The Bottled Wasp Pocket Diary is a new not-for-profit prisoner
support fundraising project launched by Brighton Anarchist Black Cross
and associates at the 2012 London Anarchist Bookfair. Our plan is to
create a long-term stable income for prisoner support
activities, delivering a publishing template that can be used by a
hopefully independent self-sustaining collective that will go on to
produce the diary in future years.
Each new edition of the Bottled
Wasp is based around an individual theme, which for the 2013 edition of
The Wasp is prisoner support and resistance. It features articles on
Writing to Prisoners, Why You Should Sue the Police, No Comment plus all
the usual
diary features: monthly and yearly organisers, a menstrual calendar and
extensive prisoner support links pages. With contributions from the
Anarchist Black Cross, Legal Defence & Monitoring Group, Bent Bars
Project, Green & Black Cross, Haven Books to Prisoners,
Kate Sharpley Library and many more. The planned theme for the 2014
edition is 'Anarchism and the Arts', with 2015 slated for an
anti-fascist themed one.
The cover of the Bottled Wasp has been designed by Clifford Harper
and the diary itself includes extensive listings of dates and
illustrations of historical prison resistance and other non-prison
related anarchist and class struggle events, large-scale demos
and significant resistance activities, long-term prisoners' birthdays
(as part of the role of this issue of the diary is to increase the
numbers of people actively supporting prisoners in addition to passively
supporting them via purchase of the diary itself)
along with monthly feature articles on subjects ranging from Attica
1971 and Strangeways 1990 the Bombing of MOVE to Giuseppi Pinelli and
Deaths in Custody.
The Wasp was launched at the London Anarchist Bookfair on October
27th at Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS and is currently
available for the staggeringly reasonable price of £5 from a good
bookshop near you.
Please help spread the news and you can also publicise the Bottled Wasp by linking to our Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/bottledwasp
If you wish to make a donation to the Bottled Wasp project and to the
work that the Anarchist Black Cross network and other prisoner support
groups do, then here are our bank account details:
The Bottled WaspCo-operative Bank
Sort code: 08-92-99
Acc. No.: 65601648
You can also contact us at: thebottledwasp@riseup.net
