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#212

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:09 pm
Subject: Sorry!

So I've totally been ignoring this group. �Oops. �I've been busy getting stuff together and working a wage slave job, and sort of ignored this list for Facebook. �So a quick update is in order.

Tomorrow night is the first meeting of the reading discussion group in RI. �We'll be discussing three works:

"The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" by Jared Diamond
available athttp://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/mistake_jared_diamond.pdf

"The Original Affluent Society" by Marshall Sahlins
available at�http://staffwww.fullcoll.edu/amande/sahlins.pdf

and the first few (up to ten?) of Jason Godesky's "The Thirty Theses", available at�http://tobyspeople.com/anthropik/thirty/

The main idea behind choosing these essays is that we can establish a baseline of human behavior and experience, from which we can compare civilization and examine racism, sexism, and other similarly cheery topics in reference to anti-civ ideas. �They're also great texts for very accurately dispelling the misinformation about indigenous peoples and our own histories that we're force fed in our culture.

The meeting is planned to take place at Tealuxe on Thayer St. in Providence.

Also, last Saturday was the trial meeting of the Rewild New England knitting/sewing/crochet/etc. group, a.k.a. �the Anti-Civ Stitch n' Bitch. �We met at Brewed Awakenings Coffee House on Rt. 5 in Johnston, RI, around 5 or 6. Hope some more of you can make it this week.

And to make it up to all of you who are just on this list and not the Facebook page, I'll announce here first that for this month's gathering (yes, last month's basically fell through) I'm hoping to do some winter foraging. �This will of course involve trudging around in the cold and snow, but I bet there are plenty of you who don't mind. �If we're successful enough, we can even come inside at the end and cook up some wild foods (but I'll have other snacks in case we're not)! �This will be Saturday the 30th.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/

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#213

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:59 am
Subject: An Appeal for Community

Some of you might have read this already. �I posted it on my Facebook, but for those who don't have one here it is:

This is an appeal to many of my friends and allies nearby, any of those wishing to live saner lives and create a better world. It will hopefully also be inspiration and resource for my friends outside of my immediate area. Spread it around as you see fit.

I'm becoming more and more aware that our culture's divisiveness and it's general hatred for real community makes many sorts of social movements fight uphill battles. Movements are nothing without communities. I think this is where a lot of movements lose effectiveness, because the people involved aren't actually bound to any stable communities, and therefore in their minds are only defending theory and not flesh and blood humans (and other animals). A lot of things, like the very setup of our lives (car culture, physical division of communities, egocentric and sociopathic levels of individualism, etc.) make it hard for us to get anything done. We've fallen into the trap of cutting ourselves off from our own lives, buying into pathological levels of individualism that drive us away from each other.

Without being grounded in a real community, being connected to flesh-and-blood people instead of just some socio-political theory, we lack a certain level of impetus to create change. This is why so many movements and campaigns just seem to all the be same, follow the same cookie-cutter formula and lifespan, and ultimately fizzle out. And this is why community-centered movements, like the American Indian Movement and the Black Panthers, the Katipunan in the Phillipines, or the EZLN in Mexico, that had/have communities that they were immediately benefiting and defending, did/do great things despite literally being attacked by government forces.

We need to form solid, real life communities that are at least partially economically self sufficient. When a group can't sustain itself, imperialists don't need guns to enslave them (hence wage slavery). When a group is self-sufficient, the imperialists need to bring in guns to enslave. When the group is self sufficient and has the guns (or knives, bows, machetes, plastique, whatever we're talking about for defense) their chances are greatly increased that they remain free (think the Lakota and their long resistance).

Part of what I'm pondering over lately has had to do with two aspects of community: one is the impetus it provides to get people to actually fight for their rights, their conditions, to make real social change to benefit all. The other is the material support, like food sharing and gift economies, added to the shared base of skills and knowledges, like medicine, repairing/making things, and general wisdom. For instance, a major reason that we have to fight so hard for a woman's right to choose and access to reliable birth control is because traditional indigenous family planning knowledge isn't passed down within communities. In the same vein, we argue and bicker over a "public option" because we lack community-centered healthcare based on age-old and proven methods, (and because so many of us have been brainwashed to believe Western medicine is the only effective one, and to ignore factors like quality of life that are directly related to economic injustices and our relationship(s) to the land) making us dependent on industrial medicine that is often quite literally poisonous to us and our environments. We keep putting more and more money into authoritarian schools that don't teach (that is, besides teaching us to submit to authority) instead of just teaching ourselves and making available knowledge to kids that want to learn. We therefore become dependent on profit-driven corporations who only care enough about your health to keep you a repeat customer, about education only enough to produce useful cogs, and about womens' rights not at all. Not being able to do these things ourselves inextricably ties us to systems controlled by parasitic politicians and destructive corporations, whereas self-sufficiency (providing these things for ourselves) at least gives us a chance to get away from "the machine" and cause real change.

We can also look at the interplay between these two factors, the follow up of the impetus to enact change being made possible and supported by the material support of the community. Having some degree of economic independence means not being forced to enact change only on the oppressors terms, and therefore being doomed to failure. After all, if your only experience is that your food comes from the market, how can you be expected to fight against factory farming and industrial agriculture? How can you effectively challenge a system that keeps you alive? This has been why I've been trying to teach people more and more lately how to do things they didn't think possible outside of the industrial infrastructure. This is why we need to do more than learn these skills, but form communities that use them to provide for each other.

This is a major reason why I do not go in for electoral politics, nor depend on parasitic politicians to "give" me rights. Although a politician will occasionally be an ally to a social movement, they've never been prime determinants in enacting change; any of them with any pull are owned by corporations and will do what corporations say (or get their head blown off when they stray too far). Rather, fundamental change has always been the result of the people taking real action towards the change they needed. It has always been the result of people exerting force on society and on government, not by voting and letter-writing. Not that I wouldn't rather have a friendly fascist over a murderous one, of course.

As much as possible, I try to take or make what I and my community need. And this is hard in many ways, because I have the support of only a small community that is not very economically self sufficient, and somewhat disparate. I have a great family and we support each other as much as possible. I also have some great friends, especially in the small group of Ocean's Tide, but the support we can give each other is limited; we have the potential for real community, as many religious organizations have. But we're small, and lack even the level of economic self-sufficiency to have a building. Even with only this meager community support, I can manage a lot of great ways to support my family and friends, as long-time readers of my postings know.

And I'll be clear here: this doesn't necessarily mean monetary economic self-sufficiency. This isn't some goal only available to middle and upper classes. In fact, it shouldn't include money very much at all, as basing one's wealth on money alone (or even primarily) only allows the corporate-government complex to continue controlling us, to allow them to dictate to us how we can live our lives. We need to establish a gift economy among our community. Gift economies are likely as ancient as human beings; it's a complex way of sharing. In essence, a gift economy is a non-authoritarian way to distribute wealth within a community, to insure that everyone's needs are met without some robber baron ruling class exploiting everyone else.

The urgency of this all is compounded by the fact that oil production has peaked and industrialism is crumbling. As if it weren't clear to everyone by now, we can't live a lifestyle that uses ever growing amounts of resources. It will crash and it will crash hard, and oil is used for everything in the industrial economy. If we have a stable, self-sufficient community, we can benefit from this and help others to benefit from it, or at least help them survive. Even if we're not self-sufficient to the extent of growing, hunting, and gathering our own foodstuffs, just having a gift economy in place is a huge level of security.

I and a number of my friends are radicals in the truest sense of the word, meaning that we attempt to discover root causes (from Latin: radix) for social injustices in the world. And yet, we often overlook the lack of community support and community self-sufficiency and the role it plays in keeping people subjugated. Many of us decry industrial food production and its various negative effects, yet we rarely try to organize community and personal gardens, launch guerrilla gardening campaigns, or organize trips to forage our own food. We'll talk about the effects of classism and racism in industrial healthcare without encouraging traditional medicines on a community level (or again, organize community gardens).

We need not share the same views and be fighting for the exact sames causes, either. As Derrick Jensen (have you guessed that I like his writing?) is so often pointing out, we need it all. This is as much true for causes and movements as it is true for practical skills and knowledges. What is important is that we provide for one another and have the sort of open dialogue in which we can disagree over minor details while still supporting one another. It is perhaps even better that we don't all work on the same issues; we can and likely need to be the intersection between social justice, human rights, ecological restoration and protection, etc. And we need people who don't give a damn about these issues and just want to live comfortably and happily.

Healthy communities reinforce behaviors that benefit the community, making community interest the same as personal interest. Until we have communities of people that work for the good of the community, and understand the necessity of working together despite personal differences (instead of the rampant horizontal hostility I see/hear about) we'll constantly be thwarted by pettiness, bickering, and conflicting work schedules. It will take work to build and maintain a community. There is a reason why indigenous people often spend as much time socializing and building community as they do on subsistence.

I'm willing to dedicate myself to building a real community. I'm willing to put my community ahead of a job, because only one of those can give real economic independence. I'm willing to extend myself to all of you to make sure your needs are met, if you're willing to do the same for me. I'm willing to defend you if you're willing to defend me. I'm willing to grow with you if you're willing to grow with me.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/

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#214

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:35 pm
Subject: Saturday Foraging

Saturday is the monthly meeting, which will hopefully be a foraging adventure followed up by a potluck. �Anyone who is interested in attending please let me know so I can make appropriate�accommodations. �If you need to work and can only make the potluck, that's cool too.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/

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#215

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:43 pm
Subject: February Meeting!

Hey everyone! �Time for another get together in the RI area!

Once again, I'm planning to have a long event for the last Saturday of the month (the 27th) starting at around noon (maybe 1 or 2), which will include 'primitive' and practical skills, and foraging in the earlier part of the day, and a potluck at around 6, for which I'll likely make Filipino food again. �Everyone is encouraged to bring things of their own to present and discuss. I'm hoping to have a workshop on basic bow making, fire by compression, and maybe some basket-weaving. �For anyone who wants to come, please let me know and I'll send you the address and other information. �I'll assume that it will be at my residence again, unless anyone has a better location.

And if any of you haven't yet read my "Appeal for Community", I encourage you to do so, since it's very representative of the focus of my efforts for organizing. �It's available in an older post from last month.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/

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#216

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sat Feb 27, 2010 3:58 am
Subject: Note to attendees

For anyone who plans on coming tomorrow (assuming the weather doesn't get in the way) I suggest wearing some boots and maybe gloves. �We're likely to find some mud.

Also, several people have suggested I move this month's gathering to another Saturday. �I'm not gonna do that, but appears I'll be free for the next two Saturdays, and although I don't feel like planning another big thing I'm always happy to do some rewilding and community building stuff with people. �Let me know if you want to do that. :)

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/

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#217

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sat Mar 6, 2010 1:14 am
Subject: Dinner Parties?

First, I just thought I'd mention my new blog for anyone who hasn't already seen it:�http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

I decided to start it to make more of my writings publicly available, and admittedly to hopefully help me get a job. �I'm putting a lot of my essays on the relationships of rewilding, privilege, and other social issues on there.

The big thing I want to discuss is the idea of rotating dinner parties. �It was Nancy Reagan or some other conservative figure that used to say that American needed more family dinners. �Well, as much as I hate mainstream political types, there's some wisdom there. �Strong family and community units form over things like shared meals. �Food is an important cultural medium. �It's also delicious if you're a good cook like I am. �In addition, I think dinner parties or something like them would be a prime way to start establishing gift economies on a small scale.

Here's what I'm thinking: we have people in different areas volunteer to host rotating dinner parties or potlucks or something. �If we have four individuals or couples signing on to this, and decided to have these parties once a week, each individual or couple would only have to host once a month. �It would be less often if more people signed on. �And yet we would regularly interact, and from these regular gatherings be able to plan other activities such as the foraging and skillshares I put together each month. �It would be a small cost for big benefit.

I'm volunteering to be one of the hosts in this area. �I hope some of you like the idea and choose to host also.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#218

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:14 am
Subject: March Gathering: RI Area

Sorry for the late post. �Once again the last Saturday of the month is coming up and now there's plenty of foraging and adventures to be had. �Anyone interested in coming drop me a line and we'll figure out where to have it. �We can once again base it out of my home, or we can go to one of many public forests. �Both Lincoln Woods and Douglas State Forest have worked out in the past for us. �And as always, feel free to bring any crafts, skills, stories, bits of lore, or anything else you feel like.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#219

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:07 pm
Subject: Re: March Gathering: RI Area

Looks like my place is going to be the best location for the planned and desired activities. It'll be pretty laid back, and of course with a potluck at the end. Send me a private message if you plan on coming and require the address.

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...> wrote:

Sorry for the late post. �Once again the last Saturday of the month is coming up and now there's plenty of foraging and adventures to be had. �Anyone interested in coming drop me a line and we'll figure out where to have it. �We can once again base it out of my home, or we can go to one of many public forests. �Both Lincoln Woods and Douglas State Forest have worked out in the past for us. �And as always, feel free to bring any crafts, skills, stories, bits of lore, or anything else you feel like.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#220

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Fri Apr 2, 2010 2:59 am
Subject: Thanks! and Rewild Camp

I'm atrociously late with sending this, but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who made it on Saturday. �We had a great time, and I think it was one of the best gatherings yet! �For those of you who missed it, you'll just have to come to another one to have fun with bundle bows and compression fire.

But speaking of future gatherings, I have some great news. �One of our members not only has some great forested land, but is apparently amenable to hosting a Rewild Camp on it! �Hopefully sometime this summer we can get together a great event to teach people about rewilding, and build the sort of community bonds that we need. �I know that I'll be teaching more than a few workshops when we put this thing together, and I hope some of you can as well. �This is also an opportunity for musicians, artists, and other creative types to show off their talents.

And just a reminder, I'm willing to help anyone who is trying to organize gatherings localized to their area of New England. �I'd love to hear about what some of you are doing locally, and provided I'm free I'll be more than glad to give my assistance.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#221

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Fri Apr 16, 2010 2:54 pm
Subject: Special Treat!

Hey everyone!

I'm planning, as usual, to have another meeting with whoever is available on the last Saturday of the month, which just happens to be next Saturday. �I understand that some of you have been biding your time in coming until spring has thoroughly sprung, so now's the time to get out! �Not only is the weather beautiful, but the plants are practically exploding with edibles! �I also have some great ideas for wilderness demonstrations, and as always attendees are welcome and encouraged to bring their own skills, toys, and performance pieces to show off.

The special treat I mention in the subject line is that I recently received a copy of part of the upcoming movie END:CIV, featuring Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Ward Churchill, James Howard Kuntsler, and several other great writers and activists. �The segment is around 45 minutes long, so I thought it would be neat if we had a viewing of it together. �We might be able to show "What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire", but only if I manage to figure out computer stuff. �If anyone has access to a projector or something that would be great, but otherwise we can just watch it on a TV screen.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#222

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:11 am
Subject: Re: Special Treat!

It was suggested to me as a potential activity that we make a bunch of seedling starter planters out of old newspapers. �I'm totally into this, and I need to get my garden started. �If anyone is planning to come, bringing some old non-glossy newspapers would be a good idea.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...> wrote:

Hey everyone!

I'm planning, as usual, to have another meeting with whoever is available on the last Saturday of the month, which just happens to be next Saturday. �I understand that some of you have been biding your time in coming until spring has thoroughly sprung, so now's the time to get out! �Not only is the weather beautiful, but the plants are practically exploding with edibles! �I also have some great ideas for wilderness demonstrations, and as always attendees are welcome and encouraged to bring their own skills, toys, and performance pieces to show off.

The special treat I mention in the subject line is that I recently received a copy of part of the upcoming movie END:CIV, featuring Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Ward Churchill, James Howard Kuntsler, and several other great writers and activists. �The segment is around 45 minutes long, so I thought it would be neat if we had a viewing of it together. �We might be able to show "What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire", but only if I manage to figure out computer stuff. �If anyone has access to a projector or something that would be great, but otherwise we can just watch it on a TV screen.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#223

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:40 pm
Subject: Re: Special Treat!

In addition to the seedling planters, my partner and I have been experimenting with seedballs made partially from newspapers. �If anyone wants to get some preparations ready for guerrilla gardening, this is fast becoming a gardening-centered gathering.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...> wrote:

It was suggested to me as a potential activity that we make a bunch of seedling starter planters out of old newspapers. �I'm totally into this, and I need to get my garden started. �If anyone is planning to come, bringing some old non-glossy newspapers would be a good idea.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...> wrote:

Hey everyone!

I'm planning, as usual, to have another meeting with whoever is available on the last Saturday of the month, which just happens to be next Saturday. �I understand that some of you have been biding your time in coming until spring has thoroughly sprung, so now's the time to get out! �Not only is the weather beautiful, but the plants are practically exploding with edibles! �I also have some great ideas for wilderness demonstrations, and as always attendees are welcome and encouraged to bring their own skills, toys, and performance pieces to show off.

The special treat I mention in the subject line is that I recently received a copy of part of the upcoming movie END:CIV, featuring Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Ward Churchill, James Howard Kuntsler, and several other great writers and activists. �The segment is around 45 minutes long, so I thought it would be neat if we had a viewing of it together. �We might be able to show "What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire", but only if I manage to figure out computer stuff. �If anyone has access to a projector or something that would be great, but otherwise we can just watch it on a TV screen.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#224

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:55 pm
Subject: Jensen, END:CIV, and gardening (guerrilla or not)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8649250863235826256#

Hey everyone! �This is a link to a video of Derrick Jensen doing the speech much like the one my partner and I saw the other night in VT. �It's very important so I'm sharing again. �After seeing him talk I'm galvanized in my resolve to do our important work.

Therefore, I hope plenty of you are able to make it tomorrow. �We'll be doing lots of fun activities, mostly revolving around gardening and plant gathering, but also guerrilla gardening. �May 1st is international sunflower guerrilla gardening day, so I think we'll be making a lot of sunflower seedballs.

We'll also be watching a movie or two, since I got that DVD with a lot of scenes from END:CIV.

The location is once again at my place. �If you haven't yet been, leave me a message and I'll give you my address and directions.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#225

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sat May 1, 2010 5:46 pm
Subject: ritual?

Last time I was at a meeting we'd mentioned a ritual, but I didn't know if we ever decided on a day. �Hopefully not today. �Are we doing it tomorrow?

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#226

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sat May 1, 2010 6:05 pm
Subject: Re: ritual?

Sorry folks, this was meant for another list, checking up on a May Day celebration. �My bad! :P

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...> wrote:

Last time I was at a meeting we'd mentioned a ritual, but I didn't know if we ever decided on a day. �Hopefully not today. �Are we doing it tomorrow?

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#227

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Mon May 17, 2010 3:06 pm
Subject: Foraging and Gathering!

Hey everyone,

As some of you know from reading my blog or Facebook updates, I've been eating all wild and gardened foods.� Today is my twelfth day doing so.� Mostly it's to prove that it isn't all that hard to find enough food for hunter-gatherer-gardeners, even someone not raised in an h-g-g culture.� I've been having a great time, but I definitely have been aided by my support networks.

So naturally I've been foraging a lot, especially now that my schedule has been freed up a lot.� I invite any of you in the area to forage with me, hopefully to accomplish the goal of better foraging for everyone involved.� Plus, I need to find more places to forage.� I'll also be fishing and hunting, so if any of you are into that we should set something up.� My foraging areas have been in Northern RI and Western CT, but I can easily range a bit beyond these areas if you know of a good spot.

Hopefully we'll be able to get together enough foraged stuff to have a great feast at the next gathering.� I intend to have many dishes of mostly or all wild ingredients.� I've learned a lot about wild food cooking just in the past weeks.

Also, how do people feel about having this month's gathering on a Sunday?� I was thinking of trying to have it on Sunday the 30th, since several people have expressed interest but can't make it on Saturdays (or can only make the later part).� Let me know if you think Saturday the 29th or Sunday the 30th is the best time for a gathering.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#228

From: "curiousalexa" <curiousalexa@...>
Date: Thu May 20, 2010 10:47 am
Subject: Re: Foraging and Gathering!

I would like to attend - anyone else coming from the northlands that would like
to carpool?  (I'm in western Maine, about 2 hours out of Portland.)  I have no
real preference between Sat and Sun.

-curious

--- In rewildnewengland@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> As some of you know from reading my blog or Facebook updates, I've been
> eating all wild and gardened foods.  Today is my twelfth day doing so.
> Mostly it's to prove that it isn't all that hard to find enough food for
> hunter-gatherer-gardeners, even someone not raised in an h-g-g culture.
> I've been having a great time, but I definitely have been aided by my
> support networks.
>
> So naturally I've been foraging a lot, especially now that my schedule has
> been freed up a lot.  I invite any of you in the area to forage with me,
> hopefully to accomplish the goal of better foraging for everyone involved.
> Plus, I need to find more places to forage.  I'll also be fishing and
> hunting, so if any of you are into that we should set something up.  My
> foraging areas have been in Northern RI and Western CT, but I can easily
> range a bit beyond these areas if you know of a good spot.
>
> Hopefully we'll be able to get together enough foraged stuff to have a great
> feast at the next gathering.  I intend to have many dishes of mostly or all
> wild ingredients.  I've learned a lot about wild food cooking just in the
> past weeks.
>
> Also, how do people feel about having this month's gathering on a Sunday?  I
> was thinking of trying to have it on Sunday the 30th, since several people
> have expressed interest but can't make it on Saturdays (or can only make the
> later part).  Let me know if you think Saturday the 29th or Sunday the 30th
> is the best time for a gathering.
>
> --
> With love and rage,
>
> Daniel N. Quiray
>
> Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
> Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/
>

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#229

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Fri May 28, 2010 7:52 pm
Subject: This Sunday!

So it definitely looks like Sunday is the best time for a number of us. �Let's get together Sunday morning, maybe around 9 am? �I'm suggesting the location be Douglas State Forest in Douglas, MA. �I'll bring some wild food either already made or ready to grill up, and hopefully we'll be able to find some delicious wild plants to forage. �I'll probably have a venison dish. �Fish may also be on the menu, since my RI fishing permit extends to the lake at that park, which is in both RI and MA.

As always, feel free to bring any skill demonstrations, stories, music, or games. �Our gatherings are events intended for collaboration and community building, and whether or not we think we have something to contribute, there's always something we know that others don't.

For the northern New England members or just others who don't feel like driving to my area, I'm always interested in working with you to set up other local gatherings as well.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#230

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sun May 30, 2010 1:12 am
Subject: Re: This Sunday!

Just a reminder, the gathering tomorrow is scheduled for 9am at Douglas State Forest in Douglas, MA. �It's cool if you come a bit late, I imagine we'll be slow to assemble. �We'll be assembling near the beach area. �Swimming and fishing are allowed there, but I don't think the changing rooms are open yet. �We should be going until around 2:00 or 2:30.

I hope to be bringing some wild food for lunch, and we can find some more along the way.��In addition to a wild food/medicine walk, I intend to do some tutorials on a few types of primitive skills.

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...> wrote:

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#231

From: "curiousalexa" <curiousalexa@...>
Date: Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:20 pm
Subject: June event?

It looks like I'll be in Boston Friday and Connecticut Sunday - will there be a
RWNE event Saturday?  If so, where?  I may camp out for the weekend if it's
going to be at a park/forest.

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#232

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:54 pm
Subject: Re: June event?

Thanks for inquiring!� I was planning to have the gathering a week from today, Sunday the 27th.� The Sunday gathering last month turned out to be good, since a lot of people have Sunday off.� I'll post more about that very soon.

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:20 AM, curiousalexa <curiousalexa@...> wrote:

�

It looks like I'll be in Boston Friday and Connecticut Sunday - will there be a RWNE event Saturday? If so, where? I may camp out for the weekend if it's going to be at a park/forest.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#233

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:30 am
Subject: Midsummer?

So, I didn't make the last meeting, but I haven't seen anyone mention Midsummer on here.� Anyone bring this up?� Do we have anything planned?

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#234

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:31 am
Subject: Re: Midsummer?

Definitely sent this to the wrong list again.� Haha.� I guess I shouldn't send emails after waking up far too early.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...> wrote:

So, I didn't make the last meeting, but I haven't seen anyone mention Midsummer on here.� Anyone bring this up?� Do we have anything planned?

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#235

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:49 am
Subject: June Gathering, Summer, and New Schedule

Hey everyone!� Happy Summer!

So last month we had some great fun and success changing the monthly gathering to Sunday.� A lot of us have Sundays free, so we'll try again to meet on Sunday, June 27th.� Does anyone have any preference on places?� Douglas State Forest was nice, but it had to parking charge which isn't preferable.� My residence is always an option, and there are a lot of great places to forage around here.

I've also talked with several people about having weekly get-togethers each Sunday.� One of the major ways in which people participate in community in this country is through attending weekly services at church.� While some of us are church-going Christians, we seem to be a group made up a lot of people who don't.� A lot of us are easily described as animists in belief.� So, to build this sort of community regularly, I suggest we meet every week on Sunday, and take that time to learn to directly participate in our world and lives.� I'd love to see us having regular wild food lunches, sharing new skills we learn, sharing music and art, and in general forming our rewilding culture.

So, what do you say?� Shall we continue to meet the next Sunday, July 4th?� Or do we want to move it to Saturday due to the holiday?

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#236

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:18 pm
Subject: Tomorrow

Looks like the plan for tomorrow is 10am at my place.� Send me a private message if you haven't been there yet and need the address.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#237

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sat Jul 3, 2010 1:47 pm
Subject: Continuing Sundays

Hey folks!

So despite the fact that I'm working overnight, I still intend to meet with anyone who wants to on Sunday morning. �Of course, it being July 4th, I understand that few people will probably want to get together. �If you're still interested, let me know by tonight and we can figure out a park or something to gather at.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#238

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Wed Jul 7, 2010 9:22 pm
Subject: Coming up!

Hey folks!

�

I have a lot of great stuff in mind for our gatherings in the near future.� As I said, we'll be continuing as often as possible to have Sunday meetings in the RI area, with the purpose of discussing animism as well as continuing our stated goal of learning the skills, techniques, and social sciences for creating rewilding culture.

�

One area that I've discussed quite a bit with people lately is going over a lot of the survival skills that aren't strictly 'primitive', but will nonetheless be important, perhaps vitally so, in our cultural rennaissance.� I'm thinking this will include how to organize and plan�a "bug-out bag" (a pack full of gear intended to be ready quickly in a variety of emergency settings), sharpening knives and other blades, setting up a campsite, safe use and proper care of firearms, and basic fire-building (and maybe even some fun primitive methods to start said fires).��I REALLY want to get a workshop going on non-heirarchal communication skills.� If you have any suggestions or an area you feel particularly lacking in, please bring them up.� For example, I need a lot of work on my bowdrill technique (I'm spoiled by my sumpak).� I also feel I should know more about bicycle repair.� And definitely bring up anything your'e particularly good at that I haven't mentioned.�

�

I think these skills, combined with the primitive skills, foraging, fishing, gardening,�etc., will be invaluable to us in the near future.� Between Peak Oil and general economic collapse, it appears that those people who've been making predictions of collapse called it pretty well.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#239

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:28 am
Subject: Too damn tired

Hey folks,

I'm sorry to say this, but I just don't think I'll be able to manage making it to the gathering tomorrow. �I've been working overnights, including on I didn't expect, and I haven't been getting nearly enough sleep.

I encourage everyone else who was planning on coming to still do so. �It's supposed to be beautiful out, I think. �I was going to recommend Douglas State Forest again, since the last time we went there it was a blast. �I'll see you next week!

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#240

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:20 am
Subject: Upcoming Talk: The Problem of Civilization; A Solution in Rewilding

Hey everyone,

Great news! �I've been asked to speak at a local coffee shop here in RI about civilization, collapse, and rewilding. �The talk will be on Monday, July 26th at 7pm. �The location is Feels Like Ohm, which is in West Warwick, RI. �I'll be discussing a variety of topics related to rewilding, trying to give as good of an overview as possible. �It seems like a cover charge will probably be asked, probably not more than $7. �Hope to see you there!

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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#241

From: Daniel Quiray <zalon13@...>
Date: Sun Jul 18, 2010 4:25 am
Subject: This week

Hey everyone!

Sorry I haven't been too good at updating the list, but I've been working and sleeping almost constantly, and when not doing that I've been getting ready for my upcoming event at Feels Like Ohm. �But I'm happy to say that during the week I've done a lot of talking to people, and it seems like we'll have a few more places to meet and gather for those of us in the RI area, and particularly in the Providence area (since so many of you are in that area).

Anyway, due to my work schedule it seems like once again I won't be able to gather with anyone tomorrow/this morning. �Unless someone else in the RI area wants to take the mantle of responsibility in hosting/organizing weekly gatherings (please do!), I think it's safe to say they'll be on hold until my schedule is fixed.

--
With love and rage,

Daniel N. Quiray

Rewild New England - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rewildnewengland/
Twenty-nine Thousand Acorns - http://29000acorns.blogspot.com/

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