WANT TO BE PUBLISHED? YEAH YOU DO! The deadline for the next edition is November 9th 2012.

Ruckus is a collective of students organizing an independent newspaper for the University of Washington community. Ruckus is for participatory democracy, social justice, collective liberation and resistance to killing the planet. We're focused on environmental, economic, cultural, and political issues connected to our university community. We invite participation from staff, students, and community members. If you'd like to write, illustrate, promote, distribute, advertise, subvert, or otherwise contribute, send us an e-mail, or visit us every second and last Saturday of the month at 5 pm at Cafe Solstice on University Ave.

As of Winter 2012, we've expanded our categories for submissions. We're looking for creative and politically engaged people just like your smarmy selves!
These categories are:
1. News
2. Features (i.e. magazine writing)
3. Opinion
4. Creative Writing (fiction, poetry)
5. Visual Arts
6. Miscellaneous

In our last issue we brought you some thought-provoking news and analysis. Agitated? Invigorated? Check out the community calendar on the back of an issue. Want to make things better? Dream up something you and your friends can do about it.

For complaints, contributions or whatever our e-mail is uwruckus@gmail.com.
For updates, you can sign up to our listserv or like our Facebook page.
For submissions, put the category of your piece in the subject line and email ruckusletters@gmail.com

Monday, August 9, 2010

Fall in love with Ruckus all over again

We're gearing up for the fall issue of Ruckus, and we want your voice in it. Are there any stories you're itching for us to cover, or want to write about yourself? Please send us a heads-up at uwruckus@gmail.com.

We've also got two prompts for you. We're looking for UW/U-district community members and alumni to write letters to the incoming freshman. This is an open-ended prompt, and may be one to one-thousand words, due by September 15.

We'll also publish profiles of student and community organizations on campus and in the U-district. If you're involved in such organizing, please send us your group name, contact information, a short description, maybe a graphic, and meeting and/or fall quarter event times/places (if you have any such plans). Feel free to talk yourselves up. Due by September 28, the earlier the better; you can send us your last-minute details about meeting/event times and places by October 3, so we can include it in our community calendar.

If anyone wants to get involved in editing, illustrating, promoting, distributing, advertising, subverting, or otherwise contributing, e-mail us a good time and date for a collective meeting in September, at uwruckus@gmail.com.