"BAMN (By Any Means Necessary)" (1971)

Baltimore, Maryland, US and Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books (book, anthology), 1971. 8" x 5.5" x 0.75", 280 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-14-003267-3.

BAMN (By Any Means Necessary): Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera 1965-1970, an anthology edited by Peter Stansill and David Zane Mairowitz (IT) and published by Penguin Books (this: Baltimore, Maryland, US) in 1971. Designed by Patrick McCreeth.

William S. Burroughs contributes "The Function of the Underground Press", pp. 44-45.

Maynard & Miles B58. Shoaf II.73.

Selected Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• 1. Provo – Skull Trepanation – Early London Developments:
• 'Provo' Magazine Leaflet
• Brussels Provocation No 1
• "What Is the Provotariat?"
• Roel van Duyn: "The Technique of How to Provocate"
• Provo's Bicycle Plan
• The Orange Committee: "To Her Royal Highness the Queen of the Netherlands, Juliana of Orange, etc., etc."
• Call to the Provotartiat
• Institute of Revolutionary Pupils: "White School Plan"
• Quiet Procession
• White Chicken Plan
• Simon Vinkenoog: "Voting Poem"
• H. B. Huges: "Skull Trepanation"
• "Trepanation: The Discovery"
• Paolo Lionni: "Letter to the Queen"
• Alexander Trocchi: "Project Sigma"
• Pool Cosmonaut
• North Atlantic Turn-On
• Press Release
• William S. Burroughs: "The Function of the Underground Press"
• 2. San Francisco Free City/Diggers:
• Leaders
• A Prophecy of a Declaration of Independence
• Media Is Mutual Aid in a Free Society
• Daytime Paranoia Becomes a Joke at Night
• The Cosmic Redistribution Service
• Planetedge
• Garbage or Nothing
• Final City, Tap City
• 3. Liquidation of Provo – International Times raid – Black Panthers – End of Free City:
• IT Bust Manifesto
• Black Panther Platform
• Haight Street Riot Leaflet
• 4. London Anti-Institutions – Non-Violent Tactics:
• The Dialectics of Liberation
• Mary Barnes: "Ideas About a Place"
• Bruce & Don: "Alice in Reality"
• Antiuniversity of London Manifesto
• Where Bit's At
• Living Theatre Declaration, April 1970
• Tribal Drum
• 5. Yippie! – American Frivolity – Berlin Kommune 1 – Swedish Projects:
• Yippie! Leaflet
• Yippies Meet National Death Party
• Yippie! Voting Manifesto
• Predictions for Yippie Activities in Chicago – Summer 1968
• Yippie! Things to Do on Erection Day
• Jerry Rubin's Acceptance Speech on Receiving His Conspiracy Indictment
• CRAP! Campaign Revolution Against Parliament Crap!
• Delaware Obscenity Group
• Wedding Service for Country Joe
• Berlin Kommune I: An Application
• New Type of Demonstration Tested in Brussels for the First Time
• When Will the Berlin Department Stores Burn?
• Tactics Leaflet
• Stroll Demo
• 6. Paris Situationists – Enragés – Influences on England:
• We Are Nothing if not Everything
• Sorbonne Anti-Gas Leaflet
• Tract Published in Bordeaux, April 1968
• Words of Command for Immediate Dissemination by Any Means
• Salvador Dalí: "My Cultural Evolution"
• Thirteen Questions to the Organizers and Participants of the Avignon Festival
• Appeal from the Free France Committee in London
• We Need You, Cohn-Bendit
• Interview with a Famous French Film Star and Sex Symbol: Paris, Feb. 1969
• 7. Armed Love – Up Against the Wall Motherfucker/International Werewolf Conspiracy:
• Another Carnival of Left Politics
• Affinity Group: A Street Gang with an Analysis
• A Little Treatise on Dying
• Acid-Armed Consciousness
• Fillmore Free Theater Leaflets
• Revolution in Dreams
• Summer Solstice, New Mexico
• International Werewolf Conspiracy
• 8. English Situationists and Motherfuckers White Panthers
• The Black Hand Gang
• Urban Gorilla Comes East
• Arson News: The Day of the Triffids
• White Panther Manifesto
• Prison Letter from John Sinclair
• John Sinclair on the Underground Press
• 9. American Indians – Ecology – People's Park:
• We Hold the Rock!
• Proclamation
• The Unanimous Declaration of Interdependence
• Michael McClure: "To James B. Rector"
• Frank Bardacke: "Reclaim the Earth!"
• Marvin Garson: "History Is Now"
• 10. Women's Liberation – Gay Liberation:
• No More Miss America!
• Excerpts from the WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) Manifesto
• An Examination
• Women Take Over the 'RAT'
• Robin Morgan: "Goodbye to All That"
• 11. Swiss Satisfaction – Dutch Restlessness – English Agro:
• Swiss Leaflet Continued
• Dutch Soldier Leaflet Number 2
• An Open Letter to the Underground from the London Street Commune
• 'Yell' Editorial
• 'Yell' Editorial 2
• Agro Editorial: Up Theirs
• 12. Orange Free State/Kabouters – The Conspiracy – Weathermen – Bombing – Earth People's Park:
• Proclamation of the Orange Free State
• An Emergency Letter to My Brothers and Sisters in the Movement
• S.D.S. Conference Press Release
• Venceremos Brigade Advertisement
• No More Nations
• An Open Letter from the Revolutionary Movement to the Bank of America
• Plant Your Seeds
• Bombing Statement
• Earth People's Park Statement
• Earth People's Park Bulletin
• End of an Era
• Smokey the Bear Sutra
• Appendix