Shaping Anarchist Narratives: Why it’s Important to Engage the Mainstream Media
Core to our mission at Agency is to raise the profile of anarchist ideas and the anarchist movement, and to influence the way they are treated in public conversation. Understandably, anarchists have long questioned the value of talking to the corporate-controlled, mainstream media since they so often mischaracterize and misrepresent anarchists and anarchist ideas. So […]
Marius Mason Update
by Panagioti Tsolkas, art by Marius Mason This update on political prisoner Marius Mason is published by Agency in collaboration with Fifth Estate Magazine. Earlier this year, Marius Mason — an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist, vegan, artist, and trans advocate — was denied his scheduled gender affirming surgery by the Trump administration and […]
Insurrectionary Utopias Part 3: Examples of Liberatory Mutual Aid
by scott crow Agency is publishing scott crow’s “Insurrectionary Utopias” as a three-part series commemorating the 20 year anniversary of the Common Ground Collective, founded on September 5, 2005, in New Orleans, LA in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Read Part 1 and Part 2. The goal of mutual aid efforts is to rebuild infrastructure […]
Everything Trump Says About Antifa is Wrong
Last week, CNN reported that Donald Trump announced plans to designate antifa as a “major terrorist organization,” describing it as a “sick, dangerous, radical left disaster” and calling for investigations into its alleged funders. Yesterday, Trump signed an executive order making that designation official. On the White House website, dated September 22, 2025 under Presidential […]
A Response to “We Are All Antifa Now” by Chris Hedges, from Anarchists Who’ve Tried to Reason with Him Before
A year before Agency became the PR project that it is today, our founding members came together in 2012 to strategize about how to address the mischaracterization of anarchists and anarchist ideas prevalent in the media and social movement discourse. Two writers, Chris Hedges and Rebecca Solnit, had recently published misinformed, disparaging attacks on anarchists […]
No, “Leftist NGOs” Don’t Foment Political Violence
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death, right-wing media and political figures have wasted no time assigning blame, not based on evidence, but on ideology. Vice President JD Vance has opportunistically used the moment to accuse “leftist NGOs” of fomenting political violence and called for sweeping government crackdowns. “We’re going to go after the NGO […]
Insurrectionary Utopias Part 2: Liberatory Principles for Mutual Aid
by scott crow Agency is publishing scott crow’s “Insurrectionary Utopias” as a three-part series commemorating the 20 year anniversary of the Common Ground Collective, founded on September 5, 2005, in New Orleans, LA in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Read Part 1 and Part 3. Liberatory mutual aid draws upon the histories of mutual aid, […]
Insurrectionary Utopias Part 1: Ideas Towards a Liberatory Mutual Aid
by scott crow Agency is publishing scott crow’s “Insurrectionary Utopias” as a three-part series commemorating the 20 year anniversary of the Common Ground Collective, founded on September 5, 2005, in New Orleans, LA in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Read Part 2 and Part 3. “…years ago, a few people scratched history, and, knowing this, […]
Decades in the Struggle: Eric Laursen
Documenting the lives and work of older anarchist thinkers, writers, and activists Agency collective member Eric Laursen was interviewed by Philip Zura on July 14, 2025 as part of the “Decades in the Struggle” project. Eric Laursen is an independent journalist, historian, and activist. He is the author of The People’s Pension, The Duty to […]
Building Family in the Struggle: An Interview with The Elements of Mutual Aid
The Elements of Mutual Aid is an exciting new docuseries project that received a Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant from Agency and the Institute for Anarchist Studies in 2023. With the project recently having wrapped up the production stage, we were excited to connect with co-directors, Payton and Leah, to learn more about their inspiration, […]