How-To Guides & Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Zines

Scroll down to find download links to the PDFs of the zines and guides. This list will be added to and updated semi-frequently.

Current Top 5 Picks:

Strong collectives are the foundation of autonomy — find out what they are, why they’re important, and how to create one: build_collectives

Learn how to break-in and liberate “vacant” buildings, to create free housing for all, from the hard-earned experience of the San Francisco Homes Not Jails actions: how-to-squat

Relatedly, discover how you and your squad can start to seize spaces through the tactic of occupying, based on occupation experiences in Cali — from Occupy the Universities school movement take-overs to Occupy Wall Street: diy_occupation_guide

Fight back against high rents through this new guide on tenant’s organizing methods put out by the Autonomous Tenants Union: tenants-tactics

Last but not least, learn how you can autonomously unionize workplaces, by building worker power without union bureaucrats: worker-power

Check out these other handy skills to pick-up:

10 Steps for Setting up a Blockade: 10-steps

How to re-decorate billboards: billboards

How to do guerrilla street art i.e. banner drops, stencils: street-art

How to run a space and do community events: building-spaces

How to start a counter-information/autonomous media/intel project:  counter-info

A field guide to wheat-paste: wheatpasting

A handbook to CopWatching by Berkeley CopWatch: Copwatch

How to create a legit cooperative: Cooperatives

How to truly organize a protest!: protest-how-to

How to throw a rager in a squatted space: squatted-party

How to do a Really Really Free Market: really_free

How to train for anti-fascist street defense: training-martial-arts