Continent Congress -Bundle #4 Scans

Continent Congress

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Planet Drum Bundle #4, 1976 – Envelope: white 9”x12” printed with dark blue ink with graphic of Turtle Island Flag designed by Peter Blue Cloud plus tiny shaman. The text is Continent Congress plus table of contents. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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Planet Drum Bundle #4, 1976 – Amble Toward Continent Congress by Peter Berg, lettering by Franz Cilensek. A bioregional overview of North American history following Columbus’ landing reveals the effect that the ongoing encounter between indigenous peoples and Europeans has had on both cultures, and offers a vision of reinhabitation through bioregionalism. Berg urges “coming together with the continent” in body and spirit because a “region has the power to sustain and join disparate people.” Two-sided, 11″x17″ poster, includes the IUCN’s Biotic Province map of North America with commentary by Raymond Dasmann. Updated and reprinted in 1992 as a “surprise publication” for Planet Drum Members. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

Introduction to the 1992 revisions

1992 revisions to Amble’s second page

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Planet Drum Bundle #4, 1976 – A Winter in the Illinois Woods, excerpts from a journal by Marguerite Swift, about reinhabitation—taking everything back to basics as she spends a winter building and living in a cabin with her husband. 5.5”x8.5” 16 page booklet annotated by James Koller with drawings by Elsa (Skylark) Marley. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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Meat, essay by David Simpson that presents a convincing argument against eating meat, focusing on the enormous strain that our diet and increasingly mechanized mono-agricultural methods place on the earth’s resources. He refers to “the complete subjugation of land, grass, creatures and people to an overblown taste for red meat” and discusses its historical and present-day effects. Four page 5.5”x11” booklet with a cover drawing by Sandy Simonson and a poem by Freewheelin’ Frank Reynolds. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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Continent Footing North America A video conversation with geologist Robert Curry that evokes a sense of the whole of the continent and its parts. He explores the mineral source of life and culture with Peter Berg and Peter Coyote. Graphics from the video made by Peter Berg. 9”x22.5” Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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Full Scale Nuclear Social Order 239 Next Question Taboo by Gil Bailie reveals the disastrous effects that full-scale development of nuclear power will have on our biosphere, as well as the cultural and political impacts that will inevitably follow, such as centralization and high technological orientation. Bailie says, “There is nothing on the planet that so completely limits the range of possible choices for future generations as does nuclear power.” 17”x11”  folded page with a central drawing by Martin Carey. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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Heterogeneity a poem in the shape of a flower by Allen Van Newkirk exploring the dimensions of ecological consciousness. Reverse is A Table of Contents for the Continent Congress Bundle and an update on Planet/Drum Foundation developments. 7”x10” page folded in half. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

Passing the Drum

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New Orleans Report, Committee of Correspondence, “Galvez” Tristes Semi-tropiques by D. Eric Bookhardt, Stephen Duplantier, Chester Kasnowski, Ray Kern This geopsychic study examines the forces involved in regional self-definition. A model for the positioning of regions that sheds light on the lives of places. The mini-bundle includes:

Tractatus Geopsychorum by D. Eric Bookhardt with photographs by Bookhardt, Drury and Bellocq. 18”x22.5” poster with photos

A Logic of Regions by Stephen Duplantier plays with the idea of imaginatively “terraforming” a sinking and shrinking Louisiana. A region already visibly on the wane because of the rising waters due to marshland erosion of the coast. 11”x17” 4-page essay booklet

Possible Sound Frequency Map of words used in Louisiana Delta, Providing a Non Border to the Area by Chester Kasnowski 7”x7.5” two-sided card. Digital images courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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