{"id":437,"date":"2013-03-18T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/?p=437"},"modified":"2013-03-18T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:12:17","slug":"slingshot-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2013\/03\/18\/slingshot-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Slingshot Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slingshot.tao.ca\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-438\" alt=\"Slingshot Collective\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2013\/03\/slingshot_logo.png\" width=\"252\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent acquisition to the Archives&#8217;\u00a0Alternative Press Collection is <a href=\"http:\/\/slingshot.tao.ca\/past.html\">Slingshot<\/a>, a radical journal published by the Slingshot Collective out of Berkeley, CA.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/homerweb.lib.uconn.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=slingshot+collective&amp;SL=None&amp;Search_Code=GKEY%5E&amp;PID=TrnRAkB8tEXo1CI_n_WESF5AYmaR&amp;SEQ=20130318134644&amp;CNT=50&amp;HIST=1\">We have<\/a> early back\u00a0issues from 1988 up to the current issue.\u00a0 In addition, we also carry\u00a0samplings of the popular Slingshot Organizers which are artistically, historically and resourcefully\u00a0compiled\u00a0booklets\u00a0that\u00a0function as the primary fund raiser for the collective.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the collective published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5MB2MSD2xO4\">book<\/a> edited by Terri Compost\u00a0in 2009 about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplespark.org\/\">People&#8217;s Park<\/a> in Berkeley which was\u00a0a site of contention beginning in the late 1960s\u00a0between the University of California and the community invested in making the space public.\u00a0 It currently exists as a semi-free space for gardening, theater, play and all things other than volleyball.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These materials and other collective publishing ventures can be accessed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/asc\/dodda2z\/subjectarea.cfm?Area=1\">Alternative Press Collection<\/a> at\u00a0the Archives &amp; Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research\u00a0Center, University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent acquisition to the Archives&#8217;\u00a0Alternative Press Collection is Slingshot, a radical journal published by the Slingshot Collective out of Berkeley, CA.\u00a0 We have early back\u00a0issues from 1988 up to the current issue.\u00a0 In addition, we also carry\u00a0samplings of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2013\/03\/18\/slingshot-collective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,30,22],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL7Z-73","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}