The Chronicle of Higher Education printed the following, pretty interesting and pretty anarchist-friendly, article about the Occupy movement. It prominently features AK author David Graeber, who help plan the Occupy Wall Street actions. —— Intellectual Roots of Wall St. Protest Lie in Academe Movement’s principles arise from scholarship on anarchy Occupy Wall Street protesters have […]
An essay from acclaimed situationist author and translator (and AK Press author/editor) Ken Knabb exploring #Occupy as the first signs of a new – and long-awaited – awakening in America. The Awakening in America Ken Knabb A radical situation is a collective awakening. . . . In such situations people become much more open to […]
A new piece by journalist Ben Dangl (author of Dancing with Dynamite and Price of Fire), exploring the relationship between the #Occupy movement and the politically-charged social movements of Latin America. Originally published on Toward Freedom, and appearing today on Counterpunch. Below, an image of one of Ben’s books at the People’s Library at Occupied […]
A new piece by Franco “Bifo” Berardi (author of After the Future) and net critic Geert Lovink on the worldwide occupations and the fight against financial dictatorship. A call to the Army of Love and to the Army of Software Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Geert Lovink October 2011. The fight opposing financial dictatorship is erupting. […]
In 2009 Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal were detained while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border. Accused of spying and trespassing, they were arrested and held by the Iranian government. Sarah was released last year, but Shane and Josh had been held for two years, only being released on bail yesterday. On this morning’s […]
Many of you are no doubt aware of the recent Tar Sands Action in Washington, D.C. that culminated in over 1,250 arrests, and the battle against the Keystone XL pipeline rages on. In this time of dirty energy and even dirtier money, the seasoned organizers and researchers included in our massive 2010 release Sparking a […]
From our comrades at Critical Resistance: On July 1st, prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California will begin an indefinite hunger strike to protest the tortuous, inhumane and cruel conditions of their imprisonment. The hunger strike is spreading, with prisoners in the SHU at Corcoran State […]
Members of the Occupied London collective, authors/editors of our new release Revolt and Crisis in Greece, wrote a great op-ed piece on the renewed turmoil in Greece and the creative strategies and responses of the protest movement that’s just been posted up on Al Jazeera. Here’s a snippit from the article by Hara Kouki and […]
Today is February 15th, the 8th anniversary of 2/15, the largest global peace protest in modern history. February 15, 2003 was a global day of action against militarism and the war in the impending invasion of Iraq. Some 36 million people took part on over 3,000 demonstrations against the US invasion of Iraq over the […]
More from AK author David Porter on events in the Middle East… ———- On “Leaderless Revolutions” and the Fall of Mubarak by David Porter “Leaderless revolutions,” as seen currently in North Africa, pose important challenges to outside media and to foreigners, generally, seeking authoritative voices to clarify the picture of fast-moving events. But genuine revolutions […]