Zine Cataloguing Parties
The Anchor Archive is hosting Zine Cataloguing Parties on the first Monday of every month in 2025 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, starting January 6th.
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The Anchor Archive and Radstorm are fundraising to buy the building we're currently in so we have a permanent home! We have the opportunity to buy our building for a great price from our supportive landlords.
Skyrocketing real estate prices in Halifax leave non-profit arts and community spaces like the Anchor Archive at risk of losing our building due to rising rents. We know this too well after having to move 3 times in the last 10 years.
Underground Music Fanzines from the Late 1980s - Early 90s
Zine about photocopied, self-published hardcore and metal music 'zines in the late 1980s and early 90s. This booklet includes a 200 word essay and full and quarter page reproductions of cover art from 33 'zines from this period.
Cockroach #13: The creative issue
Issue #213 of serial Cockroach zine.
After the Crest, Pt. IV: Montreal — Peaks and Precipices
Personal reflection on anarchist participation in the 2012 student strike in Montreal, Quebec.
Food Boys
"If you ever go through a break up, and you are feeling depressed, just look through FOOD BOYS, find the description of the boy you just broke up with, and eat that food to make you feel better."
Small Town Organizing for Anarchists
How-to guide on anarchist organizing in small towns.
The Right to Be Lazy
Contains the essay "The Right to Be Lazy" (1883) by French revolutionary and Marxist journalist Paul Lafargue.
In the essay Lafargue opposes the labour movement's fight to expand wage labour rather than abolish or at least limit it. Lafargue proposes the right to be lazy, in contrast to the right to work, which he deems bourgeois.
In the essay Lafargue opposes the labour movement's fight to expand wage labour rather than abolish or at least limit it. Lafargue proposes the right to be lazy, in contrast to the right to work, which he deems bourgeois.
Accounting for Ourselves
I. Introduction -- Getting started -- Gender frameworks -- Restorative and transformative justice // 2. Where We're At -- Anarchist community accountability: Recent history and the current state of things -- Ten pitfalls of community accountability process // 3. New directions and further questions -- Direction 1: Survivor-led vigilantism -- Direction 2: Prevention through gender-based organizing -- Direction 3: Not accountability, but conflict resolution -- Direction 4: Concentric circles of affinity // Appendix -- Works cited -- Resources list
Carnage
The Cookzine for the formally vegetarian. Recipes and cooking techniques for former vegetarians.
Zola: Street Art & Contention 2016-2022
A zine about making political street art to support activist movements and projects.
Mapping Our Madness: a workbook for navigating crisis, extreme states, or just foul moods
"This is a toolbox to keep near you, so in the event that you’re in a crisis situation or experiencing some intense emotions, you’ll have some of the tools that you (or the folks around you) need to help you take care of yourself."
Climate Change or Revolution
From urbanism to imperialism: Montreal and Canada at the heart of the climate crisis
Habanera
Quarter-page mixed media art zine drawn in a manga style, depicting various romantic scenes between two characters (Tadashi & Ainosuke) from the anime "SK∞ the Infinity" paired with English lyrics from the aria Habanera by George Bizel.