Zines are small, self printed booklets. They can be on any topic and are a great way to share ideas and information.
Here are the zines we recommend. Some of them are ones we’ve made but most of them were made by others.
If there are any zines you recommend we add to this list, or if any of these links are broken, please contact us!
Organizing Guides (Made by NAC)
- Organizing Guide
- Facilitation Guide
- How to Start a Group Guide
- Mediation Guide
- Little Guide to Free Resources in Eugene
- Deescalation Guide
- Writing to Political Prisoners (low toner version)
Introductory Texts
These are the best introductions to Anarchism and other radical topics that we’ve found.
- Anarchism
- Police
- Abolish Whiteness (low toner version)
- Accomplices Not Allies (low toner version)
- Colonization and Decolonization (low toner version)
- Know Your Rights In English and Spanish, for unhoused, immigrants, and more
- Homeless in Oregon, Know Your Rights
- Socialism Will Be Free, Or It Will Not Be At All! – An Introduction to Libertarian Socialism
- The Mythology of Work (low toner version)
- Navigating Trauma (Print) (low toner version)
- Understanding Patriarchy (low toner version)
- Your Politics are Boring as Fuck
- What’s the Deal with Neighborhood Pods (from Lane County Mutual Aid)
- Witch’s Child (About May Day)
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Guides
- An Herbal Medicine-Making Primer
- A Sewer Catastrophe Companion
- Bike Maintenance
- Dumpster Diving
- Wild Fermentation
Protesting Guides
- ABC’s Mini Guide to Protesting
- Banner Drops, Stencils, Wheatpaste, & Distributing Information (low toner version)
- Direct Action Survival Guide (low toner version)
More Introductory Texts
Here are some more good introductory texts. But maybe not as basic
- Black Anarchism
- Calvin and Hobbes Guide to Daily Life
- Capitalism and the Mystique of the Local (low toner version)
- The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day
- We Are All Very Anxious (Not the most well written, but interesting ideas)
- What They Mean When They Say Peace & The Making of “Outside Agitators” (low toner version)
- What to the slave is the 4th of July (low toner version)
- Whatever You Do, Don’t Talk to the Police
Expanded Theory and Resources
These are written more for people already involved and familiar with anarchist/radical thinking.
- Activists Guide to Information Security (low toner version)
- Breaking with Consensus Reality: from the politics of consent to the seduction of revolution (low toner version)
- But We Don’t Have Leaders: Leadership Development and Anti-Authoritarian Organizing
- Talking to the Media: A Guide for Anarchists
- Tough Mind Soft Heart (low toner version)
- What Is Security Culture?
- Why Misogynists Make Great Informants (low toner version)