Towards an Anarchist Ecology

“We are settlers on this land, raised in cities, rootless, and alienated from the ecosystems we can’t help but be part of. But we want to unlearn what we have been taught by the dominant culture, and in the process, we want to re-learn joy, connection, and wonder, while embracing grief and loss in order to heal. We want to decolonize, and to do this, we need to build a new kind of relationship with the land. We want to take steps towards an anarchist ecology, towards a knowledge of the land that is anti-colonial and anti-authoritarian.

The articles in this zine were released as a seven-part series in 2013 to offer some idea of what an anarchist ecology might be. They followed a workshop series of the same name that we gave in Kitchener and Hamilton, and these articles are endebted to the input of the workshops’ participants.

Towards an Anarchist Ecology – it’s a provocative phrase, but what does it mean? Let’s start by looking at each of these terms separately before we consider their meaning together.”