From: Dale McMillen <dmcmillen@igc.apc.org>
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Date: 22 Jan 93 09:51 PST
Subject: SYNTHESIS/REGENERATION-Letter from
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From: Dale McMillen <dmcmillen>
Subject: SYNTHESIS/REGENERATION-Letter from

/* Written  8:46 pm  Jan 21, 1993 by jsutter@igc.apc.org in igc:green.general */
/* ---------- "SYNTHESIS/REGENERATION-Letter from" ---------- */


What is SYNTHESIS/REGENERATION?    How Can You Participate?



     Synthesis/Regeneration is more than a magazine for Greens.

It is one of the central ways that Greens communicate with each

other about their ideas and analyses of ecological, social,

economic and political issues.



     Greens blend Action and Vision.  Our Actions include

marches, pickets, educational events, coalition-building, and, of

course, running Green candidates for office.  What makes Greens

unique is our continually evolving Vision of a society free from

ecological and social domination.  We emphasize "evolving"

because Greens do not consider our Vision to be a dogma written

in stone; but, rather, ideas and feelings which are continually

growing.  These changes in our Vision flow from our Actions.



     Greens have numerous local and national publications which

report on Green Actions.  In providing a vehicle to examine,

discuss, and critique our Vision, Synthesis/Regeneration is an

equally essential side of Greenness.  Greens can no more separate

Action from Vision than a bird can fly with one wing.  We invite

readers to participate in developing Green Visions by

contributing to Synthesis/Regeneration.



     We intend for Synthesis/Regeneration to continue the

discussions long provided by Green Synthesis.  Nowhere else is

there any extended discussion of our various visions.  Green

Politics provides news shorts and local reports on Greens/Green

Party USA activities, GroundWork provides news of the Greens and

kindred movements, and the Green Bulletin is for internal

organizational business.



     The creation of each issue of Synthesis/Regeneration uses a

process we call "prefigurative."  We envision a society where

many, many people participate in the growth and publication of

new ideas.  We try to encorporate this Vision of society as we

produce the magazine--our end is our means.  The magazine you see

as  Synthesis/Regeneration is more than a series of pages stapled

together.  It concretizes relationships between people who worked

together to make the magazine a reality.  The interactions

between those people are as much a part of the magazine as the

articles you read.



     Empowering authors is a critical part of

Synthesis/Regeneration.  We wish to include articles by authors

who are well known in their fields.  But even more important is

including Green activists who want to reflect on their work and

participate in development of the Green Vision.  The Editorial

Board is eager to work with Green authors who may not be

comfortable with their writing skills and wish help in turning

their ideas into a finished essay or letter.  We are seeking to

broaden the Editorial Board to include participation which is

balanced by gender, color, political views, and geography.



     The St. Louis Regeneration Collective also wants to help

develop the publishing skills of others who are interested in

being able to pull together a magazine.  This issue on Education

for Democratic Empowerment was edited entirely in Toronto.  Bruce

Lofquist and his supporters solicited articles, edited them, and

did electronic layout with the St. Louis Collective only

providing guidance and suggestion.  Last year, a Women's

Collective from Vermont and New York similarly took

responsibility for producing Regeneration 3, on Feminism.  We are

very proud of having successfully transfered editorial decision-

making for 2 out of 5 issues of Regeneration.  To date,

Synthesis/Regeneration is the only Green publication which has

accomplished rotation out of the host city--this is an important

part of the Green Vision that we should encourage and expand.



     Empowerment and self-management have always been central to

the two magazines which came together to form

Synthesis/Regeneration in the Summer of 1992.  Both magazines

actually pre-date the old Committees of Correspondence, precursor

to today's The Greens/Green Party USA.  Synthesis began in 1975

as a newsletter of the League for Economic Democracy (later the

League for Ecological Democracy).  In July, 1988, it changed to

Green Synthesis and became the national theoretical publication

for the Committees of Correspondence.



     Regeneration traces its origins to Workers' Democracy, which

started in 1981 as an independent forum of ideas on labor self-

management.  In 1991, it changed to Regeneration: A Magazine of

Left Green Social Thought.  As a Left Green publication,

Regeneration produced theme issues on Libertarian Municipalism

vs. Workplace Self-Management, Toxics and Hazardous Waste,

Feminism, and Green Electoral Politics.  At the 1992 Gathering,

Synthesis and Regeneration agreed to fuse energies so that there

would be a magazine dedicated to presenting the full diversity of

Green thought.



     The cost for printing and mailing each copy of

Synthesis/Regeneration is a little under 70 cents each.

Synthesis/Regeneration can afford this very economical cost of

1.46 cents per page because it is produced in bulk for every

dues-paid member of The Greens.  One factor contributing heavily

to its affordability is that Synthesis/Regeneration is the only

national publication for Greens where no one receives payment in

cash or salary for the time that they donate to it.

Synthesis/Regeneration is produced 100% by voluntary labor of

writing, editing, typing, electronic layout, and mailing.  To

keep costs down, we need your help.  We want your artwork, your

thoughts, your ideas, your articles, your reviews and your

letters.  But we also need your time.  Please let us know if you

can help Synthesis/Regeneration by soliciting articles, typing,

or otherwise devoting your energy.  



Please write us at:  Synthesis/Regeneration, 

c/o WD Press, P.O. Box 24115, St. Louis MO  63130.





--Barbara Chicherio, Don Fitz, Maryjo Maroney, Jeff Sutter, 

Becky Torstrick  (St. Louis Regeneration Collective)



(Notice included in Synthesis/Regeneration 5, "Education 

for Democratic Empowerment: Diverse Voices")   1/15/93



Nota bene-

Econet comments welcome, too... what should the Greens/

Green Party USA theoretical discussion bulletin look like?

How can we best create and maintain dialogue/multilogue?

Best represent/reflect the diversity of Green visions?

Best be worth reading -- and writing for?

Synthesis/Regeneration is still in development, and is 

dependent on the support and involvment of Greens.



         --*tuff jester*



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