UPDATE – 1/13/24: The fundraising goal of 1k has been reached. This page will remain up as a portal for donations. Reminding others that we are not a university-based or foundation-funded group. Donations are always welcome, and needed.
Since 2017, True Leap publishing collective has facilitated a Zine Distro that creates and mails free radical zines for people locked up in U.S. prisons and jails. Unfortunately, our printing rotation and distribution network cannot sustain itself given the limited funds/resources we have. We are asking for help to raise $1000, to pay rent-owed to the print shop we work from and to continue gathering the materials we need for this year’s run. This will ensure we can keep moving, remain consistent, and reply to orders in a timely fashion. We have already filled over two dozen orders in the first week of 2024.
Despite ongoing censorship, increasing mail digitization, and obstacles posed by racist/homophobic/transphobic content bans, this year we still mailed hundreds of zines to readers in over a dozen states. We also have printed an inordinate amount of zines this past year for local collectives and events supporting prison activism, including letter writing nights, study groups, and community forums.
The primary goal of this project is to serve as a reliable point of access for people who are locked up to receive literature on critical topics and subject-matter. Offering this literature at no charge is also a key part of our praxis, as abolitionists working in traditions of revolutionary solidarity and prisoner support.
While we continue to prepare for this year’s run, our collective is asking for your support to sustain the following tasks and infrastructure:
Printer toner: $200
P.O. Box fee/ stamps: $300
Rent owed to print shop $400
GTL/phone/correspondence costs $100
If you would like to contribute funds toward the printing and distribution of radical zines for readers in prison and jail, you can send money to the following links:
paypal: trueleappress@protonmail.com
paypal.me: @abolitionfundrazing
venmo: @zinemachine
if you would like to make a cash donation, we can be reached by mail at
True Leap Press: Prison Zine Distro, P.O. Box 6045 Concord, CA 94524
To learn more about the distro, please check out our 2024 digital catalog. The introduction explains what we’ve been up to the past year!
trueleappress.com 