We now have a full webpage up about this summer’s convergence in Athens, Ohio, detailing everything you can expect from the event and all the ways you can help out. Please circulate this announcement online and download posters and handbills to distribute in your community.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2007/03/29/new-feature-on-anarchism-in-colombia-2007-convergence-in-athens-oh", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2007/03/29/new-feature-on-anarchism-in-colombia-2007-convergence-in-athens-oh", "title": "New Feature on Anarchism in Colombia, 2007 Convergence in Athens, OH", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2007-03-29T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "One of our field teams recently returned from an investigative trip to Latin America, and we’re pleased to present their complete report on anarchism and social struggles in Colombia. In addition to a general analysis of the Colombian context, this includes reports on the activities of a dozen collectives, reviews of publications from throughout the area, and contacts for a wide range of groups. Whether you’re planning a trip to Latin America, looking to make connections for solidarity projects, or just interested in learning more about the Colombian situation, please have a look.
\n\nWe’re also excited to announce that this summer’s CrimethInc. convergence will take place in Athens, Ohio from July 25 to 29. This is the most advance notice we’ve given for a convergence since the first one, and we’d like to think that this indicates increasingly sophisticated levels of organization on our part. Last summer’s convergence was easily the most successful since 2002, and this summer’s will be an excellent opportunity to share skills and adventures with your fellow hooligans and lunatics, not to mention lay plans for the year ahead.
\n\nRumor has it that there will also be tours leading up to the convergence; stay tuned for more details about those and the events planned for Athens. In the meantime, email crimethincbooking@yahoo.com to volunteer to contribute to, assist with, or attend the convergence.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2007/03/06/rolling-thunder-4-hits-the-streets", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2007/03/06/rolling-thunder-4-hits-the-streets", "title": "Rolling Thunder #4 Hits the Streets!", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2007-03-06T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "The fourth and best yet issue of Rolling Thunder, our direct action and resistance culture biannual, is fresh from the printers. The centerpiece of this one is a full-color photoessay chronicling the popular uprising during which the people of Oaxaca, Mexico wrested control of their city from the government for a period of months. Continuing that theme, other feature articles cover the defense and eviction of South Central Farm in Los Angeles, the Really Really Free Market as a model for reclaiming public space from capitalism and bureaucracy, the resurgence of squatting in Buffalo of all places, the university occupation movement in France, and the ins and outs of urban exploration. The remainder of the issue includes a comprehensive guide to supporting prisoners and defendants, the lyrics to “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” as interpreted by acclaimed comic artist Nate Powell, a gallery of ready-to-use stencils, and plenty of the edgy artwork and poignant prose you’ve come to expect.
\n\nTo celebrate this issue’s debut, we’re sharing the report on the Really Really Free Market in our features section. If your community doesn’t yet have a Really Really Free Market, read this introductory guide and consider starting one up this coming spring. We feel it’s one of the most effective new anarchist organizing models of the past few years.
\n\nAlso, Rolling Thunder now has its own postal address.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/12/07/filastine-cd-benefit-for-green-scare-defendants-downloads-galore", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/12/07/filastine-cd-benefit-for-green-scare-defendants-downloads-galore", "title": "Filastine CD Benefit for Green Scare Defendants, Downloads Galore", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2006-12-07T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "A year ago today the despicable lackeys of the FBI initiated “operation backfire,” a roundup of accused arsonists intended to intimidate all associated with ecologically-oriented direct action. Most the of the defendants in this witch hunt have since accepted plea bargains—some honorably, some dishonorably. More on this here.
\n\nWe are pleased to do our humble part to support the defendants who have refused to inform by releasing Filastine’s “Burn It” CD as a fundraiser. Filastine, a former member of ¡Tchkung! and founding participant in the Infernal Noise Brigade, has been drawing on musical traditions from all around the globe to compose incendiary anarchist music for well over a decade now. “Burn It,” a wide-ranging mélange of driving rhythms, electronic experimentation, on-site sampling, and multilingual vocals, has already been released in Europe to great acclaim. A full $5 from every CD sale will go to the defendants, who face long stretches of prison time and massive debts.
\n\nAlso, while things seemed quiet here over the past month and a half, a full six new designs have been announced on the CrimethInc. Worker Bulletin Board. These include N30: The Seattle WTO Protests, a 64-page retrospective exploring how the WTO demonstrations seven years ago changed the course of history; a timeline of events in Oaxaca, chronicling the popular uprising currently taking place just beyond the US border; Don’t Talk to the Police, an admonition to all who may be questioned by police or federal agents; Wash Your Own Dishes, an explication of every political/economic system from Libertarianism to Anarcho-Primitivism according to how the dishes get washed; The Art of Politics, an analysis of all the ways politics-as-we-know-it excludes, segregates, co-opts, distracts, controls, represses, and oppresses; and White Shark Tales, a globe-trotting adventure story of anarchist resistance. These are all available for downloading free of charge; please copy, plagiarize, reinvent, and circulate widely. If you cannot otherwise obtain print copies of them, email crimethincbooking@yahoo.com.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/09/20/rolling-thunder-3-soliciting-stencils-and-graffiti-for-4-stone-hotel-pdf", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/09/20/rolling-thunder-3-soliciting-stencils-and-graffiti-for-4-stone-hotel-pdf", "title": "Rolling Thunder #3, Soliciting Stencils and Graffiti for #4, Stone Hotel PDF", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2006-09-20T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "International reports from last Mayday’s pro-immigrant rallies! Analysis of the Bush regime’s strategy to promote terrorism worldwide! Discussion of the latest wave of federal repression! Testimony from a convicted anti-war arsonist! Anarchist perspectives on and reports from the struggle against domestic violence! A tell-all interview with notorious graffiti artist(s) BORF! A shocking exposé on German pro-Zionist lunatics! A how-to guide to funneling resources out of universities! A spy’s-eye-view of immigrant labor in factory farming! A narrow escape from the flaming Pentagon on September 11, 2001! A history of direct action and rioting in queer liberation struggles! A cartoon recounting the riots at the canceled World Bank conference in Barcelona! A mad-lib for radicals with poor social skills! A satirical guide to writing reviews! Visionary storytelling, technical advice on computer security, eulogies and poster designs and more, more, more!—You guessed it, Rolling Thunder #3 is out, practically on schedule. We’re now soliciting stencil designs and graffiti documentation for the next issue—visit the Bulletin Board for details.
\n\nAlso, we’ve sold out of the first printing of Raegan Butcher’s Stone Hotel. While we may reprint it in the future, we’re making it available as a PDF in the meantime. Reading books on a computer screen is bad enough, but this will have to do for now. Raegan’s finely-printed second book, Rusty String Quartet, consisting of 264 poems in 340 pages, is still available in its first printing of 2000 copies.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/08/11/new-website-convergence-report-response-to-repression", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/08/11/new-website-convergence-report-response-to-repression", "title": "New Website, Convergence Report, Response to Repression", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2006-08-11T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "We’re delighted to unveil our latest project, the CrimethInc. Worker Bulletin Board. This website will function as a clearinghouse for bulletins from participating CrimethInc. cells, enabling readers to keep abreast of their activities and, more importantly, coordinate activities with them. Announcements of upcoming events, proposals for future projects, appeals for participation and assistance, breaking news, eyewitness reports and analysis, new texts, and drafts in progress will all appear here.
\n\nThe convergence in Winona went fabulously, by far our best such effort since 2002. You can read about it on the aforementioned Bulletin Board.
\n\nAlso, in honor of the third issue of Rolling Thunder being sent off to the printer, we’re leaking an article from it in advance: “The Irrepressible Anarchists,” a discussion of the latest wave of federal repression sweeping our communities and the most effective ways we can respond.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/07/19/convergence-details-posted-update-on-financial-situation", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/07/19/convergence-details-posted-update-on-financial-situation", "title": "Convergence Details Posted, Update on Financial Situation", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2006-07-19T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "The convergence plans that have been incubating since winter have hatched! You’ll find here an extensive description of what to expect, including campsite policies, activities, and scheduled events. This is by far the most preparation we’ve ever done for one of these events. This summer’s CrimethInc. convergence runs from July 26 to 31. Those who wish to attend should show up during the day on July 26 to the Visitors Center on the northeast corner of Highway 61 and Huff Street in Winona, Minnesota. Email convergence@crimethinc.com with questions. See you there, or somewhere…
\n\nThanks to everyone for the immense support we received after our announcement of financial crisis. The abundance of supportive words and donations sustained us through a very difficult time, and we’ve emerged on the other side intact and ready for action. All who lent a hand have our most sincere gratitude. As such, we’re pleased as punch to announce that the extraordinary crisis is over and we now resume our constant-but-not-quite-debilitating financial crisis. Fighting For Our Lives are once again shipping out in bulk, and you can ignore our desperate pleas for donations without guilt once again! Just kidding, of course—donations still remain an essential element to what we are doing and if you are able to spare some money to help us send out FFOLs, it is still needed and appreciated. And finally, if you’ve been thinking about grabbing a copy of the Ne Plus Ultra Days of War, time is running out, as of today only 11 copies remain.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/05/29/crimethinc-far-east-financial-crisis-and-corresponding-days-of-war-fundraiser-convergence-update", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/05/29/crimethinc-far-east-financial-crisis-and-corresponding-days-of-war-fundraiser-convergence-update", "title": "CrimethInc. Far East Financial Crisis and Corresponding Days of War Fundraiser, Convergence Update", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2006-05-29T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "We’re thrilled to relay that in the first seven weeks after announcing the availability of the third printing of Fighting For Our Lives, we have received more than one thousand requests for free copies; at the same time we are chagrined to report that donations are at an all time low, and numerous other factors have contributed to our first-ever full-blown financial crisis (to the degree where we cannot currently send out any free copies of FFOL due to lack of funds). We’ve posted a report on the situation, and have included some suggestions for how you can help if you have a few extra dollars and feel the work we’re doing is worth supporting. Towards that end, we have a special Ne Plus Ultra Edition of Days of War, Nights of Love—a hardcover pressing limited to one hundred copies celebrating the book’s tenth printing and fifth anniversary (both of which actually occurred about nine months ago—we’ve been busy -Ed.). We will be sending out a total of fifty copies as tokens of our appreciation for people who make donations of $100 or more (details here). Thanks so much—for all the support everyone has given to bring our collective effort this far, and for your consideration in the present situation.
\n\nWe’ve been working around the clock sorting proposals for this summer’s convergence, trying to put everything in place. We’re still looking for people to share skills and stories—we’d love to hear from those who experienced mutual aid following hurricane Katrina, participants in the CPE riots in France and undocumented immigrant struggles in the US, local organizers who have hit upon particularly effective schemes, and just about everyone else. If you’re interested in bottom-lining a project or presentation, please email us with your plans; you can also download a promotional poster. As summer begins to heat up, at least one tour will set out for the convergence. In the meantime, you can keep up with the ongoing Requiem tour here.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/04/17/summer-convergence-on-the-horizon-community-watch-stickers-and-were-outta-here", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/04/17/summer-convergence-on-the-horizon-community-watch-stickers-and-were-outta-here", "title": "Summer Convergence on the Horizon, Community Watch Stickers, and We’re Outta Here", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2006-04-17T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "This summer, the fifth CrimethInc. convergence will take place in Winona, Minnesota from July 26 to 31. A core group of locals will work hard all summer to prepare the ground so this event can both contribute to the host community and enable participants from around the world to trade tactics and forge connections. Click here for more information.
\n\nIn other news, to honor and assist those working to make their neighborhoods safer and more welcoming, we have printed a new sticker identifying Community Watch Areas and discouraging police activity within them. Please apply these as part of a larger program of promoting accountability among community members as well as resisting the encroachments of occupying armies. In conjunction with these stickers, we now have a page given over entirely to the study of the lowest form of life, the law enforcement agent.
\n\nAnd last, but certainly not least, we’re thrilled to announce that CrimethInc. Far East is leaving Olympia, its home for these past five years, and moving back to delightful downtown Salem, Oregon. The ancient among you will remember a Salem PO Box on the first issue of Harbinger, and we’re excited to be moving back to the city that played host to our first bits of real living. We’ll be moving at the beginning of May and don’t anticipate more than very minor delays in day-to-day operations including sending out orders and FFOL requests. Any mail sent after May 1st should be directed to our new mailing address. We believe in the potential of this sleepy little town on the Willamette, and hope through the next years to help Salem realize its great radical potential as we realize our own. Thanks Olympia, Hello Salem!
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/04/01/fighting-for-our-lives-available-once-more-ten-year-report-mayday-poster", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/04/01/fighting-for-our-lives-available-once-more-ten-year-report-mayday-poster", "title": "Fighting For Our Lives Available Once More, Ten Year Report, Mayday Poster", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2006-04-01T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "Today, April Fool’s Day, 2006, we announce the third printing of our anarchist primer Fighting For Our Lives, which is once again available from us free in bulk throughout North America. This printing of 150,000 brings the total print run of this pamphlet to 500,000 copies, the target we set for this project three and a half years ago. This latest edition is by far the best looking, with two colors throughout and several other format improvements. Please order as many copies as you think there might be readers in your community—let’s keep the anarchist alternative in the public eye.
\n\nA half million copies of a paper is a lot in some circles, but in our eyes, this is the very least we can do. We would like to see a similar level of activity from all other anarchist groups, whether that takes the form of outreach, artistic expression, community infrastructure, labor organizing, mass mobilizations, sabotage, or other means of struggle.
\n\nWe’ve taken advantage of this occasion to compile a report on the past decade of CrimethInc. activity, painstakingly prepared by CrimethInc. Far East in association with other CWC operatives. This report chronicles some of the projects that have appeared during this period and suggests some lessons that can be derived from these ten years of experience.
\n\nFinally, just in time to help promote local events celebrating the coming of spring and the memory of the Haymarket martyrs, we’ve finished a new Mayday poster, which is now available for downloading.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/02/25/new-rolling-thunder-new-website-tour-in-the-offing", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/02/25/new-rolling-thunder-new-website-tour-in-the-offing", "title": "New Rolling Thunder, New Website, Tour in the Offing", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2006-02-25T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "The new issue of Rolling Thunder is out! The lengthiest articles this time around are an analysis of last summer’s protests against the G8 meeting in Scotland, a retrospective on squatting and resistance culture in northern Europe, and an in-depth discussion of subcultural marginality and refusal that is to dropping out what last issue’s sixteen-page feature article was to protest activism. The last of these is rounded out by an inside report on the workings of current labor unions, a memoir of gender mutiny, and an account of how to establish a squatted community center; other highlights include an intimate reflection on the patterns by which abusive relationships perpetuate themselves and a primer on communications technology for direct action. This issue also features plenty of the unorthodox fare that distinguishes CrimethInc. projects from the sometimes listless work of other radicals: a haunting fairy tale, cutting edge games to play between more serious adventures, a crossword puzzle, and sheet music for a classic blues song about the preponderance of bread products in the dumpsterer’s diet.
\n\nAlso, we are pleased to announce that the Urban Pirates cell of the CrimethInc. network has unveiled a new website, urbanpirates.crimethinc.net. Among other services, this resource provides information about and downloads from many bands associated with CrimethInc.—such as Requiem and The Spectacle, who will tour the US together from May through July. To help with booking this tour, email Stef (at) crimethinc.com; the tour dates will appear on the aforementioned website.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/01/21/free-direct-action-primer-now-available", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2006/01/21/free-direct-action-primer-now-available", "title": "Free Direct Action Primer Now Available", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2006-01-21T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "We’ve just returned from the printer with 20,000 copies of our latest free newspaper, A Civilian’s Guide to Direct Action: What It Is, What It’s Good For, How It Works. This step-by-step guide covers every stage in direct action organizing from brainstorming to post-action legal support. It is a perfect companion piece for our anarchist cookbook, Recipes for Disaster, in that it offers a general framework for applying the specific skills detailed in that book. Whether you’re engaging in civil disobedience, anticipating in a mass mobilization, or carrying out hard-core sabotage, this can serve as a checklist from the beginning to the end. The paper also includes refutations of all the clichés that regularly trotted out by those who oppose direct action.
\n\nThis newspaper comes free in every order from CrimethInc. Far East, and is also available in bulk for less than the cost of printing and postage. Two bundles of it have been added to the Literature Distro Kit without the cost of the latter increasing one penny, and a pdf is available here for downloading. Please join us in this educational campaign to keep direct action as safe, effective, and popular as possible.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/12/30/our-first-dvd-project-released", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/12/30/our-first-dvd-project-released", "title": "Our First DVD Project Released!", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2005-12-30T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "I’m tickled to announce that after months of hard labour and a rather steep learning curve, our first of hopefully many DVD projects, CrimethInc. Guerrilla Film Series, Volume One, is now available. Spanning two discs, the collection combines our old standards (Pickaxe and Breaking the Spell) with a new feature documentary (The Miami Model) and five short films (three classic thinktank experiments documented and two SubMedia films). We also hammered out subtitles in English and Spanish for all three features, and added new filmmaker commentaries for Pickaxe, BTS, and the thinktank film, Auto Revision. Check out the trailer and if you feel so inclined, grab a copy for $10ppd and show it to as many people as possible. The DVD is also included in the now slightly improperly-named Literature Distro Kit.
\n\nAs fucking excited as we are to have this DVD finished and available, we are equally dispirited by the imminent increase in postal rates on January 8th. Despite the official line of a “slight increase of 5.4%,” Media Mail rates are increasing by as much as 13%. Because everything we publish has the postage for Media Mail built into the price, an increase this large makes life even more difficult for us—for several of our books this is the second or third increase in postage costs since we set the prices over the last few years. To help compensate, we are going to add 1% to our online surcharge, but otherwise we’re sticking it out and not increasing any of our prices. We’re giving fair warning: with the next rate increase we may very well have to increase some prices.
\n\nSandman will be kicking off the new year on tour with underground filmmaking master, Bill Daniel and his new film about old-school hobo graffiti. Be sure to go check ‘em out, it promises to be even more of an extravaganza than usual. Also, we are currently putting the final touches on the next issue of Rolling Thunder, expect it to appear here in just over a month.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/10/29/new-requiem-tour-dates", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/10/29/new-requiem-tour-dates", "title": "New Requiem Tour Dates", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2005-10-29T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "Entering their fourth month on the road, Requiem is going out to the West coast and back. Consult their tour schedule here. They have with them a wide assortment of reading material, of course, and are fairly sociable, if a little road-weary.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/09/20/crimethincnetwork-unveiled-crimethinc-en-espanol-new-poster-available-in-bulk", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/09/20/crimethincnetwork-unveiled-crimethinc-en-espanol-new-poster-available-in-bulk", "title": "CrimethInc.Net/work Unveiled, CrimethInc. en Español, New Poster Available in Bulk", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2005-09-20T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "After years and years of failed attempts and results so horrendous as to boggle the mind, we open for public participation the newest attempt at a CrimethInc. networking site, CrimethInc.Net/work 2.0. There are a lot of bells and whistles here—an events calendar, a cell directory, user blogs, a recipe database, art galleries—all of which are begging for content created by you. This site is only as valuable and useful as y’all make it, so let’s work together to make this an indispensable resource for ambitious lunatics all over the world. A good place to start after registering is the .net owners’ manual.
\n\nOut of the ether we have found a version of the Guerrilla Latina CrimethInc. site, thought to be lost forever, and are now hosting a mirror of this excellent site which contains many CrimethInc. writings translated expertly into Spanish—it will be hosted at crimethinc.com/espanol.
\n\nAnd, finally, we have a new three-color poster in our poster kit series, the Your Life is Your Life poster, featuring artwork by the amazing Nikki McClure. As of today, one copy comes free in all paid orders, and we’ve added a bundle of them to the Literature Distro Kit with no increase in price.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/08/31/requiem-and-spectacle-cds-released-combo-zine-again-available-in-bulk", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/08/31/requiem-and-spectacle-cds-released-combo-zine-again-available-in-bulk", "title": "Requiem and Spectacle CDs Released, Combo Zine Again Available in Bulk", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2005-08-31T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "We’re thrilled to announce the availability of two of our favorite records we’ve ever released: the debut recording by the amazing Requiem, “Storm Heaven,” and the sophomore effort from those Norwegian maniacs in The Spectacle, “I, Fail.” Expectations were very high for both of these records, and we’re happy to report that expectations have been exceeded with vigor. (Holding these finished projects in my hand, I’m reminded of why we started doing all this in the first place—this music makes me want to stay alive. -Ed.) Click on the above links for more info and mp3 samples, and catch them together on their European tour, after which Requiem will be touring the US starting mid-October.
\n\nAlso, after a long absence we’ve finally reprinted the DIY Guide 2/Walls Are Alive Combo Zine, and it is now available again in bulk. We’ve cut 12 pages from the DIY Guide that were covered in more depth in the cookbook, but the other 40 pages are still there, as well the complete The Walls Are Alive. The price, unfortunately, has to stay the same despite the fewer pages due to enormous increases in paper prices over the last year. The Combo Zines are also now included in the Literature Distro Kit.
\n\nA new pamphlet has been added to our downloads section containing the essays Forget Terrorism and After the Fall, ready for copy machines everywhere; we have also added the option of getting support for mailorder issues over IM; and no, we don’t know anything about this.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/08/07/new-and-improved-cookbook-printing", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/08/07/new-and-improved-cookbook-printing", "title": "New and Improved Cookbook Printing", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2005-08-07T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "Fresh off the presses, the second printing of our anarchist cookbook, Recipes for Disaster, printed by a new printer in Quebec, has arrived. The new edition boasts some small improvements over the first edition, the most significant of which is the fancy, new PUR glue used in the binding. PUR glue is more than ten times stronger than normal book-binding glue so the book itself will not fall apart, even under heavy abuse, as well as being resistant to heat (so it won’t melt), resistant to below freezing temperatures (so it won’t crack), and most importantly, it makes the spine extraordinarily flexible so that it resists creasing and enables the book to be laid flat easily and without doing any damage. This was one of the few complaints we received about the first printing, and we’re glad to be able to make it right. Additionally, the book is now printed on chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper, and is printed at an union print shop (not an easy thing to find). Oh, and finally, we fixed a few typos and added a small update or two (yes, this means you, Mr. Chertoff). Starting today, all orders for the cookbook will be sent out copies from this second printing.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/07/11/convergence-imminent-requiem-and-spectacle-albums-and-tours-to-follow", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/07/11/convergence-imminent-requiem-and-spectacle-albums-and-tours-to-follow", "title": "Convergence Imminent; Requiem and Spectacle Albums and Tours to Follow", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2005-07-11T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "Our latest experiment, the Adventurist Convergence, occurs this week in Bloomington, Indiana between July 14 and 18. To participate, simply show up at the Monroe County Public Library (303 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47408) on Thursday (July 14); an agent there will redirect you to the campsite. If you’ll be arriving at another time, or have any other needs or questions, email crimethincbooking@yahoo.com. Volunteers are urged to come early to help prepare the campsite and assist in other ways. We also still need help providing food for everyone, gathering gifts to offer at Saturday’s Really Really Free Market, and doing just about everything else.
\n\nRequiem has just finished recording their upcoming album, Storm Heaven, which will be released in August along with the new album by their sister band, The Spectacle. You can download a Requiem song here; for a foretaste of the forthcoming Spectacle recording and a listing of all the dates the two bands will play together on their joint tour of Europe from August to October, visit www.the-spectacle.com. Before and after that tour, Requiem will tour the US; for a listing of those shows, click here.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/06/14/first-issue-of-new-journal-new-raegan-butcher-book-convergence-update", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/06/14/first-issue-of-new-journal-new-raegan-butcher-book-convergence-update", "title": "First Issue of New Journal, New Raegan Butcher Book, Convergence Update", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2005-06-14T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "If anything has been missing from our publishing regimen, it has been a regular periodical to provide continuity from one project to the next and cover the adventures these projects bring about. At long last, we are pleased to present Rolling Thunder, an “anarchist journal of dangerous living” that will fill this role. This debut issue includes an extensive analysis of the past decade of direct action, feature articles on consent in sexual relationships and alternative conceptions of education, and testimonials from maniacs who squatted their own workplaces and set themselves on fire while fighting police… and that’s just the beginning! Written, designed, and printed through the same channels as our books, this magazine offers 116 pages of radical commentary, history, poetry, artwork, fiction, parlor games, comics, skills, culinary advice, and other inflammatory material.
\n\nAs if that wasn’t enough, we’ve also just received from the printer the fourth book in the CrimethInc. Letters series, a new collection of poetry by Raegan Butcher entitled Rusty String Quartet. It picks up where Stone Hotel left off, as Raegan is released from prison into a world seven years different from the one he knew. This isn’t the poetry they made you read in high school, that’s for sure. Our second longest book to date, Rusty String Quartet offers 264 poems in 340 pages. Both new titles are also now included in the Literature Distro Kit.
\n\nWe now have a page up providing information about the CrimethInc. convergence taking place in Indiana this summer July 14-18. As we attempt to coordinate events for the week, it will be tremendously helpful for those interested to get in touch and let us know what projects, presentations, resources, or desires they intend to bring. Some of the organizers can be contacted through crimethincbooking@yahoo.com.
\n\nFinally, this summer we will release The Spectacle’s second album and the first recording by Requiem. Both bands will tour Europe together in September and October, and Requiem will tour the US in August and November. Anyone willing to book a show—or, even better, do the work to ensure that a given show is more than just another show—can contact them through that same address, crimethincbooking@yahoo.com.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/05/09/hatching-plots-for-a-hot-summer", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/05/09/hatching-plots-for-a-hot-summer", "title": "Hatching Plots for a Hot Summer", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2005-05-09T07:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "There will be a CrimethInc. convergence this summer! It will take place in Indiana, from July 14 to 18. The campsite is yet to be ascertained, but the convergence will intersect with the Plan-It-X Records festival in Bloomington on July 16: the day will be filled with workshops and games, and the evening with music and other excitement. We’re really pulling out all the stops for this convergence, and we urge all of you to pull together a traveling group, brainstorm some resource or secret plan that you are more qualified than any other to bring and offer to your fellow maniacs, and join us to make it something unforgettable.
\n\nFor all those who have eagerly been anticipating the upcoming Sabatour in support of Recipes for Disaster, you can help out by sending in much-needed donations. The organization is in its final hour, and the dates are posted on the informational site. Dozens and dozens of strangers have come together to make this tour possible, and they all deserve thanks for their efforts and investment. Also, anyone in the new England area with a van that would like to come on the tour is officially welcome. We invite freight drivers/renegade performers for an adventure of a lifetime.
\n\nAnd lastly, we have new Literature Distro Kits now available: the new kits include everything you need to set up a distro table or stock a small infoshop including books to sell and zines, posters and stickers in bulk to give away. We made these available so that people can get bulk copies of all the books at the cheapest possible price without having to order 10 copies of each book.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/03/22/new-zegota-7-new-material-online-bookfairs-and-conferences-and-so-much-more", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/03/22/new-zegota-7-new-material-online-bookfairs-and-conferences-and-so-much-more", "title": "New Zegota 7”, New Material Online, Bookfairs and Conferences, And So Much More", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2005-03-22T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "We have a new 7” from Zegota, and it’s some of their best music ever! The first side is an unabashed street protest anthem entitled “Anarchist Cheerleader Song,” and the other a spine-tingling cover of the traditional spiritual “Sinner Man” á la Nina Simone. Like all their best material, these songs veer between catchy and haunting, remaining impassioned and frenetic throughout. Our condolences to those who missed Zegota on their US tour a month ago.
\n\nThere’s a new article up in our features section, a preview from the forthcoming first issue of our wild-eyed adventurist periodical Rolling Thunder: it’s an extensive account and analysis of the past few years of militant demonstrations, aimed to sharpen the wits and tactics of the direct action movement in North America. Speaking of magazines, we now have a ‘zine-format PDF available of “Wasted, Indeed,” the anarchist indictment of alcohol that first appeared in the now out-of-print final issue of our hardcore journal, Inside Front. We also have a new poster in the downloads section: “Behind Our Masks, We Are You.”
\n\nWe’ll have copies of that poster, among other incendiary (and mostly free!) materials, at our tables at the 10th Annual San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair on the 26th of this month. In early April, Requiem will play a few shows in the Midwest, including at the Global Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 9. Contact them at crimethincbooking@yahoo.com and demand they play in your community.
\n\nWe’re into the last fifth of the first printing of Recipes for Disaster, and will be reprinting it in late April, around the time the first issue of Rolling Thunder finally sees the light of day. Shortly thereafter, we’ll release a new full-length from Norway’s The Spectacle. More about this coming summer in the next update.
\n\nAnd finally, as you may have already noticed, we now have an RSS news feed, and a tiny WAP site, read more about these additions here.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/02/13/cookbook-update-sabatour-annoucement", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2005/02/13/cookbook-update-sabatour-annoucement", "title": "Cookbook Update, Sabatour Annoucement", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2005-02-13T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "Recipes for Disaster has been out for about two months now, and we’re still waiting to have a free moment to catch our breath. It has been warmly received (warm as in the fires of the sun) and that reception has kept us busy. Thanks to everyone who has spread the good word on the book—keep it up. Very belatedly, we’ve made a half-page ad available for those who wish to deploy it.
\n\nThe first news about the upcoming Sabatour has been posted… we’ve added a new pamphlet to our downloads section, a handy print version of our recent feature, “Twelve Myths About Direct Action”… we just got the third printing of Off the Map back from the printers, and we’re happy to announce it is printed with newly-available 100% post-consumer recycled paper… and finally, the Umalut discography got a great review from Acquarius records, click here and scroll down a bit to check it out.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2004/12/15/our-anarchist-cookbook-recipes-for-disaster-is-unleashed-upon-the-world", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2004/12/15/our-anarchist-cookbook-recipes-for-disaster-is-unleashed-upon-the-world", "title": "Our Anarchist Cookbook, Recipes For Disaster, Is Unleashed Upon the World", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2004-12-15T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "For ten long years, our operatives have honed their skills, testing their wits and mettle against the global capitalist empire, the most formidable adversary in the history of life on earth. We have learned how to redecorate the walls of cities occupied by armies of riot police, to transform random groups of damaged, isolated individuals into loving communities capable of supporting one another through the most severe bouts of repression and depression, to shut down corporate summits and franchises armed with little more than plastic piping or eyedroppers of glue. Now, we’ve compiled many of the techniques that made these feats possible into a 624-page handbook entitled Recipes for Disaster.
\n\nThe sixty-two recipes run the gamut from Affinity Groups to Wheatpasting, stopping along the way at topics as disparate as Hitchhiking, Sabotage, and Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence. Each recipe is illustrated as necessary with photographs, technical diagrams, and firsthand accounts. Countless individuals and collectives have contributed to the testing, composing, and editing, in order to put the most useful and comprehensive manual in the hands of revolutionaries everywhere. Recipes for Disaster has not yet been banned by the U.S. government; it is currently available from us for not much more than the costs of printing, and transportation. We hope this book will help those working to transform both their own lives and the world as we know it, but the rest is up to you. The first 500 mailorder copies will receive a nice little bookmark.
\n\nOur features section has also been updated with a text on direct action, the focus of Recipes for Disaster.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2004/12/13/fighting-for-our-lives-out-of-stock-crimethinc-deficit-hits-record-high", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2004/12/13/fighting-for-our-lives-out-of-stock-crimethinc-deficit-hits-record-high", "title": "Fighting For Our Lives Out of Stock, CrimethInc. Deficit Hits Record High", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2004-12-13T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "We’ve nearly run out of copies of the second printing of Fighting For Our Lives, our introduction to passionate anarchism, and can no longer offer them for bulk orders. That makes close to 350,000 of them that have been distributed since the paper was first published in September 2002. We hope to do another printing eventually, but for the time being we are financially crippled to an extent that makes the average North American working family look solvent. We were able to pull off the first printing of Fighting For Our Lives, barely, thanks to the massive donations that many offered to assist with this project, but the donations for this printing have been fewer and much less, and we’re barely able to afford to mail out paid orders at this point. If any of you have the financial means to assist us, so we can keep the greater part of our projects free to the public and donation-based, this is the time to do so. Thanks for all the support we have received over the years. Bulk copies are still available for special events and occasions, if you have a plan cooking, just drop us a line.
\n\n" }, { "id": "https://crimethinc.com/2004/11/15/cookbook-cooking-stay-tuned-for-civil-war", "url": "https://crimethinc.com/2004/11/15/cookbook-cooking-stay-tuned-for-civil-war", "title": "Cookbook Cooking, Stay Tuned for Civil War", "summary": "", "image": "", "banner_image": "", "date_published": "2004-11-15T08:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2024-09-10T03:55:30Z", "tags": [], "content_html": "And now, the biggest news here since the publication of Fighting for Our Lives! After nearly three years of hard labor, our anarchist cookbook, Recipes for Disaster, has finally entered the production process. This 624-page book collects a great part of the skills and knowledge direct action enthusiasts have developed and tested over the past decade, covering everything from Affinity Groups to Wheatpasting; well over thirty different collectives have collaborated to produce it, and we hope it can play an important part in equipping our communities for the next decade of activity. The books should be back from the printers and in our hands around December 15, check back here then for all the details. We can’t accept pre-orders, as we have no idea what will happen to them, us, or you between now and then, but in the meantime, click here for a characteristically grandiose preview.
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