Shane Burley: If We Don’t Want Armed Feds Occupying Our Cities, We Must Hit the Streets
byTruthout, July 27, 2020 On July 25, Day 58 of the continuous Portland, Oregon, Black Lives Matter protests, thousands of protesters swarmed the Justice…
Critical Voices
Critical Voices is Agency’s platform for amplifying thoughtful commentary on current events that is originally published elsewhere. Not all of these articles are written by anarchists or take an explicitly anarchist point of view. What they have in common is that they call attention to issues of direct concern to anarchists, and do so from a perspective we broadly agree with. We publish them here because they we believe they contribute to the radical and holistic examination of power relations, the state, and capital that’s so important to us as anarchists.
Mawa Iqbal: Left-Wing Groups Take Up Arms in Name of Abolitionist John Brown
byGroups In Kansas And Missouri Inspired By Civil Rights Push Flatland, July 23, 2020 On a recent Wednesday evening Renee Maxwell was giving a…
Fifth Estate: Interview with Eric Laursen, co-founder of NYC Anarchist Book Fair
byFrom Fifth Estate – interview with Agency’s Eric Laursen: We spend the hour with regular Fifth Estate contributor Eric Laursen. co-founder of the NYC…
Shane Burley: Inside the battle for Portland with the independent journalists on the streets
byAs federal agents snatch protesters in unmarked vans, the reporters covering the Portland uprising are facing intense and unprecedented repression. Waging Nonviolence, July 18,…
Elizabeth King: They Came to Support People Getting Out of Jail. Then They Were Attacked By Police.
byIn These Times, July 6, 2020 Only a few days had passed since the police killed him, but people around the country were already…
Rayne Fisher-Quann: A Fresh Framework: The Feminism of the Abolition Movement
byBitch Media, June 24, 2020 While weeks of protest sparked by racist police killings continue to rock all 50 states, police violence in the United States…
Nylah Burton: Climate change is a race issue—here’s why
byBlack, brown and indigenous people around the world are already bearing the brunt of the environmental crisis, showing how racial and climate justice are…
WRAP: Defunding The Police: On The Road To Abolishing Oppressive Policing
byJune 24, 2020 Black Lives Matter and other abolitionist groups are leading communities across the country to recognize that the criminal justice system is…
Abolition Journal: If You’re New to Abolition: Study Group Guide
byAbolitionists, simply put, are those beings who look out upon their time and say, ‘no’. Mumia Abu Jamal Abolition is about presence, not absence….
Yannick Giovanni Marshall: The racists’ peace
byTo praise the peacefulness of a protest is to assert the right of those resisted to determine the ethics of resistance. June 7, 2020…