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Manifesto
Activist zine in black. Loud type, ideological, urgent.
manifesto
Ten Rules for Making Small Things Well
Ten short rules pinned above our cutting table, for anyone who makes leaflets, pamphlets, posters or anything else small enough to finish. Print it, pin it, argue with it.
libraries
An Hour Nobody Owns
A thought experiment about one unprogrammed hour a week in a public library: no event, no target, no agenda. What a building does when it is simply allowed to be open.
minutes
Keeping the Minutes at Larkin Court
A small residents' association in an invented city learns that a good record outlasts a good argument. How a plain notebook, a fixed format and one rule about initials keep a group honest.
Leaflets in One Colour
One ink, one sheet, one fold. What a single colour forces you to decide, and the five layout choices that make a cheap leaflet look like it was designed on purpose.
petition
Write the Petition Nobody Can Misread
A good petition is a piece of plain writing before it is anything else. One ask, one reader, one date: how to word a request so that nobody has to guess what a signature means.
meetings
A Meeting That Ends on Time
Most meetings run long because nobody decided what they were for. Six small moves from the Ostmere zine table that bring a room to a stop at the hour it promised.