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Catalog

Zines

Welcome to the zine selection! We are really excited about these. There are plenty of amazing zines we don't carry, and if you look hard enough, you're sure to find them. Hopefully the links page can help with that. The prices are cheap, and some are free. We'd like to remind you that it takes a lot of energy to make these zines available for so cheap and with free shipping, so if you have the means, please consider a donation (notice the donation button under this text).

Also, If you want to order and donate in one fell swoop, you could click the donate button and donate as much money as the order is plus how much you want to donate and send us an email with your order. That way paypal won't rip us off twice. If you are ordering outside of the US, please donate for shipping. We simply can't afford to ship internationally for free.

Also also, some of these are in a printable PDF format elsewhere on the internet. Those links are marked where appropriate. These are roughly divided in three sections: personal, theory, and do it yourself.

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Featured Zine! Heist!

• Heist!

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  As part of the Steal Something From Work Day campaign, Wild Nettle Distro is excited to distribute the new zine Heist! This "Journal of Workplace Reappropriation” is a full-length publication that delves into the practice and theory of employee theft, presenting stories from dozens of workplace thieves and reflections from across the spectrum of workplaces, continents, and centuries. Read the tale of the hardware store cashier who paid for his entire college education by robbing the till–and find out why he wishes he’d spent the money differently! Read the reflections of Miklós Haraszti, a dissident who analyzed Hungarian workers’ practice of making and stealing trinkets from the factory in defiance of the Soviet “Worker’s State” of the 1970s! Find out what it means to go beyond stealing from work! It’s all here, in this 72-page journal!
  
  They are available for $1.50 each ppd. We are also offering a bulk rate starting with 5 copies for $5 ppd, and $1 each after that with a limit of 10 copies (for $10). If you're ambitious enough to distribute more than 10 copies, you probably have enough energy to figure out a way to print them for cheaper than we are offering. Here is the PDF, all you need is to find a printer.
  
  If you are ordering outside of the US, this will be significantly more expensive. All international orders should be made by pressing the "donate" button (below). If you are ordering from Mexico or Canada add $10 for shipping, plus the amount for the zines. (ex. $17 for 7 zines). If you're ordering elsewhere in the world, add $15, plus the amount for the zines (ex. $22 for 7 zines) Email us if you have any questions.

  half-sized folded hot dog-style, 72 pages

  Heist Zine

  Heist Zine-1 Copy $1.50 Heist Zine-2 Copies $3.00 Heist Zine-3 Copies $4.50 Heist Zine-5 Copies $5.00 Heist Zine-6 Copies $6.00 Heist Zine-7 Copies $7.00 Heist Zine-8 Copies $8.00 Heist Zine-9 Copies $9.00 Heist Zine-10 Copies $10.00

  

  
  
  

Personal

• The Adventures of Thumb and Foot

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  A different sort of travel zine as told by Casandra and Froseph about a romantic hitchhiking journey in the summer of 2007.

  a little shorter than half-sized, 32 pages, $2

  

• Into Wishin' #1

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  Cassiopeia's first zine. A brave and sincere zine about being shy and unassertive. This zine is very blunt about depression, suicide, and the importance of honesty and communication.

  quarter-sized, 20 pages, $1

  

• 2006 CrimethInc. Convergence Capturez les Drapeau Mémoires de Prisonniers (Capture the Flag Prisoners' Zine)

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  La Nuit de Friday July 28, 2006 — Downtown Winona, MN: A night of bedlam, stratagem, and adamant warfare. There were a lacking one hundred personages and leastwise one hundred billion demands to leave the doddering, abysmal world in its wake. Most of who survived was imprisoned. The rest were bound to be. A harsh and ineluctable retribution was appointed the exhausted prisoners. A coffer inhabited by white paper and black pens sat imperiously and solemnly amongst the newly imprisoned. The coffer read:

  Dear Prisoner,
  way to go getting caught. As punishment you are required to take a blank piece of paper and pen and create something (poem, drawing, story, etc...) to include in the 2006 Convergence-Capture the Flag Prisoners' Zine. Have fun with it. Put your poem, drawing, etc...in this box. If rescued mid-creation-leave what you have in this box.

  -----------------------------------------------------------------The impending pages are those submissions, done mostly in a frenzy, agog and unaware of how the battle outside their jail cell was unfolding. Let us never overlook the audacity and fervency of these mettlesome vigilantes.
  half-sized, 28 pages, $2

  

• Doris #24

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  The O-P issue in the encyclopedic series. This issue talks about Ohio, Politics, the Pitchfork Strategy, Primitivism, and Punk.

  half-sized, 34 pages, $3

  

• Doris #25

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  The Q issue of the encyclopedic series entitled "Questions". Includes fresh ideas about anarchism, keeping focus, asking yourself who you want to be, and a story about quitting drinking.

  half-sized, 30 pages, $3

  

• Doris #26

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  The R-S-T issue in the encyclopedic series. This issue is about hope, language, shyness, social ecology, and truth.

  half-sized, 28 pages, $3

  

• Doris #27

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  The U-V-W-X-Y-Z issue in the encyclopedic series. is about creating your own reasons for writing, doing things even thought you're scared, it's about tour and making friends and living.

  half-sized, 28 pages, $3

  

• Doris #15

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  An absolute must read! This classic is still my favorite zine. It's so easy to feel stuck and depressed in this horrible world. Cindy is determined to snap out of it. This zine is about feeling good. It's adorable and intriguing comic-style stories will make you want to take it's useful advice. It's a great tool whether you're depressed or not. It's a challenge to us all to take matters in our own hands and never settle for boredom. This zine is guaranteed to pump you up.

  half-sized legal, 28 pages, $2

  

• Subversive Submissive #1

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  BDSM stands for bondage/discipline, domination/submission, and sadism/masochism. It is sort of a catch-all term for sexual activities that fuck with power and/or pain; also known loosely as "kink". This is a great introduction to BDSM from an anarchist perspective. It covers such topics as navigating the scene as an anarchist, sexism and BDSM, coming out, self-injury and BDSM, to name a few. This zine was birthed from the author's blog.

  half-sized, 24 pages, $1

  

• I See Stars

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  An interesting and inspiring zine about s/m (sadism/masochism) written by a southern queer anarcha-feminist transgendered boy.

  half-sized, 20 pages, $1

  

• White Shark Tales

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  A string of witty and entertaining stories as told by Captain Ahab, CrimethInc. Secret Agent. Exciting tales of adventurous friends, crime, and a trusty get-away van.

  half-sized, 40 pages, $1

  

• Walking on the Edge of Insanity

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  A detailed account of Sascha Scatter growing up, realizing and understanding his mental illness and how to deal with it. He started out at home in a liberal household, went to college, got involved in serious quantities of activism, and then started to lose hold of his facilities culminating in a one night breakdown of roaming the streets and eventually learning how to harness himself and embracing his creative side.

  half-sized, 16 pages, $1

  

• The Visible Woman

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  An honest and beautifully written first-hand account of aging, body issues, menopause, and self-worth told by Liz, who wrote this zine when she was 50 years old.

  half-sized, 28 pages, $1

  

• Fuck You I'm Dyslexic

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  This is an unedited zine, so the misused punctuation, poor spelling, and bad grammar, are purposefully left for the reader. Through personal narrative and political reflections Maggie explores her experiences being dyslexic in an ableist world.

  half-sized, 44 pages, $1

  

• See No Speak No Hear No

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  As the title suggests, this zine is a collection of writings on rape and sexual assault, including discussion questions, an account from a man called out on his abusive behavior, writings from survivors of rape and assault, and more.

  half-legal, 24 pages, $2

  

Theory

• Fighting For Our Lives: An Anarchist Primer

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  This free paper discusses, in simple language, what is anarchist in everyday life, and how those spheres of cooperation can be expanded. It addresses common questions that often deter people from exploring anarchist ideas and approaches, and endeavors to help introduce new terms and possibilities into the public consciousness.

  full-sized newsprint, 24 pages, donation/free

  

• The Struggle is Our Inheritance: A History of Radical Minnesota

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  An in-depth look at Minnesota's history of resistance starting with the Dakota Uprising of 1862 to the RNC protests of 2008.

  half-sized, 88 pages, $5

  

• The Minnehaha Free State and Four Oaks Spiritual Encampment: A Commemorative History

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  A hand-done scrapbook account of life on the Minnehaha Free State. This fascinating time capsule of history traces the events and struggles of the time about a subject rarely spoken of, understood, or retold accurately. Learning about the intervention of the white man on native lands is both frustrating and important to understanding our own past. Forests uprooted, people continually pushed off their land, and treesits in resistance. A zine that should be present in every school classroom.

  half-legal, 20 pages, $2

  

• Earth First Means Social War: Becoming an Anti-Capitalist Ecological Social Force

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  Social war: The narrative of "class struggle" developed beyond class to include the complexities and multiplicities of all social relations. Social war is conflict within all hierarchical social relations.

  half-legal, 20 pages, $1

  

• Voting vs Direct Action

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  A concise zine about how to combat electoral politics with mutual-aid and direct action. Explains 12 common misconceptions of what direct action is.

  half-sized, 8 pages, $1

  

• The Art of Politics

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  Politics is not an art at all. It is the opposite of art: it is the obliteration of creativity and spontaneity, the reduction of human relations to a network of interlocking chains. Likewise, any art which is to be worthy of the same – the art of living, for example – must be the opposite of politics: it must draw people together, put them in touch with their hidden strengths, enable them to do what they think is right without fearing what the neighbors will think or calculating what's in it for them.

  half-sized, 16 pages, $1

  

• Attitude Adjustment

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  A bootlegged excerpt from Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan's graphic novel "As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial". This comic is a fiery dialogue between our hero and a psychiatrist. It then turns into a fiery dialogue with a police officer just following orders.

  half-sized, 20 pages, $1

  

• Burning The Anarchist Bible

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  Cynical poetry for those fed up with dogma. "Most of the people I know, myself included, cringe at the word 'poetry'. Most anarchists I know, myself included, cringe when someone says something like 'I'm so fed up with this P.C. culture.' And yet, most of the anarchists I know DO know that something is wrong with anarchist culture: we have allowed ourselves to be more concerned with the specifics of language that confronting individual acts of oppression." This is a useful and important zine that keeps us anarchists in check.

  half-sized, 20 pages, $1

  

• Anarchy & Alcohol

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  An in-depth look at addiction culture, strategies for sobriety, and the role alcohol plays in civilization. The tract originally appeared in Inside Front #∞—and includes the original companion piece “An anarcho-primitivist case for straight edge.” In our experience stocking literature tables, these texts have been widely well-received from drinkers and non-drinkers alike.

  half-sized, 32 pages, $1

  

• Abolish Restaurants: A Worker's Critique of the Food Service Industry

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  An illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways in which restaurant workers fight against it. Drawing on a range of anti-capitalist ideas as well as a heaping plate of personal experience, it is part analysis and part call-to-arms.

  half-sized, 60 pages, $1

  

• Work Community Politics War

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  A comic book introduction to the world as we know it and a class war manifesto.

  half-sized, 32 pages, $1

  

• Precarity & the Service Class: Communique #1

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  -Criminals who accidentally got hired
  half-sized, 4 pages, $1

  

• The Calvin and Hobbes Guide to Daily Life

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  Calvin and Hobbes tackle issues such as school, work, media, and the environment with their clever critiques and light-hearted cynicism. A true classic.

  half-sized, 20 pages, $1

  

• The Abolition of Work

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  A classic situationist text with a redone cover. It starts out very blunt. "No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working."

  half-sized, 12 pages, $1

  

• Arson #1

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  "The only true creation is the destruction of that which destroys. Better to die defending what you love than live with having stood by and let the worst happen. Better to be the ashes for eternity than a slave for one more fucking second."
  This issue is jam-packed with cut-and-paste mercilessness. A variety of different texts, including the Redfern Uprising in Austrailia, feminist resistance to male violence, and a handful of anti-civilization essays.

  half-sized, 72 pages, $1

  

• Arson #2

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  "But we're not dead yet. There are still glimmers of hope in our sparks of rebellion; a strength maintained by never giving in. Call it self-defense. Call it saving the world. Call it insurrection for the hell of it. We know now what we must do."
  This is yet another issue jam-packed with cut-and-paste mercilessness. A variety of different texts including the Palm Island Uprising in Austrailia, thoughts on primal guerilla warfare, and other such anti-civilization essays including topics like morality, population, and environment.

  half-sized, 64 pages, $1

  

Do It Yourself

• Support

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  A zine about supporting people who have been sexually abused. Stories and pointers by various authors, compiled by Cindy of Doris Zine. Great for both survivors and allies alike. Brings consent and communication to the spotlight, and offers many useful and empowering tips to addressing sexual abuse at its root.

  half-sized, 68 pages, $2

  

• Apoyo

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  The Spanish translation of the "Support" zine, a zine about supporting people who have been sexually abused. Stories and pointers by various authors, compiled by Cindy of Doris Zine. Great for both survivors and allies alike. Brings consent and communication to the spotlight, and offers many useful and empowering tips to addressing sexual abuse at its root.

  half-sized, 68 pages, $2

  

• A Civilian's Guide to Direct Action: What It Is, What It's Good For, How It Works

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  This step-by-step guide covers every stage in direct action organizing from brainstorming to post-action legal support. It is a perfect companion piece for the CrimethInc. anarchist cookbook, Recipes for Disaster, in that it offers a general framework for applying the specific skills detailed in that book. Whether you're engaging in civil disobedience, participating in a mass mobilization, or carrying out hard-core sabotage, this can serve as a checklist from the beginning to the end. The paper also includes refutations of the clichés regularly trotted out by those who oppose direct action.

  full-sized newspaper, 4 pages, $1

  

• The Walls Are Alive: A How-To Graffiti Guide For Those Who Scheme and Those Who Dream

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  A concise and masterfully conceived introduction to doing your own graffiti. It consists of practical and thorough advice on every step of getting your graffiti skills primed: preparation, how to make a stencil, mapping it out, strategy, escape, post-action regrouping, and also a whole section about wheat-pasting. Valuable also for its forty photographs of great real-world graffiti to ignite ideas and provide examples.

  full-sized newspaper, 4 pages, $1

  

• Dropping Out (For Students)

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  This is a handbook; a tool, made by a human being, with fears and faults, just like you. This is not another story for you to sit around and passively read. There is something real, immediate, and important at stake right here and now: your life. I'm sixteen years old. I don't attend school. I don't work. I don't live at home. I don't know where I'll be one month from now. I don't worry. I have $82, a sleeping bag, and a journal to my name. And I love life like never before.

  half-sized, 32 pages, $1

  

• On the Possibilities of Student Life: CrimethInc. for College Freshman

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  Don't beat yourself up for being in school. A lot of us are in school. This pamphlet can act as a jump start to becoming a real renegade student, taking advantage of the resources and apathy around you and turning them into tools and weapons.

  pamphlet, $.50

  

• A Student's Guide to Mental Health

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  half-sized, 40 pages, $1

  

• Men's Sexual and Reproductive Health

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  Our entire body is a complete system – our reproductive and sexual parts are connected to everything else. This informative pamphlet includes exciting pointers about testicular self-examination, maintaining prostate health with Kegel Exercises, and ejaculation 101. Good info for any gender.

  pamphlet, $.50

  

• Let's Talk Consent

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  A great introduction to consent. Asks important questions about being respectful and considerate about others' boundaries.

  pamphlet, $.50

  

• Learning Good Consent

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  The best zine we've see on the subject yet! Complied by Cindy of the Doris zine, a practical and interesting look at consent in many different situations.

  half-sized, 48 pages, $1

  

• Fighting Back: Self-Defense for Women & Girls

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  Self-defense is what we do to make our daily lives safer, taking control of situations in which we're victimized – ranging from rude comments to physical attack. If someone does not respect your boundaries, you should stop them. There are many different strategies for this – saying something, yelling, leaving, fighting – the important thing is that you do something. This guide is a nice start.

  half-sized, 4 pages, $.50

  

• Quit Smoking: A DIY Guide by Ex-Smokers

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  A practical hands-on guide to quit smoking complete with a brief history of tobacco's role in capitalist societies, and some practical pointers on how to kick the habit from the perspective of ex-smokers who point out that "there are better uses for a lighter".

  half-sized, 12 pages, $1

  

• Resist the Grand Juries: Fight the Green Scare

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  Put out by the Twin Cities Eco-Prisoner Support Committee, this is a brief introduction to what the Green Scare is and includes Grand Juries 101 lesson. It also explains what to do if you are questioned by the FBI.

  half-sized, 12 pages, $1

  

• Excited Delirium

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  A protester's guide to "less lethal" police weaponry. It not only contains useful information about 36 different weapons police use on protesters, it also offers suggestions for protection against such weapons. Better safe than sorry.

  half-sized, 48 pages, $1

  

• A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse

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  This is an amazingly beautiful compilation of essential tactics that a SteamPunk will need when they recreate their lives and societies in the shell of our soon-to-be-ruinous civilization. Chapter 1: Whither & Weather. Chapter 2: The accumulation, filtration, and storage of water. Chapter 3: Assessing the bounty of nature and ruin. Chapter 4: Scoundrels, and defense therefrom. Chapter 5: A brief introduction to contagion. Complete with fancy illustrations and useful diagrams. This zine is amazing!

  half-sized, 60 pages, $1