Last night I attended an anti-civilization fundraiser here in Portland at the Muddy Waters Collective Cafe on 29th & Belmont. The place was packed ( first warm room I’ve been in in all winter here in Portland where heating your home above 60 degrees appears to be politically incorrect). The live-radio event, hosted by bearded gentlemen Rabble Rouser and G20 Sided Die, featured an in-person appearance by John Zerzan, and long-distance interviews with Ward Churchill and Derrick Jensen among other notable figures in the anti-civ movement.
It is well known that members of activist groups often end up squabbling with each other, undermining their ability to fight the real enemy, and one cause of that is taking ones-self too seriously. However, at this occasion depressing discussion was evened out by humor, as well as music, drinking, and dancing, as it should be. How else but with a healthy dose of self-deprecating laughter can one view a radio/internet event designed to undermine those very technologies? It’s a little fuzzy but you can hear the broadcast, as well as past broadcasts by the Bottom Up Radio Network (B.U.R.N.) on Blog Talk Radio.
Hey Tracker,
First, thanks for the rad ass shout out. Second, thank you also for keeping true to your word to your Grandma and buying lots of beer, thereby clouding your judgment about our humor factor, that is rad too! and third, yes, i did google our name to find this post, so what.
seriously though, hope to see you again and would love to have you on the show to discuss your, well, life i guess. from feral thanksgiving to preemptive post apocalyptic modeling. let me know what you think!
love and rage,
rabble rouser
Rabble Rouser- Yeah, I’d love to go on the show. Generally, I’m a much better writer than I am talker, but a couple more Old Germans could take care of that!
Aw, thanks so much. I only cracked jokes because I had nothing useful to say. I was very open about that in the interest of full disclosure.
I second my teddy bear of a co-host that you should be a guest on the show!
Wow, we are easy, just say something nice and all of a sudden you’re a guest! And, Emily, sure, we’ll get you hammered on cheap beer, so long as you say funny shit and talk about hating cops or something.