User:Saxon wood/Saxon Wood

Saxon Wood was a British political activist vegan and journalist, and was one of the defendants in the GANDALF trial.

After involvement in various anarchist ideas, he first became involved with the UK Green Anarchist magazine in 1988. He wrote the music page, and tabled for the newspaper at anarchist and green events, He also ran the mail orde and distribution of the paper. Saxon went on to fund the publishing Steve Booths novel, City-Death, explaining his idea of green anarchismand "Even Eden".He also helped to Booth published 'Into the 1990s With Green Anarchist'(ISBN: 0-9521226-4-2), a book explaining Green Anarchist doctrines and history, copying it and hand binding it himself.As well as Steve's 'Primitivism an Illusion With No Future'. Other pamphlets he help publish were Graham Burnetts "Well Feed not an Animal Dead" vegan cookbook.

Starting in 1995, the Hampshire Police under 'Operation Washington' began a series of at least 56 raids, which eventually resulted in the August to November 1997 Portsmouth trial of Green Anarchist editors Stephen Booth, Saxon Wood, Noel Molland and Paul Rogers, as well as Animal Liberation Front Press Officer Robin Webb and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group newsletter editor Simon Russell. The defendants organised the GANDALF Defence campaign. Three of the editors of Green Anarchist, Noel Molland, Saxon Wood and Booth were jailed for 'conspiracy to incite'. Eventually, all three were released on appeal

In early 2000, Saxon Wood broke with Green Anarchist after moving to America. He then began taking his version of Green Anarchy magazine in a different political direction, trying to go back to what Booth saw as its roots and undo the harm he considered done to it by Richard Hunt and Paul Rogers. However, after returning to Oregon from being out of state for 7 months, found his ideas where no welcome at the paper he had started.

From 2001 Saxon began to News from Nowhere newspaper and now just website :.

Saxon Wood still lives in Eugene, near Oregon. Amongst other things, he is work at a green lifesytle store and thinking of starting another punk band.

--Saxon wood (talk) 23:23, 12 January 2011 (UTC)