“No Kings!”? How about “No Presidents!”?
By Ryan Only and Eric Laursen On June 14, 2025, millions of people took to the streets in a powerful display of protest against the increasing consolidation of power in the hands of Donald Trump. The “No Kings” protests, held in over 2,100 cities, were a direct response to President Trump’s military parade celebrating the […]
Five Resources for Debunking the Good Protester/Bad Protester Fallacy
By Agency With every wave of mass protests comes the need for anarchists and other critical thinkers to debunk the notion that some forms of protest are good and others are bad. Most often we find ourselves pointing out that property destruction and self-defense against state violence are often wrongly characterized as violence in the […]
Rest in Power, Murphy Hoopes (1987-2025)
Murphy Hoopes, an early collective member of Agency, who helped launch our organization in 2013, passed away in San Diego, California on January 18, 2025. He was 38. Born and raised in the Washington D.C. area, Murphy was drawn to the possibilities of a new world at an early age. In high school, he joined D.C. […]
The First Decade of Agency, an Anarchist PR Project
Just over a decade ago, a small group of anarchist media activists started what they defined as an anarchist PR project—Agency was officially launched. As we develop a vision and plans for the next decade, we want to share how Agency came to be, how it has evolved, what we have accomplished, and how we hope […]
25 Years of Running Down the Walls
Upcoming Annual Events Across the Country to Benefit Political Prisoners 2024 marks twenty-five-years in a row that political prisoners and supporters are participating in the annual event known as Running Down the Walls (RDTW), often running or walking simultaneously in many cities and prisons at once. Running Down the Walls is a non-competitive 5K run/jog/walk/roll […]
An Anti-Snitch Oral History of the Seattle WTO Protests
Agency speaks with former political prisoner Daniel McGowan about DW Gibson’s book, “One Week to Change the World” By Panagioti Tsolkas Last month, publisher Simon & Schuster released what it called “the definitive history of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests.” It includes 100 interviews, conducted by journalist DW Gibson, timed to hit the shelves […]
Rest in Power Klee Benally – 1975-2023
“The anarchist principle of mutual aid has long been an influencing factor in my work and as an Indigenous Anarchist, it’s part of what drew me to an affinity with anarchism. I’ve sought ways to express mutuality through everything I do in my life.” Klee Benally Klee Benally, a Diné (Navajo) musician, traditional dancer, artist, […]
Grants for Writers, Artists, Organizers, and Mediamakers
By The Institute for Anarchist Studies and Agency For nearly thirty years, the Institute for Anarchist Studies has funded creative intellectual work that furthers anarchist ideas and makes them accessible to a broad audience. We have two grants available, the Anarchist Horizons Grant; and the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant, in collaboration with our comrades […]
There is No Society Without Social Space: An Interview with Marisa Holmes on Organizing Occupy Wall Street
Marisa Holmes’s new book “Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This Is Just Practice” is the first study of the processes and structures of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), written from the perspective of a core organizer who was involved from the inception. The story she tells incorporates collective statements, structure documents, meeting minutes, live tweets, and hundreds […]
Remembering Cooper Andrews
By Rikki Shulte Please visit and share the fundraiser page for the Cooper Andrews Memorial Fund On April 19th, 2023, Cooper (Harris) Andrews, 26, passed alongside three other anarchist internationalist volunteers in Ukraine. Comrades Dimitri Petrov of the Russian Anarchist Resistance, Finbar Kafferkey, a volunteer from Co. Cork, Ireland, and Cooper Andrews, a former Marine and […]