Rachel Herzing: Big Dreams and Bold Steps Toward a Police-Free Future
byBig Dreams and Bold Steps Toward a Police-Free Future Rachel Herzing, Truthout, September 16, 2015 Police scanners, Tasers, increased data collecting and sharing, SWAT…
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.
Rebecca McCray: How Violent Convicts Changed Prisons With the Ultimate Peaceful Protest
byHow Violent Convicts Changed Prisons With the Ultimate Peaceful Protest Rebecca McCray, Take Part, September 3, 2015 Every six to eight weeks, Dolores Canales…
Sal Rodriguez: How California Prison Hunger Strikes Sparked Solitary Confinement Reforms
byHow California Prison Hunger Strikes Sparked Solitary Confinement Reforms Sal Rodriguez, Counterpunch, September 3, 2015 Contrary to the state’s official narrative, it was prisoner…
Ken Layne: Labor Day Is a Scam To Keep You Poor and Miserable Forever
byLabor Day Is a Scam To Keep You Poor and Miserable Forever Ken Layne, Gawker, August 30, 2015 Labor Day is a complete rip-off….
Keith Spencer: Why the Rich Love Burning Man
byWhy the Rich Love Burning Man Keith Spencer, Jacobin, August 25, 2015 In principle the annual Burning Man festival sounds a bit like a…
It’s Going Down: “If I Die in Police Custody, Burn Everything Down!”
by“If I Die in Police Custody, Burn Everything Down!” It’s Going Down, August 23, 2015 Across the US, in response to the outpouring of…
Arun Gupta: Why Presidential Elections are Detrimental to Movement Building
byWhy Presidential Elections are Detrimental to Movement Building Arun Gupta, Counterpunch, August 7, 2015 reprinted with permission Many reasons have been put forward for…
Paul Mason: The end of capitalism has begun
byThe end of capitalism has begun Paul Mason, The Guardian, July 17, 2015 “Capitalism, it turns out, will not be abolished by forced-march techniques….
Sarah Leonard: Austerity Has Been Discredited. So Why Won’t It Die?
byAusterity Has Been Discredited. So Why Won’t It Die?Sarah Leonard, The Nation, July 16, 2015 “All of the economic research that allegedly supported the…
Antonis Vradis and Hara Kouki: Our “no” means a “yes”
byOur “no” means a “yes” Antonis Vradis and Hara Kouki, Verso, July 3, 2015 It’s a strange thing, hope. Five years ago, it made…