RIOT MEDICINE
1st Ed., 1st Revision
by Hakan Geijer
2023-03-06
"Riot Medicine is a full-length textbook that covers everything you need to become a medic. The 466 pages include organizing, medcine, equipment, and tactics. It is written for those with no medical training and no experience at protests, but medical practitioners and seasoned protesters will still find it useful.
This is the First Revision (2023) since its release three years ago. There is an additional chapter on Oral and Dental Injuries as well as numerous other additions and removals."
Source: Riot Medicine (Link)
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Riot Medicine Field Guide
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#medical #document #informational #book #link #essential #gear
The ALF primer: A guide to direct action and the animal liberation front, third edition, pamphlet anonimo.
«The Animal Liberation Front has its roots in 1960s England. At this time a small group of people began sabotaging hunts there. This group, the Hunt Saboteurs Association, would lay false scents, blow hunting horns to send hounds off in the wrong direction, and chase animals to safety. In 1972, after effectively ending a number of traditional hunting events across England, members of the Hunt Saboteurs decided more militant action was needed, and thus began the Band of Mercy. They moved on to destroying guns and sabotaging hunters vehicles by breaking windows and slashing tires. They also began fighting other forms of animal abuse, burning seal hunting boats as well as pharmaceutical laboratories. After the jailing of two Band of Mercy members in 1975, word spread, support grew, and the Animal Liberation Front was begun in 1976»
#antispeciesism #anarchy #anticapitalism
Reclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom:
Herbal Abortion Procedure & Practice for Midwives & Herbalists, Eberhardt Press.
Tw: abortion
«This pamphlet is the culmination of many years of research into the historic practice of herbal abortion. It has been my attempt to compile this traditional
knowledge into a comprehensive resource for midwives and herbalists to use in their practice. The use of herbal abortifacients can play a valuable role in herbal and midwifery practice and is a needed skill for many future
midwives. By reclaiming this knowledge midwives will
provide women with more abortion choices, while at the
same time reclaiming the wise woman tradition of the
midwife as pregnancy, birth and abortion provider. There is still a great deal of knowledge yet to be
discovered and reclaimed in the field of herbal abortion. As current information is reevaluated, studied
and scrutinized, historic methods are rediscovered and deciphered. While more studies and research
into herbal abortion are useful, it is also important to critically analyze the role that science and medicine
have played historically in wiping out this information in the first place. I would encourage all midwives who wish to integrate this knowledge into their practice to do further research into this subject. It is through our
own investigations and research that we will keep this knowledge in the hands of women.
It is my hope that this pamphlet will act as a catalyst for further research, study and experimentation. I anticipate that abortifacient herbal practice will be reintegrated with midwifery practice. It is my sincere
wish that herbalists and midwives will once again provide women with the ancient methods of herbal
abortion in new, safe and effective ways»
#history #feminism #ecology #consciousnessrising #spirituality #anarchy
What is this thing called ME? A brief history of menstrual extraction, zine anonima.
Tw: abortion
«The first time this anarcha-feminist got pregnant, she also
got a little confused. I knew that I didn’t want to be pregnant. But
I also knew that I didn’t want to
pay a wealthy, white, male doctor to perform an invasive and trau matic abortion procedure on me. I wanted to experience my abortion as an empowering event in my life rather than a shameful mistake, and I wanted to actually experience my abortion. I wanted a menstrual extraction — the least physically traumatic, least expensive, unfortunately, least legal form of early-term abortion that exists today»
#feminism #consciousnessrising #anarchy
Free to choose: A Women's Guide to Reproductive Freedom, Eberhardt Press.
Tw: abortion
«To know our history is to begin to see how to take up the struggle again»
B. Ehreneich e D. English in Witches, Midwives and Nurses (1973)
#feminism #consciousnessrising
Self-care for before, during and after your abortion, zine di The Doula Project.
Tw: abortion, sexual assault and violence
«This zine is for anyone and everyone who is getting an abortion, whether the experience is easy or hard. We use the word “abortion”, but your experience might be closer to a miscarriage or loss, or a wanted pregnancy where the timing wasn't right, or an unwanted pregnancy from an unwanted sexual act.
Whatever words you use, we hope these tools can help. Throughout this zine, we have tried to keep in our hearts the many people who are not typically well-served by the medical system»
#feminism #consciousnessrising
Sabaté: Guerrilla Extraordinary
by Antonio Tellez (1974)
"Fantastic and detailed biography of legendary anti-Franco guerrilla, Francisco Sabate Llopart. Written by Antonio Tellez and translated by Stuart Christie, this book recounts the life, actions and death of the longest-surviving underground resistance fighter."
"It is necessary to understand that we cannot wait for others—not even for other comrades—to give us the sign to act, the final indication. This must come from us. Each one of us, taken individually, must find his or her own comrades[...] Actions will come easily, as a natural consequence of the decision to act together against the common enemy. Grand words, declarations to go down in history, the great organisations of the glorious past and vast programmes for the future are all useless if the will of the individual comrade is lacking."
—Bonanno
Source: Libcom (link)
#document #book #anarchism #history #international #sabotage #security #link
Fat and Queer: An Anthology of
Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives di B. O. Grimm, M. M. Morales e T. J. Ferentini.
«This book is dedicated to the fat and queer and fat and trans community, to our elders whose work led us to this moment, and to our youth who inspire us to keep moving forward»
«Fat queer people experience multidimensional forms of discrimination, not to mention those who identify as BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color). Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives is a testament to the feeling “guilty for existing in a world that didn’t want me” to “existing as a contradiction” to the “never managing to starve myself into heterosexuality”. The contributors of this anthology explore two historical forms of othering—fatness and queerness—but they complicate each category, adding energy to their relationship, and offering readers ways to (re)claim their bodies and, arguably, their queer sanities.
“I am not fat solely,” one contributor remarks, and that sentiment, besides summoning Zaddy Whitman, is one that pulsates throughout this collection.
Fatness is measured against transness, gender expectations are measured against sexual violence, binders are measured against one’s truth, and a fat nude body is measured against surveilled desires. These are bodies “too big to be held at once”. These are radical bodies and radical odes to those radical bodies. They can no longer stay in the closet. Instead, they are nothing short of acts of witness for how the human body continues to be an, if not the, ultimate threshold between the now and what the world can be»
#feminism #queerness #intersectionality #antiracism #decoloniality
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Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism
by Serafinski
“Blessed is the match consumed
in kindling flame.
Blessed is the flame that burns
in the secret fastness of the heart.
Blessed is the heart with strength to stop
its beating for honor’s sake.
Blessed is the match consumed
in kindling flame."
—Hannah Senesh, Jewish partisan fighter.
"...Both topics — anarcho-nihilism and concentration camp resistance — challenge anarchists to realize a spirit of resistance that can endure horrific conditions, that can weather the storms of absolute futility, and that can still muster an exuberant desire to rebel..."
Source: Warzone Distro (Link)
#document #zine #history #anarchism #sabotage #link #discussion #organization
Life of an Anarchist - The Alexander Berkman Reader
by Alexander Berkman, Gene Fellner, Howard Zinn (Seven Stories, 2005)
"This reader is an introduction to Alexander Berkman. It includes sections from Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist and The Bolshevik Myth, the entire The Russian Tragedy and portions of The Kronstadt Rebellion. Following the example set by Freedom Press of London, this reader includes parts one and two of What is Communist Anarchism under the title The ABC of Anarchism. This reader also includes articles from The Blast, the manifesto of the No Conscription League (organized by Berkman and Goldman on May 9, 1917) and the transcript to the League's meeting at Hunts Point Palace on June 4, 1917. These latter documents help clarify Berkman's role as one of the exceptional organizers and agitators of his time, involved in vital issues as they were transpiring and relentless in his efforts to affect public opinion."
Source: Leftist Books (Telegram)
#document #book #anarchism #history #link
A REBEL WORKER'S ORGANISING HANDBOOK
by Zabalaza, 2017
"A set of tips and advice guides for organising in your workplace. From basic principles and getting started, to making demands, taking action (such as strikes, etc.) ...and winning them!...
...We can do this by organising at work. This pamphlet is a resource to assist all
workers in improving our jobs in the here and now, and we also believe that by
organising to fight, we build the seeds of a new world..."
Source: Zabalaza Books (Link)
#document #zine #organization #mutualaid #tactics #sabotage #link #informational
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible di C. E. Cobb Jr.
«One of the crucial but mostly ignored aspects of the freedom struggle of the 1950s and ’60s is how near we were in time and collective historical memory to slavery and the post–Civil War Reconstruction era. Each generation of black people carries a memory of the struggles taken on by the generations that preceded it, and that memory settles in the collective soul and becomes the foundation for the struggles of one’s own generation. To borrow words from author and professor Jan Carew, we are haunted by “ghosts in our blood”. […] This book, although analytical and carefully researched, is not “objective” in the strictest sense of that word; rather, it is a fleshing out and contextualizing of the stories I began hearing in childhood, continued to hear as a young Freedom Movement activist in the South, and have been reflecting on all my adult life. Importantly, this book is also more than a collection of stories and personal reminiscences about the southern Freedom Movement of the 1950s and ’60s. It is an effort to think carefully about the past and to understand its lessons, recognizing that, as William Faulkner once put it, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past”. My goal has been to help us understand ourselves as a nation, cutting through platitudes and romance about the southern Freedom Movement as well as persistent stereotypes about black people. I have wished to demonstrate in an unexpected way how black people and their responses to white supremacist oppression continue and advance the struggle that was articulated as a constitutional ideal in the formation of the United States: “to form a more perfect union”.
[…] The real story of the southern Freedom Movement lies with this work, and neither what took place in the South nor what the United States is today can be fully comprehended without it»
#anarchy #antiracism #anticapitalism #decoloniality #history
The Battle for Abortion and Reproductive Autonomy, intervista a B. Ostrach per la radio anarchica The Final Straw Radio.
«This week on the show, we sat down with Bayla Ostrach, an ac-
tivist, anarchist, longtime defender, provider of and researcher around issues of reproductive healthcare. We speak about experiences researching and working on the issue in Catalunya, the battle for abortion and reproductive autonomy in the so-called US, the challenges faced by independent clinics against
the business model of clinic chains like Planned Parenthood,
legal and material pressure and attacks by anti-abortion extremists as well as the cultural and political struggle to defend and expand the ability for people to get safe, affordable, full spectrum and stigma-free abortion and reproductive care more broadly»
#anarchy #feminism #consciousnessrising #history
Roses for Rosie, a zine to celebrate Rosie Jimenéz’s life & legacy, zine anonima.
«Rosaura Jiménez, known as Rosie, was a Chicana from McAllen, Texas, who lost her life in 1977 because of abortion restrictions. Rosie grew up as part of a large family. Her parents were migrant farm workers who eventually opened a Mexican restaurant to share her mother’s cooking. At 27 years old, she was a college student and single mom who had plans of building a better future for herself and her daughter Monique—she dreamed of becoming a teacher. She loved classic rock, dancing, and joking around in class. Rosie lived in an apartment next door to her best friend, and they helped each other raise their kids»
«In September of 1977, Rosie found out she was pregnant again. She had previously had an abortion performed by a medical provider, but because a new federal regulation known as the Hyde Amendment had just come into effect which prohibited Medicaid coverage of abortion, she was unable to use her insurance to pay for her abortion care. Rosie could not afford to pay for an abortion from a licensed physician out of pocket, but she was determined to finish school, so she sought another option. On October 3, at only 27, Rosie Jiménez died of an unsafe abortion. The Hyde Amendment cost Rosie her life.
More than 40 years later, we are still fighting abortion restrictions that keep people from accessing abortion care. Rosie’s story is a reminder that abortion care must be part of our collective fight for freedom and economic and reproductive justice»
#history #feminism
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers di B. Ehrenreich e D. English.
Tw: abortion
«Women have always been healers. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists of western history. They were abortionists, nurses and counsellors. They were pharmacists, cultivating healing herbs and exchanging the secrets of their uses. They were midwives, travelling from home to home and village to village. For centuries women were doctors without degrees, barred from books and lectures, learning from each other, and passing on experience from neighbor to neighbor and mother to daughter. They were called "wise women" by the people, witches or charlatans by the authorities. Medicine is part of our heritage as women, our history, our birthright.
Today, however, health care is the property of male professionals. Ninety-three percent of the doctors in the US are men; and almost all the top directors and administrators of health institutions. Women are still in the overall majority—70% of health workers are women—but we have been incorporated as workers into an industry where the bosses are men. We are no longer independent practitioners, known by our own names, for our own work. We are, for the most part, institutional fixtures, filling faceless job slots: clerk, dietary aide, technician, maid. When we are allowed to participate in the healing process, we can do so only [as] nurses. And nurses of every rank from aide up are just "ancillary workers" in relation to the doctors (from the Latin ancilla, maid servant). From the nurses' aide, whose menial tasks are spelled out with industrial precision, to the "professional" nurse, who translates the doctors' orders into the aide's tasks, nurses share the status of a uniformed maid service to the dominant male professionals.
Our subservience is reinforced by our ignorance, and our ignorance is enforced. Nurses are taught not to question, not to challenge. […] Women health workers are alienated from the scientific substance of their work, restricted to the "womanly" business of nurturing and housekeeping—a passive, silent majority»
#history #feminism #consciousnessrising #spirituality #anarchy
A guide to your reproductive resources and beyond, zine di The Doula Project.
Tw: abortion
«This zine was developed out of a desire to extend the support and resources of The Doula Project to the Wesleyan community.
For five years the DP has worked in nearby abortion clinics providing physical, emotional and informational support to abortion patients.
From this work, we have seen the limits of support available to individuals as they make difficult decisions about their bodies, their families, and their futures. We understand that this is especially true for people of color, low-income people, LGBTQ+ people, people who are disabled, and non-binary people.
This zine hopes to extend the DP’s mission of providing informational support to the Wesleyan community by introducing the concept of reproductive justice and outlining the reproductive resources available on campus and beyond.
Reproductive justice is a conceptual resource and a lens through which to think about more logistical issues, such as how to get birth control. We recognize that the information in this zine is by no means exhaustive, and that not all the resources we detail will be helpful to everyone, but we hope this zine answers some questions and introduces some new ones»
#feminism #consciousnessrising
Reach For The Sky: Anarchist Analysis On Mass Shootings, The So-Called Crime Wave, And The Deepening Crisis
https://itsgoingdown.org/reach-for-the-sky-zine/
This zine from It's Going Down includes our text, "Their Guns Won’t Protect You, but They Can Get You Killed," arguing that the epidemic of mass shootings in the US cannot be stopped by more policing or more gun control, but only by radical social change.
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Lions in the Brush: On the Anatomy and Guidelines of Cell Structured Resistance
by El Borracho (Nömad Warfuk), 2019
“...[C]ell structure differs from the organization in that, if one cell is taken out and/or compromised, it remains physically impossible for that to have any effect on any other cell. If we drew one big circle or pyramid (the organization), imagine if it only took one pin to stick into the organization block to destroy it. In the case of cell structure, the only way to destroy the cells would be to pin them each one by one, which means you would need to first locate and identify each and every one, and pick them off individually. The chance of successfully identifying all of those unknown numbers of underground cells is usually quite small. This is what gives cell structured resistance its near invincibility.”
Source: Warzone Distro (Link)
#document #zine #organization #tactics #security #strategy #anarchism #link
GUERILLA BAY AREA: On the Endless Crime Wave/En La Oda Del Crimen Sin Fin
"...As we chronicled last year, there were no protests the night Joe Biden was elected president of the US. Even though he’s a rapist, racist, and lunatic just like Trump, no one took the streets to symbolically protest his election. Instead, hundreds of people got inside stolen cars and looted numerous businesses across the Bay Area. One person was killed during this looting spree, a young father named Jonathan Torres Ramirez who was shot by the Oakland Police Department, cut-down at the age of 20 while robbing an indoor weed-grow. At the time of this writing, not a single cop has been punished for this murder, at least not by the state..."
Source: The Transmetropolitan Review (Link)
#document #zine #sabotage #history #police #antiracism #link
Anarchist Agitation and Community Building
by Ronald A. Young (2001)
"...Anarchists cannot expect people to be enthusiastic about the marvellous future anarchist society [...] when we completely fail to provide some form of immediate relief today. What good is a future anarchist society to the person you are trying to win over if she/he will be too dead to enjoy it? We have to get in touch with the grassroots or else we set ourselves up for failure.
Anarchists need to make a distinction between short-term reforms used as a means of giving the working class “breathing space” to fight another day and the ideology of reformism which views reforms as an end in themselves. We can support the former while rejecting the latter and it not be a contradiction in terms. And that’s where we stand separated from the mere liberal reformists.
Onward to the revolution..."
Source: Zabalaza Books (Link)
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Tools and Tactics in the Portland Protests
From Leaf Blowers and Umbrellas to Lasers, Balloons, and Power Tools
2020
"Across over two months of protests, demonstrators in Portland have experimented with a variety of tactics and strategies. The clashes in Portland drew international attention [...], when footage spread of federal agents in unmarked cars snatching demonstrators off the sidewalks[...]. After Trump’s announcement, the demonstrations in Portland grew exponentially, drawing thousands each night, until the governor of Oregon declared that federal agents would be withdrawn from the streets. In the following overview, participants in the Portland demonstrations describe some of the tools and tactics they have seen employed there."
Source: RevoltLib (Link)
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective (Link/Telegram)
See also: Demonstrator's Guide (Telegram)
#document #zine #PDX #tactics #sabotage #link #strategy
PROVO - Amsterdam's Anarchist Revolt
by Richard Kempton (Autonomedia, 2007)
"While some in our collective cannot imagine modern anarchism without Provo, others only came to understand the movement's impact through researching and editing this book. Provo is a legendary movement whose creative energy, successes, and failures helped shape the anarchism that we practice and love today. And while the effects of legends often drift in and out of our everyday lives , they frequently pass unanalyzed. This book brings the history of Provo to the fore so that we can make the connections between the past and present , as well as take note of substantial differences between their historical moment and ours. Our hope for this introductory history of Provo in English audience is that it allows others to mine Provo's experiments and experiences for inspiration and strategies."
Source: Libcom (Link)
#document #book #history #international #anarchism #occupation #tactics #strategy #fun #link