by Crimethinc. Workers' Collective
Available in 284 free installments
Owner:
Many of the recipes we composed for this volume were test-driven in small towns We selected such locations for our rigorous process of experimentation and analysis on the grounds that they were utterly unremarkable. Perhaps the importance of San Francisco and Barcelona in the struggle for freedom and adventure for all has been overestimated; not everyone can or should live in such places, and besides, many revolutionary strategies which are now impossible in these cities are still tremendously dangerous everywhere else. Why risk arrest in the financial district to put up graffiti that will only remam for a few hours, when there are a thousand unguarded stop signs in the suburbs waiting to sing your song? Quite a few of these recipes are designed especially for the Middles-of-Nowhere of our world, the nondescript margins of history where Nothing Ever Happens. As they say, the quickest way to the top is to turn the world upside down Revolution is, among other things, a reversal: the first becomes the last, the margin becomes the mamstream, the nameless convict becomes Nestor Makhno, commander of the anarchist armies of the Ukraine. The anonymous, inexperienced teenagers who get their hands on this book in Missoula, Montana could be the ones to make hip New York and this book itself, totally obsolete. If you're one of them-wherever you live, however old you are?for everyone's sake, don't underestimate your own strength.
One more subject bears comment-the countless recipes left out of this book espe-ciaUy the ones you think we should have included. Those, my friend, are the first recipes m ^lour book, which you had better start writing as soon as possible.
Yours for total destruction and recreation, and wishing you many a sweet repast,
Crimethlnc. International Federation of Food Service Industry Escapees
"With work reduced to a few hours a week and other redundant rituals discarded, the substance of life shall be given over to the planning of gala celebrations and the anticipation of perfect meals." -F.I Marionetti, Futurist Cookbook
Setting the Table
12 ? Preface: Direct Action?
what it is, and what it's good for
28 ? Affinity Groups
35 ? Antifascist Action
66 ? Asphalt Mosaics
75 ? Banner Drops and Banner Hoists
85 ? Behavioral Cut-ups
92 ? Bicycle Collectives 100 Bicycle Parades 107 Painting by Bicycle
111 ? How to Make a Bicycle into a Record Player 114 ? Billboard Improvement 127 ? Blocs, Black and Otherwise 162 ' Blockades and Lockdowns 178 ? Classroom Takeover 183 ? Coalition Building 191 Collectives 205 ? Corporate Downsizing 210 ? Distribution, Tabling, and Infoshops
219 ? Dumpster Diving
229 ? Effigies
234 ? Evasion
241 - Festivals
248 ? Food Not Bombs
258 ? Graffiti
269 ? Guerrilla Performances
275 ? Health Care
287 ' Hijacking Events
296 ? Hitchhiking
306 ? Infiltration
322 - Inflatables
329 ? Legal Support
336 Marches and Parades
346 ? Independent Media
358 ? Mainstream Media
366 ? Mental Health
383 ? Musical Instruments
392 ' Newspaper Wraps
397 ? Nonmonogamous Relationships
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Parties
Pie Throwing Portrait Exchange Reclaim the Streets How to Build a Rocketstove Sabotage Screenprinting Security Culture Sex
Shoplifting Smoke Bombs Solidarity-Spell Casting Squatting Stenciling Stickering
Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence Surviving a Felony Trial Thinktanks Torches
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? Undermining Oppression
? Unemployment
? Utilities
? Wheatpasting
? How to Join Crimethlnc.
? About the Authors Further Reading Index Conversion Tables
"Take care of yourself!" screamed the Red Queen, seizing Alice's hair with both her hands. ''Something's going to happen!"
Preface:
Direct Action ? What It Is...
