Archive for November, 2007
November 27, 2007 at 3:07 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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Last week I traveled to Louiseville, QC, which is about 75 miles northeast of Montreal and also happens to be where Recipes for Disaster and Expect Resistance are printed. Ostensibly I went up there to do a press check for ER, but perhaps more important to me was that after seven years of publishing books, I was finally able to see one being printed, in person, for the first time. The short version is it was super-awesome and the 5 (of 7) signatures of ER I saw get printed looked amazing.
The long version, complete with a photo-tour, is after the jump.
November 23, 2007 at 11:15 am · Filed under Read All About It, posted by ret marut
Here’s a testimonial of sorts, demonstrating the proper use of a copy of Fighting for Our Lives. There are 500,000 of them in print, which really isn’t that many when you consider that there are over 26,000 active nuclear warheads worldwide. Please make every single copy count!
While we are about to release a book to be followed shortly by a new issue of our journal, it will be some months before we are able to debut any new free material. In the meantime, Fighting for Our Lives is still available free of charge, individually or in bulk.
In the fall, there was a secret cafe at Station 40. I worked as a server with my housemates, carrying amazing food through a crowded room of friends watching performers in a burlesque show. It was one of those nights where all the familiar faces that you haven’t seen for a while appear, and everyone has an expression like “Why don’t we all hang out like we used to anymore?” When things were almost over, I ran into Darci—an old friend I’ve known off and on for almost six years. She’s the kind of friend who’s unpredictable in that way that’s almost always incredibly exciting, but which would probably become frustrating if she were a bigger part of my life. We caught up on where we’d been, what our hopes were, and everything that had gone wrong for us since we last saw each-other. She introduced me to her friends Chelsea and Tracy, and invited me to come back over to the East Bay with them for a party.
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November 18, 2007 at 5:04 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by b. traven
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“Look, we can’t name it that—we already printed how many fucking stickers with that on them? If we use that for the book, too, it’ll seem like we’re out of ideas.”
“And do you have a better idea? That’s the only name any of us have been able to agree on, and we’ve been arguing for months. If I’m not going to live to see anarchist revolution, let’s at least finish this book. We’ve already had this conversation. I really think it’s the only good option we have.”
“If you’re serious, hear me out about the stickers.”
“Go ahead.”
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November 16, 2007 at 4:24 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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Expect Resistance: a crimethink field manual is the title of our new book, which is about two weeks away from shipping. The above photo is of the free bookmark we printed up on our letterpress this weekend, celebrating the book’s release, that will come with the first 500 individual orders—we can’t predict the future but we expect them to run out well before the first month is up. Note that the subtitle for the book is actually wrong on the card—totally my fuck-up, what can I say? I blame it on Lisa and Laycie making 4,000 cookies the day I sent the design to the platemaker, and me eating 3,998 of them. That much sugar can make a person do crazy things, like not remember the name of the book they’ve been working on for months.
One more image after the jump.
November 9, 2007 at 10:36 am · Filed under Read All About It, posted by b. traven
submitted by CWC supernumerary B. Traven, on behalf of the Far East cell
Inveterate comrades and enemies—
It’s been a full three years since our last outlandishly ambitious project, and you may be wondering what became of us. Sure, we started a magazine and did a couple Green Scare benefit projects, but that hardly compares to the high-water mark of our activity in the past. Have we finally accepted that we will not change the world? Are we out of ideas?
We’re excited to report that over the past year, while we seemed to be slowing down, we were actually preparing a new wave of activity—which will commence at the end of this month with the publication of our next book. The projects we are about to debut are by far our most ambitious yet… but first, let’s discuss what happened last time we initiated a wave of activity.
Remember the bitter and messy controversies of 2001-2003? Every CrimethInc. project that appeared was greeted by thoughtless accolades and torrents of abuse. CrimethInc. was a herd of trust fund brats bent on draining all content from the anarchist movement, an army of wastrels wrecking radical institutions from one coast to the other, a bunch of street thugs determined to endanger peaceful protesters, a single sexist middle class white boy who had apparently never heard the word “privilege” before. The defenses this slander provoked from the party faithful were often just as off-base. All you had to do was say the word “dumpster” and the aspersions commenced flying.
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November 7, 2007 at 9:46 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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This week, the proofs for the new mystery book arrived and just as quickly were sent back to the printer with two thumbs up and a cheery exhortation to commence printing with maximum haste. It was the first time we’d seen the book printed out in its entirety, with both colors present, and it was super fucking exciting—as we flipped through the pages, absurdly large grins and enthusiastic high-fives abounded. Carefully going over each page looking for errors, we truly felt this book was everything we had hoped for it to be. And that felt good. In the meantime, we’ve added the tech specs to the teaser page, and expect to reveal the book’s name next week.
November 3, 2007 at 9:25 pm · Filed under From the Trenches, posted by ret marut
Gentle reader, if you share our interest in long-term and effective struggle against the powers that be, let us direct your attention to The Center for Strategic Anarchy, a frequently updated online resource. The Center is a think tank dedicated to identifying and commenting upon important developments in global economics, culture, and politics, to equip anarchists to think strategically when choosing where and how to take on the status quo.
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November 1, 2007 at 10:29 am · Filed under Calling All Anarchists, posted by b. traven
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We are excitedly to announce—albeit belatedly—the publication of The Secret World of Terijian by CrimethInc. North Star. The Secret World of Terijian is a heartwarming children’s story about the defense of the wilderness from profit-driven development. Written, edited, and designed at standards comparable to other CrimethInc. books, it is a benefit project to raise funds for environmental activists targeted by the government repression known as the Green Scare.
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