Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. #39, Winter '94. INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST NEWS -includes "Anarchist rally in Chattanooga" by Bob McGlynn, "Electronic access to radical media" by Paul Southworth, and "The Anarchist scene" compiled by Jason McQuinn. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Anarchist rally in Chattanooga By Bob McGlynn Ninety anarchists from a dozen cities attended a march and rally in Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 11, to confront a planned Ku Klux Klan anti-gay and pro-killer-cop demonstration, to protest the 23 known murders of blacks in police custody there over the last two decades (seven since 1990), and to demand that charges be dropped against the Chattanooga 8, a group of anti-racist protestors. To understand Chattanooga is to understand its backdrop of Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob, and Missionary Ridge. At those sites during the Civil War, on Nov. 23-25, 1863, the Confederates ``fought to the last man'' during the fierce Battle of Chattanooga. The Confederates were routed and fled Tennessee. This opened the way for General Sherman's troops to enter Georgia and burn Atlanta to the ground. Then in Sherman's March to the Sea they laid waste to everything in their path in a 60 mile swath. In April, 1864, this and other battles ended Confederate power in the deep South. Many whites never forgot, and certainly never forgave. This is a town where many of its mayors have been open KKKers, and where, like in the rest of the U.S., the Civil War has never ended. Among its modern battles is a 1971 uprising caused by police brutality. It lasted 10 days and was only quelled with thousands of National Guard and Army troops. In 1980, one Klan faction was called ``soft'' by others for daring to meet with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Solution? To prove their battle readiness they drove thru a black neighborhood and shot 5 people in the back. When a jury acquitted them, blacks revolted for a week to the point of forming a militia that kept cops out of their area. After that the KKK was driven underground. Today though, they're itching for a revival. For how and why anarchists took up the challenge, a return to the '60s and some background is needed. BLACK REVOLUTIONARIES UNDER SIEGE IN THE WEST AND EAST Chattanooga's Concerned Citizens for Justice, one of the groups that called for the protest, is headed by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin. Some older anarchists will recognize his name as the author of a pamphlet written in 1979 entitled Anarchism and the Black Revolu- tion. Those familiar with the U.S. anarchist scene know it to be an almost exclusively white movement, so the presence of Lorenzo was a noteworthy development. Lorenzo's radical roots go back to his days in Chattanooga as an organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panther Party. After the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1967, Chattanooga smoldered along with scores of other cities across the U.S. being swept by black insurrectionary riots. Lorenzo was in Atlanta during the Chattanooga uprising. But the city establishment was out to get him. (It's been documented that during this period the government was out to destroy SNCC and the Panthers; they were decimated by frame-ups and assassinations.) In 1968 a so-called ``Black Power'' grand jury was convened to decide on whether to charge Lorenzo with running guns and possession of explosives for the riot he was no where near. It was a blatant frame-up attempt. And because Lorenzo was out of state during the grand jury, he was then charged with unlawful flight. A childhood friend of Lorenzo's in the local police department confided to him that if he were to go to jail ``He wouldn't leave alive'' there was an assassination plot against him. In that desperate atmosphere Lorenzo chose to do what a number of others at the time were doing; in 1969 he hijacked a plane to Cuba. But commandeering the plane to Cuba only led to his being jailed by the Cuban Communists, who unknown to this day by their many leftist admirers, imprisoned many of the Panthers seeking safety in Cuba. (Castro's reasoning? According to Lorenzo and Cuban anarchist exile Gustavo Rodriguez, Castro didn't want Panthers on the street possibly stirring up Cuba's second class blacks oppressed by the white Cuban Communist dictatorship.) After 6 months in captivity, Lorenzo was released and put on a plane ostensibly headed for Guinea where the Panthers had an exile base. Instead though, the Cubans flew him to post-Soviet-invasion Czechoslovakia, refused him a visa for Guinea, and turned him over to Czech authorities. The Czechs then handed him over to a U.S. embassy official. Lorenzo punched the American out and cut and ran. He eventually ended up in East Berlin under the protection of an African students' dorm. In late '69 though, U.S. agents captured Lorenzo, secreted him to West Berlin, and took him back to the States where he was promptly imprisoned. In 1971 he was convicted of the hijacking and was incarcerated until 1983. While in prison he reflected on his eye opening experience with the Communists. This led him away from the Marxist-Leninist influenced politics of the Panthers to anarchism. Thus his foray into the anarchist movement via his black perspectived pamphlet. After being released he began to solely concentrate on fighting racism, and isolated himself from the anarchist milieu. ANARCHISTS TAKE ON WHITE RACISM However, Lorenzo's recent experience in working with white anarchists in Chattanooga's multi-issue Justice Alliance, led him to opening back up to the anarchist movement. After writing a supportive letter to the anarchist newspaper, Love and Rage (April/May '93), which also expressed solidarity with the Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA, a group of anarchist labor activists), the WSA, Love and Rage, and Neither East Nor West-NYC (NENW-NYC, who promote networking among alternative oppositions in the East and West) began a dialogue with Lorenzo. He asked for aid for the Chattanooga 8, a group of demonstrators arrested May 13 who'd been protesting against murderous police at a ``police memorial.'' This was held just two days after a grand jury had refused to press charges against 8 white cops involved in the Feb. 5, '93 choking to death of Larry Powell, a black trucker they stopped ostensibly for DWI. The 8 had a high bail set at $1,000 for disturbing the peace and interfering in a public meeting. Then came word that the Lookout Mountain Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had filed for a permit to hold a rally on September 11. Their demand was that no Chattanooga gay pride marches ever be held again as one was in June and to also support the cops who'd murdered Powell. So, Chattanooga's Justice Alliance and Concerned Citizens for Justice put the word out to anarchists, civil rights and gay groups to help organize a national mobilization to confront the Klan on Sept. 11. On Sept. 10, groups or group representatives began arriving in Chattanooga including the WSA, NENW-NYC, L&R, Food Not Bombs, the Anarchist Youth Federation, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Student Environmental Action Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian Pride Committee, and Red and Anarchist Skinheads. People came in from Atlanta, NYC, Chicago, Memphis, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Knoxville, Newark, Russelville, AL., Dalton, GA., and many Tennessee towns. No one knew quite what to expect as word was out that the KKK had backed down and withdrew their permit application. Most demonstra- tors were ready to fight if necessary, but as we arrived at the Miller Park gathering point in downtown Chattanooga, it became clear the day was fully ours. Not only were no Klan in sight, but no cops either. Without a permit 100 people, mostly anarchists, marched throughout the downtown area taking the whole street, anarchist black flags leading the way, only 2 cop cars trailing far behind, and ended up rallying at the Court Justice Building without incident. We took over the steps of the building, blocking its entrance, and were quite a sight. An open mike followed where Lorenzo announced that his group was calling for a boycott of Chattanooga until the killer cop issue was properly addressed. There was one hilarious moment when an unmarked police car slowly drove by with two people photographing and videoing, except their sight was blocked by a protestor who walked along the car blocking its view with a large red and black anarcho-syndicalist flag; we laughed and cheered! The rest of the afternoon was spent back at Miller Park where there was a Rock Against Racism concert and free lunch thanks to Food Not Bombs. Later we had a meeting to network and discuss future plans. Being a tourist town, apparently the city didn't want any trouble, and were quite taken aback that a colorful crew of young whites were descending on their town to protest racism. There was much media pre-publicity for the action and media attention after the protest. Chattanooga hadn't seen such a large protest of whites since 1987. In conversations with Lorenzo, James Moss from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and John Johnson, a white anarchist from the Justice Alliance, a bleak picture was painted of local blacks so intimidated that they feared attending the march, with only a handful of black leaders participating. Blacks getting ``out of line'' meant getting blacklisted and prevented from securing jobs and so on. Locals felt alone and isolated, in a climate where racial problems were considered ``only a black thing.'' Therefore, the idea was that a white presence was needed to shift the terrain of debate, and show the Chattanoogan authorities that people nationally were watching. Though the turnout was small, it was a history making turning point for anarchists in that for the first time in memory, we could mobilize people nationally in coordination with blacks around an anti-racist issue. SHOOTING OURSELVES IN THE FACE ``[They're]...a bunch of fools, or else opportunists... I believe that the left...is despised by the...population and is collaborating. The...population doesn't like it...They won't forgive it...''=20 Ana Maria Simo, gay Cuban leftist, ex-political prisoner, in Torch/La Antorcha Dec. '84. =20 The only bringdown was the inevitable: a leftist party, two members of the Revolutionary Workers (sic) League (RWL), showing up to leech off our party. They disrupted our networking meeting with pushing their party's plan to launch a national anti-racist /anti-fascist organization. (Translation: they want a controlling influence in a mass movement.) Sadder, there wasn't a consensus to boot them. Why are we allowing ``left'' authoritarians in our midst, when we'd never allow ``right'' authoritarians? Not only are Communism and fascism/nazism in practice remarkably similar in their methods of enslaving people and in every other aspect (only fascism concen- trates on murdering racial/ethnic ``enemies'' while Communists concentrate on murdering class [mostly workers and peasants] ``enemies''), but today we also see significant amounts of Communists in the ex- countries literally joining fascist organizations or working in coalitions with the same. The Chattanooga meeting was supposed to be for anarchists and other interested people to first develop our own autonomous networking. The RWL was not invited to and was not wanted by Chattanooga's organizers at the meeting. (This I wasn't sure of initially but was clarified post-meeting by John Johnson and also by Lorenzo: ``Who the fuck invited the RWL?'') That's one of the reasons many went. I know it would've been hard for some to ask the RWLers to leave, people some may have become friendly with during our day. But sometimes to stay on principled ground we have to do hard shit and face up without naivete to the facts: no matter how ``nice'' a leftist is, no matter how superficially some of our politics might jive, the leftist party sect has only one goal: the savvy all know it; to recruit and use us for their authoritarian ends, and the RWL in particular is known to opportunistically ambulance chase around black issues. For anarchists to collaborate with leftist parties is uncon- scionable hypocrisy. And those that justify collaboration on the grounds that anarchists can make gains out of it are engaging in an opportunistic and ultimately fatuous line of reasoning, as history has shown that left party cults retain a rigidity not worth criminally wasting time over. (``God! The RWLers are such zombies!'' -A Chattanooga participant.) Worse are ``anarchists'' who really do have a kinship with the ``politically correct'' left authoritarian mindset. Today's racialist fascism, alongside its twin in the fusion of Communists with fascism, is a movement steadily growing and coordinating internationally. It's obvious that we'll have to coordinate internationally also. Neither East Nor West-NYC (to which I belong) has already been asked by Lorenzo if we could start making those connections, and we've begun. But Easterners will justifiably recoil if they thought that those that represent their past or current oppressors are involved. Simply think how offensive it is to us that many former Eastern dissidents collaborated with the West, how we couldn't help but sneer at the Statue of Liberty the workers and students erected in Tienanmen Square, how that sets up unnecessary divisions. The Easterner thinks no differently in regard to how we deal with Communists. Any anarchist who promotes working with Communists not only will promote the latter, but will immediately creates divisions among anarchists and will be responsible for the consequences.... The enemy of ones enemy is not always a friend. FREE THE CHATTANOOGA 8! Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, John Johnson, Tanya Miles, Steven Hunter, Rhonda Robinson, Clifford Eberhardt, Keith Melvin, and Charlotte Williams =20 Heres how you can help: 1. Write a letter to Gary Gerbitz, State's DA Office, Hamilton County Justice Bldg., 600 Market St., Suite 310, Chattanooga, TN 37402, 615-757-2170, and demand that they drop all charges against the Chattanooga 8. 2. Make a donation for the legal expenses of the arrested protesters to the: Chattanooga 8 Defense Campaign, c/o Concerned Citizens for Justice, POB 1066, Federal Courthouse & Post Office Bldg., Chattanooga, TN 37401 For more information contact: Concerned Citizens for Justice, Lorenzo Ervin 615-622-7614, or Maxine Cousin 615-698-8940. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO RADICAL MEDIA Independent Electronic Text Archiving Creates=20 Free Access to Radical Literature By Paul Southworth HISTORY OF THE ARCHIVE PROJECT Eighteen months ago I started a project to collect radical literature in electronic format and share it over the world's largest internetwork, the Internet. I was newly introduced to networked Unix workstations at the University of Michigan, and after making contact with a variety of radical organizations and individuals on open discussion forums (Usenet newsgroups) I realized that while people were creating and sharing massive quantities of information in the form of newsletters, announce- ments, "electrified" speeches, essays, books, and mailing lists, nobody was making an effort to collect and save these for future reference in a fashion that would make them freely accessed and distributed to people on the net. With the privileges I acquired through my job as a computer repair technician at the University of Michigan, I jumped in with a small directory on the department's anonymous ftp server. Needless to say, after a couple months I had collected roughly ten megabytes of files=FEmore than they were willing to permit space for. I moved to a networked PC of my own which I dragged into work and filled its hard drive within another three months. I upgraded it to a larger and faster system, by which time the archives were approaching 100 megabytes of data and Internet users were downloading between 300 and 500 files per day. After a year I bought a Sun workstation and a 750 megabyte disk to service the archives which were approaching 300 megabytes, with between 500 and 1000 downloads per day. Today this server provides Internet users with a collection of nearly 500 megabytes of files on a myriad of topics: radical politics, fascist and reactionary literature, fiction, poetry, cyberpunk magazines, mailing list archives and 'zines of all kinds. It functions as a primary archive server for dozens of individuals and organizations seeking to share printed information at no cost, and Internet users download between 1000 and 3000 files per day, an average of nearly 62 megabytes of literature daily. Compared to a bookstore, this is roughly equivalent to moving 300 books a day, each the size of a copy of Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Naturally the comparison fails when one considers that most bookstore patrons actually pay for what they read. Users can connect from any Internet-connected host in the world, and a substantial number of connections come from European sites, especially the UK, Germany, Norway and Sweden. Also represented are Australia, South America, Canada and some sections of Africa and Southeast Asia, though US educational, corporate and governmental sites still represent the largest proportion of connections. I consider the archive service "semi-independent"; although I exercise complete control over content and access to the service, and while I purchased the archive server hardware myself, the state still provides the network connectivity and could destroy the service if it so desired. The server is not part of any University of Michigan project, the files on it are not endorsed in any fashion by the University. SUMMARY OF AVAILABLE FILES The political journals, essays, speeches and reprinted articles are still at the core of the collection. The archiving policy is "wide open"; I archive anything that won't end with me in jail or a law-suit target. This has attracted a wide variety of anarchist, socialist and communist, and fascist organizations, as well as radical student groups from around the world. As was noted in Anarchy #38, the Spunk Press group uses the services as a primary archive site. Additional anarchist groups depositing materials on the site are Love and Rage, the BAD Brigade, the IWW, and Non Serviam, an egoist discussion group. The archive also contains a selection of materials by Noam Chomsky, Hakim Bey, and Bob Black. Other "unclassified" radical and activist groups on the site include NativeNet's 500 Years archives, the Autonome Forum's Arm the Spirit, as well as their collection of communiques from the Red Army Fraction and Kurdish resistance groups, Buzzkill, PalestineNet, Progressive Student Network, Progressive Sociologists' Network, World Systems Network, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Anti-Imperialist, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (Demilitarized Zone publishers), Irish Northern Aid Committee, Organized Thoughts, European Counter Network, and archives of all public press-releases from the New York Transfer News Service. Socialist and Communist organizations with materials on the site include Workers World, International Socialists, Maoist Internationalist Movement, Peoples' Tribune, and P-News. Additionally, full-text editions of many works from Marx, Lenin and Trotsky are available. A wide variety of non-sectarian news sources are present, including Somalia News Update, and Trade News, and full-text editions of other relevant documents are present, including the Maastricht Treaty, NAFTA, and the Federalist Papers. Numerous gay and lesbian activist-related documents are available, including the Queer Resource Directory and the Gay-Lesbian University which comprise a major portion of the politics directory. Many materials that are not explicitly of a political nature are also archived; as of about six months ago I began to collect fiction, poetry, and miscellaneous 'zines. The archives are the primary internet distribution site for ftp transfers of Jerod Pore's Factsheet Five - Electric, and the 'zine archives are too diverse to detail their contents. I maintain a complete mirror of the Electronic Frontier Foundations "Computer Underground" archives of journals on hacking, phreaking, cyberpunk movements and the bulletin-board scene. Additionally a complete mirror of plain-text editions of popular books from Project Gutenberg is present, with a wide assortment of unabridged books from the Bible to Moby Dick and I have a small collection of books outside of the Gutenberg collection as well, including the Holy Qur'an and Muammar Qathafi's Green Book. CONNECTING TO THE ARCHIVES The archive server supports both anonymous ftp and gopher protocols; any internet-connected host should be able to obtain easy access through either ftp or gopher clients. Naturally this requires that users first obtain access to the internet. University students can generally find cost-free methods for doing this; other people will probably end up paying in one way or another. The proliferation of internet service providers has brought costs down to roughly $10-20 per month for the average user and services such as Netcom (LA and SF Bay Area), the WELL (San Francisco), PANIX (NYC), MSEN (Ann Arbor, MI), and Halcyon (Seattle) have made this fairly painless for people in major metropolitan areas. A number of "FreeNet" systems around the country, most notably in Ohio and Michigan, are also making free access a reality for people in those areas. There are many internet service providers and I couldn't possibly name them all. If people are interested in obtaining network access and are willing to spend $10-20 per month, they should probably send me a letter via surface mail with information about their dialing area and I will try to locate a provider in their area (time permitting). Another good way of finding out about local service providers is to dial a local bulletin board that is not necessarily on the Internet and ask users there. This naturally requires access to a computer with terminal emulation software and a modem, whereas university, government and corporate users often can obtain access to a computer directly attached to the net. Once you have obtained access, knowing what to do with it is the next hurdle. I recommend obtaining and reading Brendan Kehoe's "Zen and the Art of the Internet" and/or Ed Krol's "Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog" which you can find in many bookstores.=20 The server's address is "etext.archive.umich.edu" for both anonymous ftp and gopher users. It is generally on line 24 hours a day, seven days a week unless there are operational problems.=20 SUBMITTING FILES FOR ARCHIVING Any individual or organization can submit files for archiving on nearly any topic. I generally avoid archiving computer-related technical literature because that type of material can find archival storage space easily elsewhere on the net. Submissions of newsletters, books, essays, fiction, poetry and 'zines are all acceptable. Materials archived must be in plain ASCII text, PostScript or (La)TeX formats so that they can be readable on many different computer platforms. Files can be sent via email to "ftp@etext.archive.umich.edu", they can be uploaded to the "incoming" directory on the site which is writable by anonymous users, and they can be sent on floppy or tape to me. Mac and DOS floppies are acceptable, as are Exabyte 8mm tapes, QIC-24 1/4" (60Mb) tapes and Sony 4mm DAT tapes in "tar" or "dump" format. If submitting ASCII text files, be sure that they are saved with linebreaks after 70-75 characters per line or they will be unreadable by most users. Paul Southworth Archivist etext.archive.umich.edu 535 West William St. Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Internet email: pauls@umich.edu UUCP email: ...!uunet!css.itd.umich.edu!pauls BINET email: userW0YG@UMICHUM Correction to sidebar on p.12 of issue #38: The archive server "red.css.itd.umich.edu" was turned off a year ago; all its files are on etext.archive.umich.edu. Users may still be able to connect to etext.archive.umich.edu using that address since "red.css.itd.umich.edu" is a functional alias for the current archive server, but users should note that the IP address associat- ed with "red.css.itd.umich.edu" (141.211.182.92) is no longer functional. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ _The_anarchist_scene_ Compiled by Jason McQuinn @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ A/K/A FINE USED BOOKS (4142 Brooklyn NE, Seattle, WA. 98105; phone: 206-632-5870) has recently issued subject brochures covering their selections of used books in the specific areas of "Jazz & Blues" and "Labor & Work." If you have an interest in these or other specific areas, write for more information. =20 AN ANTIAUTHORITARIAN INSURRECTION INTERNATIONAL has been proposed in a densely worded tract written by Alfredo Bonanno and published by Circolo Kaos (C.P. Aperta, 08026 ORANI [NU]M, Sardinia, Italy). Jean Weir of Elephant Editions (BM Elephant, London WC1N 3XX, England) has produced a 4-page English-language translation of the proposal. North Americans interested in this "informal initiative" can contact Doug Imrie (POB 852, Succ. Desjardins, Montr=82al, Qu=82bec H5B 1B9, Canada). =20 FERAL SOUP (POB 86662, Los Angeles, CA. 90086) has a catalog of anarchist and situationist books available for a stamp. =20 SILID AKLATAN (POB 187, N. Hollywood, CA. 91603) is a mail order library which carries tons of books of interest to anarchists. All you have to do is pay for postage. Catalogs are available for a stamp. THE LOS ANGELES ANARCHIST COMMUNITY is organizing to open up an info shop/community center very soon. Contributions of a dollar and a stamp will get an envelope full of subversive stickers. And anyone in the area interested in helping out should get in touch. Write to: The Management, c/o POB 86662, Los Angeles, CA. 90086. THE MAD FARMERS'JUBILEE ALMANAC (c/o James Kowhnline, POB 85777, Seattle, WA. 98145) is an "open conspiracy...an open forum for stimulating intercourse relating to temporal alternatives" in which "Anything goes." MFJA will be published quarterly and submissions are solicited. Send an SASE for more information. K BAAL WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION (POB 1024, 3300 BA Dordrecht, The Netherlands) has published a new anarcho-punk catalog (in English) featuring widely international listings. No price listed; I'd send a dollar for postage. NON BOSSY POSSE (c/o POB 13, Enmore, NSW 2042, Australia), a new radical techno band which emphasizes totally live performances and political lyrics, has an energetic new cassette out titled Sabo- teurs of the Big Daddy Mind Fuck. Cassettes are available for $10 + $5 postage, with all income going to benefit the Black Rose Anar- chist Bookshop in Sydney, recent victims of a firebombing. "AN OPEN LETTER TO ANARCHISTS and Anti-Authoritarians Involved in Prisoners' Support" has been issued by the Brooklyn ABC/Harold Thompson Support Campaign (c/o NY-AYF, POB 365, Canal St. Station, New York, NY. 10013-0365). Send a 52=9B SASE for a copy of this letter and related material. INFOSHOP BERKELEY (3124 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA. 94705; Tel: 510-848-6466; Email: resist@igc.apc.org) has just opened as a community space for activists in the Long Haul building. The infoshop intends to provide "a wide selection of political magazines, books, pamphlets and flyers," but the emphasis will be "on using the space to do political work." THE KATE SHARPLEY LIBRARY (BM Hurricane, London WC1 3XX, England), "named after an otherwise unknown militant of the past...exist[s] to bring attention to those who have struggled, unrecognized or forgotten, but who built a working class anarchist movement." The library "invites exchanges of duplicate material with other libraries and collections" and donations "of books, pamphlets, trial reports and leaflets left by activist anarchists." A comprehensive catalog of K.S.L. pamphlets is being produced. LEFT BANK DISTRIBUTION (4142 Brooklyn Ave. NE, Seattle, WA. 98105) has released a new 10-page Fall Update to their comprehensive cata- log of anti-authoritarian books and periodicals. Copies of the update, as well as the Left Bank catalog, are free, but a contribution for postage is always welcome. THE 1994 TELEGRAPH AVENUE STREET CALENDAR by B.N. Duncan & Ace Backwords is now available for $10 postpaid from: Ace Backwords, 1630 University Ave. #26, Berkeley, CA. 94703. This year's version features Berkeley's Naked Guy (as well as other naked Naked Guy supporters!) along with the (un)usual cast of street characters. If you're going to buy a calendar, this is about the best there is. 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If you have announcements concerning anarchist gatherings, new publications, or other anarchist activities or projects which our readers might find of use, you can send them to: Attn. Anarchist Scene, c/o C.A.L., POB 1446, Columbia, MO. 65205-1446. Please remember, for more information, or for ordering materials listed in this column, you must write to the addresses given above and not to C.A.L.