Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 18:19:36 -0500 (EST)
From: (Contact address at bottom)
To: Multiple recipients of <anok4u2-list@mail.ganesa.com>
Subject: ANARCHO PUNK FEDERATION!

OK, I posted about starting up the APF a few weeks ago, and the collective I
am in (the Crasshole Collective) has finally gotten around to organizing it.
Here's a little info about it (it is a lot to read, but PLEASE read it all):

ANARCHO PUNK FEDERATION!

WHAT: Turning talk into action. The APF is an international network of
active, productive, anarcho punks.

WHY: Realistically, the anarcho punk movement is severly lacking in
sincerity, action, and solidarity. The APF networks all the active anarcho
punks together. The APF works because it is made of the dedicated anarcho
punks who are serious about creating real revolutionary change. The APF makes
anarcho punk an actual movement.

HOW: the backbone of the APF is Counter Culture, which is a quarterly listing
of APF contacts.

WHERE: The APF is a world wide federation of anarcho punks.

As it stands now, our plan of action for the Anarcho Punk Federation is
basically to unify (while still having seperate identities) the active
anarcho punk community, in order to make ourselves a more productive
movement. The APF will be a loosely organized network. This means everyone
will be working independently under the same banner. 

What follows are our ideas to make the APF happen. If you have any
suggestions, please write!

COUNTER CULTURE

Serving as the main networking tool of the APF will be a quarterly resource
guide (Counter Culture). Basically it will be a smaller, more focused
(anarcho) version of Book Your Own Fucking Life. It will consist of listings
of anarchist oriented collectives, bands, zines, distros, people who book
shows, etc. This will make it easier for bands who want to tour, zines
looking for distribution, etc. If you would like a listing in Counter Culture
send a detailed description of what it is you are involved with, and an
address. Counter Culture will also be the newsletter of the APF. Before
putting out each issue, we will get in touch with all the central contacts to
find out what's going on in their area. So when someone is going to organize
a protest or similiar event, everyone who knows and can attend or plan
something to coincide in their area.

ANARCHO PUNK FEDERATION NETWORKING PROPOSAL

Basically, our general idea is to have centrral contacts in each state or
country that would all keep in close (or relatively close) contact. These
groups, in turn, would keep up with and dissiminate information to local
contacts, kind of like a phone tree. For instance, a master copy of Counter
Culture could be sent out to a few central contacts in each state or country
who would take care of mailing it out and distributing it in their area. This
could also work the other way in that if there is something that happens that
one APF contact is protesting, the issue could be taken a huge step further
by being protested world wide by all the central and local contacts. (Making
anarcho punk a threat again------sound familiar)
Along with all of that solid networking is good because the word gets out
farther and easier for larger projects people may be working on and for the
simple fact that it ties us closer together as a movement........
Obne last thing that kind of fits in here is local networking. Something the
Crasshole Collective has been doing for a few months is organizing monthly
meetings to get the active parts of our scene together to keep up with
individual projects and to work on bigger things that we can't accomplish
alone. It would be great if this or something like it could happen everywhere
so that we are always current on things and not dealing with old news.

FUTURE PLANS FOR THE APF?

Assuming everything goes as expected, these are some ideas for the future:

Regional gatherings
Multi-band APF sponsered tours
International days of protest

GET INVOLVED

If you're involved in an anarcho punk collective, zine, distro, book shows,
band or anything else productive send a listing (i.e. 3-4 sentences on your
project plus an address or phone #) for Counter Culture. You'll than be
placed on a mailing list recieve it as it comes out. If you want to be a
primary contact in your area let us know. If you just want a copy of Counter
Culture send a SASE.

To get in touch, either e-mail svysotsk@lynx.neu.edu, Seditous@aol.com,
DURRUTI36@aol.com or write:

APF
P.O. BOX 73
ODENTON, MD 21113

Cheers, and thanx for reading this!



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