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Slingshot Collective publishes an independent radical newspaper and the annual Slingshot Organizer
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10/02/2026

You're invited to a kick-off meeting to create Slingshot issue #145 (fall, 2026?) - Sunday October 4 at 6 pm at Long Haul 3124 Shattuck, Berkeley
- tell a friend.
The October 4 meeting will set an article deadline / schedule for the issue and brainstorm article topics.
You don't have to be at the October 4 meeting to participate in issue #145 - there will be a weekend of editing and an art party - dates to be determined.
You can send articles anytime before the deadline / please invite your skilled-author friends to send us articles. Email doc attachments to "Slingshotcollective.
At ProtonMail Dot com"
Slingshot needs a few core editors to follow the process through - just a handful of people make an issue happen.

09/01/2026

Here's pictures of the 2027 organizer. We will be sending them to independent bookstores, radical projects, co-ops and distributors in September and October. Slingshot is an all-volunteer project - we don't have enough volunteers to do retail distribution ourselves. See your local brick and mortar spot or one of the mail-order distributors listed on our website - Slingshotcollective.org. If you are a store, etc., and want to order wholesale, please order from Ak Press, Buy Olympia, Microcosm or Small Changes in the US or Kersplebedeb in Canada, unless you are in the Bay Area or in any country other than the US or Canada, in which please email us at “ Slingshotcollective at ProtonMail dot com “.
There are 16 colors in three types: classic pocket style, pocket size with a spiral binding, and a desk calendar with a spiral binding.
Here's this year's names of the colors:
Acorn squash the state (dark orange)
Anti-establishMINT
Beatnik (burgundy with silver ink)
Black Lives Matter (with silver ink)
Food Not Lawns (regular green)
Grape boycott
Grassroots (olive green)
Lavender menace
Mellow Yellow
Orange you glad this isn't an iphone
Pink Triangle
P***o (hot pink)
Red Emma
Stone Butch Blue
Sunrise Movement (bright yellow)
Teleology

03/24/2026

Email Slingshot if you want to help make the 2027 Organizer: "slingshotcollective at protonmail dot com". You don't have to be in the SF Bay Area to participate. Please don't respond on IG - it is not secure and we don't keep track of stuff on IG.
-- if you want to draw a 4-week section or a month-at-a glance calendar, let us know whether you prefer pocket or spiral and which month if you care. Templates will go out via snail mail April 20 and are due back via snail mail Friday, May 22. All art must be hand-drawn and original.
-- from now until April 15 you can suggest new historical dates and help edit/revise the old ones.
-- If you have changes or additions for the radical contact list, please send them anytime before May 22. Slingshot is looking for help contacting all the existing contacts between April 21 - May 22 and especially international contacts if you speak other languages.
-- If you have ideas for features for the back of the organizer, please email or just go ahead and write the feature - due May 22.
-- Send cover art submissions by May 22.
* The ART PARTY to make the 2027 organizer will be Saturday May 30 noon - late & May 31 from 10 am - 7 pm at Long Haul 3124 Shattuck, Berkeley. Drop by for an hour or all day.

02/25/2026

Help mail the new Slingshot Issue #144 Sunday March 1 - 1:30 pm – 9 pm, Sat. Feb. 28 10:30-1:30, plus other times.

Slingshot printed an absurd 48,000 copies of issue #144, which is the most we've ever printed -- mailing out that many copies is a ridiculously large amount of grunt work, so Slingshot is counting on an unruly MOB of people pitching in a few hours over the next few weeks to get it all done -- tell your friends ---> "It's more fun than it sounds"

*Sunday March 1 - 1:30 pm – 9 pm *

Saturday, Feb. 28 from 10:30 - 1:30 (and maybe longer if someone volunteers to keep it open after 1:30 -- seeking help)

-and-

March 8 - 4-9 pm

@ the Long Haul Infoshop 3124 Shattuck Ave. • Berkeley - just drop in and stay an hour or 2 hours or as long as you like.

---> if you're available other times let us know and we'll get you set up -- if you cannot come to the mailing parties but want to help stuff envelopes at your home, email back

Slingshot is looking for just a few volunteers to pack hundreds of boxes of papers the afternoon of Friday February 27 anytime noon - 5. Please RSVP

BONUS materials

1. Slingshot is seeking volunteers to type prisoner addresses into the mailing list by March 7 - due to tech issues, this has to happen at the long haul - hours are flexible.

2. If you know of people who want to be volunteer distributors and get papers mailed to them, have them send an email by 7 pm Feb. 28 to "slingshotcollective at protonmail dot com" with their
- snail mail address
- how many copies they want (8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 55, 100 or 175 copies)
- if they want to get future issues, how long they will be at that address

3. if you know of people who want just 1 copy sent to them, have them send us the full snail mail address before March 7 at 5 pm and how long they will be at the address.

4. if you want to distribute copies on a road trip or around town, there's will be copies at the long haul by Friday afternoon.

5. Slingshot is seeking 1-2 volunteers to help unload the truck (48,000 copies!) Friday February 27 - time unknown - we'll text you 15 minutes before the truck arrives.

6. Slingshot is looking for a person with a car to get mailing supplies from the bulk mailing center in West Oakland between the hours of 11 - 7 pm before Friday Feb. 27 --

7. Slingshot is looking for a person to deliver bundles of papers in San Francisco to Bound Together, Adobe, Medicine for nightmares, Rainbow Grocery and a few other spots anytime on or after February 27

8. Slingshot is looking for drivers to take the bulk mailing to the West Oakland bulk mailing facility next week between the hours of 11 - 7 pm

9. Slingshot's 38th birthday (!) is March 9 - there will be some kind of a lower-key party at Long Haul March 8 in conjunction with the mailing -- there's 3 bands playing that night already plus a poetry reading so even if you hate Slingshot, drop by it will be a fun evening.

02/21/2026

Join the art party to make Slingshot #144 this weekend Feb. 21/22 / Sat.Sun. noon - late Saturday -- 10 am - 8 pm Sunday (meeting to look over pages and pick cover Sunday around 8 pm )- Tell a friend.

You don't have to be an artist -- there's editing, proofreading, headline writing, being DJ...

The articles are good -- if you've been missing the Long Haul and want to meet some new folks and spend time doing something nourishing, creative, fun and exciting, drop by.

p.s. it's especially helpful for folks to come during the daytime hours when there's less people and more space vs. everyone showing up at 8 pm

SLINGSHOT LAST MINUTE NEEDS

---->We need back cover art / an idea
----> seeking heartfelt full-color cover art by Sunday afternoon.
----> If you live near an office supply store or an art supply store and can get some supplies before Saturday morning, we need 1 reed 24 lb. paper (which is thicker than usual paper) and 1 box of ultra thin sharpies - we will reimburse.
----> - if you have time to proofread a few articles Saturday before 3 pm drop by or email back.

BONUS:
-----> Help us with MAILING the next 3 weekends. we-re going to print more than 40,000 copies and mailing all those papers is a giant project - times TBA
----> We need help getting supplies for the mailing from the bulk mailing center next week
-----> PRISONER MAIL there is a box of hundreds of prisoner letters that needs to have their addresses typed into a database so they can get a free issue - for logistical reasons you need to be in the Bay Area - help an inmate out
---- > we're making a calendar - send calendar items by Saturday at 5 pm
----> THE 'B" ON OUR KEYBOARD ISN'T WORKING RIGHT -- GIVE US A NEW KEYBOARD.

TELL A FRIEND - INVITE FOLKS TO THIS PARTY!!!

THERE'S A PUNK SHOW AT LONG HAUL SATURDAY NIGHT, SO DOUBLE ACTION

01/27/2026

There was a world record 21 people at a meeting to kick off work on slingshot Issue #144
—If you or someone you know can write an article for the next issue of Slingshot, email it as an attachment by Feb. 7 - write about stuff you're involved with, know about, or are passionate about (slingshotcollective at protonmail dot com). We can email you a list of topics we want to include, but if you're ready to live in a new world organized around life, sustainability, kindness, cooperation, abundance, sharing and love that transcends this capitalist, authoritarian, colonialist bu****it, you probably know what to write. We're also seeking full color, hand-created cover art.
—>The art party to make the issue will be Feb. 21/22.
3124 Shattuck, Berkeley. Join us. Being together working collectively and by hand on paper in these times is both essential and thrilling.
-—Invite your friends.

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3124 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA
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https://slingshotcollective.org/

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