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Cindy Barukh Milstein
@cbmilstein.bsky.social
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Misfit. Wordsmith. Dreamer. Rebel. 
Never at home in this world, so always aspiring to make new ones with others, with love, care & solidarity. 

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Anarchist Public Service Announcement #4

It was written for an earlier No Kings rally, but might be helpful for the ones tmrw, which should at least be renamed “No Fascists” aka “We Are All Antifascists”!
ANARCHIST PUBLIC SERVICE, pt 4 If you go to “No Kings” rallies today, no doubt it will be all you can do—as an anarchist who believes deeply in liberatory practices and politics—to maintain your cool when faced with both liberals’ and authoritarians’ lack of solidarity. Go with other anarchists and be each other’s support system, and debrief (rant, cry, laugh, and/or chill) afterward. But also go as “friendly anarchist factions” to model what solidarity actually looks like—even if too many nonanarchistic folks don’t yet know what that feels like or how to do it. I always wish that people didn’t need to be, say, tear gassed or arrested to learn that ACAB isn’t just a slogan, and that anarchists will almost certainly be the ones to have their backs. But such is the wearisome “learning curve,” and the more folks who see beloved community self-defense modeled for them, unflinchingly, on the streets, the more they’ll understand how (and why!) to stick side-by-side too—including with us. Be solidarity.
October 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Anarchist Public Service Announcement #3

It was written for an earlier No Kings rally, but might be helpful for the ones tmrw, which should at least be renamed “No Fascists” aka “We Are All Antifascists”!
ANARCHIST PUBLIC SERVICE, pt 3 Back in the day, ahead of a big protest, anarchists set up “convergence centers”: big, scrappy, communal spaces where folks could not only find each other, make and eat food, plug into art and media making, etc. in the days before an (often direct) action based on a wide-ranging diversity of tactics—under an umbrella name like “Carnival against Capitalism” or “No Olympics on Stolen Native Lands”—but also skill up together. There’s no time to do this before the poorly named “No Kings” (aka, it’s fascism) protests tmrw. Yet you could easily do pop-up skill shares. So many “newbies” are open to learning and eager for alternatives! Remake the urban landscape into temporary autonomous “classrooms.” Use public furniture or gathering spots, or bring blankets or chairs to sit on. Write the skill share topic on cardboard and display it. Run around and announce skill shares as they start. Bored protesters waiting for a march to begin or tired of listening to rally speeches make great participants. Circle up and start passing along handy skills—say, how to help each other rinse tear gas out of eyes or turn a T-shirt into a mask (over your N95), or how to do forms of community self-defense or jail support. Offer an Anarchism 101 or local rad history talk too. Exercise hands and minds, encouraging liberal and progressive folks to (begin to) think and act for themselves.
October 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Anarchist Public Service Announcement #2

It was written for an earlier No Kings rally, but might be helpful for the ones tmrw, which should at least be renamed “No Fascists” aka “We Are All Antifascists”!
ANARCHIST PUBLIC SERVICE, pt 2 It’s tough not to fume over the “peaceful protest” call for a “sit-down wave” at this Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies, such as one that asserts: if you see so-called infiltrators “destroy[ing] property,” “sit down and leave the provocators” standing. That’s how the self-appointed leaders of these nonprofit-corporate “ally” demos uphold a status quo that benefits them. In practice, it means anyone not falling in liberal line will get the brunt of police violence and state repression. Enough fuming. My anarcho-prefigurative self says: outorganize the “peace police”! #BeGayMakeFun! Alongside bringing many zines to gift out at these rallies: Set up carnivesque “no kings, no masters” participatory games! Bring screen-printing supplies (stencils, silk screens, or even humble potatoes carved with printable slogans) and let folks print your rebellious designs on T-shirts, patches, or cardboard! Create playful shield-making art station! Become snack faeries, carting around yummy treats in wagons to freely distro! Do some rebel street theater or radical cheerleading! Bring a queer rebel marching band or amplified music, and start a street dance! Anarchism is not just good politics; make it good fun, and when folks are drawn to you, anarchism will not only be welcoming but irresistible too. Plus, who knows, maybe you can joyfully teach people how do a “stand-up wave” against the real provocateurs (cops).
October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Anarchist Public Service Announcement #1

It was written for an earlier No Kings rally, but might be helpful for the ones tmrw, which should at least be renamed “No Fascists” aka “We Are All Antifascists”!
ANARCHIST PUBLIC SERVICE: I know it’s no fun to go to liberal-progressive rallies, but thousands of newbies and/or newly awakened folks will be at this Saturday’s “No Kings” protest. Don’t let the nonprofit “ally” complex siphon off the genuine energy of those seeking social transformation—those who don’t yet know that, for instance, “police are not our friends” or “solidarity is our best weapon.” Instead, print thousands of zines that allow people to “educate themselves in freedom,” especially accessible ones that include rebellious ideas and do-it-ourselves practices! Take those zines to rallies. Walk around and freely gift them to people! From personal experience, I know that a single zine can change many hearts and minds—and create “accomplices” now willing to experiment with anarchistic forms of street militancy, from varied types of community self-defense to myriad types of collective care and mutual aid.
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE AUTUMN EDITION OF THE MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR? If you’d like to offer some helping paws before and/or during October 18, we’d love to have you join us! Email us at info@salonanarchiste.ca

(Art : Akira Auger @akira_auger_art)
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair returns this year on October 18 for a one-day event under the theme “Preparing for the Darkness: Taking Care of Each Other for the Times to Come.” Stay tuned for more details soon!

Artwork : Akira Auger @akira_auger_art
Layout: Alexandre Gauthier @alex.e.gauthier
September 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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ANARCHIST PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Here’s one reason, among many, that you, dear liberal whose eyes have recently been opened, should turn toward anarchism, as overheard today from a random progressive activist in the States talking to a friend. He observed that despite all of …

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Photo: close-up of a stunning purple-and-pink autumn flower as seen on a #FuckFascism walk on gorgeous yet stolen Ho-Chunk lands
September 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Read/print my latest zine containing 19 voices on “antifascist grief”: “The Heart Is a Muscle”

Big thx to @igd.bsky.social for kindly sharing the zine and PDFs!

itsgoingdown.org/the-heart-is...
September 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Call for contributions to the next curated zine in my “series” aimed at countering this christofascist era:

“The Heart Is a Muscle:
Embodiments of Antifascist Grief”

Length: approx. 75 to 250 words
Due: by or before August 14
Email: cbmilstein [at] yahoo
August 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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July 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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July 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Favor:

Can some kind person with a printer make a lovely copy of my newest curated zine, “Everyday Antifascism,” and take a gorgeous photo of it, which I can then use on social media so as to freely and widely share the zine in PDF form?

If you’re able to do that, DM me for the PDF!

🖤🩷🌿
July 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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FREE to rad reading groups & Books thru Bars projects:

I’m gifting batches of 5-6 copies of “Deciding for Ourselves” to US-based reading groups & prisoner soli efforts. FREE, save for $10 to mail!

Book descrip: www.akpress.org/deciding-for...

Email me (cbmilstein at yahoo)

#BecomeSelfGovernable
July 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I’m still seeking concrete & inspiring stories (75 to 250 words) of present-day “Everyday Antifascism: Ways That Solidarity Keeps Us Safer” for my next curated zine!

Direct actions! Neighborly support! Cultural or educational efforts!

Email submissions ASAP to me at cbmilstein at yahoo.
June 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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What better time than during fascism to read about real-life examples of self-governance?

I’m gifting batches of 5-6 copies of “Deciding for Ourselves” to US-based reading groups (FREE, except for $10 in shipping, while supplies lasts)!

DM or email me (cbmilstein at yahoo)

#BecomeSelfGovernable
Image of the book’s cover, with a photo of a popular assembly overlaid in bright purple-red-orange) and a quote from the intro about the promise of direct democracy
June 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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June 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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“I propose that the kind of hope we need is not that things will get better but rather the commitment to finding meaning and connection and beauty all around us.”

“I don’t know what that future is going to look like, but I know you’re not going to face it alone.

www.scarleteen.com/read/culture...
June 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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A poetic-prose zine aimed at queering & “trans”forming love!

DM me your email for free PDFs of this & other recent zines of mine.

(Big thx to @oneironaut17.bsky.social
for these two “shades of love” photos)

#FallInLoveNotInLine
Zine, with weeping willow art on cover, set against green leaves
June 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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See full post on my IG @cindymilstein or at kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...
June 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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New zine ready to go, but first I need some mutual aid:

If you’re a good photographer & have a printer, can you printer & photograph this zine for me—& send me the pix to use in plugging it?

DM me, if so!

#FallInLoveNotInLove
Drawing of a willow tree and lettering of zine title “Shades of Love”
June 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Liberal “sit-down” and abandon others (lefthand image) versus anarchist waves of solidarity (righthand image) for Saturday’s “No Kings” protests.

#WhichSideAreYouOn
#SideBySide
#AllComradesAreBeautiful
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon

(If anyone has the text versions of these, paste them below!)
June 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Relevant, alas, all over again w/each new uprising in the States: “An ethical compass & militant map. … Thirteen essays that take aim at the role of ‘ally’ politics & ‘peace police’ in demobilizing rebellions against hierarchical power … [like] the violence of policing.”

archive.org/details/isbn...
June 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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While folks keep debating whether something that Trump is doing is legal or not, his militarized forces implement his directives. Fascists care not a whit for law (or order, other than an authoritarian one).

Practice love and solidarity as verbs, as if our whole world depends on it.
June 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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New zine! “Ritual as Resistance: 18 Stories of Defending the Sacred.” For a longer post about it, see my IG or:

kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

For readable and print-ready PDFs to read/print/share freely, DM me your email address
Photo feature the zine’s cover [outside by a tree and some green plants], which boosts a stylized drawing of a three-headed person with plants “growing” out of their legs and a flower with a circle A coming out of one the heads, with broken chains between their legs) Photo feature the zine’s cover [outside by a tree and some green plants], which boosts a stylized drawing of a three-headed person with plants “growing” out of their legs and a flower with a circle A coming out of one the heads, with broken chains between their legs)
June 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Borderless admiration to folks in LA who are refusing to cooperate, and instead leading with acts—small and large—of solidarity, neighborliness, and love.

That’s a win. A win that the christofascism forces can never understand or take away.

#UntilAllAreFree
Pink spray paint on a grayish wall that reads “ACAB” and includes a circle A heart
June 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM