Anarcho Grow (2010) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Daniela: Add a description of this character.
• Bill Larimore
• Ben
• Ron
• Charles
• Chi Cho
• Juan
• Martina
• Isabel
• David
• Carmela
• Luz
• Gracias
• Robert
• Gerald
• Estéban
• Panfilo
• Ryan
• Jeffrey
• Mateus
• Jack
• Alejandra
• Victor
• Westby

Quotes edit see section history

• “Never trust me men suits.”

  Elicia, a local from Quebrada Grande, speaking with her daughter

• “Ha, Shakespeare and Twain. Fuentes says we live in the place of natural man.”

  Estéban

• “If I'm Gringo Chavez, the difference is that I don't have to worry about the imperialists coming after me.”

  Ben Starosta

• “He had once looked at the rising bag as a symbol of his revolution. He had thought of Anarchist Catalonia, hoping he could help anarchism flower as it once had there.”

  Narrator

• “Fuckin' gringos. Come into our country. Boss us around. I paid over a hundred thousand colones and filed forms. They wouldn't let me on their land.”

  Costa Rican Police Officer

• “Do you know what communism is? The negation of capitalism. The belief that one person shouldn't possess all wealth. That all people should have education, health care. That people shouldn't starve in the street.”

  Ben Starosta

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Costa Rica
• San Jose
• Quebrada Grande
• Madison
• Colombia

Organizations edit see section history

• Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN): A revolutionary leftist group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. Since 1994, they have been in a declared war "against the Mexican state," though this war has been primarily nonviolent and defensive against military, paramilitary, and corporate incursions on their territory. Their social base is mostly rural indigenous people but they have some supporters in urban areas as well as an international web of support. Their main spokesperson is Subcomandante Marcos (currently a.k.a. Delegate Zero in relation to "the Other Campaign"). Unlike other Zapatista spokespeople, Marcos is not an indigenous Mayan.The group takes its name from Emiliano Zapata, the agrarian reformer and commander of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution, and sees itself as his ideological heir. In reference to inspirational figures, in nearly all EZLN villages exist murals accompanying images of Zapata, Che Guevara, and Subcomandante Marcos.
• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo- FARC or FARC-EP): A peasant army which has proclaimed itself to be a revolutionary agrarian, anti-imperialist Marxist-Leninist organization of Bolivarian inspiration. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia (e.g. Plan Colombia), neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and paramilitary or government violence. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings and taxation of the illegal drug trade.
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): A civilian intelligence agency of the United States government, reporting to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing "national security" intelligence to senior United States policymakers. Their primary function is to collect information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and to advise public policymakers. The agency conducts covert operations and paramilitary actions, and exerts foreign political influence through its Special Activities Division. It is widely accepted by the international community that the CIA has and has aided in overthrowing democratically elected governments of foreign nations (e.g. Chile in 1973, Nicaragua in 1980's, Honduras in 2009), and is, therefore, a terrorist organization. They train foreign armies for such operations at Fort Benning, Georgia-The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly The School of the Americas.

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Glossary edit see section history

• Pura Vida: Literally "pure life," used as a greeting between ticos. Sedlak explains: "...Pura Vida is a way of life-a way that is more relaxed, honest, and pure."
• tico: A native Costa Rican male. Tica is the feminine.
• schwag: low-grade commercial marijuana, usually refers to that cultivated by Mexican mafias.

Series & Lists edit see section history

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

Other Contributors:

1. T.A. Sedlak (Author) - .
2. Leslie W. LePere (Artist)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Stoniest Novel of the Year - CelebStoner.com (2010: Novel)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: 2009938131
• Dewey: Add the Dewey Classification.

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Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Author's Homepage: Contains author's biographical information, more writings by him, information on artist Les LePere, reviews of Anarcho Grow, plus text of the first chapter.

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