Kim Kelly: The Climate Disaster Inside America’s Prisons
byInmates are among the most vulnerable populations on our warming planet—and among the most ignored. Global warming far and away is the most pressing…
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.
Nathan Robinson: Media bias is OK – if it’s honest
byConservatives are more open to leftwing arguments when they come from people who don’t pretend to be perfectly objective Most people distrust the media,…
Angie Speaks Interview: Witchcraft, Anarchy and the Rise of LeftTube
byA new generation of leftists are fighting the alt-right and influencing the progressive discourse one video essay at a time. We asked anarchist and…
Joan Donovan & Brian Friedberg: Source Hacking: Media Manipulation in Practice
byOnline media manipulators often use specific techniques to hide the source of the false and problematic information they circulate. Joan Donovan and Brian Friedberg…
Zapatista Communique: We Broke the Siege
byHermanos, Hermanas, Hermanoas: Compañeras, Compañeros, Compañeroas: We bring you our word. The same word as yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It is the word of…
Rebecca Centeno: What the Border Patrol Doesn’t Want You to Know About Their Abuses
byThey don’t protect me, they rape me,” women in green bandanas shouted at police in Mexico City on August 16 as thousands of mostly…
Charlotte Shane: Still Eating Animals – Jonathan Safran Foer’s struggles to save the planet
byWay back in 2001, when I was a teenager furious at Bush for withdrawing from the Kyoto treaty, I still believed Something Would Happen…
Candace Falk: Love, anarchy, and Emma Goldman
byEmma Goldman’s beliefs have always been considered radical. It was daring, and often illegal, to lecture on homosexuality (“the intermediate sex” in the day’s…
Shane Burley: Portland Anti-Fascist Coalition Shows Us How We Can Defeat the Far Right
byThe far-right “western chauvinist” street gang known as the Proud Boys is already talking about a follow-up rally next month in Portland, Oregon, following…
Democracy Now: Portland Rejects Proud Boys & Other Ultra-Right Groups as Trump Tries to Criminalize Antifa [Video]
byA crowd of white nationalists took to the streets of Portland, Oregon, over the weekend for what they dubbed the “End Domestic Terrorism” rally….