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Need the perfect gift for a special rebel in your life? Something to wear to your next picket line, community garden, or just to start a conversation? Maybe you’d like some stickers to celebrate the spirit of resistance anywhere that could use a little change.

We’ve teamed up with Worx Printing, a non-profit, unionized co-op. Our graphics were hand painted and designed using open-source software by a Z Community member.

When you purchase any item, you are supporting the ideas and people behind these products. By showing off your new gear, you’re spreading the spirit of resistance.

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Coming soon... the Free-Store!

We know that our items aren’t the cheapest and not everyone can afford the cost that comes with our values-aligned supply-chain and shop. Rather than compromise for cost, we decided to also make our designs available for free to everyone.

Coming soon: free hi-res downloads for the Z Community. Print them wherever you like, on whatever you like, however it works for you!

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THE WIND CRIES FREEDOM

The Wind Cries Freedom, the new book from Z co-founder Michael Albert, is a sweeping oral history of a future American revolution.

Through thirty interconnected chapters, it draws out the strategies, failures, turning points, and hard-won wisdom of a movement that called itself the Revolutionary Participatory Society. These are not the polished memoirs of politicians: they are the unfiltered accounts of people who organized in neighborhoods, hospitals, universities, stadiums, courthouses, and places of worship, and kept a shared vision alive through cynicism and exhaustion.

The result is speculative political fiction that reads like history: messy, human, and quietly hopeful in the way that only real experience and long thought can produce.

Get your copy and peruse more features on the book’s website below.

“Read it, argue with it, but don’t look away. The future it recalls is one we must still fight to deserve.”

Yanis Varoufakis

“The most unusual and intriguing combination of prophecy, manifesto, and movement building manual that I have ever encountered.”

Bill Fletcher Junior

“This work fills a huge gap in our social movement literature.”

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CRITICAL ACTION

Critical Action is a longtime friend of Z and a music and storytelling project grounded in liberation, solidarity, and resistance to authoritarian power. Through music, narrative, and multimedia, the project engages the same political realities and movement traditions that guide and motivate Z’s work.

If this project resonates with you, you can learn more about it and find ways to support the work using the link below.

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For decades, Z has brought together political analysis, movement reporting, debate, and visions of a different future from writers and activists around the world. That work is more than journalism. It is movement infrastructure: movements need places to develop ideas, test arguments, learn from experience, and imagine what comes next.

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