Archive for Internal Memos
March 29, 2012 at 10:21 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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We’ll be attending the 17th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair this weekend for our 13th consecutive time, and, as usual, will have thousands of posters, pamphlets and stickers to give away for free as well as our books and fancy posters for sale. We’ll be there both Saturday and Sunday, so stop on by.
We will also debut a new sticker and a brand new experimental publication, Vortext, a journal of philosophy, nihilist performance art, and MAXIMUM ULTRAISM. Vortext will be available for online orders afterwards if we have any left, and the stickers will be available here in bulk next week. We’ll have our new, free postcard, as well.
Teaser pics after the break.
August 14, 2011 at 11:09 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by b. traven
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This fall and winter, our operatives will be appearing around the country to speak on the subjects covered in the Work book: the ways capitalism has changed, the new forms resistance is taking, and how to formulate anti-capitalist strategies in the 21st century. If you would like to set up a speaking event, please email help@crimethinc.com.
Read about dates this August in Oregon, Washington, Virginia, DC, and Maryland after the jump.
May 22, 2011 at 12:49 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
The good news is we hope this will be the last update about our difficulties bringing our newest book, Work, into the world, and our next announcement will be that they are finally ready to ship out. The bad news is all the intermittent disasters and disappointments that got us here: we’ve had numerous setbacks and failed attempts to repair the books we had printed, all of which took an absurd amount of time to deliver untenable results to get us to where we are now—basically, right back at zero.
Work is now being reprinted, and we expect to have copies to mail out mid-June. For the hundreds of you who have back-ordered the book—anticipating, as did we, that they would be available by now—we offer our most sincere apologies. Never did we imagine this fiasco would be extended for so long. You have three options: 1) Do nothing and your book will be among the first ones sent out a month from now, 2) Cancel your order by emailing us, or 3) E-mail us to remove Work from your order, and we’ll ship out the rest immediately (send emails to house@crimethinc.com). Details of the exchange/credit program for people who received defective copies will be announced once we have the new copies in hand. Thanks everyone for your patience during what has been a genuine nightmare for us!
April 19, 2011 at 11:03 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
We’re absolutely heartbroken to have to announce that the print run for our new book Work has been discovered to contain a high number of books with a production defect where the front cover can easily become detached from the rest of the book. We’ve fielded enough reports over the last few days to be sure the problem is not isolated, and thusly, we are suspending shipments of the book immediately. We are currently in negotiations with the printer as to how to fix this problem, and it is likely to take several weeks to resolve. You can be sure that until we are certain we have books in hand that do not have the defect, we won’t be sending any out.
For details on the problem itself, and how we are going to make things right with people already in possession of faulty books, read on.
April 2, 2011 at 9:53 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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To set the stage for next week’s announcements, we present to you the free bookmark that will be included in the first 999 orders of the new book. Hand printed on the letterpress in our garage, it might just be possible to feel some of the excitement and thrill we had making these in preparation for the book’s release.
More photos and letterpress geekery after the jump.
March 29, 2011 at 9:33 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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In just a couple days, we’ll unveil our newest round of projects—some of our most ambitious in several years. But first, we’d like to offer a glimpse into our internal discussions. We’ve been trying to figure out how to handle our current financial difficulties while rendering our materials more widely accessible; we think we’ve hit upon a solution, but we’ll need your support to make it work.
Read on after the jump.
November 8, 2010 at 9:32 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by b. traven
We’ve just helped release the new LP from Plague Mass, our good friends from Austria. Entitled “Union of Egoists,” the LP captures the high-energy intensity of one of Europe’s best d.i.y. metallic hardcore bands. It’s available through Stickfigure distribution.
From the Depths will be bringing Plague Mass on tour in the US next February.
Just in time for the tour, we’ll be co-releasing a 12″ split between From the Depths and Next Victim, from Poland. We’ve been following Next Victim’s eerie music with great excitement since some of the members were in Mind Pollution, another amazing band. It’s an honor to get to collaborate with two bands that have been so inspiring for us!
Plague Mass “Last Home” [7.9 MB MP3]
Next Victim “Własna Nisza” [10.6 MB MP3]
Tour schedule after the jump.
August 3, 2010 at 12:56 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by ret marut
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Earlier this summer, From the Depths returned from an exciting, inspiring, and educational two-month tour of Europe. They brought back copies of the European pressing of their “Germinate” LP, which are now available from Stickfigure distribution.
In addition, now that the band has finally made enough money to cover the recording costs of the album, they are offering it for free downloading. Donations are still welcome to cover the costs of making this available.
“Germinate” is still available on CD via CrimethInc. Far East. From the Depths is scheduled to record another record this fall.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Current Availability (click on number to see list of all libraries with book):
Days of War — 192 Libraries
Recipes for Disaster — 57 Libraries (22 here, 20 here & 15 here)
Expect Resistance — 28 Libraries
Evasion — 112 Libraries (74 here & 38 here)
Off the Map — 62 Libraries
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.
And, lastly, a hearty congratulations to Ms. Stephanie of Los Angeles, who won our random subscriber drawing for a Ne Plus Ultra copy of Days of War.
One more photo of our ritzy envelopes after the jump.
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.
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