DIY Solidarity

DIY Solidarity is a project we’ve been able to set up due to an aging punk feeling the need to share an inheritance that has fallen into their lap. It means that, every year, we have some funds available to support DIY projects.

This question could be (and has been) discussed for decades, but for the means and purposes of DIY Solidarity, we consider any project a DIY project that relies solely on the participants’ involvement and community support. No state sponsoring, corporate sponsoring, or NGO sponsoring.

We lean on the vast network of DIY enthusiasts who have helped keep this site (diyconspiracy.net) running for years. Spread out across the globe, these are the people we consult with when looking through applications. We’d like to see DIY Solidarity as a tool of redistribution of funds, moving funds from those who have relatively easy access to them (like our old punk friend) to those who don’t.

We’d also like to share fairly equally between bands and venues, zine makers and distros, festivals and gatherings, social centers and living spaces. While $1,000+ applications might go through, chances are limited. We’d like to spread what’s available between more than a few projects.

There’s a pretty straightforward application form that keeps bureaucracy to a minimum, while allowing us to identify the cornerstones of the project: where is it, what is about, and what are people asking for.

We’ll have an application window every March. By April, we’ll be able to let people know how the funds could be divided. We’ll promise to be in touch with everyone, and we’ll do what we can to support projects even if the financial streams have run dry.

Yes, but we’ll give priority to new projects. For example, if you received funding in, say, 2025, it’s unlikely you’ll receive funding again in 2026. The chances increase with each passing year.

Here is the list of the 2026 recipients:

• Pasar Bebas Uang, the “Really Really Free Market” movement in Indonesia;
• Los Entrenamientos Populares y Antifascistas by Acción Antifascista Ecuador, spaces for self-management and community resistance using sports and self-defense as tools for political and physical education for the working class;
• Anti-Hunger Mobile / Food Not Bombs in Bacolod City, Philippines;
• Hunger Strikers zine, compiled by people associated with Prisoners for Palestine;
• “Antipode” Book/Zine vol. II, documenting underground punk scenes from SWANA, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and their diasporas;
• Solidarity Minded, an antifascist mutual aid project providing free mental health support in crisis-hit areas;
• Kalinga at Paghilom, a survivor-led workshop on navigating interpersonal and gendered violence in Philippine anarchist-punk spaces, including members of Abolisyon!;
• Fanzine Club, a global online zine archive;
• La Coordinadora Anarquista Tejiendo Libertad (CATL), an anarchist network in Abya Yala / Latin America;
• Squat Fest in the Philippines;
• Punx Suicida Records, an anarchist space in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico;
• Resilience Collective, organizing DIY shows in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Here is the list of the 2025 recipients:

• Blackwater East Coast DIY Hardcore Festival in Kuantan, Malaysia;
• Black Side Collective DIY community space in Temanggung, Indonesia;
• La Cultura del Barrio antifascist social and sporting club in Buenos Aires, Argentina—Read an interview with them here.
• Satan Not Hatin’ campaign to challenge encroaching bigotry and fascism in alt music scenes—Read an interview with them here;
• Klub Racun community space in Bandung, Indonesia;
• Punk Against Capitalism festival in Athens, Greece—Read a report from 2024’s festival here;
• Page Against the Machine decolonial publishing cooperative in Yogyakarta, Indonesia—Read an interview with them here;
• Swallow Fire, Metal Divided festival in Kosovo;
• Proyek Terlarang DIY hardcore punk resource center in Aceh, Indonesia;
• Sining sa Daan and Feral Crust community festival in Davao, Philippines;
• PJA Info House street library in Aceh, Indonesia;
• Dajjeh punk gig collective in Beirut, Lebanon—Read an interview with them here.

In 2024, the first year we awarded funds to different projects. Here’s a list of the projects that we supported:

• Collective Room 39, which provides meals to refugees and homeless people in Greece;
• Political punk and DIY collective Ihitiko Ksespasma (Noise Outburst), part of the Fabrika Yfanet squat in Thessaloniki, Greece—Read an interview with them here;
• Rozbrat collective in Poznań, Poland;
• Indonesian publishing outlet Pustaka Catut;
• Community Resource and Land Generation Project of the Etniko Bandido folks in the Philippines—Read an interview with them here;
• The production of a book about the Memories of the Do It Yourself Experience in the Popular Rebellion of 2017 in Venezuela, to be published by Humano Derecho;
• The renewal of Danny Reveco‘s mural Sin tierra, sin agua, sin cielo (Without land, without water, without sky) in the Chilean port city of Valparaíso;
• The informal group Vecinos amigos de los Michis, which feeds stray cats in Buenos Aires, Argentina.