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== General Guide ==
San Antonio, Texas is a city roughly 100 miles south of [[Free Austin|Austin, Texas]] and 100 miles north of the US-Mexico border. With a population of 1,328,984, it is the second largest city in the state of Texas, and the seventh largest city in the United States.

== Housing ==
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== Food ==
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== Medical Care ==
''Planned parenthood, free clinics, free medical advice, Medicare resources, low-cost clinics, etc.''

== Legal Aid ==
''ACLU, free legal aid/counseling, pro bono attorneys, etc.''

== Armed Forces/Deployment Avoidance Counseling ==
''Legal aid, resources, etc.''

== Play ==
See [[Free Play]] section, include details for this city.

''Beaches, Swimming Pools, Parks, Sports, Museums, Music, Theatre, TV shows, Movies, etc.''

== Information ==
''General weather, traffic, news resources, etc.''

== Underground Papers ==
''Self-explanatory''

== Miscellaneous ==
''Any other freebies''

== Public Transit ==
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Free Jackson, Mississippi

Mipp — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:05:35 GMT

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== General Guide ==
''Please provide a general outline of the city and its neighborhoods/boroughs/parts of town, including information about political leanings, police forces, population, income levels, social services, etc.''

JXN is the capitol and largest city in MS. It's a small city but has a surprisingly happening music and art scene. MS is a very conservative state but very cheap and the weather's warm. The city is served by several interstate highways and US highways, including the famous Natchez Trace. I-55 is north-south from Chicago to New Orleans and passes through JXN. I-20 runs east-west from TX to SC and also passes through JXN. Hwy 49 runs north-south from the AR state line to the MS Gulf Coast. Oddly enough, the city is built atop an extinct volcano.

JXN's historic Fondren District is the center of its arts and music scene. Bookstores, theaters, antique stores, a yoga studio, and an organic food store are all to be found in this area. Fondren is walkable, and a trolley (75 cents a ride) covers most of the area. http://www.fondren.org/

== Housing ==

Catholic Charities runs a Runaway and Homeless Youth Shelter for kids aged 12-17 and a shelter for pregnant women trying to kick their addictions. Call 601-355-0161 (youth shelter) or 601-371-7483 (pregnant women's shelter) or go to http://www.catholiccharitiesjackson.org/

Matt's House, 343 Adelle St. near Millsaps College, provides temporary shelter for women and children as well as two meals a day. http://www.stewpot.org/services_mattshouse.html or call 601-353-2759.

Sims House is a transitional shelter providing up to 90 day stays for women and children. Services include classes, counseling, job placement assistance, and day care. Call 601-353-2759 or email mthompson@stewpot.org.

The Billy Brumfield House, 1244 South Gallatin St., provides shelter for men, and also has a homeless program, a drug-work transitional program, and a special needs program. Call 601-353-2759 or 601-948-2864.

== Food ==
''Free/low-cost markets, produce, butchers, day-old bakeries, Food banks, missions, church meals, etc.''

Stewpot serves a meal at noon to all-comers, no questions asked. http://www.stewpot.org/ or call (601) 353-2759.

The Food Pantry can provide a 4-day supply of food for screened applicants. Open Monday-Friday from 9-11 am. Call 601-353-2759.

Food Not Bombs, 721 N. State St. Apt 2B, JXN or email sarabradshaw@hellokitty.com

Operation Shoestring, 1711 Bailey Ave, has a food pantry, as well as programs for kids and parents. http://www.operationshoestring.org/

== Medical Care ==
''Planned parenthood, free clinics, free medical advice, Medicare resources, low-cost clinics, etc.''

Central Mississippi Health Services, Inc.
1850 Chadwick Drive
Jackson, MS 39204-2841
Phone: (601) 376-1700

Hinds County Health Department at the Jackson Medical Mall, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson, Suite 411.
Phone: 601-364-2666

There is only one Planned Parenthood in the state of MS, and that's in Hattiesburg, a couple of hours south of JXN. Call them at (601) 296-6001 or visit their website at http://www.ppalabama.org/

Stewpot also provides free counseling services for families or people suffering from depression or stress. Call 601-353-2759.

Baptist Health Systems provides low-cost ($25 each) heart, lung, and cancer screenings. The cancer screening includes a pap smear and breast exam (if female) and a prostate exam (if male). http://www.mbhs.org/

My Brother's Keeper, 500 E Woodrow Wilson, Building M. You can get FREE HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome. Call 601-500-7660 ext. 303 or 304.

Gace House provides counseling and hospice care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Call 601-353-1038 or see gracehousems.org

== Legal Aid ==
''ACLU, free legal aid/counseling, pro bono attorneys, etc.''

ACLU of Mississippi can be contacted at 601-355-6464 or msacluoffice@msaclu.org http://www.msaclu.org/index.htm

Mississippi Center for Justice, 5 Old River Place, Suite 203, JXN. (601) 352-2269 or http://mscenterforjustice.org/

== Armed Forces/Deployment Avoidance Counseling ==
''Legal aid, resources, etc.''

== Play ==
See [[Free Play]] section, include details for this city.

''Beaches, Swimming Pools, Parks, Sports, Museums, Music, Theatre, TV shows, Movies, etc.''

Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S Lamar St. Admission is $5 for adults ($3 for students). Call 601-960-1515 or http://www.msmuseumart.org/

Eudora Welty House, 1119 Pinehurst St., free admission on the 13th of each month when the 13th occurs on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. http://www.eudorawelty.org/visit.html

New Stage Theatre, 1100 Carlisle St. http://www.newstagetheatre.com/

Actor's Playhouse, 121 Paul Truitt Ln, Pearl. http://www.actorsplayhouse.net/

Mississippi Arts Center, 201 E. Pascagoula St., hosts a variety of exhibits that are free (but donations are encouraged). Call 601-960-1500

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 565 N. 5th Ave, Laurel. lrma.org or 601-649-6374. More free exhibits.

Mississippi Crafts Center, 950 Rice Rd., Ridgeland. 601-856-7546. Several free exhibits, including Choctaw Day on September 28, featuring art and music from the Choctaw nation. Often serves small free lunches during its exhibits.

Mississippi Symphony Orchestra occasionally puts on free live performances. 601-960-1565.

Jackson Progressives Lunch is hosted by JxnPro and encourages anyone who's interested in revitalizing JXN to join them for lunch at Peaches (327 Farish St.) every Wednesday at 11:30 am. Free event.

OUToberfest is hosted Oct 9-12 at Hal & Mal's, and celebrates and supports local gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. www.outoberfest.com

Family Day in the Park, September 21, 1pm at Smith Park. An art exhibition, health fair, live music, and kid's activities are provided. Call 601-291-5296.

Jacktoberfest, Oct. 17, free admission. Live music, beer, and brats. www.jacktoberfest.com

Banned Books Club will host readings from banned books on Sep 29, 7-8:30 pm, at Lemuria, 4506 Office Park Dr. Refreshments will be served.

== Information ==
Contrary to popular belief, there are four seasons in MS: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, and Christmas. The weather is hot and humid most of the year except for a brief, rainy winter from about Nov-Feb.

MS is subtropical, and the heat and humidity can be intense during the summer months (approx. May-October). Be sure to drink water and find adequate shade. Outbreaks of West Nile occur, so you probably want to wear mosquito repellent.

If you go walking or hiking in a wooded area, you should be aware that MS has many poisonous snakes. Even in JXN it's easy to find patches of woods and swamps, so never go wandering in the backwoods without some sort of transportation or way to call for help, and never harass or attempt to capture any snake you might see. If a snake hisses or rattles its tail at you, freeze and very slowly back away. If bitten, get to a hospital immediately to recieve anitvenin. Don't try to suck out the poison or apply a torniquet, that stuff only works in movies.

== Underground Papers ==
Jackson Free Press: http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/

== Miscellaneous ==
''Any other freebies''

== Public Transit ==
The local buses, Greyhounds, and train run out of Union Station in downtown JXN. JATRAN is the local bus line, but isn't considered efficient or safe by locals. The buses stop running at 5pm. http://www.jatran.com/ To contact Greyhound, call (601)353-6342.

The Fondren Express Trolley covers most of the Fondren District Area, from St. Dominic's Hospital to Millsaps College to as far north as Duling St. Cost is 75 cents a ride. http://fondrenexpress.com/main1/

Amtrak runs a train from Chicago to New Orleans with a stop at Union Station. Call (601)355-6350.

JXN is served by an international airport with flights to Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, and others. www.jmaa.com

There are some freight trains that run through the city, but you hop one at your own risk.

== Free Clothing and Furniture ==
See [[Free Clothing and Furniture]] section, provide details for this city.

Clothing Closet, http://www.stewpot.org/services_clothingcloset.html or 601-353-2759.

Dress for Success of Metro Jackson provides clean, gently-used dress clothes for disadvantaged women who need suits to go to job interviews. Call 601-985-9888 or email jackson@dressforsuccess.org

NUTS is a thrift store that sells clothing for as little as 25-50 cents. 114 Millsaps Ave, JXN. 601-355-7458

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Roadside Chow

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:45:17 GMT

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==Roadside Chow==
These recipes are designed to easily feed members of the underground while on the run or operating from a pack, bicycle, train hopping, hitchhiking, or just without a real kitchen. [[Cheap Chow]] has more recipes and instructions to adapt for non-standard kitchen operations. SOme recipes assume that you have a small budget to assign for a week or two of travel foods others are designed for taking advantage of the foliage or commodity food items found near farms or food transport and distribution depots.

===Spanish Beans and Rice===
Boil water using your immersion boiler in the same pot as the beans (soak them overnight if possible) keep adding water, since the stinger will boil some away, until beans are soft. If possible let the packet or can of tomato sauce float in the boiling bean water to heat up. Pre-boil water and then add the same volume of rice (softening is quicker if you use converted or minute-rice). Drain the beans and add to the rice, add tomato sauce, and spices, if possible pour into a big can carefuly floated in your pot and stinger boil the water in the pot to slow cook it, otherwise pour the mixed finished product into a Thermos(or a container wrapped in a sleeping bag) and let sit for 1/2 hour or more.

===Ramen===
Those cheap little bricks of fried noodles, after having boiling water added (without the flavor packet) and drained once soft, can be used as a foundation for just about anything.
* Adding leftover chili can make it spaghetti in meat (or chili) sauce.
* After the noodles are drained, add olive oil, garlic powder and Parmesan cheese for Ramen Agilo E Olio. Add some bacon bits for something similar to Spaghetti alla Carbonara.
* Let the noodles cool, cut them up, and mix into a salad.
* Use it as a base for what ever main dish you're having (eggplant, veggie burger, etc.).
* Crack an egg into boiled water and stir (remember to break the yoke) for egg flower ramen, then add noodles and flavor pack.
* Eat the block dry if you don't have time to cook it.
Beware though, one brick of ramen constitutes an incredible amount of sodium if this is a problem for you.

====Spicy Ramen Pasta and Soup====
Boil two cups of water and add a packet of Ramen Noodles. Cook for three minutes stirring occasionally and add cajun seasoning. After cooking for three minutes turn off heat and add more seasoning if needed. Move the noodles directly to something that can be used for mixing, i.e. a large bowl or plate. Do not strain the noodles, instead leave the broth in the pan you boiled it in, it will come in handy later. Once the noodles are in the mixing dish add Parmesan cheese, more cajun seasoning, and a little olive oil for texture. Mix up the noodles and transfer them to a new dish or eat it right out of the mixing dish for a nice spicy pasta.

With the leftover broth you can add thin sliced carrots, leftover noodles, and more seasoning. Boil together and once the carrots have achieved a slightly soft state pour into a bowl and serve as soup.

You can make variations of this dish using different seasoning or vegetables. Also you can add a little lime or lemon juice to the broth while cooking the noodles and again when cooking the soup to give it a unique flavor.

===Draining Pasta Without a Colander===
Draining your noodles when you don't have a colander: leave the lid on your pot but wrap a towel or cloth around the opening. The dry part of the towel will help you hold the pot, let the lid go loose in the towel and tilt to drain the water. Be careful, as your towel is now soaked with boiling hot water. Better and safer is to get a strong nylon mesh stuff bag for your camp pots and use this as a colander.

===Pasta Sauce Leathers===
You can make a favorite pasta sauce road portable by dehydrating it. Boil down the sauce until it is thick and then pour onto either a cookie sheet sprayed with non-stick spray or onto a large oven roaster bag laid flat. Bake at 50C(120F) until either a soft leather(like a fruit roll up) or let it go longer and you will have a brittle chips you can crack off and put into a bag. Much less chance of a mess than the canned stuff, just dump the bag or leather into a pot with a small amount of just boiled hot water, cover and let sit for several minutes to reconstitute into sauce, add more water if needed.

===Creative Pizza===
For the crust, use a pita or English muffin (but almost any bread will do). Put on a thin layer of tomato sauce, then whatever toppings you wish (cheese, mushrooms, etc.). Put in a toaster oven and keep a watch on it, since cooking times vary. Your home made pita will also make a very tasty pizza crust, or you can hand make a normal crust, like the bread dough below. No oven? If you have a fry pan with lid, dutch oven or wok with lid, throw down the dough with sauce, toppings, and cheese cover and place above a low flame or coals. If you are using cooked bread for crust butter the bottom well for a pan pizza flavor. If you are short on time, cook up a biscuit mix crust with baking powder to make it puff a little. If you are out of cheese, stir fry tomatoes and onions until soft and add it to your warmed bread or pizza crust.

===Mulligan Stew===
From the post Civil War collapse through the Great Depression of the 1930's, many of the hobos who gathered in the jungles near a rail line would pool together whatever they had for a meal. The food was cut up and put into a pot with some water and cooked, adding waste bones of any kind and scrap meat or fresh roadkill for added fats and protein. What was finished was often called "Mulligan Stew" or "Whatchagot Stew". In the early days of the personal computer revolution, techies would keep themselves fed during marathon sessions in a similar way, using a wok instead of a cooking pot. The resulting product was nicknamed "Stir-Fry Random" and was often served on a bed of rice or ramen noodles. During the days of America's "Wild West", the camp cook sometimes took leftovers, local vegetation, meat scraps and often the parts of the steer that wasn't normally eaten, and make what was often called "Sonofabitch Stew" for obvious reasons.

Whatever stew you are making you can cook it in an aluminum foil pouch, carefully double fold three edges fill and fold to seal. Then cook the stew in campfires, forest fires, engine blocks, Bill Clinton's shorts, etc.

===Roadside Soups===
So all you can find is a few handfuls of beans or barley in the corner of a rail car? No problem! Dried grains, legumes, and corn might take around an hour or more to cook but will soften up. Pre-soak if possible to speed the conversion. Use a pot lid of some sort to keep the heat up. If you can't find enough wood or fuel, bring the food to a boil and dump in a thermos for a few hours, reheat and repeat if it needs more cooking time. It is nice to add salt or spices if you have but this is not required. If you can find things like carrots, tender plant roots or shoots whatever is edible, add these later so they won't overcook. About half an hour before you eat look around for green leafy weeds in a place a few meters from the roadside where weed spray and auto pollution is not so bad. If you can find an egg, drop it in and mix right before taking off the fire. Cooking time: four hours from when the beans start to simmer. Check as you cook since smaller grains may cook quicker. If you have little fuel build a fire and then break up into coals, pack the coals around your covered pot and cover with dry soil so it will stay hot for hours.

===Creative Cooking===
Be creative; Your radiator, hair dryer, clothes dryer, iron, car engine, etc. can be used to heat or brown canned or foil covered food or maybe even boil a pot of water. If there is a chance of boiling temperatures be sure the can has a hole poked in the lid to prevent explosion.

If you are afraid people will smell the illegal cooking in your dorm room and bust you maybe you can set your heat source on the window sill or in a bucket tied safely and hung out the window. Don't spill it, since nobody wants to wear boiling stew. A tied up bucket on a window sill also makes a good freezer/fridge in cold weather.

===Car Cooking===
Cooking in your car and on car engine blocks [[Cars#Cooking and Heating]]

===Doughboys===
Clean off a stick and wrap the end with cookie, biscuit, cake, or risen bread dough. Roast and turn over a campfire or hot coals, a foil or clean leaf wrapping is not a bad idea, else you will be eating somewhat smokey flavored bread.

===Hot Water Pot===
If the only heat you have is your pot of hot water on a small fire or electrical stinger immersion heater you can still warm canned foods and even cook and bake. Put a few inches of water in a larger can or bucket and heat on the coals to a boil or plug in the stinger, be sure that the stinger is secured so it will stay underwater and wont burn dry. Once the water is boiling you can put your bagged omelet, batter or dough, anything that you can't just stew, boil, or steam directly into the water. Use a well sealed oven bag or if you can't find these a ziplock, or plastic bag. You can also heat canned foods by floating them unopened in the water. To make this work better with a stinger you can wrap the whole works in a blanket for insulation, at a minimum try to cover the top of the container. Your cakes and breads will come out shaped like the plastic sack but will taste just fine, open and poke with a toothpick to see if it is done since it will not brown anywhere.

===Sandwich of Irony===
You can make a cooked cheese or other sandwich by setting an iron to it's highest setting and ironing your sandwich. Of course this might goop up the iron and make it unusable for clothes (try wrapping the sandwich in aluminum foil first), but it is a good way to hide a cooking device in a dorm room. You might also try using your iron as a hot plate if you can figure a safe way to prop it upside down.

A friend of one of our contributors was told how to heat sandwiches using a room radiator. Wrap the sandwich in aluminum foil and place it on the heat source. When you can smell the food, it's done.

===Field Corn===
When riding the rails or hitchhiking you will often find fields of corn waiting to feed you hungry travelers. If you are lucky you will be near sweet corn, but field or dent corn(animal feed) while not sweet is edible, if it is dried out you can pound or grind into cornmeal. You can eat corn raw but cooking will make it taste much better. Pull the silk out of the top but don't remove the husk(leaves covering the corn). Some people will pour a little salty water in to flavor before cooking but it is optional. Wrap the husk tightly and either wrap in foil and place in the edge of the coals or place on a grille and cover, turn every few minutes. Add salt spices and butter to your liking, cooking 10-20 minutes. If the corn has already dried hard either boil it in a soup or crush into corn meal and try the recipes below. Edited From Dishes & Beverages Of The Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams (1913) http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/

====Plain Corn Bread====
Sift sound fresh white cornmeal, wet with cold water to a fairly soft dough, shape it by tossing from hand to hand into small pones, and lay them as made into a hot pan well sprinkled with dry meal. The pan should be hot enough to brown the meal without burning it. Make the pones about an inch thick, four inches long, and two and a half broad. Bake quickly, taking care not to scorch, until there is a brown crust top and bottom.

For hoe-cakes make the dough a trifle softer, lay it by handfuls upon a hot-meal-sprinkled griddle, taking care the handfuls do not touch. Flatten to half an inch, let brown underneath, then turn, press down and brown the upper side. (Sugar will sweeten them up. Baking powder will help them puff. The recipe mentions that they should be eaten drenched in butter but salt destroys this soaking power.)

====Ash Cakes====
*Make dough as for plain corn bread, but add the least trifle of salt, sweep the hot hearth very clean, pile the dough on it in a flattish mound, cover with big leaves--cabbage leaves will do at a pinch, or even thick clean paper, then pile on embers with coals over them and leave for an hour or more, according to size.
*Take up, brush off ashes, and break away any cindery bits.
*Serve with new butter and fresh buttermilk.
*(Aluminum foil or corn husk wrapping should work if on the roadside without a fireplace hearth)

Of course check out fields you pass by for other usable crops to feed yourself as you travel through the countryside.

===Acorns===
You can collect wild acorns for free and then turn them into a meal similar to corn meal! Just gather a decent amount of acorns and shell them with a nutcracker or a stone. Grind the meat inside in a blender with water until it is a smooth paste, or hand grind it into a similar consistency. Now, you must place the ground meats into a colander lined with a paper towel and rinse thoroughly several times. You will notice that the water that runs out is milky. You are draining a bitter substance that rendered the meal inedible unless it is drained out. Repeat until the water that runs out is clear. Taste the meal to make sure. After letting it dry, you can use it in a manner similar to cornmeal or flour. Use it to make pancakes, muffins, biscuits, cookies, etc.

During the Civil War, acorns were used as a coffee substitute. Take plump, round acorns and shell them. Brown them in an oven and grind them with a coffee grinder. Brew as you normally would coffee. If needed, you can use this as an extender for coffee.

===Stinger Soup===
Using a stinger or pocket immersion boiler to make soup [[Low_Impact_Crashing#Kitchen]] changes to some recipes here are in bold for stinger cooking. Be careful, if the water or liquid boils away a commercial stinger will burn out and a home made one might start a fire. The 12 volt stingers at truck stops are much weaker and sometimes won't even bring the water to a full boil.

To make a stinger soup boil solid veggies (onions, carrots, potato, beets, etc) in lightly salted tap water until they are cooked and only then adding a powdered soup base, spices, or bullion cubes that way your immersion boiler doesn't get too gooped up. Soft veggies like cabbage must be boiled with caution since small bits might stick to your stinger the same is true with pasta. If you want pasta in the soup boil the water first then pour it into a thermos if you have one and add the thinnest regular pasta you can find like angel hair spaghetti or substitute rice noodles since they soften faster.

===Street Salad===
From the original 1970 book and updates

Salad can be made by chopping up almost any variety of vegetables, nuts and fruits including the stuff you panhandled at the back of supermarkets; dandelions, shav, and other wild vegetables; and goods you ripped off inside stores or from large farms. A neat fresh dressing consists of one part of oil, two parts wine vinegar, finely chopped garlic cloves, salt and pepper. Mix up the ingredients in a bottle and add to the salad as you serve it. Russian dressing is simply mayonnaise and ketchup mixed. One suggestion is to add a bit of relish to the Russian dressing. Also, mayonnaise and mild yellow mustard mixed together make a quasi-Dijon dressing.

If you're at a place that has a burger fixings station (Fuddruckers, for example), see if you can get your burger "to go" in a Styrofoam or paper clamshell. Use one half for your burger, and the other for lettuce and tomatoes for your unauthorized salad that you put together on the sly (Don't be greedy, since that attracts attention). Then leave before anyone asks questions. If they have those little paper cups for ketchup, mix your dressing in that. Take a fork, too, unless you consider a salad to be "finger food".

Grab some green leafy vegetables from the dumpster behind the organic market or grocery store (wilted is OK), wash them off and add them raw to your salad, unlike useless iceberg lettuce they have gobs of the nutrients you need to be more revolutionary!

===Coffee Bar===
Most offices and waiting rooms feature free coffee with sugar and fake creamer. The fake creamer is barely food but will fill your stomach if you are hungry enough, half a cup creamer dry or mixed with sugar and hot water will give you strength to continue the search for food. It goes without saying that you should stuff your plastic shopping bag with any birthday cake, donuts, or popcorn that is found with the coffee. Remember that a coffee machine is both a hot plate and a source of boiled water, if you get creative you can prepare rice, poached or boiled eggs, and many other cheap dishes if you have enough time alone with the machine.

To poach an egg fill the coffee carafe (the glass thing that holds the finished coffee) with hot water and carefully crack and pour egg into the hot water, when you get good this will produce one solid mass, when it is finished dip out with a fork or spoon. This finishes much faster than hard boiling an egg.

If you can score a few single-serving packets of instant soup, you can dissolve it into a cup of hot water. Bullion cubes dissolved in hot water will make a hot broth, but they don't provide much in the way of nutrition. Fair warning; Both are very high in salt.

Back in 1981, the USDA under the Reagan Administration tried to declare tomato ketchup as a vegetable for USA school cafeteria nutritional standards. While it won't be very nutritionally sound, you can make an erzats "tomato soup" with ketchup and hot water and maybe a dash of pepper. Back in the Depression this was known as "Automat Soup" since it was made at the condements station.

===Travel Food Planning===
Camping-store-bought freeze-dried food is too expensive to be of any use for sustenance. With a little thought and ingenuity, you can buy and make great light-weight camp food from a regular grocery store's stock and dumpster diving. Use the calorie information available in diet books or container labels to plan a meal; you need to be sure to have enough protein, fiber, and vitamins every day. Have a written meal plan that will meet your daily needs; marking and packing all of the ingredients for a meal in a heavy duty Ziploc or vacuum pack/seal bag makes it easier to prep a quick meal. Your goal when on the move or working is to consume 3000-4000 Calories per day in summer and up to 6000 in high mountain/winter. Our experience with most backpacker and cycle camping newbies is that they underestimate their hunger when planning sometimes as badly as a factor of three or four. It's OK to pack too much food, especially stuff for fatty recipes that contain oil, butter, or margerine which are full of calories and make you feel full.

===Backpacking Biscuits===
A variation on the regular biscuit recipe for backpacking is as follows:

* 12 cups flour
* 2 tablespoons salt
* 1/4 cup baking powder
* 1 pound shortening or 16 fl/oz vegetable oil

Mix dry components together and divide into 2 or 4 cup portions in baggies or other container for convenient use. Add shortening or oil before using; Mark one of your cups to measure the correct amount. Shortening can be stored in reusable plastic "toothpaste" or "jerry" tubes that are sold for holding peanut butter and other pastes at camping stores; use a sturdy plastic bottle with a tough cap if you choose to carry oil.

To make biscuits, add 2 cups of mix to 1/2 cup water or milk, knead no more than 5 times (or it will be too tough), roll flat to about 3/4 inch (2 cm), and cut into biscuit shapes (A clean drinking glass will do). Bake in an oven on a cookie sheet for about 10 minutes at 450 F (230 C), in oiled aluminum foil over hot coals until brown, or steam until firm.

===Pancakes===
Inexpensive and easy to make even with just a dollar store fry pan and one of the stoves in [[Low Impact Crashing]]. Use the above biscuit mix (2 cups mix, 1 cup water) with an egg or two added to the water before measuring or try this recipe for on the spot cooking:
*2 cup self rising flour.
*1/4 cup butter (oil/butter/fat/margarine)
*1 egg (or 1/4 cup wet mixed egg powder)
*Sugar and/or Salt to desired flavor
*2-3 cup water to desired thickness 
(To make self rising flour take 1 cup of all-purpose flour, add 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of salt, or just look for it in the store.)

Make a huge batch of flapjacks and rewarm when you are hungry or eat cold. You can make syrup by heating water and adding with brown sugar or even regular sugar and some butter, but why? You can substitute as much oat or whole wheat flour as you like to change the flavor. You can use these like a tortilla or lauffa and wrap other foods in them, vary the sugar and salt to match the wrapped food. With a thin batter you can make the thin pancakes used in blintzes.

Fry in a frying pan or wok with a little butter or oil, don't let them sit too long or get the pan too hot, flip when you start to see bubbles coming through the top, a spatula helps for flipping.

===Native Fry Bread===
A quick favorite with many once migratory first nations of occupied North America. A large egg sized piece of dough pressed or stretched thin is fried in a few tablespoons of oil in a pan, poke a hole about half an inch (13mm) in the center. Flip your disc with a fork or stick through the hole when you see bubbles forming on the back, watch that you don't overheat the oil. Good with honey or cinnamon and sugar. Use punched down bread dough or this mix:
* 3 cups flour
* 1 tablespoon baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup warm water
* Sugar as desired

A good thing about frying in oil is that it adds a lot of calories and will help keep you warm in cold weather as it digests. The USDA states that a plate of fry bread has 700 calories and 27 grams of fat.

At many Native American festivals, a popular dish often sold to the tourists is a "Navajo Taco" which is fry bread served with beans, lettuce, shredded tomatoes and sour cream.

Fry bread recipes vary from nation to nation. A number of different fry bread recipes can be found here; http://www.manataka.org/page180.html

===French Toast===
Get fresh or stale bread and slice it up. Scramble your eggs, stretch your egg supply and make it taste better by mixing in 1/4 cup milk or water for every egg, experiment depending on what you have available. Sweeten with sugar and spice or vanilla added to the egg mix if you don't have syrup. Dip bread in the egg mix both sides and fry in a pan with oil or butter.

(In case you wonder about the name, it has nothing to do with France. The dish was invented in 1724 by an Albany NY cook named Joseph French. Somewhere along the way "French's Toast" became "French Toast".)

===Upside-Down Cake===
Rub a clean can, fry pan, or pot with oil if you have enough to prevent the cooking fruit from sticking, oiled aluminum foil or baking sheet will work too. Start by simmering fresh fruit or berries in a little water or just pour canned fruit and syrup into your pan or a clean can. Once the fruit is simmering pour cake batter no thicker than two inches on top and cover. Poking the cake with a clean sharpened stick or toothpick is a good way to see if it is done, often 30-40 min, if the toothpick comes out clean take your upside-down cake off of the fire. You can run a knife around the edge of a pot or can to unstick the cake and quickly flip the pot or can onto a plate, if done right the cake topped with fruit will come out together neatly onto the plate. You can cook this in a can or fry pan over a campfire because the heat from the simmering fruit cooks the cake above. With practice you will be able to figure the optimum cake batter and fruit thickness as well as heat and time needed to get the cake done without burning the fruit.

===Cheap Backpacker Chow===

Try these ideas instead of the expensive camp store foods:

*Boxed noodles and sauce or macaroni and cheese
*Parmesan cheese block or powder (for cheese sauces and topping)
*Instant rice
*Dry Pasta
*Tomato sauce for soups or sauces
*Oven dried veggies (for soup and stews)
*Oatmeal flakes (running it for a few seconds dry in a bladed food processor makes it "instant")
*Dried fruits and raisins
*Wheat germ
*Heavy Filling Cereals (i.e. Grapenuts)
*Powdered milk (reconstitute in a squirt bottle)
*Powdered egg mix (be sure to carry hot sauce)
*Dry cereal
*Cookies, Brownies and [[Cheap Chow#Energy Bars|Energy Bars]]
*Oven dried and cured meat strips (hard jerky) for snack or soup
*Our Biscuit mix for simple cakes, pancakes, and biscuits
*Oil or shortening for frying and margarine substitute (A gulp of oil before bed will raise your body temperature as you digest, if you can stand it. Flaxseed oil is rich in Omega-3's.)
*Spices, condiments, and sauces
*Powdered soup base or bouillon cubes
*Chicken, Tuna or other fish sold packed in Mylar pouches
*Instant potato flakes
*Dried mushrooms (like Portabello or Shitake, buy fresh and allow to dry in a paper bag for a few weeks for soups)
*Hot cocoa powder
*Liberated MRE Meal Pouches & Components
*Hardtack
*Instant Coffee & Tea
*Beans and TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein) Meat Substitutes

It is amazing what kinds of fun dishes you can whip up in the woods, when you are stopped for a few days, when you have the time and energy. Just be sure that you have something bonehead easy and fast to prepare or better yet ready to eat, for when you set up camp after a hard day of hiking. Vegans need to pay special attention to their diet planning especially to their fat and protein intake when on the move, most of their meals are naturally much less fatty than the average Amerikans, although most good camping foods that are non-perishable are mainly animal-free, make sure enough fat in the form of oil and margarine etc is eaten and beans and TVP (soya chunks) are lightweight and packed with protein.

Keep all food and dirty pans and utensils away from the tent and out of your pack; a hang bag cache thrown over a tree limb will keep most animals out of the food. Bear-safes are required in some places but are heavy. Even if bears are not a problem, smaller animals can wreck your gear trying to get the food. Wash dishes away from camp and at least 150-200 feet from the nearest body of water (assuming you use some sort of cleaning product. We don't want that stuff leaching into streams!)

===Hardtack===
Hardtack is little more than a large cracker that, if kept dry, could stay edible for months, perhaps years. It's broken and mixed with some liquid (hot water, broth, etc.) to make a porridge, or to thicken soups or stews. If you make enough in advance, it can be eaten on the march or at camp. A recipe from the WikiMedia Cookbook follows:

* 2 cups of flour
* 1/2 to 1/4 cup water
* 6 pinches of salt
* 1 tablespoon of shortening (optional, feels more filling and adds calories)
# Mix all the ingredients into a batter and press onto a cookie sheet to a thickness of 1/2 inch.
# Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (205°C) for one hour.
# Remove from oven, cut dough into 3-inch squares, and punch four rows of holes, four holes per row into the dough (a fork works nicely).
# Flip the crackers and return to the oven for another half hour.

Hardtack has been known as "sheet metal" or "molar breakers" because it is very hard and dense, so don't try to eat it like a regular saltine.
===Sprouts===
Sprout beans and raw(unroasted) seeds like wheat, corn, alfalfa, bean, lentil sunflower, etc by soaking them over night in a plastic peanut butter jar. After soaking them, rubber band a bandanna or piece of tent screen to the top of the jar. Rinse and drain the seeds daily and carry the jar in the bottom of your pack, the seeds should sprout in a day or two. Use in soup, pulped in breads, or in salads, it is a very complete food including sometimes difficult to obtain vitamins.

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Free Hawaii

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:34:09 GMT

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== General Guide ==
Hawaii, if you can get there is a beautiful place to escape for vacation, or if you fit in, forever. You will have to make peace with the natives whose land you are invading but if you decide to go native and join their cause the warm weather and warm friendly people make camping out long term a real possibility.

Getting there is the challenge, you could try begging friends for frequent flier miles or find a travel agent who is cool and tell him to call you when a super cheap last minute flight opens up. Another option is to stay near a west coast airport like [[Free Los Angeles|L.A.]], [[Free San Francisco|San Fransisco]], [[Free Portland, OR|Portland]], or [[Free Seattle|Seattle]] and watch the travel sites for last minute deals and jump on them. Portland Oregon is especially well set up for this with Camp Dignity alternative housing project being located on the airport grounds and having free Internet access, PDX airport also often has lower prices to Hawaii than the larger west coast cities.

You could sniff around large west coast marinas or post to http://www.craigslist.com or sailing websites and offer to crew a sailboat for a trip that could last around a month, see [[Sail Away]]. Stowing away on a large ship is quite risky and requires packing all of the food and water needed for the whole trip as well as the danger of pest spraying and security checks.

Since you don't need much clothing or gear consider just packing a carry-on bag and keeping it ready to jump on the airplane with just some clothes, a light towel, a durable swimsuit or two, sandals, a wide brim hat, and a hammock, you could bring a light pull over jacket and a small nylon tarp since you will get used to the warm weather and want it later for cool nights and rain. For guys clean khaki trousers, a nice button down Hawaii print or white shirt, and clean sandals will let you into even the fanciest locations and events for social interaction and free food, for women ask for a nicer more formal long length but very comfortable muumuu dress and sandals.

Be sure to have a return plan or better yet your up to date return ticket in a safe place, you could have a responsible friend mail it back to you as general delivery mail for you to pick up at a specified post office. Travel between islands and the mainland is not a trivial proposition if you have no money. Even natives sometimes feel trapped on "the rock".

Get to know locals and find out where people are friendly to haoles. There are neighborhoods where the people prefer not to be reminded that they are being oppressed, so be sensitive to what the Amerikans have done both economically and culturally to this proud people and let the be if they choose. Most haoles come live in Hawaii for a few years, drive up prices and then leave. Many Hawaiians can barely afford rent due to the high tourist induced prices so a white face is just a reminder of the cause of their troubles. That said let us repeat that you will rarely find people so true and warm anywhere in the world.

== Housing ==
Traditional housing is very expensive even in the low rent areas as the haolie boomers move there to retire or buy for investment driving prices up, and most couches are already filled by relatives and friends of the natives. Most families live together in large households. Maybe you know a rich haolie (white occupier) who will let you crash in their empty condo, but otherwise camp it out. If you are public beach camping you might be evicted if you stay beyond the permitted camping period, but this is supposed to mean being moved to a shelter, but sometimes just means you have to pack up and go. If you get into a shelter you are on the top of the list for subsidised housing. The good news is since Hawaii can't just export the homeless somewhere else they actually have to deal with the problem although they are still trying to use some New York tactics. A frequently floated idea is to begin handing out one way airplane tickets to the mainland to those homeless who want to leave.

If you get a tent and a hammock you should do fine most of the time especially if you can find a group camp or a nice bit of wilderness, just be careful when hammocking that you have control of your pack lest it be stolen. If you stick to the dry side of an island you can expect much less rain and big storms will often be moderated but a typhoon is a time to seek real shelter. Backpacking hostels are usually at least $50-60 a night so try couchsurfing.com or just make some friends at the beach and see if you can camp in the yard. Use the free beach showers to clean and cool off.

== Food ==
Hit the food bank http://www.hawaiifoodbank.org/ and http://www.thefoodbasketinc.com/ and see what they have. If you are a seasoned dumpster diver be careful, the high temperatures mean food goes bad fast. Since there are so many tourists who don't finish their plates make friends with luau or restaurant staff and during cleanup load up. Look for plentiful fruit trees both wild and decorative if you get hungry.

Fishing in the ocean for non-commercial purposes does not require any kind of permit you can use a pole or a net, but don't overharvest. Fresh water, commercial, and deep sea fishing do require permits. http://hawaii.gov/dlnr/ A spear and flashlight is another way to grab some food or bait from tide pools. Just roast up your catch on the beach using collected drift wood. If you have no cooking equipment wrap the cleaned fish in easy to find banana leaves, secure the leaves with bamboo or wood skewers(toothpicks work) and roast over your fire, if possible rub with oil and lemon and/or pepper.

== Medical Care ==
The state has health care for the indigent, visit http://www.med-quest.us/ The state requires employers to provide health insurance for all employees.

== Legal Aid ==
Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii, Oahu 528-7046, Neighbor Islands 1-800-839-5200

== Play ==
Most beaches and shoreline to 8 feet above the high water mark to the ocean are free and public except national parks, military bases, Hanauma Bay, and private hotel properties. Even if you have no board the body surfing is very fun, especially in heavy waves during a tropical depression before a storm.

If you have swim goggles or a diving mask snorkel over the coral reefs, a sock with a small amount of corn or peas will attract beautiful fish and you can feed them although we are told that this may be illegal and may teach agressive and sometimes violent begging in some fish.

Take a hike to see many beautiful and sometimes secluded mountainsides, rain forests, volcanic flows, lava tubes, beaches, tidepools, and waterfalls, also ask where whales and dolphins can be seen.

A bicycle is an ideal way to get around but plan your route well, sometimes a long route may be an easy paved road which follows the beach while another involves steep mountain climbs, sometimes 1000 feet in a few miles but that also means some sweet downhills. Be careful to regularly wash down your bicycle on a nice day were it can dry off, the sea air and salty beach sand will rust it quickly otherwise. Bicycles with wheels that are twenty inches or larger are required to be registered and tagged with a fee of $15, this is supposed to be for recovery if stolen but the police have confiscated unregistered cycles in camp raids. Cycle shops are rare in many areas so plan ahead.

== Information ==
This Pacific tropical island chain is claimed by the United States and travel is like to any other US state, no special ID or passport check if coming from another part of Amerika. Travel time is typically about 30 days by sailboat or five hours by jet from the west coast of the US.
There is the windward side of every island which is the wet side, the leeward side is much drier and is somewhat protected from storms. Since all fuel is imported it is very expensive to drive a car, learn to walk, paddle, or bike for transportation. There is a strong ocean current so if planning a boat trip between islands this must be included in the calculations or you may be lost at sea. Natives built a canoe with an outrigger for stability to row between islands, modern versions are used by boating clubs for racing and occasional travel between islands.

Since Hawaii is a massive tourist center performance art and music or hand crafted souvenirs are a good way to make some cash. Always try to dress nicely and meet tourists with a big fake smile that turns real once you have their cash, play to the happy beach bum image they imagine you to be. Use some discretion when selling wares or performing so the cops won't shut you down. Also beware of tourist trap shops, get away from the hotels and watch prices when you need simple things like a beach mat or clothes.

Two big things threatening your stuff is humidity and bugs. Simple things like a metal hanger will rust and leave stains on your shirts, tools are also always at risk. When it gets hot and still the termites are coming, the termites swarm in huge numbers so you had better have all of your windows and screens closed. The tropical environment means that cockroaches, ants, and geckos the cool little lizards who eat bugs and bring good luck will also enter and live in nearly all houses, so be careful to seal all food containers, avoid clutter anywhere in the house, and clean off all food preparation and eating surfaces like tables and dishes right away to reduce the incentive for the bugs to move in and hide out.

There is an active native resistance movement which uses frequent civil disobedience and demonstrations to protest the Amerikan occupation of their kingdom.

== Underground Papers ==
Hawaii Indymedia News Center- http://hawaii.indymedia.org/

== Miscellaneous ==
The Aloha Stadium on Oahu has a huge flea market http://alohastadiumswapmeet.net/ entry is $1 per person Wed, Sat, and Sun 6am to 3pm. All the cheap junk, handcrafts, and t-shirts you need to outfit yourself after falling off the boat or plane. Also a safe place to sell your wares free from police harassment if you rent a space.

Since sugarcane fields are literally everywhere in Hawaii maybe you could make a little money making rum. Get sugar cane from a burned off and cut field that got left behind. Pulp the cane in a bowl with a minimal amount of water and pour the liquid into a large cleaned bottle. Either let the natural air yeast or special packet yeast begin to convert the sugars to alcohol. Keep a loose cap or pricked balloon on the top to prevent anything getting in, a tight cap could cause an the bottle to shatter from the pressure. Once the mix stops making bubbles, distill like we describe in [[Free_High_School#Brewing]]. Sugarcane is also a free sweet snack to chew on.

== Public Transit ==
Good public bus and coastal boat transportation is available on Oahu http://thebus.org the service on the Big Island is not so great or frequent to many areas, there are only expensive shuttles on Maui, there is limited service coverage and large bags and packs are forbidden on the Kauai bus system.

Pedestrian and auto ferry service is currently running between Maui and Oahu, one of the concerns causing protests is that this will allow the homeless to transit between islands. As of May 2008, Hawaii Superferry operates a daily morning round-trip service between Honolulu Harbor on the island of Oahu and Kahului Harbor on Maui, with a second afternoon round-trip on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the company hopes to return service to Nawiliwili Harbor on Kauaʻi and add service to Kawaihe Harbor on the Big Island. In 2008 fares are often between $75 and $100 one way per passenger but are adjusted by peak travel times and large fuel surcharge, there is a $25 charge for a bicycle or oversize bag or just stuff both the bike and bag inside a car and pay $69 additional charge for the whole vehicle. Of course the ferry is just begging for stow away oppertunities. http://www.hawaiisuperferry.com/

There are larger commercial airports in Honolulu, Lihue, Kahului, Kona, and Hilo, although there are smaller air carriers operating from small commuter airports.

The only train line left is a tourist trap between Lahaina and Kaanapali on Maui called the sugar cane train, not worth jumping.

== Assorted Freebies ==
American occupation forces have many free memorial museums, you could also sample free local music, cultural events, historical museums, and royal properties many of which are free to visitors.

== Survive ==
Remember that if you want to live in Hawaii to be Hawaiian and to respect their culture and land, be a resident not an occupier, you are not in the 48 states anymore. For general assistance call Aloha United Way ASK-2000, Oahu 275-2000, Neighbor Islands 1-877-275-6569, http://www.auw.org/

Free San Diego

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:23:44 GMT

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== General Guide ==

The City of San Diego has a population of around 1.3 million, and the County of San Diego around 3 million. It lies on the border of Mexico. San Diego has a temperate Mediterranean climate and receives approximately a foot of rain annually, on average.

Demographically, San Diego is about 50% White, 25% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 7% Black. The median San Diego household income is approximately $48,000/year.

== Housing ==

Free housing, shelters and hostels, etc.

== Food ==

== Medical Care ==

== Legal Aid ==

== Armed Forces/Deployment Avoidance Counseling ==

== Play ==

See [[Free Play]] section, include details for this city.

 Beaches
 Pools. If your in a neighbor hood with apartments and want to swim you can just go into the complexes and swim you can say you know someone. When public pools are open you can shower in the showers they have.
 Parks. When people have parties say you know someone and get free food and drinks.
 Museums.
 Sports
 Music
 Theatre.
 TV shows
 Movies, etc.

== Information ==

General weather, traffic, news resources, etc.

== Underground Papers ==

Self-explanatory

== Miscellaneous ==

California has an alternative program for those without a high school diploma to enter college see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High_School_Proficiency_Exam for more info.

== Public Transit ==

== Free Clothing and Furniture ==

See [[Free Clothing and Furniture]] section, provide details for this city.

== Assorted Freebies ==

See [[Assorted Freebies]] Section, provide details for this city, including other topics. Whatever fits and is useful.

Salvation Army

== Survive ==

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Free Paris

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:40:11 GMT

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'''Free Paris
'''

== General Guide ==
''Please provide a general outline of the city and its neighborhoods/boroughs/parts of town, including information about political leanings, police forces, population, income levels, social services, etc.''

== Housing ==
''Free housing, shelters and hostels, etc.''

== Food ==
''Free/low-cost markets, produce, butchers, day-old bakeries, Food banks, missions, church meals, etc.''

== Medical Care ==
''Planned parenthood, free clinics, free medical advice, Medicare resources, low-cost clinics, etc.''

== Legal Aid ==
''ACLU, free legal aid/counseling, pro bono attorneys, etc.''

== Armed Forces/Deployment Avoidance Counseling ==
''Legal aid, resources, etc.''

== Play ==
See [[Free Play]] section, include details for this city.

''Beaches, Swimming Pools, Parks, Sports, Museums, Music, Theatre, TV shows, Movies, etc.''

== Information ==
''General weather, traffic, news resources, etc.''

== Underground Papers ==
''Self-explanatory''

== Miscellaneous ==
Two churches, American Church at 65 quai d’Orsay, and American Cathedral at 23 Ave George V, feature notice boards advertising job and volunteer opportunities.

== Public Transit ==
''Subways, Buses, Ferries, Shuttles, etc.''

== Free Clothing and Furniture ==
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== Assorted Freebies ==
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== Survive ==
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Original Introduction

Firsty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:08:28 GMT

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It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail- that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks. Here too, you learn the only rehabilitation possible-hatred of oppression.

Steal This Book is, in a way, a manual of survival in the prison that is Amerika. It preaches jailbreak. It shows you where exactly how to place the dynamite that will destroy the walls. The first section-SURVIVE!-lays out a potential action program for our new Nation. The chapter headings spell out the demands for a free society. A community where the technology produces goods and services for whoever needs them, come who may. It calls on the Robin Hoods of Santa Barbara Forest to steal from the robber barons who own the castles of capitalism. It implies that the reader already is "ideologically set," in that he understands corporate feudalism as the only robbery worthy of being called "crime," for it is committed against the people as a whole. Whether the ways it describes to rip-off shit are legal or illegal is irrelevant. The dictionary of law is written by the bosses of order. Our moral dictionary says no heisting from each other. To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

Community within our Nation, chaos in theirs; that is the message of SURVIVE!

We cannot survive without learning to fight and that is the lesson in the second section. FIGHT! separates revolutionaries from outlaws. The purpose of part two is not to fuck the system, but destroy it. The weapons are carefully chosen. They are "home-made," in that they are designed for use in our unique electronic jungle. Here the uptown reviewer will find ample proof of our "violent" nature. But again, the dictionary of law fails us. Murder in a uniform is heroic, in a costume it is a crime. False advertisements win awards, forgers end up in jail. Inflated prices guarantee large profits while shoplifters are punished. Politicians conspire to create police riots and the victims are convicted in the courts. Students are gunned down and then indicted by suburban grand juries as the trouble-makers. A modern, highly mechanized army travels 9,000 miles to commit genocide against a small nation of great vision and then accuses its people of aggression. Slumlords allow rats to maim children and then complain of violence in the streets. Everything is topsy-turvy. If we internalize the language and imagery of the pigs, we will forever be fucked. Let me illustrate the point. Amerika was built on the slaughter of a people. That is its history. For years we watched movie after movie that demonstrated the white man's benevolence. Jimmy Stewart, the epitome of fairness, puts his arm around Cochise and tells how the Indians and the whites can live in peace if only both sides will be reasonable, responsible and rational (the three R's imperialists always teach the "natives"). "You will find good grazing land on the other side of the mountain," drawls the public relations man. "Take your people and go in peace." Cochise as well as millions of youngsters in the balcony of learning, were being dealt off the bottom of the deck. The Indians should have offed Jimmy Stewart in every picture and we should have cheered ourselves hoarse. Until we understand the nature of institutional violence and how it manipulates values and mores to maintain the power of the few, we will forever be imprisoned in the caves of ignorance. When we conclude that bank robbers rather than bankers should be the trustees of the universities, then we begin to think clearly. When we see the Army Mathematics Research and Development Center and the Bank of Amerika as cesspools of violence, filling the minds of our young with hatred, turning one against another, then we begin to think revolutionary.

Be clever using section two; clever as a snake. Dig the spirit of the struggle. Don't get hung up on a sacrifice trip. Revolution is not about suicide, it is about life. With your fingers probe the holiness of your body and see that it was meant to live. Your body is just one in a mass of cuddly humanity. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines, and in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. The duty of a revolutionary is to make love and that means staying alive and free. That doesn't allow for cop-outs. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

Section three - LIBERATE! - concerns itself with efforts to free stuff (or at least make it cheap) in four cities. Sort of a quick U.S. on no dollars a day. It begins to scratch the potential for a national effort in this area. Since we are a nation of gypsies, dope on how to move around and dig in anywhere is always needed. Together we can expand this section. It is far from complete, as is the entire project. Incomplete chapters on how to identify police agents, steal a car, run day-care centers, conduct your own trial, organize a G.I. coffee house, start a rock and roll band and make neat clothes, are scattered all over the floor of the cell. The book as it now stands was completed in the late summer of 1970. For three months manuscripts made the rounds of every major publisher. In all, over 30 rejections occurred before the decision to publish the book ourselves was made, or rather made for us. Perhaps no other book in modern times presented such a dilemma. Everyone agreed the book would be a commercial success. But even greed had its limits, and the IRS and FBI following the manuscript with their little jive rap had a telling effect. Thirty "yeses" become thirty "noes" after "thinking it over." Liberals, who supposedly led the fight against censorship, talked of how the book "will end free speech."

Finally the day we were bringing the proofs to the printer, Grove consented to act as distributor. To pull a total solo trip, including distribution, would have been neat, but such an effort would be doomed from the start. We had tried it before and blew it. In fact, if anyone is interested in 4,000 1969 Yippie calendars, they've got a deal. Even with a distributor joining the fight, the battle will only begin when the books come off the press. There is a saying that "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one." In past eras, this was probably the case, but now, high speed methods of typesetting, offset printing and a host of other developments have made substantial reductions in printing costs. Literally anyone is free to print their own works. In even the most repressive society imaginable, you can get away with some form of private publishing. Because Amerika allows this, does not make it the democracy Jefferson envisioned. Repressive tolerance is a real phenomenon. To talk of true freedom of the press, we must talk of the availability of the channels of communication that are designed to reach the entire population, or at least that segment of the population that might participate in such a dialogue. Freedom of the press belongs to those that own the distribution system. Perhaps that has always been the case, but in a mass society where nearly everyone is instantaneously plugged into a variety of national communications systems, wide-spread dissemination of the information is the crux of the matter. To make the claim that the right to print your own book means freedom of the press is to completely misunderstand the nature of a mass society. It is like making the claim that anyone with a pushcart can challenge Safeway supermarkets, or that any child can grow up to be president.

State legislators, librarians, PTA members, FBI agents, church-goers, and parents: a veritable legion of decency and order already is on the march. To get the book to you might be the biggest challenge we face. The next few months should prove really exciting.

Obviously such a project as Steal This Book could not have been carried out alone. Izak Haber shared the vision from the beginning. He did months of valuable research and contributed many of the survival techniques. Carole Ramer and Gus Reichbach of the New York Law Commune guided the book through its many stages. Anna Kaufman Moon did almost all the photographs. The cartoonists who have made contributions include Ski Williamson and Gilbert Sheldon. Tom Forcade, of the UPS, patiently did the editing. Bert Cohen of Concert Hall did the book's graphic design. Amber and John Wilcox set the type. Anita Hoffman and Lynn Borman helped me rewrite a number of sections. There are others who participated in the testing of many of the techniques demonstrated in the following pages and for obvious reasons have to remain anonymous. There were perhaps over 50 brothers and sisters who played particularly vital roles in the grand conspiracy. Some of the many others are listed on the following page. We hope to keep the information up to date. If you have comments, law suits, suggestions or death threats, please send them to: Dear Abbie P.0. Box 213, Cooper Station, New York, NY 10003. Many of the tips might not work in your area, some might be obsolete by the time you get to try them out, and many addresses and phone numbers might be changed. If the reader becomes a participating researcher then we will have achieved our purpose.

Watch for a special edition called Steal This White House, complete with blueprints of underground passages, methods of jamming the communications network and a detailed map of the celebrated room where according to Tricia Nixon, "Daddy loves to listen to Mantovanni records, turn up the air conditioner full blast, sit by the fireplace, gaze out the window to the Washington Monument and meditate on those difficult problems that face all the peoples of this world."

December, 1970
Cook County Jail
Chicago

"Free speech is the right to shout
'THEATER!' in a crowded fire."
-a Yippie Proverb

Free Miami

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Download

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==Download==

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Free Crawfordsville, IN

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== General Guide ==
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Crawfordsville is a small town of about 15,000 people, located just south of I-74 Exit 34. It is a good stop off point if you're on the move, especially biking from or to Indianapolis as it's about 35 miles west from this city and 35 miles east of the Illinois border and about 25 miles south of the Lafayette area. The city is very small, most everything is spread along SR-231. There are several decent cafes and plenty of fa(s)t food places. Because it's a small town, a homeless person will look out of town, but if you're cleaned up no one will notice a few missing items.

== Housing ==
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== Food ==
''Free/low-cost markets, produce, butchers, day-old bakeries, Food banks, missions, church meals, etc.''

== Medical Care ==
''Planned parenthood, free clinics, free medical advice, Medicare resources, low-cost clinics, etc.''

== Legal Aid ==
''ACLU, free legal aid/counseling, pro bono attorneys, etc.''

== Armed Forces/Deployment Avoidance Counseling ==
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== Play ==
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''Beaches, Swimming Pools, Parks, Sports, Museums, Music, Theatre, TV shows, Movies, etc.''

== Information ==
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== Underground Papers ==
''Self-explanatory''

== Miscellaneous ==
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== Public Transit ==
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== Free Clothing and Furniture ==
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== Assorted Freebies ==
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== Survive ==
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Saigon

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Saigon is now called Ho Chi Mihn City. It is the largest city in
Vietnam.

Get a Job

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Contrary to what the corpgov slaves say we are not above working as long as it doesn't involve slavery, we do follow the hobo code and will work before we beg, but we will live from the salvage of what the masters and their slaves throw away first. Here are some ideas beyond what is mentioned elsewhere in this book.

==Mechanic==
Bicycle, appliance, electrical, small engine, and auto repair can be offered as available especially offer to change blown tires for a small sum when hitching to those who can afford, put a sign in your yard or hold one near an auto parts store.

==Gatherer==
Gold panning, shell collecting, shed antler collecting, etc; be careful what you are collecting is not ruining an ecosystem.

==Consulting==
Many small businesses only want a computer or other consultant for a few days or weeks, many small businesses will be happy to pay under the table, take your pay every day or week so they can't burn you at the end of the job. Many jobs are available near a business fiscal year end.

==Agricultural and yard labor==
Find where the migrant laborers hang out for jobs, many employers will expect more work out of a migrant than a lazy amerikan until you prove yourself, these are almost always cash jobs.

==Seasonal Work==
Jobs like ski lift operator, lifeguard, camp counselor, or forest fire crews fall under this heading. An under the table pay job is usually not what you want since you want to play the unemployment game in spring and fall. See [[Unemployment]]

==Blacksmith/Welder==
After a bit of practice try hiring yourself out for making things like window bars or iron gates from rebar or fabricating needed parts for old machines. see [[Means of Production]]

==Micro Farming==
If you can project a good earthy hippie vibe and are committed to organic principles many people will buy their organic eggs and produce even without certification. A good idea is to get monthly or yearly subscribers to an egg or greenhouse produce club. see [[Farm It]]

==Online Sales==
Web auction sites are an easy way to make money either selling stuff you find or fix from your dumpster expeditions or even better sell software, multimedia, or support services online, no shipping required! You can collect by either taking checks or e-payments although be careful that you withdraw payments quickly keeping your account balance low, some online payment systems will seize some or all of your money if the customer commits fraud or complains. Some e-payment companies even give you a debit card to spend your earnings. Be careful about taxes since amerikan e-payment systems report to the IRS.

==Blankets and Car Trunks==
You can go to many fairs and gatherings where a blanket on the ground and your wares laid is all you need, sales out of a car trunk works too although this is suspicious to the police and may lead to a search. Renisance fairs, open air concerts, rainbow gatherings, and large campouts are perfect for selling hand made and recycled goods.

==Courier==
If you know a small business that needs things hand delivered offer to be their courier. You will either get to cycle sprint around town with a important document or even better jet around the country or world with their documents or prototypes. Law offices, jewelery dealers, and small high tech or aerospace manufacturers are good places to start. Of course most of these businesses will not send valuable things with some hippie stranger, start with people you know or work through an agency. A benefit to working with an agency is you often have to work only the days you want to.

==Food Service==
A van or bicycle trailer full of food can set you up to serve small to medium business in suburban and industrial areas. Stealth is important as unlicensed food service is investigated by the health department. Think about home baking delivery pizza with a partner or ice cream trucking with a bike trailer loaded up with cold snacks and dry ice. A fryer and propane grille set up in a van can feed dozens of customers at a job site, it is smart to get permission so the management won't turn you in. Precook as much food as possible and use steamer trays and boxes to keep food warm. An easy job is taking written orders and cash up front for coffee, deli, or fast food delivery in big offices, this might even avoid the health department jurisdiction.

==Advertise==
Everyone hates the wasteful windshield spam in parking lots but is is a lame way to get enough for a few meals in a pinch, you can also offer to dress up in a costume and shake a sign in front of used car lots.

==Advertise Yourself==
For the occasional labor jobs especially if you plan to be in town for a long time advertise with business cards or refrigerator magnets, going door to door at businesses is a good way to hand them out, but only to those who seem really interested. Give out your SMS and e-mail addresses so you will be easy to contact especially in time sensitive jobs like delivery or food orders.

==Considerations==
Be sure the size of the job is large enough to justify your time and travel. Depending on the job market you might be forced to do heavy physical labor, that's OK as long as you are able to walk away when you want to. Get to know the workers compensation laws in case you are injured on the job, in some places you might even be eligible if you were working under the table but you will have to narc on your employer.

==Trade==
Always consider a trade over corpgov paper, cash and checks have no real value other than what society places on it. You can always eat food and ride a repaired bicycle even if nobody values it.