Changing the Conversation: The Need for an Anarchist Lens on Campus Sexual Assault
byPart 1 in an Agency series: Confronting Sexual Assault on Campus In May, despite administrative efforts to prevent her from doing so, Emma Sulkowicz,…
Commentary
Anarchist perspectives on current events.
On the Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
byAddressing an adoring crowd in Prague not long after he entered office in 2009, President Barack Obama promised to aggressively pursue US ratification of…
Mass Incarceration and Bipartisan Unity: An Anarchist Perspective
byAs momentum builds behind the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, I begin to wonder how much time and energy will be pulled away from the…
Democratic Government: It Works!
byIt’s over. Yesterday, Washington’s political/business elite conjured up the 60 votes needed to end debate in the Senate on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), the…
Beyond Crime and Punishment: On Holding Bill Cosby Accountable and Ending Rape Culture
byBy upholding certain people as exceptional, we reinforce stereotypes about those who don’t reach such powerful heights – and we obscure how power imbalances are built into our political system through laws, attitudes, and policies that affect how we relate in our homes, schools, workplaces, and other social institutions.
An Anarchist Response to Ebola | Part Two: Envisioning an Anarchist Alternative
byAnarchists are part of the global conversation on what’s broken in the world, but when things really fall apart—like with the current Ebola outbreak—is the state the only answer? How might a stateless society respond to a challenge like this one?
An Anarchist Response to Ebola | Part One: What Went Wrong?
byAnarchists are part of the global conversation on what’s broken in the world, but when things really fall apart—like with the current Ebola outbreak—is the state the only answer? How might a stateless society respond to a challenge like this one?
Like a tidal wave: a case for Agency
by“If you want something, you don’t wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.”
— Poppy Z. Brite from ‘Lost Souls’
A Death in Ferguson: The State’s Message, and Our Message Back
byMichael Brown, police violence, and a world without police — plus a critical reading list on Ferguson.
Raising the Minimum Wage: Too Little, Too Late
byPresident Obama and the Democratic Party have embarked on a campaign to raise the federal minimum wage. Should we care?