UGZ Magazine

10/14/2024

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

10/06/2024

There’s a memorial show for Joe Franke taking place on Sunday at the El Rio, 2pm doors. We’ll be there early if you want to say, “What’s up?”

07/16/2024

Rest In Peace, Joe Franke

Official statement from FRACAS

03/26/2024

This Saturday in Portland! P**s Baptism (ex-Dying In Your Beauty Sleep, ex-Bird) is playing a show at the Alleyway - 8pm doors. NOTAFLOF

03/05/2024

TRAGEDY - 924 Gilman, Berkeley, CA - 6.6.08

TRAGEDYJune 6th, 2008Berkeley, CA@ 924 Gilman Sthttp://www.924gilman.orgGo to http://www.killthatcat.com for even more rad videos!

03/05/2024

The Fight to Free US Political Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal

Supporters of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal are calling for urgent action as his health takes a serious decline and he continues to battle the state for...

02/21/2024

Creativity Explored is a legendary, 40-year- old studio-based collective in San Francisco that partners with and supports developmentally disabled art...

02/21/2024

Rome: De*th To America

Rome is activist. A gang member. And a political commentator... And he's also trying to build the largest black communist in the country to put an end to the...

02/17/2024

The Turkey Tape is now available online. There’s also a fresh issue of Turkey Neck zine out. If you want know more, drop into Turkey Neck Zine.

For all the people who don't have tape decks...1:00 Johnny And The Dudes-In The Sh*t5:02 Most Fried-Slam8:43 Organized Filth-Babtized10:17 Grump-Recurrent12:...

08/21/2023

GRIMPLE - Live at Gilman, 1992

08/18/2023

Hiero Day 9.4.23

08/18/2023

Local tribes celebrate Pueblo Revolt anniversary in New Mexico

Native Americans communities invited people to commemorate the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 by sharing some of the history.

07/05/2023

That time in 2007 when I helped book Joel's annual birthday weekend at Gilman. No Guns N' Roses cover that night, but Gravy Train was great, the show was huge, and I like the flyer I made using a Martha Cooper photo and some faces that Joel drew for me on the back of a handbill at the club.

05/23/2023

The Punk Rock Photography of Murray Bowles as Iconoclasm - presented by Dr. Thanayi Jackson

The shared archive of Murray Bowles photography focusing on the East Bay and South Bay Area house party culture. Presented by Dr. Thanayi Jackson at the 2023...

03/22/2023

ATROCIOUS MADNESS - "The Uses Of HAARP" - EP

1. Terror Technology Of The Conspiracy 2. Atheist Attack 3. The Trail Of Blood 4. Too Late Too Late 5. Disturbing Practices 6. Tomorrow The Stars 7. Possesse...

02/22/2023

The newest issue of Urban Guerrilla Zine is out now, featuring photos and art from Karoline Collins, Sam Bortnick, Valerie Adinolfi, Jennifer Ahn, Steve Hart, Jay Unidos, Matt Kadi, Jake Chavarria, Jake Skate, Kali, Serena Sigona, Robert Bishop, Cris Rodriguez, and a mixtape playlist by Pat Libby (link to the audio in the zine). Every order comes with stickers for decorating your favorite hangout spots, street signs or add them to your collection. I’m a fan of all three options. Go to https://urbanguerrillazine.bigcartel.com to grab a copy.

Copies of Urban Guerrilla Zine, Issue 27 are also available at:
• Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA
• Green Apple Books, 506 Clement St., San Francisco, CA
• Phono Select Records, 2475 Fruitridge Rd, Sacramento, CA
• Silver Sprocket, 1018 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA
• Quimby's Bookstore, 1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL

Some profits donated:
8.12.23: We donated $50 to Nā Wahine Toa (Woman Warriors) under the name "Serena Sigona" - https://ilimanator.com/na-

Thanks for supporting DIY•IZM!

02/10/2023

"I definitely think that in terms of activism that a lot of people will be politicized by punk rock and then will move on and do something else totally unrelated to punk. I don’t think that’s betrayal. I just get frustrated because I wish that they would help out the scene that helped them out and that got them to that point. I think a lot of people have criticisms about the scene, which I agree with, but if everyone leaves the scene because they’re critical about it then the scene doesn’t get any better. There aren’t a lot of women and there’s sexism that’s not going to get any better and not going to change if all of the activist people who want to change it go out to do politics or to do their own thing."

-Jen Angel

We are heartbroken by the passing of our dear friend and comrade, Jen Angel. Jen was a longtime member of the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair Collective, and we will miss her presence, her joy and humor, her determination, and the ways she always strove to invite people in and welcome them to anarchist perspectives of understanding the world. We have all learned so much from her and her legacy will continue to guide the book fair.

Posted by Jen Angel's Team: It’s with a heavy heart that we share that Oakland baker, small business owner, social justice activist, and community member Jen Angel has been medically declared to have lost all brain function and will not regain consciousness. Her official time of death was 5:48pm (PT).
Friends and family of Jen hope that the story of this last chapter of her brilliant, full, dynamic life is one focused on her commitment to community, on the care bestowed upon her and her family by the people who loved her, and on the generous and courageous role of countless health care workers and public servants who fought to preserve her life. We know Jen would not want to continue the cycle of harm by bringing state-sanctioned violence to those involved in her death or to other members of Oakland’s rich community.
As a long-time social movement activist and anarchist, Jen did not believe in state violence, carceral punishment, or incarceration as an effective or just solution to social violence and inequity. The outpouring of support and care for Jen, her family and friends, and the values she held dear is a resounding demonstration of the response to harm that Jen believed in: community members relying on one another, leading with love, centering the needs of the most vulnerable, and not resorting to vengeance and inflicting more harm.
Jen believed in a world where everyone has the ability to live a dignified and joyful life and worked toward an ecologically sustainable and deeply participatory society in which all people have access to the things they need, decisions are made by those most directly affected by them, and all people are free and equal.
Angel Cakes, the popular community-based bakery that Jen founded in 2008, will remain open, supported by Jen’s estate, and staffed by the talented team that Jen built. Community members who wish to support the bakery can especially help through buying gift certificates and committing to long-term patronage.
Per Jen’s wishes, her organs will be donated, and her committed medical team has informed the family that those organs will serve to lengthen and improve the lives of up to 70 people.

If the Oakland Police Department does make an arrest in this case, Jen's values call for pursuing all available alternatives to traditional prosecution, such as restorative justice. Jen’s community ask that the media respect this request and carry forward the story of her life with celebration and clarity about the world she aimed to build. Please do not use Jen’s life legacy of care and community to further inflame narratives of fear, hatred, and vengeance. Jen would not want to advance putting public resources into policing, incarceration, or other state violence that perpetuates the cycles of violence that resulted in this tragedy.

We wish for Jen’s legacy to be one of deep commitment to safety and dignity for everyone.
Continue to support via Go Fund Me:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/love-and-support-for-jen-angel
Caring Bridges: https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jenangel
Offers of support to Jen's Family & Community: bit.ly/jenangelsupport — with Jen Angel.

01/23/2023