unrivalled in tlP!g"I, with doubt and ionrusion'*ii around, with war and nuclear annihilalion threatenin[ wrrire roiir:.Jns iio" in poverty and misery, we can only l99l wiirr-gFave"misgivings at the church today and its unholy marriag6-with tire sEile. A church thar blesses the arms of war cin never"give true solace to its children. lhank God we live in a time of new Eirtrr in the churchr- it G-il-unaerground based in the streets, ln private homes anci in the hea:ts of the church children of Ood. I
}fe are radical christlans" t{Ie believe that when the dictates of rnen clash with the w111 of our riinerl-*rriot is made clear in t,he teachings of His son,. rhen we nusr p*.""ioity-b1.;_;irrr,,rty defy men to-be try9 !o our Faiher. a|e tiry-b.rt ru* shall nhat see our re-tle solve vrill bring. pray cod r+'e a; Hi;'wirk and do it well. Solurne
1, #1, May '85
TITE SBffiGC{ES rr a6L9
a little,group of unemployed labcrers anc land,^-^'!1-{9r}r peasants gatherqd at St-. Georgis [iiIl ni"""wirion-on-Thames 1n *ess and surrey. begin.to-dig up the comfion rana and-p"*p""u io"-;;;ilg' vegetables. Their leaderi were wiiiiam Everard'anil winJfantey. At f lrst thev.onll ,"o,r""d curioiiiv-*iia-"yrrp"it y-'u"iGerrard rime wenr on the lgcal 10i"ds ;r th; rruno*, th." genr,ry aroused the populace "u and a mot shut lrp the DiFBers 1n the church it wiiton until-[rt*y were released a justice of t[E peace.- 4gain tr."y-**"L captured ui. mob and locked b1 up in'the nearby iown of Kingsr;; ilg-iqr1n'"eleas;a.- o"-lp"ir-io complaint was laid before tlri cour,"ii oF s;";;;-*f,J*""nr rwo groups, of cavalry under a cai:tain Cladnan to i""."t,:"g.tu. 0ladman repor'ted that the incident was trivial and sent Everard and Winstanley io London-to
to Thomas Fairfax. They-Explainea that, since tfre Nor"m*n-.o"quest, England had been under of.tyaranny whJ.ch was now aboll"shed, would now i^,.y19 relleve the poor and restore their freedom'to"rro-dfiii-coa enjoy the fruits oi the earth.' The two men also explained that they-oid"nl,t want to interfere yitl private property but oi,iy io pii"i and- rrarvesi on rhe trany wasrelands of England-and-to live logether holding all ttrings 1n common. were sure that their exampfe would be r6ttoweo uy-irr" poo" ina T!"y dispossessed all over England ind in ihe course of tlme alL men would give up their possessioni and join them in-commu"ity. ?hls is of course a theme which has echoed down ?hrough centuries of communal exFqrimentation slnce the infant christian cEurch. expiain-[iiemsefves
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A nonth later Lord Fairfax himself stopped on his way to London to see the experiuent, and ciecided j.t was a matter for the loca1 authorlties. In June another mob including some soldiers assaulted the Diggers and trampled their crops. Winstanley complained to Falrfax and the soldiers were apparently ordered to leave-the Diggers alone. In June the Diggers announced that they woul,d cut and sell the wood on the co&mon, but at this point the landLords sued for damages and brespass. The court awarded damages of ten pounds and costs and then seized the cows WinstanLey was pasturing on the common, but reLeased them.because they were not his property. Winstanley wis in financial troubles for years and taking care of others Livest6ck for a small fee Was one slender way of bringing in income for the little commune. _.Perhaps because of the judgement, and the fact that their crops had been brampled, the Diggeis moved in the autumn to the common ol Cobham manor, built four houses, and started a crop of winter grain. By this tine there were over fifty Diggers. lrlhen ihey refused-to disperse, Fairfax, his patlenee at an-end finaLly sent troops who along with thc mob destroyed two of the houses and again trampl-ed-the fieLds. ?he Diggers persisted however and by spring they had eleven acres of growing gra5-n and six or seven houses and similar movements had spmng up in Nor0harnptonshire and Kento The landlords (Ied sgnificantly encugh by a clergyrnan named Platt) turned their cattle-into the grain and led the mob Ln d.estroying hour-e*: and..rtrnning out the Diggars including women and ehildren.
On_Apri1
1,
L65A, Winstanley and fourteen
others (Everard seems to have been unbalanced 'n[oTi"r*Li* and disappeared sometj.me before this), were indicrred for disorderly conduct, unlawful assemblyo and trespass. The Diggers had been &ew*Ter -fi devoutly. pacifist throughout all- their trials. There is no record of how the case turned out but t,his is the Last we hear of the little experi.ment in Christian communalisrn at Cobham. ifhus ends the Digger movement, a srnalL episode rrhich barely made news .in the crude newspapers of the day and which almost certainly vrould have been forgotten to us but for the amazingly lucid and compelling series of pamphlets which Winstanley published all during the existence of the movement. These writings constitute the first systematic presentation of Christian AnarchiSm in English.
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No man can be rich, but he must be rich, either by his own labors l or the labors of other men helping him; If a tran have no help from his neigh,bors, he shatl never gathar fn esiat,e of hundreds and tlousands a year; if other men help him to work then are those riches his neighbors as well as hls own, for they be the fr"uit of other mens labors as well as his own. But all rich men live at ease, feeding and clothing themselves by the ,labor of other men and not by their own, which is their shame and not their nobility, for it is more blessed to give than to receive. from The Law Of Freedom in a Platform by Gemard Winstanle i
Vo1ume
1, #L,
May ,85
AH.MX
CIn Monday the 26th of May, a bus troad of forty-eight peace lovin' ;olk went up to Ottawa (ttre Capital) to protest AR![f '89. AhX is an international gathering of buyers of weapons. Bepresentatives of. raajor terrorist nations such as the United States, Britain and France attended as weII as the Little guys like EI Salvador, Chile etc. Canada is famous as a nation which promotes peace in the world, but as this show points out, it ls a tarnished reputation and one which Canada has no right to. lrlhen we got therer wâ&#x201A;Ź joined with some fifreen hundred other peace lovers from Toronto, HamiLt,on lilagara and hundreds of other communities and clearly denonstrated Lh.at Arutm was unweLcome and unnacceptable to p,s. We all got togeth e:: at Confederation park next to the National Art Centre and got to knon each other for a while. Here I got to meet a couple of old friends that I had not seen for a year or two and had a great time noti-ng the various flags and banners, taking pamphlets and listeni,r*g tc speakers such as Pierre Valierre. Present were groups of
Qu*kers, Catholics, socia}i,sts, and anarchists.
At around tuo otclock we all started out on the two nil-e walk to Lansdowne Park r,*here the obscenity was being prepared. Trr*as halted as we strolled along clapping, chanting, and sJ.ng'rffic :ingn As befits a peaee unarch it was a- iruljr joyous oicasion and l:alf' l.sji there, thq r'< '*hich had been eonspicuous by its absence câ&#x201A;Źl,ic out to join us. 0r'r arrlval at tansdowne Park, we gathered ENOUGH IS ENOI'GHI 1:i: hear a number of speeches. The speakers r'*re introduced in each case by Marion Dewer" ex Ottawa ?ayor and NDP (New Democratic Fai'ty0 stalwart " We heard f rour the head of FJ.oughsahres, the Christian Student Movemeni;, richard Johnson (another }IDPIer) r a spokesperson for the disabled t &rt El Sal.vedoran, and two representatives of the NUGLEAR DT$ANMATIIE]T? ,^,rrtaouas Anarchist League. This last rdas CtEAil EIIYIRONUETT a special mo:nent for me as it was the first WONTD PEACE & JUSTICC i.ine that I had seen a socialist waruly ;telcume an ana.rQhist in public, and give HOW! them their due" As all this was going oor a group of men watched from balconiei frigh rrp in Lhe building and a nrimber of speakeis pointed in pheir directj-e:r as they spoke. Also watching you may rest assured were a number qt ottawa.ls boys and girls-ln bLue. Keeping order you might $a)'i They did not seem aware of the incongnrousness of protecting ihe death merchants from pacifists. After meeting sone new friends iactually o1d friends to the Digger by way of mail) it was time to rnake for- the bus and the long 6umpy riae home. Irm_really glad I w;nt. itls necessar:' for roe to do just one or two of these things a year just to remind myrelfr,that, .I am not in a vacuum and that f )relong io a commupity of tho0sands out there. duntn
The next day 1 read in the papers a&d watched on T.V. as those rades who had planned to bloekade the arru$ show were dragged and arested for laying their bodies down ln front of the car these dlabolical arms dealers. f was proud of them for their pe ful defi.ance, for their witness to peace, and in the e&se of mar them, their wj.tness to God. Ottawa city council has decided that ARIIX will not be invited again. A motion is before Torrnto city council to make sure donf! try to get space in Toronto. A police seargent expressed prise at the number of people who took part both in the march ar the iivil disobedience, he shouldnlt be surprised, it wonlt be tiIl we shut out ARMX for good. Kenny
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l{e believe that Anarchisu offer Christianlty a more -ean lively-awareness than at present exists in most sections of the church of what the Kingdbm of God should It adpoeares reiSllu-Iionbe.and challenges apathettc, corrupt or merely theoreticai Chrisi,_ ianity. it asks for practical" changes, and it provides a
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in thg anarchist movement for believing that society could be like this. AnarchismGalways challenged on the grounds that hunan nature is so eofrupt that coerci,on ar.rd necessary. Christian5.ty, prop_ grly interpreted proclaiis' rhar human, nature, given freedom and oEening itseif-ro Ct of grace, can and should "-i"ii"iiicontinuously st,rive toward perpection. It is at once atristic and idealistic: ir reappeals to the weak and faI1ible, it allows for constant, fa1ls.and recoveri-es, it proclairns
that alone we can acfri"ve'noif,ifiand deserrre nothing - but it uncompronlsingly dpclares that its ultinate 5nd ohty goal is perfection. fron an oId Christian Anarchist manuscrlpt.
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of rat,e y"aFs hath set ,; a goverruuent and ror *nii-r;i prfsoni *"a--p,ru_ ii::..:::^:l':^governmint; orhers ro-dearh, u,ri t,rr" po*""-oi ;;;";;;;"foturr_ line -to.r""r*int forcg people .ro llir which was gor by conquest and sword and cainot stand , oi it,s"ir=u,rt-[,y the
same
now
murdering power.
Gemard hrinstanley
#&ffiHeffiffiffiffi' ; They stare out at you from the "page or the television, the inno0ent young faces glowing wlth' pride and fragile bravado, a firearm in their hands. The children of war. It is supposed to be against the Generra conyen* tj-on, for chlLdren to go to war, but in the Middle East, Central Anerl.ca, Ireland, indeed almost everlnrhere i.n this slck world where there is armed conflict ',can find machine gun toting fou fourteen year olds fight,ing foi ... :oh the same old thingr r r a rag on a stlck, a glorlous leadâ&#x201A;Źrr Monrs apple pie, even a bowl-
of mush. Somewhene elose by
there i.s an adult prodriing them on suckering them with an idealogi-
calcsshell garBe. for democr&cy; son! t' r'It t s for the Mar:ci.str' cause, comrade ! One thinks of Jesus words, t'Ilhosoever sha1l ceeasi.on the faII of one of these Little ones who believe in Eâ&#x201A;Źr it wouLd be better f,or him to have a niLlstone hung around his neckl and to be drowned in the sea! c' A lot of people are going to go to Davey Jones' locker cine day, if not to he11. rlf life itself is a battle* field as Nicholas Berdayev would suggqst then chj"ldren are suffering. and dying in nany ways in our .towns and cities. Kiddy porn nets millions for enterprising i entrepreneursr &s does chiLd labor. and the dear little ones Eet three solid hours of ?he slickest, sickest capitalist olit
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proaration ever spewed out every $aturday morrning. You think I mix apples and oranges? ftrs
all ihe same thing - exploitation of the weak by the strong. The objectifieatton of children into manket studles and demographics and profit margi.ns. It's what you get when you worship King Buck, his royal highness
Mammon.
#9, July t86 Here and there in the militia you. came across chiLdren as young as eleven or twelve, usually refugees from Fascist territory who had been enllsted as militiarqen as the easiest way of providing for them. As a rule they were enplayed in the rear, but sometlmes - they wor^med thei"r way up to the front line, where they were a $enace. f do."not think there were any \ younger than fifteen but there were many under twenty. Boys of this age ought never to be used in the front Iine, because they cannot stand the lack of sleep which is j"nseparable from trcneh Kenny
warfare.
George Or"vrell
A J-ady should never get this dirty she said. She stood there quiet, proud dignity. The with rlady'a was eleven years o1d. The two li'utle boys she clutched pfotectively were eight and nine. t'Our parents beat us a lotrrl she said,. t'We had to get out ! rl Bruce Ritter, Sometj-rnes God Has .[ Childs Fece
ANGEHa: affi ffiffi#refuist psrspectife When
I
was Younger,
it
was
often of great concern t,o me tbat I
was
rarely. angry with-pe6p1e. Even though-I occasionall-y felt I would have been*very justified and that I wouLd have thereby achieved sone self ,satisfaction or a desired nodification in the roffendersf actions., i an now glad that anger has never come easily to me, for now I see it as a tool ofdonination. Uslng a loud voice, adopting threatening postures, throwing and breaking things, physical vlolencel how often are such means used and yet think of the consequences of such actions. We have stripped the other person of any rlght of negoti.ationl explanation or legitinacy-in thelr actione and we throw aeide their feelings and attempt to punish and or threaten them. As anarchists we must realise that this is a totally unacceptable forsr of personatr relatioas. Inasmuch as we are fundanentally opposed to rule by power of force, anger should be abhorrent to us. We immediately recognise this in governmentsr w€ should be equally against it, if not Bore sor in personal reLationships. Anger has come to be a very socially acceptable for"sr of behavior wiBhin our societyr so it will be a hard habit to ehange. Yet we rnust try, for we know that real revoLutlonary change is impossibLe until we stop our acceptance and usage of authority and power. Even anger in polit,Lcal activl,sn eennot be seen as desirable. .Certainly all of the attrocities that are cor*rgi.ted in this world causes inrnense suffering, and thi.s should effect us emotioRally, but if we respond in anger rse lose sight of how we should conduct ourselves. We start to coinmiE crj-mes just as offensive, for through anger we reduce the offenders {and maybe many others) Eo less than living beings and thereby treat them as sueh. Anger ls one of the most effectiv€ weapons the worlds rnllitaries have.r ?he psychological training that develop and play on such anger and hatred allows people to murder other is the cause of $Jus-
tice,l' I side wlth A.S. Neil, the founder of Summerhill, the first of the moderr libertarianj schools, who said something like (can't remember the e*act wording), f'I side with those who are socialists because they love the poor, not those who ane socialists because they hate the rich.t' Neil was an anarchist but used the term isociali.st I believer fo sinplify his messsg€r In my condemnation of anger f do not advance a,positlon such as that popularized by Star Trekrs Spock ie. rationality over emotion. 1 belleve quite the contrary. But anger is not an emotion that shoulil be used to control, people. As evolution is as necessary inside eaeh person as it is of ihe society, anger has no place in the' people of the revolutionary future. Riche.rd Hamilton L y"a" dnniversary issqe April '89 .d
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EASYffiSSAHS By P&TER MA-IrRIN Folitics ie Folitics
Aould llEbte Bircusgions
politican is an artist in Ore art of following the winil of public opinion. X{e who follorr the wind of public opinion 8"
We need Round tbble Diecussions to keep trained minds from being academic. We need Bound Thble Diecussions
to keep untrained minds from being euperfrcial.
dr:es not follow i'r,ir own judgment-
Sle need Round lhble Discussions to learn from echolars hop thinge would be if th€ry rlerre as thry ehould be
And he who does not follo*, hie olrn judgment .:annot lead people out of the begtan path. tle ls ilK€ the tail ead of the dog t"rying to lead the head. When peoptre,stand back of politicians
We need Round Thble Discuesions to learn fnm seholarg hou, a path c.an be made from things as they. are to things as they should bc.
r,na politicians
Comrnunee
stand bsdlk of the people .people and pqliticians g,o round in t circle
We need Communes
to help the uremployed to help tbemseh,€E
emd.get nowhcre.
We aeed Conrmunes
to urake echolars out of qrorkers
the Riglrt lTard MY -"ir*rd
ic
and worlrere out of scholarq to subetitute a technique of ideals for our tcehnioue of deele
'
rraaitien.
i+und principles a:'e *":t new,
ttrh need Communes
i'he5're very old; i;he;. are as cld **; eteraity. "fi* tleing to tic ip to restste tjiie nev€r n€w arr,d never old principles :u rhe vernaiular *{'the aran crr the street. ;]hen the lnah on the stre€t urill r,.'hat the
inGllectua!
ta crcat* a new miety s,ithin the eheli of the old with the philasophy of the new, which it not a ns, philosoptry, but a very old philcophy, a philosophy so old
that it looks like
nec/.
do
'
i
Aabaruadors o(God flIhat
yye grve
to the poor
'dl
whei'we dia
tllst is to say
iE
something about it."
What we esrry with us
We are a&aid
Fleter !{aurin ( 1877-19I+8}
wlth tlatholic llorker movetrent . $le spent his whole l"ife j.n totaL, deliberate poverty- and Left as hls Iegacyr. a luovement of some fifty houses of hosFiteii.t,y and a prcgram of gentle Christian rad* CO*fOUnder
of the
flcalism fo}lowed by
*housands.
whon we die.
As Jsen Jacquee Saneeeau !ryts
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to pauporize the poor becauro ws arre sfraid to be poor. hgan Grceks used to say that the poor 'o&t! the ambagssdorg
of the goda" lb bocome poor is to beconoe au Ambagasdor of God.
ofour ncsdy hrotlrer with our au or{luoue goods With our euprrlluoue gnode we build whito elephanto like tS.,e E*pire State Building tflith our *uperlluoue goodr re build pca'er housc which iearease prodtrciug porver and therefore fuffi,ease uremployrnent. IPith our auporfluoru goode
we build colleges wbich turn out studsntt into a changiag world without ta[ing them hor to keep it from changiDg
or how to change it to suit r.ollege graduatas,
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Christian Base
- "If-we-cannot know frou the New Testaaent that Christ total}y reiected violence, then we ean know nothing of His person or Bessage. ft is the clearest of teachtngsf''(.rotrn L. !,lcKenzie, BJ.bl"ieal, sef,olari n Having first heard t,fris powdrful tnrth so&e f,hree or four years &6o, I have pondered its slgnificance for ny own Life sj.nce the$. I have subscribed to maJor Christtan non-violence publieatiI'Sojournersrr, the ilCathollc ions like Workerr', ICatholi.c Nen Tinesr, , fiWheat and Chaff e and naturell.enent our own i[ustrious xDtggerr'. , I'hlgh Like most who- espouse thinking and low f.ivingo I a$ tnundated yilh wonderful reading materlal.. I-love reading on the Chrlstian f,or us ali. of the non-violent posltion, the l+fe, the_ramiflcations praetltioners of ics and of course re-reading ihe scriltures !'ist,ory
this new perspective is vronder{.u1.1y enriching. But a slnilar change in ny {It thathas lifgstyle been less dramatic. -It is so harrj to trandlate w6rris iqtq action. The problern is one does not hrant to walk alone. I wiint my friends and colleagues to move with me, to see this so obYiou- truthr -to help build a world based on the kingdom of Chrlst. Eut :it just doesnet happen. So we seek kindred soufs and couaune and'search and worship together. And j.t r*orks! tIe feel Christ is there in the midst of us. We seek and we are finding. Our I'Christian base conmunitly'' is a fledgling, but to &e a significant symbol of the transforuration thae is fakj.tfi place ln the uitversl chuieh of Cod. the Kingdom of God is t,rd} irithin us. frour
SheiLa Nabigon #?6, August'88 liow is the unirersa.L church of God changing? Surely it is, for I iook around me and I see signs of the Spirit noving people in new directions and revealing truths to people that requiie ehanges, drara;rtic changes in llfe styles and nnethods of spiritual expression and I am part of that change. Change is stressful and people talk about being participants in change as opposed to bei.ng victims of change but surely God would not Put us in a situation or ask us to do something wh'ere we wouki find, ourselves viQtimized? A changing directi.on oi a new set of pringiples will demand new reactions. The fellowshi.p galned from membership in a t'base Christiah Conmunityt' is one ,dftifying means of Cealing with the natural stress that acco&panies'spiri.tual change. New .trdeas? Who do f talk to? WiLI anyone relate? Am I alone? Nevei" alone with Jesus as company but Jesus also lives, and is especiilly present in the brothirs- and slsters in nny conmunity and I need.'them to help ne cJ,arify new trtrths and re-estabLish old ones in the }ight of the new directions the spi.rit is leading all of us. Ies the uni.versal church of God is changi,ng and the Base Christian Communities grow.to reflect our needs to ba supported aad nurtured.' i
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lald upon ean duty of beinp frea, of safeguarrdlng the freeaon"oi-"pi"rE. ;1o matter how difflcult that mav ba. or' ho;* God hae
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fnto that promethean yeali I swept_ earthrs core made lace to scoop those Godtossed well-coins you call saints. First monks, then whole citieso shadowed in gascline shame. Here I was masked as a wnice ii-nec] road There, a noonbaked mot.el balcony. But my favorite disguise was an acc j"dent. After all, lhailand is hot, and my .real name, NecessiEy.
f _thought. the learned Brother might d.etect old Larryrs giggle far helow my srdeet relaxing hum, but no and when f'd finally lured him webbed him (with a whisper he ctea::ly admired) cLose enouglr - the net! And voltage arsenic.
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then, why d.espise me? But for: a bad translation of molecules, youtd be me. I'm yogr bloodrs',-ery punctuation, and saintsieve besides. HOif ?O IIIRBS?LE WITH AN ANGEL Good One I know you are why not. wear the Deacon,s smile Tum ivy clj-nsb when one day I surprise you the bltier starving ladder of yourself as a blistersmelting engine gri]-I and scale sc,me stony unsuspectl"ng chureh. and smash your bones back home. crawl weed" plagued Now
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mostly forget Jacob But (alI sighs and-dirty toenails) chainsmoking t'i.fst' in God,s face. Unconditlonal
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release it comes without,syntax ealendars or maps. it comes. There i.s no ladder only nrngs, and Grace j.s the hardest plllow.
Ammon Hennacy
Kathy ShaidLe
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0n July 1st, Eichard, Sharon and I went down to ?oronto to attend the InternationaL .&,narchist Conference f'A Survival Gathering,' for a day. We stayed over and came back on Saturday afternoon. -I t,hink that on Friday there had so have been three- hundred there and on Saturday at least five hundred. After calling myself an anarchist for Ewerve ror tweLve years J. finallv got finally gathering I rr-naJly eot to a gatherLng satherinE where wheie there were more than a half dozen anarchisis. I had a 1ot of stnange feelings and ernotlons, - rather I ehould say a kind of sensory oierload, ft was hard to te11 what I was feeling. Firstly, 1 nissed the Christian Anarchist seminar I had gone foi. It was on Friday morning. St11l I did .distribute some three hundred pamphlets and these were the only c,/A p-apers r saw rhere. r also aGi;ib;i"a--[roJii-"'rti"di;i of Pinch of Salt magso End a couple of Tolstoys. The Catholic Caiholic',{or',{orker :folks were noi there, mostiy mostly due to an imminent bir$h bir"th at the house. I got rid of about a hundied back issues of Digger aIso. HERE
TS A LIS? OF' EELINCS AND THCUGHTS
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Christi.an anarchists are very mucir on the fringe of the anarchist not much awarenes$ or comprehension of us by the noveeent. A l-ot tc do cri this. Obviousiy. we are on the irery fringe of the rChristian Iriavenen?r, as weI}. The anarchist raovement is very alive, vibrant, imaginative and dedicated to change and social exjrerimentation, Eovementr_
It was good to meet old friends, some of whon I had not seen in years. _ But I felt that I corrld have walked into any of these folks homes from Vancouver to Ftelbourne and been totally at hone and accepted. A naked lrrarr sitting at a table makes no impression on hundreds of anarchists (not ciscernably at )eirst), Jtt c unimport&nt lf yorrr hai r is pu:.ple and silver, j,t I s just
cosmetics.
The anarchist Survival Cathering provecl to me beyond a shaCow of a doubt that big, complicateci things can be done wj-thout a heirarchy or bosses. Some eight hundred peopJ.e came together from a dozen countriesr anC for four days, ran a nursury, a food service for
a1lr 57 seminars itr dozens of rooms in two buildlngs, showed movies 11{ tqught skiI1s, ALL 1,IITH0UT ONE BOSS, WrTH NO-CHAIN OF CCl,flt{AND AND WITH N0 PAY! ! ! ANARCHY DOES I./ORK! ! ! Kenny, August t88, Ror 26 .A,LL POLI?ICIANS ARE S}{OULD NEVER
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On Thursday June 28, I attended a debate on capital punlshment which took place at the Red Oak Inn and was sponsored by the Conservative Riding Association. The debate was between our menber of parliament,, Bill Domn who wants
to reinstate capltal punishment, and ',riarren AllmaiO a fizmer solicitof general, r^rho was partly responsi.ble for its abolition. Thri turn out was high, the ball
The questioner was quite right even though he was a defender of capital punishment. ?here cannot be a satisfactory answer to this question if the person opposing capital punishment condones murder carried otrt by the soldier. 0n1y two of the questioners who addressed Domm fbr
r-ogm, being nearly fi11ed, and this despite the fact that it was rgo vâ&#x201A;Źry';1e6 and there was no aj.r co- (u nditionai.ng. Apparently there fHo were nearly 300 present. Both r,o debaters used many statistics, (0 the abolitlonisi side did so on even' the sane statistics in fact Christian grounds, and this int a but drawing apposite conclusions d!*. half heart.ed way. Time was runniirg from them. This is of course +,$ and out the final question pertainF., somethi.ng politicians do well. g ed. to oE Christian ethics, and whbn Both debators apologized for us- EE the woman a remark about Dofnm ing figures, and people in the .n{(o{S not being made a real Christian or someaudience said they were only con- Q2h thi.ng of that nature, moderatbr fused by then. But the stats 59r-. in a bizarre move tothesllence werei useci anyway" Many of the tr warned her to be respectful hbr and figures were A,merican and were rtO seemed to threaten her with legalioB used by Domm to frlghten the aud- .r{ +, for saying something...(Libelience into calling for the death ($P.tsO ties. ous,/??). She did the only digniftpenalty, while Allmand decried (, ed thing she could, silently she these figures and used them to oc- turned and refused speak again. show how much safer Canada is .lJ c\r ft seems that Domnto(being the son than say (shudder) Florida or {J(drl of a minister) is touchy about this T exab . oo sort of and hasntt thlng the intetscp .rl fort,itude to face the isstrre Ir0 tinal Alchough we had been lectureC o-+ squarley. aboui ci-v1Iity Uy the moderator ki{ Srtrce Anderson, there was little OCH My feeling about the debate *rs', heckling, this came from the han- +rO curious one. I felt let down. f gingi side generally but was not a Co) felt there had been little passioir, O+) problem. Judging by applause and .r{ O Iittle anger, 1lttle fire. Havihg +rb seating arrangements I would say o done their act, the players departthe audience was fifty-fifty for E(0 ed having won no convertsr Do accoanci against, anc that there was oDh laCesr Do tomatoes had been throlsn no clear winner. I think Allmand .q.o but neither had roses. This is i a +) was ,the better debater, but he f*d{) conservative tor^m, a rock rlmmed lost,,ground when baslng hls posl- 6(1) island lost in a sea of change, and iion on morality,, n" could not O\E r{d.r{ showing emotion is perhaps unbecotneffestively answer this quesiion: r.l ing" ft may also be that the who!-e debate which has gone on now fpr "ff 1t is not moral to support dtu the execution of criminals, why F,5cdP{ months (or more properly years) hgs (g worn everyone out. Time and Cbd is it moral to support an arrned H.rt will settle it. forces to kiI1 in war?r' +1
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iir tne tfrj.ddle 1980ts a dozen social activlsts tiny storefront at-219.Huntel.:!l?"!-I::t a came iogethir to rent pet,"iUorough Ontario, Cairada. They caIled thetr l-ittle space as in Fno.lfCfS FOR IHANGE. S6me of these p6op1e identified themselves and some as socialists aird Some resisted definition of arriritri"ts,'As individuals they had pet projects ald these proJects any kind. ha&s,,names like ACT (Against Cruise-testtng)For Disarmament'- fhg gisi jiimor Project, tr'oda For Thought, the dgmrounity Fonmr.the f99d -Rascal nigazine, and the Di[gei and Christian Anarchist. The Bankn stor6 it 219 Hutter sireet was a Eorne away from homer a crash-pa{' iex hideaway, a pubr a core of- resistance to -q predominan iilicit ant iick society. PeaL6 posteis were nade up llgerpr -radio scripts put together, presses were cranked, and civil disobedience was pll: -Rfter'tinro years we moved dor,rn the street a Llttle bit La 23t irned. Hunter street and- spent a year there with oxfan as a rent Pqying partneri Here the Di.gler tooi< a tiny separate sPace on the side with its own display wiidow, and offerLd pli.vate counsellingo radical Chrigtian papeis and books for loan, and condoms-, whieh on cne occa* sion,i resulled ln a personal eonfrontation urhieh becar*e a comic. After a year at 231-Huater street, Projects for Change moved yet again again to a,seclnd floor set of offices above Betty Lous hairdressers problems yere on Hnnter street at the corner of 'dater. By nowr Eoney pressing and nany members had left for othei interests. !f now the Food,Aailk had beiogre a major project, anci poor people comin$ up for food, outraged the landlord and oi-her tenants because..."wâ&#x201A;Ź11..." because th6y were poor! Projects for Change_had to leave after only three monthi. At 1ast, unable io contlnue, Projects for Change the folded. But the Food Bank moved and continued to grow unt,il atand a!9 Digger tirne'of printing, it feeds up to 80O people a month, Chriatian AnarcEist has continued up io itre present, Throughggt its three year plus existence, Projects-For Change supported itself enany tirely- by donations and steadfastly refused to seek or accept group. hanCouts'from the government or any other special lnterest Projects for Change proved once again that, big, important, things- can be 6one without gOvernment, thatr-if,r fact, governments are a useless evil. From time-to time p6ople ialk about iestarting Projects fol Change. Perhaps now that !{e ar'e into the nlneties, the time is rlpe for enother go. ta].x lt up! gnce upon a tirne
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27, the Teme Augama Anishnabai, r'Deep'{ater Peopler -to again asserted i,heir claim their 400O iquare mile homeland, north west of North Bay. Thirty five determined people, mostly band members along with a few supporters, blockaded the Goul-ard Road ext,ension, halting construction of Ehe lumber road encroaching upon their lands for at least one day. Inclement weather, a wet two hour smowmobile ri.de on slush covered lakes, and breakdowns along the way could not stop the group from getting to the On lvlarch
blockade welL before sunrise.
The message that the blockade sent to the Goul,ard Lr:mber Company and the ': '-l Province of Ontario was clear, that they had no right to be logging on their Iand. this extenslon of the lurnber road, which the . province has actually pronised to pay half of when completed, w111 gi.ve the Goulard Luraber Company of Sturgeon Fa1ls access to hundreds of acres of virgin or oId growth forests. The oId growth stands of white and red plne (many of which are 300 to l+00 or more years o1d and stand as tal} as a ten story bullding) once flourished throughout Ontario but due to logging are now fou.nd only in Algonquin Park where they are protect.ed, and i.n the Temagami area, ltrhere they are not. To the lumber compaliy thls area represents high profi.ts, but to the Teme Augama, this area represents a 5000 year history and attachment to the land. An understanding of what this history means to the Teme Auganra did really hit roe when'I stood on Lhe lurnber road nitj"cing a)-1 the debris of pushed over trees plled off to the side wj-th the enormous machinery that pushed it there si-tting idle on the road. Not far away stood the hunting cabin recently built by Walter. he had hunted, tra,pped and fished in this place for Cecades, as had hj-s ancestors before him. After t]:e clear cutting the lvild life w111 disappear. The Tene Augama h 'eve in selective cutting which allows for :.at*:: to continue in bulance. ' Logging companies are stil"l not sure what the effect,s of their clear cuttirtg v,'i]l be. Large areas i re bedrock anC replanted trees (ff replanted, only ?6 per cent of the surrouniinl: Cecimated forest his beenreplinteci) may not grow at all. If- the loggers and the government get their w&yr the area will be logged out in just 14 nonths and provide possi"bly five yeers work rn the mills. Are these short term jobs worth sacrificing a wa;- of life a land, a peoule? To the Ten:e Augama thls blockade represents just one more episode 1n a long ano bitter struggle r+ith the Ontario 6rcvernment In the earlyrT0ts the banq nianaged to stop a massive governmentplannei condeni-::ium-hotel resort on thei-r sacred grouni cf l.lapl-e Iriountain. Frc-r l.iay to December 1988 they blockaded the proposed Red Squirrel i'oad which would have allowed loggingr and i.n early
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the 0nta:'io Court of Appea1 nrdered an end to the blockade also ordering the government to hold off logging pendlng a eiecj sion on the land claim. In February of 1989 the court of appeal stmck dor*n the bands claim on very lenuous and ambiguous groun e i)ece:nber
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While the Tene Augama are seeking to appeal this decision, the logging roads are opening up. GouLard Lumber is aggresively constructing a roao in from the south. A great challenge to the band is that the land is ccnLrol-led by the Minisiry of Natural Resources and the h:-'nber com'Da.ny. It is i very difficult place to get to to s1:op t,his action" T]ris is r.rhy th"e Teme Augama need as much support ats possible " Please cal l the Prernj-ei"'s off ice and give them a piece of your mird. on thj.s rnattero o r
Preriier David Peterson ZSt Legislative building Queens Fark Toronto, Ontario, Rm
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would kiIl them ;i;;u;;;l-arriia uptie people discipS'es ). and iir- i,:r.y- ioushe* -tnl o*n"gnt, t'rrefi in blfore the couneiJ'' -iUiriHrt we t"ff yo., tu*'ur" to preach about Jesus?!' the hig.r priesL o@iil&ftoâ&#x201A;Źoc this ;A;d. instead vot' t iVu ritleA al-I Jerusalem vri'c,h yot r tu.6nlrg-enq intenil to bring the tis!t' 6'trfe ti*i**"ior this mail1s denbh oi1 r:opl5'ed, ffi;*i*;;r aird the irpcstles than ilollorl mtrsg obeY God
is .riolence; flhristianiuy is meekness. ' no;r-resistance, Iove , a.nd ?hereforen government G*vcrrrment
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Have faith ln the forever unknown, And bless r+hat comes to be; tc,day is a gift to wake to, fcmorrow comes easily. A space fo:'surprises and laughtert
A day like walking on airl When pain is part of a songt
It can be sung anyr,vhere. Knowing the right thing to do, &nd r,.rhdn there is nothing right,; Flave faith ia that unknown within you Jtrnrl walk where bhe living is light. Marcus Jokinen
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- 'lhrouglr CIA a tot if peop"-1,e were heiped wilh their legal errd bureaucratj.c problems" It ::howecl bhem, ar.rong lrther r-hings nhat you can fight city hal-L and win.. thai lar:dlorCs were no'L in* vj;101-ilie, and that lawyer.s are In e>:change for t,hrs, people Ise th*lr persariif }*gal ;ituations .to Learn rrore, n;,bout edvoca*y as a human pro*e#jr and t"a gai:: firsi heni. ex* *f poveriy-iti,l'r;" Foi "ueeh parlnec.s beji-erre E vra-e an er:*ri:it*r:siy ' .,, rL ria',1-e exchange. alloweC me to
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in conceri. I have also ended. lt berause Lh* C'|^A" *xperience i;as, shur*n ne hio'lt *e z.r?p'! is4gs itsel-f , and how tu _improve it broth qrrantj_tavety aneJ q,.ialitatevl.y* It is towarils 'Lhis i;ask that f r-ri.ll- direct my *ner^g;i.*s irr fihe fi.ttu-re, ,$o intrfirtne3'shli: with Peter ftukavlna eomputer l{irard a.t largeo I w5"}1 r,'**rk
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$esi-gned fa-rr computer and iegall11 ill-:-ierate pecple, it is hoped t,hat 'Lhese prograrrutrec wlll go far tovrard personal" lega)- CItapr:wernrent, towar,d the actual- Ie-
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Jlrst a f,ina1 note-cne thlng these past two years have taught , sne is th*t e'ue:'ythin'g about gorer* runen0
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enfoice it, bureacrats adninister ritl 'Tc be pol.itically infonned as &n &narchist is 'Lo be iegal-J"y infor,tterl, to be legaliy ignor"ant is t* 'be palitically impotento f iament the absence of sueh legal
kr:cwledge and iegal interest ln my pesr,e; th*y accept withoui realisS"ng it, the paralytir divj.slon .*f laboir:: ta*t lawyers, f,ire imnred* 1a?*: }acki+s cf the. ,rieh, ha',ra set up tG dori'rln*f,e u.s o Ftly. personal soal ::o?I* is to areak ciown that iiounde,'[1oii of :ir.ision of ]-abour a.s r*uch ae I po*sibly c&Ir, * r then
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uuae.,isrn .i'ai a i:asic terre.t. ,f Leo Tolstoy and his toilot;err, Hir{: i:ega- Eo fo:rm ar:.:t.cirlstl* Eroups during the t*SC's jn':iul-a, iliei, and tjamara previnceEu *ira in t,hE city of lIoscow., 5y the 'Lr:r'n cf f,r.re ce*tur]"r ?o]stoyari nisslon-arres i'iai sprbad the gospcl. r*f, Christl"in anarcf,.ism with crnsJ.Cerable efferyt. thr'*ughe'*u l;h* b",l-ack-ear"th provinces anri i:ac i-cui;ried cr:lonj.es f.c .far snuth as the Caicasus i-iount,ials,. 'fhe Tolsioynns, vrt,j-)e coniemning the isiate as a wj-*kei i::strurnent of oppression, nhunned revolutlonary $ct.'"viiy as a h:'*erler of hai:rcld amd vlcLen(e, Soci.ety t,hey bii']i6vs3, *ou"}d iiever l:e i-mprr-,ve<i i:hrough bloodshed, but oni-1. when me,* haa J-eerned 0hristi"an loire. The revolutlonary p:.rrr.-ciri$L., r:f cour.se heiri no brief fcr Tolstoyrs
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