The Essays that appear in the Slingshot Organizer
Note: Oy Slingshot is not good at storing computer files . . . for a few recent organizers we have some already-typed-in versions of articles we published (though not always the final version that we printed) – for the older ones, we have the paper copies but need to type them in or scan them, so please be patient. . . .2025 Organizer:
Introduction to the 2025 Organizer
Now is the time to unionize
Tips 4 dealing with the police
Building a new world in the shell of the old
Group decisions
2024 Organizer:
Introduction to the 2024 Organizer
Alternatives to calling the police
Resources to guide your choice
Don’t panic – gender is a social construct
Know your rights – tips for dealing with the police
Tips on writing to pen-pans behind the prison walls
2023 Organizer:
Introduction to the 2023 Organizer
2023 Book list – the future is unwritten
Building a new world in the shell of the old
DIY emotionally well-being tips
Abortion access for All – Self-help, mutual aid and building institutions
Live Free! Anti-corporate technology resources
2022 Organizer:
Introduction to the 2022 Organizer
Care Economics
Tips for dealing with the police
2021 Organizer:
Introduction to the 2021 Organizer
Tips for dealing with cops
Demo readiness and arrest rediness
CRAP shoot!
Collective Process
Sex can be fun
2020 Organizer:
Introduction to the 2020 Organizer
Fuck the Police: Tips for dealing with cops
System change not climate change
Leap Day Action Night is February 29, 2020
Read a Goddman Book (Radical reading list 2020)
2019 Organizer:
Introduction to the 2019 Organizer
Books for sleepless nights (2019)
Know Yr Rights 2019
Making Great Community Process After #Metoo 2019
It takes a village – being friends with parents 2019
Taking mental health back into our hands 2019
Postcards through prisoner bars 2019
2018 Organizer:
Introduction to the 2018 Organizer
Tips for dealing with the police 2018
Tips for disruption 2018
Affinity groups & action decision making 2018
I love it when you … 2018
Fuck being efficient, quick and cheap 2018
2017 Organizer:
Introduction to the 2017 Organizer
Taking down rape culture one heart at a time
Take good care of yourself – tips for wellbeing
2016 Organizer:
Introduction for 2016 organizer
“I love it when you . . .” (good sex, communication and consent)
Books That Blew Our Minds! (2016 book list)
Watching the Detective – how to Copwatch
Innertube chest harness (graphic)
Won’t you join us
2015 Organizer
Introduction for 2015 organizer
Bicycling as an act of Resistance
Practicing good consent
Harm reduction
2014 Organizer
Introduction to 2014 organizer
R@dical publications – 2014 book list
DIY tips for shutting down a bank
Please Call Again – Naming and addressing “others”
Know your rights – tips for dealing with the police
2013 Organizer
Introduction to 2013 Organizer
Talk a turn-on
Print we like – nonfiction, art/poetry, fiction/zines
Feed the radical mind – breaking into the underground press
2012 Organizer
Introduction to 2012 Organizer
Books to Read or throw at zombies
Radical poetry: beat anarchism
A short incomplete introduction to Critical Thinking
The cage of Convenience Ease is the Disease!
2011 Organizer
Introduction to 2011 Organizer
Standing still in the eyes of storms (On Burnout)
Guitar chords
What’s your sign?
Don’t chew on this – how a conscientious approach to our food can subvert the Death Industry
Read Information and Inspiration
2010 Organizer
Introduction to 2010 Organizer
A few acupressure points
I am real! If I wasn’t real, I shouldn’t be able to cry
In the name of better sex everywhere
Conspiracy Law and being true to yourself
Discovering the romance of [books]
2009 Organizer
Introduction to 2009 Organizer
False Hope Real Transformation
Tips for disruption/Affinity groups
All sewn up!
Oooh! Reading is sexy! (Book List)
Ride Slow, Talk Fast– Critical Mass
2008 Organizer
Introduction to 2008 Organizer
Slingshot sing along
Slingshot reads and so should you (Book List)
The Diggers – create the condition you describe
DIY urban hunting and gathering
Say What?
2007 Organizer
Introduction to 2007 Organizer
Sing along lil’ doggy (song lyrics to Horray for the Riff Raff)
2006 Organizer
Introduction to 2006 Organizer
Heroin/Downer overdose prevention
How to tell if you are ovulating!
When you need emergency contraception
Apocalypse Now – emergency preparedness tips
2005 Organizer
Introduction to 2005 Organizer
Relax, sweetheart! Revolution’s no rat race