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Most obviously, we are the authors of this lil’ zine. We are also anaction-orientated international anarchist cabal. We are friends,comrades and co-conspirators. You can’t join the CGB, so just makeyour own damn brigade. We also wrote a slick book called, Anarchy inthe Age of Dinosaurs (
www.ageofdinosaurs.com
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www.yellowjack.com
). We are always looking for feedback, so you can contact us at
cgb@ageofdinosaurs.net
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.Let us know what you thought of it.Why did we write this Zine?We wrote this zine because we feel this is one of the important topicsfloatingaroundourscenerightnow.Mostoftheseideasarenotoriginalwith us but we felt they have not yet been collected together in printformat yet. We hope to spark some interesting conversations aboutcities, ecology and anarchy among our friends and future comrades.Feel free to copy this zine and pass it out to lovers and fellow-travelers. You can just reprint a section or just the art. If you wish to get moreinformation about any of the topics discussed in the zine just write uswe would be glad to send you some suggested readings and web-sites.If you like the art, you may want to check out www.dominantfiction.com.
 
WE LOVE THE CITY AND WE BELIEVE IN ANARCHY 
We, like most anarchists in the world live in urban areas. We callit our home and it is where we do most of our political work. Yetmany anarchists tell us the city is a problem, it is part of corporatecivilization and has given rise to everything we despise. Our greenanarchist comrades suggest that if we were serious about anarchywe would see that cities must go (along with most of the world’spopulation). While it is true people can be blinded by love, we feelour affinityforthecityisnotblindness.Whenwedream,wedreamof anarchy at home both in the city and in the wild. Despite where wechoose to live and work, we findourpassionsareakintoourgreenbrothers and sisters. Not only do we believe the city can be redeemed,we believe it might be the best hope for achieving the goals of greenanarchy and healing the Earth.Below is not simply a polemic in favor of an unsustainable urbanlifestyle. We have spent years studying, thinking and working forthis goal. We have read the works of many green anarchists andconversed throughout the long winter nights with travelers bringingthe anti-civilization message. We have listened, we have read, we haveargued but we still believe there is hope. So this is a political love-letter for the city and a promise to our comrades that our commitmentto anarchy is real and our love for this planet is true. Anarchy and
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MarianaTrench

Besides the proliferation of straw men in the early part of the zine (anti civ =/= anti language), the main problem with it is that it failed to show precisely *how* cities can be sustainable. I appreciate that food was touched on, But it wasn't laid out as clearly as something so important should be. I've been looking for city solutions with permaculture for a long ti me, and there's just a lot

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Whoops, it didn't show my whole comment. The word limit on here is crazy.

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