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An Appeal on Behalf:

Our friends, operating under the name For I Cannot Be Quiet, are in the process of obtaining a Multilith 1250 offset printing press. Among other exciting projects such a press could (and, indeed will) support, Wormwood would certainly be amongst those to benefit. In fact, perhaps we could even somewhat earn our claim to be a “press” (a false title for which we’ve received some ire). For I Cannot Be Quiet has set up a website – accessed here – to collect much-needed donations. FICBQ promises to scratch your back if you scratch theirs, offering a variety of handsome prizes for incremental amounts of $$$. The Seattle Anarchy Tees are especially sexy and come highly recommended.

From For I Cannot Be Quiet:

“Our work is sanguine fervor for a still world. Contribute to the finest printers of Northwest anti-political prose, poetry & polemics. Pledge during our current fundraiser; help open the new work space; receive quality prizes”

TL;DR:

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(Introduction to) Nature & Madness – Paul Shepard

Herein, Paul Shepard investigates the nature of civilized humanity’s ecologically-destructive tendencies and posits solutions to such cultural crisis. As he writes, “There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. We have not lost, and cannot lose, the genuine impulse.”

Though one of his earlier works, Shepard believed Nature and Madness to be perhaps the most important and definitive text of his contribution. This is the introduction to the larger whole; Wormwood intends to distribute a more complete offering at a later date.

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Anonymous – Desert

“In our hearts we know the world will not be ‘saved’. Can active disillusionment be liberatory?

What possibilities for liberty and wildness might be closed, or opened up, by unstoppable climate change, increasing surveillance, and the expansion and contraction of civilizations?”

From littleblackcart.com: “[Desert is] a gloves-off assault on optimism and the hope of saving the world. It asks the question “what does it mean to be an anarchist, or an environmentalist, when the goal is no longer working toward a global revolution and social/ecological sustainability?”

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Paul Virilio – Popular Defense & Ecological Struggles

WHAT IS POPULAR DEFENSE? From whom do we have to defend ourselves? Originally civilian populations were capable of defending themselves both in times of peace and war. A military racket was subsequently imposed upon them in the name of protection and popular defense lost its capacity to resist external attack. In case of total war, between the native populations which form the constitutional basis of all great modern states and the military now in charge of defending them there was no more “common culture.” Industrial wars subsequently managed to replace the thousand-year-old pact of semi-colonization with total colonization. First experimented with in South America, this kind of “endo-colonization” (the military cracking down on its own population) was gradually extended to all the post-industrial countries through the exponential development of the techno-military complex.

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