This publication has been put together by a group of friends located in the Bay Area who have been involved in some of the events chronicled within. Any lapses, exclusions or focus on this or that geographical area or campus should be attributed to the location of the editors, their affiliations and their political sensibilities.

Retrospection is always dangerous, especially in those rare moments when the future is still alive. This is not a valediction, nor is it an attempt to centralize under a singular political line actions that in fact interacted according to resonance, affiliation and friendship. The texts collected here were all anonymous, often authored collectively, and, with the exception of the introduction and conclusion, available through zines and the internet. This is a different sort of archive. We thought it worthwhile to collect in one place the wealth of writing that occurred this fall, and to provide some critical contextualization for those who were not fortunate enough to be there. This is not a celebration of the past, but an arsenal to be deployed in the immediate future.

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