DOPE Magazine

In an era marked by using social media and instant messaging to talk to each other, there is something quite beautiful about sitting with a group of people writing letters. What makes it even more beautiful and important is that we are writing to prisoners.Article by Reading by Jamila.Artwork by Rory Robertson-Shaw.DOPE Magazine is a street newspaper about politics, art and culture. Each issue we print 40,000 copies, and hand them out for free to anyone who wants to sell them in the street. Each year, we make roughly 1/2 million pounds for our mainly homeless vendors. By subscribing to DOPE Magazine, you can support our vendors and help us to continue spreading radical ideas on the streets. Go to dopemag.org to subscribe. Thanks to the MayDay Rooms for the audio studio.

To view the material in this article as well as a more detailed history of peace and anti-militarist movements check out MayDay Rooms' online exhibition For Peace!Reading by Delilah.DOPE Magazine is a street newspaper about politics, art and culture. Each issue we print 40,000 copies, and hand them out for free to anyone who wants to sell them in the street. Each year, we make roughly 1/2 million pounds for our mainly homeless vendors. By subscribing to DOPE Magazine, you can support our vendors and help us to continue spreading radical ideas on the streets. Go to dopemag.org to subscribe. Thanks to the MayDay Rooms for audio studio.

In the context of violent civil war and neo-colonial extraction, Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms and Congo’s GOMA ACTIF show how community response has stepped in as states and NGOs fail. Reading by Lamya.Artwork by Rory Robertson-Shaw.DOPE Magazine is a street newspaper about politics, art and culture. Each issue we print 40,000 copies, and hand them out for free to anyone who wants to sell them in the street. Each year, we make roughly 1/2 million pounds for our mainly homeless vendors. By subscribing to DOPE Magazine, you can support our vendors and help us to continue spreading radical ideas on the streets. Go to dopemag.org to subscribe. Thanks to the MayDay Rooms for audio studio.

Bill Ayers is a retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1969, he co-founded the Weather Underground, a revolutionary organisation that carried out 'extreme vandalism'; bombings of property and symbolic targets in protest of war, racism and U.S. imperialism.Artwork by Rory Robertson-ShawReading by Dante.DOPE Magazine is a street newspaper about politics, art and culture. Each issue we print 40,000 copies, and hand them out for free to anyone who wants to sell them in the street. Each year, we make roughly 1/2 million pounds for our mainly homeless vendors. By subscribing to DOPE Magazine, you can support our vendors and help us to continue spreading radical ideas on the streets. Go to dopemag.org to subscribe. Thanks to the MayDay Rooms for audio studio.

In the hills of the southern West Bank, Palestinian communities face decades of displacement, violence and erasure, yet remain rooted through steadfast resistance and global solidarity.By Aidan Frere-Smith.Artwork by Celeste John-Wood.Reading by Chris.DOPE Magazine is a street newspaper about politics, art and culture. Each issue we print 40,000 copies, and hand them out for free to anyone who wants to sell them in the street. Each year, we make roughly 1/2 million pounds for our mainly homeless vendors. By subscribing to DOPE Magazine, you can support our vendors and help us to continue spreading radical ideas on the streets. Go to dopemag.org to subscribe. Thanks to the MayDay Rooms for audio studio.