Steel This Book

STEAL THIS BOOK
By Abbie Hoffman
Dedicated to Jerry Lefcourt, Lawyer and Brother
Library of Congress number 72-157115 (stolen from Library of Congress)
copyright ©1971 PIRATE EDITIONS

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INTRODUCTION
AIDING AND ABETTING
SURVIVE!
1. FREE FOOD
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Restaurants
Food Programs
Supermarkets
Wholesale Markets
Food Conspiracies
Cheap Chow2. FREE CLOTHING AND FURNITURE
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Free Clothing
Sandals
Free Furniture

3. FREE TRANSPORTATION
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Hitch-Hiking
Freighting
Cars
Buses
Airlines
In City Travel

4. FREE LAND
5. FREE HOUSING
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Communes
Urban Living
Rural Living
List of Communes

6. FREE EDUCATION
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List of Free Universities

7. FREE MEDICAL CARE
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Birth ControlClinics
Abortions
Diseases Treated Free

8. FREE COMMUNICATION
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Press Conference
Wall Painting
Use of the Flag
Radio
Free Telephones
Pay Phones

9. FREE PLAY
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Movies and Concerts
Records and Books

10. FREE MONEY
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Welfare
Unemployment
Panhandling
Rip-Offs
The International Yippie Currency Exchange

11. FREE DOPE
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Buying,Selling and Giving It Away
Growing Your Own

12. ASSORTED FREEBIES
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Laundry
Pets
Posters
Security
Postage
Maps
Ministry
Attrocities
Veteran's Benefits
Watch
Vacations

Drinks
Burials
Astrodome Pictures
Diploma
Toilets
FIGHT!
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1. TELL IT ALL, BROTHERS AND SISTERS
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Starting a Printing WorkshopUnderground Newspapers
High School Papers
G.I. Papers
News Services
The Underground Press
Switchboards

2. GUERRILLA BROADCASTING
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Guerrilla Radio
Guerrilla Television

3. DEMONSTRATIONS
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Dress
Helmets
Gas Masks
Walkie-Talkies
Other Equipment

4. TRASHING
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Weapons for Street Fighting
Knife Fighting
Unarmed Defense
General Strategy Rep

5. PEOPLE'SCHEMISTRY
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Stink Bomb
Smoke Bomb
CBW
Molotov Cocktail
Sterno Bomb
Aerosol Bomb
Pipe Bombs

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General Bomb Strategy

6. FIRST AID FOR STREET FIGHTERS
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What to Do
Medical Committees

7. HIP-POCKET LAW
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Legal Advice
Lawyer's Group
Join the Army of Your Choice
Canada, Sweden & Political Asylum

8. STEAL NOW, PAY NEVER
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oShoplifting
Techniques
On the Job
Credit Cards

9. MONKEY WELFARE
10. PIECE NOW
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Handguns
Rifles
Shotguns
Other Weapons
Training
Gun Laws

11. THE UNDERGROUND
Identification Papers
Communication
LIBERATE!
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1. FUCK NEW YORK
2. FUCK CHICAGO
3. FUCK LOS ANGELES
4. FUCK SAN FRANCISCO

INTRODUCTION

It's perhaps fitting that I write thisintroduction 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 thedynamite 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 ofcapitalism. 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...