This year’s free May Day book—the 11th and last!—is Saidiya Hartman’s Notes for the Riot. It’s a 5 x 7.5 inch, 64-page paperback. The interior has been printed offset on recycled paper and the covers have been stamped in caramel foil on 100-pound Black Licorice stock in an edition of 1,070. Copies will be freely…
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The Only Living Wage Is Everything
Editor’s Note: This list of theses was dreamed up by a crew of disaffected grad students whose main dream is to strike back against the academy, and take back our lives. The expert fuckers who broke this world never get to speak again. —Godspeed You! Black Emperor On March 29, 2023, graduate student instructors and…
Shattering Abolition™: Against Reformist Counterinsurgency in the Streets of Oakland
Editor’s note: This piece was written by some abolitionists and published in zine form by Haters. Around here we’ve got our very own movement-killers, a.k.a. “Movement Leaders.” Mapping the Terrain Within the general context of The Movement™, abolition—whether through “Defund OPD,” policy campaigns, transformative justice, and policing alternatives—has become inescapable within Oakland’s left-progressive-liberal continuum. “We…
Re-emergence and Eclipse of the Proletariat
Editors’ note: We’re boosting this new zine by disaffected communists. “We” Are Not the Union The union bureaucrats are patting themselves on the back. As the UC strike is followed by a strike of part-time faculty at the New School and strike authorization vote of 99% from graduate workers at Temple University, the leadership of…
Safiya Bukhari’s “Lest We Forget”
Editor’s note: for Black August 2022 we share both a facsimile PDF as well as a transcription of Safiya Bukhari‘s 1981 pamphlet Lest We Forget, which she wrote and published while incarcerated at the Virginia Correctional Center for Women. Introduction Constantly people of color are confronted with the reality that death is our ever-present companion.…
Stop the State Police Harassment and Targeting of Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor
April 7, 2022 To Governor Gretchen Whitmer, State Police Director Colonel Joseph Gafper, and DHHS Deputy Director David Knezek: We are greatly alarmed that Michigan State police are being sent to target and harass Rev. Edward Pinkney, the noted community activist in Benton Harbor, Michigan. On March 25, 2022 Sgt. Hayward of the Paw Paw…
“Just Cause” or “Just Because”?
As time has permitted, and circumstance demands, I find myself wondering. With COVID giving an overwhelmingly unjust advantage to prosecutors that allows them to forego court rules, delay indefinitely for “COVID-like symptoms” or close contact, that allows a person to be held indefinitely while awaiting the opportunity to present their case before a judge, that…
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