The recording from the talk our comrade gave in informal organization at Pipsqueak in Seattle back on Feb 9th, 2025.

This serves as a 101 introduction to the ideas of informal organization and the orientation toward insurrection and social revolution. If you are familliar with these ideas already, you may not get a whole lot out of it. It was also an experiment in different ways of sharing knowledge and an attempt to sharpen the skills of spoken word.

The new schedule for the next couple of weeks of the open anarchist study group has dropped!

6PM-7:30PM! At The Mortuary! Email us for the address.

🚨Masks Required & Provided!🚨

This Sunday (03/23) we will begin reading Lasers In The Tear Gas: A Guide To Tactics In Hong Kong

After which we will be watching videos from uprisings, riots and attacks to analyze them. Email us your favorite clips to be added to the play list!

This sunday! 6PM-7:30PM @ The Mortuary.

Masks Required and Provided!

The anarchist study group movie watching of Fell In Love With Fire about the 2019 uprising in Chile is doubling as a fundraise for anarchist prisoner Monica Cabellero who is currently held captive in a 12 year sentence by the chilean state. The fundsraising is part of an international call to support her cost of living expenses and to be able to continue her studies in prison.

Just an update, this Sunday, Feb 9th, there won’t be study group because we will be in Duwamish (so-called seattle) for our comrade’s talk on Informal Organization in Seattle! See flyer below.

For people in St’cas (so called olympia) we would encourage you to go to this event in the same general timeslot which is a letter writing and info share event for Hakiym Shair, a black incarcerated fire fighter in Oregon. 4PM-8PM @ The Mortuary. Free Hakiym! Fire To The Prisons!

This Sunday (01/26) in the open anarchist study group we are having an open conversation on the topics of: How do we organize and socially reproduce ourselves without social media? More broadly, how do we do so without technology and reliance on enemy infrastructure?

6PM-7:30PM! At The Mortuary! Email us for the address.

🚨Masks Required & Provided!🚨

Coming up one of our comrades is giving an introductory talk on Informal Organization - what is it and why have some anarchists chosen to approach the question of organization this way.

They are hoping to offer tools and analysis for approaching organization and are not trying to convince people of a particular position - as if we want to rally people around our ideals - but hope that people come with the mindset of loot what’s useful and burn the rest.

October 7th : Interview With Leila Khaled PRINT/READ

Dispatches From Khartoum by Sudanese Anarchist Gathering PRINT/READ

Biographies of Anarchist Fighters in the Territories Dominated by the Iranian State PRINT/READ

Two Essays on Class Struggle PRINT/READ

This Sunday (12/22) in the open anarchist study group we are watching 2008: The Year of the Insurrection - an unhinged look at olympia anarchy in 2008 and the 2008 greek insurrection which inspired and continues to inspuire us.

6PM, movie starts at 6:15! At The Mortuary! Email us for the address.

🚨Masks Required & Provided!🚨

Sharing this from the Jan18Olympia instagram page - a coalition of different groups and individuals calling for a demonstration on January 18th against Trump, but against the Democratic party too.

“The People’s March, 12pm, Saturday January 18 at Heritage Park — Olympia, WA. Followed by the Festival of Resistance. All ages are welcome.

Join us on January 18 in Olympia as we march for migrant justice, a free Palestine, trans liberation, reproductive freedom, environmental defense, and a redistribution of wealth.

We’re archiving this little infomational video from @disruptwars on instagram. It’s not comprehensive but is a good starting point for people to preemptively start thinking about house raids. There’s a lot of really useful information that gets made for instagram and then is lost, this is our part in preserving it. But if you’re making information for instagram, please also make it for and send it to a counter-info website and/or make it into a zine, or if it’s video like this get an account with kolektiva.media and also upload it there. Archiving our information is crucial for all of us 6 months later.

“ANARCHY DIES IN THE MOUTH BUT LIVES IN ACTIVE HANDS” - Mauricio Morales

Saturday, November 23rd, 11:30AM-4PM

YWCA Friendship Hall, 220 Union Ave SE

Masks Required & Provided, Phones Discouraged

On Site Childcare Available

This is a space of autonomous self organization! Bring what you want to share, what you want to talk about, don’t come to be a spectator or to be told what to do. You get out of it what you put in.

Now that Archive.org is open again to uploads we can start putting out new zines, as well as fixing some missing ones in our library. We’re dropping two today, For A New Combat Position of Anarchist Insurgency which is a collection of statements on Black December, including the origional call from anarchists Nikos Romanos and Panagiotis Argirou held captive by the Greek State, as well as an anonymous call to action by “Anarchists Outside the Walls for a Black December”, and two statements by anarchist prisoners Sean Swain and Michael Kimble on the concept of Black December.

Just an update, this Sunday, 11/10 there will be no study group!

Next Sunday, 11/17 we will be combining with Oly Prisoner Letter Writing with a movie night fundraiser for them so they can buy more letter writing supplies, flyer below!

Then on the 24th we’ll be back to our regular schedule!

I was recently absent mindedly scrolling through Mike Gouldhawke’s archive, looking at various sections that caught my eye and found myself in the Collected Words for Alfredo Bonanno section where I then went to the Act For Freedom Now! Memorial piece written for Alfredo.

Toward the end was one paragraph I nearly missed, it reads;

“We would be remiss if we did not mention that it was while in the cells of Greek democracy after his arrest near Trikala city , that Alfredo Bonanno, wrote in a calm ferocity the many pages that would become the book “L’ospite inatteso“, (“The Unexpected Guest”). It was here that he revealed in intense, piercing stanzas his recollections of combat decades prior in the land known as Palestine. A struggle against torturers, massacres administered by grey men with a clockwork routine.”

Immediately I dug through the text to find the part mentioned and put it through a machine translation. It’s rough, but adequate enough to tell the story of a moment of his life in Palestine taking part in armed action against the IDF. From what I can gather, the book in its whole is a reflection on life and death and particularly what it means to be an anarchist and take a life.

I share this very rough fragment both for its thematic timeliness regarding the armed struggle against the ongoing genocide israel is carrying out against the Palestinian people, as well as the description of what it takes to organize an action many anarchists in the territories dominated by the american state would think of as a fantasy, far beyond their grasp.

I also share this with the hope someone out there with a grasp of the italian language and time to kill will see this and feel inspired to undertake the task of translating this book into english - or any other language really. Thinking seriously about the state of the world and what the struggle for total freedom asks of us all, the reflection on life, death, and what it means to take a life is - in my mind - of critical importance.

-An Individual who comprises part of Fugitive Distro

After years of complaining about the hells that are social media in particular and enemy infrastructure in general, we’ve finally taken the step to removing ourselves and our reliance on it by revamping our website to be more useful to our needs.

If you want all the technical details, check the bottom of this post, but the short version is on top of hosting our zine library (which we are now also adding poster and sticker designs to! …whenever the Internet Library, recovering from its recent hack, exits Read Only mode and lets us upload things again…) it also hosts a blog, a calendar of events, and a page dedicated to the weekly Open Anarchist Study Group.

It’s currently very bare bones design wise, but we’ll get around to making it pretty.

I want to talk about the desire and intentions for making this switch, the main one being that we want to take seriously our critiques of the existent and our desire for self organization, as well as a desire to publish a wider variety of things, to be another node in the anarchist counter-info ecosystem, and for the ability to better archive our project.