5/3/07

Full Details on 2007 Convergence in Athens, OH
We now have a full webpage up about this summer’s convergence in Athens, Ohio, detailing everything you can expect from the event and all the ways you can help out. Please circulate this announcement online and download posters and handbills to distribute in your community.

3/29/07

New Feature on Anarchism in Colombia, 2007 Convergence in Athens, OH
One of our field teams recently returned from an investigative trip to Latin America, and we’re pleased to present their complete report on anarchism and social struggles in Colombia. In addition to a general analysis of the Colombian context, this includes reports on the activities of a dozen collectives, reviews of publications from throughout the area, and contacts for a wide range of groups. Whether you’re planning a trip to Latin America, looking to make connections for solidarity projects, or just interested in learning more about the Colombian situation, please have a look.

We’re also excited to announce that this summer’s CrimethInc. convergence will take place in Athens, Ohio from July 25 to 29. This is the most advance notice we’ve given for a convergence since the first one, and we’d like to think that this indicates increasingly sophisticated levels of organization on our part. Last summer’s convergence was easily the most successful since 2002, and this summer’s will be an excellent opportunity to share skills and adventures with your fellow hooligans and lunatics, not to mention lay plans for the year ahead.

Rumor has it that there will also be tours leading up to the convergence; stay tuned for more details about those and the events planned for Athens. In the meantime, email crimethincbooking@yahoo.com to volunteer to contribute to, assist with, or attend the convergence.

3/6/07

Rolling Thunder #4 Hits the Streets!
The fourth and best yet issue of Rolling Thunder, our direct action and resistance culture biannual, is fresh from the printers. The centerpiece of this one is a full-color photoessay chronicling the popular uprising during which the people of Oaxaca, Mexico wrested control of their city from the government for a period of months. Continuing that theme, other feature articles cover the defense and eviction of South Central Farm in Los Angeles, the Really Really Free Market as a model for reclaiming public space from capitalism and bureaucracy, the resurgence of squatting in Buffalo of all places, the university occupation movement in France, and the ins and outs of urban exploration. The remainder of the issue includes a comprehensive guide to supporting prisoners and defendants, the lyrics to “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” as interpreted by acclaimed comic artist Nate Powell, a gallery of ready-to-use stencils, and plenty of the edgy artwork and poignant prose you’ve come to expect.

To celebrate this issue’s debut, we’re sharing the report on the Really Really Free Market in our features section. If your community doesn’t yet have a Really Really Free Market, read this introductory guide and consider starting one up this coming spring. We feel it’s one of the most effective new anarchist organizing models of the past few years.

Also, Rolling Thunder now has its own postal address.

12/7/06

Filastine CD Benefit for Green Scare Defendants, Downloads Galore
A year ago today the despicable lackeys of the FBI initiated “operation backfire,” a roundup of accused arsonists intended to intimidate all associated with ecologically-oriented direct action. Most the of the defendants in this witch hunt have since accepted plea bargains—some honorably, some dishonorably. More on this here.

We are pleased to do our humble part to support the defendants who have refused to inform by releasing Filastine’s "Burn It" CD as a fundraiser. Filastine, a former member of ¡Tchkung! and founding participant in the Infernal Noise Brigade, has been drawing on musical traditions from all around the globe to compose incendiary anarchist music for well over a decade now. "Burn It," a wide-ranging mélange of driving rhythms, electronic experimentation, on-site sampling, and multilingual vocals, has already been released in Europe to great acclaim. A full $5 from every CD sale will go to the defendants, who face long stretches of prison time and massive debts.

Also, while things seemed quiet here over the past month and a half, a full six new designs have been announced on the CrimethInc. Worker Bulletin Board. These include N30: The Seattle WTO Protests, a 64-page retrospective exploring how the WTO demonstrations seven years ago changed the course of history; a timeline of events in Oaxaca, chronicling the popular uprising currently taking place just beyond the US border; Don’t Talk to the Police, an admonition to all who may be questioned by police or federal agents; Wash Your Own Dishes, an explication of every political/economic system from Libertarianism to Anarcho-Primitivism according to how the dishes get washed; The Art of Politics, an analysis of all the ways politics-as-we-know-it excludes, segregates, co-opts, distracts, controls, represses, and oppresses; and White Shark Tales, a globe-trotting adventure story of anarchist resistance. These are all available for downloading free of charge; please copy, plagiarize, reinvent, and circulate widely. If you cannot otherwise obtain print copies of them, email crimethincbooking@yahoo.com.

9/20/06

Rolling Thunder #3, Soliciting Stencils and Graffiti for #4, Stone Hotel PDF
International reports from last Mayday’s pro-immigrant rallies! Analysis of the Bush regime’s strategy to promote terrorism worldwide! Discussion of the latest wave of federal repression! Testimony from a convicted anti-war arsonist! Anarchist perspectives on and reports from the struggle against domestic violence! A tell-all interview with notorious graffiti artist(s) BORF! A shocking exposé on German pro-Zionist lunatics! A how-to guide to funneling resources out of universities! A spy’s-eye-view of immigrant labor in factory farming! A narrow escape from the flaming Pentagon on September 11, 2001! A history of direct action and rioting in queer liberation struggles! A cartoon recounting the riots at the canceled World Bank conference in Barcelona! A mad-lib for radicals with poor social skills! A satirical guide to writing reviews! Visionary storytelling, technical advice on computer security, eulogies and poster designs and more, more, more!—You guessed it, Rolling Thunder #3 is out, practically on schedule. We’re now soliciting stencil designs and graffiti documentation for the next issue—visit the Bulletin Board for details.

Also, we’ve sold out of the first printing of Raegan Butcher’s Stone Hotel. While we may reprint it in the future, we’re making it available as a PDF in the meantime. Reading books on a computer screen is bad enough, but this will have to do for now. Raegan’s finely-printed second book, Rusty String Quartet, consisting of 264 poems in 340 pages, is still available in its first printing of 2000 copies.

8/11/06

New Website, Convergence Report, Response to Repression
We’re delighted to unveil our latest project, the CrimethInc. Worker Bulletin Board. This website will function as a clearinghouse for bulletins from participating CrimethInc. cells, enabling readers to keep abreast of their activities and, more importantly, coordinate activities with them. Announcements of upcoming events, proposals for future projects, appeals for participation and assistance, breaking news, eyewitness reports and analysis, new texts, and drafts in progress will all appear here.

The convergence in Winona went fabulously, by far our best such effort since 2002. You can read about it on the aforementioned Bulletin Board.

Also, in honor of the third issue of Rolling Thunder being sent off to the printer, we’re leaking an article from it in advance: “The Irrepressible Anarchists,” a discussion of the latest wave of federal repression sweeping our communities and the most effective ways we can respond.

7/19/06

Convergence Details Posted, Update on Financial Situation
The convergence plans that have been incubating since winter have hatched! You’ll find here an extensive description of what to expect, including campsite policies, activities, and scheduled events. This is by far the most preparation we’ve ever done for one of these events. This summer’s CrimethInc. convergence runs from July 26 to 31. Those who wish to attend should show up during the day on July 26 to the Visitors Center on the northeast corner of Highway 61 and Huff Street in Winona, Minnesota. Email convergence@crimethinc.com with questions. See you there, or somewhere . . .

Thanks to everyone for the immense support we received after our announcement of financial crisis. The abundance of supportive words and donations sustained us through a very difficult time, and we've emerged on the other side intact and ready for action. All who lent a hand have our most sincere gratitude. As such, we're pleased as punch to announce that the extraordinary crisis is over and we now resume our constant-but-not-quite-debilitating financial crisis. Fighting For Our Lives are once again shipping out in bulk, and you can ignore our desperate pleas for donations without guilt once again! Just kidding, of course—donations still remain an essential element to what we are doing and if you are able to spare some money to help us send out FFOLs, it is still needed and appreciated. And finally, if you've been thinking about grabbing a copy of the Ne Plus Ultra Days of War, time is running out, as of today only 11 copies remain.

5/29/06

CrimethInc. Far East Financial Crisis and Corresponding Days of War Fundraiser, Convergence Update
We're thrilled to relay that in the first seven weeks after announcing the availability of the third printing of Fighting For Our Lives, we have received more than one thousand requests for free copies; at the same time we are chagrined to report that donations are at an all time low, and numerous other factors have contributed to our first-ever full-blown financial crisis (to the degree where we cannot currently send out any free copies of FFOL due to lack of funds). We've posted a report on the situation, and have included some suggestions for how you can help if you have a few extra dollars and feel the work we’re doing is worth supporting. Towards that end, we have a special Ne Plus Ultra Edition of Days of War, Nights of Love—a hardcover pressing limited to one hundred copies celebrating the book's tenth printing and fifth anniversary (both of which actually occurred about nine months ago—we've been busy -Ed.). We will be sending out a total of fifty copies as tokens of our appreciation for people who make donations of $100 or more (details here). Thanks so much—for all the support everyone has given to bring our collective effort this far, and for your consideration in the present situation.

We've been working around the clock sorting proposals for this summer's convergence, trying to put everything in place. We're still looking for people to share skills and stories—we’d love to hear from those who experienced mutual aid following hurricane Katrina, participants in the CPE riots in France and undocumented immigrant struggles in the US, local organizers who have hit upon particularly effective schemes, and just about everyone else. If you’re interested in bottom-lining a project or presentation, please email us with your plans; you can also download a promotional poster. As summer begins to heat up, at least one tour will set out for the convergence. In the meantime, you can keep up with the ongoing Requiem tour here.

4/17/06

Summer Convergence on the Horizon, Community Watch Stickers, and We’re Outta Here
This summer, the fifth CrimethInc. convergence will take place in Winona, Minnesota from July 26 to 31. A core group of locals will work hard all summer to prepare the ground so this event can both contribute to the host community and enable participants from around the world to trade tactics and forge connections. Click here for more information.

In other news, to honor and assist those working to make their neighborhoods safer and more welcoming, we have printed a new sticker identifying Community Watch Areas and discouraging police activity within them. Please apply these as part of a larger program of promoting accountability among community members as well as resisting the encroachments of occupying armies. In conjunction with these stickers, we now have a page given over entirely to the study of the lowest form of life, the law enforcement agent.

And last, but certainly not least, we’re thrilled to announce that CrimethInc. Far East is leaving Olympia, its home for these past five years, and moving back to delightful downtown Salem, Oregon. The ancient among you will remember a Salem PO Box on the first issue of Harbinger, and we're excited to be moving back to the city that played host to our first bits of real living. We'll be moving at the beginning of May and don't anticipate more than very minor delays in day-to-day operations including sending out orders and FFOL requests. Any mail sent after May 1st should be directed to our new mailing address. We believe in the potential of this sleepy little town on the Willamette, and hope through the next years to help Salem realize its great radical potential as we realize our own. Thanks Olympia, Hello Salem!

4/1/06

Fighting For Our Lives Available Once More, Ten Year Report, Mayday Poster
Today, April Fool’s Day, 2006, we announce the third printing of our anarchist primer Fighting For Our Lives, which is once again available from us free in bulk throughout North America. This printing of 150,000 brings the total print run of this pamphlet to 500,000 copies, the target we set for this project three and a half years ago. This latest edition is by far the best looking, with two colors throughout and several other format improvements. Please order as many copies as you think there might be readers in your community—let’s keep the anarchist alternative in the public eye.

A half million copies of a paper is a lot in some circles, but in our eyes, this is the very least we can do. We would like to see a similar level of activity from all other anarchist groups, whether that takes the form of outreach, artistic expression, community infrastructure, labor organizing, mass mobilizations, sabotage, or other means of struggle.

We’ve taken advantage of this occasion to compile a report on the past decade of CrimethInc. activity, painstakingly prepared by CrimethInc. Far East in association with other CWC operatives. This report chronicles some of the projects that have appeared during this period and suggests some lessons that can be derived from these ten years of experience.

Finally, just in time to help promote local events celebrating the coming of spring and the memory of the Haymarket martyrs, we’ve finished a new Mayday poster, which is now available for downloading.

2/25/06

New Rolling Thunder, New Website, Tour in the Offing
The new issue of Rolling Thunder is out! The lengthiest articles this time around are an analysis of last summer’s protests against the G8 meeting in Scotland, a retrospective on squatting and resistance culture in northern Europe, and an in-depth discussion of subcultural marginality and refusal that is to dropping out what last issue’s sixteen-page feature article was to protest activism. The last of these is rounded out by an inside report on the workings of current labor unions, a memoir of gender mutiny, and an account of how to establish a squatted community center; other highlights include an intimate reflection on the patterns by which abusive relationships perpetuate themselves and a primer on communications technology for direct action. This issue also features plenty of the unorthodox fare that distinguishes CrimethInc. projects from the sometimes listless work of other radicals: a haunting fairy tale, cutting edge games to play between more serious adventures, a crossword puzzle, and sheet music for a classic blues song about the preponderance of bread products in the dumpsterer’s diet.

Also, we are pleased to announce that the Urban Pirates cell of the CrimethInc. network has unveiled a new website, urbanpirates.crimethinc.net. Among other services, this resource provides information about and downloads from many bands associated with CrimethInc.—such as Requiem and The Spectacle, who will tour the US together from May through July. To help with booking this tour, email Stef (at) crimethinc.com; the tour dates will appear on the aforementioned website.

1/21/06

Free Direct Action Primer Now Available
We've just returned from the printer with 20,000 copies of our latest free newspaper, A Civilian's Guide to Direct Action: What It Is, What It's Good For, How It Works. This step-by-step guide covers every stage in direct action organizing from brainstorming to post-action legal support. It is a perfect companion piece for our anarchist cookbook, Recipes for Disaster, in that it offers a general framework for applying the specific skills detailed in that book. Whether you're engaging in civil disobedience, articipating in a mass mobilization, or carrying out hard-core sabotage, this can serve as a checklist from the beginning to the end. The paper also includes refutations of all the clichés that regularly trotted out by those who oppose direct action.

This newspaper comes free in every order from CrimethInc. Far East, and is also available in bulk for less than the cost of printing and postage. Two bundles of it have been added to the Literature Distro Kit without the cost of the latter increasing one penny, and a pdf is available here for downloading. Please join us in this educational campaign to keep direct action as safe, effective, and popular as possible.

12/30/05

Our First DVD Project Released!
I'm tickled to announce that after months of hard labour and a rather steep learning curve, our first of hopefully many DVD projects, CrimethInc. Guerilla Film Series, Volume One, is now available. Spanning two discs, the collection combines our old standards (Pickaxe and Breaking the Spell) with a new feature documentary (The Miami Model) and five short films (three classic thinktank experiments documented and two SubMedia films). We also hammered out subtitles in English and Spanish for all three features, and added new filmmaker commentaries for Pickaxe, BTS, and the thinktank film, Auto Revision. Check out the trailer and if you feel so inclined, grab a copy for $10ppd and show it to as many people as possible. The DVD is also included in the now slightly improperly-named Literature Distro Kit.

As fucking excited as we are to have this DVD fnished and available, we are equally dispirited by the immenent increase in postal rates on January 8th. Despite the official line of a "slight increase of 5.4%," Media Mail rates are increasing by as much as 13%. Because everything we publish has the postage for Media Mail built into the price, an increase this large makes life even more difficult for us—for several of our books this is the second or third increase in postage costs since we set the prices over the last few yers. To help compensate, we are going to add 1% to our online surcharge, but otherwise we're sticking it out and not increasing any of our prices. We're giving fair warning: with the next rate increase we may very well have to increase some prices.

Sandman will be kicking off the new year on tour with underground filmmaking master, Bill Daniel and his new film about old-school hobo graffiti. Be sure to go check 'em out, it promises to be even more of an extravaganza than usual. Also, we are currently putting the final touches on the next issue of Rolling Thunder, expect it to appear here in just over a month.

10/29/05

New Requiem Tour Dates
Entering their fourth month on the road, Requiem is going out to the West coast and back. Consult their tour schedule here. They have with them a wide assortment of reading material, of course, and are fairly sociable, if a little road-weary.

9/20/05

CrimethInc.Net/work Unveiled, CrimethInc. en Español, New Poster Available in Bulk
After years and years of failed attempts and results so horrendous as to boggle the mind, we open for public participation the newest attempt at a CrimethInc. networking site, CrimethInc.Net/work 2.0. There are a lot of bells and whistles here—an events calendar, a cell directory, user blogs, a recipe database, art galleries—all of which are begging for content created by you. This site is only as valuable and useful as y'all make it, so let's work together to make this an indespensible resource for ambitious lunatics all over the world. A good place to start after registering is the .net owners' manual.

Out of the ether we have found a version of the Guerrilla Latina CrimethInc. site, thought to be lost forever, and are now hosting a mirror of this excellent site which contains many CrimethInc. writings translated expertly into Spanish—it will be hosted at www.crimethinc.com/espanol.

And, finally, we have a new three-color poster in our poster kit series, the Your Life is Your Life poster, featuring artwork by the amazing Nikki McClure. As of today, one copy comes free in all paid orders, and we've added a bundle of them to the Literature Distro Kit with no increase in price.

8/31/05

Requiem and Spectacle CDs Released, Combo Zine Again Available in Bulk
We're thrilled to announce the availability of two of our favorite records we've ever released: the debut recording by the amazing Requiem, "Storm Heaven," and the sophomore effort from those Norwegian maniacs in The Spectacle, "I, Fail." Expectations were very high for both of these records, and we're happy to report that expectations have been exceeded with vigor. (Holding these finished projects in my hand, I'm reminded of why we started doing all this in the first place—this music makes me want to stay alive. -Ed.) Click on the above links for more info and mp3 samples, and catch them together on their European tour, after which Requiem will be touring the US starting mid-October.

Also, after a long absence we've finally reprinted the DIY Guide 2/Walls Are Alive Combo Zine, and it is now available again in bulk. We've cut 12 pages from the DIY Guide that were covered in more depth in the cookbook, but the other 40 pages are still there, as well the complete The Walls Are Alive. The price, unfortunately, has to stay the same despite the fewer pages due to enormous increases in paper prices over the last year. The Combo Zines are also now included in the Literature Distro Kit.

A new pamplet has been added to our downloads section containing the essays Forget Terrorism and After the Fall, ready for copy machines everywhere; we have also added the option of getting support for mailorder issues over IM; and no, we don't know anything about this.

8/7/05

New and Improved Cookbook Printing
Fresh off the presses, the second printing of our anarchist cookbook, Recipes for Disaster, printed by a new printer in Quebec, has arrived. The new edition boasts some small improvements over the first edition, the most significant of which is the fancy, new PUR glue used in the binding. PUR glue is more than ten times stronger than normal book-binding glue so the book itself will not fall apart, even under heavy abuse, as well as being resistant to heat (so it won't melt), resistant to below freezing temperatures (so it won't crack), and most importantly, it makes the spine extraordinarily flexible so that it resists creasing and enables the book to be laid flat easily and without doing any damage. This was one of the few complaints we received about the first printing, and we're glad to be able to make it right. Additionally, the book is now printed on chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper, and is printed at an union print shop (not an easy thing to find). Oh, and finally, we fixed a few typos and added a small update or two (yes, this means you, Mr. Chertoff). Starting today, all orders for the cookbook will be sent out copies from this second printing.

7/11/05

Convergence Imminent; Requiem and Spectacle Albums and Tours to Follow
Our latest experiment, the Adventurist Convergence, occurs this week in Bloomington, Indiana between July 14 and 18. To participate, simply show up at the Monroe County Public Library (303 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47408) on Thursday (July 14); an agent there will redirect you to the campsite. If you’ll be arriving at another time, or have any other needs or questions, email crimethincbooking@yahoo.com. Volunteers are urged to come early to help prepare the campsite and assist in other ways. We also still need help providing food for everyone, gathering gifts to offer at Saturday’s Really Really Free Market, and doing just about everything else.

Requiem has just finished recording their upcoming album, Storm Heaven, which will be released in August along with the new album by their sister band, The Spectacle. You can download a Requiem song here; for a foretaste of the forthcoming Spectacle recording and a listing of all the dates the two bands will play together on their joint tour of Europe from August to October, visit www.the-spectacle.com. Before and after that tour, Requiem will tour the US; for a listing of those shows, click here.

6/14/05

First Issue of New Journal, New Raegan Butcher Book, Convergence Update
If anything has been missing from our publishing regimen, it has been a regular periodical to provide continuity from one project to the next and cover the adventures these projects bring about. At long last, we are pleased to present Rolling Thunder, an “anarchist journal of dangerous living” that will fill this role. This debut issue includes an extensive analysis of the past decade of direct action, feature articles on consent in sexual relationships and alternative conceptions of education, and testimonials from maniacs who squatted their own workplaces and set themselves on fire while fighting police . . . and that’s just the beginning! Written, designed, and printed through the same channels as our books, this magazine offers 116 pages of radical commentary, history, poetry, artwork, fiction, parlor games, comics, skills, culinary advice, and other inflammatory material.

As if that wasn’t enough, we’ve also just received from the printer the fourth book in the CrimethInc. Letters series, a new collection of poetry by Raegan Butcher entitled Rusty String Quartet. It picks up where Stone Hotel left off, as Raegan is released from prison into a world seven years different from the one he knew. This isn’t the poetry they made you read in high school, that’s for sure. Our second longest book to date, Rusty String Quartet offers 264 poems in 340 pages. Both new titles are also now included in the Literature Distro Kit.

We now have a page up providing information about the CrimethInc. convergence taking place in Indiana this summer July 14-18. As we attempt to coordinate events for the week, it will be tremendously helpful for those interested to get in touch and let us know what projects, presentations, resources, or desires they intend to bring. Some of the organizers can be contacted through crimethincbooking@yahoo.com.

Finally, this summer we will release The Spectacle’s second album and the first recording by Requiem. Both bands will tour Europe together in September and October, and Requiem will tour the US in August and November. Anyone willing to book a show—or, even better, do the work to ensure that a given show is more than just another show—can contact them through that same address, crimethincbooking@yahoo.com.

5/9/05

Hatching Plots for a Hot Summer
There will be a CrimethInc. convergence this summer! It will take place in Indiana, from July 14 to 18. The campsite is yet to be ascertained, but the convergence will intersect with the Plan-It-X Records festival in Bloomington on July 16: the day will be filled with workshops and games, and the evening with music and other excitement. We're really pulling out all the stops for this convergence, and we urge all of you to pull together a traveling group, brainstorm some resource or secret plan that you are more qualified than any other to bring and offer to your fellow maniacs, and join us to make it something unforgettable.

For all those who have eagerly been anticipating the upcoming Sabatour in support of Recipes for Disaster, you can help out by sending in much-needed donations. The organization is in its final hour, and the dates are posted on the informational site. Dozens and dozens of strangers have come together to make this tour possible, and they all deserve thanks for their efforts and investment. Also, anyone in the new england area with a van that would like to come on the tour is offically welcome. We invite freight drivers/renegade performers for an adevnture of a lifetime.

And lastly, we have new Literature Distro Kits now available: the new kits include everything you need to set up a distro table or stock a small infoshop including books to sell and zines, posters and stickers in bulk to give away. We made these available so that people can get bulk copies of all the books at the cheapest possible price without having to order 10 copies of each book.

3/22/05

New Zegota 7”, New Material Online, Bookfairs and Conferences, And So Much More
We have a new 7” from Zegota, and it’s some of their best music ever! The first side is an unabashed street protest anthem entitled “Anarchist Cheerleader Song,” and the other a spine-tingling cover of the traditional spiritual “Sinner Man” á la Nina Simone. Like all their best material, these songs veer between catchy and haunting, remaining impassioned and frenetic throughout. Our condolences to those who missed Zegota on their US tour a month ago.

There’s a new article up in our features section, a preview from the forthcoming first issue of our wild-eyed adventurist periodical Rolling Thunder: it’s an extensive account and analysis of the past few years of militant demonstrations, aimed to sharpen the wits and tactics of the direct action movement in North America. Speaking of magazines, we now have a ‘zine-format PDF available of “Wasted, Indeed,” the anarchist indictment of alcohol that first appeared in the now out-of-print final issue of our hardcore journal, Inside Front. We also have a new poster in the downloads section: “Behind Our Masks, We Are You.”

We’ll have copies of that poster, among other incendiary (and mostly free!) materials, at our tables at the 10th Annual San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair on the 26th of this month. In early April, Requiem will play a few shows in the Midwest, including at the Global Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 9. Contact them at crimethincbooking@yahoo.com and demand they play in your community.

We’re into the last fifth of the first printing of Recipes for Disaster, and will be reprinting it in late April, around the time the first issue of Rolling Thunder finally sees the light of day. Shortly thereafter, we’ll release a new full-length from Norway’s The Spectacle. More about this coming summer in the next update.

And finally, as you may have already noticed, we now have an RSS news feed, and a tiny WAP site, read more about these additions here.

2/13/05

Cookbook Update, Sabatour Annoucement
Recipes for Disaster has been out for about two months now, and we're still waiting to have a free moment to catch our breath. It has been warmly received (warm as in the fires of the sun) and that reception has kept us busy. Thanks to everyone who has spread the good word on the book—keep it up. Very belatedly, we've made a half-page ad available for those who wish to deploy it.

The first news about the upcoming Sabatour has been posted . . . we've added a new pamphlet to our downloads section, a handy print version of our recent feature, "Twelve Myths About Direct Action" . . . we just got the third printing of Off the Map back from the printers, and we're happy to announce it is printed with newly-available 100% post-consumer recycled paper . . . and finally, the Umalut discography got a great review from Acquarius records, click here and scroll down a bit to check it out.

12/15/04

Our Anarchist Cookbook, Recipes For Disaster, Is Unleashed Upon the World
For ten long years, our operatives have honed their skills, testing their wits and mettle against the global capitalist empire, the most formidable adversary in the history of life on earth. We have learned how to redecorate the walls of cities occupied by armies of riot police, to transform random groups of damaged, isolated individuals into loving communities capable of supporting one another through the most severe bouts of repression and depression, to shut down corporate summits and franchises armed with little more than plastic piping or eyedroppers of glue. Now, we’ve compiled many of the techniques that made these feats possible into a 624-page handbook entitled Recipes for Disaster.

The sixty-two recipes run the gamut from Affinity Groups to Wheatpasting, stopping along the way at topics as disparate as Hitchhiking, Sabotage, and Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence. Each recipe is illustrated as necessary with photographs, technical diagrams, and firsthand accounts. Countless individuals and collectives have contributed to the testing, composing, and editing, in order to put the most useful and comprehensive manual in the hands of revolutionaries everywhere. Recipes for Disaster has not yet been banned by the U.S. government; it is currently available from us for not much more than the costs of printing, and transportation. We hope this book will help those working to transform both their own lives and the world as we know it, but the rest is up to you. The first 500 mailorder copies will receive a nice little bookmark.

Our features section has also been updated with a text on direct action, the focus of Recipes for Disaster.

12/13/04

Fighting For Our Lives Out of Stock, CrimethInc. Deficit Hits Record High
We’ve nearly run out of copies of the second printing of Fighting For Our Lives, our introduction to passionate anarchism, and can no longer offer them for bulk orders. That makes close to 350,000 of them that have been distributed since the paper was first published in September 2002. We hope to do another printing eventually, but for the time being we are financially crippled to an extent that makes the average North American working family look solvent. We were able to pull off the first printing of Fighting For Our Lives, barely, thanks to the massive donations that many offered to assist with this project, but the donations for this printing have been fewer and much less, and we’re barely able to afford to mail out paid orders at this point. If any of you have the financial means to assist us, so we can keep the greater part of our projects free to the public and donation-based, this is the time to do so. Thanks for all the support we have received over the years. Bulk copies are still available for special events and occasions, if you have a plan cooking, just drop us a line.

11/15/04

Cookbook Cooking, Stay Tuned for Civil War
And now, the biggest news here since the publication of Fighting for Our Lives! After nearly three years of hard labor, our anarchist cookbook, Recipes for Disaster, has finally entered the production process. This 624-page book collects a great part of the skills and knowledge direct action enthusiasts have developed and tested over the past decade, covering everything from Affinity Groups to Wheatpasting; well over thirty different collectives have collaborated to produce it, and we hope it can play an important part in equipping our communities for the next decade of activity. The books should be back from the printers and in our hands around December 15, check back here then for all the details. We can't accept pre-orders, as we have no idea what will happen to them, us, or you between now and then, but in the meantime, click here for a characteristically grandiose preview.

10/12/04

Requiem/The Spectacle Tour Dates Updated
The Requiem/The Spectacle tour begins this weekend—see here for an updated list of the dates. The tour includes a distribution table featuring a wide array of radical literature and material. Hope to see you out there!

A quick update on the poster kit projects: This weekend we did new reprintings of all three posters (third for 'Gender,' second for both 'Beauty' and 'Regime'), so it appears folks are excited and motivated by them—at this point we have put more than 100,000 out into the world—hooray! Sadly, the cost of the fancy paper we use for the posters has gone up considerbaly over the last year since we first made them available, and with this most current printing we are forced to raise the prices by about 50¢ a bundle to keep up with costs ($4ppd for a bundle of 25, $25ppd for 250).

Also, as the election nears, stay abreast of more effective means of having a say in your society at www.dontjustvote.com.

9/18/04

Umlaut CD Released, Reports from Summer Adventures, Spectacle/Requiem Tour Dates Online
At long last, after a full three years of setbacks and catastrophes, we have released the complete discography of recordings by the fastest, fiercest, most feral, and most Finnish band in the history of destructive anarchist blastbeat punk, Ümlaut. This unauthorized bootleg discography features all 38 of their recorded songs, still clocking in at under half an hour, and includes an 80-page book collecting lyrics, incendiary liner notes, absurdist interviews, words to unrecorded songs, apocryphal comic book illustrations, and other nonsense and debauchery. From their inaccessible, hyperspeed aesthetics to their nihilistic, quasi-terrorist politics, this is not a record you should leave out for your parents or children to stumble across. Oh ye of little faith, download a song or three to find out just how little we’re joking.

As the smoke from the enormous burning dragon puppet clears and felony charges are reduced to misdemeanors, the massive protests in New York City are settling into perspective as evidence that the direct action movement in the US didn’t die three years ago. For a report from the most radical contingent in the march of half a million people on August 29, proceed to www.dontjustvote.com. To obtain bulk copies of the latest paper published by the Don’t Just Vote underground, It’s Not Bush, It’s the System, email info@dontjustvote.com or mail a postage donation to Don’t Just Vote Mailroom, P.O. Box 2133, Greensboro, NC 27402. For a report on the CrimethInc. convergence in Des Moines, Iowa the week before the demonstrations in New York City, proceed here.

Finally, the Requiem and The Spectacle tour of the eastern USA is practically booked for October and November. Proceed here for dates and locations, and email crimethincbooking@yahoo.com for more information or to offer assistance.

8/12/04

The Spectacle CD Released, Tour Being Booked, Convergences and Demonstrations Impending
First, we're thrilled to announce the release of Rope or Guillotine, the first full length recording by Norwegian hardcore band The Spectacle. Admittedly, some of us older folks in the record label department here are jaded about much punk music, so it's really exciting for us to have discovered a new band that makes our hearts beat faster—let alone for us to get to put out a record by them! All the passion, fury, and soaring beauty we treasured in Gehenna, Zegota, Undying, Catharsis, and Godspeed! You Black Emperor are here in abundance, and The Spectacle both live up to those comparisons and pick up where they leave off. Don't take our word for it, though—download a low-fi mp3 of one of their songs and hear for yourself.

The Spectacle and Requiem will be touring the eastern US together between October and November. If anyone is willing to book shows or otherwise assist this project, please email crimethincbooking@yahoo.com.

The new printing of Fighting For Our Lives is steadily making its way out of the warehouse space. As usual, we must emphasize that it is only possible for us to do all this free literature distribution on the strength of the donations we receive, so if you think this is important please help us make it possible.

The CrimethInc. convergence in Des Moines is swiftly approaching. If you plan on attending, please contact the organizers at heldhostage68@hotmail.com and let them know when you will arrive, how many people are traveling with you, and if you can provide or are in need of a ride to the Republican National Convention in New York City. Speaking of that convention, all who plan on attending should read the call to action now posted on www.dontjustvote.com.

Here's to all of us making it safely through to fall, with neither our bodies in jail nor our hearts in submission.

6/26/04

Fighting For Our Lives Reprinted, Summer Plans Unveiled, Website Redesign
A year and a half after we ran out of the first 250,000 of our introductory anarchist paper Fighting For Our Lives, we've finally borrowed enough money to print another 100,000 copies. As before, quixotic as it may be, we're making this available to the public at large free in any quantity. Please be judicious in deciding how many to order, so there will be enough to go around, at least for a little while--but please do order copies and spread them throughout your community! These are perfect for giving out outside Michael Moore's new documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, at the upcoming protests at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, at the public library, anywhere people are hungry for freedom and looking for a direction to set out after it.

As before, this project is costing us a lot of money. In a capitalist economy, what happens is determined by the dictates of the ruthless "free market"; in an anarchist economy, what happens is dictated by desire alone; unfortunately, even at our best, we exist somewhere between the two, so in order to help us make this project free for those without resources we humbly ask that those with them, who feel it is worthwhile, take the trouble to make a donation.

It's also time to announce our plans for the summer. Several tours associated with the CrimethInc. global underground will be taking place through July and early August; one of these, the Total Liberation Tour, featuring speakers, hardcore and hip hop acts, and an emphasis on animal rights and direct action, will cross the entire United States between July 7 and 25. Immediately following that, from July 26 to 29, the Democratic National Convention will take place in Boston, Massachusetts. This will be followed by two convergences to which CrimethInc. agents and functionaries are invited. The first is the North American Anarchist Convergence in Athens, Ohio, from August 12 to 15; all who attend are encouraged to bring a brief performance piece to share at a surprise entertainment event being planned in secret at this very moment. The second will be in Des Moines, Iowa from August 20 to 26, as announced earlier on this site. Shortly thereafter, the political party that currently purports to rule the world will gather for the Republican National Convention in New York City, from August 30 to September 4.

We propose that radicals from the east coast gather in Athens, then proceed to the city to get familiar with it, while folks from the west coast and midwest gather at the Des Moines convergence, and travel east from there. Whatever happens, it's going to make—or break—history. Don't miss out on the chance to be part of this.

As many of you have surely noticed, there has been a complete redesign of this website. Hopefully you will find it easier to navigate, locate specific information more directly, and finally be able to link to specific pages within the site (no more frames!). The page sizes have all been reduced to facilitate faster loading on slow connections, and the format has been changed so as to display well on both small and large monitors. If you'd like, please leave some feedback here, and feel free to point out any broken pages or links—there will surely be some as every single page on the site has been reworked. Thanks, and I hope y'all like it.

6/8/04

New Beauty Subversion Poster Kits, Active Distribution Steps Up
The third and newest installment of our subversion poster series is now available, the Beauty Subversion Kit, also known affectionately as the Medusa poster. Some of you may be familiar with its previous incarnation, but its back for more, bigger, fancier (yes, fancier!), and now has a corresponding back side to round out the whole 'kit' aspect.

Secondly, and perhaps of more importance, we'd like to announce that Active Distribution in London is now carrying virtually the entire CrimethInc. catalog for distribution in Europe, including co-releasing the european edition of the Zegota Reclaim! CD and several thousand copies of the new Harbinger. We couldn't be more pleased with the partnership as they are excellent folks committed to the same goals we are, and are some of the only people around who we feel can really do CrimethInc. distro right—with their hearts in their hands and sweat on their brows. This should help make CrimethInc. material more accessible to many people, and we plan on continuing this arrangement with future releases.

Oh, and by the way, we will be announcing the availability of the second printing of Fighting For Our Lives before the end of the month. Yes, you heard right. Um, speaking of, did we mention that we need donations to make this work?

5/31/04

Warehouse space opens (sort of), convergence this summer in Des Moines, Iowa
At long last, CrimethInc. Far East has moved out of the living room (and that one half of the bathroom, the back room, Lisa's parent's basement, and the strorage space) and into a warehouse space in downtown Olympia, WA. Eventually, this will be open to the public as The Crossing, a bookstore and infoshop; in the meantime, while we wrestle with building codes and so on, people can contact us to make appointments to come by and pick up literature and other material in person.

This summer, between August 20 and 26, Des Moines, Iowa will host a convergence of CrimethInc. agents and all other interested parties. You're invited, of course. Transportation will be provided for those leaving this event to attend the party of a lifetime in New York City immediately thereafter. Learn more and keep up with developments here. As summer heats up, we'll unveil our plans for a few tours and another convergence. We'll have plenty of new music and literature finished soon, too.

4/31/04

Spring Into Action: New Poster, New Paper, and Last Call for Cookbook Submissions!
Just in time for Mayday, but unfortunately too late to save the tens of thousands of lives that have been squandered for the sake of empire, we unveil our newest poster, There Are Better Ways to Leave Iraq. Download it to redecorate your local army recruiting station.

In association with www.dontjustvote.com, we have designed and printed an educational paper contrasting the effectiveness of voting with that of direct action (in the broadest sense), and promoting the call for direct action on election day 2004. It includes two posters, also suitable for framing on public walls. Copies of this and the new poster will go out in mailorders; to obtain bulk copies to distribute, please contact the mail room at dontjustvote.com.

Finally, the intensive program of testing and development that has accompanied the compiling of our new anarchist cookbook is entering its final stages. If you know of some arcane strategy or tactic that creative and subversive people worldwide should have at their disposal, this is your last chance to send it to cookbook@crimethinc.com.

4/5/04

Sandman on US & Canadian tour, Harbinger update
Firstly, we are all very excited by the overwhelmingly positive response to the release of the Sandman / The Long Walk Home CD, and such enthusiastic support certainly encourages us to consider further exploring other musical genres—so, thank you! It has made us feel warm in our little hearts to hear how much some of you love the record. Be sure to go see Sandman on his full tour of the U.S. and Canada from April 21st to June 13th, his live show is great and he will also be touring with a variety of CrimethInc. literature. There are still a few cities that he needs some help setting up a show, so please check the tour page and drop him a line if you can help. And for a glimpse into the future: Sandman will start recording a new full-length album in Minnesota after the tour, to be released many months later. We can't wait.

In the mean time, our toes are thawing out in the fresh, fresh Olympia sun after a rainy and cold, cold Olympian winter. The distribution of the fifth Harbinger is going better than we could have expected, with one third of the entire print run already sent out for distribution and no sign of letting up—if you were waiting to order your copies, don't wait too long, or they'll be gone. Also, in the last month we have done the second printing of Off the Map, and the second printing of 20,000 gender posters. We have a couple of new projects planned for the summer, but we'll keep them up our sleeve for now.

3/18/04

New Harbinger, New Feature, New Nationwide Call to Action
The fifth issue of our free propaganda tabloid Harbinger is finally complete, after two and a half years of hard labor on the part of the editorial board. Thematically, it begins where the last one left off, on the morning of September 11th, 2001 when the terrain of the struggle for total liberation suddenly shifted, and works from there forward to the present day. From the apocalypse that started it all and the ensuing struggles with catastrophes and feelings of failure, through crowd dynamics and the social forces that underlie them, the essential role employment plays in the system of misery (and how to desert it), and the joys of so-called extremism, to the inexorable insurrection to come—it's all in here. Please order massive quantities of it to share with your friends, family, ex-co-workers, and future co-conspirators.

As faith in global capitalism and corporate democracy crumbles, it would be foolish to think that anarchy and liberation are the only other game in town. That's why we've provided this new feature, an account and analysis of direct actions recently taken against an attempted fascist rally, to share skills for those who would also like to nip in the bud bids for power on the part of racists and totalitarians.

And—In concert with other anti-authoritarian groups, we are calling for a national campaign to take advantage of this election year to emphasize the power of direct action as a viable alternative to representation. This campaign will include literature, postering and stickering, demonstrations, educational events, and other forms of community outreach, both in our own communities and around the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. It will culminate in a nationwide day of direct action on November 2, election day. For now, we direct those interested to www.dontjustvote.com, at which you will find the call to action and plenty of other material on the issue.

3/4/04

9th Annual San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair, Two New Essays
Some of us will be heading down to the 9th Annual San Francisco Book Fair the weekend of March 13th. We'll have the usual assortment of books, the new Sandman cd, and a whole mess of free posters and stickers. We will also debut the newest installment of a serial project that won't be announced here until after the book fair—but until then, here are two hints: it is 21,000 words long and has been two and a half years in the making. And we'll have a bunch of them. See you there!

For those who haven't stumbled onto them yet, here are direct links to two new essays: Forget Terrorism: The Hijacking of Reality dealing with the events following the 9/11 attacks, and You Are Under Surveillance, about modern ceramic kitchenware.

2/15/04

New Country/Folk Record, Subversion Sticker, Poster and Combo Zine
We've been so busy getting all this stuff together, we have no energy left for flowery descriptions, so here it is straight: 1) After running out of both, separately, we just got back a reprinting combining the DIY Guide #2 and The Walls Are Alive into one combo zine, going out free with every order, and also available in bulk. 2) We now have a third CrimethInc. Agent Subversion Sticker Kit (You Are Under Surveillance), made for deployment everywhere. 3) A new, huge, full-color poster is available for a mass wheat-pasting campaign featuring the dark shadows cast by the events following 9/11. We've also lowered the cost of Priority Mail and started using some fancy shipping labels.

And lastly, we have a bit of a surprise called The Long Walk Home by Sandman, our first recording that is not hardcore music—hooray! Chris Sand (aka Sandman) self-released an earlier version of this album last year and it quickly became one of our favorites around the house. We made some needed changes (including lowering the price to $6 postage-paid) and are very excited to release our first country/folk record, which we hope you will enjoy. MP3 samples along with a detailed description are available here.

1/20/04

New Zegota record now available, new projects coming soon
At long last, the new Zegota record, Reclaim!, is now available. I have been listening to this record a lot in the last few weeks and it has truly become one of my favorite punk records from the last few years—I think that anyone who enjoyed their previous recordings will be elated upon hearing their newest. Also, back from the dead is the old Ire CD, which after being unavailable for some time, is now back in stock. In the works right now, we have a new sticker subversion kit, a big and fancy poster, a new cd from a musical genre as-of-yet unexplored by CrimethInc., and of course, the juggernaut that has become Harbinger 5—expect announcements on these over the next month. Oh, and there is also a long overdue blog entry.

12/27/03

New Zegota record & tour with new band Requiem, report from Miami FTAA
We are proud to announce that the new Zegota record, Reclaim!, is complete and will soon be available from the Far East mailorder. Reclaim! is Zegota's first true album, written and conceived as such, and recorded over several days in Malmö, Sweden by David Sandstrom from the Refused. On it, they live up to every bit of promise shown in their previous recordings and performances, delivering a well-crafted forty-minute adventure constructed with the rawest of vocals, wall-like guitars, delicate piano sections, drum beats like the heartbeat of an escaped hostage and an unrestrained bass sound to bring it all together. Here is an mp3 of the 5th song on the album, Struck by the Wild (due to bandwidth concerns the mp3 is encoded at a less than premium rate to reduce file size, the actual recording quality is much higher.) As usual, the packaging is unique, organic and refined, with fine letterpress work we did ourselves on our recently acquired letterpress. Zegota will also be on an east coast tour with the newly-formed band Requiem (composed of former members of Catharsis, and we mean it this time—those who loved Catharsis will appreciate the same forces brought to bear here, of course in an entirely new way). The tour starts the 27th in NYC and goes through the 2nd.

We have also posted in the features section an analysis and report on the events in Miami during the FTAA conference titled BRINGING THE HEAT IN MIAMI: An Analysis of Direct Action at the November 2003 F.T.A.A. Ministerial. The article takes a critical look at the planning and organizing of the event, recounts some participants experiences during the action, and concludes with a post-script looking at race relations in the heat of battle.

11/10/03

New FTAA poster and a ghost story from Halloween
Just in the nick of time to qualify as frustratingly late, but not so late as to be totally useless, we have made a new FTAA-themed poster available in our downloads section. It is available in two-color and b&w varieties, and while particularly appropriate for next weeks events in Miami, it does not reference it specifically so as to remain useful for deployment after Miami and until we finally destroy the FTAA. We are also getting a few thousand of the two-color version printed, and these will start to go out with every order in about two weeks. Also, we have added a new article in the feature section detailing the exploits of some trouble-making anarchists who helped facilitate many severe, and repeated beatings of George W. Bush on Halloween. (Secret Service and FBI motherfuckers alike, please note that the president was not harmed, nor were any plans made to harm him, nor does anyone here intend for harm to come to ol' GW.) Sorry about that disclaimer folks, but we're living in wild times.

10/26/03

New feature, New Face Down In Shit CD, Scandanvians hit the road
Before we get started, an update on a future update: we hope to have some new posters done by the time our enemies meet to work on the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement in Miami this November, we'll post them as soon as we do. In the meantime, for those interested in fucking things up for them, the features section now includes a draft in progress as a foretaste of the anarchist cookbook we'll be publishing early next year: a Black Bloc How-To. Young activists be advised, however, that the CrimethInc. officials who handle strategy and tactics have concluded that the Black Bloc approach may not be as effective in Miami as more covert, unpredictable guerrilla actions . . . so apply the Bloc recipe on Halloween night, when everyone's in masks anyway, and "do your part" locally, then go try out other things in Miami. That's our advice.

Second, we're thrilled to announce the release of the "Passing Times" CD, a work of genius by our friends Face Down In Shit. For those of you not familiar with the band, this is soulful, poor boy stoner punk rock at its most artistically mature and emotionally intense. This album is a cry from the pit, an affirmation of life at its hardest and bleakest. Following the usual discussion about politics and so on, medical guinea pig Jason wanted me to use the phrase "direct action marijuana liberation activists" in their description, so there it was.

Two of our favorite Scandinavian bands, The Spectacle and Zegota, will be going on tour soon. The Spectacle will be touring Europe through November and December, and Zegota will finally be playing a week of US shows on the east coast from December 27 to January 2. There is a new blog entry also. All the best in your adventures and misadventures, my friends. Winter is coming—let's put the heat on.

9/3/03

Convergence Coverage, New Countdown to Putsch Double CD, and a, um, blog?
At long last, we have our inside report, Under the Helicopters, an eyewitness account of the CrimethInc. barnstorming tours convergence, the attendant media and police witch-hunt, and the usual triumph of anarchy against insurmountable odds; at the end of the piece are links to videos from two polar perspectives. We are also happy to announce that a new musical effort by the notorious east-coast aural-assaulters and hardcore-jazz fusionists Countdown To Putsch is now available. The double CD, Interventions in Hegemony, is their latest attempt to defy those who have to describe their music in short blurbs like this, and contains the usual lengthy written accompaniment in the form of a 44 page booklet, all for $10ppd. And lastly, I have been working on my own blog, entitled The Love Tale of the Hyena (crimethinc.com/hyena), as a minor add-on to this website that documents the smaller news and workings of the Olympia cell. A full description of my intent is available in the introduction, and so far I have reported on the reprinting of some books, our new letterpress, fonts, vietnam, new posters, honey badgers . . .

8/9/03

CrimethInc. Gender Subversion Kit, Trouble a-brewing, update coming soon
The brand spankin' new CrimethInc. Gender Subversion Kit #69-B is now available, all the details are available here, but we will tell you that it was quite a hit at the PDX Zine Symposium, many a happy face and excited smile greeted their presence, and hundreds of them went away in anxious hands. Some of you may have heard rumblings from the CrimethInc. Barnstorming Summer tour and convergence and the rumblings are getting louder, as quite a storm is a-brewing. As soon as the events are over, and those guilty have dispersed and melted back into their communities we will post a full report of the rolling thunder. We have also posted a PDF of Hunter/gatherer #1 as we no longer have any paper copies left.

7/15/03

CrimethInc. Barnstorming Summer Update, Portland Zine Symposium
In case you've been out of the loop—and we wouldn't blame you if that's the case—there is this great little thing happening this summer called CrimethInc. Summer Barnstorming, and if you want to be involved, simply go to its web site and check out all the info, and itineraries. For a little background, I suggest you check out these recollections from last years tour and convergence. On a completely separate note, some of us folks from CrimethInc. Far East will be journeying down to Portland from Olympia to attend the Portland Zine Symposium. It will be on the Portland State University campus in downtown Portland from August 1-3; there will we workshops, discussions, massive tabling from the independent press, film screenings and many things I know nothing about. While some of us potentially will be involved in some workshops, feel free to stop by our table anytime and ask any questions you want about making zines, printing, writing, design, or . . . We'll have the usual books and zines to sell and give away, along with free stickers and posters, and we will be debuting a new poster/zine that will be free at the symposium, code named CrimethInc. Gender Subversion Kit #69-B. See ya there.

6/21/03

A new book, deals, offers and requests in one big ol' update
The CrimethInc. Kite Flying Society strikes back! Off the Map is now available as a book! Yep, we took the plunge and truthfully we feel really great about it—hold a copy in your hand and it feels like a descion well made. Per usual, we have a nice little mini-site all about it, but here is the skinny: 146 pages, all the same text as the zine, better photos, all those lil' drawings in their full offset-press glory, a fancy new cover by the illustrious Nikki McClure, and, oh yeah, it is $3 postage-paid—in bulk you can get 10 copies for $15. Here is a quick explanation of why we made it into a book if our 1,250 word version seems daunting: it was the only way we could sustain its distribution, was what we saw as the next step towards helping it gain a wider audience, and we just plain love the story and want it to be presented as well as possible. Oh, and we'd like to take this opportunity to publicly proclaim our enormous affection for and appreciation of Viv-o, who is the best damn proofreader and pal we could could ever ask for.

Also, we put together a little deal called the Letter Opener Set, limited to the first 250 mailorder copies, which includes copies of the first two titles in the CrimethInc. Letters series (Stone Hotel & Off the Map), wrapped in a handsome, hand letter-pressed paper band proclaiming such. Two books together for $10—it's basically $3 off and a fancy wrapper as a thanks for those who are so generous in supporting our anarchist publishing projects.

Speaking of Stone Hotel, well, we wanted to try and maybe convince some more of y'all to give it a try. While many of you have indeed obtained the book, and the feedback has been absolutely gushing, it is clear to us that still more of you are holding off. We'd guess the two most obvious reasons are a) it is a poetry book and b) it is expensive. Well, frankly those are good reasons, but the book is very important to us, we feel its role to be vital as part of what CrimethInc. has published to date, and we really want it to make a little more headway in the world. Yes, it is poetry, but here is a link to some new reviews, including a rather eloquent one from Clamor ("One of [CrimethInc.'s] best yet"), maybe they will help relax your doubts? And yes, it is $10, but it is a fundraiser for FFOL, and with the above Letter Opener Set, it just got a little more affordable.

As many of you begin to head out on summer adventures, we have decided to thin out our reserves of FFOL, and offer boxes of 150 copies to those of you putting on events or going on tour in one way or another. If this is you, send us an email (house@crimethinc.com) briefly describing your plans, and including your shipping address, and we'll get 'em right off to ya. Of course, donations are delightful (and at this point, very helpful), but not neccesary. On a similar note, we are begining to run out of even our last copies of both Harbinger.4 and Hunter/Gatherer #1. We send out copies in individual mailorders, and we'd like to very nicely request that anyone who has even a small amount of either paper lying around—that never quite got distributed—to please send them back to us, we could really use them. We promise we won't be mad—in fact we'll have a mini-party in celebration of each stack we get back. Thanks for reading this long update, folks, and make sure to get a whole heaping serving of that summer sun—your skin isn't meant to last forever.

6/7/03

New feature: first person account of the G8 protests
There is a new feature, a first-person account of all kinds of excitement at the G8 protests in Switzerland last week, Let Me Light My Cigarette on Your Burning Blockade: Crimepensée Eyewitness Account of the Anti-G8 Demonstrations and Anarchy in the Alps, as well as a description of the VAAAG (Village for Human and Anarchist Experimentation). There will be another news update here in about a week.

4/19/03

New Inside Front! Blacken The Skies New CD/Tour! CrimethInc. Barnstorming Tour!
Between demonstrations, blockades, graffiti missions, jail time, and nervous breakdowns, CrimethInc. cells in the Southeast have been busy over the past months producing new materials. The surprise reunion issue of Inside Front, the decade-running journal covering anticapitalist music, culture, and action, is now available for mailorder. The first CD by Greensboro anarcho-punks Blacken the Skies is out now, and the band is touring the eastern half of the U.S.A. with an extensive distribution of CrimethInc. material and other propaganda. The Urban Pirates’ follow-up issue to the first Hunter/Gatherer is also out now, on the unusual format of audio CDR, and is available from their address. Finally, the plans for this summer’s CrimethInc. Barnstorming Tours have been made public. If you’re at a loss for how best to apply your talents this summer, please get in touch. Here’s to hoping you’re all busy with similarly ambitious projects of your own. Now is not the time to feel defeated and be silent—we have to build on all the connections and capabilities we forged in the antiwar struggle, so one day soon we can stop them from ever having a war again. Dethrone despair!

2/14/03

New book, Stone Hotel, now available, more sticker kits, and fuck Valentine's Day!
I am tickled to announce the availability of our new book, Stone Hotel: Poems from Prison, by Raegan Butcher. This is the inaugural book in the new CrimethInc. Letters series, see the book's mini-site for all the info. We are all pretty excited about it and hope y'all dig it—it's definitely not like anything we've done before. Oh, and it is a fund raiser for Fighting For Our Lives.

We are also announcing the newest revisions/editions of the CrimethInc. Subversive Action Kits with a revised "This Phone Is Tapped" sticker, and a new "Fortified with 100% pure Iraqi blood" sticker made to be put on gas pumps. We learned from our mistakes with the first run and this time we used non-glossy paper (the glossiness made the stickers much easier to remove—bad, bad, bad) and used a special custom-made die-cut to cut only the sticker part (not the backing) so that they just peel off the backing one at a time. And finally, because we printed a whole lot more of them this time (the last ones sold out in one week!), they cost us less, and we dropped the single price by 10% and the bulk prices by 25%.

1/24/03

"This Phone Is Tapped" sticker now available for distro
We now have our first CrimethInc. Agent Subversion Kits available that feature a card with instructons on use and four of these handy little sticker for telephones.

1/1/03

New poster, FFOL update, new essay, CrimethInc. en español, video for Europe, etc.
We have a new poster design addressing the upcoming war now available for download—waste no time applying it. A new Fighting For Our Lives update has been posted, but here is the short and skinny: out of stock, no longer available—read how to get more copies here.

CrimethInc. en español esta listo, preparado par Guerrilla Latina CrimethInc. ¡Es muy bueno! There are tentative plans for a CrimethInc. cell to publish FFOL in the UK within the next month, they're 'acquiring' funds etc, but in the meantime you can get info about obtaining the European formatted VHS release of the Breaking the Spell video by emailing them. In mid-February we'll announce our newest publishing project, codename: Stone Hotel. The Crimethink Anti-CrimethInc. Strike Force has published a communiqué, we consider it only fair play to publish it here. "CrimethInc. attempts hostile takeover of the anarchist market niche—but there’s still hope for us, if we resist."

12/15/02

At long last, pickAxe & Breaking the Spell videos available again!
The second edition of our pickAxe & Breaking the Spell video is now finally available. The same two films, but this time with better, more sturdy packaging and a higher cost (sorry!) that will hopefully make this a sustainable project for us. Click here to check it out.

12/3/02

The Walls Are Alive how-to graffiti guide
Hot off the presses, we are excited to let you know about a new free publication you can get from us called The Walls Are Alive, a how-to graffiti guide for those who scheme and those who dream. Starting now these are going out for free in every order and are available in bulk for distribution for a donation. Also we just got back the reprint of the DIY Guide 2, and since the reprint was cheaper this time, we have reduced the cost of a bundle of 40 from $15 to $10.

11/24/02

CrimethInc. heArt and Film Festival / More information added!
A new expanded web page gives the lowdown on the upcoming gathering and fest.

11/14/02

CrimethInc. heArt and Film Festival / Olympia, WA / Dec. 12-15
Essentially a do-it-yourself anarchist convergence disguised as an alternative film festival at the historic Capitol Theatre and surrounding buildings, this weekend will be an opportunity for people to come together to entertain, learn from, and organize with each other. We'll be showing mainstream movies (of potentially subversive content) to attract people from all walks of life; in addition, there will be skillshares, underground documentaries, and an anarchist bookfair, among other things. Saturday the 14th will be a totally free day: free movies, free food and groceries, free professional massages in the lobby—a tiny demonstration of what a free society might look like.

The mainstream movies (showing Friday the 13th through Sunday the 15th) will include Brazil, The Thin Red Line, The Gleaners and I (a French documentary about dumpster-diving), Natural Born Killers and Fight Club (inevitably), and—on the free day—Malcolm X, Dead Poet's Society, Three Kings (A Hollywood action movie that takes a surprisingly critical stance on the war with Iraq), and Box of Moonlight. Skillshares will range from direct action tactics to irish folk dancing to seditious graphic design (ahem). We're counting on you to put together your own plans with your affinity groups to multiply the possibilities of this weekend. More details forthcoming, but now you know.

A new book, In Search of the World, has been published by a CrimethInc. affiliated cell, Ivory Bell, here is more info.

A quick FFOL update: We have sent out about 200,000 copies in 1,500 packages and the PDF has been downloaded about 31,000 times, and here is another desperate plea for donations.

Once we finally recover from Halloween, another huge update will be here at the end of the month—a new free zine, a new essay, and many spectacular revelations.

10/3/02

Culture Offensive Progress Report: Fighting For Our Lives
As of yesterday, over the two weeks since the paper was printed, we've sent out approximately 625 orders, totaling over 90,000 copies, and the PDF file has been downloaded from this website about 15,000 times. These are sort of absurd numbers, for a group opposing mass-production and centralization, but the evidence so far is that these papers are being used to create local dialogue—for example, the pastor at the Presbyterian church that housed anticapitalist demonstrators in D.C. last weekend preached her Sunday sermon from texts in Fighting For Our Lives, as she spoke to the congregation about the value of what the demonstrators were doing.

Now for some other absurd numbers. Thus far, we've spent about $14,000 on production costs, and a little over $3500 on mailing (so far). To offset these costs . . . we've received approximately $500 in donations. Now, we were expecting to lose money on this project, and to fund it in part from the surplus from book sales and so on; but anyone can do the math and determine that an antiprofit collective like ours, which distributes most of its publications for free already, can't pull $17,000 out of the air. We've been able to make it this far on this project only because our printers offer us credit. Of course it would have been ethically and environmentally repugnant to sell advertising or anything like that to fund this—so what it comes down to is: we depend upon donations to pay for projects like this, in part, and right now we are drastically short of having enough. If any of you want to help us, please do, in whatever way you're able, whether that means setting up a benefit show, taking up a collection, or sending us a couple postage stamps. We're doing our best to raise the rest of the money somehow, but we can't do it alone. Thanks very much. (donate online, or send money through the mail to our Olympia address.)

On another note, while the demand for Off the Map has remained very high, the number of people sending us copies has dwindled slowly down to no one, so please try to help out if possible.

9/29/02

CrimethInc.Info/shop joins the CrimethInc. cyberian family
The fledgling CrimethInc.Info/shop is now open and receiving guests. For now, you will find only our latest attempt at purposeful, constructive forums, but in the not-too-distant future .info will grow new appendages, functions unknown as of yet. Speaking of, are you interested in working on this project? Oh, and one of the first postings on the new forums is an excellent overview of one particpant's experiences and ideas regarding the 2002 circus tour and convergence.

9/15/02

And we unleash our secret weapon.
As the old Frenchman counseled, you must always have a secret plan. Our CrimethInc. affinity group has worked long under cover of darkness to complete a publication that can pick up in accessibility and distribution where Harbinger leaves off; today we returned from the printers with 250,000 copies of the 24-page pamphlet Fighting For Our Lives.

Coming soon from other affinity and infinity groups: reports on the summer’s flying circus tours and convergence; a free how-to graffiti primer; the new edition of the Pickaxe/Breaking the Spell video; further poster campaigns; much, much more.

9/2/02

the Culture Offensive
The flying circus tours and convergence proved to be everything we’d hoped: anarchist lore and merriment were spread far outside the activist ghetto, fast friendships were forged, kids learned in the flames of catastrophe the skills that will make future endeavors twice as effective. The final days in and outside Des Moines were almost unreal—spontaneous Reclaim the Streets actions in which the police backed off to make way for the fire breathers on stilts, mass naked dancing in public parks, locals quitting their jobs to join us, a spirit of closeness and abandon many of us had never dreamed of experiencing.

Now most of us who were involved are arriving in the communities in which we’ll be operating this fall, and we’re hitting the ground running. And so we unveil the prelude to the next stage of our resistance, the Culture Offensive: three new posters, responding to the hysteria occasioned by the anniversary of September 11, and a national wheatpasting campaign to hammer home the point that dissent and defiance are everywhere the television cameras aren’t pointing. These are available online and through the mail for all who would like to do their own redecorating of public space and psyche.

Coming next: a website dedicated to projects like this, on which poster designs will be constantly offered and exchanged, documentation of guerrilla decorating victories posted, and similar campaigns facilitated (see below news posting). A paper, tentatively titled Fighting For Our Lives, designed to introduce anarchy (as opposed to anarchism) to a wider demographic than Harbinger has reached—which will be available in time for the actions taking place in Washington, D.C. and Denver, Colorado this fall. And, shortly thereafter, the real fun begins . . .

8/6/02

Job Opening! No Pay, Flexible Hours, Experience Necessary.
We just registered the domain crimethinc.info and are in the process of turning it into CrimethInc.Info/shop, a postnuke (php) based website that will facilitate deliberate and concise information posting and retrieval, as well as temporal, specific forums, and one zillion things we haven't thought of yet. I am looking for one or two people who have (most importantly) a solid, working knowledge of postnuke and php, and who want to become part of a nonhierarchical team responsible for the direction, content and maintenance of the new website—people who can bring skills, knowledge, ideas and commitment to a website that will probably see more than 100,000 hits a week—and that is before we start improving it. If you are interested, even if you have concerns about some of the qualifications, contact me.

7/22/02

Two New Texts, a Little News
Firstly, an urgent dispatch from the CrimethInc. Central Committee for immediate release: All Traveler Kids Purged From CrimethInc. Membership. Also, a little late, but as promised on the penultimate page in Hunter/Gatherer, we have posted our call for submissions for the CrimethInc. Cookbook. All of the CrimethInc. Circus Tour legs are in full swing, be sure to go and participate! And thanks to everyone who has helped so far with Hunter/Gatherer distro, with your help, the distribution is going amazingly well, keep it up!

7/7/02

Online Store Gets Much Needed Overhaul
The CrimethInc. Far East online store and catalog, newly dubbed the CrimethInc. Cyberian Market, has been totally reworked: new navigation, smaller pages for quicker downloading, improved functionality, and it a tad easier on the ol' eyes. I also added a few questions and answers to the f.a.q. and removed some out of stock and out of print items. Let me know if you spy any problems.

6/27/02

Hunter/Gatherer
17' U-Haul maximum load: 3,000 pounds. 35,000 copies of Hunter/Gatherer: 5,000 pounds. Spitting in the face of science and Maximum Gross Vehicle Weight, we made it 170 miles with no problems but a busted speedometer (and some pesky "check engine" light—whatever that means!?). The h/g's came back a day early and starting today we are shipping these kids out with every order and in bulk for distro. Enjoy the long days and we hope to see you on the circus tour!
(Picture, from left: Tiny T, Isaac, and 2 of 3 h/g pallets)

6/19/02

Hunter/Gatherer
Hunter/Gatherer: CrimethInc. Journal of Folklore & Folkwar will be coming back from the printer on the 27th and we will start sending out orders on July 1st. This is something a little different from things we've done before. Yep.

6/8/02

Update for the Hell of It
Ok, a few updates here, the most important being the new Circus Tour website—read all about it in detail and check out the dates for the various legs of the tour. It is shaping up to be quite a grand adventure, and if you get involved, it will be even better. Also, we have received many emails asking if we still need help getting copies of Off the Map and with the CrimethInc. Into Libraries Project, and the answer is: YES! We have received hundreds of copies of OTM and have sent books to more than eighty libraries, but for both projects, we hope this is just the tip of the iceberg and we still need your help. Finally, the post office is increasing the rates for Media Mail and Priority Mail at the end of June, but don't worry, even though this is the second rate increase since we set our prices two years ago, all of our postage paid prices will remain the same. OK, one last thing . . . our next publication, Hunter/Gatherer, is nearing completion and the full details about its newsprint goodness will be here within two weeks. Enjoy the weather, love your friends.

4/27/02

New Search Feature, DIY Guide II Is Here!
There is a new search feature in the menu bar on the left that will allow you to search the .com website for keywords, perhaps this will make it easier to find what you are looking for. Also, I am tickled to announce that the CrimethInc. Urban Pirates in G'boro have completed a new DIY Guide that rocks the socks off its predecessor. All the info is here and it is now available!

4/6/02

Saturday at the Movies, Hosted by CrimethInc.
On Saturday, the 13th of April (yes, that's real soon!) The CrimethInc. Far East Cell will be hosting a mini-movie festival at the historic Capitol Theater in Olympia, WA. An excellent opportunity to see four amazing movies on the big screen, meet a bunch of other CrimethInc. agents and who knows what else. Read more here.

3/25/02

Help Save Off The Map!
As many of you know, for several months we here at CrimethInc. Far East have made the extraordinary zine Off The Map available for free to any who request it. The continuation of this process is in jeopardy and we need your help to keep the zine alive. Please read on for all the details and to see what you can do . . .

3/8/02

CrimethInc. Circus Tour
This summer, from July 20th to August 19th, roving bands of activists, anarchists, CrimethInc. agents, and other beautiful people will travel the country, starting from the four corners of the compass and adding numbers as they proceed, stopping for a few days in each town to carry off performances, workshops, interventions, puppet shows, and less expected events, and finally meeting in the center of the nation for a five day convergence to celebrate and plan for the future. Join in!

2/1/02

New Fucking Website! Hooray!
After working on this new site for more hours than you would ever believe, we are proud to debut the completely overhauled crimethinc.com website. We have created an Info/Guide introduction page for the new site which we strongly recommend you read so as to get the most out of what is now available. Your feedback is very valuable, let us know what you think. For all you sentimental fools, the old site will be archived here.

12/21/01

The Rising Phoenix of the CrimethInc. Message Boards
The long dead CrimethInc. message boards have been resurrected as part of a whole new online community area. It can be found at CrimethInc.Net(work), and is fully functional and awaiting your participation. I think this could be a really great addition to the CrimethInc. stuff happening in the world, let's try to help it live up to its abundant capabilities. Encouraged by the excellent work done at the .net site, I plan on giving this site a complete overhaul in January and February, fully integrateing the .net site and also making .com much more useful practical, and simple to use. See you there. (note: you're looking at it!)

New Zegota Record Out At Last!
After months of waiting, the new Zegoat record has finally arrived, read more about it in the online store.

11/26/01

Harbinger.4 Now Ready for the World
We are now taking orders for Harbinger.4 for all over the world, click here for more info.

11/17/01

Canada Now Ready For Harbinger
Our Canadian distributor is now taking orders for Harbinger.4, click here for more info.

11/6/01

Loads of New Music!
We have just received three new records from Europe: The new Ümlaut Havoc Wreakers LP (amazing!), The new Catharsis/Newborn split 12", and a repress of the Catharsis Passion LP. All these records had to come from Europe, so they are a little more expensive ($10ppd) than our usual vinyl prices. Also, after a long time out of print, we have the Catharsis Samsara CDs back in stock and now they have the four songs from the out-of-print 7" on them as a little bonus. Click here to check this stuff out.

10/20/01

Free CrimethInc. Books! Library Project
We have just started a new campaign to get CrimethInc. books into libraries, Click here for more info.

10/18/01

Harbinger.4 is here
That's 80,000 Harbingers in our living room!! (The other 20,000 are speeding their way to an undisclosed secret location). We will start mailing them out this weekend, help us clear out our living space and radicalize some people at the same time—place an order to distribute copies in your area! Click here for more info.

10/12/01

New Poster and Pamphlet in Downloads
There is a yet another new poster dealing with the 9-11/WTC aftermath that can be downloaded from the poster section. Happy pasting! Also, a printable .pdf version of worker Bulletin #47 is now available so you can print it out and easily make copies. Click here.

10/10/01

Harbinger.4 on the horizon
We are now taking orders for Harbinger.4 distribution in the U.S.! Click here for more info .

10/7/01

New poster in the Downloads section
There is a new poster dealing with the 9-11/WTC events that can be downloaded from the poster section. Happy pasting! here.

9/24/01

New Catharsis/Newborn Split CD
At long last, the new release is finally available, check it out in the online catalog.

9/9/01

CrimethInc. Worker Bulletin #47
A new communiqué to all CrimethInc. personnel, click here to read it.

8/24/01

New Catalog/Online Store
After much work, we are excited to announce a new, fully functioning online store and mail order catalog, click here to get more info.

Harbinger.4
Just a reminder that we still desperately need donations to help us pay for producing and distributing the next installment of Harbinger, click here to get more info.

8/3/01

Evasion
We got the books back and they are in being packed and mailed, click here to get more info.

7/15/01

Evasion
Just a quick note, we got the proofs back for the book, click here to get more info.

7/06/01

Evasion book
It's done! Hooray! The book is now at the printers and will be back to us in approximately one month. The full Evasion web site is now up and running, click here to get more info.

Message boards removed! Read about it here.

6/19/01

Evasion book
We just put up the first small bit of the Evasion site. Not much really but thought you might want to check it out. Full site will be up in not too long from now. ok, here it is.

5/26/01

Upcoming Projects
We have posted the first bit of info about Harbinger.4 and a request for your help, click here to check it out. Also, a quick Evasion book update—it will be in your hands no later than the beginning of August barring some type of calamity, I swear! Expect a pre-order/info site set up by the end of June.

Three new CrimethInc. projects
Associated collectives have completed three new releases, which are now available:

D.I.Y. How-To Guide
This rugged little urban pirate handbook includes practical information on wheatpasting, silkscreening, making giant inflatable structures, pirate radio, fixing guitar intonation, copy theft, making ‘zines, making bombs, gardening, giving directions, herbal remedies, d.i.y. touring and releasing records, getting free food and cooking it, and saving money at the post office. It’s available for postage donations from stef@crimethinc.com for more information.

The CrimethInc. Aluminum Noise CD, "Totally Fucking Lost" is now finished and available, too. Aluminum Noise is a d.i.y. experimental noise project undertaken by punk rockers who set out to broaden the spectrum of the audio arts, challenging everyone's conceptions of what music itself is. This recording has a haunting beauty make sharper by a tension that steadily increases over the seventy minutes of music, rather than discharging itself. We think it's fucking amazing, like feeling new chambers of the heart being carved out--but the average pop punk listener will probably find himself alienated and confused. For reviews of this CD, click Stickfigure distribution

Constrito “Um Fio de Vida no Circulo da Morte” CD: With Liberation records in Brazil, we’ve released this Sao Paulo hardcore band’s first CD. Constrito are outspoken about their anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist politics, and take an experimental approach to the haunting metallic hardcore they play, constructing vast songs filled with sudden transitions and alien atmospheres (hm, think “Fever”-era Systral conducted by Sun Ra). Lyrics in Portuguese, with English translations; fifty minutes of music, 32 page booklet. Available from Stickfigure distribution

5/05/01

Video Ready to Rock
After an all night space-monkey production party, culminating in an unlikely — perhaps divinely ordained— urge to check the Hollywood Video dumpster at four in the morning (which resulted in over 150 plastic video boxes we can use to ship the videos in) the video is finished and all of the pre-orders will be shipped out today. Video page is here.

4/29/01

Updated Video Page
We added eight clips from the video and sixteen video stills. Also, we moved the shipping date back to May 5th, I hope that doesn't cause anyone any big problems, but we've been busy planning Mayday stuff. Video page is here.

4/26/01

New Features Article!
We have an in-depth article in the Features section about one CrimethInc. agent's amazing experience in Quebec this past weekend, and some thoughts about what made what happened in Quebec exciting for everyone! With no further delay—here it is.

3/30/01

Inside Front #13 now ready!- We at long last have copies of Inside Front #13 in our hands, and ready to ship. This issue is 160 pages and as someone who didn't do much work on the project (meaning my opinion is more objective than otherwise), I can simply state that it is the best zine that I have ever seen. More info here.

First CrimethInc. Video- We are happy to announce our first video project, being produced by CrimethInc. Far East. It is two films, pickAxe and Breaking the Spell, the first a documentary about radical environmentalists fighting the forest service in Oregon, and the second a chronicle of the 1999 WTO meeting in Seattle.More info here.

Two new pieces in Downloads - We added a new 11x17 poster, and a new sticker design to the downloads section. Use them well.

Other brief news- We are about to launch into the fourth printing of Days of War, and all of us (all of you) are responsible for the success we have had getting this book out to people. Without hundreds of CrimethInc. agents taking it upon themselves to distribute the book to people they know, it would not be reaching many of the hands that now hold it. Thanks for helping to spread the fire. Also, the fabled Evasion book is approaching the final gates, expect more information about this project in the next month. It is going to rock the foundations.

1/18/01

Harbinger.3 Update
We will be shipping out the reprint of Harbinger 3 in the next few weeks to those who have already placed requests. We received orders for more copies than we could afford to pay to print and ship, so if you ordered, you will be sure to get some, just not as many as you requested. We will not be accepting further requests for Harbingers except for single copies with orders, or with stamps. If we had received more donations in the form of cash and/or stamps we would have been able to print more copies, but we are broke as fuck and could only do 10,000 more. Let this be a reminder to all of you when it comes to helping us do free projects—without your support these things come out of our pockets directly, and our pockets don't have much in them. Watch for news on harbinger four in the next few months.

The CrimethInc. Crimethink Book
The third printing of the book will be arriving in Olympia for shipping early next week (1.23.01) and new copies will be arriving in Europe in about three weeks. We are sorry if you have experienced slight delays in your order (only 3-5 days in the U.S., but up to a few weeks in Europe) but we sold out of all our damn copies—the books moved faster than we could get them printed. Our new printing (over 3,000 copies) should keep us in stock for awhile. More information (including pics of Euro edition) can be found on the newly updated book site.

12/4/00

Harbinger.3 Update
For some reason, that remains entirely unknown to us, we have somehow run out of all 30,000 copies of harbinger we initally printed. We still have many orders that have come in over the past few weeks that we are unable to send out becuase of this. We are currently arranging for another printing of about 10,000 (or more) copies so be assured, if you placed a request, you will get them . . . eventually. In the mean time, be sure to send in your donation to help us cover the costs of this undertaking—and help us get this repreint together faster.

Site Updates- At long last we have now added the first part of the features section.

11/10/00

We can now accept PayPal for international book orders, which means it is now much easier for our friends overseas to send us $$, More info on the book site.

Harbinger.3 is now finished and in the process of being mailed out, if you haven't received yours yet, hold on and give us a few weeks before you get worried. Also, not many donations have been received, so please send us some cash and/or stamps to help us cover the cost of doing this "free" project. Thanks.

10/15/00

The CrimethInc. Crimethink Book
We are thrilled to announce the new Transatlantic Vagabond Edition (a.k.a. European Edition) to be distributed exclusively by the Demon Box Collective located outside of Stockholm, Sweden. Its contents are identical to the standard version, except for one page inside and an alternate back cover. This should provide a much easier and less expensive way for our comrades in Europe to get the book.
Also, due to an incredible response to the book as well as the hard work of many CrimethInc. agents across the world who took it upon themselves to get the books into needy hands, the first printing of 1500 copies of Days of War, Nights of Love has sold out in just over one month! We are getting the second printing back from the printers on Tuesday, the 17th. This is just in time as we got rid of our last copies here in Olympia only yesterday. The new printing is exactly the same as the first printing and is completely indistinguishable.
More information (including pics of new Euro edition) can be found on the newly updated book site.

Harbinger.3
All of the work on Harbinger has just been completed and it is now at the printers. We expect it to be printed by the end of next week, and you should get your copies no later than the second week of November (and, more than likely, much sooner than that). Its the biggest yet (16 pages of content) and our largest printing (30,000+ copies). If you are at all able, please be sure to send donations to the Atlanta address to cover for the immense cost of producing (and mailing! fuck!) this free newspaper communiqué.
If you would like to assist us in disseminating copies, click here.

Catharsis and Zegota Tours
Catharsis is currently on tour of the eastern and midwest U.S. and Zegota is currently on tour in Europe. Be sure to go and say hi and let them know what is going on in your town/life/etc. CrimethInc. Workers Of The World Unite! (and take lovers).

Web Site Changes and Updates
We have added three new sections to the web site: F.A.Q. (frequently asked questions); contact (contact information for various CrimethInc. cells and operations); and downloads (logos, ads, flyers ,posters,etc.). Check them out to see what they are about. Also, please note that they are works in progress and far from complete, expect them to bulk up over the next month or so
Also, we have plans to update the Features and Catalog sections again, so check them out occasionaly to see what's going on.

-Thanks, The Paul F. Maul Artsis' Group

08/31/00

All book pre-orders have been mailed out, more info on the newly updated book site

08/29/00

We got the books back from the printer and they are being mailed! Go to the newly updated book site to get more info on when your book will ship, and how fucking excited we are to be sending them out.

We have, at last added our first feature to the feature section, be sure to check it out.

08/03/00

We received the proofs for the CrimethInc. book today! Go to the book site to learn more.

Our latest news is that the Ire and Zegota CDs are finally available, which has been long overdue. The Zegota CD is remastered from the LP tapes and sounds about twice as good to my ears—I'm not going to bother to rant and rave about this band, since they're some of my closest friends and favorite musicians, and have been so active in CrimethInc. projects over the past year. The Ire CD is their last recording, and I think we all feel honored that we could release it . . . I think it really gives substance to all the potential they showed on their earlier records. I think of what I'd hoped Neurosis would do after Enemy of the Sun, and for me, this is the realization of that smothered hope, only coming from a hardcore background musically and politically.

And don't forget that Zegota is out on tour so check them out!

And last but not least, we are looking for distributors for the next installment of Harbinger #3, our free propaganda newsletter. Its free, its revolution, what else could you want?

07/24/00

The CrimethInc. book has been finished!!!! Go to the book site to read more!

07/21/00

The site has been completely redone. Rather than pointing out everything new here, just take a tour around and check it out. Of course, this is only the beginning, we have big plans for the site in the near future. One extra effort that we made this time was to optimize all the graphics so they download a lot quicker for people with slower machines. Enjoy, and let us know what you think:

pfmag@crimethinc.com

-The Paul F Maul Artists' Group

07/19/00

I have added a new Flash movie to the book site. Also have updated the Status page–– keep an eye on it, as we are nearly finished with the book.

Also, thanks to everyone who has pre-ordered the book (you know who you are)!

07/16/00

The book site has had a few minor updates that might be of interest.

07/14/00

Well, as no doubt you have noticed, the CrimethInc. site is in the midst of a total rehaul. For the time being not much more is changing than the design, and to a minor degree, the structure. However, we do have long term goals to improve the site. If you have any suggestions let us know.

We here at CrimethInc. are all very excited in anticipation of our first book, Days of Love, Nights of War: Crimethink for Beginners. Go to its seperate site to get more info on what it is, when it will be ready, and how to get it.

Site News Archive

This is all the old site news from the pre-3.0 version of the site. It won't do you much good, but I guess historians could find it amusing—we just have a hard time deleting it forever, for some reason. Note: All the links have been removed, as they were all broken. Sorry.