Final Statement by Willem Van Spronsen – MP3 – Read – Archive – Torrent – YouTube On July 13, 2019, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police whileattacking transportation infrastructure for the Northwest DetentionCenter in Tacoma, WA. The Northwest Detention Center can hold over 1,500 people, making it thelargest immigration prison on the west coast, and one of the largestimmigrant detention facilities in the country. Willem was a long-time activist, anarchist, anti-fascist, musician andfather. In a memorial posted to Puget sound anarchists, his comradeswrote: “We are grief stricken, inspired and enraged by what occurredearly this morning… Will gave his life fighting ICE. we may never knowwhat specifically was going through his head in the last hours of hislife but we know that the NWDC must be destroyed and the prisoners mustbe freed. We do not need heroes, only friends and comrades. Will wassimply a human being, and we wish that he was still with us. It’sdoubtless that the cops and the media will attempt to paint him as somesort of monster, but in reality he was a comrade who fought for manyyears for what he believed in and this morning he was killed doing whathe loved; fighting for a better world.”    The following is Willem Van Spronsen’s Final Statement: There’s wrong and there’s right.It’s time to take action against the forces of evil.Evil says one life is worth less than another.Evil says the flow of commerce is our purpose here.Evil says concentration camps for folks deemed lesser are necessary.The handmaid of evil says the concentration camps should be more humane.Beware the centrist.I have a father’s broken heartI have a broken down bodyAnd I have an unshakable abhorrence for injusticeThat is what brings me here.This is my clear opportunity to try to make a difference, I’d be aningrate to be waiting for a more obvious invitation.I follow three teachers:Don Pritts, my spiritual guide. “Love without action is just a word.”John Brown, my moral guide. “What is needed is action!”Emma Goldman, my political guide. “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to bein your revolution.”I’m a head in the clouds dreamer, I believe in love and redemption.I believe we’re going to win.I’m joyfully revolutionary. (We all should have been reading EmmaGoldman in school instead of the jingo drivel we were fed, but Idigress.) (We should all be looking at the photos of the YPG heroesshould we falter and think our dreams are impossible, but I doubledigress. Fight me.)In these days of fascist hooligans preying on vulnerable people in ourstreets, in the name of the state or supported and defended by thestate,In these days of highly profitable detention/concentration camps and abattle over the semantics,In these days of hopelessness, empty pursuit and empty yearning,We are living in visible fascism ascendant. (I say visible, becausethose paying attention watched it survive and thrive under theprotection of the state for decades. [See Howard Zinn, A People’sHistory of the United States.] Now it unabashedly follows its agendawith open and full cooperation from the government. From governmentsaround the world.Fascism serves the needs of the state serves the needs of business andat your expense. Who benefits? Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, TimCook, Bill Gates, Betsy de Vos, George Soros, Donald Trump, and need Igo on? Let me say it again: rich guys (who think you’re not really allthat good), really dig government (every government everywhere,including “communist” governments), because they make the rules thatmake rich guys richer.Simple.Don’t overthink it.(Are you patriots in the back paying attention?)When I was a boy, in post-war Holland, later France, my head was filledwith stories of the rise of fascism in the ’30s. I promised myself thatI would not be one of those who stands by as neighbors are torn fromtheir homes and imprisoned for somehow being perceived as lesser.You don’t have to burn the motherfucker down, but are you going to juststand by?This is the test of our fundamental belief in real freedom and ourresponsibility to each other.This is a call to patriots, too, to stand against this travesty againsteverything that you hold sacred. I know you. I know that in your hearts,you see the dishonor in these camps. It’s time for you, too, to stand upto the money pulling the strings of every goddamn puppet pretending torepresent us.I’m a man who loves you all and this spinning ball so much that I’mgoing to fulfill my childhood promise to myself to be noble.Here it is, in these corporate for profit concentration camps.Here it is, in Brown and non-conforming folks afraid to show their facesfor fear of the police/migra/Proud Boys/the boss/beckies…Here it is, a planet almost used up by the market’s greed.I’m a black and white thinker.Detention camps are an abomination.I’m not standing by.I really shouldn’t have to say any more than this.I set aside my broken heart and I heal the only way I know how—by beinguseful.I efficiently compartmentalize my pain…And I joyfully go about this work.(To those burdened with the wreckage from my actions, I hope that youwill make the best use of that burden.)To my comrades:I regret that I will miss the rest of the revolution.Thank you for the honor of having me in your midst.Giving me space to be useful, to feel that I was fulfilling my ideals,has been the spiritual pinnacle of my life.Doing what I can to help defend my precious and wondrous people is anexperience too rich to describe.My trans comrades have transformed me, solidifying my conviction that wewill be guided to a dreamed-of future by those most marginalized amongus today. I have dreamed it so clearly that I have no regret for notseeing how it turns out. Thank you for bringing me so far along.I am antifa. I stand with comrades around the world who act from thelove of life in every permutation. Comrades who understand that freedommeans real freedom for all and a life worth living.Keep the faith!All power to the people!Bella ciao. *Music by Willem Van Spronsen (Emma Durruti)

Final Statement by Willem Van Spronsen – <a href="https://archive.org/download/willem-final-statement-audio/Willem%20Van%20Spronsen%20Final%20Statement.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://crimethinc.com/2019/07/14/on-willem-van-spronsens-action-against-the-northwest-detention-center-in-tacoma-including-the-full-text-of-his-final-statement" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/willem-final-statement-audio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/willem-final-statement-audio/willem-final-statement-audio_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/EiceLskLo2U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> On July 13, 2019, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while attacking transportation infrastructure for the <a href="https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2424667040927495&amp;id=671796032881280" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma</a>, WA. The Northwest Detention Center can hold over 1,500 people, making it the largest immigration prison on the west coast, and one of the largest immigrant detention facilities in the country. Willem was a long-time activist, anarchist, anti-fascist, <a href="https://crimethinc.com/2019/07/16/willem-van-spronsens-audio-legacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">musician </a>and father. In a memorial posted to Puget sound anarchists, his comrades wrote: “We are grief stricken, inspired and enraged by what occurred early this morning… Will gave his life fighting ICE. we may never know what specifically was going through his head in the last hours of his life but we know that the NWDC must be destroyed and the prisoners must be freed. We do not need heroes, only friends and comrades. Will was simply a human being, and we wish that he was still with us. It’s doubtless that the cops and the media will attempt to paint him as some sort of monster, but in reality he was a comrade who fought for many years for what he believed in and this morning he was killed doing what he loved; fighting for a better world.”   The following is Willem Van Spronsen’s Final Statement: There’s wrong and there’s right. It’s time to take action against the forces of evil. Evil says one life is worth less than another. Evil says the flow of commerce is our purpose here. Evil says concentration camps for folks deemed lesser are necessary. The handmaid of evil says the concentration camps should be more humane. Beware the centrist. I have a father’s broken heart I have a broken down body And I have an unshakable abhorrence for injustice That is what brings me here. This is my clear opportunity to try to make a difference, I’d be an ingrate to be waiting for a more obvious invitation. I follow three teachers: Don Pritts, my spiritual guide. “Love without action is just a word.” John Brown, my moral guide. “What is needed is action!” Emma Goldman, my political guide. “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be in your revolution.” I’m a head in the clouds dreamer, I believe in love and redemption. I believe we’re going to win. I’m joyfully revolutionary. (We all should have been reading Emma Goldman in school instead of the jingo drivel we were fed, but I digress.) (We should all be looking at the photos of the YPG heroes should we falter and think our dreams are impossible, but I double digress. Fight me.) In these days of fascist hooligans preying on vulnerable people in our streets, in the name of the state or supported and defended by the state, In these days of highly profitable detention/concentration camps and a battle over the semantics, In these days of hopelessness, empty pursuit and empty yearning, We are living in visible fascism ascendant. (I say visible, because those paying attention watched it survive and thrive under the protection of the state for decades. [See Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States.] Now it unabashedly follows its agenda with open and full cooperation from the government. From governments around the world. Fascism serves the needs of the state serves the needs of business and at your expense. Who benefits? Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Betsy de Vos, George Soros, Donald Trump, and need I go on? Let me say it again: rich guys (who think you’re not really all that good), really dig government (every government everywhere, including “communist” governments), because they make the rules that make rich guys richer. Simple. Don’t overthink it. (Are you patriots in the back paying attention?) When I was a boy, in post-war Holland, later France, my head was filled with stories of the rise of fascism in the ’30s. I promised myself that I would not be one of those who stands by as neighbors are torn from their homes and imprisoned for somehow being perceived as lesser. You don’t have to burn the motherfucker down, but are you going to just stand by? This is the test of our fundamental belief in real freedom and our responsibility to each other. This is a call to patriots, too, to stand against this travesty against everything that you hold sacred. I know you. I know that in your hearts, you see the dishonor in these camps. It’s time for you, too, to stand up to the money pulling the strings of every goddamn puppet pretending to represent us. I’m a man who loves you all and this spinning ball so much that I’m going to fulfill my childhood promise to myself to be noble. Here it is, in these corporate for profit concentration camps. Here it is, in Brown and non-conforming folks afraid to show their faces for fear of the police/migra/Proud Boys/the boss/beckies… Here it is, a planet almost used up by the market’s greed. I’m a black and white thinker. Detention camps are an abomination. I’m not standing by. I really shouldn’t have to say any more than this. I set aside my broken heart and I heal the only way I know how—by being useful. I efficiently compartmentalize my pain… And I joyfully go about this work. (To those burdened with the wreckage from my actions, I hope that you will make the best use of that burden.) To my comrades: I regret that I will miss the rest of the revolution. Thank you for the honor of having me in your midst. Giving me space to be useful, to feel that I was fulfilling my ideals, has been the spiritual pinnacle of my life. Doing what I can to help defend my precious and wondrous people is an experience too rich to describe. My trans comrades have transformed me, solidifying my conviction that we will be guided to a dreamed-of future by those most marginalized among us today. I have dreamed it so clearly that I have no regret for not seeing how it turns out. Thank you for bringing me so far along. I am antifa. I stand with comrades around the world who act from the love of life in every permutation. Comrades who understand that freedom means real freedom for all and a life worth living. Keep the faith! All power to the people! Bella ciao. *Music by Willem Van Spronsen (Emma Durruti)

Final Statement of Willem Van Spronsen – AudioZine

The Unquiet Dead Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology Chapter 7. Elitism, Populism, and Democracy – By Anonymous – MP3– Read– Print – Archive– Torrent– YouTube Chapter 7 discusses Nietzsche, anti-Semitism and elitism as well as The Peróns fascism and populism. The full text is available at unquietdead.tumblr.com; we will be posting recordings of other chapters in the future.    “I tell you unless something is done to alleviate such things there will be more anarchists, aye, red-handed anarchists, in this country. I do not wonder that there are anarchists in this country; the wonder is that there are not more of them.”  Simon &amp; Garfunkel – I Am A Rock, Sum 41 – Fatlip,  Sharon Campbell – Evita – Don’t Cry For me Argentina, John Mellencamp – Pink HousesTrailer for another podcast in the Channel Zero Network from Time Talks Podcast

The Unquiet Dead Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology Chapter 7. Elitism, Populism, and Democracy – By Anonymous – <a href="https://archive.org/download/unquiet-dead-chapter-7-elitism-populism-and-democracy/Unquiet%20Dead%20Chapter%207%20Elitism%2C%20Populism%2C%20and%20Democracy-%20.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a>– <a href="https://archive.org/download/unquiet-dead-chapter-7-elitism-populism-and-democracy/chapter7zine.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a>– <a href="https://archive.org/download/unquiet-dead-chapter-7-elitism-populism-and-democracy/chapter7zineimposed.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Print</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/unquiet-dead-chapter-7-elitism-populism-and-democracy" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a>– <a href="https://archive.org/download/unquiet-dead-chapter-7-elitism-populism-and-democracy/unquiet-dead-chapter-7-elitism-populism-and-democracy_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a>– <a href="https://youtu.be/2_bv45qXS40" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> Chapter 7 discusses Nietzsche, anti-Semitism and elitism as well as The Peróns fascism and populism. The full text is available at <a href="http://unquietdead.tumblr.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">unquietdead.tumblr.com</a>; we will be posting recordings of other chapters in the future. <blockquote> “I tell you unless something is done to alleviate such things there will be more anarchists, aye, red-handed anarchists, in this country. I do not wonder that there are anarchists in this country; the wonder is that there are not more of them.” </blockquote> Simon &amp; Garfunkel – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlSVNxLB-A" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">I Am A Rock</a>, Sum 41 – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMX2lPum_pg" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Fatlip</a>,  Sharon Campbell – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2eMHqS7lTU" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Evita – Don’t Cry For me Argentina</a>, John Mellencamp – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfkpu6749w" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Pink Houses</a>Trailer for another podcast in the <a href="https://channelzeronetwork.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Channel Zero Network</a> from <a href="https://timetalks.libsyn.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Time Talks Podcast</a>

The Unquiet Dead Ch 7 – AudioZine

Revolution and Destituent Power: How do we de-activate the State without founding a new one? – MP3 – Read – Print– Torrent – Archive– YouTube Historically, the revolutionary process in the West has centered on violently destroying a certain order and then re-founding a new order based on that prior violence. From the revolutionary terror of the French Revolution, and the writing of the American constitution in the wake of revolutionary war, to the authoritarian nightmare of the Soviet Union, to contemporary demands in Chile for a constitutional assembly, it seems impossible for revolutions to escape the logic of sovereignty, constituency, and security. How do we escape what Agamben calls the vicious spiral of terrorism and the State? Seeking a way out of the traps of modernity, some theorists and revolutionary movements have proposed an idea of destituent power: a revolutionary process that breaks the law not in order to found a new law, but to do away with the logic of law altogether.  This talk presents an overview of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s writing on the question of destituent power, tracing the history of the idea from Walter Benjamin and Georges Sorel, through the Italian Autonomia movement and the refusal of work, and into present theories of destituent power. Finally, we briefly discuss the interesting points of intersection between the largely European concept of destituent power, and the decidedly Black and North American concepts of fugitivity and the undercommons, rooted in Fred Moten’s work.  Trailer at the end for another Channel Zero podcast trailer Rebel Steps Season 2 For those who are interested in the source material, reading suggestions include: Giorgio Agamben, From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies, Prologue and Epilogue Robert Hurley, Communist Ontology Fred Moten &amp; Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning &amp; Black Study

Revolution and Destituent Power: How do we de-activate the State without founding a new one? – <a href="https://archive.org/download/revolutionanddestituentpowertalkaudio/Revolution%20and%20Destituent%20Power%20Talk%20Audio.mp3/?wpdmdl=ID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3 </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/download/revolutionanddestituentpowertalkaudio/Revolution%20and%20Destituent%20Power.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/revolutionanddestituentpowertalkaudio/Revolution%20and%20Destituent%20Power%20-%20zine%20print.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Print</a>– <a href="https://archive.org/download/revolutionanddestituentpowertalkaudio/revolutionanddestituentpowertalkaudio_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/details/revolutionanddestituentpowertalkaudio" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a>– <a href="https://youtu.be/CFCOvJ3pBC8" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> Historically, the revolutionary process in the West has centered on violently destroying a certain order and then re-founding a new order based on that prior violence. From the revolutionary terror of the French Revolution, and the writing of the American constitution in the wake of revolutionary war, to the authoritarian nightmare of the Soviet Union, to contemporary demands in Chile for a constitutional assembly, it seems impossible for revolutions to escape the logic of sovereignty, constituency, and security. How do we escape what Agamben calls the vicious spiral of terrorism and the State? Seeking a way out of the traps of modernity, some theorists and revolutionary movements have proposed an idea of destituent power: a revolutionary process that breaks the law not in order to found a new law, but to do away with the logic of law altogether. This talk presents an overview of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s writing on the question of destituent power, tracing the history of the idea from Walter Benjamin and Georges Sorel, through the Italian Autonomia movement and the refusal of work, and into present theories of destituent power. Finally, we briefly discuss the interesting points of intersection between the largely European concept of destituent power, and the decidedly Black and North American concepts of fugitivity and the undercommons, rooted in Fred Moten’s work. Trailer at the end for another <a href="https://channelzeronetwork.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Channel Zero</a> podcast trailer <a href="https://rebelsteps.com/season2.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Rebel Steps Season 2</a> For those who are interested in the source material, reading suggestions include: <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/giorgio-agamben-from-the-state-of-control-to-a-praxis-of-destituent-power" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Giorgio Agamben, From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power</a> Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies, Prologue and Epilogue Robert Hurley, Communist Ontology <a href="https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6024&amp;context=lkcsb_research" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Fred Moten &amp; Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning &amp; Black Study</a>

Revolution and Destituent Power – Presentation

Now by The Invisible Committee – MP3 – Read– Print – Torrent – Archive – YouTube Now (2017) is the phantom chapter to the Invisible Committee’s previous book, To Our Friends: a new critique from the anonymous collective that establishes their opposition to the world of capital and its law of labor, addresses current anti-terrorist rhetoric and the ferocious repression that comes with it, and clarifies the end of social democracy and the growing rumors of the need for a coming “civil war.”  Now emerges at a time when the Invisible Committee’s contestation has found echoes throughout the West, with a collapse of trust in the police, an inept weariness on the part of the political system, a growing urgency for opposition, a return of the theme of the Commune, a vanishing distinction between radicals and citizens, and a widespread refusal on the part of the citizen to be governed. As farcical political elections continue to unfold worldwide like a line of tumbling dominoes, and governments increasingly struggle to reclaim a legitimacy that has already slipped out of their grasp, Now clarifies the Invisible Committee’s attitude toward all such elections and their outcome: one of utter indifference. Now proposes a “destituent process” that charts out a different path to be taken, a path of outright refusal that simply ignores elections altogether. It is a path that calls for taking over the world and not taking power, for exploring new forms of life and not a new constitution, and for desertion and silence as alternatives to proclamations and crashes. It is also a call for an unprecedented communism—a communism stronger than nation and country. Musical interludes by Debussy from Arabesque Number One  “No more waiting. No more hoping. No more letting ourselves be distracted, unnerved. Break and enter. Put untruth back in its place. Believe in what we feel. Act accordingly. Force our way into the present. Try. Fail this time. Try again. Fail better. Persist. Attack. Build. Go down one’s road. Win perhaps. In any case, overcome. Live, therefore. Now…”

Now by The Invisible Committee – <a href="https://archive.org/download/nowtheinvisiblecommittee/Now%20-%20The%20Invisible%20Committee.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/nowtheinvisiblecommittee/Invisible-Committee-NOW-READ.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a>– <a href="https://archive.org/download/nowtheinvisiblecommittee/Invisible-Committee-NOW-PRINT-bw.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Print</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/nowtheinvisiblecommittee/nowtheinvisiblecommittee_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/nowtheinvisiblecommittee" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/nowtheinvisiblecommittee" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> Now (2017) is the phantom chapter to the Invisible Committee’s previous book, <a href="https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2015/08/07/to-our-friends-audiozine/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">To Our Friends</a>: a new critique from the anonymous collective that establishes their opposition to the world of capital and its law of labor, addresses current anti-terrorist rhetoric and the ferocious repression that comes with it, and clarifies the end of social democracy and the growing rumors of the need for a coming “civil war.” Now emerges at a time when the Invisible Committee’s contestation has found echoes throughout the West, with a collapse of trust in the police, an inept weariness on the part of the political system, a growing urgency for opposition, a return of the theme of the Commune, a vanishing distinction between radicals and citizens, and a widespread refusal on the part of the citizen to be governed. As farcical political elections continue to unfold worldwide like a line of tumbling dominoes, and governments increasingly struggle to reclaim a legitimacy that has already slipped out of their grasp, Now clarifies the Invisible Committee’s attitude toward all such elections and their outcome: one of utter indifference. Now proposes a “destituent process” that charts out a different path to be taken, a path of outright refusal that simply ignores elections altogether. It is a path that calls for taking over the world and not taking power, for exploring new forms of life and not a new constitution, and for desertion and silence as alternatives to proclamations and crashes. It is also a call for an unprecedented communism—a communism stronger than nation and country. Musical interludes by Debussy from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUx6ZY60uiI" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Arabesque Number One</a> <blockquote> “No more waiting. No more hoping. No more letting ourselves be distracted, unnerved. Break and enter. Put untruth back in its place. Believe in what we feel. Act accordingly. Force our way into the present. Try. Fail this time. Try again. Fail better. Persist. Attack. Build. Go down one’s road. Win perhaps. In any case, overcome. Live, therefore. Now…”</blockquote>

Now – AudioZine

Audio Zine

The Olympia Communard: Dispatches from the Olympia Rail Blockade – By Various Authors – MP3 – PDF – Torrent – Archive – YouTube For seven days during the winter of 2016, radicals, revolutionaries and ne’er-do-wells – inspired by the then unfolding revolt at Standing Rock – built a blockade encampment on the train tracks in downtown Olympia, Washington (Nisqually and Squaxin Land), in order to stop a train full of essential fracking supplies from reaching the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota. One year later the blockade reemerged and for another twelve days during the winter of 2017, participants took a stand against the industrial machinations of death. This compilation of writing comes from the second year of the blockade and was intended to be record of sorts, of a special time and place affectionately referred to by its participants as the Olympia Commune. In the Olympia Communard’s own words: “It is simply the perspective of some future possible world, glancing back at the collapse of this world and searching for those elements of redemption hidden therein”.  More audio resources on the Olympia Train Blockade(s) check out The (Ex)Worker #61: The Olympia Train Blockade (2017) SoleCast on the Olympia Blockade  (2017) IGD Cast – Discussion on the Blockade (2017) IGD Cast – Audio Report (2017) IGD Cast – Barricade That Train (2016)

The Olympia Communard: Dispatches from the Olympia Rail Blockade – By Various Authors – <a href="https://archive.org/download/thecommunard/The%20Communard.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/thecommunard/The-Olympia-Communard.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/thecommunard/thecommunard_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/details/thecommunard" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/YxXqm79Q3ys" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> For seven days during the winter of 2016, radicals, revolutionaries and ne’er-do-wells – inspired by the then unfolding revolt at Standing Rock – built a blockade encampment on the train tracks in downtown Olympia, Washington (Nisqually and Squaxin Land), in order to stop a train full of essential fracking supplies from reaching the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota. One year later the blockade reemerged and for another twelve days during the winter of 2017, participants took a stand against the industrial machinations of death. This compilation of writing comes from the second year of the blockade and was intended to be record of sorts, of a special time and place affectionately referred to by its participants as the Olympia Commune. In the Olympia Communard’s own words: <blockquote>“It is simply the perspective of some future possible world, glancing back at the collapse of this world and searching for those elements of redemption hidden therein”.</blockquote> More audio resources on the Olympia Train Blockade(s) check out <a href="https://crimethinc.com/podcasts/the-ex-worker/episodes/61" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The (Ex)Worker #61: The Olympia Train Blockade (2017)</a> <a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/solecast-long-live-olympia-fracking-blockade/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">SoleCast on the Olympia Blockade  (2017)</a> <a href="https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/commune-by-the-tracks-discussion-on-the-olympiablockade/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">IGD Cast – Discussion on the Blockade (2017)</a> <a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/audio-report-behind-anti-fracking-blockade-olympia/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">IGD Cast – Audio Report (2017)</a> <a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/igdcast-barricade-train/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">IGD Cast – Barricade That Train (2016)</a>

The Communard – Audio Zine

This Is What Democracy Looks Like: An Anarchist Critique Of Democracy – MP3 – Read – Print – Torrent – Archive – YouTube In the words of the introduction to this pamphlet, “One would think that a political doctrine and system that was propagated by the bourgeoisie in their rise to power, that is promoted world-wide by the Western ruling class, and that has only existed in its so-called ‘pure’ form on the backs of slaves, would at least be suspect in the eyes of those who oppose the present social order. But such is not the case.” Indeed, it remains lost on many would-be radicals that contemporary democracy is only the form of government dominance which is best suited to industrial discipline, its late capitalist successors, and all the therapeutic measures that they necessitate. A substantial difference posited between even the most “direct” forms of democracy and a living, breathing anarchy? Inquire within.    These essays were collected in a Venomous Butterfly publication about 15 years ago. The main courses of this modest feast are the fourth and fifth pieces to appear in the sequence– “The Lesser Evil” by Dominique Misein and “Who Is It?” by Adonide– and the especially discerning listener or reader may want to proceed to these without delay. A small number of the insurrectionary critiques from the early part of this millennium can be said to lack a certain traction in our transforming social conditions, or to stand to benefit greatly from supplementation by other meditations. The best moments of this collection escape this fate. They portend more recent and lengthier essays on democracy like the CrimethInc pamphlet “From Democracy to Freedom” (now expanded into a book and audiozine) and the thorough demolition job found in “Against Democracy” by the Grupos Anarquistas Coordinados, originally composed in Spanish and now hurled as evidence at comrades in Spain who face time in the dungeons of the democratic state. These latter essays deftly explore the clusterfuck of contradiction, quiet desperation, sheer brutality, and lopsided hierarchies that mark each and every one of the toxic quagmires known as democratic “societies,” and may be forthcoming to Resonance Audio Distro. As for the present, these brief offerings retain a good deal of their heft and remain the sumptuous morsels they always were. The other pieces nicely round out a title that stands along with other of its early aughts contemporaries– impeccable journals like “Killing King Abacus” and “A Murder of Crows“– which contributed not a little to the anarchist ferment of the past couple decades. The false opposition to fascism– democracy– stands unmasked as its progenitor and collaborator. The polis is a gendered slave state. The vote is a sham. One more indication for an anarchy that cannot be bought off or tamed. This audio zine is appropriately set to “Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, an unnerving sonic portrait of the consummate recuperator: the smiley-faced propagator of the Big Lie, the miracle worker of Capital, the man who rolls into town promising all the good things of life but delivers naught but suffering and falsity, the one who has reduced you to a microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan. You might remember this song from the movie “Scream” or more recently from the “Peaky Blinders” series, itself a kind of portrait of the disaster wrought by liberal democracy and its world. He’s the settler, the master, the businessman, the gentry, the democrat. He now puts a rainbow badge in his window and donates to the right charities. They’re whispering his name through this disappearing land. But hidden in his coat…

This Is What Democracy Looks Like: An Anarchist Critique Of Democracy – <a href="https://archive.org/download/ThisIsWhatDemocracyLooksLIke_201903/This%20is%20What%20Democracy%20Looks%20LIke.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/ThisIsWhatDemocracyLooksLIke_201903/democracy.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/ThisIsWhatDemocracyLooksLIke_201903/democracy-imposed.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Print </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/download/ThisIsWhatDemocracyLooksLIke_201903/ThisIsWhatDemocracyLooksLIke_201903_archive.torrent" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/details/ThisIsWhatDemocracyLooksLIke_201903" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Archive </a>– <a href="https://youtu.be/dyv65bHWXgA" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> In the words of the introduction to this pamphlet, “One would think that a political doctrine and system that was propagated by the bourgeoisie in their rise to power, that is promoted world-wide by the Western ruling class, and that has only existed in its so-called ‘pure’ form on the backs of slaves, would at least be suspect in the eyes of those who oppose the present social order. But such is not the case.” Indeed, it remains lost on many would-be radicals that contemporary democracy is only the form of government dominance which is best suited to industrial discipline, its late capitalist successors, and all the therapeutic measures that they necessitate. A substantial difference posited between even the most “direct” forms of democracy and a living, breathing anarchy? Inquire within. These essays were collected in a Venomous Butterfly publication about 15 years ago. The main courses of this modest feast are the fourth and fifth pieces to appear in the sequence– “The Lesser Evil” by Dominique Misein and “Who Is It?” by Adonide– and the especially discerning listener or reader may want to proceed to these without delay. A small number of the insurrectionary critiques from the early part of this millennium can be said to lack a certain traction in our transforming social conditions, or to stand to benefit greatly from supplementation by other meditations. The best moments of this collection escape this fate. They portend more recent and lengthier essays on democracy like the CrimethInc pamphlet <a href="https://crimethinc.com/2016/04/29/feature-from-democracy-to-freedom" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">“From Democracy to Freedom”</a> (now expanded into a <a href="https://crimethinc.com/books/from-democracy-to-freedom" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">book</a> and <a href="https://crimethinc.com/podcast/48" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">audiozine</a>) and the thorough demolition job found in <a href="https://ruinsofcapital.noblogs.org/against-democracy/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">“Against Democracy”</a> by the Grupos Anarquistas Coordinados, originally composed in Spanish and now hurled as evidence at comrades in Spain who face time in the dungeons of the democratic state. These latter essays deftly explore the clusterfuck of contradiction, quiet desperation, sheer brutality, and lopsided hierarchies that mark each and every one of the toxic quagmires known as democratic “societies,” and may be forthcoming to Resonance Audio Distro. As for the present, these brief offerings retain a good deal of their heft and remain the sumptuous morsels they always were. The other pieces nicely round out a title that stands along with other of its early aughts contemporaries– impeccable journals like “<a href="https://libcom.org/library/killing-king-abacus-anthology-collection-writings-relations-without-measure" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Killing King Abacus</a>” and “<a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-a-murder-of-crows" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">A Murder of Crows</a>“– which contributed not a little to the anarchist ferment of the past couple decades. The false opposition to fascism– democracy– stands unmasked as its progenitor and collaborator. The polis is a gendered slave state. The vote is a sham. One more indication for an anarchy that cannot be bought off or tamed. This audio zine is appropriately set to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxePKps87k" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">“Red Right Hand”</a> by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, an unnerving sonic portrait of the consummate recuperator: the smiley-faced propagator of the Big Lie, the miracle worker of Capital, the man who rolls into town promising all the good things of life but delivers naught but suffering and falsity, the one who has reduced you to a microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan. You might remember this song from the movie “Scream” or more recently from the “Peaky Blinders” series, itself a kind of portrait of the disaster wrought by liberal democracy and its world. He’s the settler, the master, the businessman, the gentry, the democrat. He now puts a rainbow badge in his window and donates to the right charities. They’re whispering his name through this disappearing land. But hidden in his coat…

This Is What Democracy Looks Like – AudioZine

Malediction – by Margaret Killjoy – MP3 – Torrent – Archive – YouTube Originally published in Shock Totem #10 in March of 2016; this morbid story includes a gay squatter, suicide, cop hating and paranoia. For more by Margaret Killjoy go to birdsbeforethestorm.net  and keep an eye out for more of her short fiction here on resonance. Music – Their Wings Are Made Of Bone – by Nomadic War Machine

Malediction – by Margaret Killjoy – <a href="https://archive.org/download/Malediction_201903/Malediction.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/Malediction_201903/Malediction_201903_archive.torrent" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/Malediction_201903" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/HiM1YqeyzQc" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> Originally published in Shock Totem #10 in March of 2016; this morbid story includes a gay squatter, suicide, cop hating and paranoia. For more by Margaret Killjoy go to <a href="https://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">birdsbeforethestorm.net </a> and keep an eye out for more of her short fiction here on resonance. Music – <a href="https://soundcloud.com/nomadicwarmachine/their-wings-are-made-of-bone" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Their Wings Are Made Of Bone</a> – by Nomadic War Machine

Malediction – AudioZine

The Unquiet Dead: Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology – Chapter 6 Mythologies – MP3 – Read – Print – Archive – Torrent – YouTube Chapter 6 discusses Barthes’ critique of Leftist mythologies; Marx’s critique of mythology and a critique of Marx’s mythology; elements of fascist mythology; various kinds of speculative fiction, and its advantages and disadvantages around imagining towards liberation.The full text is available at unquietdead.tumblr.com; we will be posting recordings of other chapters in the future.    “There are many forces striving to hold our world together—the impulse to gain power and control over others, to have more resources than others, to have respect and admiration, to somehow feel happy within this fraught context. In the heat of this constant push of competition for success, it can be a liberatory gesture simply to refuse to try to succeed: to fall apart: to disintegrate. Furthermore, if you oppose huge social structures, your task can feel daunting—there is no way to force them to collapse. However, you can encourage them to disintegrate through a change in belief. To do nothing to challenge the future is to choose to support it.”  Resonance has recorded a full version of Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell which is quoted at length in this chapter. Musical Interludes: Gustav Holst – The Planets – Mars, the Bringer of War, Ludwig Van Beethoven – Symphony No. 6, Op.68 – 2nd Movement 

The Unquiet Dead: Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology – Chapter 6 Mythologies – <a href="https://archive.org/download/TheUnquietDeadChapter6/The%20Unquiet%20Dead%20Chapter%206.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/TheUnquietDeadChapter6/chapter6zine.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/TheUnquietDeadChapter6/chapter6zineimposed.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Print </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheUnquietDeadChapter6" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Archive </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/download/TheUnquietDeadChapter6/TheUnquietDeadChapter6_archive.torrent" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent </a>– <a href="https://youtu.be/mSsZNrK1Oqo" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> Chapter 6 discusses Barthes’ critique of Leftist mythologies; Marx’s critique of mythology and a critique of Marx’s mythology; elements of fascist mythology; various kinds of speculative fiction, and its advantages and disadvantages around imagining towards liberation.The full text is available at <a href="http://unquietdead.tumblr.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">unquietdead.tumblr.com</a>; we will be posting recordings of other chapters in the future. <blockquote> “There are many forces striving to hold our world together—the impulse to gain power and control over others, to have more resources than others, to have respect and admiration, to somehow feel happy within this fraught context. In the heat of this constant push of competition for success, it can be a liberatory gesture simply to refuse to try to succeed: to fall apart: to disintegrate. Furthermore, if you oppose huge social structures, your task can feel daunting—there is no way to force them to collapse. However, you can encourage them to disintegrate through a change in belief. To do nothing to challenge the future is to choose to support it.” </blockquote> Resonance has recorded a full version of <a href="https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2017/05/10/faggots-their-friends-audiozine/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell</a> which is quoted at length in this chapter. Musical Interludes: Gustav Holst – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Planets – Mars, the Bringer of War</a>, Ludwig Van Beethoven – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRwU0JaykJQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Symphony No. 6, Op.68 – 2nd Movement </a>

The Unquiet Dead Ch 6

Skin In The Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism by Eric Ward – MP3 – Read – Print – Torrent – Archive – YouTube  “To recognize that antisemitism is not a sideshow to racism within White nationalist thought is important for at least two reasons. First, it allows us to identify the fuel that White nationalist ideology uses to power its anti-Black racism, its contempt for other people of color, and its xenophobia—as well as the misogyny and other forms of hatred it holds dear…. Antisemitism, I discovered, is a particular and potent form of racism so central to White supremacy that Black people would not win our freedom without tearing it down.”   Music – Barikadn – The Klezmatics, The Specials – Do Nothing, Sublime – April 29, 1992 The Audio Zine ends with a trailer for another member of the Channel Zero Network called Radical People  More Writings and interviews with Eric Ward: The Evolution of Identity Politics: an Interview With Eric Ward Antisemitism at the core of white nationalism

Skin In The Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism by Eric Ward – <a href="https://archive.org/download/SkinInTheGameAudioZine/SkinInTheGame.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> –<a href="https://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/SkinInTheGameAudioZine/Skin%20In%20The%20Game%20imposed.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Print</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/SkinInTheGameAudioZine/SkinInTheGameAudioZine_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/SkinInTheGameAudioZine" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/-1hRT0Zl26k" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> <blockquote> “To recognize that antisemitism is not a sideshow to racism within White nationalist thought is important for at least two reasons. First, it allows us to identify the fuel that White nationalist ideology uses to power its anti-Black racism, its contempt for other people of color, and its xenophobia—as well as the misogyny and other forms of hatred it holds dear…. Antisemitism, I discovered, is a particular and potent form of racism so central to White supremacy that Black people would not win our freedom without tearing it down.” </blockquote> Music – Barikadn – The Klezmatics, The Specials – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmw4CZF6mqs" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Do Nothing</a>, Sublime – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1dPKfxRhk0" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">April 29, 1992</a> The Audio Zine ends with a trailer for another member of the <a href="https://channelzeronetwork.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Channel Zero Network</a> called <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ranger-danger-379084944" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Radical People </a> <h2>More Writings and interviews with Eric Ward:</h2> <a href="https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-evolution-of-identity-politics-an-interview-with-eric-ward/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Evolution of Identity Politics: an Interview With Eric Ward</a> <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Antisemitism-at-the-core-of-white-nationalism-547589" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Antisemitism at the core of white nationalism</a>

Skin In The Game – AudioZine

Les Guérillères – by Monique Wittig  – MP3 – PDF – Torrent – Archive – YouTube Monique Wittig published Les Guerilleres in 1969, at a time when the whole world seemed on the brink of revolutionary change. It is the story of a successful feminist war against patriarchy. It was one of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century both dated and ahead of its time. We include our own introduction and explanation at the beginning of the recording, you can read it here.    “They say, hell, let the earth become a vast hell. So they speak crying and shouting. They say, let my words be like the tempest the thunder the lightning that the mighty release from their height. They say, let me be seen everywhere arms in hand. They say anger hate revolt. They say, hell, let the earth become a vast hell destroying killing and setting fire to the buildings of men, to theatres national assemblies to museums libraries prisons psychiatric hospitals old and new from which they free the slaves.”  Music – Ruth Crawford-Seeger – String Quartet (1931)

Les Guérillères – by Monique Wittig  –<a href="https://archive.org/download/LesGurillresbig/LesGurillres.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/LesGurillresbig/wittig_guerilleres.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/LesGurillresbig/LesGurillresbig_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/LesGurillresbig" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/HQGZncAgwq0" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> Monique Wittig published Les Guerilleres in 1969, at a time when the whole world seemed on the brink of revolutionary change. It is the story of a successful feminist war against patriarchy. It was one of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century both dated and ahead of its time. We include our own introduction and explanation at the beginning of the recording, you can read it <a href="https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/the-words-you-speak-are-killing-you-why-we-recorded-les-guerilleres" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. <blockquote> “They say, hell, let the earth become a vast hell. So they speak crying and shouting. They say, let my words be like the tempest the thunder the lightning that the mighty release from their height. They say, let me be seen everywhere arms in hand. They say anger hate revolt. They say, hell, let the earth become a vast hell destroying killing and setting fire to the buildings of men, to theatres national assemblies to museums libraries prisons psychiatric hospitals old and new from which they free the slaves.” </blockquote> Music – Ruth Crawford-Seeger – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agu5Xo7alIQ" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">String Quartet (1931)</a>

Les Guérillères – AudioZine

We are recording anarchist and related texts and distributing them in audio forms. In this way we hope to make anarchist ideas more accessible and anarchist practice more informed. We may not agree with every word of every text we record but hope that the distribution of these texts in audio form continues lively anarchist discussions and ultimately we hope that those discussions lead us into the streets.resonanceaudiodistro.org

Thanks for all the great zines, I can work and read. I wish there were more!!! Unquiet Dead is my all time fave btw. If you don’t have time or are daunted by the texts available on fascism, this series is well read and thorough. It’s bias is honest and goes far beyond the theoretical tying past present and future of a sick and dying but very real and relevant danger.

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We are recording anarchist and related texts and distributing them in audio forms. In this way we hope to make anarchist ideas more accessible and anarchist practice more informed. We may not agree with every word of every text we record but hope that the distribution of these texts in audio form continues lively anarchist discussions and ultimately we hope that those discussions lead us into the streets. <a href="http://resonanceaudiodistro.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">resonanceaudiodistro.org</a>

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1:37:14 – A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980’s – by Donna Haraway – MP3 – PDF – Text – Torrent – Archive – YouTube “It means both building and destroying machines, identities, categories, relationships, space stories. Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.” This prescient essay, while not written from a specifically anarchist perspective, remains unparalleled in its creative exploration of resistance predicated on a rejection of purity and “the natural.” Haraway’s cyborg transcends notions of intersectionality to trouble essentialism at its root. Her challenge to us–to imaginatively take up power in the course of its rejection–has been answered by many, but adequately refuted by none. While we find this an intentionally anti-essentialist essay, and are aware of Haraway’s history of solidarity with trans women, we must note with regret her use of the term “Phallogocentrism.”

1:37:14 – A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980’s – by Donna Haraway – <a href="https://archive.org/download/ACyborgManifesto/A%20Cyborg%20Manifesto_%20Science,%20Technol.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/ACyborgManifesto/petro-cyborg-imposed.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a> – <a href="https://libcom.org/cyborg-manifesto" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Text</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/ACyborgManifesto/ACyborgManifesto_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/ACyborgManifesto" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/nT4bhRMV298?list=PL0m5XHCzk54f6hmG-ZYdQGAbznzPWdslT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> “It means both building and destroying machines, identities, categories, relationships, space stories. Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.” This prescient essay, while not written from a specifically anarchist perspective, remains unparalleled in its creative exploration of resistance predicated on a rejection of purity and “the natural.” Haraway’s cyborg transcends notions of intersectionality to trouble essentialism at its root. Her challenge to us–to imaginatively take up power in the course of its rejection–has been answered by many, but adequately refuted by none. While we find this an intentionally anti-essentialist essay, and are aware of Haraway’s history of solidarity with trans women, we must note with regret her use of the term “Phallogocentrism.”

Cyborg Manifesto – AudioZine

5:09:51 – To Our Friends – By The Invisible Committee – MP3 –Read – Print – Archive – Torrent – YouTube Click Here for a chapterized version From The Invisible Committee: “In 2007 we published The Coming Insurrection in France. It must be acknowledged that a number of assertions by the Invisible Committee have since been confirmed, starting with the first and most essential: the sensational return of the insurrectionary phenomenon. Who would have bet a kopeck, seven years ago, on the overthrow of Ben Ali or Mubarak through street action, on the revolt of young people in Quebec, on the political awakening of Brazil, on the fires set French-style in the English or Swedish banlieues, on the creation of an insurrectionary commune in the very heart of Istanbul, on a movement of plaza occupations in the United States, or on the rebellion that spread throughout Greece in December of 2008? During the seven years that separate The Coming Insurrection from To Our Friends, the agents of the Invisible Committee have continued to fight, to organize, to transport themselves to the four corners of the world, to wherever the fires were lit, and to debate with comrades of every tendency and every country. Thus To Our Friends is written at the experiential level, in connection with that general movement. Its words issue from the turmoil and are addressed to those who still believe sufficiently in life to fight as a consequence. To Our Friends is a report on the state of the world and of the movement, a piece of writing that’s essentially strategic and openly partisan. Its political ambition is immodest: to produce a shared understanding of the epoch, in spite of the extreme confusion of the present.” Review by anarchist prisoner Sean Swain Zines for the first five chapters are available here: 1 2 3 4 5  from Ruine des Kapitals Full text available at The Anarchist Library *08/08/15 Sound Quality Improved

5:09:51 – To Our Friends – By The Invisible Committee – <a href="https://archive.org/download/01ToOurFriends/ToOurFriends.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> –<a href="https://archive.org/download/01ToOurFriends/InvisibleCommittee-ToOurFriends-iweFinalread.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/01ToOurFriends/InvisibleCommittee-ToOurFriends-iweFinalprint.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Print</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/01ToOurFriends" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/01ToOurFriends/01ToOurFriends_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0m5XHCzk54cY-H_Gm3ADfasePmoLyN9Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/toourfriends" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click Here</a> for a chapterized version From The Invisible Committee: “In 2007 we published The Coming Insurrection in France. It must be acknowledged that a number of assertions by the Invisible Committee have since been confirmed, starting with the first and most essential: the sensational return of the insurrectionary phenomenon. Who would have bet a kopeck, seven years ago, on the overthrow of Ben Ali or Mubarak through street action, on the revolt of young people in Quebec, on the political awakening of Brazil, on the fires set French-style in the English or Swedish banlieues, on the creation of an insurrectionary commune in the very heart of Istanbul, on a movement of plaza occupations in the United States, or on the rebellion that spread throughout Greece in December of 2008? During the seven years that separate The Coming Insurrection from To Our Friends, the agents of the Invisible Committee have continued to fight, to organize, to transport themselves to the four corners of the world, to wherever the fires were lit, and to debate with comrades of every tendency and every country. Thus To Our Friends is written at the experiential level, in connection with that general movement. Its words issue from the turmoil and are addressed to those who still believe sufficiently in life to fight as a consequence. To Our Friends is a report on the state of the world and of the movement, a piece of writing that’s essentially strategic and openly partisan. Its political ambition is immodest: to produce a shared understanding of the epoch, in spite of the extreme confusion of the present.” <a href="http://seanswain.org/to-our-friends/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Review</a> by anarchist prisoner Sean Swain Zines for the first five chapters are available here: <a href="https://archive.org/download/toourfriends/merrycrisisIMP.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1</a> <a href="https://archive.org/download/toourfriends/theywanttoobligeustogovernIMPbw.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2</a> <a href="https://archive.org/download/toourfriends/PowerIsLogisticIMP.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3</a> <a href="https://archive.org/download/toourfriends/fuckoffgoogleIMP.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">4</a> <a href="https://archive.org/download/toourfriends/fuckoffgoogleIMP.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">5</a>  from <a href="http://ruinsofcapital.noblogs.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ruine des Kapitals</a> Full text available at <a href="http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-invisible-committe-to-our-friends" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Anarchist Library</a> *08/08/15 Sound Quality Improved

To Our Friends – AudioZine

1:01:40 – We Demand Nothing – By Johann Kaspar – MP3 – Text – PDF – Archive – Torrent – YouTube Originally published in ‘Fire to the Prisons’ (Issue 7), Autumn 2009. “The refusal to demand allows for the abstraction of capital to reveal itself, no longer covered up in the mysticism of word-games, i.e., we are fighting for right x because of need y based on condition z. That structure will never challenge the basis of the needs and conditions themselves. The undemanding struggle is not for anything, it is a position, a stance, a risk to become a subject of one’s own activity; until then, we are nothing but objects of capital, things moved around to work, vote, and reproduce. Capital is personified in our actions (work, consume, repeat), and the state is personified in our words (rights, justice, freedom). To refuse both personifications means to destroy the form of Man which capital and state need for their reality, that form is the proletariat and the citizen, the worker and the activist, the entrepreneur and the poet.”

1:01:40 – We Demand Nothing – By Johann Kaspar – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WeDemandNothing/We%20Demand%20Nothing.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/johann-kaspar-we-demand-nothing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Text</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WeDemandNothing/we%20damand%20nothing%20-print.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/WeDemandNothing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WeDemandNothing/WeDemandNothing_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="http://youtu.be/GKxnaC_swR4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> Originally published in ‘<a href="https://firetotheprisons.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fire to the Prisons</a>’ (Issue 7), Autumn 2009. “The refusal to demand allows for the abstraction of capital to reveal itself, no longer covered up in the mysticism of word-games, i.e., we are fighting for right x because of need y based on condition z. That structure will never challenge the basis of the needs and conditions themselves. The undemanding struggle is not for anything, it is a position, a stance, a risk to become a subject of one’s own activity; until then, we are nothing but objects of capital, things moved around to work, vote, and reproduce. Capital is personified in our actions (work, consume, repeat), and the state is personified in our words (rights, justice, freedom). To refuse both personifications means to destroy the form of Man which capital and state need for their reality, that form is the proletariat and the citizen, the worker and the activist, the entrepreneur and the poet.”

We Demand Nothing – AudioZine

Another Word for White Ally is Coward – From Anti-State STL – MP3 – Print – Archive – Torrent – YouTube “The concept of the White Ally is bankrupt. One cannot be an ally to a category of people. To speak the words “I am a White Ally to people of color” is to commit an act of double speak, to internalize non-sense. There is no singular black voice that can be listened to, no authentic community leadership which to follow. There are only many different people with different ideas, life experiences and perspectives. To think otherwise, to think that all black people share a common opinion is extremely problematic, one might even say racist. One can be an ally to individuals though there are other words in the English language which describe this relationship with more grace: friend, lover, partner and sometimes cellmate or co-defendant.”    Music: Lil Boosie – Fuck the Police Ft. Webbie For more writing from anarchists and others on the Furguson Uprising go Anti- State STL and check out the zine Dispatches From Ferguson Vol. 1

Another Word for White Ally is Coward – <a href="https://antistatestl.noblogs.org/post/2015/08/21/another-word-for-white-ally-is-coward/#comments" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">From Anti-State STL</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/AnotherWordForWhiteAllyIsCoward/Another%20Word%20for%20White%20Ally%20is%20Coward.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/AnotherWordForWhiteAllyIsCoward/whiteallyimp.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Print</a> –<a href="https://archive.org/details/AnotherWordForWhiteAllyIsCoward" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/AnotherWordForWhiteAllyIsCoward/AnotherWordForWhiteAllyIsCoward_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/BLzol4O5UKQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> “The concept of the White Ally is bankrupt. One cannot be an ally to a category of people. To speak the words “I am a White Ally to people of color” is to commit an act of double speak, to internalize non-sense. There is no singular black voice that can be listened to, no authentic community leadership which to follow. There are only many different people with different ideas, life experiences and perspectives. To think otherwise, to think that all black people share a common opinion is extremely problematic, one might even say racist. One can be an ally to individuals though there are other words in the English language which describe this relationship with more grace: friend, lover, partner and sometimes cellmate or co-defendant.” Music: Lil Boosie – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEfGqxc7WbA" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Fuck the Police Ft. Webbie</a> For more writing from anarchists and others on the Furguson Uprising go <a href="https://antistatestl.noblogs.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anti- State STL </a>and check out the zine <a href="https://antistatestl.noblogs.org/files/2014/08/fergusondispatchfinal.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dispatches From Ferguson Vol. 1</a>

Another Word for White Ally is Coward – AudioZine

An Open Letter to Those Who Condemn Looting – By Evan Calder Williams – MP3 – Read – Print – Archive – Torrent – YouTube This text was written in August of 2011 shortly after police shot and killed a black man named Mark Duggan in North London. In the days that followed tensions between police and disaffected youth exploded into wide spread rioting and looting, Many on the left condemned the rioters. The text that follows continues to be relevant because the police will continue to kill people of color , people will continue to respond and the left will continue to condemn them for it. We hope this audio production of this pamphlet will contribute to this tension until the police are no more.  “… buried beneath the attack on the ‘crass materialism’ of the looting is a nastier worm, that of distance and sheen, that supports critique and dissent precisely to the degree it remains irrelevant and immaterial, that it is to be seen and heard and not ever felt.”   Musical interludes – Burnin and Lootin by Bob Marley    “You say of these riots, and this looting, that they are opportunistic. That they are unreasonable and stupid. That ‘this isn’t a protest, this is a riot.’ That they are ‘not political.’ That “this is about individuals using the excuse of what happened the first two nights to make sure what happens the third night is worse.’ That this is ‘havoc.’ That this is ‘criminality pure and simple.’ That they do not ‘have the right” to do this. That ‘no benefit will come in the long term,’ from ‘looting a local shop,’ ‘setting a bus on fire,’ or ‘nicking a mobile phone.’ Above all, as you, Home Secretary put it, ‘There is no excuse for violence. There is no excuse for looting.’ And we agree.”   This text was originally published on Socialism and/or Barbarism in two parts (1 &amp; 2) a third follow up,  Coda to an open letter,  was published  later but not included in the zine nor our audio recording.

An Open Letter to Those Who Condemn Looting – By Evan Calder Williams – <a href="https://archive.org/download/AnOpenLetterToThoseWhoCondemnLooting/An%20Open%20Letter%20to%20Those%20Who%20Condemn%20Looting.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="http://www.metamute.org/community/your-posts/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn-looting-two-parts" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/AnOpenLetterToThoseWhoCondemnLooting/open-letter-those-who-condemn-looting-evan-calder-williams-1.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Print </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/details/AnOpenLetterToThoseWhoCondemnLooting" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/download/AnOpenLetterToThoseWhoCondemnLooting/AnOpenLetterToThoseWhoCondemnLooting_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent </a>– <a href="https://youtu.be/vCtUmnv_2wo" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> This text was written in August of 2011 shortly after police shot and killed a black man named Mark Duggan in North London. In the days that followed tensions between police and disaffected youth exploded into wide spread rioting and looting, Many on the left condemned the rioters. The text that follows continues to be relevant because the police will continue to kill people of color , people will continue to respond and the left will continue to condemn them for it. We hope this audio production of this pamphlet will contribute to this tension until the police are no more. <blockquote> “… buried beneath the attack on the ‘crass materialism’ of the looting is a nastier worm, that of distance and sheen, that supports critique and dissent precisely to the degree it remains irrelevant and immaterial, that it is to be seen and heard and not ever felt.” </blockquote> Musical interludes – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M99nzyiS830" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Burnin and Lootin</a> by Bob Marley <blockquote> “You say of these riots, and this looting, that they are opportunistic. That they are unreasonable and stupid. That ‘this isn’t a protest, this is a riot.’ That they are ‘not political.’ That “this is about individuals using the excuse of what happened the first two nights to make sure what happens the third night is worse.’ That this is ‘havoc.’ That this is ‘criminality pure and simple.’ That they do not ‘have the right” to do this. That ‘no benefit will come in the long term,’ from ‘looting a local shop,’ ‘setting a bus on fire,’ or ‘nicking a mobile phone.’ Above all, as you, Home Secretary put it, ‘There is no excuse for violence. There is no excuse for looting.’ And we agree.” </blockquote> This text was originally published on <a href="http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Socialism and/or Barbarism</a> in two parts (<a href="https://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1</a> &amp; <a href="https://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn_10.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2</a>) a third follow up,  <a href="https://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/coda-to-open-letter.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coda to an open letter</a>,  was published  later but not included in the zine nor our audio recording.

An Open Letter to Those Who Condemn Looting – AudioZine

1:01:05 – At Daggers Drawn: With The Existent, It’s Defenders and It’s False Critics – By Anonymous – MP3 – Read – Print – Torrent – Archive – YouTube Click here for a chapterized version  “We can choose not to live. That is the most beautiful reason for opening oneself up to life with joy. ‘There is always time to put an end to things; one might as well rebel and play’ — is how the materialism of joy talks. We can choose not to act, and that is the most beautiful reason for acting. We bear within ourselves the potency of all the acts we are capable of, and no boss will ever be able to deprive us of the possibility of saying no. What we are and what we want begins with a no. From it is born the only reason for getting up in the morning. From it is born the only reason for going armed to the assault of an order that is suffocating us. On the one hand there is the existent, with its habits and certainties. And of certainty, that social poison, one can die. On the other hand there is insurrection, the unknown bursting into the life of all. The possible beginning of an exaggerated practice of freedom.” Another reading of At Daggers Drawn from Friendship as a Form of Life is available Here

1:01:05 – At Daggers Drawn: With The Existent, It’s Defenders and It’s False Critics – By Anonymous – <a href="https://archive.org/download/AtDaggersDrawnFull/At%20Daggers%20Drawn%20-%20Full.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/0706VIAtDaggersDrawn/At%20Daggers%20Drawn%20(Read).pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/0706VIAtDaggersDrawn/At%20Daggers%20Drawn%20(Print)%20.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Print</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/AtDaggersDrawnFull/AtDaggersDrawnFull_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/AtDaggersDrawnFull" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/PgWU-BfUpe8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/0706VIAtDaggersDrawn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a chapterized version “We can choose not to live. That is the most beautiful reason for opening oneself up to life with joy. ‘There is always time to put an end to things; one might as well rebel and play’ — is how the materialism of joy talks. We can choose not to act, and that is the most beautiful reason for acting. We bear within ourselves the potency of all the acts we are capable of, and no boss will ever be able to deprive us of the possibility of saying no. What we are and what we want begins with a no. From it is born the only reason for getting up in the morning. From it is born the only reason for going armed to the assault of an order that is suffocating us. On the one hand there is the existent, with its habits and certainties. And of certainty, that social poison, one can die. On the other hand there is insurrection, the unknown bursting into the life of all. The possible beginning of an exaggerated practice of freedom.” Another reading of At Daggers Drawn from <a href="http://friendship-as-a-form-of-life.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Friendship as a Form of Life</a> is available <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/6is1uvms6yqqvyd/At%20Daggers%20Drawn.zip" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Here</a>

At Daggers Drawn – AudioZine

1:38:37 – Armed Joy – By Alfredo M. Bonanno – MP3 – Read – PDF – Torrent – Archive – YouTube “‘Do it yourself.’ Don’t break up the global aspect of play by reducing it to roles. Defend your right to enjoy life. Obstruct capital’s death project. The latter can only enter the world of creativity and play by transforming who is playing into a “player’ the living creator into a dead person who cheats themselves into believing they are alive.” Recorded by Birds Of Fire

1:38:37 – Armed Joy – By Alfredo M. Bonanno – <a href="https://archive.org/download/ArmedJoy/Armed%20Joy.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/ArmedJoy/armed-joy-imposed.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/ArmedJoy/ArmedJoy_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/ArmedJoy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/OCG2Hjss_-o" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> “‘Do it yourself.’ Don’t break up the global aspect of play by reducing it to roles. Defend your right to enjoy life. Obstruct capital’s death project. The latter can only enter the world of creativity and play by transforming who is playing into a “player’ the living creator into a dead person who cheats themselves into believing they are alive.” Recorded by Birds Of Fire

Armed Joy – AudioZine

38:22 – Life Without Law: An Introduction to Anarchist Politics – By Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness – MP3 – Read – PDF – Torrent – Archive – YouTube “An anarchist is someone who rejects the domination of one person or class of people over another. Anarchism is a very broad umbrella term for a group of political philosophies that are based on the idea that we can live as anarchists. We anarchists want a world without nations, governments, capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia… without any of the numerous, intersecting systems of domination the world bears the weight of today.”

38:22 – Life Without Law: An Introduction to Anarchist Politics – By Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness – <a href="https://archive.org/download/LifeWithoutLaw/Life%20Without%20Law.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="http://www.tangledwilderness.org/life-without-law/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/LifeWithoutLaw/lifewithoutlaw-letter.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/LifeWithoutLaw/LifeWithoutLaw_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/LifeWithoutLaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/_SBGAXDtdbM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> “An anarchist is someone who rejects the domination of one person or class of people over another. Anarchism is a very broad umbrella term for a group of political philosophies that are based on the idea that we can live as anarchists. We anarchists want a world without nations, governments, capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia… without any of the numerous, intersecting systems of domination the world bears the weight of today.”

Life Without Law – AudioZine

The Faggots &amp; Their Friends Between Revolutions – by Larry Mitchell – MP3 – Read – Torrent – Archive – YouTube In a joyous and perverse intermingling of fable, myth, heterotopian vision, and pocket wisdom, The Faggots and Their Friends tell us stories of the 70s gay countercultures and offer us strategies and wisdom for our own time living between revolutions. From the 2016 introduction:  “These pages sketch a different shape to time and offer instructions for living within it. This story, like our own, plays out in liminal time. Not the time of revolution, and not after-the-revolution, the story occurs between revolutions. Being between revolutions: being enmeshed in slow entropy, in abandoned spaces, in lives forged without recourse to ‘winning’ or ‘after’. The faggots feel this disintegration, and live best when empires are falling.”  First published in 1977 by Calamus Books, this Radical Faerie classic was reprinted last year.  “This is possibly the sweetest gay fantasy book written during the magical post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS epoch. It’s a series of poems/stories about fairy men living in a community, spending time together, wearing spangles, and mocking straight society. “ – a comment on Goodreads  Musical interludes: False Moon by Them Are Us Too

The Faggots &amp; Their Friends Between Revolutions – by Larry Mitchell – <a href="https://archive.org/download/Faggotsandfriends/Faggots%20and%20Their%20Friends.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/Faggotsandfriends/FaggotsAndFriends.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/Faggotsandfriends/Faggotsandfriends_archive.torrent" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/details/Faggotsandfriends" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/l4ZnvU34i0s?list=PL0m5XHCzk54f4NU-fpJorGMIu_5H1K-YP" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> In a joyous and perverse intermingling of fable, myth, heterotopian vision, and pocket wisdom, The Faggots and Their Friends tell us stories of the 70s gay countercultures and offer us strategies and wisdom for our own time living between revolutions. From the 2016 introduction: <blockquote> “These pages sketch a different shape to time and offer instructions for living within it. This story, like our own, plays out in liminal time. Not the time of revolution, and not after-the-revolution, the story occurs between revolutions. Being between revolutions: being enmeshed in slow entropy, in abandoned spaces, in lives forged without recourse to ‘winning’ or ‘after’. The faggots feel this disintegration, and live best when empires are falling.” </blockquote> First published in 1977 by Calamus Books, this Radical Faerie classic was <a href="http://littleblackcart.com/books/culture/the-faggots-and-their-friends-between-revolutions/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">reprinted</a> last year. <blockquote> “This is possibly the sweetest gay fantasy book written during the magical post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS epoch. It’s a series of poems/stories about fairy men living in a community, spending time together, wearing spangles, and mocking straight society. “ – a comment on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32560694-the-faggots-their-friends-between-revolutions" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> </blockquote> Musical interludes: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo4Y1RhqkTY" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">False Moon</a> by Them Are Us Too

Faggots & Their Friends – AudioZine

59:59 -Two essays, Insurrectionary Anarchy Organising for Attack! (Text) and Without a Trace(Text), from issue #10 of Do or Die – MP3 – PDF – Archive – Torrent – YouTube  “Insurrectionary anarchism is not an ideological solution to social problems, nor a commodity on the capitalist market of ideologies and opinions. Rather it is an on-going practice aimed at putting an end to the domination of the state and the continuance of capitalism, which requires analysis and discussion to advance. Historically, most anarchists, except those who believed that society would evolve to the point that it would leave the state behind, have believed that some sort of insurrectionary activity would be necessary to radically transform society. Most simply, this means that the state has to be knocked out of existence by the exploited and excluded, thus anarchists must attack: waiting for the state to disappear is defeat.”  Musical interludes New Noise by Refused For another formatting of this zine click here

59:59 -Two essays, Insurrectionary Anarchy Organising for Attack! (<a href="http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no10/anarchy.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Text</a>) and Without a Trace(<a href="http://eco-action.org/dod/no10/trace.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Text</a>), from issue #10 of <a href="http://www.eco-action.org/dod/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Do or Die</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/IAOrganizingForAttack/IA%20Organizing%20for%20Attack.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://ia801503.us.archive.org/12/items/IAOrganizingForAttack/InsurrectionaryAnarchy-organisingForAttack.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/IAOrganizingForAttack" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/IAOrganizingForAttack/IAOrganizingForAttack_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/e_HJLU3_rh4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> <blockquote> “Insurrectionary anarchism is not an ideological solution to social problems, nor a commodity on the capitalist market of ideologies and opinions. Rather it is an on-going practice aimed at putting an end to the domination of the state and the continuance of capitalism, which requires analysis and discussion to advance. Historically, most anarchists, except those who believed that society would evolve to the point that it would leave the state behind, have believed that some sort of insurrectionary activity would be necessary to radically transform society. Most simply, this means that the state has to be knocked out of existence by the exploited and excluded, thus anarchists must attack: waiting for the state to disappear is defeat.” </blockquote> Musical interludes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkAe30aEG5c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Noise</a> by Refused For another formatting of this zine click <a href="https://ia801503.us.archive.org/12/items/IAOrganizingForAttack/Insurrectionary%20org.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>

Insurrectionary Anarchy Organising for Attack! – AudioZine

The Unquiet Dead: Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology – Chapter 1. Fascist Ideology in Germany and Further – MP3 – Read – Print – Archive – Torrent – YouTube This is the second installment of a book-length piece, The Unquiet Dead. The full text is available at unquietdead.tumblr.com; we will be posting recordings of other chapters in the future.  “Finally, we must preserve our ability to remember and mourn our dead, and fight for a world in which both their choices and ours are real ones. Attacking these elements of human experience was an innovation of the fascists. “His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never really existed… Totalitarian terror achieved its most terrible triumph when it succeeded… in making the decisions of conscience absolutely questionable and equivocal. When a man is faced with the alternative of betraying and thus murdering his friends or of sending his wife and children, for whom he is in every sense responsible, to their deaths; when even suicide would mean the immediate murder of his own family—how is he to decide? Who could solve the moral dilemma of the Greek mother who was allowed by the Nazis to choose which of her three children should be killed?” When our enemies give us such choices, our only possible response is communal defiance.”     “In Nazi Germany, questioning the validity of racism and antisemitism… was like questioning the existence of the world.” — Hannah Arendt  Musical Interlude The Valkyrie, III: “Magic Fire Music” – By Wagner

The Unquiet Dead: Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology – Chapter 1. Fascist Ideology in Germany and Further – <a href="https://archive.org/download/UnquietDeadCh1/UnquietDeadCh1.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/UnquietDeadCh1/chapter1zine.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/UnquietDeadCh1/chapter1zineimposed.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Print</a> –<a href="https://archive.org/details/UnquietDeadCh1" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Archive</a> –<a href="https://archive.org/download/UnquietDeadCh1/UnquietDeadCh1_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Torrent</a> – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0m5XHCzk54dubWwgFQeOKOoOWjBHph8i" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> This is the second installment of a book-length piece, The Unquiet Dead. The full text is available at <a href="http://unquietdead.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">unquietdead.tumblr.com</a>; we will be posting recordings of other chapters in the future. <blockquote> “Finally, we must preserve our ability to remember and mourn our dead, and fight for a world in which both their choices and ours are real ones. Attacking these elements of human experience was an innovation of the fascists. “His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never really existed… Totalitarian terror achieved its most terrible triumph when it succeeded… in making the decisions of conscience absolutely questionable and equivocal. When a man is faced with the alternative of betraying and thus murdering his friends or of sending his wife and children, for whom he is in every sense responsible, to their deaths; when even suicide would mean the immediate murder of his own family—how is he to decide? Who could solve the moral dilemma of the Greek mother who was allowed by the Nazis to choose which of her three children should be killed?” When our enemies give us such choices, our only possible response is communal defiance.” </blockquote> <blockquote> “In Nazi Germany, questioning the validity of racism and antisemitism… was like questioning the existence of the world.” — Hannah Arendt </blockquote> Musical Interlude <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i0TnNI6U-w&amp;t=1130s" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Valkyrie, III: “Magic Fire Music”</a> – By Wagner

The Unquiet Dead Chapter 1 – AudioZine

2:26:48 – Incognito: Experiences That Defy Identification – By Anonymous – MP3 – PDF – Read – Torrent – Archive – YouTube Click Here for a chapterized version Ever wondered what it would be like to be underground? Here is a series of real-life tales of what it is like, how people made the decision, what is hardest about it, and, perhaps surprisingly, how it is awesome. A lesser-known title from Elephant Editions. “How much luck will you have in the race against time. How many moves do you have left to play. You ask yourself this and the answer reveals that the various paths are all but exhausted. The next step, a crossroads, unexpected slopes and your road shows itself with all the evidence and certainty that allows you to go ahead.”

2:26:48 – Incognito: Experiences That Defy Identification – By Anonymous – <a href="https://archive.org/download/IncognitoFull/Incognito%20(Full).mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/IncognitoFull/anonymous-incognito.lt.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a> – <a href="http://digitalelephant.blogspot.com/2010/08/incognito.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/IncognitoFull/IncognitoFull_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/IncognitoFull" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0m5XHCzk54f3u4VL4VkbRdqCABcUiksf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/07GettingRidOfFrustration" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click Here</a> for a chapterized version Ever wondered what it would be like to be underground? Here is a series of real-life tales of what it is like, how people made the decision, what is hardest about it, and, perhaps surprisingly, how it is awesome. A lesser-known title from Elephant Editions. “How much luck will you have in the race against time. How many moves do you have left to play. You ask yourself this and the answer reveals that the various paths are all but exhausted. The next step, a crossroads, unexpected slopes and your road shows itself with all the evidence and certainty that allows you to go ahead.”

Incognito – AudioZine

The Unquiet Dead: Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology. Chapter 4. The White Goddess: Essentialism and the Land – by anonymous  – MP3 – Read – Print – Archive – Torrent – YouTube Chapter four of this multipart series discusses appropriation and essentialism in white feminist spirituality and/or white environmentalist circles. The full text is available at unquietdead.tumblr.com; we will be posting recordings of other chapters in the future.    “I have felt troubled for some time over some white feminist practice and advocacy of essentialist ‘nature spiritualities.’ This tendency is certainly not limited to feminists, but I find it most upsetting as it is performed by them—the political deployment of a belief structure under the premise of sisterhood can be insidious. If we are against fascism, we must ask in what ways we are replicating its themes in our struggle for freedom, and how may we fight that tendency. I write not as part of a relentless drift towards inertia, the enforcement of identity politics that prevents movement; rather, I want to examine the real friction present between white feminists and those they are trying to save. Essentialism has poisoned our common well for too long.”  Musical interludes – Sleater-Kinney – Stay Where You Are  “When the Goddess becomes a white woman, is She any less terrifying than the Christian God—and if so, is that not a reaffirmation of essentialist misogyny? How can we approach issues of gender, race, spirituality and the “natural world” without reinforcing the oppressive constructs inherent in each? How can white people show real solidarity to those with marginalized histories, the kind of solidarity that changes our mutual present? How can people of color engaged in resistance to white supremacy and efforts towards self-actualization be recognized in ways that do not prop up racial difference or assimilationist enclosure?”  You can also listen to the Cyborg Manifesto, which is discussed in this text.

The Unquiet Dead: Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology. Chapter 4. The White Goddess: Essentialism and the Land – by anonymous  – <a href="https://archive.org/download/UnquietDeadChapter4/Unquiet%20Dead%20Chapter%204.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/UnquietDeadChapter4/chapter4zine.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/UnquietDeadChapter4/chapter4zineimposed.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Print </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/details/UnquietDeadChapter4" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/UnquietDeadChapter4/UnquietDeadChapter4_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/rBitWH0HIC4?list=PL0m5XHCzk54e9XE7r9Q-ic8A0Gh726uu2" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> Chapter four of this multipart series discusses appropriation and essentialism in white feminist spirituality and/or white environmentalist circles. The full text is available at <a href="http://unquietdead.tumblr.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">unquietdead.tumblr.com</a>; we will be posting recordings of other chapters in the future. <blockquote> “I have felt troubled for some time over some white feminist practice and advocacy of essentialist ‘nature spiritualities.’ This tendency is certainly not limited to feminists, but I find it most upsetting as it is performed by them—the political deployment of a belief structure under the premise of sisterhood can be insidious. If we are against fascism, we must ask in what ways we are replicating its themes in our struggle for freedom, and how may we fight that tendency. I write not as part of a relentless drift towards inertia, the enforcement of identity politics that prevents movement; rather, I want to examine the real friction present between white feminists and those they are trying to save. Essentialism has poisoned our common well for too long.” </blockquote> Musical interludes – Sleater-Kinney – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlnZ42SICYA" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Stay Where You Are</a> <blockquote> “When the Goddess becomes a white woman, is She any less terrifying than the Christian God—and if so, is that not a reaffirmation of essentialist misogyny? How can we approach issues of gender, race, spirituality and the “natural world” without reinforcing the oppressive constructs inherent in each? How can white people show real solidarity to those with marginalized histories, the kind of solidarity that changes our mutual present? How can people of color engaged in resistance to white supremacy and efforts towards self-actualization be recognized in ways that do not prop up racial difference or assimilationist enclosure?” </blockquote> You can also listen to the <a href="https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2015/12/27/cyborg-manifesto-audiozine/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Cyborg Manifesto</a>, which is discussed in this text.

The Unquiet Dead Ch4 – AudioZine

Undoing Sex: against sexual optimism – by c.e. – MP3 – Read – Print – Archive – Torrent – YouTube *This zine contains discussion of sexual assault* “Undoing Sex” is a critique of sex-positivity that both draws upon and completely transcends second-wave feminist critiques. The essay explores the metaphysical quandaries faced by the “not-man” in their engagement with and survival of sex. Centering sex negativity in a transgender, queer experience of how the image of sexual pleasure and health is produced, marketed, and consumed by people of all genders, the text brings Marx, Foucault, Afropessimism, and other currently useful theories to bear upon the sexual impasse many (all?) of us face. It offers no prescriptive conclusions, but rather to speaks an array of inadequate coping strategies. We recommend it for all those who choose to have sex, for all those who choose to not have sex, and for those who feel that “choice” is not an adequate word. Musical interludes – La Roux – In For The Kill  We must avoid falling into this trap, and so must always keep in mind that the celibate body is no purer, no more feminist, no less exploited. Just as a refusal to eat meat makes no change to the material basis of industrial agriculture, our refusals to fuck, much as our desires to fuck in different ways, don’t crack the material base of patriarchy. They may engender a better quality of life or more agency for individuals or communities, but these liberal models of “resistance” offer nothing in the way of a total break. This is the impasse faced by radical feminism: gestures proliferate but they only ever point towards the abolition of gender, glancing so close but never reaching the moment of Truth.

Undoing Sex: against sexual optimism – by c.e. – <a href="https://archive.org/download/UndoingSex/Undoing%20Sex.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="http://www.liesjournal.net/volume1-02-undoingsex.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/UndoingSex/negate-city-undoing-sex-1.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Print</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/UndoingSex" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> –<a href="https://archive.org/download/UndoingSex/UndoingSex_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Torrent</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/pfTIZqZLoGs" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> *This zine contains discussion of sexual assault* “Undoing Sex” is a critique of sex-positivity that both draws upon and completely transcends second-wave feminist critiques. The essay explores the metaphysical quandaries faced by the “not-man” in their engagement with and survival of sex. Centering sex negativity in a transgender, queer experience of how the image of sexual pleasure and health is produced, marketed, and consumed by people of all genders, the text brings Marx, Foucault, Afropessimism, and other currently useful theories to bear upon the sexual impasse many (all?) of us face. It offers no prescriptive conclusions, but rather to speaks an array of inadequate coping strategies. We recommend it for all those who choose to have sex, for all those who choose to not have sex, and for those who feel that “choice” is not an adequate word. Musical interludes – La Roux –<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXtATeQ7GKg" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> In For The Kill</a> <blockquote> We must avoid falling into this trap, and so must always keep in mind that the celibate body is no purer, no more feminist, no less exploited. Just as a refusal to eat meat makes no change to the material basis of industrial agriculture, our refusals to fuck, much as our desires to fuck in different ways, don’t crack the material base of patriarchy. They may engender a better quality of life or more agency for individuals or communities, but these liberal models of “resistance” offer nothing in the way of a total break. This is the impasse faced by radical feminism: gestures proliferate but they only ever point towards the abolition of gender, glancing so close but never reaching the moment of Truth.</blockquote>

Undoing Sex – AudioZine

Witches, Midwives &amp; Nurses: A History of Women Healers – By Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English – MP3 – Read – PDF – alt PDF – Archive – Torrent – YouTube Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This audio zine explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States. The authors conclude that despite efforts to exclude them, the resurgence of women as healers should be a long-range goal of the women’s movement. Originally published in 1973, this text offers a good brief analysis of the history of patriarchy as it relates to the medical establishment. However, it has some blind spots around Eurocentrism and intersectionality. Musical Interludes – Stevie Nicks – Gate and Garden   Bibliography (not included in AudioZine) -The Manufacture of Madness, by Thomas Szasz, M.D., Delta Books, 1971. Szasz asserts that institutional phychiatry is the modern version of the witch-hunts, with the patient in the role of the witch. We are indebted to him for first presenting witchcraft in the context of the struggle between professionals and lay healers. See especially the chapter on “The Witch as Healer.” -Satanism and Witchcraft, by Jules Michelet. The Citadel Press, 1939. A mid-nineteenth century work by a famous French historian. A vivid book on the Middle Ages, superstition and the Church, with a discussion of “satan as physician.” -The Malleus Maleficarum, by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, translated by Rev. Montague Summers. The Pushkin Press, London, 1928. Difficult medieval writing, but by far the best source for the day-to-day operations of the witch-hunts, and for insights into the mentality of the witch-hunter. -The History of Witchcraft and Demonology, by Rev. Montague Summers. University Books, New York, 1956. Written in the 1920’s by a Catholic priest and defender-really! -of the witch-hunts. Attacks the witch as “heretic,” “anarchist,” and “bawd.” Witchcraft, by Pennethrone Hughes. Penguin Books, 1952. A general introduction and survey. -Women Healers in Medieval Life and Literature, by Muriel Joy Hughes. Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York, 1943. A conservatively written book, with good information on the state of academic medicine and on women lay doctors and midwives. Unfortunately, it dismisses the whole question of witchcraft. The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, by Margaret Alice Murray. Oxford University Press, 1921. Dr. Murray was the first person to present the anthropological view, now widely accepted, that witchcraft represented, in part, the survival among the people of a pre-Christian religion. -A Mirror of Witchcraft, by Christina Hole. Chatto and Windus, London, 1957. A source-book of extracts from trial reports and other writings, mostly from English witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries. -The Formation of the American Medical Profession: The Role of Institutions, 1780-1860, by Joseph Kett. Yale University Press, 1968. Conservative point of view, but full of scattered information on lay healers. He discusses the politically radical nature of the -Popular Health Movement in Chapter Four. Medicine in Americe: Historical Essays, by Richard H. Shryock. , Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. A readable, wide-ranging and fairly liberal book. See especially the chapters on “Women in American -Medicine” and The Popular Health Movement.” American Medicine and the Public Interest, by Rosemary Stevens. Yale University Press 1971. Long and dry, but useful for the early chapters on the formation of the American medical profession and the role of the foundations. -Medical Education in the US and Canada, by Abraham Flexner, Carnegie Foundation, 1910. (Available from University Microfilms,Ltd., Ann Arbor.) The famous “Flexner Report” that changed the face of American medical education. Some reasonable proposals, but amazing elitism, racism and sexism. -The History of Nursing, by Richard Shryock. N.B. Saunders, 1959. Better-than most nursing histories-which are usually glorifications of nursing by nursing educators-but much worse than Shyrock’s medical histories. -Lonely Crusader: The Life of Florence Nightingale, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. McGraw Hill, 1951. A richly detailed biography which puts nursing in the context of the oppression of upper class Victorian women. -Glances and Glimpses, by Harriet K. Hunt. Source Book Press, 1970. Rambling autobiography of a feminist and “irregular” woman doctor of the mid-19th century. It’s useful for its descriptions of the state of medical practice at the time. -“The American Midwife Controversy: A Crisis of Professionalization,” by Frances E. Kobrin. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, July-August 1966, p. 350. Restrained and scholarly account of the outlawing of American midwives. Very worthwhile reading.

Witches, Midwives &amp; Nurses: A History of Women Healers – By Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WitchesMidwivesAndNursesAudioZine/WitchesMidwivesAndNurses.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WitchesMidwivesAndNursesAudioZine/Witches%20Midwives%20and%20Nurses%20%28Read%29.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WitchesMidwivesAndNursesAudioZine/Witches%2C%20Midwives%20and%20Nurses%20%28Print%29.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WitchesMidwivesAndNursesAudioZine/witches-midwives-and-nurses%20%28Print%29.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">alt PDF</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/WitchesMidwivesAndNursesAudioZine" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WitchesMidwivesAndNursesAudioZine/WitchesMidwivesAndNursesAudioZine_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/cF_M-9iBIFM" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This audio zine explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States. The authors conclude that despite efforts to exclude them, the resurgence of women as healers should be a long-range goal of the women’s movement. Originally published in 1973, this text offers a good brief analysis of the history of patriarchy as it relates to the medical establishment. However, it has some blind spots around Eurocentrism and intersectionality. Musical Interludes – Stevie Nicks – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBuP1vdZ2fo" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Gate and Garden</a> <h2>Bibliography (not included in AudioZine)</h2> -The Manufacture of Madness, by Thomas Szasz, M.D., Delta Books, 1971. Szasz asserts that institutional phychiatry is the modern version of the witch-hunts, with the patient in the role of the witch. We are indebted to him for first presenting witchcraft in the context of the struggle between professionals and lay healers. See especially the chapter on “The Witch as Healer.” -Satanism and Witchcraft, by Jules Michelet. The Citadel Press, 1939. A mid-nineteenth century work by a famous French historian. A vivid book on the Middle Ages, superstition and the Church, with a discussion of “satan as physician.” -The Malleus Maleficarum, by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, translated by Rev. Montague Summers. The Pushkin Press, London, 1928. Difficult medieval writing, but by far the best source for the day-to-day operations of the witch-hunts, and for insights into the mentality of the witch-hunter. -The History of Witchcraft and Demonology, by Rev. Montague Summers. University Books, New York, 1956. Written in the 1920’s by a Catholic priest and defender-really! -of the witch-hunts. Attacks the witch as “heretic,” “anarchist,” and “bawd.” Witchcraft, by Pennethrone Hughes. Penguin Books, 1952. A general introduction and survey. -Women Healers in Medieval Life and Literature, by Muriel Joy Hughes. Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York, 1943. A conservatively written book, with good information on the state of academic medicine and on women lay doctors and midwives. Unfortunately, it dismisses the whole question of witchcraft. The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, by Margaret Alice Murray. Oxford University Press, 1921. Dr. Murray was the first person to present the anthropological view, now widely accepted, that witchcraft represented, in part, the survival among the people of a pre-Christian religion. -A Mirror of Witchcraft, by Christina Hole. Chatto and Windus, London, 1957. A source-book of extracts from trial reports and other writings, mostly from English witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries. -The Formation of the American Medical Profession: The Role of Institutions, 1780-1860, by Joseph Kett. Yale University Press, 1968. Conservative point of view, but full of scattered information on lay healers. He discusses the politically radical nature of the -Popular Health Movement in Chapter Four. Medicine in Americe: Historical Essays, by Richard H. Shryock. , Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. A readable, wide-ranging and fairly liberal book. See especially the chapters on “Women in American -Medicine” and The Popular Health Movement.” American Medicine and the Public Interest, by Rosemary Stevens. Yale University Press 1971. Long and dry, but useful for the early chapters on the formation of the American medical profession and the role of the foundations. -Medical Education in the US and Canada, by Abraham Flexner, Carnegie Foundation, 1910. (Available from University Microfilms,Ltd., Ann Arbor.) The famous “Flexner Report” that changed the face of American medical education. Some reasonable proposals, but amazing elitism, racism and sexism. -The History of Nursing, by Richard Shryock. N.B. Saunders, 1959. Better-than most nursing histories-which are usually glorifications of nursing by nursing educators-but much worse than Shyrock’s medical histories. -Lonely Crusader: The Life of Florence Nightingale, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. McGraw Hill, 1951. A richly detailed biography which puts nursing in the context of the oppression of upper class Victorian women. -Glances and Glimpses, by Harriet K. Hunt. Source Book Press, 1970. Rambling autobiography of a feminist and “irregular” woman doctor of the mid-19th century. It’s useful for its descriptions of the state of medical practice at the time. -“The American Midwife Controversy: A Crisis of Professionalization,” by Frances E. Kobrin. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, July-August 1966, p. 350. Restrained and scholarly account of the outlawing of American midwives. Very worthwhile reading.

Witches, Midwives & Nurses – AudioZine

Revolutionary Echoes From Syria: Conversations With Two Anarchists From Aleppo – Published by Hourriya – MP3 – PDF? (Coming Soon) – Archive – Torrent – YouTube  The discussion below reflects an overview of the conditions experienced by individuals who are trying to liberate themselves from the system of social hypocrisy and the mentality of subordination. Our experience is still fragile, a newborn. During the revolution and even now the difficulty lies in our inability to observe clearly the inherent authoritarian power within the society and the state. Consequently this prevented – and still prevents – us from stripping the layers they hide behind and fighting them raw and bare.  “Have no Kalashnikov, Choose Molotov.” Musical interludes:  Samih – (Ya Haif) Ya Hef –  سميح شقير – يا حيف,   Ibrahim Kashush – أغنية الشهيد البطل إبراهيم قاشوش

Revolutionary Echoes From Syria: Conversations With Two Anarchists From Aleppo – Published by <a href="https://hourriya.noblogs.org" rel="home nofollow" target="_blank">Hourriya </a>– <a href="https://archive.org/download/RevolutionaryEchoesFromSyria/Revolutionary%20Echoes%20From%20Syria.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – PDF? (Coming Soon) –<a href="https://archive.org/details/RevolutionaryEchoesFromSyria" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/RevolutionaryEchoesFromSyria/RevolutionaryEchoesFromSyria_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/rc0exPZ0u8Q?list=PL0m5XHCzk54e93DIKYGjxATO61Q-7gChz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube </a> The discussion below reflects an overview of the conditions experienced by individuals who are trying to liberate themselves from the system of social hypocrisy and the mentality of subordination. Our experience is still fragile, a newborn. During the revolution and even now the difficulty lies in our inability to observe clearly the inherent authoritarian power within the society and the state. Consequently this prevented – and still prevents – us from stripping the layers they hide behind and fighting them raw and bare. “Have no Kalashnikov, Choose Molotov.” Musical interludes:  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViQmydXRKyE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Samih – (Ya Haif) Ya Hef</a> –  سميح شقير – يا حيف,  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpOGwhVSwEU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Ibrahim Kashush</a> – أغنية الشهيد البطل إبراهيم قاشوش

Revolutionary Echoes From Syria – AudioZine

1:02:11 – How Do We Fight Gentrification? – From Rolling Thunder #11 – MP3 –Text – Archive – Torrent – YouTube “There are fights it is impossible to win and impossible to avoid. Gentrification is one of these. It is a ceaseless earthquake, breaking up communities, shaking us from one neighborhood to another or into outright homelessness. The ones who take our place face the same fate in our wake.  We have to reimagine these defensive struggles as offensive initiatives–that’s the only way they could turn out to our advantage. What could we gain in fighting, even as the ground is snatched from beneath our feet? How could these losing battles position us to take on the structures that produce gentrification?”

1:02:11 – How Do We Fight Gentrification? – From <a href="http://www.crimethinc.com/rt/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rolling Thunder</a> #11 – <a href="https://archive.org/download/HowDoWeFightGentrification/HowDoWeFightGentrificationfixed.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> –<a href="https://archive.org/download/HowDoWeFightGentrification/Gentrification-Copy.doc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Text</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/HowDoWeFightGentrification" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/HowDoWeFightGentrification/HowDoWeFightGentrification_archive.torrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent</a> – <a href="https://youtu.be/j4csVEV3hEE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> “There are fights it is impossible to win and impossible to avoid. Gentrification is one of these. It is a ceaseless earthquake, breaking up communities, shaking us from one neighborhood to another or into outright homelessness. The ones who take our place face the same fate in our wake.  We have to reimagine these defensive struggles as offensive initiatives–that’s the only way they could turn out to our advantage. What could we gain in fighting, even as the ground is snatched from beneath our feet? How could these losing battles position us to take on the structures that produce gentrification?”

How Do We Fight Gentrification? – AudioZine

Worker-Student Action Committees: France May ’68 – by Fredy Perlman and Roger Gregoire – MP3 – PDF (print) – PDF (Illustrated) – EPUB – MOBI – Archive – Torrent – YouTube On the occasion of May Day 2018 and the 50th anniversary of the worldwide social upheavals of 1968, including the iconic general strike in May-June in Paris, we are presenting this audio zine of Worker-Student Action Committees by Fredy Perlman (co-writing certain passages with Roger Gregoire), a contemporary first-hand account and analysis of some of the events by those who were budding, wide-eyed militants at the time.   Fredy Perlman is considered by many to be one of the greatest anarchist thinkers and writers of the 20th century, one whose contribution is inestimable and, decades after his passing, is still unfolding. His life and work are foundational influences on American insurrectionary anarchism and anarchist publishing generally. His body of work changes almost everyone it touches, and traces a remarkable arc from the cogent analysis of a young and quite anti-authoritarian Marxist (the present work, as well as an early essay called The Reproduction of Daily Life which may be considered an impeccable distillation and suitable substitute for reading whatever passages of Marx’s Capital remain relevant), through visionary, scathing, and magisterial critiques and meditations on the revolutionary Left that he saw ultimately holding back fundamental social change (in Anything Can Happen, Letters of Insurgents, and the satirical and brilliant Manual for Revolutionary Leaders), moving consistently and finally before his death in 1985 into the territory of an out-and-out contest with the twisted heart of industrial culture and Western civilization itself (Progress and Nuclear Power, the premier primitivist essay Against His-story!, Against Leviathan!, and the crown of his shorter writings – The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism). The thread running through all of these works is the un-living monster that saps the living energy of potentially creative, social beings and diverts them into a machinery of profit and control. Long before Perlman went on to pen the anti-Hobbesian, mytho-poetic re-telling of the story of the Western world, he was in Paris with this up-close reportage of what is largely seen as the epochal paroxysm of revolt of the last half-century. In the Age of Trump, in a time of incredible precarity, exploitation, and brutality, and of renewed social ferment and glimmers of revolutionary ambition, many people have newly entered the fray of action and ideas, rummaging through the wreckage of the last century for a talisman, a movement, a leader, or a clue for undoing our nightmarish current straits. Laid bare here for a new generation of listeners, in a crystal clear tract from one of the brightest subversive minds of that century, is the colossal treachery of the communist parties and labor unions who became the new cops at the earliest opportunity, the ineptitude of pre-defined social roles (be it activist, militant, theorist, student, worker…), and the incredible recuperative power of Capital in the face of a challenge. The sense of a missed opportunity as experienced by a consummately humble and self-critical soul shines through here as it does in few other accounts. Of course, from our current vantage and in light of his later work, Perlman’s references to workers’ power and the taking over of the means of production are bound to strike us as naive and leave us cold. But even at this early juncture Perlman proffers a distinct critique of the hallucinatory workerism that quenched the flames of revolt, the radicalism nowhere near radical enough to carry the day, and the credulity and obedience that still have yet to be broken.  Perlman’s own path, shown here in its humble, early steps, has the unique quality of highlighting all the most vital questions and lessons for anarchists in the face of the horror show of the 20th century and its legacy, the pitfalls of its politics, its dead ends and its last remaining potentials. With this audio zine, it is our hope that you’ll move, as Fredy and so many others moved, directly into deeper explorations. See you on May Day! Music: Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit by – Vangelis Papathanassiou – Recorded in 1971 the entire theme of the record focuses on May 1968 in France and the student riots taking place there at the time. The album consists of a collage of music, field recordings, news snippets, protest songs and paroles.  Other Great resources on May 1968 include:  Crimethinc on France ’68  On The Poverty of Student Life  Submedia’s Trouble #9 and #10 on Student Revolt   When the course [he was teaching] in Turin ended, Fredy took a train to Paris and found himself caught up in the tumultuous events of May 1968. His experiences during these intense, joyous weeks deeply affected his views and remained a constant reference point whenever he considered possibilities for social change… The massive street actions in which thousands confronted the forces of the status quo gave rise to hopes that the old world was about to be overturned… Many buildings were occupied, and the State’s authority was effectively excluded from these liberated areas. People organized committees to carry out necessary tasks. There was a feverish exchange of views, proposals for collective activity. Discussions went on around the clock—some in an amphitheater where there was a microphone, but mostly between individuals who were discovering the joys that the mass media had deprived them of. There was a widespread conviction that daily activity was about to be transformed and that everyone would participate in choosing and bringing about new social arrangements. Fredy took part in a loosely-organized group of intellectuals, students and young workers who held discussions at the Censier classroom complex and who also tried to communicate their aspirations to auto workers who lived and worked in the Paris suburbs… Many of the mass demonstrations in Paris ended with the construction of barricades and confrontations with the police. Tear gas was frequently used and demonstrators were chased and beaten by aggressive riot squad police… During these action-filled weeks, there was little time for reading, but Fredy learned about ideas and histories which influenced him in the decade which followed: the texts of the Situationist International, anarchism and the Spanish Revolution, the council communists. In July 1968, as law and order were being re-imposed on French society, Fredy returned to the United States… Militants from Europe also visited us in Kalamazoo. One of them, Roger Gregoire, stayed with us for several months, working with Fredy on an account and evaluation of experiences the two had shared in May and June 1968 while members of the Citroën Worker-Student Action Committee. —Having Little, Being Much by Lorraine Perlman

Worker-Student Action Committees: France May ’68 – by Fredy Perlman and Roger Gregoire – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WorkerStudentActionCommittees/Worker-Student%20Action%20Committees.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WorkerStudentActionCommittees/Worker-Student%20Action%20Committees.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">PDF (print)</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WorkerStudentActionCommittees/Fredy%20Perlman%20-%20Worker-student%20action%20committees%2C%20France%20May%20%2768%20-%20Roger%20Gregoire%20and%20Fredy%20Perlman_Redacted%20OCR.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">PDF (Illustrated)</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WorkerStudentActionCommittees/Worker-Student%20Action%20Committees_%20France%20-%20Perlman%2C%20Fredy.epub" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">EPUB</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WorkerStudentActionCommittees/Worker-Student%20Action%20Committees_%20France%20-%20Perlman%2C%20Fredy.mobi" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MOBI</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/WorkerStudentActionCommittees" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/download/WorkerStudentActionCommittees/WorkerStudentActionCommittees_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Torrent </a>– <a href="https://youtu.be/eyYbHHy2tPg?list=PL0m5XHCzk54cqawehBnRv7keKg8ZvSY7G" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> On the occasion of May Day 2018 and the 50th anniversary of the worldwide social upheavals of 1968, including the iconic general strike in May-June in Paris, we are presenting this audio zine of Worker-Student Action Committees by Fredy Perlman (co-writing certain passages with Roger Gregoire), a contemporary first-hand account and analysis of some of the events by those who were budding, wide-eyed militants at the time. Fredy Perlman is considered by many to be one of the greatest anarchist thinkers and writers of the 20th century, one whose contribution is inestimable and, decades after his passing, is still unfolding. His life and work are foundational influences on American insurrectionary anarchism and anarchist publishing generally. His body of work changes almost everyone it touches, and traces a remarkable arc from the cogent analysis of a young and quite anti-authoritarian Marxist (the present work, as well as an early essay called <a href="https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2015/11/24/the-reproduction-of-daily-life-audiozine/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Reproduction of Daily Life </a>which may be considered an impeccable distillation and suitable substitute for reading whatever passages of Marx’s Capital remain relevant), through visionary, scathing, and magisterial critiques and meditations on the revolutionary Left that he saw ultimately holding back fundamental social change (in Anything Can Happen, Letters of Insurgents, and the satirical and brilliant Manual for Revolutionary Leaders), moving consistently and finally before his death in 1985 into the territory of an out-and-out contest with the twisted heart of industrial culture and Western civilization itself (<a href="https://youtu.be/gCBjcyPTpSw?list=PLbbBZPY0OhKtqGJhEykm6E5pqw-MPo_NH" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Progress and Nuclear Power, the premier primitivist essay Against His-story!, Against Leviathan!</a>, and the crown of his shorter writings – <a href="https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2015/06/25/the-continuing-appeal-of-nationalism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism</a>). The thread running through all of these works is the un-living monster that saps the living energy of potentially creative, social beings and diverts them into a machinery of profit and control. Long before Perlman went on to pen the <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fredy-perlman-against-his-story-against-leviathan" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anti-Hobbesian, mytho-poetic re-telling of the story of the Western world</a>, he was in Paris with this up-close reportage of what is largely seen as the epochal paroxysm of revolt of the last half-century. In the Age of Trump, in a time of incredible precarity, exploitation, and brutality, and of renewed social ferment and glimmers of revolutionary ambition, many people have newly entered the fray of action and ideas, rummaging through the wreckage of the last century for a talisman, a movement, a leader, or a clue for undoing our nightmarish current straits. Laid bare here for a new generation of listeners, in a crystal clear tract from one of the brightest subversive minds of that century, is the colossal treachery of the communist parties and labor unions who became the new cops at the earliest opportunity, the ineptitude of pre-defined social roles (be it activist, militant, theorist, student, worker…), and the incredible recuperative power of Capital in the face of a challenge. The sense of a missed opportunity as experienced by a consummately humble and self-critical soul shines through here as it does in few other accounts. Of course, from our current vantage and in light of his later work, Perlman’s references to workers’ power and the taking over of the means of production are bound to strike us as naive and leave us cold. But even at this early juncture Perlman proffers a distinct critique of the hallucinatory workerism that quenched the flames of revolt, the radicalism nowhere near radical enough to carry the day, and the credulity and obedience that still have yet to be broken. Perlman’s own path, shown here in its humble, early steps, has the unique quality of highlighting all the most vital questions and lessons for anarchists in the face of the horror show of the 20th century and its legacy, the pitfalls of its politics, its dead ends and its last remaining potentials. With this audio zine, it is our hope that you’ll move, as Fredy and so many others moved, directly into deeper explorations. <h1>See you on May Day!</h1> Music: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG2v7lxPeqI" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit</a> by – Vangelis Papathanassiou – Recorded in 1971 the entire theme of the record focuses on May 1968 in France and the student riots taking place there at the time. The album consists of a collage of music, field recordings, news snippets, protest songs and paroles. Other Great resources on May 1968 include: <ul> <li><a href="https://crimethinc.com/podcast/23" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Crimethinc on France ’68 </a></li> <li><a href="https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2016/06/24/on-the-poverty-of-student-life-audiozine/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">On The Poverty of Student Life </a></li> <li>Submedia’s <a href="https://sub.media/video/trouble-9-learning-to-resist/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Trouble #9</a> and <a href="https://sub.media/video/trouble-10-schools-out/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">#10</a> on Student Revolt</li> </ul> <blockquote> When the course [he was teaching] in Turin ended, Fredy took a train to Paris and found himself caught up in the tumultuous events of May 1968. His experiences during these intense, joyous weeks deeply affected his views and remained a constant reference point whenever he considered possibilities for social change… The massive street actions in which thousands confronted the forces of the status quo gave rise to hopes that the old world was about to be overturned… Many buildings were occupied, and the State’s authority was effectively excluded from these liberated areas. People organized committees to carry out necessary tasks. There was a feverish exchange of views, proposals for collective activity. Discussions went on around the clock—some in an amphitheater where there was a microphone, but mostly between individuals who were discovering the joys that the mass media had deprived them of. There was a widespread conviction that daily activity was about to be transformed and that everyone would participate in choosing and bringing about new social arrangements. Fredy took part in a loosely-organized group of intellectuals, students and young workers who held discussions at the Censier classroom complex and who also tried to communicate their aspirations to auto workers who lived and worked in the Paris suburbs… Many of the mass demonstrations in Paris ended with the construction of barricades and confrontations with the police. Tear gas was frequently used and demonstrators were chased and beaten by aggressive riot squad police… During these action-filled weeks, there was little time for reading, but Fredy learned about ideas and histories which influenced him in the decade which followed: the texts of the Situationist International, anarchism and the Spanish Revolution, the council communists. In July 1968, as law and order were being re-imposed on French society, Fredy returned to the United States… Militants from Europe also visited us in Kalamazoo. One of them, Roger Gregoire, stayed with us for several months, working with Fredy on an account and evaluation of experiences the two had shared in May and June 1968 while members of the Citroën Worker-Student Action Committee. —Having Little, Being Much by Lorraine Perlman</blockquote>

Worker-Student Action Committees – AudioZine

Archipelago – Affinity, Informal Organization, and Insurrectional Projects – From Salto #2 – MP3 – Read – Print – Archive – Torrent– YouTube This zine explores the topic of affinity and informal organization. The author(s) argue that informal organizations based on affinity are the ideal ways of acting as anarchist because they overcome the limits of qualitative projects and organizations that exist as ends in and of themselves. Incorporated into the text are criticisms of formal organizations and discussions of what exactly affinity means. [Translated from Salto, subversion &amp; anarchy, issue #2, november 2012 (Brussels).]  “We believe that anarchists have the most amount of freedom and autonomy of movement to intervene in social conflictivity if they organize themselves in small groups based on affinity, rather than in huge formations or in quantitative organizational forms. Of course, it is desirable and often necessary that these small groups are able to come to an understanding between each other.”  Musical Interludes: I Only Wish This For You by Saltland

Archipelago – Affinity, Informal Organization, and Insurrectional Projects – From <a href="http://salto.noblogs.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Salto</a> #2 – <a href="https://archive.org/download/Archepelago/Archipelago.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MP3</a> – <a href="https://machorka.espivblogs.net/2015/06/17/archipelago-affinity-informal-organization-and-insurrectionnal-projects-enitfr-2012/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Read</a> –<a href="https://archive.org/download/Archepelago/archipelago.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Print</a> – <a href="https://archive.org/details/Archepelago" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Archive</a> –<a href="https://archive.org/download/Archepelago/Archepelago_archive.torrent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Torrent</a>– <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiUwuFyJBXA" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> This zine explores the topic of affinity and informal organization. The author(s) argue that informal organizations based on affinity are the ideal ways of acting as anarchist because they overcome the limits of qualitative projects and organizations that exist as ends in and of themselves. Incorporated into the text are criticisms of formal organizations and discussions of what exactly affinity means. [Translated from <a href="http://salto.noblogs.org/" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Salto</a>, subversion &amp; anarchy, issue #2, november 2012 (Brussels).] <blockquote> “We believe that anarchists have the most amount of freedom and autonomy of movement to intervene in social conflictivity if they organize themselves in small groups based on affinity, rather than in huge formations or in quantitative organizational forms. Of course, it is desirable and often necessary that these small groups are able to come to an understanding between each other.” </blockquote> Musical Interludes: <a href="https://saltland.bandcamp.com/album/a-common-truth" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">I Only Wish This For You</a> by Saltland

Archipelago – AudioZine

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