At long last, the latest zine in my series related to “everyday antifascism” has sprouted: “Pandemic Care Without States: 12 Prefigurative Practices in Supplying Well-Being from Below.” And as usual, it’s a labor of love, but also a political intervention and, I trust, source of inspiration. Moreover, it’s yours to freely read, print, and distro in both readable and print-ready formats. DM me an email address — or better yet, send it to me via cbmilstein (at) yahoo — and I’ll gladly send you this zine and previous ones in this series.

Here’s an excerpt from my intro:

“From a grumpy anarchist perspective, it’s disturbing, to say the least, how ‘the fog of mass forgetting’ (as my friend @kit__bla dubs it) has blanketed too many within our own spheres. We anarchists, cultivators of the beautiful idea, should know and do better — far better. Sadly, that so many anarchists have ‘moved on’ has been a profound source of sorrow and rage among those of their fellows — such as the voices within this zine — who still aspire to practice ‘well-being from below.’ Moreover, when COVID-19 first hit, we could and should have been far more imaginative in terms of filling the statist vacuum; such a missed opportunity still eats away at my heart, including in terms of how that gap allowed fascists to leap in, leveraging the pandemic to their own deadly ends.

“Yet from an affable anarchist stance — my belief in always illuminating our messy beautiful experiments, meaning what we actually do well, day in and day out — this zine supplies varied glimpses of how anarchists did and are still trying to embody, even if modestly, ‘pandemic care without states.’ The stories spotlight the ways that some anarchists took up the challenge and ran with it, never forgetting — indeed, instead remembering — that love and solidarity are verbs, and our task is to dream up and enact liberatory visions, even if hard or inconvenient.”

(Photo: by me while wandering the sunny-springlike streets of Vienna. Thanks to all who sent me pieces, the contributors in this zine, @biglukethomas for the cover art (borrowed from the free graphics at @justseeds), and my friend Jonathan, who turned my layout+design into a printable PDF.)