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katsylver @katsylver.bsky.social · 2d

It was so exciting to see what titles I ran out of. As always, all of my copies of @cbmilstein.bsky.social & @prisonculture.bsky.social's offerings got picked up immediately. Today, @crimethinc.com 's To Change Everything zine was more popular than it's been at previous events.

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 2d

So much bad news, and thus so much need for our news. Immensely sad at @igd.bsky.social’s passing 💔🖤💔🖤. Sending the IGD much love! May IGD’s memory be a blessing. 🪬🫂

Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 2d

Really sad to hear that @igd.bsky.social is shutting down. They have been an amazing resource.

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IGD: 2015 – 2025

About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been...

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 4d

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Cindy Milstein – It's Going Down

Misfit. Wordsmith. Dreamer. Rebel.  Never at home in this world, so always aspiring to make new ones with others.  Labors of love: creating books, doing care + grief care, curating magical do-it-ourse...

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 4d

www.sproutdistro.com

Anarchist Zines

Anarchist zine distro with PDF zines and pamphlets on anarchism, direct action, tactics, etc.

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 4d

Anarchist Public Service Announcement #4

It was written for an earlier No Kings rally, but might be helpful for the ones tmrw, which should at least be renamed “No Fascists” aka “We Are All Antifascists”!

ANARCHIST PUBLIC SERVICE, pt 4

If you go to “No Kings” rallies today, no doubt it will be all you can do—as an anarchist who believes deeply in liberatory practices and politics—to maintain your cool when faced with both liberals’ and authoritarians’ lack of solidarity. Go with other anarchists and be each other’s support system, and debrief (rant, cry, laugh, and/or chill) afterward.

But also go as “friendly anarchist factions” to model what solidarity actually looks like—even if too many nonanarchistic folks don’t yet know what that feels like or how to do it. I always wish that people didn’t need to be, say, tear gassed or arrested to learn that ACAB isn’t just a slogan, and that anarchists will almost certainly be the ones to have their backs. But such is the wearisome “learning curve,” and the more folks who see beloved community self-defense modeled for them, unflinchingly, on the streets, the more they’ll understand how (and why!) to stick side-by-side too—including with us.

Be solidarity.

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 4d

Anarchist Public Service Announcement #3

It was written for an earlier No Kings rally, but might be helpful for the ones tmrw, which should at least be renamed “No Fascists” aka “We Are All Antifascists”!

ANARCHIST PUBLIC SERVICE, pt 3

Back in the day, ahead of a big protest, anarchists set up “convergence centers”: big, scrappy, communal spaces where folks could not only find each other, make and eat food, plug into art and media making, etc. in the days before an (often direct) action based on a wide-ranging diversity of tactics—under an umbrella name like “Carnival against Capitalism” or “No Olympics on Stolen Native Lands”—but also skill up together.

There’s no time to do this before the poorly named “No Kings” (aka, it’s fascism) protests tmrw. Yet you could easily do pop-up skill shares. So many “newbies” are open to learning and eager for alternatives!

Remake the urban landscape into temporary autonomous “classrooms.” Use public furniture or gathering spots, or bring blankets or chairs to sit on. Write the skill share topic on cardboard and display it. Run around and announce skill shares as they start. Bored protesters waiting for a march to begin or tired of listening to rally speeches make great participants. Circle up and start passing along handy skills—say, how to help each other rinse tear gas out of eyes or turn a T-shirt into a mask (over your N95), or how to do forms of community self-defense or jail support. Offer an Anarchism 101 or local rad history talk too. Exercise hands and minds, encouraging liberal and progressive folks to (begin to) think and act for themselves.

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 4d

Anarchist Public Service Announcement #2

It was written for an earlier No Kings rally, but might be helpful for the ones tmrw, which should at least be renamed “No Fascists” aka “We Are All Antifascists”!

ANARCHIST PUBLIC SERVICE, pt 2

It’s tough not to fume over the “peaceful protest” call for a “sit-down wave” at this Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies, such as one that asserts: if you see so-called infiltrators “destroy[ing] property,” “sit down and leave the provocators” standing. That’s how the self-appointed leaders of these nonprofit-corporate “ally” demos uphold a status quo that benefits them. In practice, it means anyone not falling in liberal line will get the brunt of police violence and state repression.

Enough fuming. My anarcho-prefigurative self says: outorganize the “peace police”! #BeGayMakeFun! Alongside bringing many zines to gift out at these rallies: Set up carnivesque “no kings, no masters” participatory games! Bring screen-printing supplies (stencils, silk screens, or even humble potatoes carved with printable slogans) and let folks print your rebellious designs on T-shirts, patches, or cardboard! Create playful shield-making art station! Become snack faeries, carting around yummy treats in wagons to freely distro! Do some rebel street theater or radical cheerleading! Bring a queer rebel marching band or amplified music, and start a street dance!

Anarchism is not just good politics; make it good fun, and when folks are drawn to you, anarchism will not only be welcoming but irresistible too. Plus, who knows, maybe you can joyfully teach people how do a “stand-up wave” against the real provocateurs (cops).

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 4d

Anarchist Public Service Announcement #1

It was written for an earlier No Kings rally, but might be helpful for the ones tmrw, which should at least be renamed “No Fascists” aka “We Are All Antifascists”!

ANARCHIST PUBLIC SERVICE:

I know it’s no fun to go to liberal-progressive rallies, but thousands of newbies and/or newly awakened folks will be at this Saturday’s “No Kings” protest. Don’t let the nonprofit “ally” complex siphon off the genuine energy of those seeking social transformation—those who don’t yet know that, for instance, “police are not our friends” or “solidarity is our best weapon.”

Instead, print thousands of zines that allow people to “educate themselves in freedom,” especially accessible ones that include rebellious ideas and do-it-ourselves practices! Take those zines to rallies. Walk around and freely gift them to people!

From personal experience, I know that a single zine can change many hearts and minds—and create “accomplices” now willing to experiment with anarchistic forms of street militancy, from varied types of community self-defense to myriad types of collective care and mutual aid.

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 4d

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS:

“Our Dreams Will Never Fit in Ballot Boxes: Anarchist Examples of Encouraging Liberals to Break Free”

Length: 80 to 250 words
Due: By or before October 27
Email: cbmilstein (at) yahoo

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Attached: 1 image [Share this CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS to my next zine freely and widely!] Anarchism is nothing if it’s not dynamic—the urge to create and destroy, and create again from the rubble, ev...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

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Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 11d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Scott Campbell @susurros.bsky.social · 10d

"All [13 people arrested in Boston on Oct 7] were to be charged with inciting a riot, a felony charge that is also known as 'promotion of anarchy,' with origins in early 20th-century fears of anarchist violence. If convicted, they could face up to 3 years in prison."

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Boston Prosecutors Invoke Law Used Against Anarchists to Charge Protesters

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Linkwood Anarchist Hub🇵🇸 @lakewoodanarchyhub.bsky.social · 12d

"Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from." ~ Malcolm X

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Sep 18

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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Civil Liberties Defense Center @cldc03.bsky.social · 14d

📰 PRESS RELEASE: CLDC secures win in activist subpoena fight against ICE - we filed suit to quash an ICE administrative subpoena, another attempt to expand its power. ICE subpoenaed Meta, seeking records related to activist Facebook and Instagram accounts.

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PRESS RELEASE: CLDC secures win in activist subpoena fight against ICE - Civil Liberties Defense Center

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 5, 2025 CLDC secures win in activist subpoena fight against ICE SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Civil Liberties Defense Center recently filed suit to quash an ICE administrative subp...

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mk zariel {it/its} @mkzariel.bsky.social · 14d

👻✨ BOY APPARITION is alive! my #transmasc #anarchist #poetry #chapbook —full of love letters to the #BashBack tendency, feral #boyhood chronicles, and lipstick-mirror #gender devotions—is up for preorder from Vinegar Press: www.vinegarpress.org/store/p/boy-...
🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥 support your local chaos poet

Boy Apparition by mk zariel — Vinegar Press

There are two transmasculine genders: the butch anarchist, and the tiny atemporal gremlin who really needs a hug. In BOY APPARITION, mk zariel tackles both. This chapbook is full of love letters to th...

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Linkwood Anarchist Hub🇵🇸 @lakewoodanarchyhub.bsky.social · 22d

I see your Half Price Books haul and raise you an online PM Press order:

(pink book cover)

BE GAY
DO CRIME

Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19d

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.

With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.

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Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store

Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 23d

Zines as Social Media

“Why have we let ourselves cede terrain on the term ‘social media’? Quite to the contrary, zines are social media—for starters, they exist in three-dimensional life and lead to face-to-face social interactions.”

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Attached: 1 image Zines as Social Media Language matters; it shifts our perceptions and practices. For instance, in the early days of the pandemic, the powers-that-be admonished us to social distanc...

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 24d

"If we are going to foster a thriving, powerful movement equal to this dangerous moment, we must not surrender “antifa” to Trump’s whims and the worst fantasies of our opponents. The health and safety of our friends, family, and society may depend on it." theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump's Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 24d

Zines as Material World

“Zines humbly remind us that cyberlife, all-too-real in terms of its impacts, isn’t actually a life—or life. Simple pieces of paper can unfold into something of our own creation that exists even if the power grid goes down.”

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Attached: 1 image Zines as Material World I almost laugh, out of amusement as much as joy, every time it happens: when a teen or youth, most of whom have grown up in cyberspace, meets the material w...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 25d

What the fuck?

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents

The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

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