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You can turn a large t-shirt into a tighter,
smaller one by laying a shirt of the
intended size upon it, tracing around
the smaller shirt, cutting away the
excess, and restitching it (figure 0.5).
Let acrylic ink on textiles or paper dry on its own. It could take between 15 minutes and 2 hours depending on the ink, the material you are printing on, and the humidity. You can speed this process up with a hair dryer if you want.
Oil ink will take weeks to dry on its own, so place your printed fabrics in the oven, and don't use oil inks on paper unless they are air-drying. After much experimenting, I have found that 5 to 10 minutes at 250-300 degrees Fahrenheit works well. You can put fabrics on a cookie sheet or tinfoil, or straight on the oven racks. Make sure nothing is hanging onto the element. My dad has a theory that if you're supposed to bake something for 20 minutes at 200 degrees, you can instead bake it for 10 minutes at 400 degrees. This was proven wrong when I set two Catharsis hoodies on fire. Check on your materials often until you determine how many minutes it takes to dry them. You can also use a heat gun, available at hardware stores for peeling paint, to dry oil inks.
You need to heat-set printed fabrics so that the ink doesn't come oflTin the wash. Iron the print on the reverse side for half a minute or so.
Two-color designs require two screens, and three-color designs, three screens. It is the same process, but you will have to line up the second print carefully. You can get hinges and make a press so that you can know exactly where the screen will fall.
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Security Culture
A security culture is a set of customs shared by a community whose members may engage in illegal activities, the practice of which minimizes the risks of such activities. Having a security culture in place saves everyone the trouble of having to work out safety measures over and over from scratch, and can help offset paranoia and panic in stressful situations?hell, it might keep you out of prison, too. The difference between protocol and culture is that culture becomes unconscious, instinctive, and thus effortless; once the safest possible behavior has become habitual for everyone in the circles in which you travel, you can spend less time and energy emphasizing the need for it, or suffering the consequences of not having it, or worrying about how much danger you're in, as you'll know you're already doing everything you can to be careful. If you're in the habit of not giving away anything sensitive about yourself, you can collaborate with strangers without having to agonize about whether or not they are informers; if everyone knows what not to talk about over the telephone, your enemies can tap the line all they want and it won't get them anywhere."
The central principle of all security culture, the point that cannot he emphasized enough, is that people should never he privy to any sensitive information they do not need to know. The greater the number of people who know something that can put individuals or projects at risk?whether that something be the identity of a person who committed an illegal act, the location of a private meeting, or a plan for future activity?tiie more chance
Instructions
*"But what about infiltrators and informers?" a Crimethlnc. agent asked long ago at hisfrst major mobilization. "We'll have them pee! potatoes," was the casual reply from an experienced organizer.
If you find an affinity group you trust
in anotiier locale, your affinity group
and theirs can set up an exchange
program: with their assistance, you
can carry out risky activities in their
area witfiout the authorities' knowing
who it is, and vice versa.
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there is of the knowledge getting into the wrong hands. Sharing such information with people who do not need it does them a disservice as well as the ones it puts at risk: it places them in the uncomfortable situation of being able to mess up other people's lives with a single misstep. If they are interrogated, for example, they will have something to hide, rather than being able to honestly claim ignorance.
Don't ask, don't tell. Don't ask others to share any confidential information you don't need to know. Don't brag about illegal things you or others have done, or mention things that are going to happen or might happen, or even refer to another person's interest in being involved in such activities. Stay aware whenever you speak, don't let chance allusions drop out thoughtlessly.
