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Raise the Stakes #3: CITIES: SALVAGING THE PARTS

By Planet Drum Staff / June 21, 1981 / 0 Comments

Cities: Salvaging the Parts Circles of Correspondence (Regional Reports) Articles Poetry AnnouncementThird World Ranch ReviewsReviewed by Robert C. Watts Reviewed by Michael Helm Planet Drum UpdateActivities, how to get involved, items for sale, masthead Editorial GraphicsMichael Davidson, Hexacanthion Astercanthion, Nancy Eckel, Michael Myers, Nancy Von Stoutenberg Note: The PDF below is searchable if downloaded. Download.

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Raise the Stakes! #2: ECO-DEVELOPMENT: Decolonizing Ourselves

By Planet Drum Staff / January 1, 1981 / 0 Comments

Eco-Development: Decolonizing Ourselves Circles of Correspondence (Regional Reports) Articles PoetryDeerlodge, Roger Dunsmore AnnouncementFourth World Assembly Conference Reviews Reviewed by Peter Berg EditorialThe Next Step, Peter Berg and Michael Helm GraphicsSam Silver, Leonard Rifas, Sylvester Wesaw, Samiid Aednan, Daniel House, Jack Forbes, Gebe from Le Sauvage, Vito, Michael Myers, Charlie Hochberg, Christopher Swan, Thomas Morris Note: […]

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Raise the Stakes! #1: Soft Borders

By Planet Drum Staff / September 21, 1979 / 0 Comments

Soft Borders: An introduction to Raise the Stakes! Articles PoetryRaise the Stakes!, Peter Berg LetterGary Snyder Reviews Reviewed by Linn House Reviewed by Peter Berg EditorialHumankind Peter Berg(?) (and Linn House?)Report to the Membership GraphicsDaniel O. Stolpe, Shafi Hakim, Peter Hall, Sandy Simonson Note: The PDF below is searchable if downloaded. Download

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Listening to the Earth

By Planet Drum Staff / April 7, 1979 / 0 Comments

___________________ More about the symposium: ___________________ The Bioregional Basis of Community Consciousness A Public Symposium April 7-10, 1979 San Francisco Are we /\out of place in Northern California? Our Society is Heading in Two Conflicting Directions. One of these is the attempt to preserve regional culture, community identity, natural resources and political autonomy. The second […]

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Reinhabitory Theater

By Peter Berg / April 1, 1978 / 0 Comments

This is an improvisation guide for performing stories that come specifically from native northern California Pomo. Maidu, Karok and Pit River tribal traditions. The “coyote stories” feature human/animal characters and were told around fires during the rainy winter months for both entertainment and philosophical reference to human and planet events. * * * The stories […]

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Amble Toward Continent Congress

By Peter Berg / July 4, 1976 / Comments Off on Amble Toward Continent Congress

Planet Drum Continent Congress Bundle (1976) Reprinted 1992 Amble Toward Continent Congress is a manifesto to overcome the politics of extinction, the Earth-colonist globalism which exhausts whole continents, their people, and moves now to devastate deep floors of our planetary oceans. This piece was distributed with one of the early Planet Drum Bundles, and was written to […]

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Bioregion

By Peter Berg / October 21, 1973 / 0 Comments

A bioregion is defined in terms of the unique overall pattern of natural characteristics that are found in a specific place. The main features are generally found throughout a continuous geographic terrain and include a particular climate, local aspects of seasons, landforms, watersheds, soils, and native plants and animals. People are also counted as an […]

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HOMESKIN

By Peter Berg / March 24, 1970 / 0 Comments

…on the summer solstice in 1968, the Diggers began radiating out from San Francisco to other regions and cities to spread their anti-materialistic and increasingly earth-centered ideas. Homeskin was a statement of vision and intent for this exodus. It expands what had been the Diggers’ mainly urban experiment with mutualistic anarchism to now embrace the […]

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TRIP WITHOUT A TICKET

By Peter Berg / December 20, 1966 / 0 Comments

GUERILLA THEATER Our authorized sanities are so many Nembutals. “Normal” citizens with store-dummy smiles stand apart from each other like cotton-packed capsules in a bottle. Perpetual mental out-patients. Maddeningly sterile jobs for strait-jackets, love scrubbed into an insipid “functional personal relationship” and Art as a fantasy pacifier. Everyone is kept inside while the outside is […]

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