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A Bulletin from the CrimethInc. ex-Workers Collective |
Here’s our news heading into what is shaping up to be a hot summer! If you’re out there fighting for a better world, dismayed by the shamelessness and cruelty of those who hold power today, you’re not alone. We’re in the fight alongside you and we have your back. |
Updates to Our Store |
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We’ve reprinted two of our most popular projects ever, Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook and our classic gender subversion poster. |
Gender Subversion Poster |
We have distributed hundreds of thousands of copies of this poster over the year. It’s been out of print for almost two years, but we have it back in stock now. Order a stack for your community! |
These posters have made their way around the world, into classrooms, libraries, clinics, guidance counselor’s offices, pride marches, dorm rooms, shelters, punk houses, teenage bedrooms, and colleges. -Jacinta Bunnell |
Recipes for Disaster |
Illustrated with extensive technical diagrams and first-hand accounts, this 400-page direct action manual covers a wide range of strategies and tactics—everything from Affinity Groups to Wheatpasting, including Black Blocs, Blockades, Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence, and a variety of mutual aid structures. |
Gender Subversion Poster—The Remix |
To celebrate reprinting the original version of the poster, we’ve also printed an homage to it, addressing the threats ranged against our bodies and our freedom and honoring those who stand up to them. In this article, we offer a deep dive into how the context of struggles over gender self-determination has shifted in the twenty years since we printed the original poster. |
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New Articles |
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Asphalt Mosaics |
As an example of the content, we published one of the chapters of Recipes for Disaster online: “Asphalt Mosaics,” a guide to installing unsanctioned permanent mosaics in asphalt streets and parking lots. Some of the tactics in Recipes for Disaster were drawn from protest movements; others come from outsider art. For example, some contributors reverse-engineered the process by which a mysterious street artist in their region had installed cryptic tiles in the streets. Known as “Toynbee Tiles,” these mosaics have since become world famous; there’s even a film about them. But we have yet to see asphalt mosaics spread as widely as graffiti. Now that summer is here and the asphalt is heating up, it’s a great time to get out there and try it! |
Police and Prosecutors Target the Atlanta Solidarity Fund |
At the end of May, Atlanta police arrested three legal support organizers associated with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund on absurd charges of "money laundering" and "charity fraud." This is a clear case of police intimidation. Seeking to push through their taxpayer-funded cash cow, a proposed police militarization facility known as Cop City, police have charged practically every protester they have arrested since last December with domestic terrorism. In cracking down on legal support structures, they hope to leave arrestees defenseless in the face of these trumped-up charges. In this article, we review other examples of trumped-up charges from the 2017 J20 case to the RICO case against Greenpeace and discuss the implications of this attack on solidarity organizing in general. While the Atlanta Solidarity Fund is under attack, the National Bail Fund Network is collecting donations on their behalf. |
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Speaking of the fight against Cop City, on June 5, the Atlanta City Council sat through several hundred people speaking out against the project, then nonetheless voted in favor of funding it, adding an extra $30 million to the budget for it. Less than half a dozen spoke in favor of the facility, and the ones who did had reportedly been induced to do so. This underscores the extent to which support for the project is driven by corporate money, whereas the general public is overwhelmingly against it. The movement against Cop City did not begin with petitioning, but with direct action. Victory will not be determined by the voting of corrupt politicians, but by the courage of those who stand up to them. Over and over, at the City Council meeting, people chanted “If you build it, we will burn it.” Participants in the movement against Cop City have announced another week of action to take place June 24 through July 1. |
Elsewhere… |
We have continued adding appendices to our memorial for Dmitry Petrov, the Russian anarchist partisan killed in Ukraine. These include a statement about his youth from his comrades in the Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization and a delightful punk song written about the sort of clandestine actions he used to carry out as a young person in Russia — "Black Blog Fighter" by Electric Partisans. |
Audio Releases |
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We’ve released two more podcast episodes offering audio versions of our articles. In episode 95, supporters of the movements for liberation in Rojava and Bakur and supporters of the revolution in western Syria discuss the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria earlier this year, exploring how the governments of those countries have worsened the consequences of the tragedy. Episode 96 is a full audio version of "The Forest in the City," a thorough account of the fight against Cop City covering two years of forest defense in Atlanta, Georgia. |
Anniversaries |
This month marks ten years since the Gezi uprising in Turkey, arguably the high point of resistance to Turkey’s far-right nationalist government. In this article, we explore the uprising and the strategies via which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan managed to regain and cement control afterwards. Three years after the George Floyd uprising, it’s also a good time to revisit the tactics via which demonstrators were able to defeat the police in the summer of 2020. Finally, as Pride month gets underway, we recommend “Stonewall Means Riot Right Now,” a discussion of the common thread between the Stonewall riots and the George Floyd uprising and what they can teach us today. |
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The siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis. |
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Stonewall means riot right now. |
Remember, everything we do is the fruit of volunteer labor. If you want to support us, the best thing you can do is to undertake similar projects yourself. You could also sign up to donate to us. |
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Love and Solidarity, The CrimethInc. ex-Workers Collective |
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