Crooked River Anarchist Distro (CRAD) is an anarchist project based out of so-called Cleveland, Ohio (occupied Erie and Seneca land).
We freely distribute anarchist literature, primarily zines. We host an event page that can serve as a convenient announcement board for upcoming protests and other events.
We also distribute anarchist writings on our website, including local commentary and analysis, reportbacks, etc.
If you are interested in having CRAD table an event, host a workshop (including how-to run a Books-to-Prisoners event, a prisoner letter writing event, or making your own zine), please reach out to us at our email: crooked_river_anarchist@riseup.net.
If you have a particular text you would like to request we publish, or if you want to submit new writing or art, you can reach out to us at our email address above.
All submissions should be relevant to anarchism and the struggle for total liberation. We can make no promises about whether or not we will publish submissions, but we are certainly open to new content. We have no specific submission requests at this time; before submitting please read our statement below.
Anti-Oppression Policy Statement
While we reject “intellectual property,” we will never do anything with submitted material before getting the express approval by the creator to do so. Transparency and consent will be honored each step of the process.
We are uncompromisingly opposed to hierarchy, the State, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, heteronormativity and all expressions of gender and sex oppression; we are antifascist and we are also anti-liberal. We recognize that class war is real and all-encompassing, but it cannot be separated from staunch opposition to white supremacy and patriarchy, and all forms of hierarchy.
You can check out our Recommended Reading list on this site to get better insight into what we are saying here. In particular, we highly recommend “Anarchism and the Black Revolution” by (former-Black Panther-turned-Anarchist) Lorenzo “Komboa” Ervin, which is available for free at the Anarchist Library and other places.
(https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lorenzo-kom-boa-ervin-anarchism-and-the-black-revolution)
While CRAD has no direct affiliation with the Earth First! Journal Collective, we nonetheless strongly identify with this developed policy statement here: https://earthfirstjournal.org/anti-oppression-policy/
How We Operate
We are a volunteer-run project that operates entirely through donations. All donations go back into the project.
crooked_river_anarchist@riseup.net