June 22, 2010 at 8:41 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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CrimethInc. Special Agent Nils writes from Germany to tell us about their printing of 20,000 full-colored copies of Reshape magazine, consisting largely of translated CrimethInc. writings:
Reshape magazine ready! After one year we’ve finally published a free magazine including several translations (to German) from the CrimethInc ex-Workers Collective. It contents several ”old” translations we found in the elder magazine “Interface”—but we also did some translation-work of our own and therefore have many new texts. We hope to provoke some discussions in the German leftwing, autonomus, antifa, and anarchist scenes with this publication. You can read more about our motivations in the foreword. We’ll distribute the 20,000 copies through several activist mailordesr, infoshops and in the streets. If you want to help—get in touch! Further, we have a blog that contains more translations than were included in the magazine, with more to come.
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In addition to supplying the above video, our friends Test Their Logik have written in with a note about the planned resistance to the upcoming G8 and G20 meetings which will take place in Huntsville and Toronto, Ontario, from June 25-27:
Toronto-based organizations of women, people of colour, indigenous peoples, the poor, working class, queer people, trans people, and disabled people are organizing an anti-capitalist and anti-colonial convergence to counter these fuckers. We in Southern Ontario Anarchist Resistance are calling on our friends and lovers, our comrades and co-conspirators, to join us in creating the most militant resistance that the city of Toronto has ever seen. The bankers and politicians who claim to run our world will not be allowed to run our town. In defiance of the largest military operation to take place on Kanadian soil in living memory, people are organizing everything from street parties to occupations, massive demonstrations to autonomous and targeted attacks.
The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is the network of the different communities, organizations, and individuals that are organizing the varying responses to the militarization of this city and to the systems of oppression and domination that a meeting of world “leaders” represents. The objective is to use the opportunity of the G8 and G20 summits to highlight and strengthen the diverse movements for social justice that already exist in the Toronto area. The full schedule of the events is available here. The TCMN, and all of its constituents, have agreed to respect a diversity of tactics as part of their statement of solidarity and respect.
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We’re pleased to announce our first-ever sale of returned, imperfect, and slightly damaged books in our online store for 50% off the standard prices. We’ve been collecting them for almost a decade and have dozens of boxes stacked to the ceiling that we had no idea what to do with—not good enough to sell as new, and too good to simply discard. We’ve stumbled upon a groundbreaking solution: sell them for half as much!
Since our regular prices are as low as they can be, we’ve never had a way to have a sale on our books before, so we’re excited for this chance to make them available for less money. The wholesale price is also discounted 50%, so this would be a great chance to buy books to give away to friends, relatives and even local infoshops and libraries. The number of available books is limited and are available only on a first-come first-served basis—we don’t know how long they will be available, but we imagine it won’t be too long. Click here for the store sale page.
We’re excited to announce the release of a new hip-hop track to benefit the State Street 29 in Olympia, WA. This collaboratively produced song, titled “Great Lakes to Cascades,” is a free download for those who donate $1 or more to the State Street 29 Support Committee. To donate more than $1, simply increase the quantity in the shopping cart—100% of your donation goes directly to the Support Committee.
It features Testament & Illogik of Raised Fist Collective (Ontario) and Strife, MK Ultra and Unrest of Thought Crime Collective (Olympia) and recorded in Olympia in early February 2010 during Raised Fist’s Empowerment Tour. It’s a simple but fierce narrative on preparedness and strength emphasizing the aggressive spirit of mutual aid and collectivity. [256kbps VBR MP3]
The State Street 29 is a group of individuals who were arrested on the night of April 8th, 2010. They were arrested at a march consisting of over 60 people that took place in downtown Olympia. The march was done in solidarity with the West Coast Days of Action against State Violence to draw attention to the fact that police everywhere are perpetuating and fostering fear among our communities. Our goal as the State Street 29 Support Committee is to encourage others to view the arrestees, from the perspective of those who rely on and care about them, as loving, well intentioned, and active people concerned about the safety of our community.
February 7, 2010 at 10:12 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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Last week we received the flawless proofs for Rolling Thunder #9, and the magazine is currently being printed up north in French Canada. It’s an excellent issue and truly bursting with content. We expect to begin shipping them out in about three weeks (March 1st)—it’s the fourth consecutive issue that will come out precisely on schedule, a goal we’ve been working hard towards achieving.
As promised, subscription copies will be the first mailed out, so if you haven’t yet subscribed, now is the time to do it—if you miss the first bulk subscription mailing, the next one won’t be until a few weeks later. NOTE: Current subscribers should email rtsubs@crimethinc.com if they have changed their address.
The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place in Vancouver & Whistler, on unceded Indigenous land, from February 12-28 2010. We call on all anti-capitalist, Indigenous, housing rights, labour, migrant justice, environmental, anti-war, community-loving, anti-poverty, civil libertarian, and anti colonial activists to come together to confront this two-week circus and the oppression it represents. We are organizing towards a global anti-capitalist and anti-colonial convergence against the 2010 Olympic Games.
December 30, 2009 at 9:36 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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On January 4th the United States Postal Service is implementing yet another rate change: for those in the US, prices will remain mostly unchanged (and amazingly, in the instance of Flat-Rate Priority Mail packages, actual go down a smidge); for those outside the US however, there will be increases to the already absurdly expensive shipping fees. An average 4.1% increase across the board will mean that for Canada and Mexico flat-rate envelopes and boxes will be increasing 47¢ and 95¢ respectively to $10.87 and $25.60; for the rest of the world, flat-rate envelopes and boxes will go up 48¢ and $1.33 respectively to $12.78 and $41.28.
If you were planning to order and want to save a few dollars, the deadline for ordering with the old rates is Noon, Pacific Time, on Saturday, January 2nd. After noon, all orders will be shipped at the new rates.
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We’re pleased to announce that the former restriction of needing a $10 minimum order to qualify for UPS Ground shipping has been removed, and there is now no minimum. With every day that passes we become more frustrated with the United States Postal Service losing and destroying our packages and being completely unaccountable for doing so. While UPS Ground often does cost (slightly) more, it has many advantages of great value to people who want to receive the stuff they order: $100 of free insurance, day-definite delivery guarantees, actual tracking, and far better package handling.
Therefore we strongly encourage everyone to select UPS Ground as their shipping option. Also, as a tip to reduce the cost of UPS Ground for your order, we suggest getting creative and having the package shipped to a place of business rather than a residence, doing so can often save several dollars.
October 18, 2009 at 9:01 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
It’s been a couple years since our last progress report for the CrimethInc. into Libraries program, so it seemed like a good time to do an update. All of the numbers are up an average of 43%, though we’re a little sad to see Expect Resistance so under-represented; we suspect the economic crisis—that has resulted in record-low library budgets this last year or so—might have something to do with it. Here are the current numbers:
These numbers are great, and you can be sure almost every single one of these books was the result of someone requesting the library to acquire it. Of course, there is much room for improvement, so keep up the good work folks, and don’t forget: each request makes the next request more likely to be filled, so keep at it!
September 24, 2009 at 1:13 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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The CrimethInc. Guerilla Film Series Volume One DVD set (boy, that’s a mouthful!) has new packaging! We’ve ditched the old, rickety, plastic case and now use a 100% recycled, dual-disc Digipak. It’s quite an improvement and the price is still the same old $10. Check out the new pics over on the DVD page.
PS: For those with the old version, you aren’t missing anything—there is no new content on the discs themselves.
September 19, 2009 at 12:20 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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A quick update on Rolling Thunder #8: All subscription copies were mailed out last Tuesday (the 15th) in plush envelopes (photographed here) printed just for subscriptions; some of you have already received them, the rest should arrive shortly. As a small thanks to early subscribers, all copies included one our new, fancy vinyl stickers. Also, as of the end of Friday, every order for RT#8, both individual, and in bulk, has been sent out.
September 8, 2009 at 8:29 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
As some may have noticed, Rolling Thunder #8 has not arrived on schedule. Unfortunately, the printer made an error on the cover which has resulted in a delay that is totally out of our hands. We now expect to have them to ship out by then end of this week, or early next week. Follow along on our fatuous Twitter feed.
Update: Shocking news—printer has missed yet another deadline of their own. We now expect to have them for mailing on Tuesday, the 15th. Grrrrr.
August 21, 2009 at 10:11 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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We’re about two weeks away from having Rolling Thunder #8 back from the printer and ready to ship out—right on schedule for the 3rd issue in a row. If you’d like an incredibly uninformative preview, feel free to check out our dopey twitter feed.
To celebrate our own giddy anticipation of the pending arrival, we’ve decided to spice things up by holding a drawing for one of the few remaining copies of the Ne Plus Ultra Edition of Days of War, Nights Love. To be eligible, you simply have to subscribe to Rolling Thunder by Midnight PST on the 31st of August. If you’ve already subscribed, don’t worry, you are eligible as well. The winner will be selected by a random number generator.
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At long last we’ve worked out a method to offer Rolling Thunder subscriptions for a substantial discount without sacrificing quality or delivery speed—so, we are very excited to announce our new two-year, four issue subscriptions. Have four issues shipped to your door for just $22 (U.S.) and $25 (Global)— a respective savings of $10.64 and $44.60 versus ordering each issue separately. You can opt to start a subscription with the current issue or the next one; all the details, including an FAQ, are over on the subscription page. It has always been our goal to make RT available for as little money as possible while still sustaining itself, and we feel that these subscriptions are a solid step in both of those directions. In the meantime, we’re working hard on RT#8, on schedule to ship at the beginning of September.
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At long last, we’ve completed our 35,000-word full report on last summer’s anarchist mobilizations against the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, complete with chronological maps and painstaking documentation. Updated from the feature in Rolling Thunder #7 and expanded to include the complete text of thirteen different participant narratives, this report offers a comprehensive history of the preparations for, events of, and aftermath following the protests, and an analysis of their context and implications.
Unlike virtually every other analysis yet published from the radical community, this one utilizes subsequent internal government reports, comparing them against a wide variety of other sources. We hope our investigation and the accompanying archive of personal testimonies will prove useful both to participants still trying to understand the events of this past summer and to organizers looking to derive lessons from them for the future.
In a nutshell, we hypothesize that the chief significance of the 2008 anti-convention mobilizations was in the precedents they might set for future organizing. Anarchists took the initiative to determine their own goals and strategies for the protests, establishing decentralized networks throughout the US far in advance. This enabled them to build relationships with other organizing groups and to coordinate their actions, effectively setting the tone for the protests at both conventions. At the same time, the protests were less attended than expected, perhaps as a result of the Obama campaign detracting from street-level participation in the antiwar movement. In this regard, they were the final act of an era that has now passed.
The RNC protests met with an almost unprecedented degree of state repression, which is still playing out today even as the political climate has changed. The federal government continued its strategy of gathering intelligence and entrapping stragglers, already familiar from attacks on environmentalists and animal rights activists. Local authorities focused on infiltration, profiling, and raids, ultimately arresting over 800 people and bringing conspiracy charges against organizers. Despite all this, they seem to have been remarkably unprepared to maintain order in the streets on the first day of the RNC, and their subsequent overreaction helped discredit them in the public eye. Most arrestees have gotten off scot-free; it remains to be seen how the ongoing felony cases will conclude. The outcome of the RNC 8 conspiracy trial in particular will indicate how sustainable we can expect the organizing model debuted at the 2008 conventions to be.
This blog functions as a clearinghouse for bulletins from participating CrimethInc. cells, enabling readers to keep abreast of their activities and coordinate with them.
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