Organizing Manuals

Midwest Books to Prisoners Zine #1 March 2010

Table of Contents:
1 - Police Rogues Gallery
2 - Obama directs Illinois to host Guantanamo Bay detainees
3 - Free after Decades: Tortured and Innocent Prisoners
4 - Civil and Human Rights Violations at Cook County Jail
5 - Governor Quinn Kills Early Release Program
6 - Chicago Copwatch: People’s Blotter
7 - Women Prisoner Struggles
8 - Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network
9 - “Conviction Through Corruption” - the story of Willie Boyd
10 - Writing through Prisoners in Illinois  read more »

by Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross

The Blueprint 2009

Fur Farm Intelligence Project: The Full Report

The Largest Collection of Fur Industry Intelligence to date.

This zine is by Dealing With Our Shit, a men's group for men and male-identified people from the Twin Cities who later took on the task of mentoring other males through accountability processes for sexual assault. It's over 100 pages of interviews, reflections, and analysis about their history, their experiences, and their effectiveness. A great resource for anyone interested in working on community response to sexual assault outside the prison/court system. Lots of art, too!

Download at:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/1fightrape2.pdf (7.42 mb)

or

(large file, beware!):  read more »

A how-to-guide for shit.

Issue #1 of The Not So Great Place

an underground newspaper published by anti-war active duty soldiers, veterans and their supporters at Fort Hood, TX

Find out more about this publication at: www.notsogreatplace.com

(the title comes from Fort Hood's official slogan "The Great Place")

This is a one-sheet zine put out by the Icarus Project on how to respond to mental health crises. It includes info on how to respond to someone who's suicidal, suggestions for those who intervene, and info about advance directives (legal documents that spell out how someone wants to be treated if they're institutionalized and can't speak coherently for themselves).

More at the Icarus Project: http://theicarusproject.net

formatted version of wispy cockle's article: http://fruitiondesign.com/dealwithit/02wispy.php

key words: consent sexual assault abuse called out perpetrator rape accountability process feminism survivors

Unfinished Acts is a collective recounting and analysis of events surrounding the shooting of an unarmed 22-year-old Black man in Oakland. Oscar Grant III was executed by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officers during the first hours of 2009 on the platform of the Fruitvale station. The following pages include a few short histories of significant social movements to help contextualize the rebellions. This history acts as intermissions for a documentary dramatization (but factually correct!) of some of the events that unfolded in the streets during the first month of 2009.  read more »

A smaller version of the soon too come (A)BC'S Guide to Protesting. A useful guide put together by veteran activists and direct action enthusiasts and other rad folks for everyone. Provides a useful list of things to bring and things to avoid plus some really awesome links. The full version has way more info and links.  read more »

The official title is: What to Do When Someone Tells you that you violated their boundaries, made them feel uncomfortable, or committed assault.

A trifold pamphlet that lists steps that people who've been called out for sexual assault should take.

This is an excellent zine talking about addiction, from all sorts of perspectives. It goes into the author's own experiences with addiction and kicking a heroin habit and most importantly talks about how communities can respond to someone struggling with addiction in a way that is helpful and non-judgmental. (Along the way, it offers radical/anarchist critiques of AA and 12-step programs, the moralism often attached to other people's substance use, and lots of other things.) Chock fulla insights and one fine zine.

Table of Contents

France, 1968

I. “Exemplary Character of the University Occupations” from
Worker-Student Action Committees by Fredy Perlman and Roger
Grigoire

II. Documents produced by the Situationist International or
groups the Situationists were involved with during May 1968
in France

France, 2006

III. Two weeks spent in Rennes

IV. An Update by the Sorbonne Occupation Committee in Exile,
Communique # 4

V. Final Communique of the Sorbonne Occupation Committee
in Exile

Greece, 2006

VI. Let the occupations become time-barricades  read more »

The New School Occupation: perspectives on the takeover of a building, or, why do student organizers bother to get out of bed in the morning? Anti-democratic reflections on the recent New School occupation, a case study of occupation as non-event, and seven points on occupation.

See also "Preoccupied" on this site, for more writings coming out of this occurrence.

Account of the New School occupation in New York.