Sanchez was first indicted in October on charges of “corruptly concealing a document or record” as a standalone case, but the new indictment merges his charges with those against the other defendants, likely in hopes of burying the First Amendment problems with the case against him under prosecutors’ claims about the alleged shooting.
It’s an escalation of a familiar tactic. In 2023, Georgia prosecutors listed “zine” distribution as part of the conspiracy charges against 61 Stop Cop City protesters in a sprawling RICO indictment that didn’t bother to explain how each individual defendant was involved in any actual crime. I wrote back then about my concern that this wasn’t just sloppy overreach, but also a blueprint for censorship. Those fears have now been validated by Sanchez’s prosecution solely for possessing similar literature.
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Lovely, we’re doing this again.
The 90s kid in me is still trying to understand what a zine really is, Mr Man
Magazine. But specifically an independent, usually locally distributed, one.
It’s like l know what they are, but don’t really know, ya know?
Edit: like is this a zine?
Not knowing how it was made, I would say no.
That looks like it was from a Cracker Jack box, so it wasn’t made independently.
It literally is cracker jack lol
What about, like, pre-corporate cracker jack, though
And may I propose an Anarcho-cracker (lmao) jack?
A zine is mainly limited to non commercial publications, thus “independent.” This would be advertising material.
Pre-corporate Cracker Jack was still a profit-seeking company, so anything they produced wouldn’t really be a “zine.”
If someone took the name “Cracker Jack,” repurposed it into their own thing that wasn’t advertising Cracker Jack, and then published it, then yes, anarcho-cracker Jack can be a zine.
As a tangential example, see an early phone hacker who became famous under the pseudonym Captain Crunch.
Wow, 10/10, thanks for actually indulging me lol
I guess I’ve always had a bad grasp on what makes something “indie”/independent in production… I’m just too philosophical most of the time. With the anti-capital aspect, non-commercial sounds like a good synonym.
Ah man I definitely got rid of all my cool anarchist zines years ago!
You could probably sniff out the ink on old copies of Fighting for our Lives.
A deep dive research task right after I took my Adderall? Don’t mind if I do.
It’s a bit older than it implies as well!
Fifteen years ago, we published a paper introducing anarchism to the general public as a total way of being, at once adventurous and accessible.
I’m certain I got one of these at a local punk show in 2002 or 2003.
I also thought their book Days of War, Nights of Love was cool.
First they take our cookbook, and now they want our 'zines?!
I saw the cookbook posted just like the other day
I actually wonder if that book is legitimatly illegal or not cuz, yeah. I can totally find it online. That’s how I know it exists! 🤣
I am old enough to remember when its existence was thought of as an urban myth.
It’s heavily revised, usually.
I got my first copy on dot matrix printer paper.
