Ishkah: Okay yeah, so I’ve gone through all my questions, but I can give you one more hypothetical if you like. There was a podcast you did for Oak Journal on lots of topics like humanism and one thing that came up was veganism and then there was an interesting response by Ria who runs […]
By Ken, with contributions by Ria & Jack A crisp February afternoon 1977, I rambled down gritty concrete steps making my final exit from University of Illinois, Chicago. I’d devoted six lengthy years to my goal of achieving a doctorate in Family Medicine, but the Coroner’s degree in my left hand connoted my consolation prize. […]
Do not seek me amongst Sterile walls and surfaces Where everyone is neatly dressed Don’t imagine me with Soft, clean skin Clean fingernails A whiff of laundry detergent In a building with Exit signs Florescent lights Recycled air from a vent Hard echoing floors… Think of me when you see A deer in pause At […]
buried inside True You knew all along your primal clarion call, unbegun now cogent but stalled by grim Blocks squatting nested in your mind ever obsessively ruminating doubting defeating, in garbling self destroying wordy words murmuring their crud shrinking you into a quivering quite almost a slumping until Wild Love swoops in on you flustering […]
Wild animals reposition their ranges and realign their associations, generally gradually. But spontaneous shape-shifting communities manifesting on their own terms are in steep decline. Civilization’s razed land, pollution, noise and overpopulated unwild human presence give some animals an artificial edge to overtake others, deteriorating wild homeostasis. Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) In 1909, Vancouver Park in BC […]
Shortly after Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore released their documentary Planet of the Humans, Dave Borlace, creator of videos on ‘sustainable solutions’ to climate change in his series ‘Just Have A Think’ posted a critique. Borlace effectively pokes holes into Gibbs & Moore’s look behind the veil of ‘green technology.’ Borlace reveals how Gibbs […]
GO VEGAN RADIO #645 By Bob Linden on September 17, 2020 “Fascinating Interview with Vegan Anarchist Primitivist RIA DEL MONTANA, author of “Eco Patriarchy – The Origins & Nature of Hunting” – exploring human evolution, our deep Vegan origins, and rationalizing of killing which we know is wrong.” Ria’s interview starts at 44:00
From an ecological lens, all species have their own ways of acquiring food within their wildscapes. Shifts in the human dietway, from pre-sapiens to today, have correlated with the degree of our increasing use of objects and technologies, which correlated with our invasion, colonization and annihilation of thriving autonomous communities of life. Our foodway has […]
I have a rendezvous with corona Life Quarantined by primordial Earth, When Spring winds whirl fluffy seeds From air to forest floor— I have a rendezvous with eco-Life When Pandemic brings wily days. It may be he shall capture my heart Reveal purity of this land unmanned Enlighten my eyes and propel my spirit— It […]
Ria writes within a tradition of anarchist thought that I am often considered tied to – anarcho-primitivism. One of my most significant struggles with anarcho-primitivist discourse is, despite its exploration of areas not often ventured through within even many radical areas of thought, it has largely manifested as a monocultural space, with some very […]
