Announcing: Berkman School of Anarchy
From Berkman School of Anarchy
The Office of Scholarly Communications at the Berkman School of Anarchy is pleased to announce the launch of our new counter-info project!
From Berkman School of Anarchy
The Office of Scholarly Communications at the Berkman School of Anarchy is pleased to announce the launch of our new counter-info project!
From Anarchist Writers
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:
https://www.blackflag.org.uk
From Filler Collective
July 22, 2023
“What becomes a burden can be abandoned. We want more strength and energy with time, not less — so do what moves you.“
– How to Start a Fire
As of August 13th, 2023, the Filler Collective will no longer be maintaining this counterinfo website. We will continue to publish the submissions we receive, local zine PDFs, and other miscellaneous updates on this website until then.
From Filler PGH
Full title: These Queers Bash Back: Pittsburgh Anarchists Organize in Response to Transphobic Hate
Report on recent demonstrations in Pittsburgh against anti-trans grifter Michael Knowles.
From Filler PGH
In the projects and alleys, we read the anarchist teachings of Brother Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and Alexander Berkman. We’re exercising dual-power – a power of our own, outside the existing political structure; a structure which all of us resent in some way, shape or form. We’re inspired by the wisdom of Sister JoNina Abron-Ervin. We’re attentive students of anarchists Anthony Rayson and the late Lucy Parsons.
From Filler Distro
August 14th-21st
We are tired of being serious. We are bored with dry meetings, solemn marches, and being told to read this or that text written to convince people that anarchism is worth their time. We are exhausted with inaction being the consequence of feeling like we have to get everything right.
From Filler Distro by H.C.
The last month or so has prompted some amount of critical discourse among the normally un-critical anarchists in this city.
From Filler Distro
Anonymous submission received 07.08.22
Justice for Jayland Walker. Solidarity with fighters in Akron. Justice won’t come from the courts, voting won’t stop 90 bullets. Justice is abolition, fuck the police. See you in the streets.
– some anarchists
From Filler Distro
Submission from Saint (they/them) received on 07.08.22
At our best, Occupy Pittsburgh provided many of our own needs, self-organized and shared food, clothing, medical assistance, published our own newspaper, organized spontaneous and planned disruptions, marches and occupations, organized teach-ins and discussions, acoustic jam sessions and on and on. [...] At our worst, we legislated over a park that we had declared liberated, demeaned our own efforts and valued our appearance in the media, in court, and to the law more than our own health and autonomy
From It's Going Down
Distroism Now! is a new monthly podcast on It’s Going Down. Each episode is hosted by a different distro, and the style, length and content of each episode is whatever the hosts want it to be. At the end of each episode, the host nominates a new distro to do the next episode.
On a casual stroll among the rows of houses and storefronts during my all-too-short shift break, I noticed for a moment how the weatherbeaten jumble of townhouses jammed together from block to block would occasionally – and troublingly, increasingly – give way to the drab monoliths of modern condo apartments. Although so common now it has become unremarkable, upon meditation one cannot help but recognize that these bland structures serve as the symbolic and the material manifestation the violent force of capital attempting to fully dominate and shape our lives.
From Filler PGH | Submission from Denise Bosynak received on 07.12.21
In reading the recent piece submitted to Filler about murals motivated by socialist realism point to an ideology that is inherently reformist and demobilizes people, I could not help but feel that this was a strange (albeit very literary and beautiful written) vague post.
From fillerpgh
Cracks in the Steel City is a filler column that recaps local news that anarchists in Pittsburgh may find interesting, with a particular focus on autonomous, illegalist, and insurrectionist activity. We also include information about fascist activity, state repression, and capitalist maneuvering.
From Filler PGH, Pittsburgh
As Pittsburgh joins the ranks of cities disappearing protesters into unmarked vans, we implore our fellow residents of Pittsburgh to resist the urge to fixate on procedural details. What happened yesterday was fucked up, and it would have been no less fucked up had the officers been uniformed and the van been clearly marked and all the proper paperwork been filled out. What happened yesterday was fucked up in all the same ways that it’s always fucked up when the PPD, or the DHS, or ICE or whoever, kidnaps a member of our community, regardless of what they’re wearing and what they’re driving when they do it.