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.
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.