Come!Unity Press publications, 1973-1980
Collection Number: 8699
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Come!Unity Press publications, 1973-1980
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8699
Abstract:
A collection of 30 flyers, broadsides, periodicals, and other publications printed
at the Come!Unity Press printshop. Topics include advocacy for black women, gay and
lesbian rights, labor and worker's rights, and newsletters about indigenous, Spanish,
and Filipino resistance.
Creator:
Quanitities:
.3 cubic feet.
A collection of 30 flyers, broadsides, periodicals, and other publications printed
at the Come!Unity Press printshop. Topics include advocacy for black women, gay and
lesbian rights, labor and worker's rights, and newsletters about indigenous, Spanish,
and Filipino resistance.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Come!Unity Press publications, #8699. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Places:
United States -- Politics and government.
Subjects:
African American women
African American women -- Political activity
African American women -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Anarchism.
Anarchists.
Community power
Culture.
Feminism.
Gay community
Gay liberation movement.
Gay rights
Gender identity
Hispanic Americans.
Human rights.
Indians of North America -- Civil rights
Lesbians--Political Activity.
Press and politics.
Printing.
Protest movements.
Race relations.
Social history.
Women, Black
Women's rights
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Celebrate Lesbian Motherhood with Dykes & Tykes on Mother's Day
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
4 page single-sheet folded pamphlet advertising rally and demonstration celebrating
lesbian mothers and their children on Mother's Day. Printed at Come! Unity Press by
Dykes and Tykes, this pamphlet also contains demands, information on lesbians losing
their children in court, and list of endorsing organizations. Demonstration to be
held at Manhattan Family Court with rally the day before at PS 41, over Mother's Day
weekend.
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Survival by Sharing: Anarcho-Feminist Network Notes #2
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1975 |
Scope and Contents
8 sheets of different paper stock folded together, unbound pamphlet. Directory of
anarcho-feminists created for networking and nurturing community, grown out of connections
made at the New York Anarchist Conference. This is the second pamphlet published.
Includes center spread with information on Come! Unity Press and their intentional
community in New York as well as information from anarcho-feminists from across the
country.
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Women in the Spanish Revolution
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1975 |
Creator: Willis, Liz
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Scope and Contents
First printing by Solidarity London, second printing by The Lower Depths. Saddle stapled
in illustrated wraps. Colophon reads "typesetting stolen." Very good condition, yellowing
along spine with minor edgewear and creasing. Writings with archival photographs and
illustrations on the contributions women made to the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and
how women's lives changed afterward and the role they continue to play in the political
struggle of the nation. Printed with archival images sourced by Federico Arcos and
writings provided by Freedom Press.
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Box 1 | Folder 4-5 |
Bakunin on Violence: Letter to S. Nechayev
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
2 copies, first printing and second printing. Saddle staple bound in quarter-cloth
wraps, one copy with black tape along spine. Both in very good condition with some
slight yellowing to wraps and chips to the edges.Reflections on violence in a letter
to Sergey Nechayev from the great anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. "For myself," Bakunin
states, "I cannot tolerate either brigandage or thieving,nor any other anti-human
violence."
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Some IWW Cartoons
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
Saddle staple bound in illustrated wraps. 16 pp. In very good condition, with ink
dedication on the wraps "For Charlie, from Elizabeth." Reprinted comics of the International
Workers of the World on the subjects of labor, police brutality, class, and capitalism.
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Equal Rights for Gay People
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1976 |
Scope and Contents
4 page single-sheet folded pamphlet seeking to raise awareness that anti-discrimination
laws in 1976 didn't extend to homosexuals, and to encourage its readers to lend their
support to a civil rights law which would close that gap. Includes information, upcoming
actions, and list of LGBT organizations supporting a gay rights bill.
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Bronx Women's Survival Manual
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1975 |
Scope and Contents
Saddle stapled in illustrated wraps. Produced by women of the organization White Lighting
for the Bronx People's Fair July 19, 1975. This booklet includes educational information
written by women for women of the Bronx and beyond on issues ranging from rape survivor
resources to healthcare for low income families to how to change a tire.
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
The Anarchs of New York Newsletter
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1974-03 |
Scope and Contents
10 pp. Unbound leaves. Includes tipped in schedule of events for Live and Let Live
Anarchist Conference April 19-21 at Hunter College. Newsletter for New York anarchists
disseminating information on the upcoming conference and smaller events surrounding
the conference. Includes words from various anarchist groups attending the conference,
proposals and questions for discussion, schedules, and more. The centerfold of this
newsletter is a flyer for the conference.
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Philippines Information Bulletin, Volume 1, Number 2
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1973 |
Scope and Contents
35 pp. staplebound in illustrated wraps. Deals with the declaration of martial law
by Ferdinand Marcos during 1972, after which he cracked down on the media and political
dissidents and perpetrated human rights abuses, before he was finally removed from
power until 1986.
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Gay Anarchist Printing Collective looking for others…
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1973 |
Scope and Contents
Flyer seeking likeminded individuals looking for access to print shop.
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Come! to a Party Held for the Benefit of Come!Unity Press
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1974 |
Scope and Contents
Flyer for a fundraising party at Come!Unity Press held on May 30 to benefit the press
and its mission to provide equal access to everyone. Printed on verso is a flyer in
opposition to Gerald Ford printed by Come!Unity in association with Youth International
Party.
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Come!Unity Press Still Needs $150
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1973 |
Scope and Contents
Printed on recto and verso, both of which ask for donations and help to keep the print
shop running after the printing of Phillipines Info Bulletin no. 2. Come!Unity was
a completely pay-what-you-can organization, and therefore sometimes costs exceeded
what the artist could pay, and fundraising efforts such as this were in constant effect.
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Come!Unity Press is a cooperative printing community…
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1973 |
Scope and Contents
Handbill printed recto and verso discussing the print shop's ethos and services, including
a list of anarchist organizations that either support or work with them. Includes
information on printing but also on living cooperatively and the maintenance work
involved, calling for other gay women and men to join their living and working collective.
Includes breakdown of expenses and specific needs.
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Box 1 | Folder 15-16 |
Vietnam on to the North
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1973 |
Scope and Contents
2 copies. 4 page single-sheet folded pamphlet.
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Esther Dolgoff Will Speak on...
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1974 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Gay Anarchist Survival Project
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 19-20 |
collection of various pamphlets related to activism, anarchy
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
2 copies
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
A Gay Science Fiction Magazine
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1976 |
Scope and Contents
Announcement of a forthcoming science fiction magazine soliciting contributions from
lesbians and gay men, provides meeting time to discuss the first issue. Organized
by the Gay Science Fiction Collective.
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Impeach Nixon
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1972 |
Scope and Contents
Poster with text "Impeach Nixon" on recto, "break de chains" on verso, with text about
the court case of Joanne Chesimard
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Impeach Nixon proof
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1972 |
Scope and Contents
Printed on a sheet of a booklet regarding environmental issues and sewage, titled
"Environmental Bond Issue". Test printing for Nixon poster.
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
When Freedom is Outlawed Only Outlaws Will Be Free
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1976 |
Scope and Contents
Printed on recto and verso. Information on concert, march, and rally leading up to
Democratic National Convention. Verso states: "Stop 1984 in 1976! Stop Cointelpro!
Stop S-1!" Verso with information about the 1972 Miami Convention.
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Beware Good Pay or Bum Work IWW
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
International Workers of the World poster with cat graphic, "One Big Union: We Never
Forget".
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Impeach the Presidency and the System – Not Just the Chief / Nobody for President
– We Don't Need a King!
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1976 |
Scope and Contents
Broadside poster advocating the abolition of the presidency and full anarchism following
Nixon's term, text by The Anarchs of New York.
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
10th Anniversary Easter Be-In (On Behalf of Letting People Be)
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1978 |
Scope and Contents
Poster for Be-In in held in Central Park, Easter weekend April 10. Music provided
by Bethesda Fountain Band and Friends and presented by Yippies.
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Box 1 | Folder 28-29 |
Reallocating $ as a Resource / If we won't do it, it won't get done
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1972 |
Scope and Contents
2 copies, one copy on pink paper and one on blue. Double sided poster features Come!Unity
Press' ideas on self-funding and reallocation of funds. Verso features a decorative
list of alternative press, radical groups, and underground publishing outfits around
New York in the early 1970s including the United Farmworkers Union, the Gay Revolution
Network, and the IWW.
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Box 1 | Folder 30-31 |
The American Indian Revelation
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1973 |
Scope and Contents
With Pacifica "Free radio under fire" poster printed on verso. Includes information
about the history of American Indian human rights struggles throughout American history.
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Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Pacifica WBAI 99.5fm Free Radio Under Fire
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1971 |
Scope and Contents
Broadside exploring the attack on free press by the Nixon administration, specifically
its attempt to strip radio licenses from four FM stations operated by the Pacifica
Foundation.
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