Slingshot is an independent radical newspaper published in Berkeley since 1988.
This issue was created by about 20 rotating people at The Long Haul in Berkeley — listening to proto-disco and the occasional meows of the Long Haul’s new cat, Ocean, as a soundtrack. We contemplated what it meant to be creating the paper during these long nights of autumn? Over candlelit Thai food, we foresee getting a little freaky with it in the new year. Do you?
Winter can offer the unique coziness of togetherness found through sitting around a fire or radical gathering with family / comrades / community. The world can feel so often full of brutality but it is through one another that it does not consume us. Together we can be angry, experience joy, and make plans for the future. How many ways can you act outside of the system? What thoughts can we ponder over the winter that will come to life in the spring? Many of us aspire to create more, be with people more and try new things.
You hold in your hands our collection of analysis, dreams, stories, and calls to action, illustrated and assembled by all of our hands. This is the magic of creating something together that we believe in — our collective energy and determination sends us home with more energy than when we walked in the door.
There is a sense of rejuvenation that can come out of these processes. This isn’t unique to Slingshot. We invite you to seek it out in your own communities or create it in your own lives. Go to events, host events, meet new people, attend an action, discover the shared discontent, and find ways to address it together.
These articles are written, edited, and published by a loose open collective — which really means whoever shows up to meetings and work parties. You can be one of us. We met each other through Slingshot. No two Slingshots are published by the same group. Many of us disagree with aspects of articles we publish.
Slingshot is always looking for volunteer distributors. If you can hand out papers to your friends or put a few copies into your local cafe, library, truck stop, laundromat, school or whatever, we can send you copies for free. We’re trying to reach people who’ve never stumbled across the underground press before, rather than just preaching to the choir. We’re also always seeking new writers, artists, and editors. If you send an article, please be open to its editing.
Thanks to the people who made this: Aileen, Antonio, Aws, egg, Emily, Fern, Gi, Hazel, Hank, Ishkadi, Jake, James, Jesse, Jody, Lucie, Maddy, Matteo, Nadia, Nicola, Niko, Ocean, Paula, Robin, Rosie, Seandunne, Sivan, Sirkka, Stuart, Temba, Yonce, Xóchjitl, Zoey & all the authors and artists!
Slingshot Article Submission Info
We’re not going to set a deadline for the next issue. We encourage you to submit articles for the next Slingshot anytime you want. We’ll make another issue when we feel like it. Check the Slingshot website, IndyBay, instagram and facebook for deadline info. We also have an internal email list that announces the next deadline so email if you want to be added to the list.
Volume 1, Number 144, Circulation 48,000
Printed November 13, 2026
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Circulation information
Subscriptions to Slingshot are free to prisoners, low income folks, or anyone in the USA with a Slingshot Organizer, or are $1 per issue donation. International $4 per issue. Outside the Bay Area we’ll mail you a free stack of copies if you give them out for free. Say how many copies and how long you’ll be at your address. In the Bay Area pick up copies at Long Haul & Bound Together books in SF.