December 2008 - Mailorder is OPEN! We are accepting requests and submissions, and in fact have been for the last two years, despite indications to the contrary. This webpage has not been updated since May 2006 and thus contains outdated information and does not represent our current catalog. We are in the midst of preparing a major update (many new titles and PDFs!), but until that update is finished, this page will remain in its 2006 state.
WELCOME to this simple webpage, which will function as a concise list of the materials we currently are choosing to make available. As of May 2006, this page also exists as a repository/archive of PDF master files that you can download, print, and distribute.
DISSEMINATE, DECENTRALIZE! - We are not trying to make a name for ourselves or establish 'quiver distro' as an exclusive provider of cutting-edge commodities. We would like to distribute these pamphlets so extensively that we become irrelevant as a source.
The primary focus of this project is to supply these publications to community libraries and to other rebels who are going to reproduce and disseminate them in their local area. We are seeding a decentralized distribution network, spreading words of liberation in mediums easily reproducible by anyone.
ORDERING: - This distro is not a business, and our only concern with money is to somehow break even and recover our expenses. Prices vary depending on your situation and what you are doing with the literature - but they are generally very low.
To 'order', send us a list of either the specific titles and quantities you are requesting, or just a general idea of the topics you are most interested in; and if you are willing to, tell us a bit about your project or your intentions for the literature. We will get back to you soon as we are able to.
Please be conscious of what vital information you hand over in e-mail messages - in other words consider giving your home address, phone number or life story to us with pen and paper rather than electronically.
All pamphlets are free to prisoners, and we have an edited list to be sent in to prisons that's more likely to make it past the screws.
PDF FILES ARE NOW AVAILABLE! - Anyone in any city in the world can print out their own first-generation master copies and hand them out to their friends in the streets. While there are obvious advantages to digitizing our work, we proceed with considerable hesitancy, for it is clear that there is a great qualitative loss in the conversion of ideas and human expression in to 'data'. With the introduction of any new technology comes greater efficiency - however, there is always much forefitted in terms of meaningfulness, quality and relationship. This is not a tradeoff that we should take lightly. When someone obtains these writings from the internet, there is no context, and context is at least as important as content. What does it mean that many young people now develop their revolutionary theory and strategy from reading articles on the web, rather than from discussions and experiences face-to-face with an informal network of friends, comrades, strangers? We need to be speaking to one another about our ideas and acting on them, not vegetating in the comfortable glow of a computer screen reading about alienation and the need for uncompromising opposition.
Making electronic versions of these pamphlets available is meant to increase and enable, not replace, the distribution of tangible paper copies of them. So, print the booklets out and make copies to share, start a reading group, add copies to the shelves of your local infoshop or community library.
May 2006
quiver [at] anti-politics.net
(note our changed email address)
anti-politics.net/distro
Quiver distro
PO Box 993
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
You can download a printable 2-page PDF of our distribution list from March 2006 here.
All PDF documents are quality master files, (not sloppily scanned low-resolution garbage) except where otherwise noted.
Periodic updates will be made to this page, adding more PDF's and html files, and making corrections and improvements to what's already here.
Please email us about serious formatting and typing errors in any of these documents, broken links, etc.
We generally disregard intellectual property rights, and encourage you to as well. Re-publish and appropriate at will. If you are the author or editor of one of these publications and for some reason or another you would like us to take down the PDF file of your project, email and let us know.
See the technical notes and recommendations at the end of this page if you need basic instructions on using the digital files. The short of it is that an imposed PDF is what you use for printing, and a 'PDF for reading' is for viewing on screen.
One might think of writings such as these as earnest yet inherently limited attempts at communicating. You musn't just read them, so much as enter in to dialogue with them, critically, starting from the basis of your own experiences and feelings and seeing where they connect with those of others'. Every true revolutionary knows that communication is not a matter of talking, but rather acting together.
(EE: Elephant Editions, VBP: Venomous Butterfly Publications)
Against the Logic of Submission (Wolfi Landstreicher - VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
Anti-History: An Indigenous Anti-Capitalist Analysis (Zig-Zag)
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom (Fredy Perlman / Black & Red)
Anarchist Organization and the Insurrectional Project (Tension collective)
the Anarchist Tension (Alfredo Bonanno / EE) - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading | consecutive PDF ]
Animal Liberation: Devastate to liberate? Or devastatingly liberal? - [ view text ]
Armed Joy (Alfredo Bonanno - EE)
At Daggers Drawn With The Existent, Its Defenders, And Its False Critics (EE) - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading | view text online ]
Autonomous Self-Organization and Anarchist Intervention (Wolfi Landstreicher) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
Caught in the Web of Deception: Anarchists and the Media (VBP) - [ imposed PDF ]
the Continuing Appeal of Nationalism (Fredy Perlman / Black and Red)
Contributions to the Revolutionary Struggle (Ratgeb AKA Raoul Vanigem) - [ poorly laid-out PDF ]
A Critical Discussion on the Role of Activism (Andrew X, J. Kellstadt, Sasha K.)
Critical Thinking as an Anarchist Weapon (Wolfi Landstreicher - VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
Disarm Authority, Arm Your Desires! (CAL Press) - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading | view text ]
Down With the Empire, Up With the Spring! - The Four Tasks (from Do or Die) - [ imposed 27mb PDF | view text online ]
Endless War - Anarchist antimilitarism and the "war on terrorism" (VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
Feral Revolution (Feral Faun) - [ download PDF | view text online ]
Fire to the Powder Keg - War and Social Guerilla Struggle in Iraq (Eberhardt Press) - [ consecutive low-rez PDF ]
From Politics to Life - ridding anarchy of the leftist millstone - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
The Fullness Of A Struggle Without Adjectives (VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
Industrial Domestication: Industry As the Origins of Modern Domination - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading | view text ]
Instead Of A Meeting - anarchist primer (Lawrence Jarach) - [ read text online ]
the Insurrectional Project (Alfredo Bonanno - EE) - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading ]
Insurrectionary Anarchy: Organizing For Attack! (primer from Do Or Die) - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading ]
An Introduction to the Situationists - J.D. Matthews - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading | RTF doc ]
the Network of Domination (Wolfi Landstreicher) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
On Behalf of the Barbarians (Bleu Marin/ VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
On Sabotage as One of the Fine Arts (VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
The Question of Organization (from "Insurrection") - [ imposed PDF ]
The Reproduction of Daily Life (Fredy Perlman/ Black & Red) - [ imposed PDF (euro-paper size!) ]
Revolutionary Self-Theory (Spectacular Times)
Revolutionary Solidarity (new US edition) - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading ]
Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord, Ken Knabb translation) - [ imposed PDF ]
Some Notes On Insurrectionary Anarchism (Sasha K.) - [ PDF ]
Summits, Counter-Summits and Social War (VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
This is What Democracy Looks Like (VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
To The Wanderers - on the current uprooting of the dispossessed (VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
The Undesirables: Class Struggle at the Turn of the 21st Century - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc | consecutive PDF ]
Which War - A one shot publication of social reconnaissance - by some internal enemies - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
Writings of the Vancouver Five
325 - issue #2 (April 2005) and issue #1 (August 2004)
A Murder of Crows - #1 - March 2006
Abolishing the Borders from Below - current (#21 & #22) (back issues available)
Black Dog - Selections from the Italian Anarchist Weekly Canenero (published by VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
Black Star North #1, #2, #3
Communicating Vessels - current (back issues available)
Green Anarchy - current
Impassioned Insurrection! no. 1
Insurrection (Jean Weir's magazine from the 80's) #1-6, photocopied
Killing King Abacus #1, #2
Live Wild Or Die! #8
Olympic Resistance - Issue #1 - March 2006 (4 page bulliten from Vancouver, BC)
Species Traitor no. 4 (it's a 192p book) - $10 (back issues available)
Strong Hearts #1-4
This Time We Fight Back! #1
The Warrior Wind #2 - [ download PDF ]
Wildfire #2 (UK anti-civ action report bulliten) - [ download PDF | A4 size PDF ]
Willful Disobedience:
Consuming Fire (Wolfi Landstreicher) - [ imposed PDF ]
Dreams Of Insurrection
the Flowers of Harm #2
Reasons of Flame (Wolfi Lanstreicher) - [ imposed PDF ]
the Rebel's Dark Laughter (Bruno Fillipi) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
Revolutionary Letters (Diane DiPrima)
Toward the Creative Nothing (Renzo Novatore) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
Anarchist Black Cross - Information and Resources 2002 (ABCN) - [ PDF ]
The Defiant: Prisoners In The Global Resistance (Rob Los Ricos / APLAN)
For Those Who Didn't Run For Cover During the Tempest - On the trial of the Leece anarchists and their struggle against the CPT - [ download PDF ]
If It Was Easy, They Wouldn't Call It Struggle (Mark Barnsley)
Manufacturing Dissent (Rob Los Ricos)
The Marini Trial (VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
The Prison Within The Prison - resistance to the FIES isolation units in Spain (Brighton ABC) - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading ]
Prisoner Survival, Prisoner Support
Survivors Manual - survival in solitary - (a manual by and for people living in control units)
What's Going on In Italy? (Elephant Editions - 2005) - [ imposed PDF ]
A Guide to Writing to Prisoners (flyer) - [ PDF ]
Action Stations: Planning Direct Action (flyer from DOD) - available online
As Darkness Falls - ALF Primer
Attacking Prisons at the Point of Production (Green Anarchy)
Bash The Fash - Anti-Fascist Recollections 1984-93 (KSL)
Communiques from Anti-Genetix Action Jul. 28, 1999 - Jan. 20, 2000
Dont Back Down! (street tactics)
Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching - 3rd edition - available online
the Final Nail - Destroying the Fur Industry - A Guided Tour #2
Interviews With Animal Liberation Front Activists
Memories Of Freedom - by the Western Wildlife Unit of the ALF - [ imposed PDF ]
My First Little Book of GM Crop Decontamination - [ imposed PDF | imposed A4 PDFd ]
Ozymandias Sabotage Handbook (parts 1+2) - available online
SHAC Attack: Targeting companies animal-rights style (From Do Or Die)
Cell Phones Suck - An Argument Against the use of Cellular Technology (Luddite Underground publications) - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading ]
Grand Jury Investigations, FBI Harassment, and "Your Rights" (from No Compromise) - [ scanned imposed 8.4mb PDF ]
Little Sister 2003 - A Security Reader
Non-Lethal Disabling Weapons (VBP) - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading | MS Word doc ]
Policing On The Global Scale (VBP) - [ imposed PDF | consecutive PDF | MS Word doc ]
Police Tricks & Techniques: 101 reasons to keep your mouth shut
Security Culture Primer
Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance (When Their Eyes Are On You)
Underground Railroad: "practical advice for finding passengers, getting them to safety, and..."
What You Should Know About Grand Juries (flyer from the Just Cause law collective) - [ download PDF ]
Without A Trace - A Forensics Manual for You and Me
Albania: Laboratory of Subversion (EE) - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading | MS Word doc ]
The Angry Brigade - Communiques, Documents, & Chronology (Elephant Editions) - [ imposed PDF (missing it's cover) ]
A Commune In Chiapas? - Mexico and the Zapatista Rebellion (Aufheben)
FAWDA - On the Situation in Palestine (VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
Genoa Is Everywhere - anarchist analysis of the G8 summits (VBP complation) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
The Luddites' War on Industry - A story of machine smashing and spies (from DOD #6)
No State Solution - a jewish-anarchist perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict
Strange Victories: The Anti-Nuclear Movement in the US and Europe (Elephant Editions)
The Rebellion in Los Angeles: The context of a proletarian uprising (Aufheben) - [ imposed PDF ]
A War Nearby - An analysis of the situation in the Balkans (Lope Vargas / VBP) - [ imposed PDF | MS Word doc ]
"We Are All Hooligans" - Youth Revolt in France, March 1994 (Firestarter) - [ imposed PDF ]
25 Years On The MOVE
You Cannot Kill Us, We're Already Dead - Algeria's Ongoing Popular Uprising (Firestarter) - [ PDF ]
Solidarity South Pacific (for active solidarity with indigenous and radical ecological struggles in the Pacific.)
packet of all materials, including:
Solidarity South Pacific Newsletter #1 Summer 2003
Solidarity South Pacific Newsletter #2 Spring 2004
Solidarity South Pacific Newsletter #3 2005/06
South Pacific Solidarity (intro from DOD)
West Papua Action Update #1 November 1999
West Papua Action Update #2 July 2001
From Mactan to the Mining Act (Philippines)
Just Leave Us Alone! A letter from a Papuan Tribesman
Mamberamo Madness - Progress and Resistance in West Papua
Rumble In The Jungle - Fighting For Freedom In West Papua
Pawa na Pipel!
[ PDF's for all these (and more) SSP publications can be downloaded here. ]
Black Mesa, AZ info sheet - [ PDF ]
Black Mesa, AZ: The Struggle Continues (2006 update leaflet) - [ PDF ]
Five Hundred Years Of Indigenous Resistance (Gord Hill / Arm the Spirit) - [ read text | scanned imposed 13.5mb PDF ]
SUTIKALH: It Takes A Whole Community to Stop A Ski Resort! (four page summary by Zig-Zag, Fall 2002) - [ download PDF | alternate ]
Transformers - comix by Zig Zag - [ imposed PDF ]
ZULU - single sheet comic by Zig Zag - [ imposed PDF ]
Wii'nimkiikaa - journal of revoutionary indigenous resistance to colonization and capitalism, from BC - issue 1 (June 2004) and issue 2 (July 2005) - [ project homepage ]
Infinite Relationships (short piece from Inside Front) - [ crappy scanned imposed PDF ]
Mine: An Anthology of Women's Choices
Pieces Of Self - essays on Anarchy, Gender, and Civilization - [ imposed PDF ]
This Is Me Using My Choice
Thoughts About Community Support Around Intimate Violence - [ consecutive PDF | disordered MS Word doc ]
Workshop in Nonviolent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg)
Fertility Awareness for Non-Invasive Birth Control
Herbal Abortion - A Woman's D.I.Y. Guide (Godhaven Ink)
Herbal Abortion - The Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge (Uni M. Tiamat)
Caulophyllum, etc. - Herbal Abortion & Contraception (compiled by Maude, Spring '05)
Hot Pantz: Do It Yourself Gynecology
Jane: Documents from Chicago's Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973 - [ imposed PDF ]
Men's Sexual and Reproductive Health (just a flyer for now) - [ download PDF ]
Witches, Nurses & Midwives: A History of Women Healers (Barbara Ehenreich & Deirdre English)
Wives' Tales
Beyond Agriculture
Capturing Heat - Five Earth-Friendly Cooking Technologies and How to Build Them (Aprovecho)
Evasion zine #1
Feral Forager (Wildroots) - [ scanned PDF with poor margins ]
From Knapping to Crapping - Running Riot through the Supermarket of Skills! (resource list from DOD) - [ imposed PDF | view text online ]
Gate Crashing Ploys (single sheet) - [ download PDF | alternate ]
Go Light - thoughts on primal parenting and the wild child - issue #1
Guerilla Shit Composting (flyer) - [ download PDF ]
Land And Liberty (by Sea Weed, from BC - not to be confused with the UK 'zine by G. Burnett that has the same name)
Militant Gardening: A Guide to Urban Reclamation
Prairie Wolf Primitive Skills Series (8 pamphlets)
Spirit Of Resistance - Black Mesa, AZ and more (travel story by Puck)
Ai Ferri Corti, Romper con esta realidad, sus defensores y sus falsos críticos - [ imposed PDF | PDF for reading | MS Word doc ]
Cuestiones De Organizacion- 31 Tesis Insurreccionalistas - [ MS Word doc ]
El Placer Armado (Alfredo M. Bonanno / Ediciones Cuadernillos Incendiarios) - [ MS Word doc | cover PDF ]
La Tension Anarquista de Alfredo M. Bonanno
Libres y Salvajes - la diversidad insurreccional
Los Amigos de Ludd - Boletin de informacion anti-industrial - No. 2, 3, 4, 6.
Los Indeseables
Manifiesto Anticivilización: destruiremos nuestro infierno - [ read online ]
Recuerdos de Libertad (Memories Of Freedom) - [ download PDF ]
Toward the Destruction Of Schooling (J.D. Matthews) - [ imposed PDF | read text online ]
Dropping Out - for high school students (Stef / CrimethInc) - [ imposed PDF ]
Education and Liberation vol. 1 - [ project homepage ]
Spräng Skolan - Blow Up The School!
Solidarity South Pacific DVD - four films including "The Coconut Revolution"
'The Angry Brigade' (1974) and 'Persons Unknown' (1980) documentaries by Gordon Carr, including introductory interviews w/ Stuart Christie (DVD)
Das Netz / The Net (DVD)
The Snowbowl Effect (DVD documentary about the San Francisco Peaks ski resort expansion controversy) - [ scanned cover image | film homepage ]
It is much easier for us to just burn you all the audio you want as mp3's, on a cd-rom or DVD disc, instead of burning them as multiple Audio CD's. Specify your preference.
Us Off the Planet! - An Evening in Eugene with Ward Churchill and Chellis Glendinning
Splitting the Sky - A Lifetime Of Resistance - with music by Blackfire
Derrick Jensen - "The Other Side of Darkness" 3 x audio CD spoken word
We don't have the funds or the desire to be a book distributor - but we do stock a handful of titles, mainly for when we are tabling. Here are a few we currently have in stock, these prices are for the most part unusually low:
Against Civilization (new edition/ edited by John Zerzan/ Feral House - $13)
Against History, Against Leviathan! (Fredy Perlman / Black & Red - $10)
Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker (Unpopular books / $10)
The Bonnot Gang (Richard Parry / Rebel Press - $10
Days Of War, Nights Of Love (CrimethInc - $8)
Do or Die: Voices From the Ecological Resistance #10 (DOD - $20)
The Ego and Its Own (Max Stirner - $8)
Elements of Refusal (John Zerzan - $13)
Fire & Ice (Laurel Luddite & Skunkly Monkly - $8)
A Language Older Than Words (Derrick Jensen - Chelsea Green Pub. - $15)
Letters Of Insurgents (Fredy Perlman / Black & Red - $12)
LIP and the Self-Managed Counter-Revolution (Negation / Black & Red - $4)
N' Drea: One Woman's Fight To Die Her Own Way (Andréa Dorea / Eberhardt - $5)
Sabate: Guerilla Extradoadinare (Antonio Tellez / Elephant Editions - $9)
The Day Philosophy Dies (Casey Maddox/ Flashpoint - $17)
Our selection of these items is always changing, so theres not really a point in listing them. If you're already requesting things from us, mention flyers/posters and we'll send you everything we've got.
"Life Is Estatic Intercourse Between Destruction And Creation" - - [ download PDF / or download GIF image]
"It is time once again to burn their forts to the ground" - [ download PDF / or alternate design PDF / or another alternate PDF]
Biotechnology - the new answer to everything, from the people who brought you nuclear war - [ download PDF ]
Schooling As Oppression (comics from Christian Angst- [ download 11x17" PDF ]
"Attention College Graduates" - [ download PDF ]
I Don't Dial 911 - [ download PDF ]
Everone Hates A Snitch - [ download PDF ]
Long Live the Iraq Resistance - [ download PDF ]
Destroy All Judge - Destroy All Politician (from 325) - [ download PDF ]
Live off the excess/exploit the loopholes (from 'Steal This Book') - [ download PDF ]
Against This World - [ download PDF ]
Really being in love means really wanting to live in a different world - [ download PDF ]
Willful Disobedience "What If?" poster - [ download PDF ]
Children Of the Earth, Are You Listening? poster - [ download PDF | higher resolution PDF ]
Why We Are Insurrectionary Anarchists (quote from A.M. Bonanno)
A Guide to Surveillance Cameras / Mapping Surveillance Cameras (handouts by the SCP) - [ download PDF ]
Office Of Homeland Security parody stickersheets - [ download PDF ]
etc etc. Many more posters coming soon.
We may print and ship any of these titles to you upon request, but it will depend on our resources at the time that you ask.
Click here to see the extended list of Available Titles.
In General
Please send us your zines, books, films, audio, flyers, or anything else that you think we may be interested in distributing. Any quality films we recieve will probably be screen at the local 'Guerilla Drive-In'. It would help this project greatly if people would send us source computer files or PDF's of their zines whenever possible.
It's soul-killing work, but if you want to assist us in the effort of getting these publications digitized and online, figure out what isn't already available as a PDF, scan it or lay it out, and send us the files. Get in touch if you need tips on the technical process involved, or if you need free layout and graphics software for your computer.
Specific titles:
software: Adobe CS 2 - or just Indesign CS2 (we use OSX but are also looking for the PC versions of this software.)
Insurrection #0
more Zig Zag comix and zines
A better copy of Anti-History (ours is like, 3rd or 4th generation)
A better copy of the Grand Jury Comix
Cracks In The Empire - Chronicling Resistance to the Industrial System
Rants, Essays & Polemics of Feral Faun (w/out the missing page)
Back issues of Do or Die, especially 1-4
AJODA issues #13 and earlier
Flowers of Harm #1
Revolution in the Ukraine (EE)
Endless Struggle (from Canada) - any issues
Demolition Derby #1 & #2
LWOD Back issues
Mountains and Rivers Compel Me - A Deep Ecology Reader for Forest Activists (compiled by Avalon, RIP)
A Better Copy of "Wives Tales"
Undercurrent (any issues)
DVD: Themroc
Really old Fifth Estates
old Inside Front issues
bulk copies of the old Harbinger #4
Greek, Italian, Spanish, etc publications / Anarchist Journals from other countries
Subscriptions
We would like to get subscriptions to these publications, but can't afford the bill. If we have a subscription, we can reprint the publication or specific articles of interest.
Bite Back magazine (we'd love a bulk subscription to this)
No Compromise
Bulliten Of Primitive Technology
Earth First! Journal
Infiltration
News From Native California
Dwelling Portably
Digital publishing jargon:
PDF - "Portable Document Format", a standard, universal file format developed by Adobe Systems that, in theory, will render a document to look exactly the same on any computer or operating system. In other words, it is a 'cross-platform', and 'device-independent' format that's the ideal digital medium for sharing and distributing printed media.
imposed - 'imposition' means the arrangement of individual pages on to master sheets ("spreads") so that, WHEN FOLDED or otherwise processed as a book/booklet/ 'zine, the pages will read in the proper order. This can be hard to explain but it's very simple. An 'imposed' PDF pamphlet is ready to be printed, and because of the mixed-up page order, it's confusing to try to read the spreads until folding has occured.
scanned - this means that the document was scanned off of the original paper master and exists as a collection of large bitmap/raster images. Scanned documents are naturally imprecise in comparison to real digital masters. Scanned PDF's are larger files, often with lower print quality in the end.
consecutive - for the purposes of this webpage, consecutive means that individual pages are laid out two at a time on spreads, in standard order. It will look like 1-2,3-4,5-6, etc. These files are mostly intended for reading on-screen. You can print them, but they won't function like booklets, more like 'packets'.
low rez - low resolution - for reading online, but probably won't print well.
MS Word Doc - a Microsoft Word document - we don't mean to endorse Microsoft software, but the fact remains that it's the most popular word processor, and people often give us MS Word files of their writings, so we've got to work with that.
duplexing - double-sided printing, as any quality laser printer can do.
saddle stiched - a book(let) binding technique, in which the sheets of paper are folded in half and stapled on the fold, resulting in the pages reading properly from front to back. Most magazines and pamphlets you see are 'saddle stiched'.
download Adobe Reader to open PDF files.
Notes on PRINTING these pdf files:
Obtain access to a laser printer. It's a nightmare to try and get these PDF zines to print properly on some clunky inkjet. Pretty much all office buildings and school campuses are riddled with network laser printers. It shouldn't be too difficult find one that is not metered, or to circumvent any metering system that may be present. Laptop computers can be helpful in this regard by allowing you to physically plug in to a network printer using a standard USB cable, thereby bypassing the local network.
Double sided print. (AKA 'Duplexing') - Most laser printers can automatically print a document on both sides of the stock, so there's no need to pull any weird re-feeding maneuvers like you might on an inkjet. It will probably take a few wasted sheets of paper to figure out what the hell you're doing. Somewhere in the various tabs and options presented in the Print dialogue on your computer, once you've selected the proper printing device, you should be able to locate a "two sided" or "duplex" printing option. It may give you two options - "long edge binding" and "short edge binding" (just figure out the difference between these by trial and error, it's very simple but not worth trying to describe here). If you can't get the printer to duplex, you can always print your master copy single-sided, and later, use the "1-2 sided" or "1-2 sided, rotate side 2" function on the photocopy machine when you reproduce it.
Find a copy hook-up. - Never pay normal prices for your copies. Never. There's always a way to print for free - exploit the loopholes.
Finishing - Find yourself a long-reach/long-arm stapler. Corporate chain box-stores such as Staples, Office Max and Office Depot all carry a Swingline brand long-reach stapler that can be liberated with relative ease, especially with a large enough backpack or sidebag. These devices are also called saddle stitchers or saddle stitch staplers. Higher quality long-reach staplers (Swinglines always crap out after prolonged use) are available for purchase over the internet.
You will also want some sort of solid, smooth object to do your creasing/folding. Fat pens/highlighters will do the trick, and other operatives like to use bones, butter knives, or jars... as you see this is very subjective.
We get the best results from stapling first, then folding, and always folding on both sides of the new booklet to make the binding even.
Notes on Desktop Publishing Software
We use InDesign to do layout, Photoshop to work with graphics, and Acrobat to do finishing moves on PDF files. The Adobe 'Creative Suite' (CS) software package includes InDesign, Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, and other apps. Though it retails at around $1k, it isn't difficult to obtain the Adobe CS or CS2 software for free. Try asking a friend to burn it for you, or use BitTorrent to download the files and Serial Box for illegitimate licensing.
The other leading desktop publishing application that people use is Quark XPress, v.6, 6.5, or 7. Adobe Pagemaker is out of date and old news at this point, and it's inpractical and just plain stupid to try and use word processors like Microsoft Word (some of the lousiest software ever produced) to do your layouts.
"Quite Imposing" - an excellent plugin for Adobe Acrobat that does automatic impositions of PDF files, IE will format your documents as booklets and books.
Alive And AWOL Publications
PO Box 1485
Asheville, NC 28802
guerillaheart [at] yahoo.com
www.geocities.com/aliveandawol/
Back of Beyond
New Zealand anarchist distro
www.backofbeyond.com/
Beating Hearts Press
PO Box 716
Fortitude Valley
QLD 4006 Australia
collective [at] beatingheartspress.com
www.beatingheartspress.com
Black & Red
PO Box 02374
Detroit, MI 48202
(no email or website)
Black & Green Network Distro
P.O. Box 835
Greensburg, PA 15601
blackandgreen.org/distro.html
Black Cat Distro
PO Box 229
Roberts Creek, BC
V0N 2W0 Canada
Black Powder Press
PO Box 162478
Sacramento, CA 95816
blackpowderpress.com
blackpowder [at] riseup.net
Communicating Vessels Distro
3527 NE 15th Ave #127
Portland, OR 97212
(no email or website)
CrimethInc. Far East
PO Box 1963
Olympia WA 98507-1963
house [at] crimethinc.com
www.crimethinc.com
CrimethInc. Urban Pirates
PO Box 2133
Greensboro NC 27402
urbanpirates [at] riseup.net
urbanpirates.crimethinc.net
325 collective
c/o Brighton ABC
PO Box 74
Brighton
BN1 4ZQ
325collective [at] hush.com
www.325collective.com
Disgruntled Elephant Distro
PO Box 41416
Des Moines, IA 50311
dumpsterlove515 [at] hotmail.com
Eberhardt Press
3527 NE 15th #127
Portland, OR 97212
info [at] eberhardtpress.org
eberhardtpress.org
Elephant Editions
BM Elephant
London, UK
WC1N 3XX
elephantx2003 [at] yahoo.com
Feral Feminine
P.O. Box 667
Asheville, NC 28802
feralfeminine [at] lycos.com
www.feralfeminine.com
Firestarter Press
PO Box 50217
Baltimore, MD 21211
firestarter [at] riseup.net
no website.
Green Anarchy Distro
PO Box 11331
Eugene, OR 97440
collective [at] greenanarchy.org
www.greenanarchy.org
the Institute For Experimental Freedom
Publishing and other projects, based in North Carolina.
ief-southeast [at] riseup.net
Liberation Projects Distro
838 E. High St. #115
Lexington, KY 40502
info [at] impassionedinsurrection.info
www.impassionedinsurrection.info
Old Mole
Based in Richmond, Indiana.
Contact them for a list.
oldmole [at] hush.com
*note new email address*
Overground Distribution
PO Box 1661
Pensacola, FL 32591
distro [at] overground.info
www.overground.info
Overground is no more! As of Feb. 2006. "We're not giving up the struggle for a better world, we're just taking our lives places this distro cannot follow."
Re-pressed Distribution
c/o 145-149 Cardigan Road
Leeds, LS6 1LJ, England.
re-pressed(at)riseup.net
www.re-pressed.org.uk
Tarantula Distribution
818 SW 3rd Ave. PMB #1237
Portland, OR 97204
tarantula [at] socialwar.net
www.socialwar.net
Treason
GPO Box 2427
Canberra ACT, Australia, 2601
canberratreason [at] yahoo.com.au
treason.dyns.net
Venomous Butterfly Publications
818 SW 3rd Ave. PMB 1237
Portland, OR 97217
acraticus [at] angrynerds.com
other anarchist distributors: please get in touch!
