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True Leap Press P.O, Box 408197 Chicago IL, 60640 wwwtrueleappress.com ‘True Leap Press is a radical publishing collective based in Chicago, Ilinois. We support the intellectual struggle and advocate for the building of mass-based projects for anti-racist, anti capitalist, and anti-patriarchal political education, Our collective encourages any-and-all forms of revolt and insurrection against ‘global anti-blackness, white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, ‘and heteropatriarchy. We also aim to facilitate the growth of a progressive political consciousness that is deliberately anti- patriotic and against all forms of U.S. nationalism. In the coming years, we hope to increase our number of publications, establish infrastructure for printing and distribution, land grow our capacity to work across prison walls. Our current print publication is entitled PROPTER NOS. It offers a platform for Black and radical antiracist theoretical and cultural work — such as poetry, short essays, experimental writing, artwork — and \\ill also inereasingly serve asa source of commentary and analysis from imprisoned activists and grassroots abolitionist organizations. ince April 2017, our publishing collective has distributed over 200 copies of PN I and IIto imprisoned comrades across the country (at no charge, printed on stock paper, using black toner, in grayscale), We have ran advertisements and our communique in the newsletters of a handful of allied groups, such as Black and Pink: Chicago and in The Abolitionist, published by Critical Resistance (1904 Franklin St # 504, Oakland, CA 94612). These ads in tur attract requests for educational materials made by these ‘groups’ incarcerated readership, Feel free to circulate this catalogue amongst your networks. We also have some imprisoned comrades making photocopies and passing out the literature we send on their own, without any request to do so. This is fantastic news! We encourage more to take up this task.
Word is, imprisoned organizers in PA, CA,TX, WA, and IL are using PROPTER NOS as a prompt for ad hoe study groups. Ifyou know anyone incarcerated who would like a free issue, please print ‘out and get them this catalogue today. If you know of or work for a bookstore, info shop, or library who would like to sell or house & few hard copies, we are more than happy to split the sale on consignment. Just hit us up thru the (e)mails. All funds collected ‘20 toward future printing and distribution, Finally, we ate a group that offers free political education resources to everyone who requests it in good faith. WE DO NOT. GIVE LEGAL ADVICE OR SUPPORT. We do not have the capacity to offer mutual aid in that way. WE ARE ALSO NOT AN ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION, Sharing intellectual resources is our collective's primary objective at the moment, and likely in the foreseeable future 2019/2020 Catalogue Published works Propter Nos Vol 2. Is | available for free download ‘on our website Propter Nos Vol . Is Insurgeney/Exhaustion (2017) Propter Nos Vol 2. Iss Reflections onthe ‘Movement Moment (2016) Anton (2018)
Publication description Referring to the collective sense of “We” that inspires the mobilization and identity formation of a People, the Latin phrase "Propter Nos” is the ttle we chose for our frst publication. This is because we believe that one of the central tasks of building consciousness amongst colonized, imprisoned, working class, and poor peoples is to build spaces where a core st of political principles can be cultivated amidst the contradictions and antagonisms. inherent to. revolutionary movement building. True Leap Press believes that establishing a clearinghouse for the formulation ofa vision of mass insurgency among differently situated ‘communities of struggle is a necessary (and urgent) task in the present ‘moment of white nationalist resurgence and patriotic liberal ‘counterrevolution. We therefore obstinately oppose the mythology of US. exceptionalism and white manifest destiny, and do not presume that American liberal democracy is an inherent “good.” Instead, we hope PROPTER NOS will serve as a forum for works that invigorate a different sense of common political consciousness, one rooted in the historical experiences of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Queer movements mobilizing against the white capitalist civilization and nation-building project of the United States. Prisoner Zine Distro 1. Sylvia Wynter, Slave Revol asthe First Form of Labor Strugele 2. Sylvia Wynter, We Know Where We Come From: Black Culture from Myall 0 Marely 3. Frantz Fanon, Excerpis from Black Skin White Mask Sundiata Acoli, Updated History ofthe New Afrkan Prison Struggle 5.500 Years of Indigenous Resistance {6 Luana Ross, Excorpisfrom Inventing the Savage: Construction of Native ‘America Criminaly 7. Lorenzo & JoNina Ervin, etal. Building « Community-Based Anti-Fascist Movement a Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? Ja Davis & Dylan Rodriguez, The Challenge of Abolition
10. Julia Chinyere Oparah, Cellng Black Bodies: Black Women & the Global Prison Industrial Complex LL. Why dncarcerated Lives Matter tothe Black Lives Matter Movement 12. Frank Wildrson, The Prison Slave as Hegemony’ (Silent) Scandal and other writings 13. Liz Appel, White Supremacy in the Movement to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex 14, Andrea Smith, Heteropaiarehy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing 15. Saidiya Hartman & Frank Wilderson, The Postion of Unthought 16. Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution 17, Loreazo Kom'boa Ervin, The Progressive Plantation: Racism Inside White Social Change Groups 18, Dylan Rodriguez, The Political Logie of the Now-Profis Industrial Compler 19. bell hooks, Excerpts from Feminism is for Eversbody 20. Out ofthe Closet and Ino the Libraries: A Collection of Radical Queer Moments 21. Eric Stanley & Nat Smith tal. Excerpts from Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex 22. George Ciecarollo Maher, Every Crook Can Govern: Prison Strikes as Window tothe New World 23. Anthony Rayson, More Bective Prisoner Support 24, ABC Boston, Attacking Prisons atthe Point of Production 25. Sali Churna ASA, Anatomy of Snitch 26. How COINTELPRO Helped Destroy the Movements ofthe 1960s / The ‘Black Panther Party and its Annihilation by COINTELPRO 27. Imtligence Gathering, Dissemination, & Imernet Security 28. Security Culre: handbook fr activists 29. Gay Shame, Ife Need Direct Acton Divas (newspaper-stye zine) 30. Black & Pink Newspaper (most current issue) BIL Solid Black Fist: Newsletter (most current iste) 32. Rust Belt Abolition Radio (Monthly Podcast tanseribed) (most current episode) 33. Abolition in Action: Bi-Monthly News from Critical Resistance (most current issue) At the moment, we only have one member running our inside/outside distribution services, so if your order never is received please feel alright to politely nudge him from time to time. He does this work as 4a volunteer side-gig, unpaid, and at NO EXPENSE on your end, so ‘your patience is appreciated in advance.


True Leap Press
P.O, Box 408197
Chicago IL, 60640

wwwtrueleappress.com

‘True Leap Press is a radical publishing collective based in
Chicago, Ilinois. We support the intellectual struggle and advocate
for the building of mass-based projects for anti-racist, anti
capitalist, and anti-patriarchal political education, Our collective
encourages any-and-all forms of revolt and insurrection against
‘global anti-blackness, white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism,
‘and heteropatriarchy. We also aim to facilitate the growth of a
progressive political consciousness that is deliberately anti-
patriotic and against all forms of U.S. nationalism.

In the coming years, we hope to increase our number of
publications, establish infrastructure for printing and distribution,
land grow our capacity to work across prison walls. Our current
print publication is entitled PROPTER NOS. It offers a platform
for Black and radical antiracist theoretical and cultural work —
such as poetry, short essays, experimental writing, artwork — and
\ill also inereasingly serve asa source of commentary and analysis
from imprisoned activists and grassroots abolitionist organizations.

ince April 2017, our publishing collective has distributed over
200 copies of PN I and IIto imprisoned comrades across the
country (at no charge, printed on stock paper, using black toner, in
grayscale), We have ran advertisements and our communique in
the newsletters of a handful of allied groups, such as Black and
Pink: Chicago and in The Abolitionist, published by Critical
Resistance (1904 Franklin St # 504, Oakland, CA 94612). These
ads in tur attract requests for educational materials made by these
‘groups’ incarcerated readership, Feel free to circulate this
catalogue amongst your networks. We also have some imprisoned
comrades making photocopies and passing out the literature we
send on their own, without any request to do so. This is fantastic
news! We encourage more to take up this task.




Word is, imprisoned organizers in PA, CA,TX, WA, and IL are
using PROPTER NOS as a prompt for ad hoe study groups. Ifyou
know anyone incarcerated who would like a free issue, please print
‘out and get them this catalogue today. If you know of or work for



a bookstore, info shop, or library who would like to sell or house &
few hard copies, we are more than happy to split the sale on
consignment. Just hit us up thru the (e)mails. All funds collected
‘20 toward future printing and distribution,

Finally, we ate a group that offers free political education
resources to everyone who requests it in good faith. WE DO NOT.
GIVE LEGAL ADVICE OR SUPPORT. We do not have the
capacity to offer mutual aid in that way. WE ARE ALSO NOT
AN ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION, Sharing intellectual resources
is our collective's primary objective at the moment, and likely in
the foreseeable future

2019/2020 Catalogue

Published works Propter Nos Vol 2. Is |

available for free download
‘on our website

Propter Nos Vol . Is

Insurgeney/Exhaustion (2017)

Propter Nos Vol 2. Iss







Reflections onthe
‘Movement Moment
(2016)



Anton (2018)
Publication description



Referring to the collective sense of “We” that inspires the mobilization
and identity formation of a People, the Latin phrase "Propter Nos” is
the ttle we chose for our frst publication. This is because we believe
that one of the central tasks of building consciousness amongst
colonized, imprisoned, working class, and poor peoples is to build
spaces where a core st of political principles can be cultivated amidst
the contradictions and antagonisms. inherent to. revolutionary
movement building.

True Leap Press believes that establishing a clearinghouse for the
formulation ofa vision of mass insurgency among differently situated
‘communities of struggle is a necessary (and urgent) task in the present
‘moment of white nationalist resurgence and patriotic liberal
‘counterrevolution. We therefore obstinately oppose the mythology of
US. exceptionalism and white manifest destiny, and do not presume
that American liberal democracy is an inherent “good.” Instead, we
hope PROPTER NOS will serve as a forum for works that invigorate
a different sense of common political consciousness, one rooted in the
historical experiences of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Queer
movements mobilizing against the white capitalist civilization and
nation-building project of the United States.

Prisoner Zine Distro

1. Sylvia Wynter, Slave Revol asthe First Form of Labor Strugele

2. Sylvia Wynter, We Know Where We Come From: Black Culture from
Myall 0 Marely

3. Frantz Fanon, Excerpis from Black Skin White Mask
Sundiata Acoli, Updated History ofthe New Afrkan Prison Struggle

5.500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

{6 Luana Ross, Excorpisfrom Inventing the Savage: Construction of Native
‘America Criminaly

7. Lorenzo & JoNina Ervin, etal. Building « Community-Based Anti-Fascist
Movement

a Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Ja Davis & Dylan Rodriguez, The Challenge of Abolition






10. Julia Chinyere Oparah, Cellng Black Bodies: Black Women & the Global
Prison Industrial Complex

LL. Why dncarcerated Lives Matter tothe Black Lives Matter Movement

12. Frank Wildrson, The Prison Slave as Hegemony’ (Silent) Scandal and
other writings

13. Liz Appel, White Supremacy in the Movement to Abolish the Prison
Industrial Complex

14, Andrea Smith, Heteropaiarehy and the Three Pillars of White
Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing

15. Saidiya Hartman & Frank Wilderson, The Postion of Unthought

16. Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution

17, Loreazo Kom'boa Ervin, The Progressive Plantation: Racism Inside
White Social Change Groups

18, Dylan Rodriguez, The Political Logie of the Now-Profis Industrial
Compler

19. bell hooks, Excerpts from Feminism is for Eversbody

20. Out ofthe Closet and Ino the Libraries: A Collection of Radical Queer
Moments

21. Eric Stanley & Nat Smith tal. Excerpts from Captive Genders: Trans
Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

22. George Ciecarollo Maher, Every Crook Can Govern: Prison Strikes as
Window tothe New World

23. Anthony Rayson, More Bective Prisoner Support

24, ABC Boston, Attacking Prisons atthe Point of Production

25. Sali Churna ASA, Anatomy of Snitch

26. How COINTELPRO Helped Destroy the Movements ofthe 1960s / The
‘Black Panther Party and its Annihilation by COINTELPRO

27. Imtligence Gathering, Dissemination, & Imernet Security

28. Security Culre: handbook fr activists

29. Gay Shame, Ife Need Direct Acton Divas (newspaper-stye zine)

30. Black & Pink Newspaper (most current issue)

BIL Solid Black Fist: Newsletter (most current iste)

32. Rust Belt Abolition Radio (Monthly Podcast tanseribed) (most current

episode)
33. Abolition in Action: Bi-Monthly News from Critical Resistance (most
current issue)





At the moment, we only have one member running our inside/outside
distribution services, so if your order never is received please feel
alright to politely nudge him from time to time. He does this work as
4a volunteer side-gig, unpaid, and at NO EXPENSE on your end, so
‘your patience is appreciated in advance.