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mel_lonta_tauda

Registered: 04/20/08
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Baby, i'm an anarchist!

#163923 - 12/16/08 03:54 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

by Crimethinc. the updated version of the anarchist cookbook for your viewing pleasure :thumbup:

my copy just came in the mail this morning, so i feel the need to share the pdf:

Recipes for Disaster
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From their website:
For ten long years, our operatives have honed their skills, testing their wits and mettle against the global capitalist empire, the most formidable adversary in the history of life on earth. We have learned how to redecorate the walls of cities occupied by armies of riot police, to transform random groups of damaged, isolated individuals into loving communities capable of supporting one another through the most severe bouts of repression and depression, to shut down corporate summits and franchises armed with little more than plastic piping or eyedroppers of glue. Now, the notorious CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective has compiled many of the techniques that made these feats possible into a 624-page manual entitled Recipes for Disaster.

Contents:
Affinity Groups
Antifascist Action
Asphalt Mosaics
Banner Drops and Banner Hoists
Behavioral Cut-ups
Bicycle Collectives
Bicycle Parades
Painting by Bicycle
How to Make a Bicycle into a Record Player
Billboard Improvement
Blocs, Black and Otherwise
Blockades and Lockdowns
Classroom Takeover
Coalition Building
Collectives
Corporate Downsizing
Distribution, Tabling, and Infoshops
Dumpster Diving
Effigies
Evasion
Festivals
Food Not Bombs
Graffiti
Guerrilla Performances
Health Care
Hijacking Events
Hitchhiking
Infiltration
Inflatables
Legal Support
Marches and Parades
Independent Media
Mainstream Media
Mental Health
Musical Instruments
Newspaper Wraps
Nonmonogamous Relationships
Parties
Pie Throwing
Portrait Exchange
Reclaim the Streets
How to Build a Rocketstove
Sabotage
Screenprinting
Security Culture
Sex
Shoplifting
Smoke Bombs
Solidarity
Spell Casting
Squatting
Stenciling
Stickering
Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence
Surviving a Felony Trial
Thinktanks
Torches
Undermining Oppression
Unemployment
Utilities
Wheatpasting
How to Join CrimethInc.
About the Authors
Further Reading
Index
Conversion Tables

In short, why give away our secrets? Because if they stay secrets, we’re fucked. If you associate yourself with the struggle for a better world, consider how you can do your part to get these tools into unlikely hands.

Anarchist Cookbook FAQ
Interview with The Guardian

Subject: Re: anarchist cookbooks
To: craig.taylor@guardian.co.uk

What kind of relationship does this anarchist cookbook have with the original version released in the late 60s?
Essentially, the name is all they hold in common. A minimal amount of research will reveal that the original "Anarchist Cookbook" was not at all anarchist—not composed or released by anarchists, not derived from anarchist practice, not intended to promote freedom and autonomy or challenge repressive power--and was barely a cookbook, as the recipes in it are notoriously unreliable. At best, it was a fraud, a spoof; at worst, an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of anarchist practice, and cause readers to injure themselves. The recent movie by the same name is equally embarrassing, not so much to anarchists as to the industry that produced it.

Why is it being released?
All the history aside, the idea of an anarchist cookbook, if never before really realized, is a good one. In an increasingly repressive world, it's more important than ever than people share skills for reclaiming life and liberty.

What are the biggest changes in this latest edition?
This book will not feature recipes for food or for bombs; rather, it provides information such as how to form a cooperative bike maintenance collective, how to make use of creative media such as posters and spraypaint for free expression, and how to resist the attempts of police to break up demonstrations. I'd be happy to send you the table of contents.

Who is writing it?
Anarchists have written this anarchist cookbook, coming together in a loose, voluntary association of friends and acquaintances from around the world for the composing and editing process.

Is there going to be any event to launch the book that the Guardian could cover?
It looks like the book will not be finished quite in time for this year's UK Anarchist Bookfair. It's well over 600 pages, and the last of the detail work is taking a long time. However, it's entirely possible that once it comes out, there will be a myriad of post-release events the Guardian might cover, as readers develop new skills.

How is it being published? What kind of printers are eager to get involved in a project like this?
The publisher is the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, an established mouthpiece of anarchist thought and poetry.

Some would say this isn't the best climate to release a book giving people instructions on how to commit acts of terrorism. What's your reply?
This book does not provide any information on how to commit acts of terrorism. It does not offer any advice on how to gun down civilians, nor how to blow them up with smart bombs; it includes no information about how to destroy the ozone layer or clearcut forests; it doesn't even give any insight into how one might brainwash children in schools, exploit blue collar workers, or bore white collar workers to death. It does, however, offer a humble starting place from which those acts of terrorism can be contested. I would say that this is exactly the climate in which such a book is needed.

Edited by mel_lonta_tauda (12/16/08 04:28 PM)

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