Anonymous Comrade writes:

Introducing ZineLibrary.net

ZineLibrary.Net is now the biggest collection of Anarchist zines on the internet.

Have you ever noticed how so many anarchist ideas remain on the internet? Have you noticed that the few anarchist publications around get more contributions than production help, and that so many ideas never make it into any of them? Have you also ever noticed that many people won't take the time to search for anarchist ideas even though they may agree with them? We think we have some ideas to get anarchist ideas off the internet, have unlimited printing and distribution possibilities, and to put anarchist ideas into the hands of curious people.

This isn't a new idea, it is based on Schnews in the UK and fax spammers of the 90's. The idea is to use people's existing printers and copy machines for a radically decentralized printing and distribution network. This idea will also complement existing anarchist papers, pamphlets, zines and flyers. The idea is to make a copy of your print work in the Adobe PDF file type. Literature can then be laid out and put into a PDF file which will make these ideas printable and therefore accessible to those not looking for anarchist ideas on the internet or visiting a radical bookstore. The best part is that the printing is free from any State or workplace printer.

ZineLibrary.net's name is self-explanatory. We hope to provide a widely-accessible, permanent distribution system for zines, which otherwise reach a limited number of people.

We ask you to join this printing revolution by making a copy of your print materials in PDF form for accessible and decentralized printing. We can share these ideas without having to pay hundreds of dollars in printing costs.

Robert Graham writes

Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas

Volume One of Robert Graham's much anticipated anthology of historic anarchist writings, Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, subtitled From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE–1939), will be published by (Black Rose Books) at the end of March 2005.

The collection includes signicant material from China, Japan, Korea and Latin America that has never before appeared in English, together with newly translated European materials and selections from several out of print and difficult to find sources.

Topics covered include Daoist anarchy, freedom and servitude, enlightenment and revolution, the industrial revolution and the emergence of socialism, the Paris Commune and the First International, anarchist communism, anarcho-syndicalism, art and anarchy, anarchy and education, women, love and marriage, propaganda by the deed and direct action, anti-militarism and anti-colonialism, fascism and the rise of totalitarianism, technology and the organization of work under capitalism, and the Mexican, Russian and Spanish Revolutions.

In addition to the usual suspects (Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman, etc.), contributors include Gustav Landauer, Jean Grave, Voltairine de Cleyre, Ba Jin, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, Herbert Read, Sebastien Faure, and several other authors whose work has never before been translated into English. For a full table of contents, check out the Black Rose website (note that the book will be over 500 pages long, not the 300 pages listed in the catalog).

Onto writes:

"Towards a Critical Analysis of Media EmergenC"
Media EmergenC Assembly

Introduction

From October 6th–9th, as the National Association of Broadcasters was holding their annual Radio Road Show in San Diego, a group of media activists converged to try to illuminate what is wrong with the corporate media and to strengthen independent, community autonomous media. This convergence was called the Media emergenC, highlighting the two themes of emergency and emergence. With 4 days of talks, film screenings, marches, panels, forums and independent media making, the media activists, mostly composed of members of San Diego Indymedia and radioActive sanDiego, but including media makers from as far away as New York and Philadelphia, tried to confront the NAB as had been done in many other cities, but also to challenge the independent media movement and push it forward. For an overview of the events, see here.

rwnorris writes:

Vietnam War Conscientious Objector Republishes Memoir

Robert W. Norris, a native Californian and Vietnam War conscientious objector (CO) now living in Japan, understands what many of the Iraq War generation are going through. Thirty-four years after being court-martialed as a CO, Norris has republished his first novel in order to give them an alternative viewpoint.

Looking for the Summer, published January 15, 2005 by Lulu Press, tells the story of a Vietnam War CO's adventures and search for identity on the road from Paris to Calcutta in 1977.