The Field: Florida’s Ex-Felons and their Fight to Vote in the 2020 Election
byA 2018 ballot initiative in the swing state was supposed to extend the franchise to 1.5 million former felons. A Republican policy and a…
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.
Eric King: Voices from Solitary: Flipping the Script
bySolitary Watch, September 30, 2020 Eric King describes himself as a 33-year-old vegan anarchist political prisoner and poet who was arrested and charged with…
Crimethinc: The Truth about “The Truth about Today’s Anarchists”
byThe Ex-Worker Responds to the New York Times October 1, 2020 Yesterday, Farah Stockman from the New York Times editorial board published an article claiming to…
Eric Laursen: Remembering David Graeber, Scholar, Troublemaker, Friend
byThe Indypendent, September 26, 2020 Possibly the last thing David Graeber wrote for publication was an introduction he co-authored, with his longtime friend and…
Lucy Diavolo: In the “Anarchist Jurisdiction” of New York City, I’ve Seen a Summer of Beautiful Anarchy
byIn this op-ed, politics editor Lucy Diavolo assesses the threats posed by the Trump administration’s targeted language against anarchists and the exprerssions of anarchist…
CrimethInc.: Surviving a Pandemic – Tools for Addressing Isolation, Anxiety, and Grief
byA selection of exercises, rituals, and ways of preparing you can use to reconnect with your agency and ground yourself as we face the…
Kim Kelly: Trump and Barr call NYC an ‘anarchist jurisdiction’ in brazen ploy to crush dissent
byEverything old is new again, and a glance back at 1887 proves there is a very bloody precedent for what Trump’s White House is…
Mark Bray: Trump Fuels March Toward Fascism With “Anarchist Jurisdictions” Edict
byTruthout, September 22, 2020 President Trump and his administration have taken several overt steps down the jagged path of fascism over the past week….
Natasha Lennard: Welcome to the “Anarchist Jurisdiction” of New York — Where Cops Crush Every Tiny Protest
byBill Barr’s designation of Seattle, Portland, and New York is a cynical Trump reelection ploy — with potentially dangerous consequences. Natasha Lennard, September 22, 2020…
Marquis Bey: The primordial mutiny of anarcho-Blackness
byAnarcho-Blackness is a qualitative shift of what anarchism is and does, describing the insurgency that defines the abolition of hierarchy and the state. Roar…