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- 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill
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- “A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse” (read) (print)
- After Deschooling, Then What? (Ivan Illich)
- Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle against the Prison Industrial Complex (Critical Resistance) @http://zinelibrary.info/abolition-now-ten-years-strategy-and-struggle-against-prisonindustrial-complex-critical-resistance
- “Abolish Restaurants” @ prole.info
- “Abolish Whiteness” @ http://imaginenoborders.org/zines/
- “The Abolition of Work” @ http://imaginenoborders.org/zines/
- “Against Education: For the Abolition of School” @http://www.zinelibrary.info/files/against_schools.pdf
- “Ally Bill of Responsibilities” @http://www.idlenomore.ca/articles/get-involved/item/143-ally-bill-of-responsibilities
- “Anarchists and War Tax Resistance” @http://www.nwtrcc.org/PDFs/anarchists-wtr.pdf
- “Autonomia es vida” (Poesia) @http://shadesofsilence206.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/autonomia-es-vida/
- “A Flower in the Hands of the People” Gustavo Esteva
- “Alternatives to the Police” (Rose City Copwatch) @https://rosecitycopwatch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/alternatives-to-the-police_-2008_-rose-city-copwatch-_formatted-for-booklet-printing.pdf
- The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (James C Scott) @ zinelibrary.info
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- “Beyond Education” (Gustavo Esteva)
- “Boarding School Abuses and the Case for Reparations” Chapter 2 of Andrea Smith’s Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
- “Burning Women: The European Witch Hunts, enclosure and the rise of capitalism” @http://www.alphabetthreat.co.uk/pasttense/pdf/burningwomen.pdf
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- Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Silvia Federici, 2005) (zine 1 ; zine 2 ; zine 3 ; zine 4 ; zine 5) or (read full)
- “Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide.” Michael “Cetewayo” Tabor. 1969. @ http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/capitalism_plus_dope_equals_genocide.pdf
- “Copwatch 101” @ http://zinelibrary.info/files/Copwatch101.pdf
- “Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century” @ http://www.anti-politics.net/distro/
- Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (Andrea Smith)Intro, Ch 1, Ch2 ; Ch3 ; Ch4; Ch5; Ch6; Ch7; Ch8; endnotes; resource guide ; and index)
- The Counter Renaissance @ http://www.swaraj.org/counterren.htm
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- Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber, 2011)
- “The Debt Resistor’s Operations Manual” (#StrikeDebt)@http://strikedebt.org/The-Debt-Resistors-Operations-Manual.pdf
- “Decolonization” (1 sheet) @ http://www.anti-politics.net/distro/
- “Decolonization is not a metaphor” @ http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/18630/15554
- “Decolonizing Our Minds and Actions” (Introduction to For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook) @http://sarweb.org/index.php?sar_press_for_indigenous_minds_only
- DE-COLONIZING THE REVOLUTIONARY IMAGINATION: Values Crisis, the Politics of Reality and why there’s Going to be a Common Sense Revolution in this Generation
by patrick reinsborough may 2003 anti-copyright - “The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing” (excerpt from Williams) @ http://media.portland.indymedia.org/media/2010/04/398700.pdf
- The Demarest Factor: The Ethics of U.S. Department of Defense Funding for Academic Research in Mexico (film) @http://elenemigocomun.net/2009/03/demarest-factor/ watch free online @ blip.tv
- The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power (Ed. Wolfgang Sachs)
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- “Education and the Enclosure of Knowledge in the Global University” (Federici, 2009) @ http://www.acme-journal.org/vol8/Federici09.pdf
- Escaping Education (Esteva y Prakash, 2008) @http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/escapingeducation.pdf
- EZLN “ELLOS Y NOSOTROS” (THEM AND US) COMMUNIQUES(collected from http://www.elkilombo.org/projects/our-translations/)
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- “From a Pedagogy for Liberation to Liberation from Pedagogy” byGustavo Esteva, Dana Stuchul and Madhu Suri Prakash
- “From Student Strike to Unlimited Strike: Reports, Analysis and Communiqués From the Montreal Strike 2012”
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- “Gender Anarky” @ http://zinelibrary.info/selected-writings-gender-anarkyupdated-version
- Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods @ http://www.jamesherod.info/index.php?sec=book&id=7
- “Guerrilla Gardening: Beneath the Concrete” @ http://zinelibrary.info/files/guerrilla_gardening.pdf
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- Hot Pantz DIY Gynecology/Herbal Remedies (v1 or v2) v1 @ https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2010/04/06/hotpantz.pdfv2 @ http://imaginenoborders.org/pdf/zines/HotPantz.pdf
- “The Housing Monster” @ prole.info
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- “Jubilee: A Game of Debt Abolition and Total Freedom” @ jubileegame.wikispaces.com
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- Labor Law for the Rank and Filer (Lynd and Gross, 2008) @ http://www.zinelibrary.info/files/LaborLawForTheRankAndFiler.pdf
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- The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, 2000) (zine-format) @1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 ; 7 ; 8 ; 9 ; 10
- “The Modern/Colonial Food System in a Paradigm of War”
- “Monstrous Settlers: Zombies, Demons, and Angels” @ http://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/monstrous-settlers-zombies-demons-and-angels/
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- “Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination” (Jeff Corntassel, 2012) @http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/18627/15550
- “Re:imagining change an introduction to story-based strategy” (smartMeme by DOYLE CANNING & PATRICK REINSBOROUGH
- The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities @ http://www.incite-national.org/media/docs/0985_revolution-starts-at-home.pdf
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (James C Scott) @ http://zinelibrary.info/james-c-scott-seeing-state-how-certain-schemes-improve-humancondition-have-failed
- “Solidarities of Resistance” by Carla Bergman and Mike Jo Brownlee @ http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3629
- “The Stockades Stood Burning” (NC Piece Corps)@ http://zinelibrary.info/files/thestockadestoodburning.pdf
- Struggle for the Land (Ward Churchill) @ http://zinelibrary.info/struggle-land-native-north-americanresistance-genocide-ecocide-and-colonization-ward-churchill
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- “This University is a Racket” @http://freeuniverseity.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/thisuniversityracketv2.pdf
- “Toward the Destruction of Schooling” @ http://www.studentliberation.com/pdfs/toward-destruction-ofschooling.pdf
- “The Tyranny of the Clock” @ http://zinelibrary.info/files/TheTyrannyoftheClock.pdf
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- “Unsettling Ourselves: Reflections and Resources for Deconstructing Colonial Mentality” @ http://unsettlingminnesota.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/um_sourcebook_jan10_revision.pdf
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- “VIVA LA EDUCACIÓN AUTÓNOMO ZAPATISTA”
- “Vimukt Shiksha”: full listing of free publications @ http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/resources_publications.html
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- “Wanting to Be Indian: When Spiritual Searching Turns Into Cultural Theft” @ http://www.anti-politics.net/distro/
- “War on the Coast” @ http://www.anti-politics.net/distro/
- “The Witch’s Child”
- Witches, Midwives and Nurses, A History of Women Healers (Enhenreich and English, 1979) @ http://zabalazabooks.net/2012/01/20/witches-midwives-and-nurses-a-history-of-women-healers/
- “Who is Oakland?: anti-oppression activism, the politics of safety, and state co-optation @ http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/escalating-identity-who-is-oakland and @ https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/09/18713238.php
- Work Community Politics War @ prole.info
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- ‘Zapatista Autonomy Project’
- “A Flower in the Hands of the People” (Gustavo Esteva)
- “Anarchist Organization” (Errico Malatesta)
- “Anarchist Propaganda” (Errico Malatesta)
- “Introduction to Zerowork I”
- “Manifesto of the Malgré Tout Collective”
- “Sex, Race and Class” (Selma James)
- “Stop Making Capitalism” (John Holloway)
- “The African Roots of War” (W.E. Burghardt DuBois)
- “Toward Anarchism” (Errico Malatesta)