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Front cover art by Nemo Boko. Original Cenacle logo by Barbara Brannon. Back cover art by Emmanuelle Brochier. Front & back cover design by Raymond Soulard, Jr. Interior images by Raymond Soulard, Jr. & Kassandra Soulard, except where otherwise indicated. Accompanying CD to print version contains Cenacles #47-59, Burning Man Books #1-48, Scriptor Press Samplers #1-7, RaiBook #5, & RS Mixes from “Within’s Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution.” CD contents can also be downloaded at: http://ilkins.demon.co.uk/~cenacle/cenaclesupplement.zip The Cenacle, 2442 NW Market Street, #363, Seattle, Washington, 98107, is published six times a year by Scriptor Press (http://www.geocities.com/scriptorpress). It is kin organ to ElectroLounge website, RaiBooks, Burning Man Books, Scriptor Press Sampler, & “Within’s Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution w/Soulard,” broadcast online worldwide weekends on SpiritPlants Radio (http://yage.net:9000). All rights of works published herein belong exclusively to the creator of the work. Email to: cenacle@mindspring.com. Thank you to new friends George Dorn, Nemo Boko, & Emmanuelle Brochier, all met at Burning Man 2006 festival. It is happiness to welcome your art to these pages, renewing, replenishing. Thank you to Air America, Democratic Underground.com, Common Dreams.org, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and every other effort to bring down the King with smarts & laughs & guts. It’s been five years at this effort, yet nobody tires enough to capitulate & withdraw . . . what choice but to rage & love onward?
1 Revolution Evolution George Dorn So you say you want a revolution? Well, so does everybody else: Free Palestine! Free Mumia! No War in Iraq/Iran/Anywhere! No Torture! No Blood for Oil! Save the Earth! The answer lies in Communism/Socialism/Democracy/Anarchy/Lyndon LeRouche! This is the majority of slogans and topics I’ve seen at the protests and democratic open mics I’ve been to over the years and it has always given me a sense of unease for three reasons: 1) Despite the purpose of the protest, many causes and associated chants are usually present (see above), which to me suggests a lack of collective focus; 2) A little bit of reflection leads me to realize that the lack of focus seems to be due to the dire state of all of these (interrelated) issues. I think Daniel Pinchbeck summarized the state of our situation best: Anxieties are multiplying. The environment is disintegrating. The heat is rising as the ozone layer thins. Jihad faces off against McWorld in senseless wars and televised atrocities. Populations are displaced as cities disappear beneath toxic flood tide. Rogue nations stockpile nuclear arsenals. Presidents assure us they will ‘make the pie higher,’ while increasing inequity and rubberstamping torture. We are essentially getting cluster-fucked from all sides, and so the alarm sounds from those same directions; and 3) The so-called “action” of the protest tends to leave me feeling like little has been accomplished. How many times have you heard the following phrases: “This is only the first step,” “It’s not over,” or “This is what democracy looks like”? Now how well do you think the protests lived up to, and/or followed up on, these messages? Something’s wrong here. When did revolution cease to be revolutionary? Perhaps it would be useful to look at the current state of the revolutionary ideal. Throughout history, large groups of people have inevitably become aware of an oppressive force in their lives or an injustice being done to a group/individual/place, and they take action to stop the dominating person/group/system by the means that they see as fit. The means have taken many forms over the course of human history from wars, torture, and executions, to civil disobedience, subversive media, and massive legal actions. It is upon those three latter forms of action that all current revolutions seem to be stalling. Countless times during the course of each year, and in every major city around the world, people have gathered again and again to try and change the course of human events, to stop the injustices, to cease the needless destruction of people and environment, and yet the situation seems only to have gotten worse. While activists of today plan their actions according to the successful strategies of the 1960s, the dominator culture has been hard at work applying the tricks it has learned since then: enclosed “free speech zones” covered in barbed wire; rubber bullets; sonic and aquatic blasts; improved barricades; and an increasingly militarized and aggressive police force. If that weren’t enough, the The Cenacle | 59 | October 2006
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