Zines – Swallowtail Distro https://stdmag.blackblogs.org Connecting radical resources to radical prisoners and their conspirators Wed, 06 Mar 2024 20:46:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2304/2023/09/cropped-Untitled-design-32x32.png Zines – Swallowtail Distro https://stdmag.blackblogs.org 32 32 Dallas, Fort Worth Jail Support https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/2024/02/05/dallas-fort-worth-jail-support/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:06:58 +0000 https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/?p=88

One sheet designed to take some of the guesswork out of support prisoners of Denton, Dallas, and Tarrant counties. This information was compiled as the most important facts to know from former prisoners of all three counties and is up to date as of January 2024.

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NYCABC Illustrated Guide To Political Prisoners https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/2024/02/05/nycabc-illustrated-guide-to-political-prisoners/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:49:24 +0000 https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/?p=80

Illustrated guide to Political Prisoners and POW’s supported by NYC Anarchist Black Cross. The .pdf file has been optimized to print in booklet layout through Acrobat:

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Kazi Toure of Boston Jericho on Prisoner Support https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/2024/02/05/kazi-toure-of-boston-jericho-on-prisoner-support/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:40:02 +0000 https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/?p=76 Kazi is a former political prisoner from the Ohio 7 case and founding member of the Boston chapter of The National Jericho Movement. The following is an interview with Kazi and The Final Straw Radio on the history of Jericho Movement, supporting political prisoners and support for post-release and aging prisoners. Transcribed by https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/

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Blessed is the Flame https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/2024/02/05/blessed-is-the-flame/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:23:28 +0000 https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/?p=72 This book, with a name from a poem by a partisan fighter, takes two things that would not necessarily seem to go together, but that, on second thought, are made for each other.

An introduction to anarcho-nihilism becomes tales of resistance in the Nazi concentration camps, almost all of which failed (in the sense that the resisters died), and for which there was never much hope that they could do anything but fail, which are then analyzed in light of anarcho-nihilism.
This book is an excellent example of taking anarcho-nihilism seriously, as a call to action that has nothing to do with the expectation that we will succeed at making the world better.

For those who are confused about anarcho-nihilism, and also for those who use the word nihilism as a trendy way to talk about the same actions that leftists have been doing for decades, this text will be an especially helpful road sign.

What does it take to resist in absolutely futile and overwhelming situations?
Inside of the Nazi concentration camps, places designed to eradicate all possibilities for resistance, inmates organized, sabotaged, and reflexively fought back against their oppressors. Within each of these stories we can find a simmering spirit of anarcho-nihilism, a tendency that challenges us to translate our feelngs of hopelessness into wild and joyous forms of attack.
Because even if we don’t stand a chance, we refuse to be led to the slaughter like sheep.

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The Black Flag Anarcho Quiz Book https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/2024/02/05/the-black-flag-anarcho-quiz-book/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:19:36 +0000 https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/?p=68
Red scanned cover of magazine, 70's block letters and illustration of cartoons in capital A's. "The anarcho quiz book"

The Black Flag Anarcho-Quiz Book. 
207 questions and their answers pulled from the pages of the Black Flag the organ of the UK Anarchist Black Cross. 
Compiled by Albert Meltzer with illustrations from Philip Ruff and Marco.

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A World Without Police https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/2024/02/05/a-world-without-police/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:56:27 +0000 https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/?p=59 This guide is published by the excellent website AworldWithoutPolice.org which has as its goal the complete abolition of the police. To that end, this pamphlet provides an excellent introduction to the problem of the police (exploring their history and reasons for existing), as well as offering many specific suggestions for moving towards a world without police. The discussion centers a strategy of disempowering, disarming, and disbanding the police with practical ideas of what that could look like and what it would take to get there. Overall, this is an excellent pamphlet that would be great for getting in the hands of folks who aren’t already familiar with critiques of police and policing.

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Oblivion: Anarchy & the Collapse of Industrial Civilization https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/2024/02/05/oblivion-anarchy-the-collapse-of-industrial-civilization/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:48:40 +0000 https://stdmag.blackblogs.org/?p=55 From back cover:

“Of course, regardless of how myself or anyone else feels about industrial collapse, and whether or not people want to believe we can either prevent or accelerate it, industrial collapse is already happening, and has been for quite some time. Perhaps the reason why it’s gone unnoticed is either due to denial, or because the rate at which it’s collapsing doesn’t resemble a single, crumbling tower that quickly turns into ash and smoke. That is because something as large and socially complex as industrial society doesn’t break down all at once, but instead decomposes at different points and at different times. It is commonly understood as collapse due to an acknowledgement that as the natural resources needed to sustain industrial society are depleted, the points of decomposition break down beyond repair.”

“I can imagine a couple possible reasons why industrial collapse doesn’t cross the minds of many. One reason could be the socialized mentality of immortality driven by human supremacist arrogance. There are many people today – including leftists – who continue to put faith in science and technology as the saviors of life, and as a primary response to ecological disasters. At the root of this unwavering faith is a refusal to acknowledge how science and technology have re-defined life by securing human-centric control over the wild. Science and technology, regardless of their greening continue to be the alphabet of industrialization – expanding power and influence through a language of increased alienation and ecological extinction. From military empowerment through the expansive production of weapons of mass destruction, to the tireless gaze of increased State surveillance over the population, science and technology never sleep. And as industrialization continues to absorb what remains of the wild world, the relationship to wildness erodes on both an individual and societal level.”

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