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RAMPAGE Editorial Over a decade ago a magazine called Maggle’s Farm was conceived in Northern NSW. Despite Its name, it was not a farming magazine but an example of ‘public access press’, covering local and international issues from an ‘alternative’ viepoint. These days it would be stereotyped ‘New Age’. The name came from the ‘Maggie's Farm’ made famous by Bob Dylan - one of the original arts factory/ commune experiments. For a few years Maggie’s evolved around Bellingen and Macksville on the NSW north coast, lovingly assembled by rotating groups of volunteers who alded its original creator, Pip Wilson. After some years Maggle’s Farm was revitalised by the team of Perry White and Jenny Elf and made the Jeap from newspaper format to glossy A4 maga- zine. It also moved to the Blue Moun- talns west of Sydney. After years of successfully expand- Ing local consclousness, Maggie's Farm split almost cellularly into two publications, NEXUS and IMAGINE. Now NEXUS has returned to the source which spawned Maggie’s Farm; our new office is only a couple of ridges away from the original home of Maggie's. We're operating this issue trom a two-room shack, using a generator to run the computer until we get our new shelter and power system together (by next Issue). It’s come time for us to live our beliefs and cease contributing to the problems of society passively; the veges and fruit trees are in the ground. In order to change human reality tunnels a number of divergent and convergent viewpoints must open up new perspectives. Unfortunately, there are less alternative magazines now than last year; Maggie’s Farm, Imagine and others are no more. But the tide Is turning again. Almost everyone has realised they're either part of a problem or part of Its solution. Most people are eager to do something constructive to change thelr world and looking for alternative ways to live. Alternative viewpoints are what Democracy is all about. The destruction of our environment by agricultural and industrial monoculture Is only one visible result of the cultural blinkers we clamp to the eyes of our children, ourselves. It's heartwarming that we're ali beginning to care for the trees, animals, waters, soll and air. But MPAGE Editorial | .£%7°2""" | like your magazine because it addresses a wide range of issues H it consider that we've known about these Including pyramids & the face on Mars, iversl y problems for decades, they didn’t arise Tesia.& conspiracies. Keep up the good . overnight; for many years ‘alternative’ work, I'm rather afraid of talking about i D esti ny magazines have been proposing the the last for fear of being branded a : very solutions that govemments are right-wing extremist. Your mag helps to ago a magazine called belatedly adopting due to public reassure me on that point; that Is, until | was conceived in awareness and outcry. The ditference came to your editorial (In NEXUS #6). despite Its name, it was now |s not that we're more socially You show your true conservative, sagazine but an responsible as a species - It’s Just that trendy, left-wing colours when you hall blic access press’, we have no more choice about as part of ‘our’ Ideology becoming part, and international issues whether to change our bellefs and of the mainstream, "a one world ative’ vlepoint. These litestyles or not. The choice now Is life or economic system & govemmernt... e stereotyped ‘New death - we've left It too long and can’t rapidly taking form.” But how the hell came trom the kid ourselves any longer. can you welcome a “one world * made famous by Bob The belief systems and religions economic system” that consists in part he original arts factory/ whlch drive most of our cultures have of the World Bank & other International 2riments. become obsolete and have led us to banks funding such environmentally ars Maggie’s evolved thls Impasse. What we do depends on destructive projects in the 3rd World as ‘nand Macksville on the what we belleve. What we belleve Is up hug e dams & nuclear power stations? it, lovingly assembled by to us, but largely depends on what we These bonks hold the debtor nations in of volunteers who alded encounter as chlidren. The myths which usury by charging such huge Interest on tor, Pip Wilson. After program and direct our cultures are the loan that all the debtor can do Is try ggle’s Farm was those we're taught before we can to keep paying the Interest on the 1e team of Perry White speak for ourselves. Interest forever, with no hope of ever nd made the leap trom What were you exposed to as a repaying the principal. So the indebted nat to glossy A4 maga- chlid? What did your parents believe? nation turns to the International ved fo the Blue Moun- What do you believe? Can your beliefs Monetary Fund, which fells It that It must dney, evolve, or are they Immutably rooted in , restructure Its economy toward export, of successfully expand- that past? so the peasants are forced to stop lousness, Maggie's Farm Do you belleve humans have ‘do- - growing food crops to support them- ularly into two minlon’ ever all other lite forms on the selves & Instead grow cash crops, with EXUS and IMAGINE. planet, for instance? Do you believe the the resulting hardship for them, espe- has returned to the world must be destroyed for ‘God’ to claily as the government is forced to 2awned Maggie’s Farm; return? cut back on such programs as social s only a couple of ridges Divergent viewpoints and lifestyles - welfare. And that is why nations such as original home of social, political, and ethical - are Brazil are burning or tearing down thelr » operating this issue required to create alternative realities rainforests, to try to get out of debt - n shack, using a and ways of life; just as a cholce of which they never can. The Amazon will 1 the computer until we magazines help make new concepts be gone in 17 years, but the debt will alter and power system real, embedding them within our still be there. xt Issue). It's come time collective conscience. And then you name such Issues as ' beliefs and cease Diversity Is paramount to life In ozone depletion & the greenhouse the problems of society general. It may be that a number of effect. They are not ‘our province at all. eges and fruit trees are Indigenous lite-forms Is required to keep You seem to think that hipples or ; the very /andform stable over aeons. greenies thought those things up. We/ hange human reality The survival of a diversity of Ideas, like they never did; It was the scientists who er of divergent and species, keeps us all viable and 11 did that & it's the Establishments media wpoints must open up growing. that have been telling us about them for es. Unfortunately, there NEXUS believes In writing for an years now. They've been going on tive magazines now Intelligent audience. People require In- about the greenhouse effect fairly Maggie's Farm, Imagine depth information and references to consistently since 1971, although It's no more. sources of further Information - and this only in the last couple of years that it's - s tuming again. Almost increases our chances of all acting become a household word. 2alised they're either intelligently in these New Times. What And yet you contradict yourself by m or part of Its solution. we know Is not what makes us act - It’s showing your awareness of the horrors 2 eager to do something what we believe. of a one world government by your change their world and Live your beliefs and see If they reference at the bottom of your article native ways to live. work. on the tacing page to “today's tax file iewpoints are what numbering Identity system, which, with ll about. The destruction Please note that our address for written bonkcards and EFTPOS, connect all ent by agricultural and submissions and all things editorial has |} Australians Into the world computer culture is only one changed to PO Box 51, Bowraville 2449 Identity net and new economic order.” the cultural blinkers we For enquiries regarding distribution, sub- Yours One Woridly, ‘es of our children, scriptions or advertising please continue Michael Hallstone 2artwarming that we're to use PO Box A556, Sydney South 2000 It takes two wings to make the Eagle fly. care for the trees, Advertising enquiries should phone Don't get sucked in by a paradox. soll and air. But Jayne Weir on (02) 817 5543 THERE 1S NO THEM BUT USI Thanks - R.A. =) Life is Diversity Belief is Destiny Ss