Be Gay Do Crime – Mary Nardini Gang (2019)
This excerpt, from the introduction of a book titled “Be Gay Do Crime” by Mary Nardini Gang, reflects on ten years of queer, anarchist, criminal, and mystical resistance. It details the origins of t…
The Billboard Liberation Front Manifesto (1992)
This manifesto argues that in contemporary society, advertising has become the dominant force shaping our understanding of the world and ourselves, displacing older forms of culture like art, science…
Interview with Jack Napier from the Billboard Liberation Front – Brian Gonnella (2009)
This piece presents an interview with Jack Napier, a representative of the Billboard Liberation Front (BLF), a group that modifies outdoor advertisements. The author, Brian Gonnella, explores the c…
The Art and Science of Billboard Improvement: A Comprehensive Guide to the Alteration of Outdoor Advertising – Billboard Liberation Front (2008)
This guide, published by the Billboard Liberation Front, offers a comprehensive, step-by-step manual for altering outdoor advertising. It details the various types of billboards, methods for choo…
Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto (n.d.)
The source presents a powerful critique of the colonial and capitalist systems, arguing they represent an ongoing, destructive “apocalypse” built on violence, exploitation, and the suppression of Ind…
A15 Athens Economic Blockade for Palestine Statement (2024)
This is a statement from a group in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance. They argue that traditional forms of protest are no longer sufficient and therefore support a global economic blockade,…
The Siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis (2020)
This anonymous account analyzes the tactics and composition of the crowd that besieged the Third Precinct in Minneapolis during the May 2020 uprising in response to the George Floyd murder. Some tac…
Communique Following Attack on Colomiers (FR) Data-Processing Centre – Comité Liquidant Ou Détournant Les Ordinateurs (C.L.O.D.O.) (1983)
This communique was written by the Comité Liquidant Ou Détournant Les Ordinateurs (C.L.O.D.O.) on February 7, 1983, just ten days after the group’s bombing of the data-processing centre of Colomiers…
The Proper Way to Harvest Wheat? Direct Action for the 90’s (1989)
This document highlights various forms of direct action and resistance employed by groups such as Plowshares, known for disarmament actions, and Earth First!, associated with environmental sabotage. T…
Political Prisoners and Lesbian Resistance – Jennie McKnight (1989)
This 1989 interview from Gay Community News features political activists Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn, and Susan Rosenberg, who were imprisoned for conspiracy. In the interview, they share their exp…
Communique in Support of Port Workers in Northwest – Occupy Oakland (2011)
This is a communique published by Occupy Oakland in solidarity with Longshore workers in Longview, Washington. Occupy Oakland strongly condemns the actions taken by Export Grain Terminal (EGT), as the…
Call for a Coordinated West Coast Port Blockade – Occupy Oakland (2011)
Occupy Oakland, a part of the larger Occupy Movement, published this piece calling for a blockade of all the West Coast Ports in order to shut down operations and disrupt the profits of the 1%. They r…
May First Movement Technology
May First Movement Technology is an organization that supports a variety of movements whose overarching goal is to “engage in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control o…
People’s Blockade of S.F. Bay
This piece was an anonymous call to action to impose a people’s blockade on the Oakland Army Terminal and the naval facilities at the port of Oakland-San Francisco. This was in response to President…
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized (R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron) by Lupe Fiasco (2011)
“By this one-eyed monster most of the world was raised, and by this hero most of the world was saved, and to this master most of the world is slaves, it factors your fears with actors and cheers from…
Choke Points: Mapping an Anticapitalist Counter-Logistics – Degenerate Communism (2014)
Essay arguing for the material and theoretical logic behind the disruption of the circulation of capital. A mapping of the logistical infrastructure of California with assessment of its major choke po…
The Coming Insurrection – The Invisible Committee (2009)
Now classic text by French collective – The Invisible Committee describing the present impasse through seven circles of hell and the way out through the insurrectionary commune
How To (Safely) Stop A Train – Bure Polit-Art Collective (2019)
“The interruption of electricity, goods or data streams with the aim of disturbing the functioning of capitalist logic or the infrastructure of the ruling order has always been a form of resistance.…
Scouting Manual For Activists – The Ruckus Society (2016)
A basic overview of scouting techniques including cover stories, useful equipment, and what to look out for when planning everything from a blockade to a banner drop.
How to Destroy a Cell Phone Tower – Warrior Up (2020)
Ingredients: 2-3 comrades, Entry tools (Boltcroppers, Wiresnips, etc) Gloves, Mask, Clean Clothes, Hat, Cap or Hood (for DNA traces) Fuel (500ml, White Spirit or Kerosene), Fuel (100ml of Benzine/Pet…
Occupy Oakland: The Port Shutdown – Jack Gerson (2012)
Gerson discusses the transition of Occupy Movement from occupation of Public Squares to Port Blockades and the disruption of global commodity circulation.
BUGA-UP: Billboard Utilizising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions (1979-early/mid 1980s)
BUGA-UP is a organization formed in Australia to protest cigarette and other unhealthy advertisments, through cultutal jamming, specifically by vandalizing billboards.
Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare by Umberto Eco (1986)
Eco argues that controlling the message is less important than controlling the possible interpretations of the message. To disrupt the mainstream mass media, Eco suggests using guerilla tactics, such…
We decided to call our magazine Adbusters by Adbusters (2020)
Created in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz, the Adbusters magazine was created as an act of rebellion against consumer culture. Rather than allowing media to be a reflection of daily life, the cre…