#infoshops

Many hands make light work. Slingshot needs help mailing out 12,000 copies of the new issue. 2,000 are indivdual subscriptions – many to prisoners, so if you like prisoner support, this is a very tangible way to help prisoners. Plus meet people and talk about stuff. Drop by any time for part or all of the mailing. PLEASE BRING RUBBER BANDS if you have any.

Note:  there are also still a few copies of the 2016 organizer available so let us know if you want to order some. (Selling the organizer funds us distributing the newspaper for free.)

The deadline for issue #121 was Saturday.  8 or so people read the articles over the weekend and tonight met and sorted the articles to figure out which needed revisions (see below.) At the end of the meeting we decided that the collection of articles is pretty weak and so we would like to find A FEW really GOOD last minute articles so long as they are turned in by Thursday night at 8 pm.  Ask your friends!! Last minute articles that will be most helpful would be: --TOPICAL / covering a future or current struggle or issue --INSPIRATIONAL or analytical -- going beyond a list of problems and complaints but rather sketching opportunities for struggle, organizing, resistance, alternative ways of thinking, living or being --well written, organized, focused, not extremely long, not just a rant, not just a blow-by-blow of something that happened, coherent, not filler or side dishes but main courses -- possible for front page Following are possible TOPICS that we're currently missing that would make the issue better. --Rojava --recent police killings --Alex Nieto trial and protests --"why are sports so emotionally engaging while resisting the system that's killing us is ignored" --radical stuff on campuses like campaigns re: sexual harassment and divestment --BLM update --climate change resistance --rise of racism / anti-immigrant / anti-Muslim and responses --gentrification resistance aside from squatting (we have articles on squatting) --migrant crisis in Europe Note:  If you wrote an article and we're asking for a revision, the revision is due by Thursday at 8 pm

Just kidding!  But seriously, unless you want Slingshot #121 and/or the 2017 Organizers to look like games of Telephone Pictionary, please hit us up!

Excerpt from Shelter:  A Squatumentary.  Our comrades from East Bay Homes Not Jails will be showing this and possibly more squatting films at the Long Haul Infoshop Thursday March 17th, at 8PM.  3124 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley.

To read more about Hellarity, please check our website:

http://slingshot.tao.ca/?p=97020

and/or

The nice folks from the political comics project, adastracomix, swung by the Long Haul Infoshop today!  To learn more: