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Feb 23, 2023 Anonymous
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The following comes from a participant in the Weelaunee Café, a short-lived kitchen that existed in Atlanta’s Weelaunee Forest in Fall/Winter 2022. The forest—stolen from the Muscogee Creek peoples before becoming a plantation & prison farm—is currently under threat, as the APD & real-estate mogul Ryan Millsap are trying to turn the land into part cop training ground & part largest-movie-soundstage-in-America. On the ground resistance has been ongoing since 2021, & police...
Topics: stop cop city, defend the atlanta forest, zine
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Feb 20, 2023 Cindy Barukh Milstein
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This zine is a transcript of a talk from 2007 by Cindy Barukh Milstein from the unSchooling Oppression Conference. The zine begins with a brief segment titled “why anarchism?” that situates the rest of the talk, with an emphasis on the notion that a key aspect of anarchism is educating ourselves and inspiring others to question the way things are. For anarchists, education reminds us things haven’t always been like this and gives past, present, and future examples of alternatives. It also...
Topics: anarchism, education, zine
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Feb 12, 2023 Crimethinc
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This guide covers everything you need to know about using wheatpasting and postering to spread a message and redirect the urban landscape. It covers how to make wheatpaste, how to design posters, and tips for deploying them in the streets.
Topics: zine, zines, anarchism
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Feb 12, 2023 The Doula Project
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This zine aims to be a “long-distance doula” to help anyone seeking an abortion. Through comics, drawings, personal essays, games, and more it covers the “tough questions, affirming that people can trust their decisions, modeling how to ask for support, and giving tips on self-advocacy.” The zine also acts as a huge, diverse toolbox that gives some more practical advice and answers FAQs that the authors find themselves addressing in clinics.
Topics: zine, zines, abortion, doula, health
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Feb 12, 2023 Autonomous Tenants Union
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This zine gives an overview of tactics that may be useful in fighting landlords during tenant organizing. It covers a range of common tactics including call-in campaigns, delegations, flyering, press conferences, postcards, banner drops, and communicating with elected officials. It gives an overview of the tactic as well as tips for implementing them and deploying them. It’s a nice introduction to a variety of commonly used but often poorly applied tactics.
Topics: zine, tenants union, organizing, protests
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With the proliferation of the Internet and mobile phones into every facet of modern life, it is worth setting aside time to consider the potential risks their use plays in political activities. This zine does a good job of outlining the risks and placing them alongside strategies that can minimize some of that risk. It talks about how mobile phones work, operating systems, encryptions, messaging apps, demo phones, and more. There is a helpful discussion of various risks and mitigation steps, as...
Topics: activism, protest, security, zine, zines, phones
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Feb 10, 2023 Zündlumpen
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This text looks at some of the tools available to the German state to analyze texts from radical groups in order to aid in political investigations. It explores modern forensic linguistics which can aid investigations by helping authorities determine who wrote a particular text. The techniques aren’t fool-proof or even always accurate, but the use to tie writers to particular communiques is something that should be considered. While discussing the situation in Germany, it is safe to assume...
Topics: zine, zines, repression
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Feb 10, 2023 Crimethinc
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This zine – formatted by the Counter-Surveillance Research Center – features a detailed text by Crimethinc exploring the FBI’s efforts to break the radical ecology movement in the United States during the mid-2000s. It draws out important lessons from the campaign against the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and law enforcement’s targeting of the larger anarchist milieu at the turn of the century. There is an overview of the case, the role of informants, and a thorough analysis of the...
Topics: zine, anarchism
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Feb 10, 2023 Anonymous
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This is a short guide to starting a zine distro. It covers where to get zines online to print, offers suggestions on where to table and even offers suggestions for picking a distro name. It has a somewhat tongue-and-cheek tone throughout but it does a good job of conveying the basics for those who don’t know where to start.
Topics: zine, zines, anarchism
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Feb 10, 2023 Anonymous
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This zine is focuses on herbalism as a way of connecting with children. There are essays about wildcrafting with kids, foraging as a family, common and easy herbal remedies, and a few reviews. There are recipes and lists of suggested herbs to stock for families. Additionally, there are interviews with parents discussing herbalism and exploring the general themes of the zine. Overall, it’s a great DIY zine on herbalism.
Topics: zine, herbalism, diy
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Feb 10, 2023 Anonymous
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This zine – written by a veteran of the anti-fascist and anti-globalization struggles – provides a basic introduction to strength training. It is designed with an eye towards helping people in the streets. It focuses on weight training that you can do either at home or in at a gym. Topics covered include techniques, exercises, eating, recovery days, and supplements. There are also tips for staying motivated and a list of additional resources. The whole zine is grounded in body positivity...
Topics: zine, antifa, fitness
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Feb 10, 2023 Inhabit
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This guide is designed to give practical advice to people wanting to begin strength and conditioning training. Such training can help with the stress of the capitalist world and also to help prepare for confrontations in the street. It provides a good introduction to a variety of physical fitness topics including: movement, breathing, strength training, and core training.
Topics: fitness, zine, protest
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Aug 21, 2022
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This zines explores alternatives to anarchists using social media like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Beyond the simple solution of just eschewing social media, Fedizine looks at how anarchists can use federated social media instead of relying on centralized and corporate run social media companies. This zine provides an argument against corporate social media and offers some practical suggestions on how to use alternative social media. This zine is particularly important for anarchist media...
Topics: anarchist, technology, social media
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Aug 21, 2022 Crimethinc
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This zine tells the story of the organized effort to defend the ~230 people arrested at President Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration. The arrested – who were alleged to have participated in large black bloc demonstration against the inauguration – were collectively charged with numerous felonies and threatened with decades in prison. Through organized solidarity the defendants and their supporters defeated the charges and the majority went free without any jail time. This text examines that...
Topics: anarchist, protests, organizing
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Aug 21, 2022 Crimethinc
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The following anonymous instructional text was composed by people who organize squatted dance parties in the United States today. The link between unauthorized dancing and radical politics extends back many decades, from the early rave scene and the worldwide squatting movement through Reclaim the Streets and Occupy. Even if you live in a small Midwestern town far from the dances of New York City and the squats of Athens, Greece, you can still organize adventurous escapades that demonstrate how...
Topics: anarchism, squatting, organizing
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Aug 21, 2022
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This is a comprehensive guide to starting an Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) group to engage in prisoner support work. It covers the history of the ABC, what ABC groups do, and gives practical advice on starting a group. There is a series of short interviews with participants in different ABC groups about how and why they do the work they do, examples of how to organize, fundraising ideas, and more. There is even a section on burnout and some suggestions for avoiding it. This is a great resource...
Topics: anarchist, organizing, anarchist black cross, prisons
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Jun 26, 2022
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A thorough and classic examination on tried and true herbal treatments for common gynecological problems, as well as great basic sexual health info. It begins, "Patriarchy sucks. It's robbed us of our autonomy and much of our history. We believe it's integral for women to be aware an in control of our own bodies." Diagrams and herbal remedies teach you how to diagnose and heal many basic problems from bladder infections to inducing your period to ease cramps to even dealing with...
Topics: zine, zines, healthcare, women's health, diy
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Jun 26, 2022
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Reclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom is a guide for trained and practiced herbalists and midwives to better serve the women of their communities. Examines safety issues and benefits of herbal abortion; risk and efficacy considerations; criteria and protocol; herbal abortifacients, implantation inhibitors, emmenogogues, oxytocic herbs and more.
Topics: zine, zines, abortion, herbs
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This collection may not only to be viewed in terms of abortion rights, or even strictly in terms of the quest for women to have control over their bodies, but also in terms of any group of people face-up against the onslaught of modern-day slavery (in all its forms) taking control over their lives. Jane is an inspiration— a beautiful example that battles can be won without begging. Today they can be seen as a bold display of an effective underground organization operating with utter disregard...
Topics: zine, history, zines, jane, abortion, women's liberation
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Not just another pro-choice zine. Free to Choose is an introduction to the history of underground abortion and a call to learn our history and to take matters in our own hands. It includes some information on menstrual extraction and a list of resources to learn more. Reproductive choice is not a "right" to be granted or withdrawn. "To know our history is to see how to take up struggle again."
Topics: zines, abortion, pro-choice
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Jun 25, 2022 Various
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A collection of zines on abortion and abortion rights.
Topics: abortion, zines, pro-choice
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Sep 7, 2021 Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee
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This guide – put together by the Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee – is an excellent introduction to protecting yourself and your comrades from repression.
Topics: zine, zines, anarchist, anti-repression, legal, activism
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Sep 6, 2021 Libcom.org
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This zine explores mental health as it relates to libertarian/anarchist activism. It was compiled by participants on the forum Libcom.org who through their discussions discovered the prevalence of depression, mental illness, and emotional stress within radical spaces.
Topics: zine, zines, mental health, anarchism, activism
Incoming and Unsorted Zines
Aug 31, 2021 Actvist Trauma
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This zine explores post-traumatic stress and how to recover from it. Post-traumatic stress can take many forms. Some may find themselves more scared of the police or of crowded situations; others may become angry, while still others feel paralyzed and vulnerable. You may feel changed as a person. Opening spaces to exchange experiences and communicate our emotions are important first steps to deal with experiences of violence. The text provides suggestions for identifying PTSD and addressing it.
Topics: activism, zine, zines, trauma, protest
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Aug 30, 2021 Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
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This zine – written by Mutual Aid Disaster Relief – explores the trauma that can result from political work. It discusses the emotional toll that can result from seeing state brutality, humanitarian crisis, and natural and human-created disasters up close. This toll can include complex and immediate acute distress as well as long-term post-traumatic stress. When these feelings go unaddressed, they can result in burnout and people retreating from the political work. While this zine's context...
Topics: zine, zines, activism, activist, trauma, ptsd
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Aug 30, 2021 Anonymous
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This zine is a compilation of tactics and roles used by Hong Kong protesters that have been developed within the #AntiELAB movement since March 15, 2019. It was produced to show how (effective) roles and tactics used in the Anti ELAB movement against the police could be utilized in the United States. The zine outlines a variety of different roles that people can adopt in a protest and even provides an image showing how a crowd confronting the police could be organized to effectively take on the...
Topics: zine, zines, protest, street tactics, hong kong
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Aug 30, 2021 Anonymous
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While older, this zine collects a series of important tips for folks wishing to be as anonymous as possible in the context of street protests or other actions. The specific lessons here were drawn from the case of an anarchist arrested in Portland for attacking banks and a police substation. However, there have been numerous cases where folks were identified after a protest or riot whether that be due to surveillance cameras, posts on social media, or images taken by others at a protest. This...
Topics: zine, zines, anarchism, black bloc, protest
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This zine is an excellent introduction to fighting state repression. It covers the basics of what repression is, what happens when you are arrested, what to expect if you have to serve time, etc. Throughout the zine the author(s) repeatedly emphasize that fighting repression isn’t a solitary act and that it is something that is best done as a community (however we chose to define it). This is zine is definitely worth reading if you are new to experiencing state repression and is also a great...
Topics: zine, zines, repression, legal
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Aug 13, 2021 Anonymous
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This zine presents a collection of three critiques against livestreaming. In recent years, the phenenomenon of livestreaming protests has become common. Aside from the problematic voyeurism that it encourages, livestreaming has also facilitated the repression of participants. After every heavily documented riot or demonstration, police -- and often citizen snitches -- have gone over livestreams and other photos to identify individuals for prosecution. Do we gain anything other than increased...
Topics: zine, zines, privacy, activism, protest, livestreams
Incoming and Unsorted Zines
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This step-by-step guide explains how to protect yourself from online stalkers, why it is important, and what to do if you are targeted for “doxxing”—the publishing of your private information. In a era of universal surveillance, when livestreamers broadcast every major demonstration while fascists, FBI agents, and police officers comb through social media posts to gather intelligence with which to harass activists, there has never been a better time to take steps to secure your privacy.
Topics: zine, zines, doxxing, activism, security, privacy
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Nov 7, 2020 Crimethinc
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Gunshot wounds are becoming more common at demonstrations. This is not to say you should panic—millions of people have participated in demonstrations over the past four months, while only dozens have been shot. Still, as political conflict escalates in the United States, it is important to think about how we can care for and protect each other. The good news is that even if you have no medical training, there are things you can do to maximize the likelihood that a person who is shot in your...
Topics: protests, demonstration, safety
Incoming and Unsorted Zines
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This zine features tips and strategies for those who are arrested and forced to interact with police. It’s drawn from the experience of an anarchist and mental health counselor who was arrested. The experience helped them to realize that there isn’t a lot of material out there focusing on how to stay calm in the context of an arrest. It also emphasizes the importance of not talking to police and focusing on that and remaining calm. While the particulars of the arrest, charges, and identity...
Topics: zine, zines, legal, repression
Incoming and Unsorted Zines
Sep 13, 2020
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This guide comes from the Detroit Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) explains the how and why of writing letters to prisoners. It includes tip for finding prisoners to write to, what to write about and how to develop correspondence with prisoners, and what not to write. It also discusses other communication options with prisoners including email and books to prisoners projects.
Topics: zine, zines, prisons, prisoner support
Incoming and Unsorted Zines
Sep 13, 2020
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This zine explains how to cover your face in a protest situation. It recommends a simple t-shirt mask to conceal as much of your face as possible in order to prevent surveillance and repression. Spreading a practice of concealing one’s identity in protest situations is an excellent practice to help keep people safer. Regardless of whether or not you are doing anything deemed illegal by the state, masking up is always a best practice to avoid doxxing and harassment.
Topics: zine, zines, protest, protests
Incoming and Unsorted Zines
Sep 13, 2020
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This short “pocket zine” provides a good introduction to CopWatch. CopWatch is a program – or practice – that involves keeping eyes on the police via video to reduce their ability to target and harass people. CopWatch can function both in the context of everyday policing or in a protest context. It is a practice that varies from place to place. This zine gives some useful resources for getting started and includes a primer on your rights while filming the police.
Topics: zine, zines, copwatch, police, know your rights
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Sep 13, 2020 Anonymous
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Posters calling for amnesty for all arrested during the George Floyd Rebellion
Topics: poster, posters, george floyd
Sprout Distro
Aug 30, 2020
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This is a very detailed examination of how horses are used by police for crowd control. It includes a discussion tips for dealing understanding a horse’s behavior based on what their bodies are saying, the situations cops are prepared for based on the equipment the horses are wearing, etc. This zine does an excellent job of demystifying a tool frequently used by police during civil disturbances.
Topics: zine, zines, direct action, protest
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Aug 30, 2020
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This short zine that provides a collection of helpful tips on how to avoid doxxing by alt-right and other adversaries. It encourages readers to take a minute to review their practices and to seriously consider their data security. There are tips on passwords, social media, email, and more. It is essential reading for anyone doing anarchist things in the contemporary period. The folks who made the zine have also produced a website – digitaldefense.noblogs.org – that contains additional...
Topics: zine, zines, doxing, anti-repression, security culture
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Aug 30, 2020
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Sub-titled “honoring each others security needs as an act of solidarity and liberation”, this short zine is a discussion of security culture that argues that respect for the security needs of our comrades is an essential aspect of any movement for liberation. It identifies a concept that the authors call “the invisible ground.” They use this concept to describe an imagined distinction between “under-” and “above-” ground activities. Instead the authors argue that there is a...
Topics: zine, zines, security culture, organizing, protest
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Aug 30, 2020
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This isn’t a how-to guide on the best practices for using Signal in organizing, rather it’s a call to minimize the amount that electronic communication – whether Signal or some other app – is used. It highlights some of the limits of Signal and the potential risks overreliance may introduce. To be sure Signal should be prioritized over unencrypted text messages and platforms like Facebook, but this text is correct to call out the importance of face-to-face organizing and the limits of...
Topics: zine, zines, security culture, anarchist, organizing
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Aug 30, 2020
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Sub-titled “A Proposal for Security Culture” this text is a long and insightful reframing of “security culture,” focusing on a shift from fear to confidence, from risk aversion to courage, from isolation to connection, and from suspicion to trust. It is written from the premise that being welcoming and opening to new people is important and that a way to accomplish that end is to implement a strong and shared security culture within anarchist circles. This text includes updated...
Topics: zine, zines, security culture, protest
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Aug 30, 2020
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This is an updated (2020) guide to using the black bloc tactic at demonstrations. It is presented as a comic covering the history, basics of the tactics, and recent lessons from the streets. The zine was originally written in the context of street protests in Portland, Oregon, but this version is suitable for distribution everywhere.
Topics: zine, zines, anarchism, protests, protest, direct action
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Aug 30, 2020
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This zine explores the politics, practices, and histories of fascism and militant resistance with an emphasis on gender. It examines the gendered dimensions of contemporary far-right movements and anti-fascist struggles; presents a history of women’s participation in anti-fascist resistance in the twentieth century; and considers the challenges and possibilities for developing an explicitly feminist anti-fascism.
Topics: zine, zines, antifascism, feminism, gender
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Aug 17, 2020 Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee
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A flyer/leaflet with tips on how to deal with visits to your home by police.
Topics: police, activism, activist, anti-repression, know your rights
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Jun 12, 2020
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A flyer offering suggestions for solidarity in the streets during anti-police brutality protests and some basic safety and tactical advice.
Topics: protest, protests, direct action
Incoming and Unsorted Zines
Jun 6, 2020
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A zine discussing the myth of the outside agitator in relation to the George Floyd protests.
Topics: zine, zines, protests
Sprout Distro
Nov 22, 2019
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Three essays on red nationalism
Topics: communism, socialism, zines, tankies, the left
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Apr 21, 2019
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"Mutual Fire Brigade" was written for and appeared in March 2019 in DOPE 5, an anarchistic magazine published in so-called London, and distributed free to those behind bars and those without homes. See dogsection.org/dope/ . Jeff Clark kindly and beautifully transformed it into this zine. Here's an excerpt: "The question isn't how to become ambulance chasers in relation to suffering, or how to accelerate social collapse. Rather, it concerns our desire and growing capacity to...
Topics: zine, zines, anarchism, anarchist
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Jan 5, 2019 Cindy Milstein
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This zine was written by Cindy Milstein in response to the Tree of Life Synagogue murders in Pittsburgh in late October 2018. It looks at, to quote from the zine, "reclaim[ing] our capacity to be fully human in all our messy beauty and specifically, as counter to this messy, ugly time period. We can self-determine to mourn and organize together."
Topics: zine, zines, anarchist, anti-fascism
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Mar 22, 2018 1312 Press / Final Straw Radio
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This zine explores the Grand Jury that was convened in response to the Standing Rock encampment. It consists of an interview from The Final Straw with an anarchist legal worker who was involved in providing legal support for the hundreds of people who faced legal consequences in the aftermath of Standing Rock. The zine does a good job of talking about the importance of never cooperating with a Grand Jury, establishing a cultural of non-cooperation and refusal, and providing a clear explanation...
Topics: zine, zines, grand jury, grand juries, legal, repression
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Mar 22, 2018 zine, zines, anarchist, standing rock, organizing, direct action
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This zineâpublished by 1312 Pressâis a transcript of an interview that appeared on the anarchist radio program The Final Straw. The interviewee is an anarchist and a long-term participant in the Standing Rock encampment. The conversation looks at the role that anarchists played at Standing rock, with a particular emphasis on providing insight into what actions are needed to meaningfully support Indigenous struggles against extraction and ongoing land theft. The wide-ranging interview covers a...
Topic: 1312 Press / Final Straw Radio
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Mar 22, 2018 Crimethinc
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This is a guide produced by Crimethinc for anarchists who are considering doing work with the media. It has a lot of helpful tips, considerations, and the like. It has important information about being realistic with what you can hope to achieve, some of the risks that you face when talking to the media (legal and otherwise), and offers some suggestions on how to actually engage with the media. Overall, itâs a useful guide but itâs important to remember that there is also a case to be made...
Topics: zine, zines, anarchist, media, organizing
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Mar 22, 2018 Crimethinc
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This zine is a comprehensive analysis of the 2017 protests against the G20 in Hamburg, Germany. The police attempted to use brute force to isolate and terrorize all who came to demonstrate against the G20, but in the process, they turned a large part of the population against them and the city spiraled out of control. The resulting protests were some of the largest seen in Europe in years. It is an inspiring example of resistance and while the context is different in North America, itâs...
Topics: zine, zines, anarchist, history
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Mar 22, 2018
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Sub-titled âAnarchist organization, the Islamic State, the crisis, and outer spaceâ, this zine is a strong attempt to think through the many challenges that are facing anarchists in the present moment. As the world crumbles at an increasing pace, anarchists seem to be struggling to engage on this terrain, often succumbing to either a kind of self-isolating defeatist position or a vague populist position, neither of which are spreading anarchist practices. The zine tries to dissect the reasons...
Topics: zine, zines, anarchism, anarchist
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Mar 22, 2018 Rosehip Medic Collective
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This zine provides a basic introduction to herbalism alongside a collection of home remedies for common health problems. The information is organized into broad categories based on body parts (head, abdomen, etc) and then from there conditions and symptoms. Itâs easy to use and a good introduction into DIY healthcare. There is also a lengthy suggested resources section that recommends additional sources.
Topics: zine, zines, diy, health
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Mar 22, 2018
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This zine is a critique of âinsurrectionalismâ as it was practiced in Barcelona circa 2014. While this may seem like a bit of an esoteric topic, the textâs critique raises a lot of questions that are worth considering for anarchists who identify with the insurrectionary current (and even those who donât). The discussion of repression and insurrectionary responses to it is particularly worthwhile, as its discussion of the limits of certain insurrectionary approaches and ideas. It has a...
Topics: zine, zines, anarchy, anarchism, insurrectionary
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Feb 10, 2018 Crimethinc
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Sub-titled âThree Narratives from Grand Jury Resistorsâ, this zine collects stories from three people who dealt with the consequences of a Grand Jury investigating their communities. These include 2 people who chose to resist the Grand Jury and chose not to cooperate (one went to jail and one went on the run) and a partner of the person who chose to go to jail rather than cooperate. Itâs a powerful set of stories that does an excellent job of exploring the human consequences of what happens...
Topics: zine, zines, crimethinc, repression
Sprout Distro
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In this article (originally published in LIES: A Journal of Materialist Feminism), Jackie Wang explores the ways in which the politics of innocence serves to limit social struggle. Particularly as it relates to police murders of black people, that one have the identity of an âinnocent victimâ is often assumed as pre-condition for resistance. People who are killed by police but who donât fit this role, are often ignored by liberal organizations and the public at large. But such appeals â...
Topics: zine, zines
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Feb 10, 2018 Crimethinc
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Sub-titled âA History of Policing in Two Modesâ, this essay explores the historical origin of two important functions of the police: violent exclusion and the management of society. The essay explores the origins of policing in the slave patrols of the South, presenting a brief overview of the development of police as a system intended to implement racialized violence. The other half of the essay looks at the development of police in Great Britain, exploring the ways in which police were used...
Topics: zine, zines, crimethinc
Sprout Distro
Feb 10, 2018
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This is an updated version of the âHomes Not Jails Building Occupation Guideâ. It features a guide to occupying buildings based on the experience of Homes Not Jails out of the Bay Area along with a history of the SF Commune at 888 Turk. In addition, there is a guide to urban land occupations under the title âOccupy The Farm: A Practical Guide to Seizing and Winning Land.â In this new edition there is another essay titled âTake It Back!!! Capturing Land Resources to Build the...
Topics: zine, zines, squatting, squats
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Dec 18, 2017
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The Ukrainian anarchist Maria Nikiforova played a prominent role in the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War as an organizer, military commander, and terrorist. A revolutionary from the age of 16, she was on trial for her life on four separate occasions under three different regimes and was sentenced to death twice. Her exploits became the stuff of folklore. But she was âblacklistedâ by official historians and her story was lost for generations.
Topics: history, anarchist, anarchism
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Dec 18, 2017
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This zine is an exploration into the ways in which âlocalismâ is used to gloss over the negative aspects of contemporary capitalism. Most often, this is seen in the gentrification that is taking place in many mid to large-sized cities in the United States where boutique shops, breweries, and bistros are proliferating as part of a new âlocalâ economy.
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This short zine collects two essays that seek to define gentrification and explore the displacement that come with it. While much of popular and even radical discourse focuses on simplistic definitions and formulas to determine what is and isnât gentrification, this text tries to bring in insights from academic writing on the topic and present it in a way that is easy to understand. Moreover, it attempts to add a measure of nuance that is often missing in these discussions with the hope that a...
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Dec 18, 2017 A Murder of Crows
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This is an older interview with some insurrectionary anarchists that was published in the zine A Murder of Crows. It presents a basic overview of the set of ideas known as âinsurrectionary anarchismâ and presents some solid critiques of the âactivistâ and âleftistâ politics. There is a lot of challenging material in this text and plenty of fodder for discussion and reflection. Even ten years after its publication, this is still a worthwhile text as the pull of leftism and activism...
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This text is for anyone facing prison time as a result of participating in the struggle for a socially and ecologically sustainable future for the planet we live on and the beings that inhabit it. It may also be relevant to anyone engaged in that struggle whose activity is likely to lead to a collision with the massive edifice of inertia that is the legal system.
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The zine opens at a âlowâ period in the Seattle anarchist scene, and traces itâs rise over several months (winter 2010-2011) as they gain confidence in their ability to act together through a series of assemblies and combative demonstrations against the police. The role of anarchists during these demonstrations against a series of murders by the police is contextualized in the broader political context of Seattle. Contains an afterward of solidarity clandestine attacks after the ebb of the...
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Jul 27, 2017 May Day Collective
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A list of 12 alternatives to calling the police, premised on the idea that "strong communities make police obsolete".
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Jul 7, 2017
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This zine is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the anarchist magazine "Rolling Thunder" and that was subsequently republished in the anthology "Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism." It offers a solid and devastating critique of ally politics, relating both personal experiences and examples of the limits of ally politics alongside larger political arguments. It is a very important piece and one that should be read and...
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Jul 7, 2017
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This zine builds on the discussions raised by the journal "Do or Die: Voices from the Ecological Resistance" that sought to (in part) bring an insurrectionary politic into the ecological movements (such as Earth First!) in the United Kingdom. The author identifies "Do or Die" as a starting point and states that this zine is in part a response to the absence of that critique in the years since "Do or Die" stop publishing. The zine consists of the author's personal...
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Jul 7, 2017 In Our Hands Collective
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Sub-titled, "Using a Community Accountability Approach to Address Sexual Violence, Abuse, & Oppression" this zine is a collection of reflections and insights from the In Our Hands group. The group is a "grassroots community accountability and mediation reading, discussion, action and support group dedicated to issues of abuse, sexual violence, and broader modes of oppression." The zine is a great starting place for anyone interested in discussions around abuse and...
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Jul 7, 2017 A.G. Schwarz
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This zine is collects writings by A.G. Schwarz (it's billed as "the complete works"). The writings are among the best of the insurrectionary writings that came out in the early 2010s in the United States, with essays covering "The Logic of Not Demanding", the Greek insurrection in 2008 and lessons that can be learned from it, and discussions of various attempts to try insurrectionary approaches in the United States. The essays are very thought provoking and offer a wealth of...
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Jul 7, 2017
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This manual covers a number of points, including: the advantages, disadvantages, and obligations of working under the anti-fascist banner; questions involving anonymity and visibility, both in person and online; self-defense and firearms; working with problematic people and dealing with infiltrators; state repression; and actions to take as anti-fascists. It's based on years of work and reflection by anti-fascists and is an important resource for anyone considering anti-fascist organizing....
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Topics: zine, zines, antifa, organizing, anti-fascist, fascism
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This guide provides a nice introduction to anarchist affinity groups. Affinity groups are small groups of friends who know and trust each other deeply and who have a desire to undertake a shared project of some kind (whether that be an action or a publication). This guide provides background information on the advantage of affinity groups, suggestions for participating in an affinity group, and working with other affinity groups. There are discussions of tactics, security culture, and decision...
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Jan 31, 2017
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This short zine/pamphlet offers basic advice for people engaged in political activity who will likely encounter police as a result of their political work (everyone will, itâs only a matter of time). The zine starts with the premise that people should not talk to the police and offers practical suggestions on how to minimize interactions and avoiding incriminating oneâs self and other participants. From their it moves on to discuss the importance of making opposition to police an essential...
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Jan 11, 2017
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This guide combines insights on building and land occupations from two groups based in San Francisco: Homes Not Jails and Occupy the Farm. While the context will likely be different for folks not living in those areas, the suggestions and analysis offered within the zine provide helpful ideas for anyone thinking of undertaking an occupation. The section on building occupations presents a case study of the SF Commune at 888 Turk and draws insights from that experience, while the land occupation...
Topics: zine, zines, squatting, squatters, occupation, organizing, direct action, occupy
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Written a month after the election of Donald Trump and after a series of clashes with white supremacists that have been growing over the past year, this text â which was originally published on ItsGoingDown.Org â attempts to highlight how the only force able to fight against the growing far-right, ecological devastation, and economic attacks on working people is are the rioters and those willing to disrupt the functioning of power. The text strongly critiques both neoliberalism and the left,...
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Jan 9, 2017
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This is a classic text of what is called âinsurrectionary anarchismâ â still as relevant as when it was written over a decade ago. Itâs a poetic and impassioned indictment of the existent and a call to chose life over a passive (and pacified) existence. Alongside scathing critiques of the way things are, the text hints at the way things could be â if we shed our chains and act. Throughout the text the anonymous author presents a critique of the left, classical anarchist practices, and...
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Jan 9, 2017 Tilted Scales Collective
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Sub-titled âSetting and Balancing Personal, Political, and Legal Goalsâ this zine by the Tilted Scales Collective offers a helpful collection of insights for radicals coming up against the legal system. The discussion â excerpted from an upcoming book â focuses on the need to balance personal, political, and legal goals and how these different considerations often intersect with each other. It is important reading for all radicals and its detailed analysis offers many helpful tips for...
Topics: zine, zines, criminal system, legal, courts
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Jan 9, 2017
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This guide is published by the excellent website AworldWithoutPolice.org which has as its goal the complete abolition of the police. To that end, this pamphlet provides an excellent introduction to the problem of the police (exploring their history and reasons for existing), as well as offering many specific suggestions for moving towards a world without police. The discussion centers a strategy of disempowering, disarming, and disbanding the police with practical ideas of what that could look...
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Jan 9, 2017
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Sub-titled âA History of Jail Solidarity and its Importance for Todayâs Social Change Movements,â this zine explores the use of jail solidarity as a tactic by resistance movements. While written with the idea of resistance at the 2016 presidential conventions in mind, this essay offers a helpful overview of jail solidarity tactics ranging from the (somewhat) well-known examples from the Seattle World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in 1999 to its use at subsequent mass convergences in the...
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Jan 9, 2017 Homes Not Jails
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This is the 3rd edition (Fall 2013) of the Homes Not Jails squatting zine. While the guide comes from a group based in San Francisco, many of the tips would be helpful for anyone squatting regardless of their location. It includes tips on finding comrades/friends to squat with, finding a building, securing a squat, dealing with the law and/or property owners, and more. Some of the San Francisco specific references will need to be overlooked for your local context, but most municipalities have...
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Jan 9, 2017 Stuart Schrader
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This zine consists of an essay by Stuart Schrader that critiques the concept of community policing. The essay argues that âcommunityâ and âpolicingâ are both negative forces and that they rely on each other. There can be no âcommunityâ control of the police, as the police need âcommunityâ to delineate âtrustworthyâ groups of people. The text presents a strong criticism of community and argues that the process of dividing people into different groups â or communities â is a process...
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Jan 9, 2017 Alfredo Bonanno
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This zine collects three pieces by Alfredo Bonanno that when presented together outline the basics of insurrectionary anarchist theory. The essays focus on changes in capitalism and the resulting need to change tactics and approaches, arguing that the classical approach of struggle in the workplace through trade unions is no longer relevant. In its place, Bonanno argues for an approach based on affinity, informality, permanent conflictuality, and attack. The text argues against formal...
Topics: zine, zines, insurrectionary anarchism, insurrection, anarchism, alfredo bonanno
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In many circles, struggleâespecially for those who come from positions of varying degrees of privilegeâis often defined as something that must happen in relation to another group. For many radicals (and many anarchists), this is discussed primarily in terms of becoming an âallyâ of a specific group and placing oneself at the direction of an âotherâ. This zine engages with an alternative perspective that assumes that people have their own valid reason for struggling and that by coming...
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Jan 9, 2017 Durham Anti-Repression Committee
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Sub-titled âQuestions to Consider when youâre in the Streetsâ, this zine by the Durham Anti-Repression Committee was published in order to spark a dialog about the internal policing of social movements. It addresses common points of conflict among groups of protesters with different goals: the wearing of masks, dragging items into the streets, the use of peace marshals, and safety in the streets. The zine provides a thoughtful engagement with these topics and would likely be of use for...
Topics: zine, zines, protests, street protests, tactics, direct action
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Jan 9, 2017
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This text presents an argument in favor of smashing cameras and against the practice of photographing demonstrations. Arguing that the practice of taking photos is detrimental to social struggles as it increases repression, encourages passivity, and simply gets in the way â this zine encourages people to adopt a confrontational approach towards photographers. Alongside this, it presents a series of suggestions and tips for photographers who identify with social struggles and who wish to see...
Topics: zine, zines, cameras, surveillance
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This short essay from author A.G. Schwarz discusses the assemblies used by anarchists in Greece and explores the ways in which this approach might be used by anarchists in the United States. Most notably, Schwarz argues that for the assemblies to âworkâ anarchists in the U.S. must begin conceptualizing themselves in a new way, thinking of anarchy not as a âmovementâ but as a âspaceâ where different ideas come into contact with each other. The author argues that in Greece, anarchists...
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Jan 9, 2017
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This zine â while rooted in the 2016 election and the campaign by Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders â analyzes the ways in which electoral politics serve to weaken social movements and struggles. It engages with the idea that electoral politics can serve as some sort of âgateway drugâ whereby radicals can engage with supporters of a particular candidate and draw them into a movement or radical politics. As the zine argues, this never happens and after the leftist candidate de jour...
Topics: zine, zines, anarchist, elections, electoral politics, bernie sanders
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Jan 9, 2017
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This is a zine-formatted version of an article that originally appeared on Itâs Going Down that explains how to launch and maintain an anarchist counter-information website. The intent of the article is to encourage the use of websites (as well as other means of communication) to increase the visibility of anarchist ideas, practices, and forms of resistance. It offers practical advice on setting up a website, doing outreach, etc. Along with the original guide, this zine contains excerpts from...
Topics: zine, zines, counter-info, counter-information, anarchists, media
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Jan 9, 2017
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This zine â originally published on the anarchist counter-information website Its Going Down â presents an analysis of the protests against the 2016 Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland. Drawing on both events in the streets in 2016 and lessons gleaned from the past 16 years of convention protests, the zine argues that anarchists engage best with these events when they take the time to put in solid work towards mobilizing folks, providing infrastructure, and making plans. Still,...
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Nov 16, 2016 Anarchist Black Cross Dresden / Sprout Distro
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This guide aims to be a concise overview on information security for anyone in emancipatory struggles against structures of power. It represents assembled knowledge and best practices from personal experience, conversations with hackers and fellow activists, hacker conferences, and university courses on computer security and cryptography. Nonetheless, the best security is sharing skills with trusted people.
Topics: activism, zine, zines, information security, security, privacy
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Aug 24, 2016 Plan B Institute
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This provocative text from Europe looks at âthe Metropolisââdefining it and engaging with it criticallyâto discuss new forms of resistance and âforms of lifeâ. It explores sabotage, insurrection, and what the authors describe as âthe biopolitical strikeâ as weapons that can be used in this era. It offers important points for discussion and for developing an understanding of how capitalism and resistance function in the modern era.
Topics: zine, zines, theory, capitalism
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Aug 24, 2016 Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare
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This text from the Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare begins from the premise that anarchists in the United States are at an impasse. With the decline of Occupy and the simultaneous increase of class conflict around the world, anarchists are struggling to intervene in relevant way and are struggling once again with the question âwhat is to be done?â This zine argues that anarchists should reconceptualize their efforts in terms of insurgency and move beyond the realm of activism. It...
Topics: zine, zines, anarchism, insurgency, politics, activism
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Aug 24, 2016 Guerra Sociale
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This short text originally published by Guerra Sociale is a short argument against politics and participation in the realm of politics. It highlights the way in which politics is an activity of separation, representation, impersonality, and control. It is especially strong in its arguments that political activity and the realm of politics is âspectacleâ. This is a helpful text in articulating arguments against participation in the political process, and as such, may be particularly helpful...
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Aug 24, 2016
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Sub-titled âSome fragments of a life made by breaking and enteringâ this zine from the squatting/autonomous movement in Europe is a poetic ode to that lifestyle and all that it offers participants. In prose that is at time quite beautiful, the author reflects on what they have learned and experienced by squatting. Invoking the relationships they have formed, the practical skills they have learned (from making flyers to defending buildings), and the political lessons they have learned, this...
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Aug 24, 2016
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This text is a classic critique of âactivismâ written in the wake of the June 18, 1999 actions against capitalism and the emerging politics of anti-capitalist/anti-globalization protest. Despite its age, it provides important insights into the way in which many radicals and anarchists adopt the role and identity of the âactivistâ. As a consequence, they adopt the forms of âactivismâ uncritically. In so doing, the text argues that radicals cut themselves off from the population,...
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This zine provides a detailed critique of social media/social networks and the role that they play in contemporary capitalism. Rather than just focusing on the particulars of social networking platformsâfor example on Facebookâs mining of personal dataâthis text explores how these networks embody the ideologies of capitalism, democracy, and citizenship. In addition to the more theoretical arguments, the text also examines the impossibilities of using these platforms as a way of bringing down...
Topics: zine, zines, social networks, social media, internet, capitalism
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Aug 24, 2016 Black Banner
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By way of an engagement with contemporary nihilist writings, âResignation is Death: Responding to the Negation of Anarchyâ offers a critique of nihilist thought and practice (or lack there of) in the North American context. The critique is rooted in their experiences in Vancouver, BC and the growth of queer nihilism. The text intersperses insights gained from their local context with critical readings of various nihilist texts. The author argues that nihilism â especially in its North...
Topics: anarchism, nihilism, zine, zines, theory, anarchy
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Mar 28, 2016
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This zine celebrates seven years of prison noise demos in Southwestern Ontario. It features an essay recounting the history of the demonstrations and why they started, followed by a collection of communiques from demos that happened over the years. The zine does a good job of making the argument for why noise demos can be an important part of a larger anti-prison struggle. It also situates them in a context of international anarchist solidarity.
Topics: zine, zines, prison, prisons, organizing, canada
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Mar 28, 2016
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This zineâsub-titled âThe Charges and How They Came to Beââexplores the conspiracy case that came out of the G20 summit in Toronto, Canada in 2010. The zine examines the role anarchists played in organizing resistance to the G20 and the ways in which the state responded to this activity. While focusing on a specific case in Canada, it does present a clear picture in the ways states may respond in the future to those who organize resistance to political summits. The zine can help sharpen our...
Topics: canada, zine, zines, toronto, g20, conspiracy, repression, anarchism, security culture