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  1. Slingshot Collective

    Book Reviews: Fighting for Spaces, Fighting for Our Lives: Squatting Movements Today

    https://slingshotcollective.org/a18-book-reviews-fighting-for-spaces-fighting-for-our-lives-squatting-movements-today/ Squatting Everywhere Collective (SqeK) Edition Assemblage 2018 Rudolf-Diesel-Str. 37, D – 48157 Münster Review by dj dio This book is 356 pages long and contains 30...
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    News & Blogs History of Health: Needle Exchange in San Francisco

    Taken From: http://sfaf.org/client-services/syringe-access/history-of-needle-exchange.html Throughout the history of HIV/AIDS, there are many moments that stand out as bold acts of courage that forever changed the course of the epidemic. Syringe access in San Francisco is certainly at the top...
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    Needle Exchange

    We share a building with the Berkeley Needle Emergency Exchange Distribution (NEED). https://berkeleyneed.org/ Among other things, "NEED offers overdose prevention treatment through the distribution of naloxone, an opioid antagonist that can prevent overdoses." Narcan saves lives! Please...
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    Kansas City Squatters' Handbook from the feral cat collective

    I would post this in the library but the PDF isn't downloading to this computer. https://web.archive.org/web/20140223190626/http://zinelibrary.info/files/kcsquat.pdf Anyone else who has lost 'zines when zinelibrary.info went down, please check archive.org for it!
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    Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair

    10:00am – 6pm Saturday, September 16, 2017 Oakland, CA http://bayareaanarchistbookfair.com/
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    East Bay Homes Not Jails upcoming events

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    Humboldt Anarchist Bookfair

    http://www.humboldtgrassroots.com/?cat=2
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    Open Organisation of Lockpickers

    Here's a website to check out: http://toool.us/
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    Bay Area Spanish Civil War Memorial

    It came up in recent discussions that a couple Collective members are descendants of this Spanish Civil War veteran!
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    Ashville Anarchist Book Fair

    http://acab2017.noblogs.org
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    Spanish Squatters' Movement Discusion-Berkeley

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    Video Berkeley Riot Porn

    For more information, please check: https://itsgoingdown.org/berkeley-clashes-break-alt-right-milo/
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    Trump's Inauguration: Jan. 20th in DC

    There's going to be at least two caravans leaving from the west coast next month to protest Trump's Inauguration. http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2016/12/22/earth2trump-roadshow-of-resistance/
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    Movie Review: Dogtown Redemption

    Available at www.dogtownredemption.com Dogtown Redemption (2015) tells the story of some of the poorest of America’s poor, West Oakland’s street recyclers. It focuses on 3 such individuals and allows them to speak for themselves while capturing on film the grim realities of their day-to-day...
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    Event 2016 East Bay Anarchist Book Discussion

    "Announcing the 2016 East Bay Anarchist Book event, December 17 at the Humanist Hall "This year’s theme is Community: for good or ill. We will be celebrating, defining, and exploring the concept and reality of community: the good and bad things about being part of a group of people who inspire...
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    Denalda, ex-Oakland Squatter, Warehouse Fire Victim

    Today and everyday we want celebrate the badass no-apologizes life of Denalda (who the newspapers are calling "Nicole Siegrist" for some reason), who lost her life in the fire at the Oakland Ghost Ship. She was based out of the Scratch Pad, an Oakland dream squat circa 2014. Around, you could...
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    Ara Jo, Oakland Warehouse Fire Victim, Rest in Power!

    Picture from: http://cargocollective.com/gretaaalborg/BAD-WOMAN-PROJECT It is with a heavy heart that we share that Ara Jo, who drew some of the pages for the 2013 Organizer perished in the art collective fire at the Ghost Ship on Friday. I met Ara at the Paco Dog Collar shop in 2012. I was...
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    Slingshot #122 is online!

    Rather than start different threads, and since we don't have a PDF of it posted online, please check it out here if you can't find a hard copy: http://slingshot.tao.ca/?page_id=116065 the first two articles are against the DAPL, for what it's worth.
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    Police Raid Landless Workers Movement's National School

    "In Brazil, the Landless Workers Movement, known as the MST, is facing increasing repression, including the detention of at least 10 organizers. On November 4, state police raided MST’s National School in São Paulo, firing live ammunition and detaining two MST members, including a 64-year-old...
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    Today in Berkeley, California: Defend the West Berkeley Shellmound!

    http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2016/11/06/today-in-berkeley-california-defend-the-west-berkeley-shellmound/
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    Slingshot #122 Events Calandar

    The deadline for #123 isn't until January, so if you find out about events worth Traveling for late winter and/or early spring, please hit us up at slingshot at tao dot ca!
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    Josh the Mechanic-Oakland

    Josh Lipson 1976 – 2016 Josh Lipson, who cooked with East Bay Food Not Bombs and helped with many recent Slingshot bulk mailings, died in his sleep of heart failure in Oakland June 12. He was 39 years old. Josh's death came as a shock to his many friends since he appeared to be in...
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    Matt of East Bay Food Not Bombs

    Longtime community activist "Midnight" Matt Dodt, a stalwart volunteer with East Bay Food Not Bombs and many other actions and causes for justice in the Bay Area, died unexpectedly May 27, 2016 of heart failure while working on a construction job in San Francisco. He was 59 years old. Working...
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    ZAD, Commune, Metropolis

    Slingshot Collective submitted a new file to the StP library: ZAD, Commune, Metropolis - For over 50 years, farmers and locals have resisted the building of a new airport. Click here for more information on this file.
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    Barrington Hall-Berkeley (1990)

    This is an old image from Love and Rage. One of us found this video of graffiti from Barrington Hall when it was still a student housing co-op: This is actually where the first hand full of issues of Slingshot were laid out! There's a bit more on this website...
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    MIT Guide to Lockpicking

    Slingshot Collective submitted a new file to the StP library: MIT Guide to Lockpicking - By Ted the Tool Click here for more information on this file.
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    The Cloak and Dagger Compendium

    Slingshot Collective submitted a new file to the StP library: The Cloak and Dagger Compendium - Issue #2: Lockpicking Click here for more information on this file.
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    Mississippi Stand Camp: Another Anti-DAPL Protest Camp

    "Sandusky, IA – On Saturday, September 24th, 2016, a non-violent direct action out of the Mississippi Stand camp shutdown Dakota Access Pipeline construction at the point the pipeline will cross the Mississippi river at Sandusky, Iowa. "The action, which started with a six a.m. lock-down by...
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    Rojava (Western/Syrian Kurdistan)

    http://rojavaplan.com One of our comrades went to Minneapolis to get medical study rich and go to Rojava as a journalist, Slingshot press pass and everything, but ended up at the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) instead! But seriously, Rojava is still on...
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    U$-Mexico Border Convergence

    http://www.soaw.org/border/weekend-program/#schedule Friday, October 7 Vigil at Eloy Detention Center, 12:00pm-2:00 pm Opening and Welcome at Hotel Americana in Nogales at 639 N Grand Ave, Nogales, AZ 85621 (United States) & Nogales (Mexico), 6:30pm-8:00pm Concert at Hotel Americana in...
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    Thoughts on Squatting in the San Francisco Bay Area

    http://littleblackcart.com/zines/thoughts-on-squatting-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area/ Everything from this 'zine is available online for free:
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    Bob McGlynn-Tompkins Square Park Vet

    “Bob McGlynn holding a copy of local underground newspaper The Shadow at the memorial for anarchist gardener Adam Purple at La Plaza Cultural community garden last September. Photo by Chris Flash / The Shadow” http://thevillager.com/2016/09/08/bob-mcglynn-linked-tompkins-protests-and-glasnost/...
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    If It's Vacant, Take It!

    Slingshot Collective submitted a new file to the StP library: If It's Vacant, Take It! - squatting Click here for more information on this file.
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    Ours: Homes Not Jails Building and Land Occupation Guide

    Slingshot Collective submitted a new file to the StP library: Ours: Homes Not Jails Building and Land Occupation Guide - squatting Click here for more information on this file.
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    Times Square (1980)

    For all the things Rustbelt Jessie wrote about Times Square, I don't remember her mentioning the film's stars were squatters in it!
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    No Trespassing! by Anders Corr

    http://archiv.squat.net/notrespassing/1.html C H A P T E R 1 Homes Not Jails The Secret Success of a Squatting Movement to House the Homeless Two strangers arrived early at the Homes Not Jails meeting. One had been beaten by his spouse and was looking for a place to stay. The police had...
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    Sacred Stone Camp against the DAPL

    If you can make it out to North Dakota, please consider going to the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). For more info, please check: https://www.facebook.com/CampoftheSacredStone
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    News & Blogs “Big Mountain is Under Siege Again”–Louise Benally on Livestock Impoundments

    A couple of us have been to Black Mesa, and there's a new call for people to go: http://supportblackmesa.org/2016/04/big-mountain-is-under-siege-again-louise-benally-on-livestock-impoundments/
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    Dwelling Portably

    Has anyone here read the 'zine Dwelling Portably? I was sort of shocked when I searched this website and nothing came up under it! http://zinewiki.com/Dwelling_Portably I've tried to read it a few times but wasn't so into it because I don't drive nor am I a boat punk or whatever, and what...
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    Afrikatown Garden

    One of the many squatted urban ag sites in Oakland:
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    People's Park's 47th Birth Day!

    This is the day after the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, and the same day as the BASTARD Conference: http://sfbay-anarchists.org/conference/ those these events are predictable, Eight Days of Anarchy are shaping up!
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    European Squatting Book: The City Is Ours

    Here is my rough draft of a review of The City Is Ours for Slingshot #121: https://artsandcrust.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/the-city-is-ours/ please let me know what you all think! The deadline for #121 isn't until April 9th, so I have plenty of time to touch it up.
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    Black Bear Ranch

    I'm sort of surprised not to find any posts about Black Bear Ranch on here. It's one of the 1960s holdout communes still going in the US. I've watched this film about it a couple of times: In the last issue of Slingshot a couple of us interviewed Osha Neumann after a screening of Commune at...
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    Pirate Mike

    I knew him as Michael Clift, so when I first heard that he died, I thought he was another one of the radical, bike touring homeless vets who hung out with Pirate Mike and did Occupy stuff who I didn't know by name. Here is his obituary that we printed in the last issue of Slingshot...
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    Revolution in Rojava

    Photo by Paul Z. Simons our full (6 part) interview with him is posted here:
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    Copenhagen squat film w/ Eng. subtitles

    "'69' is a documentary about a large group of young people who did not see themselves, culturally or politically, as part of established society. In 1982 they lawfully occupied what was known as the Youth House (Ungdomshuset) at Jagtvej 69, on the outskirts of Copenhagen's inner city. The film...
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    East Bay Homes Not Jails Squatting Film Night!

    Thursday March 17, at the Long Haul Infoshop. 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, California. Shelter: A Squatumentary and possibly more films, information and discussion!
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    Brighton Courthouse Squat film-1994

    This is another one discovered in The City Is Ours from PM Press.
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    Oakland Land Action Under Attack!

    http://www.land-action.org/activist-legal-defense/ Dear Friends, The District Attorney is aggressively prosecuting four Land Action organizers for their involvement in a recent adverse possession project. There are seven criminal charges, including three felony counts and four misdemeanors...