FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 20, 2025
Long-Standing Anarchist Organizations Announce Recipients of 2025 Grants
Marking Third Year of Partnership Between Institute for Anarchist Studies and Agency to Promote Anarchist Thought and Action Through Multimedia Projects
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) and the anarchist PR project Agency today announced the recipients of their 2025 Anarchist Horizons Grant and Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant. This marks the third year that IAS and Agency have partnered to award grants to projects that seek to make anarchist ideas more accessible to broad audiences. The partnership is an outgrowth of IAS’s preexisting grant program, which has been funding innovative anarchist projects for nearly 30 years. The funding partnership between IAS and Agency launched in 2023, with each grant program awarding a total of $2,500. In 2025, the two programs will each award a total $6,250 in grants to a range of recipients.
This year’s expanded grant funding reflects a growing recognition of the importance of grassroots media and organizing efforts in challenging authoritarianism and building community power. The 2025 grant recipients represent a diverse range of projects embodying these values, from independent journalism to on-the-ground resistance movements. Among them is Atlanta-based Mainline.
“As a radical independent magazine based in Atlanta, led by people with marginalized identities in the US South, we deeply appreciate the support of grant-makers like Agency,” says Mainline founder Aja Arnold. “Funding from the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant will help make information about the Stop Cop City movement and the ongoing RICO trials more accessible to the general public,” continued Arnold. “With over 77 Cop Cities being built across the US and escalating political repression, creating this type of journalism is vital to inform communities and their resistance against fascism.”
2025 Grant Programs & Recipients
Together, the Anarchist Horizons Grant and the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant reflect a shared commitment to resourcing projects that advance anarchist ideas through cultural work, media, and grassroots organizing.
The Anarchist Horizons grant program funds written works, translations, artwork, performances, workshops, and events related to anarchism, radical visions for a better future, and resistance to fascism, genocide, and ecocide. It also supports stories, narratives, and histories that connect past, present, and future movements.
“The Institute for Anarchist Studies is proud to support anarchist thinkers and organizers who are imagining and building liberatory futures,” says Joseph Orosco of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. “Through the Anarchist Horizons grant, we aim to uplift projects that confront systems of domination while fostering creativity, community, and collective resilience.”
The 2025 Anarchist Horizons Grant recipients are:
- Anarchist Zine Project: Two zines from independent, guerrilla publisher Pass on Press based on interviews with Japanese anarchist Ekita Yukiko san of the Anti-Japan East Asia Armed Front (later Japanese Red Army), who was recently released from prison after 20 years, a sentence served for her role in the 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, and Devran of Antifa Gençlik, a Berlin-based formation of migrant youth active at end of the 1980s, greatly influenced by antifascist Turkish formations like Devrimci Yol. Their words are being translated into English for the first time.
- Breach: A digest of operational theory for the party of anarchy, developed by a group of anarchists, communists, and social revolutionaries, focused on ‘Collective Strategy.’ The digest aims to demystify the radical uses and potent intersections of operational theory and anti-colonial war, and wrestles with questions of coordination and coherence in the absence of conventional command: the very dilemmas many radicals face today.
- Searching for Ray Jones: A translation project by queer writer JM Wong about transnational organizing in multiethnic left-anarchist spaces in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the 1920s. Wong’s translation and analysis of Chinese American anarchist archives will culminate in a series of essays and community presentations recounting an era of dynamic left liberatory thought that offers a tradition and lineage for us today.
- Southern Solidarity Presents: A filmed virtual conversation with Joy James and William C. Anderson, produced by Southern Solidarity, a grassroots mutual aid network based in the US South. This event will explore anarchist thought, histories of resistance, and radical visions for collective liberation, connecting abolitionist legacies to today’s struggles against fascism, genocide, and ecocide.
- The Wildflower that Grew Beneath the Bottom of the Concrete SHU: A collection of poetry by anarchist antifascist political prisoner Malik Muhammad, begun and written mostly during a two-week hunger strike, during which he endured tortuous conditions in solitary confinement. Malik’s book reflects his political, social, and revolutionary views.
The Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant program was created to honor Jen Angel, the long-time anarchist, baker, writer, and co-founder of Agency who died in February 2023. In addition to her work with Agency, Angel was widely known for her prolific activism, her long-standing contributions to independent media, and her role in establishing community institutions throughout her life. The Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant program funds multimedia projects in the United States and abroad that seek to advance awareness and understanding of anarchist ideas.
“This year, the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant program is funding a wide range of projects that speak directly to the urgency of the political moment,” says Kris Hermes, a member of Agency. “In the face of rising authoritarianism, political repression, ecological collapse, and coordinated attacks on freedom and autonomy, anarchists and radicals are producing work that helps us understand these crises and organize against them.”
The 2025 Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant recipients are:
- All Damn Night: A documentary by filmmakers V. Eye and Erica Esch chronicling resistance to Florida’s six-week abortion ban through the lens of both legislative and direct action in the American South.
- The Dugout: A weekly Black anarchist podcast reshaping how we understand Black history, radical movements, and collective liberation. Hosted by Prince Shakur and Jordan, each episode challenges dominant narratives and uplifts Black queer anarchist thought through sharp media analysis, stories from the frontlines of organizing, and intergenerational conversations with radical elders and anarchists today.
- Political Prisoner Interview Series: A Youtube video series of high-quality interviews with political prisoners, illuminating the challenges they face behind bars, and why it’s important to support them. The series will be produced by Eric King, a former political prisoner who did 10 years in federal prison, some of which was served in the federal Supermax prison ADX and most of it in segregation.
- The Process is the Punishment: A three-episode podcast series produced by Mainline and covering the RICO cases of the “ATL 61”: 61 people indicted on racketeering charges for their protest against Cop City, a $109 million police militarization facility built in Weelaunee Forest in so-called Atlanta. Through interviews with defendants, legal experts, and defense attorneys, the series provides a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the largest RICO indictment of its kind in US history.
- A Red Road to the West Bank: A documentary about the deep parallels between Indigenous struggles in North America and Palestine—two peoples fighting against settler colonialism, displacement, and erasure—produced by Indigenous filmmaker Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas, a Kanien’kehá:ka activist who took part in the 1990 resistance during the Oka Crisis, in partnership with radical filmmaker and subMedia founder Franklin López.
- Southy Anarchy: A podcast and website resource by South Africa anarchist organizer Tshi Malatji for and about anarchists in the Southern Africa region. The podcast and website focuses on the past, present, and future of Southy anarchist politics, philosophy, and action.
- When The Window Opens: A collaborative card and mapping game designed to inspire collective action. The game, which will be offered digitally for free and in an affordable analog version, was developed by CAW, a worker-run anarchist journal of art and culture; a collaboration of carla joy bergman, Shuli Branson, Dani Burlison, and Vicky Osterweil.
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About Agency
Agency promotes contemporary anarchist perspectives and practices through commentary, media relations, and educational campaigns. For more information on Agency and the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant, go to: anarchistagency.com.
About the Institute for Anarchist Studies
The IAS, established in 1996 to support the development of anarchism, is a grant-giving organization for radical writers and translators worldwide. For more information on IAS and the Horizons grant, go to: anarchiststudies.org.
