https://slingshotcollective.org/

Slingshot Collective, 3124 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA (2026)

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.

10/10/2025

Join the art party to make Slingshot #143 this weekend Oct. 11/12 / Sat.Sun. 10 am both days until late Saturday and until 8 pm Sunday - Tell a friend.

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

if you want to meet some new folks and spend time doing something nourishing, creative, fun and exciting, drop by.

We're seeking a flier for the back cover covering an urgently needed skill like "how to respond to a military occupation of your city" or "how to organize a group to track ICE and alert neighbors"

Second choice for back cover would be an illustrated slogan - send us your suggested slogan for these times

We're also seeking heartfelt full-color cover art by Sunday afternoon.

09/10/2025

Send an article for the next issue of Slingshot zine (newspaper) - to be published in October. Tell a friend. The Art party to make the issue will be October 11 and 12. Many radical topics are of interest -- what are we going to do when the National Guard occupies Oakland (or your town anywhere)? how can we avoid overwhelm and isolation in these times? what can people do to push back? general strike? let's stop doing what we're supposed to be doing. the empire is collapsing --> what can we put in its place. Also: economics, environment, labor, identity, DIY, anti-represssion, resistance, etc. — Slingshot suggests you write about stuff you’re involved with, know about, or are passionate about. Because Slingshot only comes out every 6 months and it takes a while for an article to go from the author to getting distributed, the best Slingshot articles are analysis, not news updates. See our website for article writing tips.

08/24/2025

Here's pictures of the 2026 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. 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:
Pink Triangle.
P***o (hot pink)
Beatnik (silver ink)
Red Emma
Grassroots (olive green)
Teleology
Food Not Lawns (regular green)
Anti-establishMINT
Stone Butch Blue
Black Lives Matter (silver ink)
Sunrise Movement (bright yellow)
Grape boycottPink Triangle
P***o (hot pink)
Beatnik (silver ink)
Red Emma
Grassroots (olive green)
Teleology
Food Not Lawns (regular green)
Anti-establishMINT
Stone Butch Blue
Black Lives Matter (silver ink)
Sunrise Movement (bright yellow)
Grape boycott
Forevergreen (silver ink)
Orange you glad this isn't an iphone
Lavender menace
Bourgeois blues (silver ink)
Forevergreen (silver ink)
Orange you glad this isn't an iphone
Lavender menace
Bourgeois blues (silver ink)

03/07/2025

Help Mail slingshot issue #142 part II
This Sunday March 9 - 4 pm – 9 pm.
@ the Long Haul Infoshop 3124 Shattuck Ave. • Berkeley
Help mail to 1,500 subscribers and prisoner.

Sunday is also Slingshot's 37th birthday (founded March 9, 1988) - there's no party planned but if the mailing gets done in time there might be something spontaneous.

BONUS materials

1. if you know of people who want to be volunteer distributors, have them send an email to "slingshotcollective at protonmail dot com" with their
- snail mail address
- how many copies they want
- if they want to get future issues, how long they will be at that address

2. if you know of people who want just 1 copy sent to them, have them contact us before Saturday at 5 pm.

3. If anyone has interest in typing prisoner addresses into the mailing list, there is a fat stack of letters from imprisoned people.

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

5. Work on the 2026 organizer starts after the mailing gets done. In March we'll be editing and improving the list of historical dates. Email by April 20 if you wan to make art. There will be art parties to put everything together the last weekend in May and the first in June.

02/25/2025

Issue 142 is out Feb. 28. If you can distribute it in your area, we will send it to you for Free! This platform is not secure. Please send an email to "slingshotcollective @ protonmail dot com" with your snail mail address and how many copies you want. We printed an extra 8,000 copies - 33,000 in all - do don't be shy. If you are in the bay area, join the mailing party Sun. March 2 - 3-9 pm - and Sat. March 1 - hours TBD - 3124 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. Probably the following weekend March 8 and 9 as well. You can come by for just an hour or stay all day. Mailing 30,000+ copies of the paper is a gigantic amount of work so many hands make lighter work. It's more fun than it sounds. We need help here...

02/06/2025

Send articles / answers to the 3 questions by noon Saturday Feb. 8 - please send them as a .doc attachment to "slingshotcollective at protonmail dot com"

*Slingshot is seeking volunteers to read and edit the articles Sunday noon - 6 at 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley followed by a meeting 6-9 to decide which articles need more work. Join us!

The art party is likely to be Feb. 22/23 - to be determined at the meeting Sunday - watch this space for info.

Bonus info:
-- There's a giant pile of prisoner mail that needs to be typed into the mailing database - email if you have time to help.
-- Save the date: Slingshot's 37th birthday party will be Sunday, March 9 from 7- 10 pm

01/31/2025

Consider writing a short 100 word first-person response to one of these 3 questions -- we want to print a collection of short responses to reinforce that none of us are alone. Please include a pen name and which city you're in.

"what are you doing to organize with those in your community to promote liberation"

"what visions of a new world can you articulate that can move the conversation beyond reacting to our oppressors"

"what keeps you present, engaged and able to keep struggling for a better world?"

* This platform is not secure so send emails to "slingshotcollective [at] protonmail dot com."

Slingshot wants to publish an extra visionary / inspiring issue existing at the same time as and parallel to recent events without getting caught up in all of the details of each new yuck and rather speaking to the mood - which for some people feels negative, overwhelming and hostile. Possible theme - "a beacon of light / message in a bottle". Slingshot usually prints 24,000 copies and mails them to all 50 states. If the zine turns out good, we may print 30,000 responding to increased demand.

We're also looking for focused / heart-filled / articles addressing:
-- practical tips for grassroots immigrant defense and first hand accounts of community organizing and resilience.
-- first person expressions of trans defiance and existence
-- tales of how folks are responding to attacks on reproductive rights / abortion
-- practical guides to the psychology of resistance / how to avoid overwhelm, exhaustion, fear and paralysis
-- general analytical critiques of the billionaire bro oligarchy white supremacy
-- eco-direct action and how communities are defending the earth and the climate
-- and related topics -- emphasis on analysis promoting unique and deeper understanding not just repeating news or the typical progressive line -- expressed in a personal, funny, passionate way if you can.

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