John Mage: David Gilbert Should Be Free
byThe Nation | September 13, 2021 Given his perfect 40-year record, denial by the Parole Board would signal that prison is just about punishment…
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.
Natasha Lennard: Law and Border – Dismantling the logic underlying liberal immigration policies
byBookforum | Sept 2021 “THERE ARE POLICY CHOICES to be made about who should be an immigrant, and that includes removing folks who don’t qualify…
Gina Ciliberto: Mutual Aid is Changing the Way We Help Each Other
bySojourners | 8/27/2021 When Lindsay Strannigan had extra canned goods, she didn’t want to throw them away. So she posted the cans in a…
MACC NYC: Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street, Its Real Legacy Is Anarchism In Practice
byIt’s Going Down | September 17, 2021 Statement from Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) on the anarchist legacy of Occupy Wall Street on the…
Kelly Hayes: Line 3 Resisters Light the Way in a Battle for Life on Earth
byTruthout, September 9, 2021 Amid record hurricanes, wildfires and droughts, battles are being waged over the fate of the Earth. Many of those battles…
CrimethInc: Afghanistan – The Taliban Victory in a Global Context
byAugust 16, 2021 | CrimethInc. An Anti-Imperial Perspective from a Veteran of the US Occupation The speed with which the Taliban have recaptured Afghanistan…
David Campbell, “I Was Sent To Jail After A Fight At An Antifa Protest. Here’s What Happened There.”
by“I couldn’t keep nearly as quiet [at Rikers Island] as I’d planned. Nerdy white guys kind of stand out in there.” Huffington Post, August…
Sara Jaffe: Who Cares?
byThe Baffler, May 2021 THIS WAS THE YEAR EVERYONE DISCOVERED that caring is actually hard work. The New York Times told us “America’s Mothers are In Crisis”…
Robert Hunziker: A World of Total Illusion and Fantasy: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Planet
byCounterpunch, July 12, 2021 FacingFuture.TV founder and executive producer Stuart Scott and co-host Dale Walkonen recently broadcast a wide-ranging interview with Noam Chomsky about…
Josie Duffy Rice & Mariame Kaba & Reina Sultan: What Does Accountability Look Like Without Punishment?
byYes! Magazine, May 25, 2021 When most people are introduced to abolition, they first want to know how prison–industrial–complex abolitionists propose handling violence in a…