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Prison Zine Distro

Welcome to the 2024 catalog of

TRUE LEAP PRES

ire to the prisons. Burn down the amerikkkan plantation. True Leap
F is a mostly informal publishing collective originally based in the

Midwest, and currently hosts a P.O. Box in the East Bay. We operate an
inside-outside “Zine Distro” that creates, prints, and circulates zines
specifically for imprisoned people and autonomous groups fighting against the
prison regime. The materials in our catalog have been curated by revolutionary
abolitionists who are engaged in resistance from within U.S. gulags and use the
materials to organize study groups in facilities across multiple states. Heavy
input has also been provided by friends with extensive experience in “outside”
support roles. Existing since 2016, we have been part of a growing
autonomous network of prison abolitionists challenging bans on antiracist,
decolonial, and queer education materials and the censorship of liberatory
information by the police state. We're not a charity group or a university-based
study program. When making requests of the collective, please respect that this
work runs on donated labor and a shoestring budget. The following update
provides some reflection on the past year, with news on what to expect from us
moving forward and instructions on how to make requests from the catalog or
find the support you need. Please read carefully?
A bit of what we do

Our printing and distribution network primarily serves imprisoned people,

 

mailing zines by request into prisons and jails at no charge for the reader.
Much of this literature is original; much of it is relevant formats for the prison
struggle; some of it is a curated selection of texts that are inaccessible inside yet
popularly circulating on the “outs.” The literature available can be used for
anything, but is primary used for yfudy on topics ranging from Black Studies,
Native Studies, anarchist theory, abolitionist practices, histories of anti-prison
and anti-police insurgency, anti-fascism, Black autonomy, queer and trans
liberation, decolonization, disability justice, law library/legal guides, prisoner
resistance, organizer toolkits, skillshares, and other catalogs from distro’s and
books to prison crews.

Feel free to share our address with others. Anybody can write us at True Leap
Press, attn: Zine Distro P.O. Box 6045 Concord, CA 94524 to request a
catalog. Someone on the outside can make a request for you by emailing
trueleappress@protonmail.com. Previous years’ catalogs can be found archived
on our website homepage (www.trueleappress.com), as well as some sample
selections of zines we've carried over the years.

Updates & Reflections

Last year we printed and distributed thousands of zines, primarily to people
imprisoned in over 30 states. We also had an upsurge in bulk orders for
collective projects in the community. Unfortunately, with the proliferation of
mail digitization services, “non-book” paper mail restrictions, and new methods
of censoring books and zines alike, this work of supplying reading materials
inside has become more time-consuming and arduous than ever. More than
any other year, our materials were unable to make it in to readers, and we are
sometimes sending zines in three times following different procedures without
any luck getting materials in.
We need word to spread that our zine distro is always active; even if we take
momentary pauses to regather. So when communication is cut off, we need
people to not take it personal and to reach out. We are not a legal support

group.

We are here to support through sending literature inside, while other groups

  

exist to provide defense for you when you take collective action. We will,
however, help publicize the actions you take, especially if it is a collective action.
We will also help spread word about your formation, encourage people to
build in small groups, and to take direct action instead of relying on
representatives and the State to make changes. We understand our inside-
outside collective to be only a small (informal) group of people, whom exist
amongst numerous collectives and individuals creating avenues of solidarity.
That is, we are operating within an ecosystem of decentralized resistance and
counter-information networks.
This past year, we hit an impossible limit with our existing resources, in terms
of the scale of distribution and the pace. Some of the zines in past catalogs, we
have no more copies of, including the originals. From these lesson we've
adapted, and now have a new catalog, with zine titles and once again a list of
topics and themes for you to also request from if you are unsure of what titles
to select. We also have included a variety of new literature, and some zines in
previous catalogs we have taken out of circulation because, our politics have
changed and diverged.

Out of every year we've ever done this project, this was the most frustrating
year of rejections. We've received word that people aren’t even being notified
of zines reaching a prison. We might pursue some sort of Freedom of
Information Act processes, because some of our readers are claiming that they
are not receiving zines, when we have in fact (with documentation) mailed
stuff with the proper specifications, postage, address. As in, word doesn’t even
reach them from the mailroom. This is a practice — called “non-distribution”
— that some PA DOC prisons perfected before we put them on blast with a
phone zap in 2019.

 

Against Censorship. (‘0’)

he Campaign Against Prison Censorship and Book Banning is in

early stages of formation. There are many groups already res

involved in their own locally situated struggles. There are so many of
our fam inside who are involved in their own individual and collective
resistance to bans on reading materials and the censorship of our
communications and information flow into prisons and jails. There has been
several different convergences of people and new collectivities also forming.
Such encounters range from small meetings and community forums to larger
public events and shared writing in publications. The basic idea we are
promoting is to connect these different struggles together into a stronger
constellation of autonomous abolitionist insurgency. For us, “autonomous”
means independent of the interests of the State, capital, and industries that are
built on extraction from liberatory social movements and the capture of
actually-existing abolitionist insurgency.

  

isting,
 

Campaign Against
Prison Censorship
and Book Banning
  
  
     
         
   
   
 
 
       
  
      
 
   
  

From Sharky:

Survey Fragments.

 

Reading changed my Me Being able 2 find answers 2 questions
‘outside of i's all your fault and nothing nor anypne's fault but urs,
‘repent & pray 2 god! I's iberating When done in community it
transforms ur way of thinking & being w/ others,

From Xinachtli (Texas DOC captive):

“Despite a federal court legal victory’ on our 1st amendment rights.

(Guajardo v Estelle) ~ ‘ree-speech’ does not exist specifically i one My kites goin out 2 Orgs & loved 1's oftn disappear, same usually w/

\\s ‘classified’ as ‘leftist or ‘abolitionist’... Many of my writings have ‘ates tht talk abt organizing, pig harassment, administrate

been contiscated under racist oppressive rules. Revolutionary tactcs.. My art & books get criminalized as gang related’ & gets

abolitionist materials that will awaken the minds of prisoners confiscated or thrown away They even take photos of it & save in a

constantly banned, for the prison knows that once prisoners become file

seth avis La) DEER Pesstive or ES) | fle grievances 4 all he bullshit but the injustices continue They get
off my back 4 a litle but they continue their bullshit on someone else
When i succeed they just change the reasons from ‘gang related’ 2
“poster size’ or ‘inciting violence’ 2 ‘publisher/vendor

From Greg Curry (Ohio DOC captive):

{ get mostly ‘anarchist’ books & 2 out of every 4 is bannedidenied, From Kenneth Simpson (DOC captive):
Cops feel @ certain kind of way on certain subjects so when they see

books tothe contrary in my cel they at times act hostile. inducing he HMM Svnned wey rane rover Se rent cyt orcs which
Persons screening books... Materials get censored because of ‘ones. | know i requested zines sbout COINTELPRO. Frantz Fanon,
Personal bias, 80 a racist wil hate anything Black that come in, And and the BPP to name few | didn’ receive...

‘since banning Is just based of their opinion of a sentence they can

hide their bias

  

  

‘One of the occasions when my zines wore conliscated i began to
‘question why and was told they ‘don' have to explain’ to me what they
‘consider conceming or not safe. | could either have the material

‘malted out or destroyed,

  

From LB: From my perspective the punishment was not being able to receive

the erature
The copying of our mail was meant 2 move correspondance between

prisoners & larly members to the GTL service 4 more profits &

surveillance. They restrict even photos! Photos arnt a ‘security risk’. From Mich

vinat the facity allows isa “risk” of psychological oppression ichael Dewoese (DOC captive):

| have had @sfbayview confiscated belore due to ‘Security Threat

Group’ (STG) reasons... n was Doceuse tne paper had te wees
“Black Panther’ in one of the articles “

From SKS Heruglyphx (Florida DOC captive):

We had books lost by overseers & many rejected (blocked) ron Giety Leont ee e: (Revionm ity, take risa eaplivey:
Publications namely: Nile Valley Contribution to Civilization, Socialist
Viewpoint, The Abolitionist newspaper by Critical Resistance, & this is,
both ongoing and pre-existing.

“The books that've been blocked are George Jackson books because
the 1S.U. said they are ‘Black Guerrila Family based material

    
  
       
   

‘Once the prison officals stat cutting back with no push back from the
public or prisoners they will continue to take more ite by litle from
the prisoners.

-They gave me possession of gang paraphernalia for having the

BPP Ten Point Platform and quote {rom Stokely Carmichael. 30 days

in confinement at Okeechobee G.I. in Navember 2018,

  

Most of my books come from AK Press. One af my comrades, Karen
‘Smith, Rest in Power, had gotten me an @AKPressDistro

membership. The best git 've ever had. | ques to was her way of
urturing my revolutionary aspirations and potential

 

 
 

ol recelve zines frm True Leap Press & @beilyzine. They keep me
updated & fully equipped in educating fellow prisoners. Since
scanning brothers arent receiving the zines. They're receiving
‘ejections frm the authoritarian goons. Brothers r thirsty fr the class
consciousness.
From Thadieus Goods (Cook County Jail

‘They want total contol over what u do, who u communicate wi
Supporters use to Nold noise demos in front of the jal & the
administration didn't ike that. They would always send my stuff back
a8 a form of retaliation & punishment

once was attacked by an inmate at he directive of a CO because |
be the voice against the corrupt administration. They scan and copy

From Kaono (PA-DOC capitve):

| we don't continue to fight censorship, book bans, & mail digitzation,
we're gonna lose many writers & artsts that could be the spark that
changes the worl,

Being shotdown over& over is crazy disheartening. | know fm
experience. Its a tactic used by pigs 2 break us down & take the fight
from us. We need u our comrades in the world 2 continue 2 tight along
side of us. It's ya'tl who help strengthen our resolve & continue 2fight

Certain people mail ke mine because i'm against administration and |
letbe known. FTP

From Alfonso Percy Pew (PADOC captive

You must know books in general are not the only banned thing, The
ADOC suppresses literature, letters, information, The PA DOC
Purpose is to sabotage communications. There needs to be attention
paid to all of he mail

The for proft entity Smart Communications ne. (St Petersburg
Florida). The owners are James Logan and Jon Logan What want

{you to do is condemn the PA DOC contract with Smart
‘Communications inc. James Logan and Jon Logan!

|m Pennsylvania, we can't get mail or cards only photo copies. | have
lenciosed #3 itis a holiday card envelope | want yall out here 10 see
itand really feet. Just magine a child sending a Christmas card or
Inew years card to a parent?

From Sean Swain (OSP Youngstown)

This isn't just about prisons, This’s about the consolidation of power—
FBI, etc. —streamlining a centralized uniform system of control &
surveillance w/ complicity by federal courts. A universal
disempowerment program employed on PRISONERS first.

If you are part of a crew that is already engaged in such struggles and have updates on your own
fight against book bans, mail scanning, and other forms of information censorship (including
writing, emails, library use, creative expression, study, etc.), please reach out and share updates
to be included in future issues of this zine series.

Updates can be sent to trueleappress@protonmail.com

If you are inside and want to participate in some capacity in this campaign effort or plug your
network into it, hit us up at our P.O. Box, or any other of the groups if there is someone relevant
or specific to your region.
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Bay Area Friends Be. f
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Abolition & Prisoner Support 362
risoner solidarity organizing and autonomous inside-outside
Pests are as vibrant as ever on the West Coast. If you have
contacts in/from the Bay Area, please tell them to hit us up for ways to
plug in. Our P.O. Box is located in the East Bay. Our zines are in circulation
throughout the greater Bay Area. There are a number of projects in motion
right now, through which our zines are circulating and being made useful,
Some other local collectives that we respect and hope you reach out to include:

Oakland Abolition and Solidarity
PO. Box 12594, Oakland, CA 94604

‘Works to build bridges between inside and outside to support prisoners’ efforts
to organize for their own self-defense against inhumane treatment. Produces a
free newsletter where prisoners can publish political art and writings, and
respond to the thoughts of others.

East Bay Prisoner Support
PO. Box 22449, Oakland, CA 94609

Prison abolitionist, anti-authoritarian collective. Providing free, radical political
literature and resource guides that are largely inaccessible behind prison walls.
Participates in local events as well as fundraising for prisoners who are a part of
the struggle against all forms of domination.

A.B.O. Comix . #-*
PO. Box 11584 / 195 41st St, Oakland, CA 94611

Collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ
prisoners through art. Works closely with other prison abolitionist and queer
advocacy groups to keep queer prisoners connected to outside community and
help them in the fight toward liberation. Using the DIY ideology of punk-zine
culture, they embrace a philosophy of mutual support, community and
friendship. Estimated response time for letters from new friends is 3-6 months.
San Francisco Solidarity Collective ‘ .-

Colectivo de Solidaridad de San Francisco
PO. Box 40351 San Francisco, CA 94140

An autonomous, community-based prisoner letter writing collective that hosts
weekly meetings in the city. Offers support to people in prison who take
individual or collective action against the prison regime, including pen-pal
connections and advice in methods of inside-outside correspondence.

As we were formerly in located in the Midwest, we recommend you reach out
to some of our other comrades, for radical and anti-oppression reading
material needs:

South Chicago ABC Zine Distro ®
PO. Box 721 Homewood, IL 60430

Publishing and distributing zines by incarcerated anarchists authors and artists
since 1998.

Midwest Books to Prisoners
1321 N. Milwaukee Ave. PMB #460 Chicago, IL 60622

Since 2004, Midwest Books to Prisoners has been engaged in direct support of
incarcerated people and their educational goals by mailing books, magazines,
and other printed material inside free of charge. You can also request their
annual community zine and new legal resources catalog, full of prison law zines!
MBz2P accept requests from any and all prisoners.

  

Chicago Books to Women in Prison
4511 N Hermitage Ave Chicago, IL 60640

All-volunteer, organization that sends paperback books free of charge to
women and trans people in prisons nationwide. Mails three books per request
to state prisons in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
Mississippi and Ohio, as well as all federal prisons. The only jail they mail to is
Cook County Jail.
Another group of comrades that you should reach out to if you want your
writing published in conversation with other abolitionists inside is the /n the
Belly (ITB) crew, based on the East Coast:

In the Belly: a journal of abolition

ITB is an abolitionist journal by and for people who are held
captive by the Prison Industrial Complex. It is written for people
whose lives are impacted, determined, and overshadowed by
punishment and incarceration daily: prisoners & their families,
loved ones, friends, communities and comrades. Its purpose is to
strengthen bonds between all of us to overcome the state’s regime
of isolation, to study and learn together, and to build a world
without prisons. Subscription for incarcerated people is 100%
free. Send submissions, art, poems, articles, reflections, ramblings
and questions, comments, and feedback to their P.O. Box or
bellyzine@gmail.com

  
       

  

In The Belly Journal
19 Colonnade Way, Suite 117

PMB #156
State College, PA 16803
® & Welcome again the the catalog! #
® Below are some last things
to keep in mind #° cs

« THIS YEAR WE ARE ONLY
PRINTING WHAT IS IN THE
CATALOG,

» WE DO NOT KEEP A MAILING
LIST FOR ZINES, AND WE DO.
NOT DO SUBSCRIPTIONS.

« WE DO NOT CREATE ZINES
FOR INDIVIDUAL SALES, AND
DO NOT MAKE FINANCIAL
PROFIT OFF OF THIS WORK,
IN ANYWAY OURSELVES.

® WE APPRECIATE YOUR
PATIENCE, WE KNOW
CONDITIONS ARE DIRE. IF
THERE IS SOMETHING YOU
NEED THAT WE CANNOT
PROVIDE, WE WILL DO OUR
BEST TO PASS YOUR INFO ON,
TO THE MOST RELEVANT
CREW.

&

# SOMETIMES ZINES CAN TAKE
UP TO TWO MONTHS TO GET
TO YOU. SOMETIMES A
LETTER WILL TAKE TWO.
MONTHS TO GET TO US.

TOWARD THE END OF EVERY
YEAR WE RUN OUT OF
CERTAIN TITLES THAT WERE
LIMITED PRINTS. IN THIS
CASE WE WILL SEND
REPLACEMENT ZINES WITH
SIMILAR TOPICS AND
SUBJECT MATTER.

.
Catalog

2024

 

To order zines please send us a letter

with either of the following:

 

List the spec

title/#’s from the catalog that you would like to order.

Please only pick 3 zines max each order. You can list a few extra titles, in
case we are out of your requested selection;

Choose a topic from our list that you wish to learn more about. Our
“topics” list is on the next page. You can name as many topics as you

want.

List of Topics

Black Studies
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
Native Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Anti-colonial Feminisms
Black & Anti-colonial Radicalisms
Anarchy & Communism
Anarchist Theory
Abolitionist Theory /Strategy
Histories of the U.S. Prison Regime
Anti-prison/Anti-police Insurgency

Tactics of Prisoner Resistance

Black Autonomy
Decolonization & Land Back
Queer/Trans Liberation
Disability Justice
Organizer Toolkits & Skillshares
Fighting Censorship & Book Bans
Legal/Case Law/Jailhouse Lawyering
Counterinsurgency Studies
Security Culture
Community Accountability
‘Transformative Justice Practices

Resources Guides
& ’24 Zines

*indicates an author imprisoned at the time of writing,
or contains writing by imprisoned authors

1. 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

2. Inventing the Savage: the Criminalization of Native People

3. Same Shit, Different Day: White Pestilence and the Early Military
Movements of New World Frontier Conquest

4. From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison

5. The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America*

6. Slave Revolts as the earliest form of labor struggle + Death to Authority
(story of study group turned direct action organizing in a prison)*

7. An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle*

8. Political Prisons, Prisons, and Black Liberation (1971)*

9. Black August: Origins, History, and Significance

10.Black August: a story of Africa Freedom Fighters

i. Death on the Yards: The Untold Killings at Soledad and San Quentin

12.Remembering the Real Dragon: An Interview with George Jackson*

13. George Jackson, Soledad Brother (part 1)*

14.George Jackson, Soledad Brother (part 2)*

15. George Jackson, Blood in My Eye (part 1)*

16.George Jackson, Blood in My Eye (part 2)*

17. George Jackson: Black Revolutionary by Walter Rodney —

x

18.Revolution: The Prison Rebellion Years, 1968-1972 aR

19.Improvising on Reality: The Roots of Prison Abolition B Eta esos

20.Instead of Prisons: a Handbook for Abolitionists (974)

21.Radicalism: Unions, Feminism, and the Crisis of Prison Managerialism, 1972-
1980

22.Women in Prison: How it is With Us? (1978)*

23.Dykes & Fags Want to Know: Interview with Lesbian Political Prisoners*

24.Retrenchment: Mass Incarceration and the Remaking of the Prison

 

Movement, 1980-1998
25.Globalization and U.S Prison Expansion
26.The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy*

27.Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex: An
Interview with Rachel Herzing (2016)

28.Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003)

29.The Challenge of Abolition: An Interview with Angela Davis (2000)

30.INCITE! Statement on Gender Violence & the Prison Industrial Complex
(2003)

31. Abolitionist Thumbnail Definitions (2018)

32.Who’s Left: a Prison Abolition, comic (2018)

33-Martin Sostre Letters from Prison*

34.Martin Sostre in Court*

 

 

35. Answering to Martin Sostre’s Ghost*

36.Don't Step Back, fight Back: Proposals for a Coalition/Campaign Against
Prison Censorship and Book Banning

37.Campaign Against Prison Censorship and Book Banning, Issue #1 (2023)*

38.Survey on Prison Censorship and Book Banning

39.The Perils of Prison Mail Digitization (2021)

40.EBPS List of “Books to Prison” Programs

41.Lucy Parson’s Bookstore’s National Prisoner Resource List

42.Chicago Books to Women in Prison Order Form

43-Print Media & Prison Activism*

44.How Prisoners Use Zines to Empower Themselves to Subvert the Prison-
Industrial Slave Complex

45-Art Attack: The Artwork of Kevin Rashid Johnson*

46.Application of Anarchist Theory to the Modern-Day Prison Struggle (2017)*

47.Prisoners’ Guide for Understanding Gestapo Pig Interrogation Mind Games*

48.Handbook Surviving Solitary Confinement*

49-How to Start a Study Group in Prison (2023)*

so.Steel Sharpens Steel #2: Starting Up Study Groups in Prison*

51. First Amendment Primer for Prison Mailrooms*

52.How to Use a Law Library*

53-Criminal Law Concepts*

54.Every Crook Can Govern: Prison Rebellions as a Window to the New World

55. Who Was Bobby Sands?
56.The Diary of Bobby Sands*

57. From Self-Destruction to Reconstruction of Self*
58.Re
59.“Tweaking Armageddon” ~ The Potential and Limits of Conditions of

 

ing Subversive Extremes of Political Persecution*

Confinement Campaigns

 

Ti

60.Down: Reflections on Prison Resistance in Indiana

61.Nothing is Finished: Essays from Anti-Prison Struggles in Belgium (201)

62.“No Regrets”: Accounts and Reflections from the 2016 National Prison
Strike*

63.Let the Crops Rot in the Field - Free Alabama Movement*

64.The Fire Inside*

65.What if Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now had covered the Millions for
Prisoners Human Rights March?*

66.Destroy All Prisons Tomorrow: A response to the debate on abolition vs.
reform in Jacobin (2017)

67.Like a Game of Chess: The Prison Strike and Abolitionist Strategy

68.If the Future is Now: Revolutionary Abolitionist Practice from the
Underside of White Civil Society* (2018)

69.Not Worker, But Chattel* (2019)

70.Ain't I A Prisoner, Too?: Queer Antagonism in Prison Movements* (2019)

71.Never Surrender* (2018)

72.Abolition in Action (Spring 2019)

73-Abolition in Action (Winter 2020)

74.Taking Direct Action to #FreeThemAll: From Stateville Prison to the Front
Yard of its Warden (2020)

75.#¥FreeHeartlandKids: Migrant Detention Facility Under Construction
Stormed in Chicago on May Day (2020)
76.Insurrxnl Mixtape: Vol. 1 (2021)*

77-On Identity, On Revolution* (2021)

78.Shut ‘Em Down: Interview with a member of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
(2021)*

79.The Pandemic Inside: COVID-19 in Michigan Prisons (2021)*

80.Radical Resistance for Prison Abolition (2021)*

81.Prisoner Phone Resistance: Methods of Defense and Attack*

82.602: Disposability, Risk, and Solidarity in CDCR* (2023)

83.In the Belly: an abolitionist journal Vol. 1 (2020)*

84.In the Belly: an abolition journal Vol. 4 (2022)*

85.In the Belly: an abolitionist journal Poetry Issue No. 1 (2021)*

86.In the Belly: an abolitionist journal Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition (2021)

87.Experiences in Thurston County Jail and Thoughts Toward Tearing the
Motherfucker Down (2023)

88.Insurrxnl Mixtape Vol 2 (2023)*

89.People in Prison Organize Collectively. We All Need to Learn How:
Interview with Monica Cosby (2022)

90.Free Us All: Participatory Defense Campaigns as Abolitionist Organizing

91.Practical Abolition from the Inside Out: Reflections on Prisoner Solidarity
Organizing (2023)

92.Escaping Tomorrow’s Cages: A Strategy for Stopping Prison Expansion (2023)

93.Attacking Prison at the Point of Production: A Brief Look at Militant
Actions Against the Prison-Industrial Complex

94.Seven Years Against Prison Notes on the Practice of New Year's Prison
Demos in Southwestern Ontario

95. White Supremacy in the Movement to Abolish the Prison Industrial
Complex (2003)

96.The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal (2003)

97-Maroon Abolitionists: Black Gender Oppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison
Movement in the US and Canada (2011)

98.Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial
Complex Through Queer/Trans Analysis and Action (2011)

99-Building a Queer and Trans Abolitionist Movement With Everything We
Got (or)
  

 
  
 
  
    
     

A POEM BY HUGO
"YOGI" PINNEL, 1995

 

No

Matter

How long it takes,

Real Changes will come,

And the greatest personal reward
Lies in our involvement and contributions,
Even if it may appear that nothing significant
Or of impact really happened
During our times,

But it did

Because

Every sincere effort

Is as special as every human life
100. We Don’t Bash Back, We Shoot First!

ro1.Be Gay Do Crime: Writings of the Mary Nardini Gang

102.Black Anarchist Reflections, From Bash Back and Beyond! (2023)

103.To the Ones Who Can Fly: A Message from the Whirlwind (2020)

104.Lesbianism: as an Act of Resistance / Uses of the Erotic as Power

105.My Gender is Marronage

106.Out of the Closet and Into the Streets: A Collection of Radical Queer
Moments

107.Militant Flamboyance: A Brief History of Stonewall Riots and Other Queer
happenings

108.With Allies Like These: Notes on Privilege Reductionism

109.Everyone Calls Themselves an Ally Until it Is Time to Do Some Real Ally
Shit

110.The Progressive Plantation: Racism Inside White Social Change
Organizations (2012)

11, When Race Burns Class / The Continuing Appeal of Anti-Imperialism

112. Where Do We Go From Here? (e14 distro)

113.Reparations As A Verb (2019)

114.ANARKATA Statement (2019)

115.Move Like Mycorrhizae: Some Suggestions for Praxis

116.Kickbacks, Ancestors, and Wildcats

117.Study, Solidarity, Spirit, Struggle

118.A Brief History of the Black Panther Party and its Place in the Black
Liberation Movement*

119. How COINTELPRO Helped Destroy the Movements of the 1960s/ The
Black Panther and its Annihilation*

120.Black Fighting Formations: Strengths and Weaknesses*

i21.Assata Shakur

122.Marilyn Buck

123.Coming of Age: A New Afrikan Revolutionary

124.Black Anarchism

125.Anarcho-Pantherista

126. Wild Thing Wisdom (2021)

127.Anarchism and the Black Revolution*

Wik lig Widow
128.The Left Has a Misogynoir Problem: Anti-Blackness at the Midwest Leftist
Assembly (2019)

129.Take Your Freedom: Black Autonomy and Abolition is Our Birthright

130.The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner (2019)

131.To Tramps, the Unemployed, the Disheartened, and Miserable

132.Lucy Parsons: More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters

133.Deprived and Depraved (2015)*

134. The Ghettobred Anarchist (2020)*

135.Categories of Revolutionary Military Policy (2013)

136.Smashing the Orderly Party: An Anarchists’ Critique of Leninism

137.Revolutionary Organizations and Individual Commitment

138.The Dragon and the Hydra: A Historical Study of Organizational Methods*

139.Black Armed Joy: Some Notes Towards a Black Theory of Insurrectionary
Anarchy (2022)

140.The Anarchist Tension

141.The Insurrectional Project

142.Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism

143-Archipelago: Affinity, Informal Organization, and Insurrectional Projects
Gor)

144.Affinity Groups: Essential Building Blocks of Anarchist Organization

145.Individual projectuality and affinity: the nature of affinity groups

146.The Reproducibility of Attack and Informal Organizations

147-Reproducibility: Propagation of Attack Against Power and Some Related
Points

148.Counterinfo: A How To

149.D.0.TS. (Disciplines of the Spray Can)

150.Keep Hoods Yours: An Interview on Fighting Against Police, White
Supremacy, Capitalism & Colonialism from within a Youth-Oriented Graffiti
& Street Culture

151.909 Crew’s On Practice / Anarchy in the ‘Burbs

152.Against Hired Guns: in which a crew of organizers who’ve struggled
together against the violence of policing in Oakland reflect and strategize

153-Unfinished Acts: The Oscar Grant Rebellion in Oakland

154.Raider Nation: From the January Rebellions to Lovelle Mixon and Beyond”
155-How it is to be Fun - a zine on black bloc (2012)

156.Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State
Co-optation

157.Dispatches from Ferguson (2014)

158.Dispatches from Standing Rock (2016)

159. When They Say Peace & The Making of “Outside Agitators” (2015)

160.To Struggle Means We're Alive: prisoners speak out on Ferguson,
Baltimore, and the ongoing revolt against the police (2016)*

161.Propter Nos Vol. 1 ~ Reflections on the “Movement Moment” (2016)

162.Propter Nos Vol. 2 — Insurgency/Exhaustion (2017)*

163.Propter Nos Vol. 3 — Anti-/Non (2019)*

164.Protests Sweep across all 50 states in the U.S, and many counties abroad:
Read all about it!:*

165. The Siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis: An Account and Analysis
(2020)

166.Notes from the Rockford Rebellion: Commentary on Black Revolt in the
Rustbelt from a New Afrikan Anarchist Perspective (2020)

167.Insurrectional Abolitionism: Part I -'Tearing Down Icons / Smash
Apartheid Chicago (2020)

168.Insurrectional Abolitionism: Part 2 / Vistas of Militancy Against the Police
ona Midwest University Campus (2020)

169.Anatomy of a Counter-insurgency: Efforts to Undermine the George Floyd
Uprising (2020)

170.Anarchist and Insurgent Critique of Recent Protest Tactics — Monadists
(2021)

171.George Floyd Rebellion Reader #1 & #2 (2021)

172.Fire on Main Street: Small Cities in the George Floyd Uprising

173.The Interregnum: The George Floyd Uprising, the Coronavirus Pandemic,
and the Emerging Social Revolution (2021)

174.Building a Midwest Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (2021)

175.Anarchy and Communism in Rockford

176.On the Prospect of Weaponized Death (2017)

177-Keep Sabotaging Shit: Relating to the words of Winston “Boogie” Smith
(2022)
178.Sustain the Riot: From “Defund the Police” to Revolutionary Abolitionism
after the George Floyd Uprisings (2022)

179.Dreams of Black Revolt: Reflections on the Two Year Anniversary of the
George Floyd Rebellion (2022)

180.Ediciones Inéditas: an anthology of original essays (2019)

181. Haters Cafe #1 (2020)

182.Another Word for Settle

183.Against the Party of Insurrection: A Critique of Tiqquinism in the United
States (2023)

184.The Strategy of Composition

185.The Forrest and the City: Two Years of Forrest Defense in Atlanta (2023)

186.Little Turtle Carries The World

187.Cop City Will Never Be Built: Statements and Accounts From the 5th Week
of Action to Defend Weelaunee Forest and Stop Cop City March 4th-mth
2023

188.Decomposition: For Insurrection Without Vanguards

189.The War in Front of Us: An Afro-pessimist Militant’s Challenge to the Stop
Cop City Movement

190.Bay Area Newsreel (Winter/Spring 2023)

191. Tinderbox: a journal of combative anarchy #1 (2023)

192. Tinderbox: a journal of combative anarchy #2 (2023)

193-Tinderbox: a journal of combative anarchy #3 (available 12/23)

194.Security Culture: A Handbook for Activists

195.Anatomy of A Snitch: A Warning to the Streets*

196.Coping with Snitch Culture (in Prison): Historical Examples Current
Proposals*

197.Stop Hunting Sheep: A Guide to Creating Safer Networks

198.On Loc: a Guide to Digital Safety

199.The PE.T. guide: New Communication Infrastructure for Anarchists

200.Anonymity: Security

201.Beyond the Screen: The Stars (2023)

202.Without a Trace

203.Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the
Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements
204.Social Detox: Resources for Anti-Sexist Men

205.Feminism is For Everybody

206.Learning to Exhale

207.Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective Keyterms Sheet

208.Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet

209.Against Carceral Feminism

210.Abolish Time #14718 (Abolition & Co-optation; Transformative Justice)

211.The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

212.“Working for you, me, we, us, and them”: On the Non-profit Industrial
Complex

213. Navigating Trauma — Mutual Aid Disaster Relief

214.Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation.

215.Mapping Our Madness ~ The Icarus Project

216.Madness and Oppression - The Icarus Project

217.Friends Make the Best Medicine - The Icarus Project

218.Prisoner letter writing & support

219. Writing to Prisoners Frequently Asked Questions

220.Why I Left the PSL... or the DSA or Socialist Alternative or whatever

221.How to Start a Zine ‘Distro (2022)


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Prison Zine Distro

Welcome to the 2024 catalog of

TRUE LEAP PRES

ire to the prisons. Burn down the amerikkkan plantation. True Leap
F is a mostly informal publishing collective originally based in the

Midwest, and currently hosts a P.O. Box in the East Bay. We operate an
inside-outside “Zine Distro” that creates, prints, and circulates zines
specifically for imprisoned people and autonomous groups fighting against the
prison regime. The materials in our catalog have been curated by revolutionary
abolitionists who are engaged in resistance from within U.S. gulags and use the
materials to organize study groups in facilities across multiple states. Heavy
input has also been provided by friends with extensive experience in “outside”
support roles. Existing since 2016, we have been part of a growing
autonomous network of prison abolitionists challenging bans on antiracist,
decolonial, and queer education materials and the censorship of liberatory
information by the police state. We're not a charity group or a university-based
study program. When making requests of the collective, please respect that this
work runs on donated labor and a shoestring budget. The following update
provides some reflection on the past year, with news on what to expect from us
moving forward and instructions on how to make requests from the catalog or
find the support you need. Please read carefully?


A bit of what we do

Our printing and distribution network primarily serves imprisoned people,



mailing zines by request into prisons and jails at no charge for the reader.
Much of this literature is original; much of it is relevant formats for the prison
struggle; some of it is a curated selection of texts that are inaccessible inside yet
popularly circulating on the “outs.” The literature available can be used for
anything, but is primary used for yfudy on topics ranging from Black Studies,
Native Studies, anarchist theory, abolitionist practices, histories of anti-prison
and anti-police insurgency, anti-fascism, Black autonomy, queer and trans
liberation, decolonization, disability justice, law library/legal guides, prisoner
resistance, organizer toolkits, skillshares, and other catalogs from distro’s and
books to prison crews.

Feel free to share our address with others. Anybody can write us at True Leap
Press, attn: Zine Distro P.O. Box 6045 Concord, CA 94524 to request a
catalog. Someone on the outside can make a request for you by emailing
trueleappress@protonmail.com. Previous years’ catalogs can be found archived
on our website homepage (www.trueleappress.com), as well as some sample
selections of zines we've carried over the years.

Updates & Reflections

Last year we printed and distributed thousands of zines, primarily to people
imprisoned in over 30 states. We also had an upsurge in bulk orders for
collective projects in the community. Unfortunately, with the proliferation of
mail digitization services, “non-book” paper mail restrictions, and new methods
of censoring books and zines alike, this work of supplying reading materials
inside has become more time-consuming and arduous than ever. More than
any other year, our materials were unable to make it in to readers, and we are
sometimes sending zines in three times following different procedures without
any luck getting materials in.
We need word to spread that our zine distro is always active; even if we take
momentary pauses to regather. So when communication is cut off, we need
people to not take it personal and to reach out. We are not a legal support

group.

We are here to support through sending literature inside, while other groups



exist to provide defense for you when you take collective action. We will,
however, help publicize the actions you take, especially if it is a collective action.
We will also help spread word about your formation, encourage people to
build in small groups, and to take direct action instead of relying on
representatives and the State to make changes. We understand our inside-
outside collective to be only a small (informal) group of people, whom exist
amongst numerous collectives and individuals creating avenues of solidarity.
That is, we are operating within an ecosystem of decentralized resistance and
counter-information networks.


This past year, we hit an impossible limit with our existing resources, in terms
of the scale of distribution and the pace. Some of the zines in past catalogs, we
have no more copies of, including the originals. From these lesson we've
adapted, and now have a new catalog, with zine titles and once again a list of
topics and themes for you to also request from if you are unsure of what titles
to select. We also have included a variety of new literature, and some zines in
previous catalogs we have taken out of circulation because, our politics have
changed and diverged.

Out of every year we've ever done this project, this was the most frustrating
year of rejections. We've received word that people aren’t even being notified
of zines reaching a prison. We might pursue some sort of Freedom of
Information Act processes, because some of our readers are claiming that they
are not receiving zines, when we have in fact (with documentation) mailed
stuff with the proper specifications, postage, address. As in, word doesn’t even
reach them from the mailroom. This is a practice — called “non-distribution”
— that some PA DOC prisons perfected before we put them on blast with a
phone zap in 2019.



Against Censorship. (‘0’)

he Campaign Against Prison Censorship and Book Banning is in

early stages of formation. There are many groups already res

involved in their own locally situated struggles. There are so many of
our fam inside who are involved in their own individual and collective
resistance to bans on reading materials and the censorship of our
communications and information flow into prisons and jails. There has been
several different convergences of people and new collectivities also forming.
Such encounters range from small meetings and community forums to larger
public events and shared writing in publications. The basic idea we are
promoting is to connect these different struggles together into a stronger
constellation of autonomous abolitionist insurgency. For us, “autonomous”
means independent of the interests of the State, capital, and industries that are
built on extraction from liberatory social movements and the capture of
actually-existing abolitionist insurgency.



isting,


Campaign Against
Prison Censorship
and Book Banning

















From Sharky:

Survey Fragments.



Reading changed my Me Being able 2 find answers 2 questions
‘outside of i's all your fault and nothing nor anypne's fault but urs,
‘repent & pray 2 god! I's iberating When done in community it
transforms ur way of thinking & being w/ others,

From Xinachtli (Texas DOC captive):

“Despite a federal court legal victory’ on our 1st amendment rights.

(Guajardo v Estelle) ~ ‘ree-speech’ does not exist specifically i one My kites goin out 2 Orgs & loved 1's oftn disappear, same usually w/

\s ‘classified’ as ‘leftist or ‘abolitionist’... Many of my writings have ‘ates tht talk abt organizing, pig harassment, administrate

been contiscated under racist oppressive rules. Revolutionary tactcs.. My art & books get criminalized as gang related’ & gets

abolitionist materials that will awaken the minds of prisoners confiscated or thrown away They even take photos of it & save in a

constantly banned, for the prison knows that once prisoners become file

seth avis La) DEER Pesstive or ES) | fle grievances 4 all he bullshit but the injustices continue They get
off my back 4 a litle but they continue their bullshit on someone else
When i succeed they just change the reasons from ‘gang related’ 2
“poster size’ or ‘inciting violence’ 2 ‘publisher/vendor

From Greg Curry (Ohio DOC captive):

{ get mostly ‘anarchist’ books & 2 out of every 4 is bannedidenied, From Kenneth Simpson (DOC captive):
Cops feel @ certain kind of way on certain subjects so when they see

books tothe contrary in my cel they at times act hostile. inducing he HMM Svnned wey rane rover Se rent cyt orcs which
Persons screening books... Materials get censored because of ‘ones. | know i requested zines sbout COINTELPRO. Frantz Fanon,
Personal bias, 80 a racist wil hate anything Black that come in, And and the BPP to name few | didn’ receive...

‘since banning Is just based of their opinion of a sentence they can

hide their bias





‘One of the occasions when my zines wore conliscated i began to
‘question why and was told they ‘don' have to explain’ to me what they
‘consider conceming or not safe. | could either have the material

‘malted out or destroyed,



From LB: From my perspective the punishment was not being able to receive

the erature
The copying of our mail was meant 2 move correspondance between

prisoners & larly members to the GTL service 4 more profits &

surveillance. They restrict even photos! Photos arnt a ‘security risk’. From Mich

vinat the facity allows isa “risk” of psychological oppression ichael Dewoese (DOC captive):

| have had @sfbayview confiscated belore due to ‘Security Threat

Group’ (STG) reasons... n was Doceuse tne paper had te wees
“Black Panther’ in one of the articles “

From SKS Heruglyphx (Florida DOC captive):

We had books lost by overseers & many rejected (blocked) ron Giety Leont ee e: (Revionm ity, take risa eaplivey:
Publications namely: Nile Valley Contribution to Civilization, Socialist
Viewpoint, The Abolitionist newspaper by Critical Resistance, & this is,
both ongoing and pre-existing.

“The books that've been blocked are George Jackson books because
the 1S.U. said they are ‘Black Guerrila Family based material






‘Once the prison officals stat cutting back with no push back from the
public or prisoners they will continue to take more ite by litle from
the prisoners.

-They gave me possession of gang paraphernalia for having the

BPP Ten Point Platform and quote {rom Stokely Carmichael. 30 days

in confinement at Okeechobee G.I. in Navember 2018,



Most of my books come from AK Press. One af my comrades, Karen
‘Smith, Rest in Power, had gotten me an @AKPressDistro

membership. The best git 've ever had. | ques to was her way of
urturing my revolutionary aspirations and potential






ol recelve zines frm True Leap Press & @beilyzine. They keep me
updated & fully equipped in educating fellow prisoners. Since
scanning brothers arent receiving the zines. They're receiving
‘ejections frm the authoritarian goons. Brothers r thirsty fr the class
consciousness.
From Thadieus Goods (Cook County Jail

‘They want total contol over what u do, who u communicate wi
Supporters use to Nold noise demos in front of the jal & the
administration didn't ike that. They would always send my stuff back
a8 a form of retaliation & punishment

once was attacked by an inmate at he directive of a CO because |
be the voice against the corrupt administration. They scan and copy

From Kaono (PA-DOC capitve):

| we don't continue to fight censorship, book bans, & mail digitzation,
we're gonna lose many writers & artsts that could be the spark that
changes the worl,

Being shotdown over& over is crazy disheartening. | know fm
experience. Its a tactic used by pigs 2 break us down & take the fight
from us. We need u our comrades in the world 2 continue 2 tight along
side of us. It's ya'tl who help strengthen our resolve & continue 2fight

Certain people mail ke mine because i'm against administration and |
letbe known. FTP

From Alfonso Percy Pew (PADOC captive

You must know books in general are not the only banned thing, The
ADOC suppresses literature, letters, information, The PA DOC
Purpose is to sabotage communications. There needs to be attention
paid to all of he mail

The for proft entity Smart Communications ne. (St Petersburg
Florida). The owners are James Logan and Jon Logan What want

{you to do is condemn the PA DOC contract with Smart
‘Communications inc. James Logan and Jon Logan!

|m Pennsylvania, we can't get mail or cards only photo copies. | have
lenciosed #3 itis a holiday card envelope | want yall out here 10 see
itand really feet. Just magine a child sending a Christmas card or
Inew years card to a parent?

From Sean Swain (OSP Youngstown)

This isn't just about prisons, This’s about the consolidation of power—
FBI, etc. —streamlining a centralized uniform system of control &
surveillance w/ complicity by federal courts. A universal
disempowerment program employed on PRISONERS first.

If you are part of a crew that is already engaged in such struggles and have updates on your own
fight against book bans, mail scanning, and other forms of information censorship (including
writing, emails, library use, creative expression, study, etc.), please reach out and share updates
to be included in future issues of this zine series.

Updates can be sent to trueleappress@protonmail.com

If you are inside and want to participate in some capacity in this campaign effort or plug your
network into it, hit us up at our P.O. Box, or any other of the groups if there is someone relevant
or specific to your region.


.
Bay Area Friends Be. f
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Abolition & Prisoner Support 362
risoner solidarity organizing and autonomous inside-outside
Pests are as vibrant as ever on the West Coast. If you have
contacts in/from the Bay Area, please tell them to hit us up for ways to
plug in. Our P.O. Box is located in the East Bay. Our zines are in circulation
throughout the greater Bay Area. There are a number of projects in motion
right now, through which our zines are circulating and being made useful,
Some other local collectives that we respect and hope you reach out to include:

Oakland Abolition and Solidarity
PO. Box 12594, Oakland, CA 94604

‘Works to build bridges between inside and outside to support prisoners’ efforts
to organize for their own self-defense against inhumane treatment. Produces a
free newsletter where prisoners can publish political art and writings, and
respond to the thoughts of others.

East Bay Prisoner Support
PO. Box 22449, Oakland, CA 94609

Prison abolitionist, anti-authoritarian collective. Providing free, radical political
literature and resource guides that are largely inaccessible behind prison walls.
Participates in local events as well as fundraising for prisoners who are a part of
the struggle against all forms of domination.

A.B.O. Comix . #-*
PO. Box 11584 / 195 41st St, Oakland, CA 94611

Collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ
prisoners through art. Works closely with other prison abolitionist and queer
advocacy groups to keep queer prisoners connected to outside community and
help them in the fight toward liberation. Using the DIY ideology of punk-zine
culture, they embrace a philosophy of mutual support, community and
friendship. Estimated response time for letters from new friends is 3-6 months.
San Francisco Solidarity Collective ‘ .-

Colectivo de Solidaridad de San Francisco
PO. Box 40351 San Francisco, CA 94140

An autonomous, community-based prisoner letter writing collective that hosts
weekly meetings in the city. Offers support to people in prison who take
individual or collective action against the prison regime, including pen-pal
connections and advice in methods of inside-outside correspondence.

As we were formerly in located in the Midwest, we recommend you reach out
to some of our other comrades, for radical and anti-oppression reading
material needs:

South Chicago ABC Zine Distro ®
PO. Box 721 Homewood, IL 60430

Publishing and distributing zines by incarcerated anarchists authors and artists
since 1998.

Midwest Books to Prisoners
1321 N. Milwaukee Ave. PMB #460 Chicago, IL 60622

Since 2004, Midwest Books to Prisoners has been engaged in direct support of
incarcerated people and their educational goals by mailing books, magazines,
and other printed material inside free of charge. You can also request their
annual community zine and new legal resources catalog, full of prison law zines!
MBz2P accept requests from any and all prisoners.



Chicago Books to Women in Prison
4511 N Hermitage Ave Chicago, IL 60640

All-volunteer, organization that sends paperback books free of charge to
women and trans people in prisons nationwide. Mails three books per request
to state prisons in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
Mississippi and Ohio, as well as all federal prisons. The only jail they mail to is
Cook County Jail.
Another group of comrades that you should reach out to if you want your
writing published in conversation with other abolitionists inside is the /n the
Belly (ITB) crew, based on the East Coast:

In the Belly: a journal of abolition

ITB is an abolitionist journal by and for people who are held
captive by the Prison Industrial Complex. It is written for people
whose lives are impacted, determined, and overshadowed by
punishment and incarceration daily: prisoners & their families,
loved ones, friends, communities and comrades. Its purpose is to
strengthen bonds between all of us to overcome the state’s regime
of isolation, to study and learn together, and to build a world
without prisons. Subscription for incarcerated people is 100%
free. Send submissions, art, poems, articles, reflections, ramblings
and questions, comments, and feedback to their P.O. Box or
bellyzine@gmail.com






In The Belly Journal
19 Colonnade Way, Suite 117

PMB #156
State College, PA 16803
® & Welcome again the the catalog! #
® Below are some last things
to keep in mind #° cs

« THIS YEAR WE ARE ONLY
PRINTING WHAT IS IN THE
CATALOG,

» WE DO NOT KEEP A MAILING
LIST FOR ZINES, AND WE DO.
NOT DO SUBSCRIPTIONS.

« WE DO NOT CREATE ZINES
FOR INDIVIDUAL SALES, AND
DO NOT MAKE FINANCIAL
PROFIT OFF OF THIS WORK,
IN ANYWAY OURSELVES.

® WE APPRECIATE YOUR
PATIENCE, WE KNOW
CONDITIONS ARE DIRE. IF
THERE IS SOMETHING YOU
NEED THAT WE CANNOT
PROVIDE, WE WILL DO OUR
BEST TO PASS YOUR INFO ON,
TO THE MOST RELEVANT
CREW.

&

# SOMETIMES ZINES CAN TAKE
UP TO TWO MONTHS TO GET
TO YOU. SOMETIMES A
LETTER WILL TAKE TWO.
MONTHS TO GET TO US.

TOWARD THE END OF EVERY
YEAR WE RUN OUT OF
CERTAIN TITLES THAT WERE
LIMITED PRINTS. IN THIS
CASE WE WILL SEND
REPLACEMENT ZINES WITH
SIMILAR TOPICS AND
SUBJECT MATTER.

.
Catalog

2024



To order zines please send us a letter

with either of the following:



List the spec

title/#’s from the catalog that you would like to order.

Please only pick 3 zines max each order. You can list a few extra titles, in
case we are out of your requested selection;

Choose a topic from our list that you wish to learn more about. Our
“topics” list is on the next page. You can name as many topics as you

want.

List of Topics

Black Studies
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
Native Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Anti-colonial Feminisms
Black & Anti-colonial Radicalisms
Anarchy & Communism
Anarchist Theory
Abolitionist Theory /Strategy
Histories of the U.S. Prison Regime
Anti-prison/Anti-police Insurgency

Tactics of Prisoner Resistance

Black Autonomy
Decolonization & Land Back
Queer/Trans Liberation
Disability Justice
Organizer Toolkits & Skillshares
Fighting Censorship & Book Bans
Legal/Case Law/Jailhouse Lawyering
Counterinsurgency Studies
Security Culture
Community Accountability
‘Transformative Justice Practices

Resources Guides
& ’24 Zines

*indicates an author imprisoned at the time of writing,
or contains writing by imprisoned authors

1. 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

2. Inventing the Savage: the Criminalization of Native People

3. Same Shit, Different Day: White Pestilence and the Early Military
Movements of New World Frontier Conquest

4. From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison

5. The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America*

6. Slave Revolts as the earliest form of labor struggle + Death to Authority
(story of study group turned direct action organizing in a prison)*

7. An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle*

8. Political Prisons, Prisons, and Black Liberation (1971)*

9. Black August: Origins, History, and Significance

10.Black August: a story of Africa Freedom Fighters

i. Death on the Yards: The Untold Killings at Soledad and San Quentin

12.Remembering the Real Dragon: An Interview with George Jackson*

13. George Jackson, Soledad Brother (part 1)*

14.George Jackson, Soledad Brother (part 2)*

15. George Jackson, Blood in My Eye (part 1)*

16.George Jackson, Blood in My Eye (part 2)*

17. George Jackson: Black Revolutionary by Walter Rodney —

x

18.Revolution: The Prison Rebellion Years, 1968-1972 aR

19.Improvising on Reality: The Roots of Prison Abolition B Eta esos

20.Instead of Prisons: a Handbook for Abolitionists (974)

21.Radicalism: Unions, Feminism, and the Crisis of Prison Managerialism, 1972-
1980

22.Women in Prison: How it is With Us? (1978)*

23.Dykes & Fags Want to Know: Interview with Lesbian Political Prisoners*

24.Retrenchment: Mass Incarceration and the Remaking of the Prison



Movement, 1980-1998
25.Globalization and U.S Prison Expansion
26.The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy*

27.Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex: An
Interview with Rachel Herzing (2016)

28.Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003)

29.The Challenge of Abolition: An Interview with Angela Davis (2000)

30.INCITE! Statement on Gender Violence & the Prison Industrial Complex
(2003)

31. Abolitionist Thumbnail Definitions (2018)

32.Who’s Left: a Prison Abolition, comic (2018)

33-Martin Sostre Letters from Prison*

34.Martin Sostre in Court*





35. Answering to Martin Sostre’s Ghost*

36.Don't Step Back, fight Back: Proposals for a Coalition/Campaign Against
Prison Censorship and Book Banning

37.Campaign Against Prison Censorship and Book Banning, Issue #1 (2023)*

38.Survey on Prison Censorship and Book Banning

39.The Perils of Prison Mail Digitization (2021)

40.EBPS List of “Books to Prison” Programs

41.Lucy Parson’s Bookstore’s National Prisoner Resource List

42.Chicago Books to Women in Prison Order Form

43-Print Media & Prison Activism*

44.How Prisoners Use Zines to Empower Themselves to Subvert the Prison-
Industrial Slave Complex

45-Art Attack: The Artwork of Kevin Rashid Johnson*

46.Application of Anarchist Theory to the Modern-Day Prison Struggle (2017)*

47.Prisoners’ Guide for Understanding Gestapo Pig Interrogation Mind Games*

48.Handbook Surviving Solitary Confinement*

49-How to Start a Study Group in Prison (2023)*

so.Steel Sharpens Steel #2: Starting Up Study Groups in Prison*

51. First Amendment Primer for Prison Mailrooms*

52.How to Use a Law Library*

53-Criminal Law Concepts*

54.Every Crook Can Govern: Prison Rebellions as a Window to the New World

55. Who Was Bobby Sands?
56.The Diary of Bobby Sands*

57. From Self-Destruction to Reconstruction of Self*
58.Re
59.“Tweaking Armageddon” ~ The Potential and Limits of Conditions of



ing Subversive Extremes of Political Persecution*

Confinement Campaigns



Ti

60.Down: Reflections on Prison Resistance in Indiana

61.Nothing is Finished: Essays from Anti-Prison Struggles in Belgium (201)

62.“No Regrets”: Accounts and Reflections from the 2016 National Prison
Strike*

63.Let the Crops Rot in the Field - Free Alabama Movement*

64.The Fire Inside*

65.What if Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now had covered the Millions for
Prisoners Human Rights March?*

66.Destroy All Prisons Tomorrow: A response to the debate on abolition vs.
reform in Jacobin (2017)

67.Like a Game of Chess: The Prison Strike and Abolitionist Strategy

68.If the Future is Now: Revolutionary Abolitionist Practice from the
Underside of White Civil Society* (2018)

69.Not Worker, But Chattel* (2019)

70.Ain't I A Prisoner, Too?: Queer Antagonism in Prison Movements* (2019)

71.Never Surrender* (2018)

72.Abolition in Action (Spring 2019)

73-Abolition in Action (Winter 2020)

74.Taking Direct Action to #FreeThemAll: From Stateville Prison to the Front
Yard of its Warden (2020)

75.#¥FreeHeartlandKids: Migrant Detention Facility Under Construction
Stormed in Chicago on May Day (2020)
76.Insurrxnl Mixtape: Vol. 1 (2021)*

77-On Identity, On Revolution* (2021)

78.Shut ‘Em Down: Interview with a member of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
(2021)*

79.The Pandemic Inside: COVID-19 in Michigan Prisons (2021)*

80.Radical Resistance for Prison Abolition (2021)*

81.Prisoner Phone Resistance: Methods of Defense and Attack*

82.602: Disposability, Risk, and Solidarity in CDCR* (2023)

83.In the Belly: an abolitionist journal Vol. 1 (2020)*

84.In the Belly: an abolition journal Vol. 4 (2022)*

85.In the Belly: an abolitionist journal Poetry Issue No. 1 (2021)*

86.In the Belly: an abolitionist journal Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition (2021)

87.Experiences in Thurston County Jail and Thoughts Toward Tearing the
Motherfucker Down (2023)

88.Insurrxnl Mixtape Vol 2 (2023)*

89.People in Prison Organize Collectively. We All Need to Learn How:
Interview with Monica Cosby (2022)

90.Free Us All: Participatory Defense Campaigns as Abolitionist Organizing

91.Practical Abolition from the Inside Out: Reflections on Prisoner Solidarity
Organizing (2023)

92.Escaping Tomorrow’s Cages: A Strategy for Stopping Prison Expansion (2023)

93.Attacking Prison at the Point of Production: A Brief Look at Militant
Actions Against the Prison-Industrial Complex

94.Seven Years Against Prison Notes on the Practice of New Year's Prison
Demos in Southwestern Ontario

95. White Supremacy in the Movement to Abolish the Prison Industrial
Complex (2003)

96.The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal (2003)

97-Maroon Abolitionists: Black Gender Oppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison
Movement in the US and Canada (2011)

98.Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial
Complex Through Queer/Trans Analysis and Action (2011)

99-Building a Queer and Trans Abolitionist Movement With Everything We
Got (or)









A POEM BY HUGO
"YOGI" PINNEL, 1995



No

Matter

How long it takes,

Real Changes will come,

And the greatest personal reward
Lies in our involvement and contributions,
Even if it may appear that nothing significant
Or of impact really happened
During our times,

But it did

Because

Every sincere effort

Is as special as every human life
100. We Don’t Bash Back, We Shoot First!

ro1.Be Gay Do Crime: Writings of the Mary Nardini Gang

102.Black Anarchist Reflections, From Bash Back and Beyond! (2023)

103.To the Ones Who Can Fly: A Message from the Whirlwind (2020)

104.Lesbianism: as an Act of Resistance / Uses of the Erotic as Power

105.My Gender is Marronage

106.Out of the Closet and Into the Streets: A Collection of Radical Queer
Moments

107.Militant Flamboyance: A Brief History of Stonewall Riots and Other Queer
happenings

108.With Allies Like These: Notes on Privilege Reductionism

109.Everyone Calls Themselves an Ally Until it Is Time to Do Some Real Ally
Shit

110.The Progressive Plantation: Racism Inside White Social Change
Organizations (2012)

11, When Race Burns Class / The Continuing Appeal of Anti-Imperialism

112. Where Do We Go From Here? (e14 distro)

113.Reparations As A Verb (2019)

114.ANARKATA Statement (2019)

115.Move Like Mycorrhizae: Some Suggestions for Praxis

116.Kickbacks, Ancestors, and Wildcats

117.Study, Solidarity, Spirit, Struggle

118.A Brief History of the Black Panther Party and its Place in the Black
Liberation Movement*

119. How COINTELPRO Helped Destroy the Movements of the 1960s/ The
Black Panther and its Annihilation*

120.Black Fighting Formations: Strengths and Weaknesses*

i21.Assata Shakur

122.Marilyn Buck

123.Coming of Age: A New Afrikan Revolutionary

124.Black Anarchism

125.Anarcho-Pantherista

126. Wild Thing Wisdom (2021)

127.Anarchism and the Black Revolution*

Wik lig Widow


128.The Left Has a Misogynoir Problem: Anti-Blackness at the Midwest Leftist
Assembly (2019)

129.Take Your Freedom: Black Autonomy and Abolition is Our Birthright

130.The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner (2019)

131.To Tramps, the Unemployed, the Disheartened, and Miserable

132.Lucy Parsons: More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters

133.Deprived and Depraved (2015)*

134. The Ghettobred Anarchist (2020)*

135.Categories of Revolutionary Military Policy (2013)

136.Smashing the Orderly Party: An Anarchists’ Critique of Leninism

137.Revolutionary Organizations and Individual Commitment

138.The Dragon and the Hydra: A Historical Study of Organizational Methods*

139.Black Armed Joy: Some Notes Towards a Black Theory of Insurrectionary
Anarchy (2022)

140.The Anarchist Tension

141.The Insurrectional Project

142.Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism

143-Archipelago: Affinity, Informal Organization, and Insurrectional Projects
Gor)

144.Affinity Groups: Essential Building Blocks of Anarchist Organization

145.Individual projectuality and affinity: the nature of affinity groups

146.The Reproducibility of Attack and Informal Organizations

147-Reproducibility: Propagation of Attack Against Power and Some Related
Points

148.Counterinfo: A How To

149.D.0.TS. (Disciplines of the Spray Can)

150.Keep Hoods Yours: An Interview on Fighting Against Police, White
Supremacy, Capitalism & Colonialism from within a Youth-Oriented Graffiti
& Street Culture

151.909 Crew’s On Practice / Anarchy in the ‘Burbs

152.Against Hired Guns: in which a crew of organizers who’ve struggled
together against the violence of policing in Oakland reflect and strategize

153-Unfinished Acts: The Oscar Grant Rebellion in Oakland

154.Raider Nation: From the January Rebellions to Lovelle Mixon and Beyond”
155-How it is to be Fun - a zine on black bloc (2012)

156.Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State
Co-optation

157.Dispatches from Ferguson (2014)

158.Dispatches from Standing Rock (2016)

159. When They Say Peace & The Making of “Outside Agitators” (2015)

160.To Struggle Means We're Alive: prisoners speak out on Ferguson,
Baltimore, and the ongoing revolt against the police (2016)*

161.Propter Nos Vol. 1 ~ Reflections on the “Movement Moment” (2016)

162.Propter Nos Vol. 2 — Insurgency/Exhaustion (2017)*

163.Propter Nos Vol. 3 — Anti-/Non (2019)*

164.Protests Sweep across all 50 states in the U.S, and many counties abroad:
Read all about it!:*

165. The Siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis: An Account and Analysis
(2020)

166.Notes from the Rockford Rebellion: Commentary on Black Revolt in the
Rustbelt from a New Afrikan Anarchist Perspective (2020)

167.Insurrectional Abolitionism: Part I -'Tearing Down Icons / Smash
Apartheid Chicago (2020)

168.Insurrectional Abolitionism: Part 2 / Vistas of Militancy Against the Police
ona Midwest University Campus (2020)

169.Anatomy of a Counter-insurgency: Efforts to Undermine the George Floyd
Uprising (2020)

170.Anarchist and Insurgent Critique of Recent Protest Tactics — Monadists
(2021)

171.George Floyd Rebellion Reader #1 & #2 (2021)

172.Fire on Main Street: Small Cities in the George Floyd Uprising

173.The Interregnum: The George Floyd Uprising, the Coronavirus Pandemic,
and the Emerging Social Revolution (2021)

174.Building a Midwest Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (2021)

175.Anarchy and Communism in Rockford

176.On the Prospect of Weaponized Death (2017)

177-Keep Sabotaging Shit: Relating to the words of Winston “Boogie” Smith
(2022)
178.Sustain the Riot: From “Defund the Police” to Revolutionary Abolitionism
after the George Floyd Uprisings (2022)

179.Dreams of Black Revolt: Reflections on the Two Year Anniversary of the
George Floyd Rebellion (2022)

180.Ediciones Inéditas: an anthology of original essays (2019)

181. Haters Cafe #1 (2020)

182.Another Word for Settle

183.Against the Party of Insurrection: A Critique of Tiqquinism in the United
States (2023)

184.The Strategy of Composition

185.The Forrest and the City: Two Years of Forrest Defense in Atlanta (2023)

186.Little Turtle Carries The World

187.Cop City Will Never Be Built: Statements and Accounts From the 5th Week
of Action to Defend Weelaunee Forest and Stop Cop City March 4th-mth
2023

188.Decomposition: For Insurrection Without Vanguards

189.The War in Front of Us: An Afro-pessimist Militant’s Challenge to the Stop
Cop City Movement

190.Bay Area Newsreel (Winter/Spring 2023)

191. Tinderbox: a journal of combative anarchy #1 (2023)

192. Tinderbox: a journal of combative anarchy #2 (2023)

193-Tinderbox: a journal of combative anarchy #3 (available 12/23)

194.Security Culture: A Handbook for Activists

195.Anatomy of A Snitch: A Warning to the Streets*

196.Coping with Snitch Culture (in Prison): Historical Examples Current
Proposals*

197.Stop Hunting Sheep: A Guide to Creating Safer Networks

198.On Loc: a Guide to Digital Safety

199.The PE.T. guide: New Communication Infrastructure for Anarchists

200.Anonymity: Security

201.Beyond the Screen: The Stars (2023)

202.Without a Trace

203.Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the
Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements


204.Social Detox: Resources for Anti-Sexist Men

205.Feminism is For Everybody

206.Learning to Exhale

207.Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective Keyterms Sheet

208.Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet

209.Against Carceral Feminism

210.Abolish Time #14718 (Abolition & Co-optation; Transformative Justice)

211.The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

212.“Working for you, me, we, us, and them”: On the Non-profit Industrial
Complex

213. Navigating Trauma — Mutual Aid Disaster Relief

214.Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation.

215.Mapping Our Madness ~ The Icarus Project

216.Madness and Oppression - The Icarus Project

217.Friends Make the Best Medicine - The Icarus Project

218.Prisoner letter writing & support

219. Writing to Prisoners Frequently Asked Questions

220.Why I Left the PSL... or the DSA or Socialist Alternative or whatever

221.How to Start a Zine ‘Distro (2022)




















































































































































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