[Fwd: Re: WRFF support]
dirty...@riseup.net
Subject: Re: WRFF support
From: "Webmail leggetts" <legg...@sisna.com>
Date: Mon, June 6, 2011 8:30 pm
To: dirty...@riseup.net
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I am fine if you wanna give out the address - folks can come by or call
anytime. There is a well water spigot on south side of house, wifi all
around house, phone, etc....
Jess and Matt Martin
2078 CR 234
Dgo
Go north at Elmores' Corner/airport lite on CR 234 2 miles. when you come
to wide part of road with new turning lanes (to nowhere) you can look uop
and see our hill coming up with in 1/4 mile. Brown house, red roof on top
of hill, on right. Colorful school buses in field below house. Big pine
gate posts at driveway...WELCOME!
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:55 PM, <dirty...@riseup.net> wrote:
> Also, if you'd like to put out a formal offer of support regarding your
> place you can post it at http://feralfutures.proboards.com/
>
> I can also post the info on our blog and mailing list, etc., either with
> just your phone number for folks to get in contact with you or, if you're
> comfortable with it, your location itself.
>
> Let me know what's good. Thanks again.
>
> -N
>
> > Great Nathan! Thanks for the thumbs up - I will contact them.
> >
> > I think I sent you or Charlie the info about "water barrels" you can get
> > cheap at COca cola -their syrup comes in 33 gal. barrels and they sell
> > them
> > off cheap.
> >
> > If you all need a water source, I have a great fresh water well here on
> CR
> > 234 and you could use it all you want. It would be a bit closer for you
> > all
> > than Dgo if you need to keep filling up. Am also HAPPY to serve as a
> > base
> > for whatever else is needed - internet, phone, electric, showers, etc.,,,
> > just let me know!
> >
> > Thank you for giving so much of your time and life to helping our society
> > reinvent itself. The shift is very big, even intergalactic and is
> > happening
> > hugely this year. We are going to need new structures. Have you
> > visited
> > Barara Marx Hubbard's site? She is a visionary who brought other
> similar
> > types together to create plans for completely new social structures, more
> > in
> > harmony with Earth and humans. They are getting ready, as you all are.
> >
> > THANK YOU!
> >
> > Jess Martin
> >
> > 259-8998
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 5:54 PM, <dirty...@riseup.net> wrote:
> >
> >> That sounds totally great! Please extend an invitation to them!
> >>
> >> Wild Roots Feral Futures 2011
> >>
> >> "The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible
> >> jailbreak."
> >>
> >> The 3rd annual Wild Roots Feral Futures direct
> >> action/eco-defense/climate
> >> camp will take place during June 2011 in the foothills of the mighty and
> >> wild San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado.
> >>
> >> The dates are June 14th-22nd (the day before the Full Moon until the day
> >> after the Solstice) with Seed Camp (set up) starting the 11th or 12th
> >> and
> >> clean-up lasting through the 24th or 25th.
> >>
> >> Update! The site location has been decided! Check the general board at
> >> http://feralfutures.proboards.com/ for more info.
> >>
> >> Contact feralf...@riseup.net to provide input and/or get involved.
> >>
> >> We are looking for folks of all sorts to join us and help facilitate
> >> workshops, conflict resolution and management, direct action and medic
> >> trainings, wild food walks, and much more! We will be focusing on many
> >> things, including but by no means limited to anarchist theory and
> >> praxis,
> >> unpacking privilege, decolonization, rewilding, ancestral skills,
> >> indigenous solidarity, direct action, forest defense, earth liberation,
> >> animal liberation, security culture, civil disobedience, hand to hand
> >> combat, survival skills, evasion tactics, green anarchism, anti-civ,
> >> post-civ, star watching and navigation, maps and orienteering, shelter
> >> building, permaculture, and whatever YOU care to bring and provide. But
> >> we
> >> need everyone's help to make this as safe, positive, and productive a
> >> space as it can be. Our own knowledge, skills, and capacities are
> >> limited.
> >> We need YOUR help!
> >>
> >> Roles we REALLY need filled:
> >>
> >> • Kitchen! (last year's informal kitchen was facilitated by Food Not
> >> Bombs
> >> chapters from Taos, NM and Durango, CO and upheld communally by event
> >> participants, but this year we are once again reaching out to the likes
> >> of
> >> Seeds of Peace and Everybody's Kitchen in hopes they'll provide kitchen
> >> support this time around)
> >>
> >> • CRAM team (conflict resolution and management: we need people of
> >> diverse
> >> gender/sexual orientations who know how to give support to survivors of
> >> sexual assault and to people with PTSD)*
> >>
> >> • Medics! (especially WFRs, WEMTs, & EMTs of diverse gender/sexual
> >> orientations)
> >>
> >> • Child care! (We will have a kids space and support parents in
> >> participating in communal child care)
> >>
> >> *There is a need for both womyn (cis and trans), queers, and trans folk
> >> on
> >> both the CRAM and Medic teams because many people in our communities
> >> aren't going to trust men, cis people, or heteros with their health or
> >> to
> >> help with conflicts. We do not expect womyn (cis and trans), queers, and
> >> trans folk to do the support work, but seek to create and maintain a
> >> safe
> >> and welcoming space that allows for plenty of room for it.
> >>
> >> We at the Wild Roots Feral Futures organizers collective feel that white
> >> dominated spaces & racism within our communities are a significant
> >> problem, & feel the need to confront that. Due to the legacy of racism
> >> within our communities of resistance we will be holding workshops on
> >> white
> >> privilege, settler privilege, & cultural appropriation.
> >>
> >> We also feel that cis-hetero, male dominated spaces and hetropatriarchy
> >> within our communities are equally problematic, and will also be holding
> >> workshops on patriarchy and (anti)sexism.
> >>
> >> We would like to put out a request for workshops on white privilege,
> >> hetero privilege, cis privilege, and male privilege. We recognize that
> >> it's not the job of those of us oppressed by white supremacy and
> >> heteropatriarchy to facilitate those workshops. We don't expect
> >> oppressed
> >> people to attend, but you are welcome to. 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.*
> >>
> >> *The above statements are, of course, over-simplified and
> >> over-generalized. It is highly important to operate from an awareness
> >> that
> >> these are not monolithic, static categories and that individuals do not
> >> so
> >> easily fit into a simplistic "either/or" scenario of
> >> oppressed/oppressor.
> >> Rather, there are many layers and intersections of oppression and
> >> privilege interwoven and intermixed (and often colliding) within the
> >> conglomerate we call the self, formed through the reciprocal processes
> >> of
> >> social construction and autonomous individuality. "Privilege" and
> >> "oppress" are situational verbs and constructed social qualities, not
> >> inherent and hegemonic qualities of individual human beings. (For more
> >> insights into the failures and limitations of dogmatic "anti-oppression"
> >> rooted in the false fight against alleged "identity politics", we
> >> recommend the three "Lines In The Sand" articles regarding identity
> >> politics, anti-oppression activism, and social war. The first, "You Have
> >> to Do It My Way," confronts the dismissal of identity-focused struggle
> >> or
> >> activism by many anarchists; the second, "So Fucked Up," analyzes the
> >> dynamics of guilt, disempowerment, and marginalization built into common
> >> practices of anti-oppression activism; and the final, "Some suggestions
> >> for real solidarity," proposes ways to improve mutual support between
> >> conflictive and supportive anti-authoritarian practices. They can be
> >> found
> >> on AnarchistNews.org as well as a printable zine on ZineLibrary.info)
> >>
> >> We intend to create clinic space with some privacy provided for patient
> >> care so that the bodies of trans people (and also cis womyn) aren't on
> >> display during vulnerable moments. We will also be implementing a
> >> safe(r)
> >> space policy to keep perpetrators of sexual/physical assault out of our
> >> community and support survivors by respecting any processes of
> >> accountability they initiate.
> >>
> >> Womyn (cis and trans), queers, and trans folk have full support of the
> >> Wild Roots Feral Futures organizers collective to establish safer spaces
> >> for themselves, including spaces that are only for people who are
> >> oppressed by sexism, people who are queer, and people who are trans. We
> >> recognize the need for those spaces because no matter how much we work
> >> on
> >> our privilege, as recovering hetropatriarchists still in the process of
> >> mental and psychological decolonization and recovery, we're still going
> >> to
> >> be bringing heteropatriarchy into the space (hopefully unconsciously and
> >> unintentionally, which does little to change its effects).
> >>
> >> We also intend to create family/child friendly space that includes
> >> multigenerational workshops and activities appropriate (and fun!) for
> >> kids.
> >>
> >> Camp guidelines (in progress):
> >>
> >> We seek to create safe(r) space for all, including families and
> >> children,
> >> the sober, and those who identify as GLBTQ.
> >>
> >> Please do not make assumptions about an individual’s gender, and if you
> >> feel unsure, do not be afraid to ask what someone’s preferred gender
> >> pronoun is. If you use the incorrect gender pronoun, you will be
> >> corrected, but it is not something to be ashamed of. We have all been
> >> raised within a gender binary culture and breaking free of these false
> >> binaries is a process of learning and growing for all. It is also
> >> appropriate to introduce your preferred gender pronoun when first
> >> introducing yourself to new people, if you feel the desire.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> We expect everyone to observe good security culture. If you are
> >> unfamiliar
> >> with security culture, check out our security culture workshop(s), check
> >> the zine library for security culture literature, or just ask an event
> >> organizer for a basic overview. Basically, don’t talk about your or
> >> someone else’s involvement in illegal activity, and don’t make jokes,
> >> because even jokes can be used in court as evidence against you. Keep in
> >> mind that ANYONE could be an infiltrator or informant. While we must act
> >> accordingly, it is also important to not let this reality sow seeds of
> >> distrust and suspicion within our communities that leads to
> >> self-repressive restrictions on our ability to form and build
> >> relationships with one another as human beings and creatures of this
> >> Earth. Following good security culture allows us to interact and build
> >> relationships without placing ourselves in unnecessary and risky
> >> situations because of potential surveillance.
> >>
> >> When it comes to physical intimacy and sexual contact, ASK FIRST! No
> >> Compromise In Defense of Consent!
> >>
> >> For more on consent, attend our consent workshop(s) or inquire with
> >> event
> >> organizers.
> >>
> >> Violence, physical assault, emotional assault, and/or sexual assault
> >> will
> >> NOT be tolerated under any circumstances and anyone who engages in such
> >> assault will be asked to leave. In instances of assault we will trust
> >> and
> >> believe the survivor and respect any processes of accountability they
> >> initiate.
> >>
> >> For more information on how our communities deal with assault and
> >> accountability, check out our conflict de-escalation/resolution
> >> workshop(s) or inquire with event organizers.
> >>
> >> In attempting to manifest the world we desire, we will pursue
> >> non-coercive
> >> means of conflict resolution and non-coercive processes of
> >> accountability.
> >> Decisions affecting the group will be made horizontally through the
> >> utilization of consensus process. If you are unfamiliar with consensus
> >> process, check out consensus workshops.
> >>
> >> We seek to create a temporary autonomous zone which functions as an
> >> egalitarian community. In this spirit of cooperation and mutual aid, we
> >> request that people attending the gathering sign up for work shifts such
> >> as cooking meals, cleaning the kitchen and washing dishes after meals,
> >> digging latrines, doing supply/water runs, security & welcoming, etc. A
> >> shift sign-up sheet will circulate at communal meals.
> >>
> >> We ask that people establish communal fires in the various neighborhoods
> >> within the gathering and refrain from making personal fires. Communal
> >> latrines will also be constructed in the various villages and we ask
> >> that
> >> people refrain from digging personal cat holes. This will minimize our
> >> overall impact on the land.
> >>
> >> Drugs and alcohol are discouraged, but a rowdy zone will be established
> >> at
> >> the parking area, where we request the partying be restricted. NO
> >> illegal
> >> drugs, please. All other space, including celebratory and ceremonial
> >> space, should be considered sober space. Your personal space is, of
> >> course, your personal space, and you may do what you wish within it.
> >> Please respect others. For safety reasons, we request total sobriety
> >> when
> >> attending workshops and trainings. Unlike many similar gatherings, a
> >> space
> >> IS being designated for partying. This is more than you will find at
> >> most
> >> gatherings of this sort. So let’s have some fun!
> >>
> >> Dogs increase our impact on the land and local wildlife, and are thus
> >> discouraged, though we understand and accept the fact many human beings
> >> and their canine companions are inseparable, and they will undoubtedly
> >> remain a part of our rewilded and feral futures upon this planet. We
> >> request that if you bring your dog, you keep it on a leash. If your dog
> >> attacks wildlife, other dogs, or human beings, you will be asked to
> >> leave
> >> the gathering. Please bury your dog shit!
> >>
> >> Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available. Also see the
> >> information from last year as much of it will remain applicable this
> >> year
> >> as well, though there are also many changes in store to make this year's
> >> gathering a much wilder experience than last year's. See you in the
> >> woods!
> >>
> >> May the forest bewitch you,
> >>
> >> —the Wild Roots Feral Futures crew:
> >> -the Dirty Hands Collective http://www.myspace.com/dirtyhandscollective
> >> -Earth First! Durango (a cell of HC.EF!) http://earthfirst.org/
> >> -Root Force Durango http://www.rootforce.org/
> >> -Rising Tide Durango http://risingtidenorthamerica.org/
> >> -Durango Food Not Bombs http://www.myspace.com/durangofoodnotbombs
> >>
> >> feralf...@riseup.net
> >> http://www.myspace.com/feralfutures
> >> http://feralfutures.blogspot.com/
> >> http://feralfutures.proboards.com/
> >> http://groups.google.com/group/wild-roots-feral-futures
> >>
> >> Ⓐ Ⓔ ✌ ☮ ☠
> >>
> >> What to bring (suggestions):
> >>
> >> Vital items we are seeking:
> >>
> >> ☆someone with a pickup truck with one of those giant water tanks!
> >>
> >> Personal items:
> >>
> >> • tent
> >> • sleeping bag
> >> • hammocks
> >> • food & water
> >> • water filter (suggested)
> >> • toilet paper
> >> • adequate clothing for hot days, cold nights, rain, etc.
> >> • your own bowl, cup, utensils, etc.
> >> • flashlight/headlamp & extra batteries
> >> • sunscreen and bug repellent if you use it
> >> • swimsuit & towel (there are swimming holes & hot springs! who wants to
> >> skinny dip?)
> >> • fishing gear & license (world-class fly fishing!)
> >> • musical instruments
> >> • your knowledge, wisdom, and skills
> >> • your friends!
> >>
> >> Communal items (to share or donate):
> >>
> >> • tools (like shovels for digging shitters and hatchets/axes/saws for
> >> cutting up fire wood)
> >> • food and water (a communal kitchen will form)
> >> • kitchen gear (large pots, pans, water containers, etc.)
> >> • extra tents, easy-ups, etc. (the larger the better)
> >> • tarps and rope
> >> • hammocks, hacky-sacks, frisbees, etc.
> >> • climbing gear (harnesses, ropes, etc.) for tree climbing/sitting
> >> trainings
> >> • First Aid gear!
> >> • random primitive skills supplies (you know better than we do!)
> >> • arts and crafts supplies (think of the children!)
> >> • radical environmental, primitive, and rewilding literature
> >> • local plant and animal identification guides, etc.
> >> • local topographical maps
> >> • your knowledge, wisdom, and skills
> >> • your friends!
> >>
> >> Things NOT to bring:
> >>
> >> • firearms and other weapons (there's a difference between a TOOL and a
> >> WEAPON)
> >> • parasitic or predatory human beings
> >> • a bad attitude (including racism, sexism, classism, heteronormativity,
> >> homophobia, speciesism, ageism, ableism, etc.)
> >> • the pigs and/or feddies
> >> • a wire (we will be holding mandatory naked security culture workshops
> >> in
> >> the hot springs. No just kidding, only with your consent!)
> >>
> >> > Hi Gang,
> >> >
> >> > I would like to share an idea possible for your FF event. I was at
> >> the
> >> > Dances Of Peace camp in Utah and heard that they want to expand to
> >> more
> >> > youth to share in this practice, and thus send out more and more love
> >> > vibes
> >> > to help this needy world recreate a tribal sense of community. The
> >> DUP
> >> > was
> >> > begun in the 60's to create a universal dance, song, brotherhood, and
> >> > multicultural practice that would help unite all peoples. They are
> >> really
> >> > simple circle folkdances from all over the world, and simple chant
> >> songs
> >> -
> >> > lots of Sufi, Rumi, hindi, muslim, etc... I discovered it cuz they
> >> do a
> >> > monthly one here in Dgo. I really like the tangible expression of
> >> oneness
> >> > in peace and botherhood that it engenders in everyone's hearts. It is
> >> a
> >> > powerful community bond-builder too. I will attach a video of it and
> >> > there
> >> > are many more on youtube.
> >> >
> >> > Please let me know soon if you would like to connect with the people
> >> who
> >> > lead the dances here, as they may be able to go up to the Pierdra and
> >> do
> >> > them at the camp with you....
> >> >
> >> > hope you are enjoying summer now that its here!
> >> >
> >> > peace,
> >> >
> >> > Jess Martin
> >> > 259-8998
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-hDFhbpvMI
> >> >
> >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rArN7bp1YIc&feature=related
> >> >
> >> > http://www.dancesofuniversalpeace.org/home.shtm
> >> >
> >> > From:http://www.dup-co.com/danceinfo/index.html:
> >> >
> >> > Before the inception of "Music Therapy", "Art Therapy", or "Dance
> >> > Therapy", tribal and village cultures renewed their sense of
> >> connection
> >> > and
> >> > place in the Cosmos through ritual celebrations. Singing, dancing and
> >> > chanting to music were natural ways to invoke the Great Mysteries of
> >> Life,
> >> > and to mark the seasonal rhythms of the Earth.
> >> >
> >> > The Dances of Universal Peace revive this human tradition with a new
> >> > awareness of the Earth as our global village, and with peace as the
> >> > acknowledged root desire of all her peoples. Through simple movements
> >> and
> >> > songs we tap the essence of the world's wisdom traditions and bring
> >> them
> >> > into a circle of wholeness where we can start to experience the
> >> reality
> >> of
> >> > unity through diversity.
> >> >
> >> > The Dances were founded in the late 1960's in San Francisco by Samuel
> >> L.
> >> > Lewis, with the purpose of promoting peace worldwide. They consist of
> >> > uncomplicated movements performed in a circle, combined with short
> >> lyrics,
> >> > ranging from meditative to celebratory in quality. Together with live
> >> > music,
> >> > they create an uplifting atmosphere and a sense of unity and community
> >> > among
> >> > the participants.
> >> >
> >> > The simple acts of joining hands, lifting our voices in thanksgiving,
> >> > looking deeply into the eyes of other dancers and moving our bodies in
> >> the
> >> > rhythms of the music, create an ease of belonging to a greater
> >> community.
> >> >
> >> > The dances evoke feelings of love, joy, compassion, ecstasy, peace,
> >> > stillness, and unity. Now shared by millions of people worldwide, the
> >> > Dances
> >> > of Universal Peace express a feeling deeper than language, a
> >> connection
> >> > that
> >> > transcends nationality, and even personality.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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