"They're Just Bastards" - A Tribute To Edward Abbey

”Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.” -Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness 198

>
An interview with author and unwilling activist Edward Abbey _[Wikipedia]
Phoenix Arizona PBS 1982, on 'progress', politics, the environment, and more.


[This presentation is 23:34 minutes. Pop Out Player?]
Download this video from Indymedia (Windows R-click, AVI, 46.2Mb)

Sources: Interview Part 1, Part 2, Tom Russell

Twas in the town of Tuscon, it was 1983
A man named "Edward Abbey" came walkin' up to me
He pulled his 'Seagull' from his mouth said I smell lawyers here
The politician running dogs they crawled away in fear

Yippie doo rahy doo
Yippie doo rahy day

I wish Edward Abbey was walking 'round today

For the more 'Pacific'... Wendell Berry In Defense Of Edward Abbey

Documentary - Edward Abbey: A Voice In The Wilderness

Be like Ed
(Description... Personally uploaded to Archive.org. Download, un-zip, click on the file "inttxt.html")

"We aren't trying to overthrow EVERYTHING... ...but certain specific things.Business POLITICS Poverty, and Oppression." ~~Herbert Marcuse